Text Fwd: [Dr. Hannah Middleton] US forces bring grief to Australia 미군, 호주에 통탄을 가져 오다.

* Text informed from Dr. Hanna Middleton and Corazon Valdez Fabros on Nov. 6, 2010

Media release - US forces bring grief to Australia

“We are appalled at the Labor Government’s decision to allow thousands of US troops into Australia and to increase military exercises with US forces,” Dr Hannah Middleton from the Australian Anti-Bases Coalition said.

“The claim that Australia will be more secure as a result of closer military ties with the US is nonsense.

“We cannot really expect security from a country which has gone to war every 14 months since World War 2.

“For a government facing massive opposition to its existing military spending of over $80 million a day, spending more on facilities for a foreign military power is criminal.

“Australia’s relationship with the US makes us poorer, not safer,”.Dr Middleton said.

The Asia-Pacific region is the economic powerhouse of the 21st Century. The US Government wants to dominate here militarily,” said Denis Doherty, co-ordinator of the Australian Anti-Bases Campaign.

“But around the world US bases and troops have brought social tensions, abuse of women, crime, and massive toxic waste and pollution.

“The people of Okinawa are driving the US Marines out because they have had enough.

“Many are being sent to Guam where a huge opposition movement is now developing.

“And the peace movement does not want them in Australia either,” Mr Doherty said.

“The US has already dragged Australia into the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan at the cost of thousands dead and massive destruction. This has to stop.

“We call on the Gillard Government not to threaten but to work cooperatively with the people of the Asia Pacific region, including China. They will be surprised and delighted by the rewards of peace with justice.

“The peace movement will continue to resist the presence of US troops, bases and logistics in our country.

“We need to keep the US military at arms length. We should maintain friendly relations with the US but not be abject followers of an aggressive, militarist empire,” Denis Doherty concluded.

For more information:

Denis Doherty 0418 290 663

Dr Hannah Middleton 0418 668 098

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See also STOP NATO: Asia-Pacific Build-Up: U.S. To Share Australian Military Bases

Australian Associated Press

November 6, 2010
US forces to share our bases

-The Australian development is part of a new US strategy to step up its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region after reviews of strategic policy concluded that the Bush government's attempts to project power from North America were not working.

Text Fwd: US, New Zealand sign strategic deal after nuclear row 미국, 뉴질랜드와 핵 언쟁 뒤 전략적 거래에 서명

* Image source: same as the link

'Mr McCully called the pact "a very important page in the history of US-New Zealand relations"'

* Text fwd from Corazon Valdez Fabros on Nov. 6, 2010.

BBC News
4 November 2010
US, New Zealand sign strategic deal after nuclear row

New Zealand and the US have signed a strategic co-operation document to restore relations after a 25-year row.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully signed the Wellington Declaration at parliament.

It commits the two countries to regular foreign ministry, trade and military talks.

Military ties were damaged 25 years ago when New Zealand refused to allow US nuclear-armed ships to dock.

New Zealand has banned nuclear-armed and nuclear-powered ships visiting its ports since 1985.

The US traditionally refuses to say whether its ships are nuclear-powered or not, so New Zealand has refused entry to all of them.

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* Comment to this from Robert Leonard on Nov. 6, 2010

BBC has got it wrong on the nuclear capability of US warships. It is easy to determine if a ship is nuclear powered. That's a matter of public record. A quick visit to Jane's warships online will reveal much detail about a given ship. But the matter of nuclear weapons on board is the sticking point. The US routinely "neither confirms nor denies" the presence of nuclear weapons on any of its military "vehicles", be they ships, aircraft, anything that moves. NZ does not accept ship visits because of that NCND policy. But our "nuclear free" country does see fit to allow NCND military transport aircraft to transit Christchurch International Airport, no questions asked. The Christchurch Anti-Bases Campaign has protested against this serious breach of our so-called nuclear free status for decades.

Text Fwd: HILLARY CLINTON COMES BEARING A POISONED CHALICE FOR NZ 클린턴, 뉴질랜드에 독이 든 잔- FTA 협상-을 갖고 온다

* Text sent from CAFCA and Corzon Valdez Fabros on Nov. 1, 2010

Chief Reporter
HILLARY CLINTON COMES BEARING A POISONED CHALICE FOR NZ

As if 2,000 earthquakes haven’t been enough punishment for Christchurch , now we’re going to have Hillary Clinton visiting us (and Wellington ) this week.

A major focus for her NZ visit will be the negotiations which are well underway for the US and a number of other countries to join an expanded Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership(currently comprising NZ, Chile, Brunei, and Singapore, and known as the P4 Agreement), with 2011 as the target to seal the deal. This will be used as the backdoor means to secure a US/NZ Free Trade Agreement.

That would be catastrophic for any remaining economic sovereignty that New Zealand has. CAFCA says this not because we are “anti-American”. All such FTAs – such as with the existing P4 partners, or the more recent ones with Malaysia, the Gulf States and Hong Kong – pose the same threat to a greater or lesser degree. And our opposition to them is not because of “xenophobia” but for well founded grounds that they simply enmesh NZ more and more tightly in a cobweb of transnational corporate control.

So it's a recipe for disaster to enter into an FTA with the biggest economy in the world, headed by a Government that aggressively pushes the interests of American Big Business (there is a seamless flow between the US Government and US Big Business, as is evidenced by the trillion dollar bailout of the mega-greedy financial sector, a textbook example of socialism for the rich).

A full blown US FTA will:
· Remove any remaining “restrictions” on foreign investment, as the US regards NZ's (purely token) oversight regime as “discriminating” against US transnational corporations. The extraordinary spectacle of the Government grovelling to Warner Brothers last week – a textbook example of corporate welfare and feudal forelock tugging – shows what the future holds in relation to the bullyboy brinkmanship of US Big Business when dealing with NZ.

· push up the price of medicines by potentially hundreds of millions of dollars a year by attacking Pharmac;
· make access to digital recordings more expensive, and copying more restricted;
· attack our GE controls and food labelling,
· weaken our controls on food imports where they might carry diseases.

It is always presented as a means of getting NZ agricultural products into the US market. Ask Australian sugar cane growers how successful they were in getting their product into the US under the US/Australia FTA. The Americans have a simple policy when it comes to “free trade” – do as they say, not as they do. In other words, they want the world's markets opened up to their products, while keeping their own heavily subsidised agribusiness sector fully or heavily protected from outside competitors.

Both National and Labour myopically see a US FTA as being the Holy Grail of their adherence to the cargo cult of “free trade”. It's actually a poisoned chalice and it will be New Zealand which will be poisoned by it.

