Full 23 minute interview with activists resisting U.S. military bases from Japan, Guam and Hawai’i
Here is the May 24, 2010 extended interview on Democracy Now! featuring: Kyle Kajihiro, Program Director for the American Friends Service Committee in Hawai’i; IKozue Akibayashi, professor and activist in Japan, with the Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom and the Women’s International Network Against Militarism and; IMelvin Won Pat-Borja, educator and poet from Guam and part of the We Are Guahan network opposed to the military base buildup in Guam. They were interviewed by Anjali Kamat and Amy Goodman.
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This is the breif paragraph under the vid file link: From Japan to Guam to Hawai’i, Activists Resist Expansion of US Military Presence in the Pacific: In Japan Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama sparked outrage this weekend when he announced he has decided to keep an American air base on the island of Okinawa. Before last year’s historic election victory, Hatoyama had vowed to move the base off of Okinawa or even out of Japan. On Sunday, he said he had decided to relocate the base to the north side of the island, as originally agreed upon with the US. Hatoyama’s decision was met with anger on Okinawa, where 90,000 residents rallied last month to oppose the base. A number of activists opposed to US military bases were recently here in New York for the International Conference for a Nuclear-Free, Peaceful, Just and Sustainable World. Anjali Kamat and I spoke to three activists from Japan, Guam and Hawai’i.
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