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War is Terrorism News!

• The FY 2013 military budget (NDAA) is up for a vote in the House this Friday. It contains more than $642 billion of taxpayer money to pay for a war the majority of Americans oppose; nuclear upgrades that threaten non-proliferation agreements; programs and weapons that even the Pentagon doesn’t want. The bill also promotes reckless threats on Iran, enables reckless actions by Israel and prohibits the transfer of prisoners from Guantanamo to the United States.

• A New York federal judge granted a preliminary injunction late Wednesday to block provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that would allow the military to indefinitely detain anyone it accuses of knowingly or unknowingly supporting terrorism… In a 68-page ruling blocking this statute, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest agreed that the statute failed to “pass constitutional muster” because its broad language could be used to quash political dissent.http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/05/16/46550.htm

• Veterans For Peace Calls for an End to NATO. NATO provides the United States with a pretense of global coalition and legality. Approximately half of the world’s military spending is U.S., while adding the other NATO nations brings the total to three-quarters.
  http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31347.htm

• MIT professor Noam Chomsky on Monday decried the use of drones against suspected terrorists, saying that it was murder and violated due process. “If Bush, the Bush Administration, didn’t like somebody, they’d kidnap them and send them to torture chambers,” he said on Democracy Now. “If the Obama Administration decides they don’t like somebody, they murder them, so you don’t have to have torture chambers all over.”

  End the Wars! Bring the War Dollars Home!

  1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, etc. 5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
  Contact: Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
  Phone (808) 966-7622.  Emailja@malu-aina.org   http://www.malu-aina.org

• Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (May 18, 2012 – 556th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

Send your testimony now!   Email oeqc@doh.hawaii.gov

Gary Hooser, Director Environmental Council
Office of Environmental Quality Control (OEQC)
235 South Beretania Street, Suite 702
Honolulu, HI 96813

DLNR Board

Aloha kakou,

Instead of granting environmental exemptions for geothermal exploration, OEQC and DLNR should be requiring that a comprehensive environmental health evaluation study within a 10 mile radius of the existing PGV geothermal plant be completed prior to any further geothermal exploration drilling. The testimony at public hearings of health impacts have been a chilling indictment of government and industry’s complete failure to protect public health.  In addition to health impacts, a study on the impacts of geothermal drilling to Native Hawaiian cultural and religious beliefs should also be conducted.  People give lip service to respecting Hawaiian spiritual beliefs, but where is the evidence of a genuine study that the impacts are being seriously investigated and addressed.
Finally, government should be requiring proper bonding/insurance of geothermal drilling companies to cover their admitted worst case scenario in the event of a major earthquake: a several mile permanent evacuation zone surrounding each and every drill site.  The more drill sites, the greater the cost/liability.  What are the odds of such an event?  The answer is FUKUSHIMA!

APPEAL OF HASHIZUME BUN,

A-BOMB SURVIVOR OF HIROSHIMA,

 Following Fukushima N-Plant Disaster

(for full story see http://ameblo.jp/hibakushaglobal/entry-10902685850.html)

TO THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN AND THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD

Time is of the essence. We must work together to halt the nuclear power plants now in operation. People of the world, join hands and speak out to stop the construction of any additional nuclear power plants, speak out to shut down every nuclear power plant on earth.

As an A-bomb survivor, I have long been opposed to nuclear energy in Japan and internationally. This is because I have feared not only nuclear bombs, but also the possibility that one day nuclear energy would destroy all life on the planet…

Human beings are not the only living things. Is it not arrogance for human beings to sacrifice other living things simply for our own benefit? Would it not be wiser for human beings to seek harmony with nature? Humanity in the 20th and 21st centuries is offered only a moment in the long history of our species. That brief moment has been bequeathed by our ancestors, which we, in turn, bequeath to our descendants.

Like the A-bomb survivors, and the sufferers of nuclear tests and nuclear power plant accidents, the victims of the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant will face suffering throughout their lives. The people displaced by the multiple disasters in eastern Japan are braving difficult days in shelters. But even amid such conditions, the children retain their innocence and hope and I am moved and find hope in them…

Radiation respects no border. To save our children, the future of our species, I call on the people of Japan, and the people of the world, to stand together and oppose the continuation of nuclear energy.

Fukushima reactor No. 4 vulnerable to catastrophic collapse; could unleash 85 times Cesium-137 radiation of Chernobyl; human civilization on the brink!http://www.naturalnews.com/035789_Fukushima_Cesium-137_Plume-Gate.html

No More War! No More Nukes! Go Solar!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, etc. 5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
Contact: Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622.  Emailja@malu-aina.org   http://www.malu-aina.org
Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (May 11, 2012 – 555th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

Aloha kakou,

Please purchase a $10 ticket to ‘Ohana Ho’opakele’s Ho’olaulea on Saturday, May 26th from 10AM – 5PM at Maku’u Farmers Market.  This is a benefit for ‘Ohana Ho’opakele, a non-profit organization, to build a model Pu’uhonua as an alternative to prison.  A ticket includes food and great entertainment.  There will be meat and vegetarian stew and rice.  Music includes Keli’i “Skippy” Ioane, Kaliko Guys, Diana Aki, Ben Kaili & Friends, George and Keoki Kahumoku, Damon Williams, Terri Napeahi with Howard Pe`a, and more.

The Hawaii State Legislature just passed a bill for a Pu’uhonua/Wellness Center which is now before the Governor for signing. (See below.) We’ll be explaining more about the Pu’uhonua at the Ho’olaulea and we hope you will help in this important effort.  I’ll be glad to mail tickets to you.  Send a check (made out to Ohana Ho’opakele)  to my address below.  Or you can purchase tickets at Papa Mu Gallery at the Prince Kuhio Plaza.  I’ll also have them at our Friday Peace Vigil 3:30-5PM at Hilo’s downtown Post Office.
A limited amount of tickets will be available at the gate but we want to sell advanced tickets to get a good estimate for food preparations.
You can also call me at 966-7622, or call Uncle Sam at 937-7193 or Ron at 345-9688, and Papa Mu Gallery 959-1101 for tickets.
Please help pass the word about this event and help sell tickets. We can also use help distributing flyers.

Mahalo for your support and solidarity for justice and peace.
Jim

HB 2848 SD2 – PU`UHONUA/WELLNESS CENTER

http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/session2012/bills/HB2848_CD1_.pdf

Requires Department of Public Safety to plan for a model wellness center that employs native Hawaiian cultural practices on state land (PSD, in cooperation with `Ohana Ho`opakele and other restorative justice groups is directed to create a plan for a pu`uhonua on state land with the assistance of the Public Lands Development Corporation (PLDC), provided that Kulani gets first preference) and to submit a report to the legislature prior to the 2013 legislative session; creates a work release pilot program on the Big Island to allow certain incarcerated individuals to work on projects that benefit the local community and the State; repeals pilot program on June 30, 2015.