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“Oceania Rising:
\n Peace Pivot to the Pacific”
\n Pacific Northwest Speaking Tour,
\n February 17-22, 2019<\/h3>\n

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Three Indigenous women speakers from Okinawa, Guam, and Hawai\u2019i are coming in February 2019 to the Pacific Northwest as the \u201cOceania Rising: Peace Pivot to the Pacific\u201d tour, to discuss the growing movements against U.S. military bases, and for a demilitarized, nuclear-free, and independent Pacific.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Recent controversies in the Pacific have centered on the environmental, social, political, cultural, and economic effects of U.S. military bases. Kyle Kajihiro, board member of Hawai\u2019i Peace and Justice, commented, \u201cThe bases make up about a quarter of the islands\u2019 most valuable land, and make the islands vulnerable to toxic and radioactive contamination, damage from test bombing, jet crashes, unexploded ordnance, desecration of burials and other Indigenous sacred sites, potential foreign attack, and high social costs such as homelessness and sexual assault.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Washington state is the location of major military bases that figure prominently in the Pentagon\u2019s \u201cPivot to the Pacific\u201d that is now redirecting U.S. military strategy from Europe to Asia, but few residents are aware of these concerns. Nor are we aware how the military presence prevents colonized Indigenous peoples from exercising their self-determination, particularly the Uchinaanchu (Okinawans) of Japanese-controlled Okinawa<\/a>, the CHamoru (Chamorro) of the U.S. territory of Gu\u00e5han (Guam),<\/a> and the Kanaka Maoli of Hawai\u2019i<\/a>. The three speakers have been members of Women\u2019s Voices Women Speak<\/a><\/u> (WVWS), \u201cworking toward a demilitarized, peaceful and nonviolent world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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OKINAWA:<\/strong> Tina Grandinetti<\/a><\/u><\/strong> is a PhD candidate in Geography at RMIT University in Australia. In 2017, she traveled to Okinawa as a member of the WVWS delegation to the International Women\u2019s Network Against Militarism gathering. As a biracial Uchinaanchu (Okinawan) woman who grew up in Hawai\u02bbi, she is interested in nourishing transnational solidarity against imperialism and towards decolonial futures.\u00a0In Okinawa this week, the Japanese government is filling in a coral reef with sand to extend the new Henoko Marine base, destroying a highly biodiverse ecosystem that is home to fish, sea turtles, and dugong (manatees). Grandinetti said, \u201cDiscussions around the anti-base movement in Okinawa often revolve around the way that U.S.-Japan security agreements disproportionately burden Okinawa. But what\u2019s missing in this framing is the fact that this mass movement is deeply rooted in a steadfast commitment to peace and nonviolence, not as an act of passivity, but as a radical refusal of war and militarism.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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GUAM<\/strong>: Kisha Borja-Quichocho-Calvo<\/a><\/strong> is a PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Hawai’i-Manoa, where Pacific Islander students have organized the Oceania Rising group. She is CHamoru from Gu\u00e5han (Guam) who has been very active in efforts to curb the military buildup there, and in cultural work and poetry<\/a><\/u>. Borja-Quichocho-Calvo observed, \u201cFor over a century, the US military has occupied and contributed to the destruction of people\u2019s health, of the environment, and of culturally-historically significant places in Oceania such as Gu\u00e5han (Guam). The contemporary US military buildup in the region isn\u2019t something new to our community, and it isn\u2019t something that is happening only on Gu\u00e5han\u2026. When thinking about our future, we need to come together, peoples inside and outside Oceania, to continue creating and maintaining connections of solidarity and to change the normalized narrative of destruction and violence.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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HAWAI\u2019I:<\/strong> Ruth Aloua<\/a><\/u><\/strong> is a Kanaka Maoli from the Kona District, Hawai\u2019i. Her grandmother\u2019s lineage binds her to the island Hawai’i and her grandfathers to Maui. She is a mahi’ai (farmer) for Malu ‘\u0100ina Center for Nonviolent Education and Action and a kia’i loko (fishpond guardian) for Kaloko Fishpond. Her work extends to the peaks of Mauna a W\u0101kea (defending Mauna Kea<\/a><\/u> peak from the Thirty-Meter Telescope), to the plains of P\u014dhakuloa <\/a><\/u>(a military training area on the slopes of Mauna Kea), into the deepest depths of the ocean to the realm of Kanaloa. She is an advocate for peace and justice fostering nonviolent interaction between people, land, water, ocean and air. Aloua commented, \u201cLet me stand in the path of destruction if that is where the seed to peace lay. I\u2019ll guard that seed for generations to let peace be the new way.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The speakers will be introduced by Kyle Kajihiro<\/a><\/strong>, former American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) staff member, Hawai\u02bbi Peace and Justice<\/a> board member, founder of DMZ Hawai’i \/ Aloha ‘Aina<\/a>, and PhD candidate in Geography at the University Hawai’i-Manoa.<\/p>\n

The speakers have been brought initially to speak at The Evergreen State College\u2019s \u201cA People\u2019s Geography of American Empire\u201d<\/a> program. The tour has the support of Hawai\u2019i Peace and Justice, local chapters of Veterans for Peace, and other organizations. The \u201cOceania Rising: Peace Pivot to the Pacific\u201d will be stopping at these venues:<\/p>\n

Feb. 17 (Sun.) Port Townsend WA.\u00a0 <\/strong>At the home of Larry Morrell and Laurie Riley. RSVP to larry@larrymorrell.com f<\/a>or the address and directions.<\/p>\n

Feb. 19 (Tues.) Olympia WA:<\/strong> The Evergreen State College (Purce Hall 1), 7-9 pm ($3 parking) Facebook event page<\/a>\u00a0 Poster<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Feb. 20 (Wed.) Portland OR:<\/strong> Peace House\/Meatnoia Peace Community (2116 NE 18th Ave), 7-9 pm.\u00a0Hosted by Veterans for Peace chapter 72<\/a>. \u00a0 Facebook event page<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Feb. 21 (Thurs.) Seattle WA:<\/strong> El Centro de la Raza \/ The Center for People of All Races (2524 16th Ave. South), 7-9 pm\u00a0\u00a0 Hosted by Veterans for Peace chapter 92.\u00a0 Facebook event page<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Poster<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

All events are free and open to the public.<\/em>
\n For information and updates, see<\/em><\/strong>
\n Oceania Rising Tour<\/a>
\n https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/oceaniarising
\n Contact <\/em><\/a>email: Zoltan Grossman
\n <\/a><\/em> zoltangrossman@gmail.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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