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Protect Hawaii Keiki — Protest Experience Pohakuloa Day

Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024

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Hawaii County Council Resolution 449-24 draft 2

Tuesday, March 19th, 2024

Hawaii County Council Resolution 449-24 draft 2 on peace and Ceasefire in Gaza

RES 449 Draft 02 2022-2024 – Laserfiche WebLink RES 449 Draft 02 2022-2024-2

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

Wednesday, March 6th, 2024

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>

Aloha e Friend,

Thanks to all your efforts, calling, emailing and spreading the word, the Senate Public Safety (PSM) committee has scheduled the Hawaiʻi Ceasefire Resolution (SCR13/SR6) for a hearing at the Hawaiʻi State Capitol this Friday at 3 p.m. This is our chance to raise our voices in support of Palestine, Gaza and collective liberation for all oppressed people and share our manaʻo directly with elected officials. Below we provide instructions and sample testimony.

Friday, March 8, 2024
3:00 PM
Conference Room 225 & Videoconference
State Capitol, 415 South Beretania Street

Create an account or log in at capitol.hawaii.gov.
Type “SCR13” in the search bar to bring each measure up.
Click the orange “Submit Testimony” button in the top right.
Click “Continue” on the next page.
Fill out the form that appears making sure to check “Support”
If possible, please check “In Person” and show up to the hearing to provide oral testimony.
Type in your written testimony in the text box at the bottom or attach it as a PDF or word document.
Click “Submit” at the bottom.
Repeat these steps for “SR6.”

Sample Written Testimony

You can copy this testimony and use it on both measures (which are identical) if you are short on time, but we strongly suggest you modify it to share your own personal perspective on why a permanent ceasefire in Gaza is an imperative, and why Palestinian liberation must be achieved. Please note, the sample testimony is designed for the legislators as its recipients and our language is reflective of that.

Aloha members of the committee,

I am testifying in strong support of [SCR13/SR6]. The unparalleled escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hamas and other armed groups has taken a devastating toll on civilians. The level of casualties is unprecedented. Some 40,000 civilians have been killed since Oct 7, and the majority of them are women and children. Another 70,000 have been wounded, and many thousands more are missing under the rubble of Gaza.

At the same time, some 200 Israeli hostages taken by Hamas and other armed groups and held in Gaza remain in danger, and ongoing indiscriminate rocket fire into Israel places its own civilians at risk.

Israel’s tightened siege of Gaza has blocked the entry of goods, including water, food and fuel leaving the 2 million people in the Gaza Strip struggling to survive. The humanitarian catastrophe stemming from Israel’s 16-year-long illegal blockade on the occupied Gaza Strip will only get worse if the fighting doesn’t stop immediately.

A ceasefire would put a stop to unlawful attacks by all parties, halt the mounting death toll in Gaza and enable aid agencies to get life-saving aid, water and medical supplies into the Strip to address the staggering levels of human suffering. It will also allow hospitals to receive life-saving medicines, fuel and equipment they desperately need and to repair damaged wards.

A ceasefire would also provide opportunities to negotiate the release of hostages detained in Gaza and for independent international investigations to take place into the war crimes committed by all parties in order to end long-standing impunity, which will continue to breed further atrocities.

Tackling the root causes of this conflict, by dismantling Israel’s system of apartheid imposed on Palestinians is now more urgent than ever. That cannot be accomplished as long as the violence continues.

Tips for In-Person Testimony

You will need to speak your mind in 2–3 minutes max, so focus on just a few things to say.
You will need to maintain “decorum” while in the hearing—please, no booing or clapping, and no signage will be allowed inside.
It’s OK to get emotional, but try to remain calm and don’t shout or curse at the lawmakers.
Say it from the heart—you can read off a page if you need to, but nothing beats looking lawmakers in the eye. You know what you need to say. Don’t be afraid to speak your truth.

Note: Parking at the capitol is not free, and is often tight. There is a Chinatown municipal lot that is affordable about a 5–10 minute walk from the capitol located here that we recommend. Another option is ʻIolani Palace or street parking.

Please forward this email to everyone you can think of that would want to submit testimony in support. Let’s show the lawmakers that Hawaiʻi stands with Gaza and the Palestinian people!

Mahalo!

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Photos from the Jan. 26, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil

Friday, January 26th, 2024

Photos from the Jan. 26, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil

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Jan. 17, 1893 Hawaii Overthrow Anniversary!

Monday, January 15th, 2024

Free Hawai’i!

End US Illegal Occupation

Now!

On Jan. 17, 1893, the US and European Sugar Barons, with the direct assistance of US military troops, carried out a coup — an illegal overthrow of the independent Nation of Hawaii and Queen Liliu’okalani. Six years earlier in 1887, these same business interests orchestrated “the Bayonet Constitution” that forced King David Kalakaua to give more power to these business interests, including a free trade agreement with the US, and exclusive use of Pearl Harbor to the US military. But they wanted more. They wanted total control. In 1898, Hawaii was illegally annexed to the US. Illegal Statehood, followed illegal annexation, which followed the illegal overthrow. It now has been 131 years of illegal occupation.

From the time of Hawaii’s first western contact in 1778, western diseases reduced Hawaii’s native population drastically, by over 75% in just a few decades. Lands became privatized in former missionary hands that became Big 5 private corporations, sugar, and pineapple plantations, instead of a self-sufficient ahupua’a (mauka to makai –mountain to the sea) village system. Today, instead of being 100% self-sufficient in food, Hawaii now imports over 95% of what is consumed here.

Mass tourism and over 100 US military installations are the new plantations. Former Sugar barons still control a lot of land in Hawaii. But there are new Hi-tech barons with net worth in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The likes of Jeff Bezos ($177B) of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg ($128B) of Facebook, Larry Ellison ($123B) of Oracle software company, and Michael Dell ($78B) of Dell computers, all have palatial vacation estates here in Hawaii. Ellison owns over 98% of the island of Lanai. Zuckerberg besides his mansions and large land holdings has an underground 5000 square foot doomsday bunker on Kauai, Bezos has a $78 million estate on Maui, and Dell has a multimillion-dollar place in Kukio, the vacation land of the 1/10 of the 1% just north of Kailua-Kona on Hawaii Island. Meanwhile, native Hawaiians have been priced out of Hawaii, their homeland. More Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) now live in the Las Vegas and the LA area than in Hawaii. Shameful! Justice demands fundamental change and a restored independent Hawaii nation, and ahupua’a village homeland for Kanaka Maoli.

In 1993 President Bill Clinton signed an apology bill for the illegal overthrow of Hawaii. But an apology is not enough.

No Lie Can Live Forever! Free Hawai’i Now!

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January 17, 2024

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Protect Hawaii Keiki — Protest Experience Pohakuloa Day

Hawaii County Council Resolution 449-24 draft 2

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

Photos from the Jan. 26, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil

Photos from the Jan. 26, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil

Jan. 17, 1893 Hawaii Overthrow Anniversary!

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