Hector Valenzuela is a wonderful person and professor who cares about aloha aina.  Please read this article and pass it on.  Mahalo.  Jim Albertini

The Silencing of Hector Valenzuela

Paul Koberstein and Eliza Murphy, Cascadia Times: As the University of Hawai’i was cozying up to GMO giant Monsanto, one of the school’s professors says that he was forced to tolerate a climate of “bigotry, retaliation and hostility” for speaking out about the potential risks of genetic engineering. The university disputes his charges.

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Important news story on legal issues with Haleakala and Mauna Kea telescopes

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/clip/11489989/opponents-claim-halfway-completed-telescope-on-haleakala-was-rammed-through-by-state-leaders

https://sacredmaunakea.wordpress.com/2015/05/14/944/

Confronting the haole attitude

towards aloha ‘āina

PEACE NOT WAR!

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children…

“Now, there could be another road before us—the road of disarmament. What does this mean? It means for everybody in the world: bread, butter, clothes, homes, hospitals, schools—all the good and necessary things for decent living. …”

former U.S. President and General Dwight David Eisenhower

www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2011/09/

Instead, there is a call to update the U.S. triad of nuclear-armed bomber aircraft, submarines and ground-based missiles costing $1 trillion over the next 30 years.

http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/analysts-1-trillion-us-nuclear-weapons-plan-too-costly-implement/

Stop the Wars! Stop Bombing Pohakuloa!

Feed the People not the War Machine!

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 (May 15, 2015 – 712th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

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