Please Testify in Support!

Restore Hawaii County’s Historic

Nuclear–Free Law!

Repeal the Military Exemption!

Support Bill 206 draft2 Click on the link Bill 206 to read the Bill. Send an email in support to counciltestimony@hawaiicounty.gov

     Good News! Bill 206 Draft 2 requires only one more council vote on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024, at 1 PM in Hilo to move the Bill to the Mayor for his signature to become County law. 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 Nov. 8th 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

     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 nuclear-armed US Navy warship—the USS Ouellet. After three years of unsuccessfully requesting the US Navy to respect our County’s Nuclear-Free law, our organization announced that we planned a nonviolent, 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

––Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown), Hawai’i 96760 Phone (808) 966-7622

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Join the Friday weekly Hilo Peace Vigil and peace organizing meeting Monday, Oct. 28th at 6 PM in Kea’au

Aloha Peace ohana,

Please pass the word on the above.  We are now in week 1204 of our weekly Hilo Peace vigil.  We have entered our 24th year of standing for peace every Friday outside the Hilo downtown Federal Building/Post Office 3:30 – 5 PM.  Every week I write a new peace leaflet available on our www.malu-aina.org <www.malu-aina.org> website and handed out on the Hilo street corner.  We also have an email list.  if you know of people who want to be placed on our list please let me know.

We also have Peace organizing meetings on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month.  The meetings are held at the Kea’au Community Center, located behind the Kea’au Police station and the health clinic off old Volcano Rd.  The meetings are from 6-8 PM where we discuss a range of local and international peace issues and plan local peace actions.  Our next meeting is Monday, Oct. 28th.

Mahalo for your support and solidarity.  Please share with ohana and friends.

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

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.

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

SCOTT RITTER: Iran’s Bomb Is Real — And It’s Here

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/20/scott-ritter-irans-bomb-is-real-and-its-here/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=866a43bd-c52b-4584-a26b-65ed17b41812

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

-- 
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