Malu 'Aina

U.S. 2024 Elections!

     I am writing these words on Monday afternoon, November 4th, the day before US election day. What the results may be, especially for the US President, is unknown. Predictions are that the election is too close to call. It could go either way—for Democrat Kamala Harris or Republican Donald Trump.

     This much we do know. National Guard troops are on alert throughout the U.S. for possible violence. Both the Democratic and Republican Parties are War Parties. Both support a 1 Trillion dollar annual military budget. Both parties have approved an additional $1.7 Trillion for the US military to upgrade its nuclear arsenal that already can destroy the world many times over. US B-52 strategic bombers have now been sent to the Middle East as the war there escalates. “The US Army Prepares for War with China” showing parachute jumpers at Pohakuloa. was the front page article in the Hawaii Tribune-Herald of Wed. Oct. 30, 2024. Bipartisan Congressional support keeps pouring tens of Billions of dollars of US military aid to Ukraine, Israel, and the Indo-Pacific Military Command for widening wars.

     Meanwhile, on Hawaii Island, 40% of households (33% statewide) are food insecure. At the same time, millions of live military rounds are fired annually at the 133,000-acre Pohakuloa TOXIC Area in the center of our island, including the $250,000 Javelin anti-tank missile pictured below.

     Besides food insecurity, everyone can see increasing numbers of homeless people on our streets, and more and more people born and raised here are now being forced to move out of Hawaii while the rich move in. High Tech Billionaire barons have replaced Big Five Sugar barons: Larry Ellison of Oracle now owns more than 95% of Lanai, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook owns a palatial vacation estate on Kauai complete with a 5000 square foot underground bunker, Jeff Bezos of Amazon is on Maui, Mark Benioff of Sales Force on Hawaii Island, etc. etc., etc.

Hawaii, the most isolated land mass in the world, now imports 95% of the food it consumes. When Hawaii was an independent nation, before the illegal US overthrow and ongoing illegal Occupation, Hawaii produced 100% of the food it consumed. No matter who is elected, our work is clear:

End War, Stop the Genocide, and Restore Aloha ‘Aina!

Kapu Aloha — Nonviolence 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

Nov. 8, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1206– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

U.S. On The Brink Of

Fascism!

The definition of Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, and forcible suppression of opposition.

      Adolph Hitler was a fascist! He came to power legally. See the article “What (Really) Happens if Trump Wins” https://portside.org/2024-10-24/what-really-happens-if-trump-wins-hitler-then-and-now?utm_medium=email&utm_source=portside-snapshot&fbclid=IwY2xjawGLgp5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfiaL4v78ywme981-gLcs_5gjOltvBqg9OH2-6wqmCDu3RRNStjPXK1HMw_aem_YYNX1YnIMwCwwq8F81ByeA

     Three months after Hitler promised to uphold the German Constitution, the concentration camp Dachau was open. Its first prisoners were not Jews, but rather Hitler’s prominent political opponents. By April, Jews had been purged from the civil service.

      Today, I feel what it must have been like living in Nazi Germany in the early 1930s.  I believe that a 2nd Trump term would be worse and more dangerous than a Harris presidency.  If Donald Trump is elected President, be prepared. His appointed majority US Supreme Court has already declared “Presidential Official Absolute Immunity.” Trump has called for 15 – 20 million people currently living in the US being rounded up and deported, opponents “the enemy from within”, and “radical left lunatics” to be prosecuted, threatened the use of military force against activists, and put the lives of millions of women at risk.  We all need to stand up and stop the threat of fascism and genocide being done in our names and by weapons paid by our tax dollars.  The US needs to Stop Arming Israel and Stop the Genocide in Palestine.

What More Do You Need to Know?

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

Nov. 1, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1205– Fridays 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

The US Global Empire:

Death Party Rules!

Poverty, War, Genocide!

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

Nuclear War Between Israel & Iran

could be only days or hours away!

     Recently leaked highly classified US Intelligence documents say Israel is preparing to strike Iran. The documents note that Israel has nuclear weapons.  Israel’s having nuclear weapons is well known globally. Israel has had nukes for decades. There has been concern for years about Iran obtaining nuclear weapons too. According to former US Marine Corps Intelligence officer, Scott Ritter, Iran likely has nukes now. https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/20/scott-ritter-irans-bomb-is-real-and-its-here/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=866a43bd-c52b-4584-a26b-65ed17b41812

      The growing danger of a nuclear war is not limited to Israel and Iran. The world has been focused on the danger of nuclear war between the United States/NATO and Russia over Ukraine, and also the growing US war tensions with China over Taiwan. But according to Scott Ritter “Iran and Israel could beat them to it.” The world has never been closer to nuclear war than it is now.

