Take Action for Okinawa!
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The resolution on new base construction project at Henoko in Okinawa that we submitted to - and was approved overwhelmingly by - the Saint Paul Convention has now been finally approved in the referendum of all members (591 to 5). Now is the time to put it to work. It is written as an appeal to the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) to launch an investigation of that project. Last year’s GAO report on the Marines in the Asia-Pacific contained veiled criticisms of the Henoko project, so there is a real possibility that they might take this up big time.
But to do that they need a nudge from Congress. The letter form below makes it very easy to send the text of this resolution to your congresspeople. Type in your zip code and it comes up with the names of the reps from your district. Push the button and it sends off the resolution to all three of those reps. VFP has some 3000 members. Numbers like that could produce a very big nudge. Okinawa is moving toward crisis. The Japanese Government says it is going to start actually dumping fill (dirt) into the pristine coral garden that is Oura Bay. The Okinawan people and their Prefectural government are doing everything they can to prevent that - or to stop it if it begins. Their vigil at the gate has continued for more that 5000 days; their actual sit-in (blocking construction vehicles) more than 1000. A move by GAO could have an impact.  | ||||
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