Malu 'Aina

Is Nuclear War on the Horizon?

The world is growing increasingly tense on several fronts where by accident or design a wider war could escalate very quickly to an all-out global nuclear holocaust. The Middle East, Ukraine/NATO Russia, the US and China are all possible escalating flash points. To understand what a nuclear war could mean for the planet and human civilization, view the 20-minute video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BoeyKjZBw We all need to understand the devastating consequences of a nuclear war so we can work towards a world free of nuclear weapons.

Beware of “The Samson Option” – Israel’s Plan to Nuke Its Opponents

https://progressive.org/latest/the-samson-option-israels-plan-to-nuke-its-opponents-dilawar-20240624/

      Here are some resources for further information: • The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna… • The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA): https://disarmament.unoda.org/ • The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: https://thebulletin.org/ Together, we can prevent the unthinkable from becoming reality. Share this video notes above and raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear war.

     Hawaii is one of the most militarized places on the planet with over 100 US military installations. Oahu is the Headquarters for the US Indo-Pacific Military Command that covers more than half the earth, Oahu includes major US military Force bases, such as the Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Army Garrison at Schofield Barracks, and the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base. Major military weapons are stored at West Loch of Pearl Harbor.

     The 133,000-acre Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) in the center of Hawaii Island is a training ground for war, including nuclear war, by all branches of the US military. The base has been contaminated with radiation from uranium spotting rounds for nuclear weapon systems fired there. B-52 and B-2 strategic nuclear bombers from Louisiana, Missouri, and Guam fly non-stop training missions to practice bombing at PTA. Join the movement to De-Militarize Hawaii and the world.

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. 

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Aug. 16, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1194– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024

Alisson Shiozaki and others are having a Remember Hiroshima Day on Monday Aug. 5th (Aug. 6th in Japan) from 12:30-1:30 PM at Liliuokalani Park in Hilo.  Please join if possible and pass the word

I am sorry I won’t be able to make it.  My nephew and family will be visiting this week.  Below is this Friday, Aug. 9th (Nagasaki Day) Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet.  Please try and join the Hilo Peace Vigil too.  I will be there. We will have our 45-year-old banner there too “In Memory of Hiroshima & Nagasaki.”  Peace leaflet below. And mark your calendar: Peace organizing meeting will be held on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024 from 6-8 PM at the Keaau Community Center.  Meetings are regularly held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month.  Please pass the word.  Meetings are usually available on Zoom from 6:30-7:15 PM. Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9876901944… Meeting ID: 987 690 1944 Passcode: peace now

Jim Albertini for Malu ‘Aina

In Memory of Hiroshima &

Nagasaki!

       On August 6, 1945, the US dropped a uranium fission nuclear bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, on Aug. 9, the US dropped a plutonium-fission nuclear bomb on the city of Nagasaki. In two blinding flashes of light, heat, and radiation, these cities were destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and injured. Many died days, weeks, and months later from radiation poisoning. Army General and future President, Dwight Eisenhower, and other military leaders said, the dropping of the bomb was completely unnecessary. Japan was already defeated.

      Today, Hawaii is a military command center and staging ground for nuclear war. Pohakuloa (PTA) is a training site for nuclear weapon systems. Weapons training at PTA has contaminated our island with radiation and a wide range of military toxins.

      As of January 22, 2021, Nuclear Weapons are illegal. The treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons bans the development, testing, production, manufacture, acquisition, possession or stockpiling, transfer, control or receipt, use or threat to use, stationing or development of nuclear weapons. But there are 9 nuclear rogue outlaw states still making, and possessing nuclear weapons: the US, Russia, China, Great Britain, France, North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Israel.

      The danger of global nuclear war, and the destruction of human civilization, has never been greater. Along with growing climate disasters, there is the growing risk of a widening war in the Middle East with Iran, etc. a US/NATO nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine, and between the US and China. The US wants to remain on top in a Unipolar, not a multipolar, world. The issues of preventing global nuclear destruction and climate catastrophe are directly linked. The US military is the largest consumer of oil and emitter of CO2 on the planet. Join the movement to de-militarize Hawaii & the world.

Stop the Profiteers of Armageddon!

Abolish All Nuclear Weapons Now!

No More War!

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. 2 on the planet.

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

Aug. 9, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1193– 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

Lā Ho`iho`i Ea

Hawaiian Sovereignty Restoration Day!

     Hawaiian Sovereignty Restoration Day marks July 31, 1843, when British Admiral Richard Thomas ordered the Union Jack lowered and the Hawaiian Kingdom flag hoisted above Honolulu, ending five months of British occupation and restoring the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom government to legitimate power.

     In 2024, we are still waiting, 131 years and counting, for an end to the US illegal occupation of Hawaii, following the US military/sugar baron coup to overthrow the government of Queen Lili’uokalani in 1893.  Meanwhile, as a positive step in the restoration process, let us act to end all US military leases of Hawaiian lands at Pohakuloa on Hawaii Island, on Oahu, etc.  Also, restore Hawaii County’s historic Nuclear-Free Law (Ordinance #665) passed in 1981, but amended in 1984 to exempt the US military.  Remove the US military exemption (#84-39) Now!  Hawaii is one of the most militarized places on the planet. Hawaii, the land of aloha, has been transformed under US military occupation, into the US military Indo-Pacific command center and training ground for Nuclear War and the destruction of the entire planet.

     RIMPAC 2024, the world’s largest international war exercise concludes on August 2 after over a month. The US invited 28 other countries, including Israel, to come and bomb Hawaii as part of maintaining US global domination. Forty surface ships, 3 submarines, 14 national land forces, over 150 aircraft, and more than 25,000 personnel participated. RIMPAC involved the sinking of ships (and harm to marine life) by bombing and shelling in Hawaiian waters, onshore military beach assault landings, bombing, shelling, and troop training at Pohakuloa and other areas, as well as human trafficking with military troupes entering tourist areas. Canceling future RIMPAC War Games, and ending the US illegal occupation of Hawaii Now & Forever will be a Justice, Peace, and climate victory for all!

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

Aug. 2, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1192– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

July 20, 2024, Hilo Cancel Rimpac Protest, Stop Bombing Pohakuloa, & Stop the Genocide in Gaza Held on Hilo Bayfront near the King Kamehameha Statue