Okinawa

This article was originally published on Huffington Post. Last week tens of thousands of people gathered to demonstrate for human rights and against harmful U.S. government policies. At a huge [...]

Okinawa, Japan — August 12, 2015 — Hours after Paul Kawika Martin, the policy and political director of the United State’s largest peace organization, Peace Action, addressed protesters in front [...]

Below is the front page of today’s Ryukyu Shimpo newspaper (newspapers are still very important in Japan), with this message from our Executive Director, Kevin Martin: I had the [...]

Excellent, concise analysis of the link between the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the U.S. military’s Asia-Pacific Pivot, published by our colleagues at Foreign Policy in Focus. The author [...]

While it hadn’t gotten much attention in the U.S., the decision last month to move forward, despite years of local protest and international opposition, with a new U.S. Marine base on the [...]

published by Foreign Policy in Focus Towards a Foreign Policy for the 99 Percent By Kevin Martin, December 18, 2012 Relief, rather than elation, was probably the emotion most U.S. peace activists [...]

We’ve written on this blog before about this struggle to stop constuction of a missile defense base on Jeju Island, South Korea, as well as the fight against U.S. military bases on Okinawa. [...]

The Japanese island of Okinawa is perhaps the most beautiful place I’ve ever been blessed to visit. Okinawa’s people, peaceful history (before the stationing of Japanese troups there [...]

By Alicia Godsberg, Executive Director Peace Action NYS (Note: Alicia represented Peace Action at the Gensuikin Conference in Hiroshima/Nagasaki,August 3-9, and also made a trip to view the U.S. [...]

Sonali Kolhatkar, the host of Uprising, interviewed Paul from Hiroshima last Friday. The show runs on over a dozen stations including: KPFA, KPFT, KRFP, WVJW, WXOJ-LP, FRSC, and The Journey [...]