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Photos from the March 1, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil

Saturday, March 2nd, 2024

Photos from the March 1, 2024 Hilo Peace Vigil!

Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific Day, 70th anniversary of the US 10 Megaton (10 million ton equivalent of TNT) “Bravo” Nuclear Bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands

Hilo Peace vigils are held, rain or shine, Every Friday from 3:30-5 PM  at the downtown Hilo Federal Bldg./Post Office on Waianuenue Ave.
Peace Organizing Meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the Month from 6 -8 PM at the Kea’au Community Center located behind the Kea’au Health Clinic and Police Station, and via Zoom.
 
 
                 
           
                                             
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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

Honoka’a Palestine forum

Thursday, February 29th, 2024

70th Anniversary of Bravo Nuclear Bomb Test

Wednesday, February 28th, 2024

Prevent Nuclear War —

Abolish Nuclear Weapons!

March 1st Remembering Bikini,

Marshall Islands

     March 1st is known as Bikini Day and Nuclear-Free and Independent Pacific Day. On March 1, 1954, the U.S. exploded a 10-megaton (10 million tons of dynamite equivalent) hydrogen bomb code-named Bravo on Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands. March 1, 2024, marks the 70th anniversary of the Bikini Nuclear explosion. Overall, hundreds of nuclear weapons have been tested in the Pacific by the U.S. Britain, and France.

      The March 1st (monthly 1st working day of the month at 11:45 AM) nuclear attack warning siren test is a reminder that we need to abolish all nuclear weapons before they abolish us. It is still important to stand in opposition to nuclear weapons and war in solidarity with people all around the Pacific and the world. There is no defense against nuclear weapons. The only shelter is peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons worldwide.

Join the weekly Hilo Peace Vigil every Friday from 3:30 to 5 PM at the downtown Hilo Post Office/Federal Building on Waianuenue Ave.

Peace organizing meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month at the Kea’au Community Center from 6 – 8 PM and available by Zoom.

Please spread the word. Mahalo.

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

Peace resolution in Hawaii County Council Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Wednesday, February 28th, 2024

Peace resolution in Hawaii County Council

Tuesday, March 5th at 9:30 AM testimony on Council res. 449-24. See agenda below for 9:30 Government Operations — last item listed on agenda –PEACE RESO.

Pass the word. We can support the reso but urge adding Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, no more military aid to Israel, Stop the Genocide in Gaza. etc. The existing reso is just very bland – general, no mention of Gaza.

Jim Albertini

— 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

9:00 a.m. Legislative Approvals and Acquisitions

9:30 a.m. Governmental Operations and External Affairs Committee

1:00 p.m. Communications, Reports, and Council Oversight Committee

1:30 p.m. Policy Committee on Planning Land Use, and Development

2:30 p.m. Finance Committee

Ceasefire in Gaza and Pohakuloa!

Tuesday, February 27th, 2024

Ceasefire in Gaza Now!

Immediate & Permanent!

 

                    Stop the Gaza

                        Genocide!

 

Join the weekly Hilo Peace Vigil every Friday from 3:30 to 5 PM at the downtown Hilo Post Office/Federal Building on Waianuenue Ave.

Call County, State, and Federal elected officials for 1. An immediate and permanent Ceasefire in Gaza; 2. End all US military aid to Israel; 3. Terminate the Hawaii/Israel Strategic partnership signed in Oct. 2022; 4. Stop US Bombing of Yemen, etc.

Call for 1. An immediate end to all bombing and live fire at the military 133,000-acre Pohakuloa Toxic Area (PTA) in the center of Hawaii Island. PTA is contaminated by a wide range of military toxins, including Depleted Uranium (DU) radiation from 75 years of bombing and shelling. These tiny DU oxide particles can be carried long distances in the wind and easily inhaled, causing various cancers, birth defects, and genetic damage. 2. Cancel, not renew, the 23,000 acres of State leased conservation zone land for bombing at PTA. 3. Revoke the presidential executive order signed in 1964 that seized 84,000 acres of Hawaiian crown and government lands at Pohakuloa at zero cost for bombing, 4. Make the military clean up its toxic mess and return the lands to the Hawaiian people.

Bombing a dry, windy area like Pohakuloa is a Lahaina fire in the making! Many fires have been started, and large areas burned, by bombing and shelling at PTA. The extremes of climate change are only adding to the risk of further disasters.

Peace organizing meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of each month at the Kea’au Community Center from 6 – 8 PM and available by Zoom.

Please spread the word. Mahalo.

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