I vehemently oppose the use of our 'āina for unnecessary war games that only uphold the continued destruction of our 'āina and the 'āina of comrades around the world. We cannot allow the US to continue filling our lands with explosives, bullets, and boots. The cycle of violence must end.
Kalikoonāmaukūpuna Kalāhiki
Farmer, Kupa o Koolaupoko
Hui Aloha Aina o Koolaupoko
Kāne'ohe
Hawai'i and her people deserve their sovereignty. It's the responsibility of those who come to this land to treat it with respect, care, and reverence. RIMPAC perpetuates the exact opposite of these traits and causes significant damage to the land and those who live here.
Austyn Jones
Farmer
MA'O Organic Farms
Makaha Valley
RIMPAC is antithetical with aloha and our Hawaiian values. It disrespects our 'āina, moana, wai, and ea. It is a manifestation of US aggression worldwide.
Dr. T.S. Kelso
Retired USAF O-6
Wailuku, Maui, HI
I oppose RIMPAC because I oppose violence against our ‘āina & violence against our wāhine. It is our duty to protect our most vulnerable.
Nana Clemons
Social Worker, Healer in training
JABSOM/DNHH & HILT
Honolulu
Warmongering and harm to the environment!
Colonel (Ret) Ann Wright
Retired USArmy Colonel
Veterans For Peace Chapter 113-Hawaii
Honolulu, Hawaii
RIMPAC exercises take a tremendous toll on our lands, waters, and precious sources of life in Hawai’i. They violate our human rights to free, prior and informed consent. What’s more, they are wholly unnecessary and a waste of taxpayer money at a time in this economy when one in three families in Hawai’i are food insecure. They are a visible sign that the US government does not care about the people who pay for it.
Candace Fujikane
UH English professor, mother
Kãne’ohe
It brings more militarism to an already over-militarised Hawaii
Wally Inglis
Catholic Worker House
Hawaii
I want the U.S. military out of the Pacific and stay within its borders.
Michael Angelo Pangilinan
ABHI and FAM
Ewa Beach
Standing in solidarity with the Kanaka Maoli and in protection and respect of their traditional lands and territories in building a healthier, peaceful future for humanity and our beloved Mother Earth. The future generations have a sacred birthright to thrive together with respect for the land, sea, fresh water, living beings, human rights, and full, free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) and the UNDRIP, as part of the foundation. The RIMPAC needs to halt permanently.
Tia Oros Peters
mother, grandmother, writer, artist,
CEO
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
California
Our environment must be protected for our future generations
Tawera Tahuri
Grandmother, Board Member
Seventh Generation Fund for Indigenous Peoples
Aotearoa
These military exercises are led by U.S. imperialism, which opposes the world’s aspirations for peace; they serve as a rehearsal for the U.S.’s hegemonic strategy of encircling Europe and Asia; and they are a test of the naval capabilities of allied nations aimed at containing China in East Asia.
Philgyung Hyun
Co-CEO
(Pyeongtaek)U.S. Military Base Surveillance Corps
Pyeongtaek city. South Korea
ʻAʻole RIMPAC! We demand that these dangerous, militarized exercises stop immediately, and that our leaders prioritize peace and protect our land and sea, which we depend on.
Olivia Leialoha Banning
Kanaka 'Ōiwi
Honolulu
We need to exercise PEACE not WAR!
Lynda Williams
Physicist
Nuclear Free Hawai’i
HILO
I oppose RIMPAC because of the violence it imposes against the land. The military is worsening the state of already vulnerable marine and terrestrial ecosystems. Many of Hawai‘i’s marine animals are dying off, despite laws and protections, due to climate change or human impact. The military is just continuing to decrease their populations. Loud noises and new boats can confuse and stress marine mammals by causing them to beach or separate from pods. Moreover, RIMPAC doesn’t acknowledge Hawai‘i’s illegal occupation and continues to misuse the land. Hawai‘i is proving that it is a sovereign nation through its people and agriculture. Many local farms are able to grow thousands of pounds of healthy produce for their communities. Other local ranchers also contribute to the meat production. The military and RIMPAC continue to take this land that could be used for conservation, agriculture, or housing for Native Hawaiians and their communities.
Joelle Angelica Evasco
Farmer, UH Mānoa Animal Science Undergraduate
Wai‘anae
our oceans are precious and its our responsibility to protect the land, waters, and wildlife. this will negatively impact the environment and our personal lives the more we pollute and desecrate the oceans and the land. when we hurt the land we hurt ourselves we are a reflection of these waters and the earth is our mother. honor your mother.
maya takabayashi
massage therapist
oahu
I’m standing in solidarity with our Hawaiian Relatives to stand against this action in Hawaiian lands!