The other side of the coin is that Clinton will be asking NZ to take a bigger role in the American war in Afghanistan . Older New Zealanders will remember the infamous “guns for butter” phrase of Sir Keith Holyoake, Prime Minister during our involvement in the Vietnam War. It means sending our soldiers to fight in US wars in order to, theoretically, gain trade access. Nothing much seems to have changed in the ensuing 40 years (except now it is “guns for milk”, as the Government's trade policy is driven by a single minded focus on serving Fonterra's interests). Already we have troops there and the Pentagon went to great lengths recently to buy up and destroy the American book “Operation Dark Heart” which, among things, revealed the full extent of the hands on role being played in Afghanistan by NZ military and intelligence personnel. And, of course, the Waihopai spybase, an American intelligence facility in all but name, is NZ’s single most important contribution to the US warfighting machine 24/7/365.

People who kid themselves that “we” stand to gain from a Free Trade Agreement with the US would be wise to reflect on the rueful words of Sir Christopher Meyer, Britain 's Ambassador to the US in the runup to the 2003 US/UK invasion of Iraq . Speaking to the current public Inquiry into Britain 's part in that invasion and war: “Meyer expressed frustration that Britain was unable to gain much diplomatic leverage from its position as the US ' chief ally. Britain failed to persuade the US to liberalise trans-Atlantic air travel and, almost on the day when British commandoes joined the fighting in Afghanistan , the US imposed tariffs on imports of specialised British steel” (Press , 28/11/09). If this is the way that the US treats its “chief ally” (or poodle, in the case of Tony Blair) when it comes to protecting its own trade and economic interests, how do you think little old NZ will get on?

For full details see the New Zealand Not For Sale Website www.nznotforsale.org . There you will find a wealth of information about just why this proposed Free Trade Agreement is such a bad thing. We particularly recommend that you read Bill Rosenberg 's excellent article “Who Wins If We Get A Free Trade Deal With The US ?” http://www.nznotforsale.org/who-wins-if-we-get-a-free-trade-with-the-us/

Murray Horton
Secretary/Organiser

CAFCA
Campaign Against Foreign Control of Aotearoa
Box 2258, Christchurch , New Zealand
cafca@chch.planet.org.nz
www.cafca.org.nz

Text Fwd: ASEAN leaders dared to tackle issue of unwanted US military troops, bases in Asia-Pacific [필리핀과 뉴질랜드] 아태 지역에서 기지 반대 목소리 높이기

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Wednesday, January 6, 2010
[국문 번역] Text Fwd: WAIHOPAI SPYBASE PROTEST, January 22-24, 2010
와이호파이 스파이 기지 폐쇄를 위한 시위, 2010년 1월 22~24일

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* Text Fwd from CAFCA and Phil Solidarity through NoUS bases
Oct. 29, 2010
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PRESS RELEASE
29 October 2010

Besides Spratly Islands dispute: ASEAN leaders dared to raise issue of unwanted US military troops, bases in ASEAN Summit

"Philippine President Benigno Simeon Aquino III's call for peaceful sharing of Spratly Islands' resources is important, but the unwanted presence of US military troops and facilities in Asia-Pacific must also be raised by Aquino and other heads of state at the on-going ASEAN Summit in Hanoi, Vietnam. The hundreds of US troops in the
Philippines under the unconstitutional US-RP Visiting Forces Agreement, the US military bases and its 47,000 troops in Okinawa, thousands of troops in Korea, and the Waihopai spybase on New Zealand soil are equally important issues affecting territorial sovereignty, peace and security in the region that must be challenged. The rape and prostitution of women, death of civilians and destruction of environment where US war games and exercises are being held must be stopped."

This was the challenge issued by peace advocates and anti-bases activist groups in New Zealand as they host Luis Jalandoni and Coni Ledesma of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDFP) Peace Negotiating Panel in a series of public meetings around NZ to
promote support for peace process the Philippines.

At the meetings in Christchurch, Blenheim and Wellington, Jalandoni and Ledesma talked about continuing US economic domination and military intervention in the Philippines as major obstacles to peace in the Philippines. "The Waihopai spybase in New Zealand is used by the US to spy on countries like the Philippines. We support the struggle to have this closed down. National sovereignty must be upheld to achieve lasting peace in the Philippines. Foreign troops and bases must not be allowed on Philippine soil just as the Waihopai spybase in NZ and US bases in Okinawa must be closed down," Jalandoni stated.

According to Murray Horton, main host of the peace tour and Secretary of Philippines Solidarity Network of Aotearoa (PSNA), "Waihopai does not operate in the interests of New Zealanders or our neighbours. Basically it is a foreign spybase on NZ soil and directly involves us in US wars. Although officially a 'New Zealand' facility, Waihopai is an American spybase in everything but name."

The Waihopai spybase was subjected to unprecedented public attention by the March 2010 trial and acquittal of the three Ploughshares peace activists who penetrated its high security in 2008 and deflated one of the two domes concealing its satellite dishes from the NZ public.

At the US-ASEAN leaders meeting last September 24, US Pres. Barack Obama stated: "Through the 21-member Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC) forum and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), we're pursuing trade relationships that benefit all our countries.The United States also wants to focus on deepening its political and security cooperation with the region."

"By all indications, the US is poised to strengthen military presence in Asia-Pacific to protect its economic interests in the name of 'free trade' that ensures massive profits for giant US corporations and local elite. The US, which benefits from unrestricted trade in labour
and capital investment in Asia-Pacific, is actually causing massive social inequities which are root causes of armed conflict in the Philippines. ''Free trade' fuels war," Rod Prosser,
convenor of Wellington Kiwi Pinoy, another group hosting the NDFP peace tour, added.

"We are aware that Mr. Aquino courted US support for Philippines' bid to become a member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership during his meeting with Obama. Just like APEC, General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade - World Trade Organisation (GATT-WTO) and other US-designed trade deals, TPP spells more profits for big business and nothing but losses for
ordinary people in the Philippines, New Zealand and other countries," Horton noted.

Horton, who is also the Spokesperson of 'New Zealand Not for Sale' campaign, concluded, "Filipinos and New Zealanders have had enough of unrestrained trade liberalisation that destroyed local agriculture and industries. Thus the TPP issue is a common ground for us to oppose what is essentially a back door way of achieving another free trade agreement that will mainly benefit the US. #

Reference:
Murray Horton
Secretary, Philippines Solidarity Network of Aotearoa (PSNA)
cafca@chch.planet.org.nz

[국문 번역] Text Fwd: Clinton and the colonial paradigm 클린턴과 식민지 패러다임

* Image 이미지: same as the link 같은 링크
'아태 사령부 로고를 배경으로 한 클린턴'

See the video of Hillary Clinton's speech
힐러리 클린턴의 연설 비디오는 여기서 보시길.

