{"id":116416,"date":"2014-05-05T14:14:24","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T14:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?guid=6f2654666d1310ec3fc192432a1a41cf"},"modified":"2014-05-05T14:14:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T14:14:24","slug":"mayor-from-okinawa-coming-to-washington-to-try-to-stop-the-base-he-was-elected-to-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/editorials\/mayor-from-okinawa-coming-to-washington-to-try-to-stop-the-base-he-was-elected-to-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor From Okinawa Coming to Washington to Try to Stop the Base He Was Elected to Stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa and Japan-U.S. Relationship:<\/b> A Discussion with Nago City Mayor Susumu Inamine, Member of the Japanese House of Representatives (Okinawa) Denny Tamaki and other experts, facilitated by journalist David Swanson.&nbsp;<br \/><strong>When: <\/strong>May 20, 6pm &#8211; 8pm<br \/><strong>Where:<\/strong> Busboys and Poets, (14th &amp; V) 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009<br \/><strong>Sign up here: <span style=\"color:#00f;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1440683952839158\/?ref=5\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1440683952839158<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seventy years after WWII, Okinawa, one of the fiercest battlegrounds of&nbsp;the Pacific War (1941-45), continues to be occupied by U.S. military bases,&nbsp;mostly marine bases, posing threats to the safety, health, and life of people&nbsp;and the environment. Despite firm opposition by the majority of the people&nbsp;of Okinawa, U.S. and Japanese governments are forcing through their plan to build yet another marine airbase with a military port, with massive&nbsp;reclamation that is likely to cause damage to the endangered bio-diverse&nbsp;environment of the Northeastern shore of Okinawa. Mayor Susumu Inamine&nbsp;of Nago City, where the planned military base construction site is, was&nbsp;first elected in 2010 and re-elected this January, both on the platform of&nbsp;opposing the new base. Please join Mayor Inamine and a panel of experts to think together about the U.S. citizens\u2019 responsibility to bring justice&nbsp;and democracy back to Okinawa.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Busboys and Poets and the New Diplomacy Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Inquiry: Busboys and Poets, phone: 202-387-7638<\/p>\n<p>New Diplomacy Initiative, <a href=\"mailto:info@nd-initiative.org\">info@nd-initiative.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidswanson.org\/node\/4390\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>U.S. Military Bases in Okinawa and Japan-U.S. Relationship:<\/b> A Discussion with Nago City Mayor Susumu Inamine, Member of the Japanese House of Representatives (Okinawa) Denny Tamaki and other experts, facilitated by journalist David Swanson.&nbsp;<br \/><strong>When: <\/strong>May 20, 6pm &#8211; 8pm<br \/><strong>Where:<\/strong> Busboys and Poets, (14th &amp; V) 2021 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009<br \/><strong>Sign up here: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1440683952839158\/?ref=5\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1440683952839158<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seventy years after WWII, Okinawa, one of the fiercest battlegrounds of&nbsp;the Pacific War (1941-45), continues to be occupied by U.S. military bases,&nbsp;mostly marine bases, posing threats to the safety, health, and life of people&nbsp;and the environment. Despite firm opposition by the majority of the people&nbsp;of Okinawa, U.S. and Japanese governments are forcing through their plan to build yet another marine airbase with a military port, with massive&nbsp;reclamation that is likely to cause damage to the endangered bio-diverse&nbsp;environment of the Northeastern shore of Okinawa. Mayor Susumu Inamine&nbsp;of Nago City, where the planned military base construction site is, was&nbsp;first elected in 2010 and re-elected this January, both on the platform of&nbsp;opposing the new base. Please join Mayor Inamine and a panel of experts to think together about the U.S. citizens&rsquo; responsibility to bring justice&nbsp;and democracy back to Okinawa.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsored by Busboys and Poets and the New Diplomacy Initiative.<\/p>\n<p>Inquiry: Busboys and Poets, phone: 202-387-7638<\/p>\n<p>New Diplomacy Initiative, <a href=\"mailto:info@nd-initiative.org\">info@nd-initiative.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidswanson.org\/node\/4390\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-116416","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-editorials"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}