Cancel RIMPAC: Resist War Games in Hawai’i and Military Expansion Everywhere

The Rim of the Pacific Exercises (RIMPAC) will descend upon occupied Hawai'i from June 24-August 4 for the world’s largest maritime war games. RIMPAC is an arena to exchange death-making technology and war tactics among 31 national militaries, with over 25,000 troops, every 2 years in the occupied land and oceans of Hawai'i. The kinds of war games rehearsed in RIMPAC are already a form of warfare on the people, while also preparing for an even more catastrophic large scale military confrontation in the Asia Pacific region.

In 2024, Resist U.S.-Led War Movement joined with decades of anti-RIMPAC in Hawai'i organizing to co-convene an international campaign exposing and opposing the RIMPAC Naval exercises, culminating in a large mobilization over 600 strong and counter-summit in San Diego, at the launching point of the RIMPAC exercises. This year we aim to grow the international coordination of the resistance against RIMPAC from all hosting and sending countries.

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2026 San Diego Resistance against RIMPAC

2024 International Cancel RIMPAC campaign:

​We are mobilizing in solidarity with the Hawai’i based campaign against RIMPAC. Join the International Women's Alliance, BAYAN USA, and Resist US-Led War Movement as we launch our campaign for a national convergence in San Diego against the 2024 RIMPAC exercises. Let us unite our opposition to militarization on the Hawaiian islands and wars of aggression from the Continent to the 26 countries that participate in RIMPAC!

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What is Rimpac?

The Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercises are the largest joint war exercises in the world, conducted biannually in Hawai’i.  These exercises are launched out of San Diego, with nearly 1/3 of the Pacific Navy fleet. The U.S. uses RIMPAC to strengthen the abilities of 26 of its allies’ militaries to wage wars of aggression around the world, as threats of war between major military powers continue to rise. Through weapons testing and war-making, defense contractors and fossil fuel corporations reap hundreds of millions of dollars in profits. Meanwhile, our tax dollars are spent on war and occupation not on the basic housing, food, employment and healthcare needs of our communities. The US military occupation of Hawai’i is a violation of native Hawaiian sovereignty. RIMPAC leads to environmental destruction, violence against women, and a gross neglect of the day to day needs of people all over the world by advancing US-led wars.

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Stop US expansion in the pacific

The US is rolling out an aggressive military expansionist strategy in the Pacific to expand its domination of the region. The US’s Indo Pacific Strategy seeks to encircle China as a result of inter-imperialist competition over the Asia Pacific region. US posturing and military aggression, provision of military aid, and regular US military exercises in the region are intensifying provocations with China. This military rivalry and build up to war foreshadows a potentially deadly confrontation in the Asia-Pacific.

Wars on our people, water, and land

Ultimately, it is the people, not their governments, who endure the worsening deterioration of human rights because of these military expansionist activities. Increased tensions between and among rival superpowers, compounded by multilateral military alliances, ensure that if there is war, it will be more devastating for the people and the environment. 

resist empire and occupation

RIMPAC will be an arena to exchange death making technology and war tactics amongst 26 national governments including the Philippines, India, South Korea, Australia, Canada, Germany, and the settler state of Israel currently unleashing its genocidal terror on the people of Palestine. The people are more powerful than their governments and the corporations that profit from war.

 

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youth and students say cancel rimpac

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Israel Out of RIMPAC

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2024 Summit in San Diego

This will include a conference to learn, strategize, and share lessons in building a mass movement against the Military-Industrial Complex that continue to hurt working-class communities. The weekend will conclude with a mass mobilization. Save the date and sign up to receive more information about the even programs, locations, registration fees, and other logistics!

CONFERENCE

Location: University of California - San Diego
Time: 9:30AM-5PM

MOBILIZATION

Location and Time: TBD

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ways to get Involved in the summit

• Make your plans to come to San Diego! Travel Advisory
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• Propose a cultural performance
  

 

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We appreciate your contribution, as it will help us build the movement against militarization and war. Thank you for your solidarity and generosity! You can donate directly to our fiscal sponsor’s Venmo (@gabrielausa), Paypal ([email protected]), or by check.

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