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Honolulu Citizens Demand the Closing of the US Navy’s 225 million gallon, 80-Year-Old, Leaking Underground Jet Fuel Tanks

The long citizen protest underscoring the dangers from the U.S. Navy’s 80-year-old leaking 20 jet fuel tanks at Red Hill — each tank 20 stories tall and holding a total of 225 million gallons of jet fuel — came to a head over the weekend with Navy families around the large Pearl Harbor Naval Base being sickened by fuel in their home tap water.

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Myth of Inevitability

Reflecting on the Dawn of Everything

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow is, I think, a terrific contribution to human knowledge and guide to pursuing more of the same — as well as a notable accomplishment for the Davids of the world, who have perhaps been falling a bit short lately. A few of the points it documents and persuades of are:

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Canada

Fighter Jets Are For Climate Losers

On November 25th 2021, a group of activists gathered in front of Steven Guilbeault’s office on de Maisonneuve Est in Montréal, armed with signs and an ardent desire to save the world… from Canada.

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World Beyond War: A New Podcast
Asturias Chapter

Episode 30: Glasgow and the Carbon Bootprint with Tim Pluta

Our latest podcast episode features an interview about the antiwar protests outside the 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow with Tim Pluta, World BEYOND War’s chapter organizer in Spain. Tim joined a coalition to protest COP26’s weak stance on the “carbon bootprint”, the disastrous abuse of fossil fuels by military forces that USA and other nations refuse to acknowledge.

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Asia

Thousands of “Tsinelas,” Flip Flops Displayed Outside U.S. Capitol Asks Biden Administration for Passage of Philippine Human Rights Act Ahead of Summit for Democracy

This Thursday, November 18, Communications Workers of America (CWA), International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines (ICHRP), Malaya Movement USA and Kabataan Alliance advocating for human rights in the Philippines unveiled over 3,000 pairs of “tsinelas,” displayed across the National Mall.

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Close Bases

Digging for Peace: Resisting Nuclear Weapons

On Wednesday, October 20, I joined “Vrede Scheppen,” “Create Peace,” about 25 peace activists from the Netherlands, Germany and Austria at the airbase at Volkel, Netherlands, making a plea for an end to nuclear weapons.

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