[Site Fwd][Ten Thousand Things] Jon Letman: "In Search of Real Security: A Closer Look at Our Basic Needs in a Time of Crisis"

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Ten Thousand Things
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Jon Letman: "In Search of Real Security: A Closer Look at Our Basic Needs in a Time of Crisis"

Many thanks to Koohan Paik for sharing news about this hopeful dialogue taking place in Hawai'i. The filmmaker and author participated in a panel addressing genuine security last month.

Jon Letman covered the event, "In Search of Real Security, Part One: A Closer Look at Our Basic Needs in a Time of Crisis" for The Hawaii Independent. Truth Out reposted the two-part series.

Letman points out that the U.S. militaristic public policy that spends trillions of tax and borrowed (from China and other foreign nations) dollars on military escalation and perpetual wars has resulted in less, not more security—while creating suffering for many millions of people and environmental devastation in its planetary wake.

Koohan, Kyle Kajihiro of DMZ Hawai'i and the rest of the panel explored the overwhelming issue of our time—How do we shift from rule by a destructive, fearful, toxic culture of war, death, environmental destruction, and economic predation to rule by a constructive, healthy culture of life-affirmative policies and institutions?

Although written from a Hawaiian-American perspective, the issues and insights apply to everyone because U.S. militarism, network of bases, perpetual wars, and unreasonable anxiety over "security" affects the entire world:

For more reading and photos, click HERE.