Stop the Wars!

Save Lives at Home & Abroad!

The U.S. has been waging endless wars in seven countries resulting in an estimated 4 million Muslim deaths in the Middle East and Northern Africa, not to mention widespread chaos in the region, and millions of refugees fleeing to Europe and beyond.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/columns/unworthy-victims-western-wars-have-killed-four-million-muslims-1990-39149394

In the Vietnam war, more than 58,000 Americans were killed in combat and estimates say 3-4 million Vietnamese were killed, two-thirds of which were civilians.

http://thevietnamwar.info/how-many-people-died-in-the-vietnam-war/

As many as 200,000 U.S. Vietnam veterans have committed suicide, more than three times the number that died in combat.

http://www.suicidewall.com/suicide-statistics/

Overall, 22 U.S. veterans commit suicide every single day.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/21/us/22-veteran-suicides-a-day/

Recent studies have suggested that those who served in recent conflicts are 30 percent to 200 percent more likely to commit suicide than their ­non-veteran peers.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/va-study-finds-more-veterans-committing-suicide/2013/01/31/1092b330-5a68-11e2-9fa9-5fbdc9530eb9_story.html

Help Heal the Wounds of War!

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

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Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Oct. 2, 2015 – 732nd week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

There will be a free forum at UH Hilo on Thursday, Oct. 1st 7PM  in UCB 100 on the topic “What is Democratic Socialism?”  Is it a solution for America’s declining Middle Class?  Is it a solution for the global crisis of capitalism?  Panelists will include: Jerry Calton, Danny Li, Randal Mcendree, and Noelie Rodriguez
UCB is located just inside the main entrance to UHH from Kawili St. and parking is free.

They Kill the Prophets!

I would not be surprised in the least if the CIA and other U.S. vested interests involved in the Kennedy and King assassinations also assassinated Pope Francis.  In their view he is the most dangerous man on the planet — standing for peace, justice and the environment — condemning capitalism, the arms industries, wars, and calling for justice for the poor and strong action to prevent climate disaster.  The capitalists of empire, including the arms makers, oil companies, and their fellow warmakers hate this guy.  Watch out for some patsy, and the phony claim of a Cuban, Muslim, etc. “lone assassin.”I pray that I am wrong but history tends to repeat itself.  They kill the prophets!

JimAlbertini

CAMPAIGN

NONVIOLENCE

Building a Culture of Peace

Free From

WAR, POVERTY, & ENVIRONMENTAL DESTRUCTION

      During his US visit this week, Pope Francis has been challenging us to end the violence of poverty, war, and environmental destruction. Many of us, as part of Campaign Nonviolence, have been taking this same message to Washington DC and to the streets of every state. Our Hilo Peace Vigil is a vital link in a chain of more than 350 actions which have been speaking out against additional forms of violence—racism, gun killings, nuclear weapons, executions, police brutality, and mass incarceration. In Hawaii alone, there are more than a half-dozen events on four islands connected to the campaign.

      Gandhi called nonviolence “the greatest and most active force in the world … a force superior to all the forces of brutality.” It is the spirit of nonviolence that inspires and moves us today as we stand in this place—that same spirit, under the name Kapu Aloha, which motivates the protectors of Hawaii’s most sacred mountain – Mauna Kea.

      The Pope addresses his recent encyclical Laudato Si primarily to environmental concerns, while showing the link between our ecological crisis and human violence: “the violence in our hearts,” he says “is reflected in the sickness of the soil, water, air and all forms of life … the earth herself is among the most abandoned and maltreated of our poor.” And then he points to the ravages of war, magnified by nuclear and biological weapons: “War always does grave harm to the environment … Despite international agreements, research continues to develop new weapons capable of altering the balance of nature.”

      Here on Hawaii island we know that training for war causes grave harm to the environment. Chemical, biological and radiation weapons have been tested here, contaminating our soil, water, air, people, plants and animals. Unexploded ordnance (UXO) is widespread on the land and surrounding waters. The Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) is a military toxic stew of weapons contamination that will require billions of dollars to clean up. The Pope has said the production of weapons is an “industry of death.”

      Today, we recall the prophetic words of Martin Luther King: “It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence. It is either nonviolence or nonexistence.”

     www.CampaignNonviolence.org

For Peace, Justice & the Earth!

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

Sign up on our website to receive our posts  http://www.malu-aina.org/

Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Sept. 25, 2015 – 731st week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office