Malu 'Aina

Comments on Dec. 12, 2012 NRC meeting with the Army in Maryland from 10AM-1PM Hawaii time. The
public could listen in and make comments/ask questions at the end of the
meeting.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) will be issuing a license for
the mongoose to guard the hen house in Hawaii.  The Army will be issued
an NRC license to possess Depleted uranium (DU) in Hawaii at Schofield
Barracks and the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA).  In effect, the NRC is
licensing Hawaii nuclear waste dumps and allowing those dumps to be
bombed, spreading the nuclear dump debris wherever the wind takes it.
The State Dept. of Health made no comment, nor did it ask any questions,
following the meeting.  It is a fact that DU exists at Schofield
Barracks and PTA, and perhaps other present and former military sites in
Hawaii, including Kaho’olawe and Makua Valley.  How much is not known.
A minimum of 700, perhaps more than 2000, DU Davy Crockett spotting
rounds have been fired at Pohakuloa.  Less than 1% of PTA’s
133,000-acres have been surveyed. DU cluster bombs, and more than a
dozen DU penetrating rounds, DU bunker busters, etc. may also have been
fired at PTA and elsewhere. All branches of the US military use DU
weapons today.  It’s clear to me that we cannot rely on so called
regulators to fix the problem. Nuclear regulators are just as much part
of the problem as bank regulators. The DOH is also part of the problem.
Where have our health officials been all these years on the issue. The
military in Hawaii has lied and use deception repeatedly.  The US
military mission goes before concern for the health and safety of its
own troops and Hawaii’s people and land. Uranium is now showing up in
Big Island residents’ urine.  Is it related to PTA, Fukushima or what?
The people have a right to know.  Is the military above the law?  What’s
needed is a peoples’ movement of non-violent resistance to stop the
bombing to protect the people and land of Hawaii against attacks by the
U.S. military.

Jim Albertini Malu ‘Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action P.O.
Box AB Ola’a (Kurtistown) Hawai’i 96760 Phone 808-966-7622 Email
ja@malu-aina.org  www.malu-aina.org

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Be sure to check out the You Tube video about DU in

Hawaii that has gone global.

http://enenews.com/report-doctors-hawaii-finding-uranium-patients-urine-video

2012 Christmas

Appeal

Dear friends,                                                                                     December 2012

      Christmas, with its message of “peace on earth,” is a special time of year to reconnect with family, friends, and what’s really important in life. I want to express my gratitude and ask for your continued support of Malu ‘Aina’s work for justice, peace, and aloha ‘aina (love for the land).

      Malu ‘Aina has been planting seeds and sharing food with people in need, the least among us, for 32 years. Oh how I wish we were seeing less need and more justice, but that is not the case. The number of people in poverty continues to increase and the gap widens between rich and poor, those doing very well and those with diminishing hope of a better life.

      Malu ‘Aina also is now in its 585^thconsecutive week of sponsoring a Friday peace vigil at the downtown Hilo Post Office/Federal Building. Each week a new peace leaflet is prepared for worldwide distribution on the internet and on the downtown street corner. 585 weeks is more than 11 years of widening war and trillions of dollars spent for death and destruction. There seems to always be enough money for new weapon systems and wars, but never enough money for building a more just world, meeting basic human needs and caring for the earth.

      Together, we want to see a change in priorities, a world where we fight less and talk more; where love and kindness, not violence, is affirmed as the law of our being; where everyone has the basic necessities of life; where “justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream;” and where we treat the earth, our mother, with the respect she deserves.

      In this Holy season, and the year around, we are truly blessed by the gifts of your solidarity – your peace, good will, aloha, and financial help.  Thank you for the sharing of your lives. Together, we help each other keep the faith and never give up the promise of peace for future generations.