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* Text sent from Kyle Kajihiro, DMZ Hawai'i, through No US APbases list on Oct. 23, 2010
* 2010년 10월 23일 DMZ 하와이, 카일 카지히로, 보냄

Statehood Hawaii 스테이트후드 하와이
Clinton and the colonial paradigm
클린턴과 식민지 패러다임
Oct. 22, 2010
2010년 10월 22일

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will travel to Hawaii, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, and Australia, October 27-November 8.

미 국무 장관 힐러리 로드햄 클린턴은 10월 27일 부터 11월 8일까지 하와이, 베트남, 캄보디아, 말레이시아, 파푸아 뉴기니아, 뉴질랜드, 그리고 오스트레일리아를 방문할 것이다.

Secretary Clinton arrives in Honolulu on October 27 where she will meet with Japanese Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara to discuss a broad range of issues, including our close coordination during our back-to-back Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) host years. This meeting underscores the enduring importance of the U.S.-Japan alliance as a cornerstone of American engagement in the Asia-Pacific. On October 28, for the second time in Hawaii, the Secretary will deliver a major policy speech on the United States’ role as a Pacific nation.

클린턴 국무 장관은 10월 27일 호놀룰루에 도착해 일본 외무 장관 세이지 매하라를 만나 연속적인 아시아 태평양 경제 협력 회의 (Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)) 주최 해 기간들 동안 가까운 협력을 포함, 넓은 범위의 이슈들을 토론할 것이다. 이 회의는 미국의 아시아 태평양 참여에 있어 미-일 동맹을 토대로 하는 것의 지속적 중요성을 강조한다. 10월 28일, 하와이에선 두번째로, 국무 장관은 태평양 국가로서 미국의 역활에 대한 주요한 정책 연설을 할것이다.

Clinton’s five principles that has articulated the U.S. Pacific Policy:

미국의 태평양 정책을 표현한 클린턴의 5가지 원칙들

1. Using our bilateral alliance relationships as the cornerstone of our regional involvement while pursuing other partnerships and dialogues with regional players;

1. [더 많은] 지역의 주체들과 다른 협력(관계)과 대화를 추구함과 동시에 우리의 양자 동맹 관계들을 우리의 지역적 참여의 토대로 사용;

2. shaping regional institutions to advance shared objectives such as economic development and democracy;

2. 경제 개발과 민주주의등 공유된 목표들을 진전시키기 위해 지역 기관들을 형성하기;

3. ensuring that regional institutions are effective and results-oriented;

3. 지역 기관들이 효과적이고 결과가 중요시되는 방향으로 되는 것을 확실하게 하기

4. maintaining flexibility in pursuing objectives, including through sub-regional institutions; and

4. 지역 하부 기관들을 통한 과정들을 포함, 목표들을 추구하는데 있어 유연성을 유지하기; 그리고

5. determining which Asia-Pacific regional institutions are the defining ones that include all key stakeholders.

5. 어느 아시아 태평양 지역 기관들이 모든 핵심 이해 관계자들을 포함하는 결정적인 기관들일가를 결정하기.

This new plan, as stated in testimony by Asst. Sec. of State Kurt Campbell, has articulated that the U.S. will work in cooperation with the Pacific Island Forum Secretariat and the participating organizations, citing PIF as the “cooperating regional players.” (For more information on the Pacific Plan go to: http://www.forumsec.org.fj/pages.cfm/about-us/the-pacific-plan/)

미 국무 차관보 커트 캠벨의 증언에 의해 진술된 것처럼, 이 새로운 계획은 태평양 제도 포럼(Pacific Island Forum)의 “협력하는 지역적 주체들”을 인용하며 미국이 태평양 제도 포럼 사무 총장, 그리고 협력 조직들과 일할 것임을 일목요연하게 했다. (태평양 계획들에 대한 더 많은 정보는 여기를 가시길: http://www.forumsec.org.fj/pages.cfm/about-us/the-pacific-plan/)

The five principles that Clinton has articulated lays the frame for further militarization of the Pacific through the use of Development Aid for strategic control over energy and other pacific resources.

클린턴이 정리한 5가지 원칙들은 에너지 및 다른 태평양 자원들에 대한 전략적 통제를 위하여 개발 원조의 사용을 통한 태평양의 더 많은 군사화를 위한 틀을 마련한다.

A good example of the kind of plan that is being perpetrated is the production of Palm Oil in Papua/New Guinea. In a 2009 report entitled “Commodity Colonialism,” David Gilbert describes the economic, environmental conditions imposed upon PNG, Palm Oil production by U.S. agribusiness, Cargill, which has created not only massive environmental degradation, but also the spread of debt, prostitution, alcoholism and violence in the oil palm regions.

그 계획이 저질러진 좋은 예는 파푸아 뉴기니아의 야자 기름 생산이다. “상품 식민주의”라고 제목붙여진 2009년 보고서에서 데이비드 길버트는 미국 농업 기업 카길이 파푸아 뉴기니아 야자 기름 생산에 부과한 경제적, 환경적 조건들을 묘사하는데, 그것은 기름 야자 지역들에서 대량의 환경적 감퇴뿐만 아니라 또한 빚, 매춘, 알코올 중독과 폭력의 확산을 가져왔다.

The combination of militarization, development aid, as well as traditional and new commodities in the Pacific, is well elaborated in the US State Dept. Pacific plan. The upcoming G20 and APEC meetings among the larger countries around the Pacific will undoubtedly prepare for further exploitation of Pacific resources.

태평양에서의 전통적이며 새로운 상품들과 마찬가지로 군사주의, 개발 원조의 결합은 미 국무부 태평양 계획에 잘 묘사되어 있다. 다가오는 G20과 태평양 주위 더 큰 국가들간의 아시아 태평양 경제 회담은 의심의 여지없이 태평양 자원들의 더 큰 착취를 준비할 것이다.

In this critical era of acute climate change, this policy already accepts the reality of global warming, an assumption that threatens the existence of many Pacific Island nations and peoples. The use of militarization and aid, the logic of maintaining military presence as insurance to disaster relief programs, the continued exploitation of forests and natural resources in the Pacific; together, these all suggest the continuation of an old colonial paradigm.

