{"id":23220,"date":"2019-01-08T22:57:02","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T22:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=8bdf12c90b6c4f368130ef9c3da0c561"},"modified":"2019-01-08T22:57:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T22:57:02","slug":"after-1600-days-of-protest-okinawans-bring-fight-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/01\/08\/after-1600-days-of-protest-okinawans-bring-fight-to-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"After 1,600 Days Of Protest, Okinawans Bring Fight To Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States military is building another base on Okinawa in an environmentally-sensitive area, on top of the second most diverse coral reef in the world, against the will of Okinawans who have been protesting every day for over 1,600 days. There are many reasons why this base should not be built. We discuss those with Robert Kajiwara, a Hawaiian-Okinawan human rights activist, as well as why he traveled to Washington, DC and new developments in the struggle to regain Hawaiian sovereignty. And we cover news and upcoming actions.<\/p> <p>Subscribe to Clearing the FOG on Patreon and receive our bonus show, Thinking it Through, plus Clearing the FOG totes, water bottles and T shirts. Visit Patreon.com\/ClearingtheFOG.<\/p> <p>And visit the new Popular Resistance Podcast Network at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popularresistance.org\/prpn\/\"  rel= \"nofollow noopener\">www.PopularResistance.org\/prpn\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/after-1600-days-of-protest-okinawans-bring-fight-to-washington\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States military is building another base on Okinawa in an environmentally-sensitive area, on top of the second most diverse coral reef in the world, against the will of Okinawans who have been protesting every day for over 1,600 days. There &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23221,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23220\/revisions\/23221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}