With the need to protect our ocean life, particularly coral reefs, growing ever more urgent, East Hawaii residents are urged to attend the February 4, 2014 workshop on Citizens Climate Lobby’s solution to climate change – putting a fee on carbon pollution and then returning all collected revenue to US households on an equal basis. Sierra Club is a co-sponsor of this event.
Lynate Pettengill (at left), Director of Field Development with Citizens Climate Lobby (CCL) from Lawrence, KS, will lead the two-hour workshop.
“The personal actions we take to address climate change are important, but to deal effectively with this huge challenge, we must have a legislative solution. And if we want Congress to address climate change, then they have to hear from us,” said Pettengill. The workshop in Keaau is designed to give volunteers the tools they need to be effective advocates.
Citizens Climate Lobby is a grassroots advocacy organization, with 152 chapters across the U.S. and Canada, Sweden and Bangladesh. CCL is dedicated to generating the political will for effective national policies to address climate change. The group is working to build support for a carbon tax that returns revenue to households, creating a market-based incentive to transition from fossil fuels to clean energy which also protects the poor and middle class.
In 2013, CCL volunteers held 709 meetings with congressional offices and generated 1,643 media pieces – 1,265 letters to the editor, 248 op-eds, and 130 interviews.
WHAT: Workshop on Citizens Climate Lobby’s solution to address climate change.
WHO: Lynate Pettengill, Director of Field Development with Citizens Climate Lobby.
WHEN: Tuesday, February 4, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: Keaau Community Center, 16-192 Pili Mua St, Keaau, HI
WHY: To protect our State’s coral reefs, beaches, fish populations and oceans for generations to come.
There will be an open meeting to discuss strategy concerning the military Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) in the center of Moku O Keawe — Hawaii island.
Date: Saturday, Jan. 25th
Time 1Pm -4PM
Place: Keaukaha Elementary School Cafeteria
Grassroots activists from the movement that Stopped the Bombing on Kaho’olawe will lead a discussion on Lessons Learned: pros and cons from the Kaho’olawe movement and how things might be applied to Pohakuloa.
Come and bring your concerns about Pohakuloa. Please pass the word to others. Mahalo.
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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.orgwww.malu-aina.org —
We must act NOW to stop the Hawaii Monsanto Protection Act! Companion bills introduced today show expected attempts to stop the Counties from protecting their citizens life, health, property and preservation through pesticide and genetic engineering regulation!
The Hawai’i Revised Statutes/HRS – states the Counties SHALL protect life and health and if these agricultural practices are affecting our life, health, property and preservation, we have the right to pass bills like 2491 on Kauai for buffer zones and pesticide disclosure, 113 for GMO prohibition on Hawaii island, and the upcoming Maui bill on January 28th!
The chemical industry is again using the Hawaii state legislature to attempt to usurp home rule and necessary regulations for each island condition regarding GMOs and pesticides. Abhorrent.
Write and call your legislators TODAY and tell them what you think. This is absolutely unacceptable and these bills must be stopped immediately. ASAP and BE THERE at the Capitol on the 29th at 10:30AM at the latest for the People Not Profits rally.
*Look up your legislators after you read the House and Senate versions and see if your legislator introduced it.
*We suggest emailing your Senator and Representative together if they both were introducers and CC’ing reps@capitol.hawaii.gov and sens@capitol.hawaii.gov or sending a letter to your politicians and sending also letters to the entire House and Senate.
Be professional and let them know you are a voter in which district and will not stand for the pre-emption of home rule and the Hawaii Monsanto Protection Acts. Look up if needed
at: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
*Go down to their offices and/or talk to them or mail them letters.
*Call them.
*Find their FB and twitter accounts and tell everyone in your area to do the same.
*Share this information with everyone you know who loves Hawaii and invite them to help!
This is abominable. The counties have the rights to protect themselves and the state regulation is a floor, not a ceiling. Defend home rule, defend Hawaii.
*Non-residents, defend Hawaii and email the reps and sens email addresses above and let them know if you will not spend money traveling to Hawaii if they do not stop these bills and allow the Hawai’i Counties to protect themselves
We must act NOW to stop the Hawaii Monsanto Protection Act! Companion bills introduced today show expected attempts to stop the Counties from protecting their citizens life, health, property and preservation through pesticide and genetic engineering regulation!
The Hawai’i Revised Statutes/HRS – states the Counties SHALL protect life and health and if these agricultural practices are affecting our life, health, property and preservation, we have the right to pass bills like 2491 on Kauai for buffer zones and pesticide disclosure, 113 for GMO prohibition on Hawaii island, and the upcoming Maui bill on January 28th!
The chemical industry is again using the Hawaii state legislature to attempt to usurp home rule and necessary regulations for each island condition regarding GMOs and pesticides. Abhorrent.
Write and call your legislators TODAY and tell them what you think. This is absolutely unacceptable and these bills must be stopped immediately. ASAP and BE THERE at the Capitol on the 29th at 10:30AM at the latest for the People Not Profits rally.
*Look up your legislators after you read the House and Senate versions and see if your legislator introduced it.
*We suggest emailing your Senator and Representative together if they both were introducers and CC’ing reps@capitol.hawaii.gov and sens@capitol.hawaii.gov or sending a letter to your politicians and sending also letters to the entire House and Senate.
Be professional and let them know you are a voter in which district and will not stand for the pre-emption of home rule and the Hawaii Monsanto Protection Acts. Look up if needed
at: www.capitol.hawaii.gov
*Go down to their offices and/or talk to them or mail them letters.
*Call them.
*Find their FB and twitter accounts and tell everyone in your area to do the same.
*Share this information with everyone you know who loves Hawaii and invite them to help!
This is abominable. The counties have the rights to protect themselves and the state regulation is a floor, not a ceiling. Defend home rule, defend Hawaii.
*Non-residents, defend Hawaii and email the reps and sens email addresses above and let them know if you will not spend money traveling to Hawaii if they do not stop these bills and allow the Hawai’i Counties to protect themselves
Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement
WEALTH DIVIDE KILLS
On Martin Luther King’s birthday, OxFam released a report detailing the shocking economic inequality in America and around the world. Most strikingly, the richest 85 people own as much wealth as the poorest 50% of the world’s population — that’s 3.5 billion people. Among the other findings in the report:
1. Half of the world’s wealth is owned by 1% of the population. 2. The top one percent has 65 times the wealth of the bottom half. 3. Since the late 1970s, tax rates for the richest have fallen in 29 of the 30 counties for which data is available.This means the wealthy are not only making more but paying a smaller percentage in taxes.4. Global corporations routinely use their clout to avoid paying taxes in Africa, where poverty is most acute. 5. In the U.S. the top 1% captured 95% of the growth after the 2009 financial crisis.The bottom 90% actually became poorer. You can read the full report here.
Peace Demands
Economic Justice!
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 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown), Hawai`i 96760. Phone (808) 966-7622. Email ja@malu-aina.orghttp://www.malu-aina.org
Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (January 24, 2014 – 644th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office