기후 변화라는 이 심각한 시대에 이 정책은 이미 많은 태평양 제도 국가들의 존재를 위협하는 가정이란 지구 온난화의 현실을 받아들인다. 군사화와 원조의 사용, 재난 구호 프로그램들을 위한 보험으로 군사 주둔을 유지하기 위한 논리, 태평양의 숲들 그리고 천연 지원들에 대한 계속되는 착취: 이 모든 것은 구 식민지 패러다임의 계속성을 암시한다.

Text Fwd: Filipino Progressive Leaders Visiting Waihopai Spy base October 27th 필리핀 진보 지도자들, [뉴질랜드] 와이오파이 미 첩보 기지, 10월 27일 방문

* Sent from CAFCA through nousbases on Oct. 22, 2010

Chief Reporter

The Waihopai spybase is currently in the news because the media shy agency which runs it, the NZ Government Communications Security Bureau, is suing for more than $1m damages the three Christian peace activists who were acquitted of criminal charges for their 2008 deflation of one its giant domes. They did that in protest at Waihopai’s vital role in the global network of spybases operating as the ears and eyes of the US war machine.

Waihopai’s primary role is to spy on our neighbours, particularly political groups which are deemed inimical to US interests. On the afternoon of Wednesday October 27th two leading figures of one such political movement in a neighbouring country will be visiting the Waihopai spybase (viewing it from the public road) to see for themselves New Zealand’s most important contribution to any and all American-led wars.

See below for details on Luis Jalandoni and Coni Ledesma and their NZ tour. For details on the Waihopai spybase see http://www.converge.org.nz/abc/waihopai09.html

Murray Horton
Secretary
PSNA
Philippines Solidarity Network of Aotearoa
Box 2450, Christchurch, New Zealand
cafca@chch.planet.org.nz
www.converge.org.nz/psna

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JUSTICE AND LIBERATION: THE ROAD TO PEACE

FILIPINO PROGRESSIVE LEADERS TOURING NZ
OCTOBER 24 – NOVEMBER 14

Luis Jalandoni is the International Representative of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines (NDF, www.ndfp.net), a post that he has held since 1977, and since 1994 he has been the Chairperson of the NDF’s Negotiating Panel for peace talks with the Government of the Philippines. The NDF is the coalition of several underground groups, including the Communist Party of the Philippines and its New People’s Army, which has been waging a war of liberation throughout the Philippines for more than 40 years, making it one of the longest running armed struggles in the world. The country desperately needs peace with justice and security, so resolving this people’s war is central to that.

Luis (who previously toured New Zealand in 1987) will undertake a national speaking tour between October 24 and November 14. His tour is being collectively organised and hosted by the Philippines Solidarity Network of Aotearoa, Auckland Philippines Solidarity and Wellington Kiwi Pinoy. His topic will be: Justice And Liberation: The Road To Peace In The Philippines. He will visit: Christchurch, Blenheim, Wellington, Palmerston North, New Plymouth, Hamilton, Auckland and Whangarei.

Luis will be accompanied by his wife Coni Ledesma, who will also be speaking. She is a member of the NDF Negotiating Panel for peace talks; and is the International Spokesperson of MAKIBAKA, a revolutionary women’s group which belongs to the NDF.

Luis and Coni are both veteran leading figures in the Philippine revolutionary Left. He was a Catholic priest in the 1960s and she was a nun. Both were founders of Christians for National Liberation, a member group of the NDF. When Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law in 1972, both went underground. They were both arrested and spent time as political prisoners. They left the clergy, and got married in 1974. They have lived in The Netherlands since 1976; they were the first Filipinos to apply for and receive political asylum there. They hold Dutch passports and travel extensively as NDF representatives.

Luis Jalandoni and Coni Ledesma’s tour presents a unique opportunity to hear firsthand about a four decades long war, and accompanying peace process, in our own backyard that is almost totally unknown to New Zealanders. As more and more Filipinos come to NZ to live and work, it is important that Kiwis learn the full story about one of our closest Asian neighbours.

ITINERARY

Tuesday October 26 – Christchurch
Public Meeting - 7.30 p.m. Knox Presbyterian Church Lounge, 28 Bealey Avenue.
Contact: Murray Horton, 0274 307742 cafca@chch.planet.org.nz

Wednesday October 27 – Blenheim
Public Meeting – 7.30 p.m., Nativity Centre Lounge, cnr Alfred & Henry Streets
Contact: Steffan Browning, 021 725655 greeny25@xtra.co.nz

Thursday October 28 & Friday 29 – Wellington
Public Meeting – 7.30 p.m. Thursday 28, St John’s Hall, corner Willis & Dixon Streets
Contact: Rod Prosser 021 0744992 communitymedia@paradise.net.nz

Monday November 1 – Palmerston North
Public Meeting – 7.30 p.m., Catholic Diocesan Centre (t Rau Aroha), 33 Amesbury Street
Contact: Dion Martin (06) 3569658 (w), 021 776029 Dion.Martin@ndu.org.nz

Tuesday November 2 & Wednesday 3 – New Plymouth
Public Meeting – 6 p.m. Wednesday 3rd, Govett Brewster Art Gallery, 42 Queen Street
Contact: Fiona Clark (06) 7547014; fionaclark@clear.net.nz

Thursday November 4 – Hamilton
Public Meeting – 7.30 p.m., Waikato Trade Union Centre, 34 Harwood Street.
Contact: Bob Anderson, (07) 8297882, 021 776023; ban@xtra.co.nz

Friday November 5 - Whangarei
Public Meeting – 7 p.m., Manaia PHO Rooms, Rust Ave, central Whangarei.
Contact: Tim Howard 027 3089216 the-farm@ihug.co.nz

Tuesday November 9 – Auckland
Public Meeting – 7 p.m. Trades Hall, 147 Great North Road, Grey Lynn
Wednesday 10 – 9a.m. - 12 noon, Auckland University, Maori Studies, Women’s Forum with Coni Ledesma. RSVP to Helen Te Hira (09) 2803372 (w); 0272 888894 helent@nzctu.org.nz

Friday 12 – 7 p.m. Solidarity Dinner, Civic Building, Strata 17, Mayoral Drive, Auckland. Tickets $30 (dinner, entertainment, cash bar). Contact Luke Coxon for tickets
Contact: Luke Coxon (09) 8276059, 028 25893203 luke_coxon@yahoo.com

This tour is collectively organised by Philippines Solidarity Network of Aotearoa (PSNA),
Auckland Philippines Solidarity and Wellington Kiwi-Pinoy

