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Pohakuloa

No Military Lease Renewal, No Land Swaps, Stop the Bombing and Desecration, Make the Military Clean Up its Toxic Mess, Return the Land to the Kanaka Maoli!

The Big Lie – “We are Stewards of the Land” PTA commander LTC Timothy Alvarado, June 29, 2023, Hawaii Tribune-Herald

A Few Simple Truths:

1. Millions of live rounds are fired annually at Pohakuloa by the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and foreign troops involving a wide range of weapon systems from dozens of firing points on land leased from the State of Hawaii. (p. 52 of draft 2 EIS)

2. Depleted Uranium (DU) is just one of many toxins used at the 133,000-acre site in over 75 years of bombing and shelling. DU oxide particles can be carried long distances in the wind and when inhaled can cause a wide range of cancers, birth defects, and even genetic damage passed to future generations.

3. Pohakuloa is a Lahaina firestorm in the making for Hawaii Island and the danger is increasing with climate change. There have been 892 recorded fires attributable to military activities at PTA since 1975 according to the military. (p. 354)

4. Whatever happens mauka comes makai. We are all downwind, downhill of Pohakuloa. The military poisoning of military families and civilians from Red Hill jet fuel leaks into Oahu’s water table is not an isolated military toxic event.

Learn more: See the 11-minute video — How the Army Got to Bomb Hawaii For $1  https://youtu.be/-nsn4Sxy8r8  The Pohakuloa 14 min. video “Now that you Know, Do You Care?” https://vimeo.com/94598875  Also, the video of Dr. Lorrin Pang, M.D., public health officer, retired 24 years in the Army Medical Corps and listed in the Who’s Who (top 3%) of America’s Best Doctors explaining the health dangers of inhaling DU oxide dust particles https://vimeo.com/19153948.  Also read – A Brief History Of US Military Poisoning Of Hawai’i – PopularResistance.Org

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.

For more information see https://www.malu-aina.org

May 3, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1179 – Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

Important Public Meetings

about the Military wanting to retain land

by State lease renewal, land swap, etc.

at the 133,000 acre

Pohakuloa Toxic Area

in the center of Hawaii Island that has been bombed and shelled for 75 years with a wide range of toxins including Depleted Uranium radiation.

6-8 PM Mon. May 6 Waimea District Park
6-8 PM Tue. May 7 ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center on UH Hilo Campus

Mark your Calendars!

See the draft #2 EIS

https://home.army.mil/hawaii/ptaeis/project-home

Please pass the word. Mahalo.

Pohakuloa

Radiation Dangers!

   Depleted Uranium (DU) radiation, is just one of many toxins used at the 133,000-acre military Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), located in the center of Hawaii Island from over 75 years of bombing and shelling. After years of military denial that DU was used at PTA, information surfaced in 2007 that confirmed its use, not only at PTA but at Schofield Barracks on Oahu, likely Makua Valley, possibly Kaho’olawe, etc. Even before DU was confirmed to have been used at PTA, our organization detected elevated radiation readings with certified radiation monitors several times background levels, blowing in the winds off PTA. DU which has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, was first used at PTA as a spotting round for the Davy Crockett nuclear weapon system in the 1960s. Modern DU weapons are used as armor-piercing penetrating weapons.

     DU does not pose a danger when outside the body. But DU metal when burned creates tiny DU oxide particles that can be easily inhaled. Once inhaled, according to Dr. Lorrin Pang, MD, these particles can travel through the body’s lymph system and cause cancer in various organs. DU can also cause birth defects, and genetic damage that can be passed to future generations. Dr. Pang, a Hawaii resident, spent 24 years in the Army Medical Corps and was listed in the Who’s Who (top 3%) of America’s best doctors. Dr. Pang says especially vulnerable to DU inhalation are young children and pregnant women. See a short video by Dr. Pang on DU dangers here https://vimeo.com/19153948 Also watch an important 14-minute video about Pohakuloa – “Now that you know, do you care?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r10eRMjIRw Continued bombing and shelling at PTA can resuspend DU and other toxins that can be carried long distances in the wind.

      On Thursday, April 25, 2024, the military invited school children and the general public to “Experience Pohakuloa Day” on the base. Our organization sent letters, emails, and faxes to every school on the island advising against any student excursions to PTA out of health concerns. In a Public Service Announcement to the schools, we included the link to the video by Dr. Pang.

      The military has ignored a Hawaii County Council resolution (#639-08) that called for stopping all live fire at PTA and any activities that create dust until comprehensive, independent testing, monitoring and clean up of the DU present is done. So who, or what, is the military defending?

Protect Hawai’i Keiki!

Stop Bombing Pohakuloa!

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.

For more information see https://www.malu-aina.org

April 26, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1178 – Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

Protect Hawai’i Keiki

On Thursday, April 25, 2024, school children and the general public are invited to the 133,000-acre heavily contaminated military Pohakuloa Toxic Area (PTA) in the center of Hawai’i Island from 9 AM – 1 PM for what’s billed as “Experience Pohakuloa Day.” Call your local school to voice safety concerns! Dr. Lorrin Pang, MD who spent 24 years in the Army Medical Corps warns of the health dangers of Depleted Uranium (DU), one of many toxins used at Pohakuloa. See https://vimeo.com/19153948

Also, watch the 14-minute video about Pohakuloa — “Now that you know, do you care?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r10eRMjIRw

STOP BOMBING

POHAKULOA!

Protest Experience Pohakuloa Day 8:30 AM PTA Main Gate Car pools leave Hilo –Saddle Rd. & Komohana at 7:30 AM

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No More War!

No More Weapons! 

Peace Now!

On April 1, 2024, Israel attacked Iran’s Embassy/Consulate in Damascus, Syria with missiles killing several people, including an Iranian top General. On April 14^th Iran fired missiles and drones at Israel. Fortunately, no one was killed. What’s next? A wider regional war? A Global Nuclear War? Our world needs a CEASEFIRE and negotiations for peace, not more war and weapons in the Middle East between Israel, Hamas, Iran, etc. Ukraine, Russia, NATO, and the US, between the US, China, Taiwan, etc. Remember what Mahatma Gandhi said: “An eye-for-an-eye will only make the whole world blind.” Or worse!

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.

For more information see http://www.malu-aina.org

April 19, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1177 – Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office