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Dangerous Times

Tuesday, June 25th, 2024

Dangerous Times!

The Israel/US war in Gaza appears to be expanding north to Lebanon and perhaps beyond.

The US proxy war in Ukraine against Russia appears to be expanding to more direct NATO involvement and the possible use of nuclear weapons –WWIII, and the end of civilization as we know it.

The US keeps poking China in the South China Sea, risking a major war by accident or design.

The bottom line is that the US wants to remain the sole unchallenged Global Empire, and like all empires, overextend, and collapse.

https://popularresistance.org/its-the-end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it/

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/06/21/chris-hedges-the-impending-collapse-of-us-empire/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=41ebcb18-c0a0-4f68-8b59-7978b572792e

https://thebulletin.org/2024/06/beijing-is-unavailable-to-take-your-call-why-the-us-china-crisis-hotline-doesnt-work/?

Non-violent activism is urgently needed NOW for Peace and a Livable Planet!

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RIMPAC 2024

RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific) are war games held every 2 years (June 26 to Aug. 2) that have expanded to include 29 nations, including NATO countries and Israel. These so-called “Games” sink ships, harm marine life, involve beach assault landings, and bombing and shelling at Pohakuloa in the center of Hawaii Island. RIMPAC involves human trafficking with 25,000 troops entering tourist areas.

Big Island RIMPAC Protests are planned for Saturday, July 6 from 10 AM till Noon at the Pohakuloa Main Gate. (Car pools leave Hilo from Komohana and Saddle Rd at 9 AM). A Hilo RIMPAC protest is planned for Saturday, July 20 from 10 AM till Noon fronting the Kamehameha Statue on Hilo Bayfront. Please pass the word! Mahalo. Canceling RIMPAC will be a peace victory for all!

See the 1 minute RIMPAC 2024 Official Trailor video https://www.cpf.navy.mil/rimpac/

          Pacific Organizations Calling For End To RIMPAC
      https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2024/06/24/pacific-
              organizations-calling-for-end-torimpac/

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Julian Assange, Wikileaks Founder, is Finally Free!

Julian Assange, Wikileaks founder, and Australian citizen is finally free after more than 14 years of restrictions and imprisonment for exposing US & British war crimes in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. The late US whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who released “The Pentagon Papers” on the hidden history of the US war in Vietnam said that the U.S. effort to prosecute Julian Assange under the Espionage Act was a threat to journalism everywhere. Press freedom, journalistic integrity, and whistleblower protections are central to First Amendment Free Speech rights. Exposing US war crimes should not be a crime. Mahalo Julian and all those who stood up for him!

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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June 28, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1187 – Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

REMINDER: Peace organizing meeting Monday. June 24th 6-8 PM in Kea’au

Sunday, June 23rd, 2024

REMINDER!

Hilo Protest Sat. June 22nd from 10 AM till Noon on Kamehameha Ave. near the Hilo Farmers Market to Cancel RIMPAC and Stop the Genocide in Gaza!

Friday, June 21st, 2024

Cancel RIMPAC Now & Forever!  End the Genocide in Gaza!

Hilo Protest Sat. June 22nd from 10 AM till Noon on Kamehameha Ave. near the Hilo Farmers Market to Cancel RIMPAC and Stop the Genocide in Gaza!

Please come and pass the word.  Two additional RIMPAC protests are planned.  Saturday, July 6 from 10 AM till Noon at the Pohakuloa Main Gate, Saturday, July 20 from 10 AM till Noon fronting the Kamehameha Statue on Hilo Bayfront. Please pass the word! Mahalo.

There will be a Peace Organizing Meeting: Monday, June 24th from 6-8PM at the Kea’au Community Center, located behind the Kea’au Police Station and Health Clinic. Topics for discussion include upcoming RIMPAC protests, and stop the US/Israel Genocide in Gaza, monitoring for Depleted Uranium Radiation, lead, etc. coming off Pohakuloa, etc. Please pass the word and bring concerns for discussion. Meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month. Mahalo. For more info see www,malu-aina.org

Cancel RIMPAC War Games 

NOW & FOREVER! 