Text Fwd: [NoUSBases]On the Waihopai 'Claim of Right' Defence

* Image source: same as the blog link

* Text sent from CAFCA on July 16, 2010

From: Peace Movement Aotearoa [mailto:pma@xtra.co.nz]
Sent: Friday, 16 July 2010 6:34 a.m.
To: pma@xtra.co.nz
Subject: On the Waihopai ‘Claim of Right’ Defence

On the Waihopai ‘Claim of Right’ Defence

Usually when the public feels outraged by an acquittal in a high profile trial, the response by the Justice Minister of the day is to defend the jury system. You know the drill – the jury were in the courtroom, they heard all the evidence, and by implication, the public doesn’t know what its talking about. Not so it seems, when the government gets a verdict on the Waihopai Three case that it doesn’t like. No word then from the Justice Minister about the wisdom and even-handedness of the jury. Instead, he moves to change the legal rules to ensure the authorities get their conviction the next time around

The rules in question are those to do with the so called ‘claim of right’ defence. This allows for circumstances where an ostensibly criminal act can be committed due to compelling higher reasons that can reasonably be said to justify the actions – breaking into private property say, to rescue a child from a burning building. Speeding to a hospital with an injured patient. Or in the Waihopai case, impeding activities that contribute to an illegal and unjust war and where – arguably – to do nothing is to be complicit.

The Waihopai Three put their case before the jury in the courtroom – and the jury weighed the evidence and reached the conclusion that the actions were reasonable. Justice Minister Simon Power clearly thinks this can’t be allowed. What he proposes – and typically for this government – the response is framed in terms of multiple options put out there to test how much flak they attract. The options range from raising the hurdle for a ‘claim of right’ defence, abolishing it altogether, or assuming the accused is guilty in such situations until they prove otherwise. In detail, the options are :

* Shifting the burden of proof — amending the definition so a defendant would have to prove they have a claim of right rather than the prosecution needing to prove they do not;

* Adding a reasonableness element — amending the definition of claim of right so a defendant would have to show that at the time of the offence their actions or beliefs were reasonable;

* Amending the offences that have claim of right as an element — amending some or all of the 14 offences in the Crimes Act that have claim of right as an element to ensure the defence is not wider than is appropriate;

* Adding a property interest criterion — amending the defence of claim of right so only a defendant with a legal claim to the property concerned could use the defence; and

* Repealing the defence — remove the claim of right defence from the Crimes Act so it is not available to any defendant in future.

The most outrageous options– in that they so clearly amount to payback for the Waihopai verdict – are the ones that shift the onus of proof to the accused, and that require a pre-existing property right to exist. In the latter situation, people could not damage other people’s property for a higher cause. (If this property option is chosen by Simon Power, it would be interesting to see if anyone in future could claim that as a taxpayer, they have an ownership stake in say, the Waihopai base, and thus have responsibility as citizens for any actions aided or abetted by this public property, in our name.)

Several things seem to be being forgotten in the politically driven rush to rejig the legal rules. With this display of petulance, the government is bringing the entire jury system into disrepute. To repeat: the jury heard the evidence from the Waihopai Three, tested whether it was reasonable – as the current situation allows it discretion to do – and reached a decision based on the facts before it. In future, the politicians and the courts can hardly complain if the public loses faith in a justice system where the powerful simply change the rules to get the convictions they want, while the public gets a lecture on tolerance and respect for juries whenever there is public outrage about an acquittal.

Secondly, it seems to be being overlooked that the war in Iraq is not legal. It was launched as a pre-emptive war waged on false grounds (ie, allegations about the existence of weapons of mass destruction) and without a proper UN mandate. Eminent legal authorities such as Lord Bingham, the outstanding former chief justice of the British House of Lords, hold this to be the case.

Therefore, the Waihopai Three were not so much committing a criminal act as impeding New Zealand’s possible complicity in the perpetuation of further criminal acts. The jury may well have felt that since the war is illegal, the proof burden on the accused was that much lower – and the need for distance by New Zealand from being tainted by association, was that much higher. If so, they were right to do so. Because the onus of proof regarding the complicity of our spy base in the Iraq war – or its non-complicity, if the spy base truly is making no contribution to the war effort – should rest to some extent at least, with the government.

In Power’s formulation though, defendants would have to shoulder all of that legal burden. So, if a future government wants to commit us to helping out in a war that is illegal under international law, will we – as citizens – be able to use a ‘claim of right’ defence in future? Not at all in the worst case scenario – if Power has his way – and only, at best, with extreme difficulty. The defence is likely to be available in future only if we can prove the illegality of the war in question beyond reasonable doubt, and prove the linkage of the property or actions in question, to it.

Yet surely, when this is contentious – as it usually is for years afterwards – there should be some onus on the government to demonstrate that its committal of our resources to such conflicts is legal – or is not happening at all? This is, again, another reason for not tilting the scales of justice arbitrarily in favour of the authorities. A jury should be left to hear both sides of the argument, on a level playing field. The law on ‘claim of right’ does not need to be changed, and should not be changed.

[Bryan Law covered the Waihopai trial for Scoop. His summary of the defence case is here.]

Text Fwd: UN head urges five Pacific nations toward self governance

* Text sent from Martha Duenas on May 21, 2010

Pacific media center
UN head urges five Pacific nations toward self governance
14:24 May 20, 2010

Pacific Scoop:
Report – By Pacific Media Centre newsdesk.

Five Pacific nations and the larger powers that govern and administer them are being urged by the United Nations to advance toward self governance.

At a forum held this week on decolonisation in Noumea, New Caledonia, the United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon declared all remaining non-self-governing nations must have complete freedom in deciding their future – among those 16 states whose official status remains as non-self-governing nations are: Tokelau, New Caledonia, American Samoa, Guam, and Pitcairn.

The Noumea forum was the second time the United Nations has held a seminar on decolonisation in a non-self-governing nation. New Caledonia is governed by France, and French rule has long been challenged by the island state’s indigenous peoples.

Ban said holding the forum in New Caledonia was significant in that it enabled the United Nations to highlight “the importance the Committee ascribes to hearing directly from their representatives about the issues they face”.

And in a statement Ban cited how New Caledonia is “going through a challenging and complex process of determining its political future in close cooperation with the administering Power, France”.

Fifty years ago the United Nations made a declaration designed to eradicate colonisation in all regions of the world. Today, 16 nations continue to be subservient to a controlling power, or administered by a dominant state.

The United Nations strategy is to encourage self determination, and to loosen the grip of controlling nations without creating social and civil unrest, especially in the Pacific.

