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Where Do YOU Stand? Sept. 13, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet

Tuesday, September 10th, 2024

Where Do YOU Stand?

for Peace, Justice, and Aloha ‘Aina

     Hawaii is one of the most militarized places on the planet. It’s election season and few candidates are talking about the Elephant in the center of Hawaii Island – the massive 133,000-acre Pohakuloa Toxic Area (PTA). Pohakuloa has been bombed and shelled for more than 80 years, Millions of live rounds, from a wide variety of weapon systems, are fired annually at PTA. Many of the weapons fired at PTA contain toxins such as lead, Depleted Uranium (DU) radiation, perchlorate, etc. Bombing and shelling in the dry, high-wind Saddle Area have started over 900 fires in the past 50 years. Military toxins can be resuspended and blow long distances in the wind and smoke.

     We all know that whatever you do mauka, eventually comes makai. We are all downhill and downwind from PTA. It’s time we demand candidates and elected officials speak out — Stop Bombing and Shut Down Pohakuloa, Cancel, don’t renew, the state military land lease at PTA, Make the military clean up its toxic mess, and return the land to the Hawaiian people. Shift the Trillion dollar US military budget to meet human needs – food, housing, education, healthcare, child & elder care, and addressing the global climate crisis. The US military is the largest consumer of oil and emitter of CO2 on the planet. No More Wars — in Gaza, in the wider Middle East, with Iran, with Russia, with China. Make the US Empire heel to a new multipolar world of civilized nations! There will be no winners in a nuclear war! Peace is a Victory for All.

     Remember Kaho’olawe! A grassroots Hawaiian movement stopped the bombing there more than 30 years ago. We need a similar movement now to Stop Bombing Pohakuloa!

Two Important short videos on Pohakuloa. Please share widely. Mahalo.

11 min video – How the US Army got to bomb Hawaii for $1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nsn4Sxy8r8

14 min video – Pohakuloa: Now that You Know, Do You Care?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5r10eRMjIRw

Speak Out Now!

Ask Election Candidates – County,

State, and Federal –

Where Do THEY stand?

(See reverse side – Join the Mayoral Forum sign holding on Sept.. 21st)

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

Sept. 13,, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1198Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

Today marks 23 full years of the Hilo weekly peace vigil with a new leaflet each week.

 

Hilo Yacht Club Mayoral

Forum!

Sponsored by the Big Island Press Club

Join the Peace Sign Holding Outside!

(on Kalanianaole just past Onekahakaha Beach Park)

Sat. Sept. 21st 10:30- Noon

Mayoral Candidates – Mitch Roth &

Kimo Alameda

Where Do YOU Stand?

What are you doing to prevent Pohakuloa from becoming our Big Island “Red Hill” toxic water disaster, our Lahaina firestorm from bombing and shelling in the dry, windy Saddle Area, and all of us on Hawaii Island from becoming nuclear (and other airborne toxic) downwinders?

Many Hawaii elected officials are ignorant about what’s happening at Pohakuloa. It’s an indictment of their responsibility, of our local news media, and military secrecy about what’s taking place in the center of our island. We need responsible action now!

 

Photo: $250,000 Javelin anti-tank missile fired at Pohakuloa while 40% of families on Hawaii Island (33% statewide) are food insecure. Millions of live rounds from a wide variety of weapon systems are fired annually at Pohakuloa.

Pohakuloa – A Land Besieged!”

Please read the excellent OHA Sept. 2024 Issue of Ka Wai Ola articles on Pohakuloa.

Pages 14-17 at the links below

https://kawaiola.news/cover/pohakuloa-a-land-besieged/

https://kawaiola.news/aina/the-army-and-pohakuloa/

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

Sept. 9 Peace Organizing meeting and Sept 21 Mayoral Forum sign holding to Stop Bombing Hawaii

Saturday, September 7th, 2024
Join the Peace organizing meeting on Monday, Sept. 9th from 6 – 8- PM at the Keaau Community Center. Meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the Month.
 
