Food NOT Bombs!

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. Big Five Sugar barons have been replaced by High Tech Billionaire barons: Larry Ellison of Oracle now owns more than 95% of Lanai, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook owns a palatial vacation estate on Kauai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.  Our work is clear:

 End War!  End US Occupation of Hawaii!  
Restore Aloha ‘Aina!  Kapu Aloha — Nonviolence Always!

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

Bomber Biden Goes Ballistic!

On Sunday, Nov. 17, 2024, US President Joe Biden gave the Green-light to Ukraine to use US long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia! On Nov. 19, missiles were fired.  Such missile strikes could quickly escalate to Nuclear War. Russia says such missile strikes would amount to a NATO declaration of war against Russia.

Stop the Madness! Ceasefire Now. Negotiate for Peace! Peace is a Victory for All.

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/11/18/biden-ramps-up-nuclear-brinkmanship-on-his-way-out-the-door/

Update on Hawaii County Council Bill 206 draft 2 — Repeal the military exemption from Hawaii County’s Nuclear-Free Law

Bill 206 draft 2 was sent to Mayor Mitch Roth on Friday, Nov. 15^th after passing the Hawaii County Council unanimously. The Mayor has 10 days (until Nov. 25th) to sign it, let it become law without his signature, or veto the Bill and send it back to the Council for a possible 2/3 vote override. Please pass the word widely, and encourage people to call or email the Mayor and urge him to sign Bill 206 Draft 2.

Mitch Roth’s phone Number is 808-961-8223 and his email is mitch.roth@hawaiicounty.gov Mahalo.

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. 22, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1208– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

Painting by the late artist and school teacher, Setsu Okubo, that hangs in the kitchen at Malu ‘Aina

Please call or email Hawaii County Mayor Mitch Roth and urge him

to sign Bill 206 Draft 2 to repeal the military exemption from

Hawaii County’s Nuclear-Free Law

that was passed unanimously by the Hawaii County Council

on Nov. 8, 2024.

For more background on the history of the Nuclear-Free law see

https://malu-aina.org/?p=10617

May Peace Prevail on Earth!

Mahalo

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 to receive our posts.

For more information see https://www.malu-aina.org

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.

Nov. 15, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1207– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

Hawaiian activist, Moanikeala Akaka, on the far right of the photo above, initiated the

original historic Nuclear Free Law of Hawaii County in 1981

Yugo Okubo, brother of artist and school teacher Setsu Okubo, protesting a visiting nuclear warship

at the Hilo docks in the 1980s. 

Yugo was a 100th infantry battalion soldier of the 442 who fought in Europe in WW II

Yugo was a freshman at UH Manoa who dropped out of school following the Pearl Harbor

attack to enlist in the Army to prove his loyalty as a Japanese American.

Within 5 years after the war he was jailed as an “Unamerican” under the McCarthy era. 

He was one of the Hawaii 39 jailed for union organizing. 

Yugo said his claim to fame was “He went from hero to Unamerican in less than 5 years.

Yugo lived at Malu ‘Aina for 7 years.

Behind Yugo in the photo are goodwill fruit gifts from Malu ‘Aina farm to the warship crew.

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

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Phone 808-966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org

Help Make Hawaii Nuclear-Free!

Please call or email Hawaii County Mayor Mitch Roth and urge him to sign Bill 206 Draft 2 to repeal the military exemption from Hawaii County’s Nuclear-Free Law, which was unanimously passed by the Hawaii County Council on Nov. 8, 2024.

  The Mayor’s Phone number is 808-961-8223. His email is mitch.roth@hawaiicounty.gov

For more background on the history of the Nuclear-Free law see

https://malu-aina.org/?p=10617

Mahalo

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 to receive our posts. For more information see https://www.malu-aina.org

U.S. Fascism

 Wins For Now!

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.

But never give up the struggle for justice, peace, and aloha ‘aina.

No lie can live forever!

Join the Peace organizing meeting on Monday, Nov. 11th from 6-8 PM at the Kea’au Community Center to discuss action following the elections, Genocide in Gaza, widening wars, etc. Some good news – on Friday, Nov. 8th the Hawaii County Council passed Bill 206 draft 2 to repeal the 40 year old military exemption from Hawaii County’s Nuclear-Free Law. The Bill now goes to Mayor Roth for his signature to become law.

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