This is the Hawai‘i Okinawa Alliance(HOA) blog. HOA, meaning “friend” in Hawaiian, is an alliance of Okinawans, local Okinawan-Americans and allies, including Hawaiian and other international peace, social justice, ecology, and human rights proponents, and working for maintaining solidarity between peace and indigenous movements in Okinawa and Hawai`i as well as other communities struggling against militarism.
