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Photos from the March 1, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil

Saturday, March 2nd, 2024

Photos from the March 1, 2024 Hilo Peace Vigil!

Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific Day, 70th anniversary of the US 10 Megaton (10 million ton equivalent of TNT) “Bravo” Nuclear Bomb explosion at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands

Hilo Peace vigils are held, rain or shine, Every Friday from 3:30-5 PM  at the downtown Hilo Federal Bldg./Post Office on Waianuenue Ave.
Peace Organizing Meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the Month from 6 -8 PM at the Kea’au Community Center located behind the Kea’au Health Clinic and Police Station, and via Zoom.
 
 
                 
           
                                             
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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

Monday, Feb. 26, 2024 Hawaii Island Peace organizing meeting in person and Zoom

Wednesday, February 21st, 2024

Monday, Feb. 26, 2024, Hawaii Island Peace organizing meeting in person and Zoom

Aloha Peace Ohana,

Monday Feb. 26, 2024 Peace organizing meeting.  Check out recent posts at www.malu-aina.org  Mahalo.  We need to put some moral pressure on elected officials at all levels, to pass a Ceasefire Resolution  See https://malu-aina.org/?p=9777  Come to the meeting to discuss this. and other peace topics such as the Pohakuloa State lease renewal, and to evaluate the Feb. 18th protest at Pohakuloa.  Your insights are important.

Reminder:  Peace Organizing Meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the Month from 6 -8 PM at the Kea’au Community Center located behind the Kea’au Health Clinic and Police Station.  Next meeting Monday, Feb. 26, 2024.  Usually there is Zoom from 6:30 to 7:15 PM.  Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9876901944… Meeting ID: 987 690 1944 Passcode: peace now. Steve Paulmier in our group is the person who sets up zoom. His email is <stephen.paulmier@verizon.net> and his phone 430-8866

Every Friday from 3:30-5 PM there is a peace vigil at the downtown Hilo Federal Bldg./Post Office on Waianuenue Ave. from 3:30 to 5 PM with set up at 2:30.  Please pass the word. Check out this week’s 2 sided peace leaflet here:  “Where Were You” https://malu-aina.org/?p=9805 and “Hawaii Interfaith Call for an Immediate Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza” https://malu-aina.org/?p=9817

We are living in extremely dangerous times.  We need your involvement.

Your participation and solidarity are much appreciated.  Please help spread the word. Bring ohana and friends to the meeting and weekly Hilo peace vigil.

Mahalo.

Jim

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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

Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024 Protest at Pohakuloa Main Gate

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2024

Stop Bombing Gaza &

Stand up & Speak Out

Sunday, Feb. 18, 2024 – 10 AM till Noon

Pohakuloa Main Gate

Call County, State, and Federal elected officials for 1. An immediate and permanent Ceasefire in Gaza; 2. End all US military aid to Israel; 3. Terminate the Hawaii/Israel Strategic partnership signed in Oct. 2022; 4. Stop US Bombing of Yemen.

Call for 1. An immediate end to all bombing and live fire at the Pohakuloa Toxic Area (PTA) contaminated with a wide range of toxins from 75 years of bombing and shelling, including Depleted Uranium radiation. These tiny DU oxide particles can be carried long distances in the wind and cause various cancers if inhaled. 2 Cancel, not renew, 23,000 acres of State leased conservation zone land for bombing at PTA. 3. Revoke the presidential Executive Order signed in 1964 that seized 84,000 acres of Hawaiian crown and government lands at Pohakuloa at zero cost for bombing. 4. Make the military clean up its toxic mess and return the lands to the Hawaiian people.

Bombing a dry, windy area like Pohakuloa is a Lahaina fire in the making! Many fires have been started, and large areas burned, by bombing and shelling at PTA. The extremes of climate change are only adding to the risks of further disaster.

Please spread the word. Mahalo.

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:malu-aina.org

Jan. 17, 1893 Hawaii Overthrow Anniversary!

Monday, January 15th, 2024

Free Hawai’i!

End US Illegal Occupation

Now!

     On Jan. 17, 1893, the US and European Sugar Barons, with the direct assistance of US military troops, carried out a coup — an illegal overthrow of the independent Nation of Hawaii and Queen Liliu’okalani. Six years earlier in 1887, these same business interests orchestrated “the Bayonet Constitution” that forced King David Kalakaua to give more power to these business interests, including a free trade agreement with the US, and exclusive use of Pearl Harbor to the US military. But they wanted more. They wanted total control. In 1898, Hawaii was illegally annexed to the US. Illegal Statehood, followed illegal annexation, which followed the illegal overthrow. It now has been 131 years of illegal occupation.

     From the time of Hawaii’s first western contact in 1778, western diseases reduced Hawaii’s native population drastically, by over 75% in just a few decades. Lands became privatized in former missionary hands that became Big 5 private corporations, sugar, and pineapple plantations, instead of a self-sufficient ahupua’a (mauka to makai –mountain to the sea) village system. Today, instead of being 100% self-sufficient in food, Hawaii now imports over 95% of what is consumed here.        

     Mass tourism and over 100 US military installations are the new plantations.  Former Sugar barons still control a lot of land in Hawaii. But there are new Hi-tech barons with net worth in the hundreds of billions of dollars. The likes of Jeff Bezos ($177B) of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg ($128B) of Facebook, Larry Ellison ($123B) of Oracle software company, and Michael Dell ($78B) of Dell computers, all have palatial vacation estates here in Hawaii. Ellison owns over 98% of the island of Lanai. Zuckerberg besides his mansions and large land holdings has an underground 5000 square foot doomsday bunker on Kauai, Bezos has a $78 million estate on Maui, and Dell has a multimillion-dollar place in Kukio, the vacation land of the 1/10 of the 1% just north of Kailua-Kona on Hawaii Island. Meanwhile, native Hawaiians have been priced out of Hawaii, their homeland. More Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians) now live in the Las Vegas and the LA area than in Hawaii. Shameful! Justice demands fundamental change and a restored independent Hawaii nation, and ahupua’a village homeland for Kanaka Maoli. 

In 1993 President Bill Clinton signed an apology bill for the illegal overthrow of Hawaii. But an apology is not enough.

 

No Lie Can Live Forever! Free Hawai’i Now!

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:malu-aina.org

January 17, 2024

We lost a dear friend, peacemaker, and aloha ‘aina activist –Nelson Ho on Jan 2, 2024

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024

Dear friend Nelson Ho died Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, at Hilo Hospital after a long illness. 

Nelson was an inspiring activist with steadfast aloha ‘aina solidarity. He blessed us all! Together, let’s carry his spirit with us always.

I knew Nelson for more than 50 years and feel very blessed to have visited Nelson and his wife Jennifer at Hilo Hospital the afternoon before he passed.

Jim