With gratitude and aloha,

Jim Albertini for Malu ‘Aina

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Group Prods Dept. of Health to Act

on Military Radiation at Pohakuloa

     A group of 2 dozen Big island residents, many wearing Hazmat type suits, dramatically urged the State Health     Department (DOH) to stop being bystanders and become pro-active advocates of public health over the issue of Military Depleted Uranium (DU) radiation contamination at the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA). In a protest organized by Malu ‘Aina at the Hilo DOH Environmental Health Office, citizens prodded the DOH to follow the Hawaii County Council’s action call in Resolution 639-08 to stop all live-fire and other activities that create dust until there is a clean up of the uranium contamination at PTA. There were several signs with the well known radiation symbol. Other signs read “Test For Radiation; Why Uranium in Urine?; No More Radiation; Peace thru Poison?, Time to Aloha ‘Aina; Time to Mother Earth; DU equals Dirty Bomb, Sacred Mountains under Siege.” There was even the appearance of a well known Hilo resident, playing the role of Governor Neil Abercrombie.

      Jim Albertini, of Malu ‘Aina said “DOH action is needed to investigate what’s causing uranium showing up in Big island resident’s urine. Is it uranium weapons that have been fired at PTA or something else? Three MDs and a Naturopathic doctor have patients who have tested high for uranium in urine, including levels exceeding three times the upper expected limit.” Albertini said, “it’s likely that far more uranium weapons have been used at PTA than the 700 hundred or two thousand Davy Crockett DU spotting rounds from the 1960s. Comprehensive independent testing and monitoring is needed to determine the full extent of radiation contamination at PTA and other sites throughout Hawaii. The DOH should be offering free uranium urine tests for Big Island residents, especially people who work at PTA, or travel the Saddle Rd..”

     On Wednesday, Dec. 12th, there is a meeting between the Army and the U.S. Nuclear regulatory Commission (NRC) in Maryland (why not Hawaii) to discuss a possible license for the Army to possess DU in Hawaii. The meeting is from 10AM till 1PM Hawaii time. Citizens can call in toll-free at (877) 521-2306, pass code 8766359. Public questions will be taken at the end of the meeting. The DOH should be speaking out for public health and safety concerns at that meeting.

Is Uranium in Your Body?

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.
5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622.  Emailja@malu-aina.org   http://www.malu-aina.org
Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Dec. 7, 2012 – 585th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

Geothermal update 12/5/12……..Just a quick update…….

You did it!!! Bill 292 that bans drilling from 7pm to 7am is now the law…..

Bill 292 the geothermal nighttime drilling ban is now law…..Not sure if the mayor signed it or let it become law without his signature but we hear from staff that it will pass…..Congratulations Puna and to the hundreds of people that turned out….Grass roots activism can work when we work together….Mahalo to the many people that helped us, the hundreds that came to the meetings, and or wrote and called the mayor, it made the difference………Please do call the mayor again or e-mail him and thank him for listening….

Dominic Yagong, who introduced the bill for us, called me to tell me Suzanne Wakelin was the one person more than any other, that helped him decide the council had to do this because no one else was going to do it…..It shows one person “can” make a difference…..Mahalo Suzzane and Dominic Yagong…

Also please remember to thank Brenda Ford, Brittney Smart, Angel Pilago, and Pete Hoffman, all of who really listened to and supported Puna. I have to say even Fred Blas and Jay Yoshimoto voted for 292. Mahalo to them all for putting the welfare, health, and safety, of the surrounding community before the profits of geothermal…

Of course this is not the end of the “big project” or their industrial plans, not yet, but it is a significant win for us “the community” – good job.

Puna Pono Alliance will be back tomorrow at the windward planning commission at 1:30pm fighting for the health study, if anyone wants to show up, that meeting will be in the Aupuni Center building, in the conference room on the Hamakua end of the building at the corner of Aupuni st and Pauahi Street, in Hilo

….I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday……..Thank you all…..

The meeting at the Akebono was awesome, I can not tell you how much I love living in Puna. It really is a very special place that is worth fighting for. It is amazing to see the community coming together and taking control of “our” future…..

Bob