Brian Monongye
Hopi Farmer
Bears Ears Prayer Run Alliance
Moenkopi Village
Because I value life, sea, and land more than destruction of the earth and training to murder
Ashley Matthews
Portland, OR
Genuine security starts with planting kalo and feeding our people. Make poi not war.
Mahina Kaomea
Heʻeia, O'ahu
Do not agree with the RIMPAC.
Elizabeth Varelas
Mother
Seventh Generation Fund
California
All the reasons stated in the letter! End the violence, restore pono.
Noelani Ahia
Co-Director
Maui Medic Healers Hui
Wailuku, Maui
Harmful to Mother Earth & all creation
Antonio Gonzales
Executive Director
American Indian Movement-West (AIM-West)
San Francisco, California USA
I support peace, demilitarization, and self-determination for the Pacific
Ikaika Hussey
Legislator
Hawaii House of Representatives
Kalihi
The military needs to vacate Hawaii
David Gierlach
Priest
Emmanuel Episcopal Church
Honolulu
RIMPAC poses significant threats to the human and living ecosystems in the ocean and on land, creates significant risk for MMIWR2S and increased sexual violence, and brings about devastation to life on the Earth and in the Ocean.
Natali Segovia
Executive Director
Water Protector Legal Collective
Hawai‘i
The time for war is finished. We have a big job ahead of us dismantling the war machines that exist all over the globe. Time for RIMPAC to end and the building of worldwide peace through diplomacy and sharing of the world‘s natural bounty to level up. All people and countries, and the Earth are intimately connected in reciprocal relationships. We must now strengthen all these reciprocal relationships for the well-being of all.
Aloha Nui!
Vince Kana’i Dodge
Father, grandfather, business owner, `Aina lover
Wai`anae
RIMPAC creates conditions where women face increased rates of violence and sexual harassment, the women of Hawaii should not be collateral damage.
Donna Denina
Secretary General
International Women's Alliance
USA
It destroys the environment. It does long lasting harm to people.
Lieve Bain
Mother, grandmother
Color Webster Green, Amnesty International, MetroJustice,
Webster, NY
전쟁 훈련 반대 (Opposition to War Drills)
이진희 (Lee Jin-hee)
회사원 (Office Worker)
전태일노동대학 (Jeon Tae-il Labor College)
한국 서울 (Seoul, South Korea)
It is only preparation for more war, more destruction, more lives lost, and continued destruction of the planet.
Glen Milner
Father and Grandfather
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
Lake Forest Park, Washington, USA
I oppose RIMPAC because it’s not fair to the people of Hawai’i or the families of the military stationed here. It is not right to poison or even risk the chance of poisoning a vital aquifer to islands with limited resources. It is also, not smart, according to science and common sense.
Koda
Youth peer support specialist at EPIC OHANA, youth houselessness/'āina advocate, legislative aid, digital storyteller, musician, farmer, surfer
wisdom circles Oceania
Aiea
Hawai’i must lead and set an example for the world. We must make peacemaking, reconciliation, and diplomacy our mission and priority NOT war and weapons development.
Gary Hooser
Former Hawaii State Senator
Kaua’i Hawai’i
U.S. imperialism is a war threat in the Pacific
Sara Flounders
Co-Director
International Action Center
NYC
I oppose violence against the environment and harm to the Earth and its creatures
Lucia Wilkes Smith
Mother, Grandmother, WAMM Board of Directors activist
WAMM -- Women Against Military Madness
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Safety and dignity for humans, other species, living interconnected biosystems...so many aspects of life on earth are negatively impacted by RIMPAC
PJ Phillips
human being, elder, active protector of living beings
NW US
These military exercises harm our environment by polluting the land, air and ocean.
Darlene Rodrigues
Teacher
Decolonial Pinay
Mililani, O'ahu
RIMPAC violates Hawaiian sovereignty, harms people and planet, and bolsters US imperialism
Rhonda Ramiro
Resist US-Led War Movement
California
I oppose all death cults.
Bianca Isaki
Business owner
Law office of Bianca Isaki
O'ahu
It Is colonization, imperialist
Sonia Santiago
Mothers against War
Puerto Rico
It is harmful to our fragile environment and this exercise does very little to bringing about sustainable PEACE and Freedom. It serves no good purpose other than preparing to aggress on the Sovereignty of other NATIONS militarily.