“The (United Nations) Special Committee regards the hosting of the Seminar (in New Caledonia) as a significant manifestation of the improved cooperation between the administering Power and the Committee in advancing the decolonization process in general and in the Pacific region in particular,” he said.

Tokelau is another Pacific island nation that remains classified as non-self-governing. Tokelau has been governed and administered by New Zealand since 1926, although its peoples have twice voted (with United Nations observers in attendance) on whether the status quo be maintained, or rather, that Tokelau become an independent state in free association with New Zealand. That means that if Tokelau’s people decided on the latter, New Zealand would maintain a fiscal and bureaucratic/administrative responsibility to assist Tokelau while Tokelau would have free and full rights to self governance. On both occasions, the latter held on October 25 2007, Tokelau’s people voted against change and self determination.

Tokelau’s option for change failed by only one percent of votes.

For Tokelau to become a self-governing nation it required 66 percent of voters to support the proposal. At the end of counting today, 64.4 percent voted in favour – 16 votes shy of the required 462 yes votes.

New Zealand officially respected the wishes of Tokelau’s people but clearly was disappointed that self-governance was not achieved via the ballot-box.

Today, Tokelau remains officially governed by New Zealand, but in reality its domestic affairs are governed by Faipule – a council of elected elders led by a single representative from each of its three atolls. The Faipule vote on a leader or Ulu. The role of Ulu rotates so that each Faipule has a chance to represent Tokelau. The process of governance is overseen by an appointed Administrator from New Zealand, currently David Payton – a Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade senior diplomat.

While domestic affairs are well represented by Tokelauans, its non-self-governing status means Tokelau is not able to represent itself at significant world conferences like the recent Copenhagen conference on climate change, other United Nations forums and general assembly, nor have an official flag, national anthem, nor bid for development grants, funding, or programmes that would best assist it to counter or adapt to significant global challenges (such as climate change).

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Text Fwd: Japan, Australia Sign "Historic" Military Deal

* Stop NATO

Defense News
Agence France-Presse
May 19, 2010
Japan, Australia Sign 'Historic' Military Deal

-It was the third such meeting of the foreign and defense ministers since the nations signed a security pact in March 2007, and the first under the government of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.
The pact was the first for officially pacifist Japan outside its military alliance with the United States.


TOKYO: Japan and Australia on May 19 signed a "historic" military deal in Tokyo, stepping up defense and diplomatic cooperation despite a dispute over Japanese whaling.

Japan Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada and Defence Minister Toshimi Kitazawa held talks with Australian counterparts Stephen Smith and John Faulkner in the so-called "two-plus-two" meeting.

The two sides signed the Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement (ACSA), under which their armed forces will provide each other with food, fuel and logistical support during peacekeeping and disaster-relief missions.

"This is a historic moment for Japan and Australia," Faulkner said at a joint press conference. "Signing the ACSA is symbolic of a new stage in our bilateral defense relationship."

"This is a very tangible indication of the growing depth and strength in the defense relationship between our two countries," he said, adding one specific area of cooperation will be in peacekeeping operations in East Timor.

The agreement will enable Japanese troops and Australian forces to cooperate "in the field of United Nations peacekeeping operations, humanitarian international relief operations and other operations," the document said.

Specifically, the Pacific allies will jointly conduct military exercises and training...the paper said.

It was the third such meeting of the foreign and defense ministers since the nations signed a security pact in March 2007, and the first under the government of Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama.

The pact was the first for officially pacifist Japan outside its military alliance with the United States.

The Australian and Japanese ministers also expressed concern about North Korea's nuclear programs and Iran's need to comply with U.N. resolutions.

In December 2008, Japan and Australia agreed to share confidential information, pledged to expand joint military exercises and to set up regular consultations on disaster prevention, fighting terrorism and peacekeeping.
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Text Fwd: U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China And Russia

U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China And Russia
Rick Rozoff (and also in Stop NATO)
March 4, 2010

So far this year the United States has succeeded in inflaming tensions with China and indefinitely holding up a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia through its relentless pursuit of global interceptor missile deployments.

On January 29 the White House confirmed the completion of a nearly $6.5 billion weapons transfer to Taiwan which includes 200 advanced Patriot anti-ballistic missiles. Earlier in the same month it was reported that Washington is also to provide Taiwan with eight frigates which Taipei intends to upgrade with the Aegis Combat System that includes the capacity for ship-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors.

The Aegis sea-based component of the expanding U.S. interceptor missile system already includes Japan, South Korea and Australia, and with Taiwan added China would be justified in being apprehensive.

FOR MORE, SEE HERE

Text Fwd: LETTER TO SOUTH KOREAN EMBASSY 남한 대사관에 보내는 편지

* Bruce Gagnon mailed the two-page letter to the SK embassy in the Washington DC
and Obama & Gates on Jan. 26, 2010. (Click for the image for larger view)
브루스 개그논은 2010년 1월 26일 자로 미 수도 워싱턴의 남한 대사관과
오바마와 게이츠에게 편지를 우편으로 보냈읍니다. (이미지를 확대하시면 크게 보임)

* Artwork(Mixed media photo) by Rachael Berman, United States (Click for the image for larger view)
미국 레이첼 버만 예술 작품( 혼성 사진) (이미지를 확대하시면 크게 보임)
www.wix.com/rsbmedi/art

[The shape of the ship is Aegis Destroyer. Through the shape of the hole, one sees one of the small Islands near the Gangjeong sea. Under the small Islands around the Ganjeong village, the UNESCO designated soft coral reefs, where many endangered species inhabit. The sculpture was made by one of the Korean artists, Choi
Byung Soo (50). He has set up many sculptures representing water, shell and coral etc., along with the sculpture above to protect the sea from the naval base.]

____________________________________________________________________
* To see the Jan. 25 list (enclosed with the letter) click HERE.
1월 25일 자 명단 (편지와 동봉된) 을 보려면, 여기를 클릭

* To see the Jan. 29 list (with added signers) , click HERE.
1월 29일 자 후속 명단을 보려면, 여기를 클릭 ____________________________________________________________________

Bruce Gagnon blog 브루스 개그논 블로그
Monday, January 25, 2010 2010년 1월 25일
LETTER TO SOUTH KOREAN EMBASSY 남한 대사관에 보내는 편지

Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크

January 26, 2010 2010년 1월 26일

Ambassador Yang Song-Chol 양성철 대사
South Korean Embassy 남한 대사관
2450 Massachusetts Ave NW 메사추세츠 애브뉴 NW 2450
Washington DC 20008 수도 워싱턴

Dear Ambassador Yang: 양 대사님께

We write in order to send you the enclosed list of 800 names [see blog entry below for the final list] from 31 countries representing peace, justice, environmental, religious, and education organizations. These signers of the “Appeal to Stop Navy Base Construction on Jeju Island” strongly urge your government to cancel all plans to build the proposed Navy base in the village of Gangjeong because of the obvious environmental damage it will do to the village, the water supply, the shore line, marine life, and to the UNESCO recognized coral just off the shore.