RIMPAC 2024 includes Israel

 Send the message below To: All Hawai’i Federal, State, and County officials – 

Speak Out Now! 

See https://malu-aina.org/?p=10186 for email addresses


 

     RIMPAC (Rim of the Pacific) is the worldʻs largest international maritime exercise, held biannually since the early 1970s. Approximately 29 nations, 40 surface ships, 3 submarines, 14 national land forces, over 150 aircraft and more than 25,000 personnel will participate in the RIMPAC 2024 exercise scheduled June 26 to Aug. 2, in and around the Hawaiian Islands. bigislandnow.com

     Forces from Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Peru, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tonga, the United Kingdom and the United States will participate in RIMPAC 2024.

     Specific military details for RIMPAC 2024 have not been released, but RIMPAC usually involves 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 the Pohakuloa Training Area on Hawaii Island and possibly other areas, as well as human trafficking with military troops entering tourist areas.

 

Canceling the RIMPAC War Games Now & Forever will be a Peace Victory for All!

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If RIMPAC goes forward, extensive protests are planned. Presently protests are scheduled for Saturday, June 22 from 10 AM till Noon in Hilo on Kamehameha Ave near the Mo’oheau Bandstand, Saturday, July 6 from 10 AM till Noon at the Pohakuloa Main Gate, Saturday, July 20 from 10 AM till Noon fronting the Kamehameha Statue on Hilo Bayfront. Please pass 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 Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org

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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

Only One Spot Of Drought On Hawaiʻi Island Map — Guess where? 

Monday, June 17th, 2024

Only One Spot of Drought On Hawai’i Island Map  — Guess Where? (See below)

The Big island Drought spot on the map below includes the 132,000 plus Military live-fire Pohakuloa Toxic Area (PTA). According to the military’s own Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) in its attempt to renew the lease of 23,000 acres of State “CONSERVATION ZONE LAND — the highest protected land status —

“Military activity at PTA has started 892 wildfires since 1975.”

 (link to the Pohakuloa EIS is here — https://home.army.mil/hawaii/ptaeis/project-home

Pohakuloa is a Lahaina firestorm in the making for Hawaii Island and the danger is increasing with climate change. The military says “many fire records prior to 2012 have been lost.” (p. 354) One year before the Lahaina fire, a fire started at PTA burned more than 17,700 acres, including more than 12,400 acres outside of PTA , destroying endangered native species. PTA has the highest concentration of endangered species of any US Army installation in the world.

It doesn’t take a genius to say STOP ALL BOMBING AND SHELLING. Shut down and clean up the toxic mess at PTA and restore and return the land to the Kanaka Maoli people.  It’s a no brainer!  NO NEW LEASE, LAND SWAP, ETC.

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 Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org

  Learn more: Read the PTA Environmental Impact Statement here https://home.army.mil/hawaii/ptaeis/project-home to submit comments in writing by mail, email. Deadline is June 7, 2024.  For more detailed testimony by Jim Albertini on the Pohakuloa EIS see https://malu-aina.org/?p=10069 Also See the 11-minute video — How the Army Got to Bomb Hawaii For $1  https://youtu.be/-nsn4Sxy8r8 Pohakuloa 14 min. video “Now that you Know, Do You Care?” https://vimeo.com/94598875 Also the video of Dr. Lorrin Pang, M.D., public health officer, retired 24 years in the Army Medical Corps, and listed in the Who’s Who (top 3%) of America’s Best Doctors explaining the health dangers of inhaling DU oxide dust particles https://vimeo.com/19153948. Also read – A Brief History Of US Military Poisoning Of Hawai’i – PopularResistance.Org

Only One Spot Of Drought On Hawaiʻi Island Map
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Thomas Merton Prayer for Peace

Sunday, June 16th, 2024