Ben Manuel
Concerned Community Member
Honolulu, Hawaii
Just like the annual Balikatan exercises in the Philippines, RIMPAC is an exercise for wars of aggression being waged by the US and its allied forces against nations fighting for sovereignty and independence.
Jean Orsolino
Mother/employee
COURAGE
Philippines
A’ole
Akil Kofi
Farmer
Kunia
Waste of money, damage environment, makes war more acceptable.
Dan Gilman
President
Veterans For Peace, Seattle #92
Seattle
destroying earth
bernie meyer
activist at 88
Ground Zero
Olympia WA
The evils of militarism are already around us here in HI. Poisoned water and land strewn with the remnants of indiscriminate bombing instead of being dedicated to growing food to feed our people. Practicing for war is no way to ensure peace.
Dawn Morais
Mother, Grandmother, Issue Advocate,
Dawn Morais LLC
Honolulu
Harmful to life on the planet - human, plant & animal. Also militarism damages those who are exposes to it - including the participants.
Elizabeth Murray
Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action
United States
Environmental concerns as well as social concerns need to be monitored and controlled.
James Higa
Father, Grandfather
Shimanchu Wai Protectors
Mililani
Because it is an exercise for aggressions by imperialists.
Sakoda Hidefumi
Activist
AWC Japan Committee
Tokyo, Japan
I oppose constant U.S. provocations in the Pacific.
Sara Olson
Housewife
WAMM
St. Paul, MN
It oppresses the poor and other marginalised groups
Fadiah Nadwa
Sekolah Merdeka
Malaysia
It is long overdue for the US occupation of Hawaii to end and to stop the devastation and destruction of Hawaii, especially through the environmental impacts and sexual abuse of the indigenous Hawaiians
Yossi Aharoni
Anti-war organizer
Minnesota Peace Action Coalition
Minneapolis, MN
US imperialism has negatively impacted the globe especially with their military bases in lands that are sacred to those that call it home. We resonate with having to survive military exercises, predation, and contamination. We call for an end to US military presence across the globe including RIMPAC.
JUPI USA
Puerto Rican Diasporic Org
Juventud Unida por la Independencia
Brooklyn NYC
Well it's way past time to remove anything that causes detrimental harm to the people and to the Earth.
Kim DeFranco
Concerned citizen
Women Against Military Madness
St. Paul
To oppose US led war of aggression and US imperialist hegemony
John Ruiz
Medical Technologist
Bayan Muna Central Visayas
Philippines
Every reason listed above. Hawaii is a place for peace
Akaloka rivers
Mother and cultural practitioner
Halau lapa'au o waitata
Mililani
The US military has brought nothing but death for the indigenous people of the pacific and destruction of Oceania’s environment.
Ryan Tong
Teacher
Hui Aloha Aina Honolulu
Waianae
NO WAR
KIM HO JEOUNG
labour activist
KCTU
Seoul, Korea
RIMPAC is all about maintaining US military domination in the Pacific, and will lead to a devastating war with China, in which there can be no winners.
Peter Murphy
Trade union activist
Philippines Australia Union Link
Sydney, Australia
It adds to the harm already caused by the US to the Hawaiian Kingdom’s crown & people. It is forced on us against our will & is poisoning our aquifers, ocean, soil & air. War is uncivilized and savage behavior. Harm to cetaceans is unacceptable.
Kaulana Bonnet
Mother
Oahu
Because we stand in solidarity with all occupied territories fighting against the United States and its Allies.
Miki Shigeno
Organiser
JCHRP
Tokyo
RIMPAC continually causes irreversible damage to the environment of Hawaii, and perpetuates imperialism by inviting the worst genocidal powers to participate in the war games.
Shalev Eckert
Honolulu
Native rights and environmental sustainability
Jacob
Worker
Mental health
Oregon
Hawaiʻi is too precious to be used for bombing. We need all our resources for our local population. Remediation of the land and ocean will be a lengthy process. So we must start asap. It’s not good that we depend on imports for so much of our food. No more pollution.
Karen Murray
O'ahu
It is destructive against all humans animals the environment and the culture of all peoples.
Sara Jeck
Mom
Citizen
oregon
Horribly destructive waste of public funds
Regina Gregory
Environmentalist
Honolulu
Red hill.
audrey boiher
citizen
oahu
War is unhealthy for everyone and everything
Oregon
Jan Eck
Mom
Citizen
Oregon
It is an expression of destructive global imperialism and militarism, which our organization opposes.