우리는 평화, 정의, 환경, 종교, 그리고 교육 조직을 대표하는 31개국 800명의 이름이 동봉된 명단을 보내기 위해 씁니다. “제주도의 해군 기지 건설을 중단하는 청원”의 서명자들은 강정 마을의 제안된 해군 기지를 건설하려는 모든 계획을 취소하도록 강하게 촉구하는데 왜냐하면 그것이 마을, 물공급, 연안, 해양 생물, 그리고 연안 바로 가까이 유네스코 지정 산호초에 끼칠 분명한 환경 오염 때문입니다.

In addition it is our strong belief that the deployment of Naval Aegis destroyers (outfitted with so-called missile defense systems) and other warships on Jeju Island will be a destabilizing factor in the Asian-Pacific region as the U.S. and its allies (particularly Japan, Australia, and South Korea) are now moving to militarily surround China’s coastal region. This provocative action will only make the Asian-Pacific increasingly unstable as China today imports 80% of its oil on ships through the waters alongside Jeju Island. Your plan for the Navy base will help create the conditions that will lead to a new arms race in an already dangerous part of the world.

게다가 제주도의 해군 이지스 구축함 (이른바 미사일 방어망 시스템들로 장착된) 과 다른 전쟁 선박 배치는 미국과 그 동맹국들 (특히 일본, 호주, 남한)이 중국 연안 지역을 군사적으로 봉쇄하기 위하여 움직임에 따라 아시아-태평양 지역을 불안정하게 하는 요인이 되리라는 게 우리의 강한 믿음입니다. 이 자극적인 행동은 오늘날 중국이 자신의 석유의 80% 를 제주도 연안 물을 통하는 선박들을 통해 수입함에 따라 아시아 태평양 지역을 불안정하게 할 뿐입니다. 해군 기지에 대한 당신의 계획은 세계의 이미 위험한 지역에 새로운 무기 경쟁으로 이끄는 상태를 창출하도록 도울 것입니다.

We also know with full confidence that the U.S. Navy will utilize any Naval base on Jeju Island as a port for its own Aegis destroyers and other warfighting ships which will in the end make Jeju, known as the “peace island”, a prime military target.

우리는 또한 미 해군이 제주도의 어떠한 해군 기지도 자신의 이지스 구축함들과 다른 전쟁 선박들을 위한 항구로 활용하여 “평화의 섬”이라 알려진 제주를 결국 주요한 군사적 명중 대상으로 만들 것이라는 것을 완전한 확신으로 압니다.

The signers of this appeal, all key activists and concerned citizens in their communities, are now pledged to follow this case closely on Jeju Island and to alert others about the dangerous plan to build the Navy base in Gangjeong.

이 청원의 서명자들, 모든 핵심 활동가들과 그 들 공동체의 염려하는 시민들은 제주도의 이 경우를 면밀히 주시하고 강정에 해군 기지를 세우려는 위험한 계획에 대해 다른 이들에게 경계하도록 서약하였읍니다.

By signing the appeal all the signers send their solidarity to the villagers of Gangjeong who are now struggling to protect their fishing and farming way of life from the devastation that would result from the construction of the Navy base.

이 청원에 서명함으로서 모든 서명자들은 해군 기지 건설의 결과로 황폐될 그들의 어업과 농업 삶을 보호하기 위해 싸우는 강정 마을의 주민들에게 강한 연대를 보냅니다.

We demand that the South Korean government immediately cease all plans for the Navy base. We call on your government to leave the people of Gangjeong to continue their peaceful way of life without further interruption or harassment from the police or the military.

우리는 남한 정부가 해군 기지에 대한 모든 계획을 즉시 중단하도록 요구합니다. 우리는 강정 주민들이 경찰이나 군대로부터 더 심한 방해나 괴롭힘을 받지 않고 그들의 평화로운 삶을 지속하도록 당신 정부가 그들을 즉시 떠날 것을 요청합니다.

We look forward to your prompt reply to our appeal, which we will forward, to our contacts around the world.

우리는 우리 청원에 대한 당신의 즉각적인 대답을 고대할 것이며 그 대답은 전 세계 우리의 연락처들에 전달될 것입니다.

In peace, 평화로

Bruce K. Gagnon 브루스 개그논
Coordinator 코디네이터/ [사무 총장]


Copy to: President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates
바락 오바마 대통령과 로버트 게이츠 국방 장관에게 복사본 동봉

International Solidarity Messages for the Struggle against the Jeju Naval base Construction

---- Original Message -----
From: Robert Rabin
To: globalnet@mindspring.com
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:11 AM
Subject: solidarity from Vieques, Puerto Rico

로버트 라빈이 브루스 개그논에게
일시: 2010년 1월 12일
제목: 푸에르 토리코 비에끄 섬으로부터 연대의 인사를

Bruces… warm greetings from the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico. Please include the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques (Comité Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques) en la lista de organizaciones solidarias con el pueblo de Jeju Island/ Gangjeong in their struggle to stop Navy base construction.

브루스…푸에르 토리코 비에크 섬에서 따뜻한 인사를 보냅니다. [서명에] 비에끄 구조 개발 위원회를 포함시켜 주세요. 해군 기지 건설 중단을 위해 투쟁하는 제주도 강정 마을 주민들께 연대를 보냅니다.

We know too well the horrific effects on the environment, culture and people that come from military activities and bases.

우리 역시 군사 활동, 기지등이 환경, 문화, 그리고 인간에 가하는 끔찍한 공포를 너무나 잘 압니다.

In struggle, in solidarity

투쟁으로 연대의 인사를 보냅니다.

Robert Rabin

로버트 라빈

Nilda Medina

닐다 메디나

For the CPRDV (Comité Pro Rescate y Desarrollo de Vieques)

비에끄 구조 개발 위원회 Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques 를 대표하여

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* Solidarity message from Ariel Ky (China) to Bruce Gagnon on Jan. 12
중국의 아리엘 기로부터 브루스 개그논에게 보내는 연대 멧시지, 1월 12일
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Click the image for the larger view 이미지를 확대하시면 화면이 크게 보임

"Today there is a court meeting in town and Turi Vaccaro, a peace activist from Sicily, will be under trial because on San Martin day (Nov 11th, the traditional farmers' day for planting seeds) he entered inside the Dal Molin site with Agnese (a member of No Dal Molin movement) to plan seeds as simbolic peace action.

