Daniel Iwama

Profiting in Nowhereland - Boston Review The sordid histories behind Texas's industrial-scale immigration detention center.

'The use of military bases for immigrant detention is nothing new...but the land Camp East Montana sits on has its own sordid histories of occupation, dispossession, and militarization'
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Perspectives on Public Space: A Reading List - JSTOR Daily This list introduces some of the main debates about public space, from park politics to political protest, public expressions of sexuality to safety and security.

JSTOR's reading list presenting some of the main debates in public space scholarship includes articles by @sah1365.bsky.social's "Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians" and others. daily.jstor.org/perspectives...

D#5withcaptions YouTube video by Douglas Lummis

"How do you train young men to do the work more easily done by fiends?" Doug Lummis speaking from Okinawa

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US Army: 2017 helicopter crash at northern Okinawa farm contaminated soil with radioactive, other hazardous substances | Jon Mitchell Investigates | 沖縄タイムス＋プラス On 11 October 2017, a US Marine Corps CH-53E helicopter made an emergency landing and caught fire at a farm in Higashi Village, Okinawa Prefecture. Three days later, the US military announced “radioac...

"I have the right to know the contamination status of my own land."
The English version of my latest article about the environmental impact of military operations in Okinawa is now online at @okinawatimes.co.jp.
Please take a look.
www.okinawatimes.co.jp/articles/-/1...

Marine artillery shell detonates over freeway during Camp Pendleton event Marines are investigating after a 155mm artillery round exploded over Interstate 5, hitting California Highway Patrol vehicles with shrapnel.

The quiet part: "there's a place where live fire training over innocent civilians is entirely acceptable...it's just not here"

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Place-based science from Okinawa: 18th-century climate and geology recorded in Ryukyuan classical music Abstract. Indigenous knowledge can record scientific observations of specific “places” that may be difficult to preserve in the geological record. Such a place in “place-based” science highlights issu...

The climate record in song!
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Shinko Akamine, my teacher I still have half a dozen long videos to review. They're recordings from recently digitized old VHS tapes, capturing my family's Christmas celebrations in the 1980s and 1990s. Between the antics of the kids and the excitement of some slightly drunk uncles, the Akamine family's true Christmas spirit invariably reveals itself in two moments on …

Fábio Akamine's research into his family history was kindled by his uncle's stories and even after his passing, continues to be ever present. He shares how their relationship evolved and how it lead to a book and exhibition presented in Okinawa and Brazil.

Pentagon Keeps Pouring Cash Into Golf Courses — Even As Trump Slashes Government Spending The Pentagon owns 145 golf courses. As Trump cuts key government services, we found its plan to spend on sand traps and clubhouses.

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Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...

In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s drive to acquire territory as property—starkly exemplified by Trump's egregious “Gaza development plan.”

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Just back from the 11th East Asian Conference in Alternative Geographies on "territorial Justice" and my head is still spinning. Such a joy reconnecting with old relations and making new friends. I'm grateful to all the incredible speakers keeping justice and criticality at the center!

As Los Angeles Burns, Immigrants Mobilize Fearing little help from FEMA, they are clearing downed trees and marshaling support for their community.

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Next Monday, live in Okinawa and remote via Zoom. "Connecting the Dots of Colonialism and Militarism in Okinawa and Beyond." Looks excellent!