OPEN LETTER TO THE US LEFT FROM THE HAWAIIAN SOVEREIGNTY MOVEMENT
The confluence of two forces, a massive military expansion in Hawai`i and Congressional legislation that will stymie the Kanaka Maoli [Native Hawaiian] sovereignty movement, will expand and consolidate the use of Hawai`i for US empire.
We are calling on the US left to join our movement opposing these threats and to add our quest for independence as a plank of the broad US left strategy for a nonimperialist America.
If you support peace and justice for the United States and the world, please support demilitarization and independence for Hawai`i.
Since 1893, the United States has malformed Hawai`i into the command and control center for US imperialism in Oceania and Asia.
From the hills of the Ewa district of O`ahu, the US Pacific Command--the largest of the unified military commands--directs troops and hardware throughout literally half the planet.
Since the late nineteenth century, the US military has multiplied in our islands, taking 150,000 acres for its use, including one-quarter of the metropolitan island of O`ahu.
Moreover, the National Security Administration is building a new surveillance facility nearby, not far from where urban assault brigades, called Strykers, will train for deployment throughout the world...
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