Ariana Castro (She/Her)

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Ariana Castro (she/her) is a copy editor and writer at OutWrite and a third-year English major at UCLA. Her passions include queer joy, creative writing, and Pilipinx and Pilipinx-American culture, history, and advocacy.

Student protestors hold up large signs which together read "Cancel RIMPAC".

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Cancel RIMPAC! Student Perspectives on Resisting the U.S. War Machine

This is an interview with two student activists regarding their experience at Cancel RIMPAC 2024. The International Cancel RIMPAC Campaign is dedicated to organizing and mobilizing in opposition to the Rim of the Pacific exercise (RIMPAC), an imperialist joint military exercise led by the United States.

A crowd of anti-RIMPAC protestors with banners and flags gather in front of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier.

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The Human Cost of RIMPAC and Calls to Resistance

The Rim of the Pacific exercise (RIMPAC) is the world’s largest international maritime warfare exercise, hosted by the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Fleet Command in conjunction with 28 partner nations and the U.S. Marine Corps, Air Force, Army, and Coast Guard. The 2024 exercise marked the 29th year since 1971 that the event, held biennially because of its large scale, took place in American-occupied Hawaiʻi.