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POHAKULOA FIRE RISK & Feb. 23rd Protest at PTA

Tuesday, February 11th, 2025

SHUT DOWN THE

Pohakuloa TOXIC Area (PTA)

Protest Sunday, February 23, 2025    Noon – 2

PM Main Gate

   (Carpools leave Hilo side –Komohana and Saddle Rd at 11 AM)

POHAKULOA FIRE RISK  

     This week, nearly the entire Big Island, except Hilo and Puna, is under an “ABNORMALLY DRY” weather alert.  This includes the center of the island where the military Pohakuloa Toxic Area (PTA) is located.  Pohakuloa is a massive 133,000-acre live fire training area.  Millions of live rounds, including bombing and shelling, with a wide variety of weapon systems are fired annually at PTA. The bombing and shelling have been going on for more than 80 years and has involved a wide range of toxins including Depleted Uranium radiation, lead, white phosphorus, etc.

  The Military Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the lease of 23,000 acres of state land at Pohakuloa noted that since 1975, the military admits to starting 892 fires at PTA, burning tens of thousands of acres in the dry windy area, including more than 17,000 acres off base, destroying an endangered species habitat.

     Pohakuloa is zoned “A Conservation District” which is the highest protected land status.  Bombing and shelling in a conservation district are not compatible land uses.  Stop the Bombing!  No new lease or land swap.  Make the military clean up its toxic mess and return the land to the Hawaiian people.

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

Feb. 14, 2025, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1220Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

 

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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

Stop Trump: Fascist Felon

Sunday, February 2nd, 2025

Stop Trump: Fascist Felon

Put People and Planet Over

Billionaire Profits!

Trump’s first weeks in office — Executive Orders, etc.

* Move toward authoritarianism and oligarchy — a government of, by, and for the billionaire class

* Threats to block funding for Medicaid, Head Start, community health centers, homeless veterans programs, etc.

* Media intimidation – lawsuits, etc. NPR and PBS targets for investigation and threats of defunding.

* Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) given unprecedented access to citizen data and classified material.

* Anti-environmental orders to “Drill Baby Drill”

* Trump pardoned 1500 January 6th insurrections including those who injured 174 police officers at the Capitol.

* Planned Tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, and possibly more

* Threats to take the Panama Canal, buy Greenland, and make Canada the 51st state

* Withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Accord

* Withdrew the US from the World Health Organization

* Wants to “clean out” Gaza – Ethnic cleansing – Genocide! Carried out airstrikes on Somalia

* Abolished DEI – diversity, equity, and inclusion affecting Native Hawaiians, Tribal, black, and other minority programs. Trump, without any evidence, blames the DC plane crash on DEI policies

* Immigrants mass deportation, and LGBTQ targeted. GITMO internment camp for 30,000

* Birthright citizenship revoked

* Illegal purge of Inspectors General watchdogs across federal agencies

* Trump’s purge of Dept. of Justice and FBI agents involved in the prosecution of the January 6 rioters

More and more and more ………likely to come!

The minimum starvation wage of $7.25 an hour must be raised significantly. Affordable housing needs to be built for working people and to end homelessness instead of spending a Trillion dollars on the US war machine to profit the arms makers.

Please join the weekly Hilo Friday Peace vigil 3:30 – 5 PM at the downtown Post Office and the Stop Bombing Pohakuloa protest set for Sunday, Feb. 23rd from noon to 2 PM at the PTA main gate.  See https://malu-aina.org/?p=10826 Carpools leave the Hilo side at 11 AM (Komohana and Saddle Rd.

Malu ‘Aina peace organizing meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at the Kea’au Community Center from 6-8 PM.

Where Have All the Liberals Gone?

https://popularresistance.org/where-have-all-the-liberals-gone/

“This is not a time for wallowing in despair and hiding under the covers.”

US Sen. Bernie Sanders

Stand Up! Speak Out! For Justice, Peace,

and Aloha ‘Aina!

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

Feb. 7, 2025, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1219Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

HB305 Land Restoration –Aloha ‘Aina Land Trust DEFERRED

Tuesday, January 28th, 2025

Aloha ʻĀina Land Trust

In the 2025 Hawaii State Legislature HB305 proposes the creation of the Aloha ʻĀina Land Trust” to rehabilitate and manage lands transferred by the U.S. military to the State after the leases for those lands expire. Below is a statement by Ka La Hui Hawaii on HB305.

     “One hundred percent of the lands that the U.S. Military currently leases from the “State of Hawai‘i” are “ceded lands” or Hawaiian Kingdom lands, taken without the consent or compensation of Hawai‘i’s indigenous people (U.S. Public Law 103-150). These military leases, covering approximately 30,000 acres, are set to begin expiring in August 2029. The U.S. Military leases these lands on the islands of O‘ahu, Kaua‘i, Maui, and Hawai‘i from the “State of Hawai‘i.”

