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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@CommonDreams wrote: Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police Sarah Lazare, staff writer Elders were dragged away by riot police on Thursday after linking arms, lying on...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@webwalk wrote: Inspirational resistance. We need resistance inside the USA. Is anyone working to close bases, or block expansion, here? i know there's ongoing work at Fort Benning / SOA / WHISC....

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@wlawlor wrote: Anyone who objects to the obscene spending by the MIC is branded as unAmerican. The military slaughters around the world so we can drink our Starbucks peacefully . God bless America...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@theoldgoat wrote: I'm reminded of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize winning "Fire in the Lake", one of the first in depth analyses of the war waged on Viet Nam. The title references chapter 49 in the I Ching,...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@zenpractice wrote: It must be awful to live in a country where the government ignores the will of the people. That is simply unimaginable to us Americans. Read full topic

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@sanne80 wrote: A Japanese prefecture has no more control over the choices related to relationships between the national control than a state might control the choices of the Pentagon and made law by...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@polarbear4 wrote: forgot your /snark tag. :O) Read full topic

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@webwalk wrote: Proudly unAmerican. Can't shed the fact that i was born here and live inside it, but i work at living in resistance to the [white supremacist, colonialist, capitalist, consumerist]...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@rolson wrote: Those bases have always been a source of pain to the people of Okinawa. They have endured under the abuses of both the Japanese and the Americans. Now this bs in the South China Sea...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@sanne80 wrote: rolson et al, the amount business created by even the underpaid GIs, wasn't it half of the total of 50,000 stationed in Japan also is a factor in the economy by the bases? If all were...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@RockyMissouri wrote: I HATE TO SEE ELDERS (anyone, actually!) TREATED IN SUCH A WAY..!! They are to be RESPECTED!! Read full topic

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@Archie1954 wrote: It is time for Okinawa to secede from the Japanese empire. it can remain loyal to the emperor but not to the political Japanese entity. Abe is destroying what it means to be...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@commonality wrote: Whatever the U.S. wants they seem to get. Money is power and power is corruption. All for the war Military Industrial Complex. Read full topic

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@webwalk wrote: Indeed, thanks Ronna. Basic respect and humility are so lost in this rampant US culture of arrogance. Read full topic

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@George_III wrote: "Frances Fitzgerald was the first to recognize and respect the cultural legacy and integrity of the peoples of Viet Nam" I was under the impression that the Vietnamese, and no doubt...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@theoldgoat wrote: "I'm reminded of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize winning "Fire in the Lake", one of the first in depth analyses of the war waged on Viet Nam." You're absolutely right. Funny though how...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@rolson wrote: I hear you. US Bases are quite the golden handcuffs and it could be posturing for the cash. It is the same decision for all of the communities under SOFA agreements. Does the gold...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@rolson wrote: Another excellent documentary on Viet Nam is the "Fog of War". 2003 It is an study/interview with all the players of the time (McNamara, et al)in the twilight of their years. It really...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@sanne80 wrote: rolson, I lived for 3 and 1/2 years in Japan at the largest of the AF facilities in late '60s during the height of the Vietnam "conflict." The SOFA provided, except when a job for...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@Emphyrio wrote: The "Global Force for Good" needs liebensraum. (discontinued Navy ad campaign - the farce for good) A military base in every foreign country is what the MICC wants, like they have a...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@rolson wrote: "the reality of the situation in Okinawa was far more complicated" I know. How interesting, I spent 3 yrs in Okinawa (Kadena) towards the end of Vietnamand into the Laos/Cambodia period...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@sanne80 wrote: LOL, rolson. My now late spouse, in case you haven't noticed I'm an Agent Orange widow, did a two year tour at Kadena. Other than TDYs and a long time before I met him, as a re-cip...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@sanne80 wrote: Just to add related to the protests on Okinawa. The long attempt to move the Marine base is not the only issue being dealt with though not mentioned in this article. Very informative...

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Protesting US Military Base, Elders Dragged Away by Okinawa Riot Police

@rolson wrote: My Respects. Your Husband took on a lion's share of the duty at that time.I always think about how my life would have been if I had been 4 years earlier, spent many hours is a 141.I was...

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