Fukushima

Radiation

Release!

•  Bad as the situation is at Fukushima, it’s gotten worse. The current radiation being released into the environment are the highest radiation levels measured at Fukushima since March 2011, when an earthquake-triggered tsunami destroyed the plant’s four nuclear reactors, three of which melted down.

•  On July 10, 2013 Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) issued a statement saying the radioactive water is going into the Pacific.

•  By official measurement, the water coming out of Fukushima is currently 90,000 times more radioactive than officially “safe” drinking water.

•  For more information see http://www.nationofchange.org/fukushima-spiking-1373728437

When Will the World Respond to this

Global Emergency?

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.  Email ja@malu-aina.org   http://www.malu-aina.org

Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (July 19, 2013– 617th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

Col. (Ret.) Ann Wright

Speaking Sunday, July 14^th

7 PM at the Kea’au Community Center

(located behind the Kea’au Police station and Kea’au Family Clinic)

Ann will speak about her recent visit to Yemen and Yemen-Victims of Drones and 56 Yemenis cleared for release from Guantanamo years ago but still held by the US and also about being at the Nobel Women’s Peace conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Ann is a well-known and outspoken citizen activist with extensive experience standing up for peace, human rights and the rights of war resisters and other veterans and government whistle-blowers.

This free presentation will be followed by Q&A and the public is invited.

More background about our speaker: Ann Wright holds a Master’s and a law degree from the Universityof Arkansasand a master’s degree in national security affairs from the U.S. Naval War College.   She spent 13 years in the U.S. Army and 16 additional years in the Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel.

In 1987, Col. Ann Wright joined the Foreign Service and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received the State Department’s Award for Heroism for her actions during the evacuation of 2,500 people from the civil war in Sierra Leone, the largest evacuation since Saigon. She was on the first State Department team to go into Afghanistan and reopen the Embassy there in December 2001. Her other overseas assignments include Mongolia, Somalia, Kyrgyzstan, Grenada, Micronesia, and Nicaragua.

On March 19, 2003, the eve of the U.S.invasion of Iraq, Ann Wright cabled a letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell, stating that without the authorization of the UN Security Council, the invasion and occupation of a Muslim, Arab, oil-rich country would be a disaster. Since then, she has been writing and speaking out for peace. and has been arrested numerous times for peaceful, nonviolent protest.  Ann’s home is in Honolulu. She is the co-author of the book “Dissent: Voices of Conscience”  (www.voicesofconscience.com).

End All the Wars!  Ground the Drones!

Close Guantanamo! Dismantle the Surveillance State!

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.  Email ja@malu-aina.org   http://www.malu-aina.org

Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (July 12, 2013– 616th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

Col. (Ret.) Ann

Wright

to speak in Keaau on Sunday, July 14^th

7-9 PM at the Keaau Community Center

(located behind the Keaau Police station and Keaau Family Clinic)

Ann will speak about her recent visit to Yemen and Yemen-Victims of Drones and 56 Yemenis cleared for release from Guantanamo years ago but still held by the US and also about being at the Nobel Women’s Peace conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Ann is a well-known and outspoken citizen activist with extensive experience standing up for peace, human rights and the rights of war resisters and other veterans and government whistle-blowers.

This free presentation will be followed by Q&A and the public is invited.Sponsored by Malu ‘Aina

   More background about our speaker:    Ann Wright holds a Master’s and a law degree from the Universityof Arkansasand a master’s degree in national security affairs from the U.S. Naval War College.   She spent  13  years in the U.S. Army and 16  additional years in the Army Reserves, retiring as a Colonel.

In 1987, Col. Ann Wright joined the Foreign Service and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received the State Department’s Award for Heroism for her actions during the evacuation of 2,500 people from the civil war in Sierra Leone, the largest evacuation since Saigon. She was on the first State Department team to go into Afghanistan and reopen the Embassy there in December 2001. Her other overseas assignments include Mongolia, Somalia, Kyrgyzstan, Grenada, Micronesia, and Nicaragua.

After her distinguished 16 years in the Foreign Service, on March 19, 2003, the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Ann Wright cabled a letter of resignation to Secretary of State Colin Powell, stating that without the authorization of the UN Security Council, the invasion and occupation of a Muslim, Arab, oil-rich country would be a disaster.

Since then, she has been writing and speaking out for peace. She fasted for a month, picketed at Guantánamo, served as a juror in impeachment hearings, and has been arrested numerous times for peaceful, nonviolent protest.  She is an activist for peace and human rights who participated in the Gaza Freedom March and the the Gaza aid flotillas of 2010, 2011 and 2012.

Ann’s home is in Honolulu. She is the co-author of the book “Dissent: Voices of Conscience”  (www.voicesofconscience.com).

Contact: Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622 Emai ja@malu-aina.orghttp://www.malu-aina.org

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U.S. Acting like Global Pirate & Bully!

The U.S. pressuring European countries –France, Italy, Spain and Portugal to deny the President of Bolivia, Evo Morales’ plane to fly through their airspace on his return to Bolivia is an international outrage, and a violation of international law.  The U.S. had the suspicion that NSA whistleblower, Edward Snowden, may be on the plane which proved false.  Morales’ plane was forced to land in Vienna, Austria  for refueling before the transatlantic flight back to Bolivia.

The U.S. needs to be reminded that the world is NOT a U.S. colony.  Latin American leaders are rightly outraged by U.S. lawlessness and disrespect for other countries national sovereignty.  This latest incident is a further slap in the face to the region by the U.S. , a region that has suffered through many U.S. backed coups throughout the last century.

In a related matter, President Obama threatened to cut off preferential tariffs to Ecuador  because Ecuador is considering granting a request for asylum to  whistleblower Edward Snowden  After saying that Ecuador rejected the threat, the Ecuadorian Government offered the US $23 million for “Human Rights Training”, to help the US avoid torture, extra-judicial killings and other acts that denigrate humanity.

   Photo from today’s Hilo peace vigil

Statement by NSA Whistleblower

Edward Snowden

Snowden revealed massive phone and internet spying on U.S. citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the U.S. Government

      One week ago I left Hong Kong after it became clear that my freedom and safety were under threat for revealing the truth. My continued liberty has been owed to the efforts of friends new and old, family, and others who I have never met and probably never will. I trusted them with my life and they returned that trust with a faith in me for which I will always be thankful.

On Thursday, President Obama declared before the world that he would not permit any diplomatic “wheeling and dealing” over my case. Yet now it is being reported that after promising not to do so, the President ordered his Vice President to pressure the leaders of nations from which I have requested protection to deny my asylum petitions.

This kind of deception from a world leader is not justice, and neither is the extralegal penalty of exile. These are the old, bad tools of political aggression. Their purpose is to frighten, not me, but those who would come after me.

For decades the United States of America has been one of the strongest defenders of the human right to seek asylum. Sadly, this right, laid out and voted for by the U.S. in Article 14 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is now being rejected by the current government of my country. The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon. Although I am convicted of nothing, it has unilaterally revoked my passport, leaving me a stateless person. Without any judicial order, the administration now seeks to stop me exercising a basic right. A right that belongs to everybody. The right to seek asylum.

In the end the Obama administration is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public demanding the constitutional government it was promised — and it should be.

I am unbowed in my convictions and impressed at the efforts taken by so many.

 Statement By Edward Snowden on 1 July 2013 in WikiLeaks – 

(http://wikileaks.org/Statement-from-Edward-Snowden-in.html) 

No Arms to Rebels or Bombing of Syria!

End All the Wars!  Dismantle the

Surveillance State!

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 (July 5, 2013– 615th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office