Annetta Marie Reams 안네타 마리 림스
Enzo Ciscato 엔조 치스카토
Emily Rose Ciscato 에밀리 로즈 치스카토
(No Dal Molin - Vicenza, Italy) (노 달 몰린-비센차, 이탤리)"
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* Makiko Sato, Japan on Jan. 17, 2010
* 2010년 1월 17일, 일본 마키코 사또로부터

Click the image for the larger view 이미지를 확대하시면 화면이 크게 보임

“The first round deployment of PAC3 has been completed here.
The next round has been superficially suspended due to lack of finance,
but GSDF will take some measure called 'the remodeling the PAC2' ,
with which they can upgrade them into PAC3 any time they want, I hear (Makiko Sato)”

“PAC3 첫 단계 배치는 이 곳에서 끝났읍니다.
그 다음 단계는 재정 부족으로 표면적이나마 연기되어 왔읍니다.
그러나 일 자위대 욱군은 ‘PAC2 재모델링’ 이라 불리는 방안을 취할 것인데 그들이 원하는 시기에
언제고 PAC3로 엎그레이드 할 수 있다고 저는 듣습니다. (마키코 사토)”

* The above Images and English captions were thankfully provided, with the solidarity messages,
by Makiko Sato on Jan. 17, 2010
* 위의 이미지들과 영어 캡션들은 연대 메시지와 함께 2010년 1월 17일
마키코 사토에 의해 감사히 제공되었읍니다.

Dear peace-loving people in Ganjeong,
강정의 평화를 사랑하는 분들께

I’d like to send my solidarity with your struggle in protecting your peaceful life, ways of living, and the beautiful nature with a lot of precious wildlife in it. I’m strongly against the planned Navy base on Jeju Island, nor any expansion of military bases of any country, anywhere.
저는 여러분의 평화로운 삶, 생활 방식, 그리고 많은 귀중한 야생 동식물이 사는 아름다운 자연을 보호하는 투쟁에 저의 연대를 보내고 싶습니다. 저는 제주도의 계획된 해군 기지뿐만 아니라 어느 곳의, 어느 나라의 군사 기지 확장에도 강하게 반대합니다.

It is said the number of US nuclear-powered submarines’ port-visit to Japan in 2009 was 59 times by 17 different such submarines, with 32 times to Okinawa, 17 times to Yokosuka, and 10 times to Sasebo, Nagasaki. What if an accident happens ? Which country will be to blame? I assume Japan-US Security Treaty will never cover such an accident.
2009년 미국 핵전력 잠수함들의 일본 항구 방문은 17개의 다른 잠수함들에 의해 59 횟수로서 오키나와에 32 횟수, 요코스카에 17횟수, 나가사키 사세보에 10횟수라고 말해집니다. 사고가 일어나면 어떻게 될까요? 어느 나라가 비난 받아야 할까요? 저는 일본-미국 상호 방위 조약이 그러한 사고를 절대로 보상하지 않으리라 봅니다.

Japan has changed itself as a big port, a big sky, a big field for the US military training and operation since the introduction of the New Guideline on Japan-US Defense Cooperation issued in 1997, and then, since the introduction of the MD system in 2003, Japan has become the possible shield if and when the US attacks an Asian country preemptively with any means. Most peaceful people in Japan never agreed to Japan’s becoming such a port, sky, field, nor shield for the US forces. That is why peaceful Japanese never want to see any nature in the Asia-Pacific changed for any war project.
일본은 1997년 일본-미국 방어 협력에 대한 새로운 가이드 라인 소개 이후 미국 군사 훈련과 작전을 위한 큰 항구, 큰 하늘, 큰 장소로 변모했고 그 이후 2003년 미사일 방어망 소개 이후, 일본은 만약에, 또 언제 미국이 어떠한 방법으로라도 한 아시아 국가를 선제 공격한다면 가능한 방패가 되어버렸읍니다. 일본의 대부분의 평화로운 국민들은 일본이 미국을 위한 그러한 항구, 하늘, 평야가 되기를 결코 동의하지 않았읍니다. 그것이 왜 평화로운 일본인들이 아시아 태평양 지역의 어떤 자연도 어떠한 전쟁 프로젝트를 위한 것으로 변하는 것을 원하지 않는 이유입니다.

Most foreign cultures came to Japan through Korea, and as one of your former presidents inspired our Diet members with his remarkable speech, the sea between Korea and Japan is so narrow like a sash that the two peoples can help each other when some emergency happens.
No country can build its desired shied over the narrow ocean with a long history of exchanges in East Asia.
대부분의 외국 문화는 Korea를 거쳐 일본으로 왔고 여러분의 이전 대통령 한 분께서 우리 내각 관료들을 주목할 만한 연설로 고무시켰듯이 한국과 일본 사이 해협은 띠처럼 너무 좁아 어떤 비상 사태가 일어날 때 두 국민은 서로 도울 수 있읍니다.
어떠한 나라도 동아시아 교류의 긴 역사를 갖고 있는 좁은 해협에 탐욕스런 방패를 세울 수 없읍니다.

In solidarity
연대로

Makiko Sato
마키코 사토

* Makiko Sato, an advisory member of the Global Network against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space, Japan has translated and spread the numerous news in Japanese, on the Koreans’ struggles such as on Yongsan tragedy; for the restrained PKAR activists; on Ohyunri people’s struggle against the expansion of the Mugeonri military training fields; on Koreans’ protests against the dispatch to Afghanistan etc. Makiko has also translated in Japanese and spread the news in Japan on the Gangjeong people’s struggles and Bruce Gagnon’s international solidarity petition against the Jeju naval base. Please see here and here.
우주의 무기와 핵을 반대하는 글로벌 넷워크 일본 자문 위원의 일인인 마키토 사토는 그간 용산 참사, 범민련 구속 활동가 석방, 오현리 주민들의 무건리 훈련장 확장 반대, 한국인 아프가니스탄 파병 반대 시위 등 무수한 한국인들의 투쟁을 번역한 이로서 강정 마을 주민들의 제주 해군 기지 반대 싸움과 브루스 개그논이 이끈 국제 연대 서명을 번역, 일본 전역 자신의 넷워크에 연대 서명 운동을 펼치고 있읍니다. 여기와 여기를 보시길.