http://www.synbiowatch.org/gene-drives-iucn-pr/
(Please share widely. Walter Ritte quoted in this important article). Mahalo. Jim Albertini
Letter to the editor: "Monsantoman" Clifton Tsuji does it again! Shame on State Rep. Clift Tsuji. chair of the House Agricultural committee. For the 2nd year in a row he killed a bill (HB 2564) that would have created buffer zones around schools to protect against pesticide drift. What kind of a person won't protect kids from pesticide poisoning. As a former banker, and "biotech legislator of the year," he appears more concerned about chemical company profits than protecting the common good, including children's health and safety. Tsuji brings shame on the entire Hilo district that he claims to represent. Come on Hilo --stand up for the kids. Send Tsuji packing. Let him go back to work for the bank instead of being a tax paid mascot for Monsanto and other special corporate interests. According to the Hawaii Campaign spending commission for the current election period 2014-2016, Monsanto was Clifton Tsuji's largest campaign donor by twice the amount of his 2nd place donor, and not one donation came from the Hilo district that he supposedly represents as far as I could see on the list of donors. Most came from Bishop street and Manoa Valley in Honolulu. How come? 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 www.malu-aina.org
Aloha ‘Aina!
Demilitarize
Hawaii &
The Pacific
Saturday, January 30, 2016
10 AM Pule at Ahu on Saddle Rd and
Mauna Kea Access Rd.
11 AM – Noon sign/banner holding at
Pohakuloa Main gate
January 2016 marks 40 years since the historic action of 9 people who went to the Island of Kaho’olawe to stop the bombing there. It sparked a movement. Many people followed in the months and years after. Some went to jail. Two — George Helm and Kimo Mitchell, lost their lives, but the bombing of Kaho’olawe was eventually stopped. Kaho’olawe is 28,000 acres. Pohakuloa, located in the center of Hawaii Island, is 133,000 acres, nearly 5 times the size of Kaho’olawe. Millions of rounds are fired on Pohakuloa annually. It has been going on more than 50 years. It is time to Malama ‘Aina everywhere. It is time stop the bombing and desecration of Pohakuloa.
Please come in a spirit of Kapu Aloha for the ‘aina and all people we encounter, including those who may disagree with us. Mahalo.
Protect Pohakuloa! Stop
the Bombing!
1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties.
4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.
5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
Contact: Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action
P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawai’i 96760
Phone (808) 966-7622. Email: ja@malu-aina.org
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Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Jan. 22, 2016 – 748th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office
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Petition to Congress:
“Say NO to the Trans-Pacific Partnership. It’s your job to ensure trade deals work for everyone, not just giant corporations. It would be deeply irresponsible for you to ignore that responsibility by rubber-stamping a titanic corporate power grab that was negotiated behind closed doors by the governments of a dozen countries (including ours) in collusion with corporate interests.” Add your name:
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Dear Wally,
In a matter of days, President Obama will launch his final push to pressure Congress to pass the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). It’s a secretive trade deal that has been called “NAFTA on steroids” – and for good reason.
During his last State of the Union address on January 12, President Obama will make his case for a “trade” deal that would eviscerate broad swaths of regulations that protect consumers, workers, the environment and the soundness of our financial system. And, it would set up a legal regime where corporate profits trump the policy priorities of sovereign governments.
With the text of the deal now public even some key Republicans who supported Fast Track authority for approving the TPP are now saying they cannot support the trade deal as it stands.1 That means the President currently does not have the votes to pass the TPP. We need to keep it that way and thwart any momentum toward passage of the TPP in this Congress.
We can jump-start our campaign to stop this corporate power grab by making our voices heard as loudly as possible in advance of the State of the Union next week.
In November we finally got to see what’s inside the TPP – and it’s even worse than we thought. If Congress ratifies this agreement more, American jobs would be offshored. Internet freedom would be a joke. Developing countries would lose access to lifesaving medicines. Unsafe foods and products could pour into our country while we’re powerless to stop them. The deal includes countries notorious for severe violations of human rights, but the term “human rights” does not appear in the 5,600 pages of the TPP. And, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The administration’s spin about the TPP being the most progressive trade treaty ever is not based in reality. Don’t take our word for it. Here is what Doctors Without Borders said about the TPP:
Sen. Elizabeth Warren has also sounded the alarm about the TPP. She previously warned that trade deals like the TPP could provide an opportunity for “banks to get something done quietly out of sight that they could not accomplish in a public place with the cameras rolling and the lights on.”3
Indeed, the TPP includes provisions that would severely hamstring the ability of governments to stem the next banking crisis. Other provisions would allow multinational corporations to push back when governmental regulations cut into corporate profits by suing governments in foreign courts staffed by corporate lawyers.
While Congress cannot amend or filibuster the TPP, they do still have to vote yes or no on it. Already some Republicans have come out against this awful deal, so if we are able to confront the big money interests behind this treaty with an onslaught of grassroots opposition, we can win. Click the link below to sign the petition.
Thank you for speaking out. Your activism matters.
Murshed Zaheed, Deputy Political Director
CREDO Action from Working Assets Add your name:
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