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10 Ways To Fight The Corporatocracy
Archive for February, 2015
700th Hilo weekly peace vigil Feb. 20, 2015
Saturday, February 21st, 2015
Some of those participating in the 700th Hilo Peace vigil Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 from 3:30-5PM at the downtown Post office/Federal Building
Letter to the editor on rep. Clifton Tsuji
Friday, February 20th, 2015Letter: Shame on Rep. Clifton Tsuji
Shame on Rep. Clift Tsuji from Hawaii island for killing the bill for pesticide buffer zones around schools, HB1514. What kind of person won’t protect kids from pesticide poisoning? And it’s reported that as House Ag committee chair, he even cut off testimony from people who flew from neighbor islands to testify. How low can a politician go? Tsuji unfortunately has become a mascot for corporate special interests, even given the dubious distinction of Biotech legislator of the year. He should now be given the “poison award” by school children throughout Hawaii. As a former banker, now politician, Tsuji deserves to be publicly shamed and exposed as a legislator that acts against the common good, including children’s health and safety.
Jim Albertini
Please join the Feb. 20, 2015 Hilo Peace vigil — the 700th Consecutive Weekly Peace Vigil
Wednesday, February 18th, 2015Aloha peace ohana,
Come join the 700th consecutive weekly Hilo Peace Vigil. Weather permitting, we will have a solar charged sound system. I will bring my guitar to play a few peace songs and an open mic will be available to share thoughts. Mahalo and please pass the words to others.
Jim Albertini
700th Consecutive
Weekly Hilo Peace
Vigil
“Restraint Not Vengeance”
Friday, Feb. 20, 2015 marks the 700th consecutive weekly Hilo, Hawaii Peace Vigil held from 3:30-5PM at the downtown Post office/federal building sponsored by Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action based in Kurtistown. That’s over 13 years and counting. Each week a new peace leaflet is prepared and distributed widely in Hawaii, the U.S. and internationally, via email lists, Facebook, and the malu-aina.org website. Copies are emailed to county and state officials, the news media, and hundreds of additional copies are handed out on the Hilo street corner of Kinoole and Waianuenue Ave. Anyone can sign up at www.malu-aina.org to receive the weekly leaflet free and other information for peace, justice and aloha ‘aina to save the planet.
The Hilo Peace Vigil was initiated by Malu ‘Aina founder, Jim Albertini, and the late Zen Buddhist Roshi, Robert Aitken, on Sept. 12, 2001 as an effort to encourage “Restraint not Vengeance” in response to the 9-11 attacks. To quote from that first leaflet: “The purpose of today’s vigil is to offer prayers and thoughts for the victims and their families of yesterday’s attacks and to seek ways to end our world’s escalating cycles of violence. Violent retaliation will only escalate the cycle of violence that is making the whole world blind to our need to live together on this planet. This tragedy underscores the urgent need to embrace policies of international cooperation, a more just distribution of the world’s resources, and a direction that moves away from militarism and violence as methods of solving problems.”
Where are we today –700 weeks onward? Trillions of dollars have been spent on war and militarism and what have we bought? Is the world a safer place? In 700 weeks of war millions have been killed, injured, made orphans and refugees. The cradle of civilization in Iraq, and surrounding areas, have been heavily destroyed and contaminated with U.S. military toxins including depleted uranium, causing cancer and birth defects. The U.S. has bombed Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Libya and now Syria. After 13 years of war in the name of “freedom and democracy” the entire Middle East is in chaos and civil liberties in the U.S. have been eroded. The cycle of violence continues to escalate, from “Shock and Awe” to killer drones, targeted assassinations, beheadings, and U.S. Special Operations Forces conducting secret missions in more than 133 countries. Now President Obama is seeking expanded authorization for more endless wars against the Islamic State even though U.S. Middle East wars helped create the Islamic State. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article40943.htm
This much should be crystal clear. More war and spending 69 cents out of every U.S. tax dollar on militarism and a national security state are not the answer. www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/2657 The five core points that appear at the bottom of each week’s peace leaflet may help guide us in a more positive direction. Our key task is to stop the violence: stop the U.S. from continuing to treat Hawaii and the entire world as occupied colonies; and prevent the destruction of civilization and planetary suicide by nuclear war or human induced climate disaster. http://tinyurl.com/pgdk264 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article41002.htm Imagine a better world and with every breath of our beings never give up in a non-violent struggle to make it a reality.
Never, Ever, Give Up!
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.
Contact: Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622. Email: ja@malu-aina.org http://www.malu-aina.org/
Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Feb. 20, 2015 – 700th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office
Effects of US – Russia Nuclear Exchange
Monday, February 16th, 2015Effects of US – Russia Nuclear Exchange
SHERWOOD ROSS ASSOCIATES
Public Relations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
U.S. AND RUSSIAN, NUCLEAR EXCHANGE
WOULD DESTROY HUMAN RACE, STARR SAYS
“Russian and U.S. launch-ready nuclear weapons are a self-destruct mechanism for the human race,” a conference of authorities on the subject convening in New York City will be told.
“A nuclear war fought with strategic nuclear weapons would leave the earth uninhabitable for humans and most animals.” says Steven Starr, an Associate of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and a Senior Scientist of Physicians for Social Responsibility.
Starr will deliver his talk Feb. 28 on the opening day of a 2-day conference about “The Dynamics of Possible Nuclear Extinction” convened at The New York Academy of Medicine under the auspices of The Helen Caldicott Foundation For a Nuclear Free Future.
“A single, standard size Russian strategic nuclear weapon, detonated above New York City, would ignite a fire storm covering about 100 square miles. Virtually no one in the fire zone would survive.”
Nuclear firestorms created by war fought with thousands of strategic nuclear weapons would produce millions of tons of smoke, which would rise above cloud level to form a global stratospheric smoke layer. Starr summarizes the findings of scientific studies, which predict that the smoke would block most sunlight from reaching the surface of the earth for more than a decade. This would rapidly create Ice Age weather conditions, causing temperatures in the central US and Eurasia to fall below freezing every day for one to three years.
The resulting global nuclear famine would likely kill most humans from starvation. When all the long-term environmental consequences of nuclear war are considered, Starr says it becomes clear that a war fought with strategic nuclear weapons would result in a mass extinction event, similar to the one that wiped out the dinosaurs and 75% of all species of life on earth.
However, the existential threat posed by strategic nuclear war has not been publicly acknowledged or discussed by the leaders of the nuclear weapon states. The US and Russia continue to conduct large scale nuclear war games, which Starr says amounts to “a dress rehearsal for Armageddon.”
“A nuclear war fought with the strategic nuclear weapons of the US and Russia will end human history. Yet this ultimate danger is not even recognized by those people who have the power to launch nuclear weapons. If they push the button, they can literally destroy the human race. Isn’t it time for our leaders to recognize that nuclear war represents suicide for our species?
Dr. Caldicott is an Australian physician, author, and anti-nuclear advocate who has founded several associations dedicated to opposing the use of nuclear power, depleted uranium munitions, and nuclear weapons. She has been awarded 21 honorary doctoral degrees and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling.
According to Dr. Caldicott: “As the Cold War heats up again, the U.S. and Russia each maintain over one thousand nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert to be launched with a press of a button, increasing the risk of a global conflagration.”
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