      Continued war escalations can quickly lead to the use of nuclear weapons, by accident or design, if any party senses an existential threat to its existence. The consequences of a nuclear war between Israel and Iran could prove fatal to both countries, possibly the Middle East Region, and the entire planet. Getting an immediate Ceasefire in the Middle East is more crucial than ever. The US needs to Stop supplying weapons to Israel which are devastating civilian populations. Diplomacy is urgently required to reach a negotiated settlement. Turn the temperatures down for a heating planet and the threat of nuclear war. Let cool heads prevail. Peace is a victory for all – present and future generations. Use common sense for the common good!  The US spends $1 Trillion a year on its war machine, more than the next 9 nations combined, and plans to spend more than $1.7 Trillion on upgrading its nuclear weapons arsenal that already can destroy the world many times over. This is not common sense. This is insanity!

 Food NOT Bombs!  We Cannot Bomb Our Way to Peace!

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

Oct. 25, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1204– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

Restore Hawaii County’s

Historic Nuclear–Free Law!

Repeal the Military

Exemption!

Support Bill 206

Click on the link above to read the Bill

Send an email in support of Bill 206 to counciltestimony@hawaiicounty.gov

On Wed. Oct. 16th, the Hawaii County Council voted 9-0 to support Bill 206 Draft 2 at its meeting in Kona to repeal the 40-year-old Military Exemption from the County’s Nuclear-Free Law.  This is very good news.  Several people testified from around the island in support of Bill 206.  As far as I could tell, no one testified in opposition.

Bill 206 Draft 2 requires one more council vote to move the Bill to the Mayor for his signature to become County law.  That second vote will be in Hilo, likely on Friday, Nov. 8th at 9 AM, although the time and date will not be confirmed until 6 days prior.  But please mark your calendar.  Try to attend the Hilo meeting at the Council Chambers.  You can now send testimony by email up until 1 day before the final vote.  People can also testify via zoom from their homes at the next meeting, or from various county sites around the Island.  Call the County Clerk’s office for more information.  808-961-8255.

Mahalo for your support.

Jim Albertini for Malu ‘Aina

More Background

     Hawaii County’s historic Nuclear-Free Law (No, 665) was passed in February 1981. Hawaii County was the first municipality in the U.S. to pass a law declaring itself a Nuclear-Free Zone. Since then, more than 100 or 200, other municipalities have passed similar laws.

     Forty years ago, on July 18, 1984, hundreds of people gathered peacefully on the Hilo docks to protest a visiting US Navy Nuclear-armed warship – the USS Ouellet. After 3 years of requesting the US Navy to respect our County’s Nuclear-Free law without success, our organization announced that we planned a non-violent peaceful swimming protest of the next Navy Nuclear ship visit a month later. A Navy Nuclear ship visit was planned for the July Hawaii Japanese Chamber of Commerce Festival of the Pacific.

On July 17, 1984, the day before the nuclear warship’s scheduled arrival, the Hawaii County Council, under the leadership of then Council chair, Stephen Yamashiro, passed an emergency amendment “exempting the military” from the Nuclear-Free law.  Having an amendment to the Nuclear-Free Law to exempt the military is like having an exemption for smokers from Smoking laws.  It makes no sense. For more on the Hilo Bay Warship Peace Blockade,  see https://malu-aina.org/?p=10305 My testimony on Oct. 1^st can be viewed here. https://malu-aina.org/?p=10529

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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

 Recycle the War Machine!            _______________________________________________________________

Food Not Bombs! Houses Not Bombs! Education Not Bombs! Health Care not Bombs! Stop the Genocide!

The US spends $1 Trillion a year on its war machine, more than the next 9 nations combined, and plans to spend more than $1.7 Trillion on upgrading its nuclear weapons arsenal that already can destroy the world many times over. After WWII the Pentagon was to revert to a medical facility. The above figures on military spending appear to confirm that the Pentagon has kept its word. It has become – a War Machine Insane Asylum, with Bi-partisan Congressional, Executive Branch, and Wall Street support!

Save the Planet! 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://www.malu-aina.org

Oct. 18, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1203– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office