Also please mark your calendar and join the sign-holding to Stop Bombinhg Pohakuloa, etc. outside the Hawaii County Mayoral Forum on Sat. Sept. 21 from 10:30 AM till noon at the entrance to the Hilo Yacht Club on Kalanianaole just past Onekahakaha Beach Park. Please pass the word. Mahalo and solidarity. Jim Albertini.
 
Photo below: $250,000 Javelin missile being fired at Pohakuloa while 40% of families on Hawaii Island (33% statewide)are food insecure. Millions of live rounds are fired annually at Pohakuloa. Reorder priorities: FOOD NOT BOMBS!

Important Pohakuloa videos. Please share!

Thursday, September 5th, 2024
Two Important short videos on Pohakuloa. Please share widely. Mahalo.
11 min video How the US Army got to bomb Hawaii for $1
14 min video Pohakuloa: Now that You Know, Do You Care?
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

Hilo Mayoral Forum Peace Sign Holding

Thursday, September 5th, 2024

Hilo Yacht Club Mayoral Forum!

Sponsored by the Big Island Press Club

Join the Peace Sign Holding! Outside

(on Kalanianaole just past Onekahakaha Beach Park)

Sat. Sept. 21st 10:30- Noon

Sept. 21 is International Peace Day established by the UN in 1981

Mayoral Candidates – Mitch Roth & Kimo Alameda

Where Do YOU Stand?

What are you doing to prevent Pohakuloa from becoming our Big Island “Red Hill” toxic water disaster, our Lahaina firestorm from bombing and shelling in the dry windy Saddle Area, and all of us on Hawaii Island from becoming nuclear (and other airborne toxic) down winders?

Many Hawaii elected officials are ignorant about what’s happening at Pohakuloa. It’s an indictment of their responsibility, of our local news media, and military secrecy about what’s taking place in the center of our island.

Photo: $250,000 Javelin anti-tank missile fired at Pohakuloa while 40% of families on Hawaii Island (33% statewide) are food insecure. Millions of live rounds from a wide variety of weapon systems are fired annually at Pohakuloa.

Pohakuloa – A Land Besieged!”

Please read the excellent OHA Sept. 2024 Issue of Ka Wai Ola articles on Pohakuloa. Pages 14-17 at the links:

https://kawaiola.news/cover/pohakuloa-a-land-besieged/

https://kawaiola.news/aina/the-army-and-pohakuloa/

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

Pohakuloa — A Land Besieged!

Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024

Excellent OHA Sept. 2024

articles on “Pohakuloa –

A Land Besieged.”

Please read pages 14-17 at the links below

https://kawaiola.news/cover/pohakuloa-a-land-besieged/

https://kawaiola.news/aina/the-army-and-pohakuloa/

Photo of Wildfire started at Pohakuloa in Aug. 2022 that burned more than 17,000 acres, including more than 12,000 acres off PTA in endangered species habitat. The US military has admitted to starting 892 wildfires at Pohakuloa from military activities since 1975.

     I’m amazed at how ignorant many Hawaii elected officials are about what’s happening at Pohakuloa, a training ground for nuclear war.  Reminds me of Germans living around Auschwitz, a concentration and extermination camp, who were told it was a family camp. It’s an indictment of our officials and our local news media. It is a failure to look into what is going on, and military secrecy about what is taking place in the center of our island home.  We all need to take off the blinders. We need serious change. 

     Ask election candidates and officials hard questions: Pohakuloa has been bombed and shelled for more than 80 years with a wide variety of weapons and military toxins, including radiation weapons. Millions of live rounds are fired annually at PTA. What are you going to do to prevent Pohakuloa from becoming our Big Island’s “Red Hill” toxic water disaster, our Lahaina firestorm from bombing and shelling in the dry windy Saddle Area, and all of us on Hawaii Island from becoming nuclear (and other airborne) downwind victims of military toxins?

Please Speak Out! Mahalo. 

Join the sign holding Sat. Sept. 21st outside the Mayoral forum at the Hilo Yacht Club 10:30 -Noon just past Onekahakaha Beach Park. Ask Mitch Roth and Kimo Alameda –Where Do YOU Stand?

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

Sept. 6,, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1197Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office