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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.

For more information see https:malu-aina.org

Feb. 23, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1169Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

Gaza Ceasefire Hawaii County Resolution

Gaza Ceasefire County resolution 449-24 Draft 2 on agenda for 3/20 Testimony 9AM
Please pass the word. Try and get to a council office by 8:45 AM to sign up to testify
Jim
Jim Albertini 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 Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org

What JFK tried to do before his assassination

This 50 min. dialog below between Chris Hedges and Jeffrey Sacks mainly about JFK’s June 1963 speech at American University is a classic. In my view, it clearly explains why Kennedy was killed and the state we are in today with the war in Ukraine and the increasing risk of nuclear war with Russia/and/or China.  Please share this widely.  Mahalo.
 
https://youtu.be/Wqm9Yl1gGEY?si=ZVSjudlqUnHSwnxk
 

What JFK tried to do before his assassination w/Jeffrey Sachs | The Chris Hedges Report

Excellent video and analysis of our current predicament

That JFK speech in June 63 likely was the final straw for Allen Dulles, former head of the CIA who Kennedy fired, and the Military Industrial Complex gang to carry out JFK’s assassination.
I remember JFK’s assassination like it was yesterday. I was a senior in Catholic High School. When word came that JFK had been shot we all went into the church to pray.

I highly recommend the book –JFK and the Unspeakable –Why He died and why it matters by James W Douglass. Also The Devils Chessboard by David Talbot about Allen Dulles and the rise of America’s Secret Government.

 

Join the Pope’s Call for Peace!

Join The Pope’s Call for

Peace!

Ceasefire Now! No More Weapons! No More War!

Negotiate! Negotiate! Negotiate!

In Ukraine! In Gaza! And Around the World!

Pope Francis said what needs to be said and heard in all conflict situations: All sides need to “have the courage to negotiate” an end to war!

     Instead of negotiations for peace, what we have in Ukraine, Gaza, and other conflicts around the world is more and more death and destruction, with the danger of widening wars that include the risk of global nuclear destruction, and the end of human civilization. Right now before the US Congress is a bill for $95 Billion more military weapons to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. On Tuesday, March 12th the Biden administration announced it was sending $300 million in weapons to Ukraine under an emergency makeshift plan – More weapons, more war, more killing, and destruction..

     It is time for people everywhere, especially US taxpayers, to stand up and say “ No More War, No More Weapons in our names, especially the genocidal campaign in our name and funding by U.S. tax dollars, being carried out in Gaza by Israel. Counties and States are calling for a CEASEFIRE NOW.

Please use this QUICK-CLICK TOOL to tell Hawai’i Legislators to #SUPPORTCEASEFIRE Resos.

Here: http://bit.ly/hiceasefire Also STOP BOMBING POHAKULOA ! End the State lease of land.

The Hawaii County Council will be holding a final vote on a peace and Ceasefire resolution #449-24 on Wed. March 20th . Call your council members to support the resolution and testify on March 20th.

See more on the Ceasefire resolution here https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2024/03/05/council-peace-resolution-amended-to-include-statement-on-gaza/

End the US/Israel Genocide in Gaza! End all US military Aid to Israel! Terminate the strategic partnership between Hawaii and Israel signed in Oct. 2022.

Peace is a Victory for

All!

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:malu-aina.org

March 15, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1172Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

Weekly peace vigil and upcoming Peace organizing meeting

Join the Friday, weekly, Hilo Peace Vigil 3:30 – 5 PM at the downtown Hilo Post Office/Federal Building on Waianuenue Ave., and please pass the word. Mahalo.
Reminder: A Peace organizing meeting is on Monday, March 11th from 6 to 8 PM at the Kea’au Community Center. Meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month. Zoom is usually possible from 6:30- 7:15 PM. See info on Zoom connection here https://malu-aina.org/?p=9826
Topics for discussion: Ceasefire resolutions at county, and state levels. Pohakuloa Lease, Public forums on Pohakuloa, etc.
 

Send in testimony in writing or participate via Zoom for Ceasefire reso in Hawaii State Senate

 
 
JVP CALL TO ACTION: The Hawaiʻi Ceasefire Resolution needs your testimony!
 
Hi everyone,

Please see below forwarded email from Rise for Palestine. This is an ALL HANDS ON DECK call to action! We need everyone to submit testimony to have our state pass a resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire! Testimony should ideally be submitted by Thursday, March 7 at 3 p.m. but can be submitted up to an hour before the hearing which will take place Friday, March 8 at 3 p.m. (it will be marked late). IWe highly encourage everyone sign up to present their testimony either in person or via zoom as it has a greater impact on the committees decision, for this you must meet the 24 deadline of March 7 at 3 p.m.  
Please see email below for more detailed information and steps to take! Thank you in advance for taking the time to be part of this pivotal moment. The passage of this resolution will put maximum pressure on our congress people. 
Please forward this email to as many friend’s as possible.

———- Forwarded message ———
From: Rise for Palestine <will@hiappleseed.org>
Date: Tue, Mar 5, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Subject: The Hawaiʻi Ceasefire Resolution needs your testimony!
To: <hawaii@jvp.org>