Rob Kajiwara is an Okinawan-Hawaian singer-songwriter and visual artist. In 2017, he was made a cultural ambassador for his ancestral village of Nakagusuku, Okinawa. In 2018 he was also made a cultural ambassador / special envoy for Ke Aupuni o Hawaii (the Hawaiian Kingdom) in order to share Hawaiian history, culture, and issues in Ryukyu. Rob Kijiwara recently organized a petition to the White House about Okinawa that many of us joined him in delivering there on January 7th.
Stand With Okinawa.
The Tyranny of Contamination: The US Military is poisoning Okinawa.
https://worldbeyondwar.org/the-tyranny-of-contamination-the-us-military-is-poisoning-okinawa/
U.S. Bases in Okinawa Are a Threat to Freedom
https://worldbeyondwar.org/u-s-bases-in-okinawa-are-a-threat-to-freedom/
The petition
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/stop-landfill-henoko-oura-bay-until-referendum-can-be-held-okinawa
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