Where Were You?
Where Were You?P
PPriorities? Super Bowl or CEASEFIRE?
If only people would put as much energy as they do towards a Super Bowl into a CEASEFIRE FOR HUMANITY That would be a win for the entire world!
One week ago, on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, 120 MILLION people tuned in to watch Super Bowl LVIII on TV. Those who attended the sold-out game in person paid between $8,500 to $85,000 a ticket. Meanwhile, Israeli GENOCIDE of Palestinians in Gaza was taking place with direct US military support providing BILLIONS in military aid. The bombs dropped that killed or injured more than 100,000 people in Gaza, (2/3 women and children) in less than 5 months were paid and made in the USA. And the situation looks like it is getting worse, much worse.
One week later, on Sunday, Feb. 18, a protest that had been in the works for more than a month, to “Stop Bombing Gaza and Pohakuloa” outside the Military Pohakuloa Toxic Area (PTA) main gate from 10 AM till Noon, was attended by 4 people, all senior citizens in our 60s and 70s. PTA is located in the center of Hawaii Island. In the past month, several thousand leaflets about the protest were posted and distributed on Hawaii Island. Thousands of emails were sent out along with numerous posts on Facebook, Twitter, etc., and on the malu-aina.org website.
The signs we carried read “Stop the Genocide! Ceasefire Now! Stop Bombing Pohakuloa!” Some people who drove by the 2-hour protest honked their horns and showed support for a two-state solution by flashing the two-finger peace sign. A few seemed to support Israel Benjamin Netanyahu’s one-state solution by flashing us the middle finger. But most were simply indifferent. They showed No response! Reminds me: “If you wonder what you would have done in Nazi
Germany, you are doing it today.”
I would appreciate your feedback at the contact links below. If you receive this leaflet in person, via email, or other social media, please let us know what you are thinking and feeling. Why do you choose NOT to join in peaceful protest of the Genocide in Gaza and the bombing and contamination of our island home with military toxins from the bombing at Pohakuloa? Is it because you feel powerless? That it won’t do any good? Do you feel despair, suffering from spiritual and/or psychological trauma? Do you support the Genocide in Gaza? Do you support the bombing at Pohakuloa? Please reconsider and join us to help create a Ceasefire for humanity and a victory for all! Never give up hope! Mahalo!
Stop the GENOCIDE in Gaza!
Stop Bombing Pohakuloa & Training for
Nuclear War!
1 . Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject violence & war as solutions. 3. Defend civil liberties.
4. Oppose all discrimination: anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, anti-Black, anti-Asian, anti-Russian, anti-LGBTQ, etc. 5. Seek peace through peaceful means and work for justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action
P.O. Box 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown), Hawai’i 96760
Phone (808) 966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org to receive our posts.
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Feb. 23, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1169– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office