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To: Legislators of 26 participating countries
CANCEL RIMPAC 2022-THE WORLD'S LARGEST & MOST DANGEROUS NAVAL WAR MANEUVERS
Campaign created by
Ann Wright
Petition Text
CALL TO CANCEL RIMPAC AND BUILD A PACIFIC ZONE OF PEACE
The Pacific Peace Network and its allied organizations call for the cancellation of the dangerous, provocative and destructive international Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) naval war practice and for increased citizen pressure for a demilitarized Pan-Pacific Zone of Peace.
RIMPAC naval war practice, the largest naval war maneuvers in the world, will take place off Hawai’i and the West Coast of the U.S. from June 29 to August 4, 2022. At RIMPAC 2022, over 25,000 military personnel, 38 ships, 170 aircraft, 4 submarines from 26 countries will practice war simulations engaging "enemy forces."
RIMPAC, coupled with expanding US military capability in Hawai’i, Australia, Guahan and other Pacific nations, increases the likelihood of armed conflict between the United States and China -- either by design or accident -- with unthinkable consequences for the peoples of Asia, the Pacific and the world.
Please endorse this call to action. Pacific Peace Network will share this petition and call on legislators of each participating country to cancel RIMPAC.
Why is this important?
RIMPAC dramatically contributes to the destruction of the ecology and aggravation of the climate crisis in the Pacific region. RIMPAC war forces will blow up decommissioned ships with missiles endangering marine mammals such as humpback whales, dolphins and Hawaiian monk seals and polluting the ocean with contaminates from the vessels. Land forces will conduct ground assaults that will tear up beaches where green sea turtles come to breed.
We reject the massive expenditure of funds on war-making when humanity is suffering from lack of food, water and other life-sustaining elements. Human security is not based on military war drills, but on care for the planet and its inhabitants.
2022 RIMPAC includes military forces from Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, the United Kingdom and the United States.
8 of the 26 RIMPAC participating countries are members of the North ATLANTIC Treaty Organization (NATO) -- Canada, Colombia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy the United Kingdom and the United States -- while 4 participating countries are Asia-Pacific “partners” of NATO: Australia, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand. This means that 45% of RIMPAC participants have NATO ties, demonstrating that NATO is becoming a Pacific military force.
The Pacific Peace Network members currently come from countries/islands across the Pacific including Guåhan, Jeju Island, South Korea, Okinawa, Japan, Philippines, Northern Mariana Islands, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Australia, Hawai’i and the United States.
Endorsed by:
Hawai'i
- Hawai'i Peace and Justice
- Veterans For Peace, Chapter 113-Hawai'i
- Women’s Voices Women Speak
- Oahu Water Protectors, Hawai'i
- World Can't Wait Hawai`i
- Students and Faculty for Justice at the University of Hawai'i)
- 350 Hawaii
- Our Revolution Hawaii
- Hawai’i Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
- Malu 'Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action, Big Island, Hawai'i
Philippines
- Asia Europe Peoples Forum
- Philippine Initiative on Critical and Global Issues
- Peace Women Partners. Inc. Philippines
- Philippine Women Network for Peace & Security
- STOP the War Coalition Philippines
United States
- Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security
- CODEPINK: Women For Peace
- Environmentalists Against War
- Veterans For Peace, Phil Berrigan Memorial Chapter, Baltimore, Maryland
- Veterans For Peace, San Diego chapter
Australia
- Independent and Peaceful Australia Network (IPAN)
- Just Peace Queensland
- Pacific
- Youngsolwara Pacific
- Prutehi Litekyan: Save Ritidian
- Youngsolawara Pacific
- Our Common Wealth 670
South Korea
- Inter-Island Solidarity for Peace of the Sea Jeju Committee
- Gangjeong Peace Network
- Association of Gangjeong Villagers Against the Jeju Navy Base,
- Gangjeong International Team
- People Making Jeju a Demilitarized Peace Island
- Seongsan Committee against the Jeju 2nd Airport Project
- Catholic Climate Justice Action
- Center for Deliberative Democracy and Environment
- Jeju branch of Service Industry Labor Union
- St. Francis Peace Center Foundation
- The Frontiers
- Columban Justice and Peace
- Jeju Green Party
- Gangjeong Catholic Mission Center
Canada
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace (vowpeace.org)
The Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom-Canada (wilpfcanada.ca)
International
International Peace Bureau
World Beyond War
Pacific Peace Network
No to NATO
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space
OPPORTUNITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN CANCEL RIMPAC
Send your art-graphics, poems, songs about the dangers of RIMPAC to the Virtual Exhibition CANCEL RIMPAC-ONLINE EXHIBIT-OPEN CALL for submissions of visual art, poetry, chant, and musical performance.
Email image, video, or text submissions along with your name, age, title, and media to: koafuturesvirtualsubmit@gmail.com
Submission deadline: June 30, 2022
See the beautiful website:
https://www.youngsolwarapacific.com/cancel-rimpac-exhibition.html
RESOURCES
Star Advertiser-OPED- Militarization of fragile Pacific leaves destruction and death by Koohan Paik-Mander
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/07/04/editorial/island-voices/column-militarization-of-fragile-pacific-leaves-destruction-and-death/
NO TO NATO IN MADRID (WITH SECTION ON RIMPAC)
BY ANN WRIGHT
HTTPS://POPULARRESISTANCE.ORG/NO-TO-NATO-IN-MADRID/
THE FEMINIST RESPONSE TO RIMPAC AND THE U.S. WAR AGAINST CHINA
BY CHRISTINE AHN
https://fpif.org/the-feminist-response-to-rimpac
Largest Ever US-NATO Naval War Drills in Pacific a Threat to Both Peace and Marine Life
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2022/06/20/largest-ever-us-nato-naval-war-drills-pacific-threat-both-peace-and-marine-life
Spoof on Australian $30 billion "Defense" Policies Against Australia's Biggest Trading Partner-China
COLLECTIVE POEM ON "A World Without RIMPAC" Thirteen indigenous poets from Oceania - from Hawaiʻi, Aotearoa, and Guahan - came together to write and record a poem calling for the Cancellation of RIMPAC and for the restoration of ea: life, breath, and sovereignty.
CANCEL RIMPAC statement by Women's Voices, Women Speak: https://wvws808.blogspot.com/2022/06/no-to-rimpac-2022-yes-to-aloha-aina-and.html?m=1
STAR ADVERTISER-RIMPAC, Marcos, and war against China
By Seiji Yamada, Richard Rothschiller and Arcelita Imasa
June 15, 2022
https://www.staradvertiser.com/2022/06/15/editorial/island-voices/column-rimpac-marcos-and-war-against-china/
13 minute video on military destruction of the environment by Koohan Paik
How it will be delivered
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Alan D. 2022-07-08
RIMPAC threatens to lead the planet into a bipolar defense world. That's not smart and it's extremely dangerous!
S. A. L. 2022-07-07
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The three warships which left Jeju Island, South Korea navy base on May 31st to join the RIMPAC (June 29 to Aug 4) did not directly go to Hawaii! From June 2 to 4th, they joined the US nuclear aircraft carrier Ronald Reagan in the east south sea of Okinawa to conduct ROK-US maritime war drill!
news.sbs.co.kr/news/endPage.do?news_id=N1006775353
There are some smaller war exercises before RIMPAC. Please see
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_22A/Jun04_1654355247CH.php
U.S. Navy Announces 28th Rim of the Pacific Exercise
https://www.pacom.mil/Media/News/News-Article-View/Article/3049942/us-navy-announces-28th-rim-of-the-pacific-exercise/
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