Sippo Kähmi
Chairperson
Työväen antimilitaristit
Finland
Funds should go to the people not further destroying the planet for nothing. These exercises are rarely successful with their main consequence being nothing but additional trauma to our veterans and our planet.
Zavahna Chavarin
Student
San Diego
War is not the answer
Suzanne Loughlin
President
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Aotearoa Section
Aotearoa New Zealand
As colonized peoples of the Pacific impacted by the U.S. military occupation of Guam, we rise to demand for an end to these vicious war games that directly endanger the community of Hawai'i, contaminate lands and waters, kill and injure nonhuman relatives, worsen the climate crisis, and ultimately make our islands targets for war. DECOLONIZE HAWAI'I! DECOLONIZE THE MARIANAS! We want a Pacific Zone of Peace!
Prutehi Guåhan
Community Organization
Prutehi Guåhan
Guam
USA and all participating countries are preparing for war against China We must not allow this IPAN opposes this and all military exercises throughout the Pacific We stand in solidarity with Hawaii people who oppose RIMPAC
Annette Brownlie
Independent and Peaceful Australia Network
Australia
I like the planet
Ann Emilia Thomas
Person
Annie Arts
Portland Oregon
It's a mass murder rehearsal at huge environmental and financial cost.
David Swanson
Campaign Coordinator of RootsAction
RootsAction
Charlottesville
It leads to war.
Daniel Gilman
President
Veterans For Peace, Seattle 92
Seattle
I oppose all imperialist and imperialist-related organizations
Jeff Mackler
National Secretary
Socialist Action
Oakland, CA
It does an incredible amount of harm to the local people and environment.
Jessica Harrison
Portland, OR
RIMPC is designed to reinforce U.S. military hegemony over much of the Asia-Pacific. Rather than preparing for catastrophic war with China, the US and its allies would do better to focus on common security diplomacy. And money saved could be used to feed, clothe, and provide medical care for those in need, to address the climate emergency, and to fund socially constructive employment as artificial intellegence displaces so many worthy people.
Joseph Gerson
President
Campaign for Peace, Disarmament, and Common Security
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Because the US military is a plague on our planet. Because practicing war is no way to live.
Marti Townsend
mother
none
Kalihi
RIMPAC must be opposed and US imperialism must be stopped as they endanger the lives and security of working people.
Alexia Fuentes
Filipino activist
Bagong Alyansang Makabayan - BAYAN Australia
Australia
I appose the military industrial complex, and the global imperialism the US military on the Third World.
Diego Zavala-Morineau
Claremont, CA
It’s not an idealist position to insist that the simulation and normalization of war moves us closer to a very real catastrophic end for humanity. All people of the world desperately need their governments to direct resources to their development and toward cooperation with each other.
Marco Guajardo
Union Organizer
AFT intern
San Diego
It enables genocide against Palestinians destroys native Hawaiian land and places the Global South in the firing land of a potential war that only serves the interests of global imperialist powers and elites
Kamal A. K.
Organiser
GEGAR, (Anti-Imperialist Movement Coalition/Gerakan Gabungan Anti-Imperialis)
Malaysia
For all the reason you listed. It is an exercise in brutality visited on a peaceful land occupied for many years.
Judith Bello
Retired Software Engineer
UNAC
Rochester NY
We are against US imperialism and want the US out of Asia!
Meredith Aby
Steering Committee Member
Anti War Action Network
Minneapolis
Is practicing for war against China and will led the region into war and violates the lands of many indigeous peoples
bevan ramsden
retired teacher
Ipdependent and Peaceful Australia Network
Gadigal Land Sydney Australia
Because it destroys our environment, our lives, and our whole planet.
Mizuki Nakamura
One Love Takae
Japan
For multiple reasons, including NZ's involvement
Edwina Hughes
National networking peace organisation, Aotearoa New Zealand,
https://www.facebook.com/PeaceMovementAotearoa/posts/1461321472691647
Peace Movement Aotearoa
Aotearoa New Zealand
Has a terrible impact on life in the ocean, destroys the environment
Liz Remmerswaal
Coordinator
World Beyond War Aotearoa, Pacific Peace Network
Aotearoa New Zealand
It is an intrusive, destructive and an affront to sovereignty. These war intramurals increases regional tensions and makes communities targets
Dj Janier
Head of Secretariat
Stop the War Coalition Philippines
Philippines
War and environmental destruction are things that humans should never do...the world today is rife with disorder. Let's gather our wisdom for peace.
Shoko Suzuki
Japan
War is unhealthy for everyone and everything
Sharon Ericson
Mother
Oregon
It’s destructive to Indigenous Peoples and futures.
