In late July 2023, as a member of the Democratic Socialists of America’s International Committee, I joined my comrade Gerard Dalbon on a trip to Okinawa. We were invited by ZENKO (平和と民主主義をめざす全国交歓会), an anti-war leftist group in Japan, to witness the indigenous struggle against unwanted US Military base expansion. Despite the opposition of the vast majority of Okinawans, who have long suffered under the US Military occupation, the US and Japanese administrations are ramming through the construction of a new base in Henoko.
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