      In 2024, the U.S. Army conducted a series of public hearings on their Draft Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) regarding the retention of 6,322 acres of “state” lands at Mākua Military Reservation (MMR), Kahuku Training Area (KTA), and Kawailoa-Poamoho Training Area, as well as 23,000 acres at Pōhakuloa Training Area (PTA). These Draft EIS documents identified these lands as habitats for endangered and threatened species and outlined scenarios for partial retention. For instance, one scenario for O‘ahu proposed retaining only 162 acres in Mākua Valley while relinquishing KTA and the Kawailoa-Poamoho Training Area altogether. Similarly, the PTA Draft EIS suggested retaining only 10,100 acres of the 23,000 acres currently leased. Regardless of one’s stance on the military lease issue, there must be a mechanism in place to receive, rehabilitate, restore, and remediate lands that may not be retained by the U.S. Military. Remediation is particularly critical, as it is well known that the U.S. Military seldom returns lands in a usable condition. This remediation must be funded by the U.S. Military.

      The U.S. Military forcibly removed inhabitants from areas such as Mākua starting in the 1920s, beginning with the ‘ohana of Kahueai (L.C.A. 9052). By 1942, the remaining inhabitants of Mākua were also removed, with reports of some families being forcibly removed at gunpoint. To this day, descendants lament their inability to return to their traditional lands and visit the graves of their family members. To address this injustice, it is vital that the first right of return, once leases expire or if partial retention occurs, is granted to the kuleana landowners.

      Similar to the process established for Kaho‘olawe, military lands returned upon the expiration of state leases in 2029 should be held in trust until they are transferred to a sovereign Kanaka Maoli entity. Ka Lāhui Hawai‘i strongly supports the precedent set by Hawai‘i Revised Statutes §6K-9 for Kaho‘olawe and advocates for its extension to any lands returned from expiring U.S. Military leases.

We respectfully and strongly urge this committee to pass HB 305.”

End All Military Leases. Ua mau ke ea o ka ‘aina i ka pono!

Malu ‘Aina stands in strong support of HB 305.  No more leased lands to the military.  No land swaps either.  Make the military clean up its toxic mess and return the lands to the Hawaiian people. In addition to ending military leases, the executive orders that simply seized Hawaiian lands need to be reversed.  At Pohakuloa, 23,000 acres are leased, 84,000 acres were seized at ZERO cost in 1964 by a Presidential executive order. On Jan. 28, 2025 The House WAL committee recommended that HB305 be DEFERRED. See testimony here http://HB305_TESTIMONY_WAL_01-28-25_/

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

January 31, 2025, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1218Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

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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

Jan. 23, 2025, Hilo Peace Vigil

Friday, January 24th, 2025

Jan. 23, 2025, Hilo Peace Vigil

Look who showed up

 

Resist Trump’s “Golden Age” U.S. Empire Global Domination!

Monday, January 20th, 2025

 

Resist Trump’s “Golden Age”

U.S. Empire Global Domination

       High Tech Billionaire Oligarch Profiteers!              including the New Hawaii Big 5 –

Billionaire Oligarchs Larry Ellison of Oracle owns more than 97% of Lanai, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook/Meta has a several hundred million dollar palatial estate on Kauai, Jeff Bezos of Amazon has a $78 million estate on Maui, Sam Altman of OpenAI has a $48 million beachfront mansion in Kailua – Kona, and Marc Benioff of Salesforce, has a $63 million beachside mansion, condos, etc. in the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel area, and has bought lots of additional land in the Waimea area. Billionaires Ellison, Altman, and Masayoshi Son did an AI press “Stargate” briefing with Trump on 1/21/25 about investing $500 Billion. 

https://www.newsweek.com/stargate-ai-oracle-donald-trump-infrastructure-sam-altman-2018614

https://www.npr.org/2024/02/28/1232564250/billionaire-benioff-buys-hawaii-land-salesforce

The Old Hawaii Big 5 (Hawaii Sugar Barons & Oligarchs) – C. Brewer & Co, Theo H. Davies, Alexander & Baldwin, American Factors, and Castle & Cook, along with the US Military, were involved in the illegal overthrow of Queen Liliu’okalani in 1893, the illegal annexation of 1898, and the continuing illegal occupation of Hawaii ever since.

 Do Not be Silent! Speak Up for Justice, Peace, & Aloha ‘Aina! Kapu Aloha! Non-violence Always!

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

January 24, 2025, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1217Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office