Isa Arriola
Chair
Our Common Wealth 670
Saipan
It is an imperialist formation
Joe Lombardo
UNAC coordinator
United National Anitwar Coalition
New York
Desecration of my Hawaiian land and people
Poco Compehos
Father farmer
FL farm
Ka’u Hawaii
I am very concerned about the danger RIMPAC poses to women and children through sex trafficking
Illahe Choi
Union Organizer
Koreans 4 Decolonization Los Angeles
Los Angeles
See the Sign On Letter Text
Richard Rothschiller
Hawai`i Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines
Occupied Hawai`i
War games like RIMPAC are increasing military tensions in the Pacific and leading us closer to what should be an unthinkable World War III.
David Vine
Scholar/Author
Transition Security Project
California, USA
It bring more militarism to an already over-militarised Hawaii
Farwa Sial
Catholic Worker House
Hawaii
War games are not games, they are violent military plans for war.
Mele Stokeberry
Mother and grandmother, coordinator of Maui Peace Action
Maui Peace Action
Maui
RIMPAC destroys the air, water, and land of Hawai`i in order to kill people in other countries.
Carolyn Hadfield
Refuse Fascism Hawai`i
Honolulu
It leads to war.
Daniel Gilman
President
Veterans For Peace, Seattle 92
Seattle
Militarization is killing us.
Lisa Grandinetti
Union Organizer
Honolulu
Because it rise military tension in the region, oppressing people's life and rights there
Yoshio Nakamura
NGO official
AWC-Japan
Kyoto, Japan
We are organizing to stop Jeju Island from being complicit in war and death and instead we want solidarity with Hawaii for life and peace!
Kaia Vereide
Gangjeong Daily Resistance Action, Inter-Island Solidarity for Peace of the Sea Jeju Committee
Gangjeong Village, Jeju Island, Korea
Rimpac is absolutely horrible for the environment and people everywhere
Elias Zadi
Grocery store worker
Koreans4Decolonization
Koreatown, Los Angeles
Damage to land, sea, air, ocean life, people of Hawaii. Pollution and environmental and climate damage. Against Hawaiian cultural rights.
Selina Higa
Resident of Hawaii
Oahu, Hawaii
Desecration of Aina, ocean, n marine life
Keoki
Farmer
kaneohe
Increasing harm & crime to the community, marine life, climate and Hawaii Sovereignty.
Janyrah White
Mother
Concerned Community Member
Oahu
Demilitarization now.
Levina Parada
Austin, TX
Love of life, ocean life, whales, dolphins, coral reefs, island, trees...life.
Cathy Carpenter
Peace advocate
none
Canada
RIMPAC abuses and poisons the land, the water and the people.
Sara Flounders
Active in Coordination
United National Antiwar Coalition & International Action Center
New Jersey, USA
It's just wrong this government is using the same tactics one hundred years ago, moving towards dictatorship whether we vote or not. It has always been trumps dream to be the Hitler of the 21st century. Stop feeding the rich.
Cecelia Grant
Retired government worker
None
Rochester NY
For all of the reasons listed and the need to stop and reverse ongoing colonial imperialism
Logan Ridenour-Starnes
Parent, Mother, Community Member
Pacific Coast of Turtle Island
As Puerto Ricans and people who live next to the largest Naval base in the world in Norfolk, we know the history and current reality of life under U.S. militarization. As outlined in the letter above, these so called “games” do more harm than good and do nothing to protect us from the real threat which is US colonial aggression and violence.
Rafa
Interim Chairperson
Puerto Rican historical collective
Norfolk VA
Social & environmental damages & injustice. Not to mention it’s just a demonstration of colonial capability.
Roger Gawne
Worker, Student
Los Angeles
Because the struggles of our homelands are intertwined with the immigration, state, and police violence in the imperial core.
Matty Kim
Koreans 4 Decolonization, Los Angeles
Los Angeles
These military exercises are costly and unnecessary. They terrorize the local occupied population, release tons of pollutants into the environment, and escalate military tension around the globe.
Oak
Communist Party USA
Portland, OR
RIMPAC is a direct threat to Kānaka Maoli sovereignty and in opposition to ʻŌiwi futures. The US Military exists unconstitutionally in the occupied Hawaiian Kingdom. The growing environmental, social, and political impacts of RIMPAC and other war games cannot be ignored.
ariel kamalani watanabe
Kanaka ʻŌiwi, Aloha ʻĀina, activist and organizer
Half the Sky, Mosqutio Fleet PNW
Portland, Olekona