Aloha kakou,

Reminder:  There will be a Protect Pohakuloa strategy meeting on Monday, April 10, 2017 from 6-8PM at the Kea’au Community center located behind the Keaau Police station and Health Clinic.

All are welcomed who are concerned about the military bombing at Pohakuloa.  Please pass the word to friends and come join in the discussions.  Can you believe that Pohakuloa, where over 14 million live-rounds are fired annually at a base that is contaminated with Depleted Uranium, is planning an “Earth Day Celebration.”  Please, please.  Stop the Bombing!  Talk about hypocrisy and Earth Day fraud!

Mahalo.

Jim

PS  Below is a Pohakuloa fact sheet.
— Jim Albertini Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawaii 96760 Phone 808-966-7622 email ja@malu-aina.org visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org sign up on our website to automatically receive our posts

Military Pohakuloa Training Area Fact Sheet

1. The Military Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), located in the center of Hawaii Island is the largest military training area outside the continental United States. PTA encompasses 133,000-acres, and is nearly 5 times the size of Kaho’olawe Island, or larger than the islands of Kaho’olawe and Lanai combined.
2. The land at PTA is Hawaiian Kingdom government and crown lands. It’s been used as a military training area since WWII. Over 84,000-acres were simply seized through presidential executive order #11167 at no cost. Nearly 23,000 acres are leased by the Army from the State of Hawaii for 65 years at a total cost of $1.00.
3. Po-haku-loa is translated to mean: The Land of the Night of Long Prayer. Pohakuloa is known as the sacred heavenly realm of unity between the three great mountains – Mauna Kea, Mauna Loa, and Hualalai. To bomb Pohakuloa is considered desecration and sacrilegious to Hawaii’s native people –the Kanaka Maoli.
4. Military documents claim that up to 14.8 million live-rounds are fired annually at Pohakuloa by all branches of the U.S. military and other countries. Weapon systems of all sorts are used at PTA, including small arms, artillery, helicopter gun ships, bombing by fighter jets, B-52, B-1 and B-2 bombers, etc.
5. In 2007, the Army confirmed that it has used Depleted Uranium (DU) radiation weapons at PTA dating back to the 1960s. The number of DU rounds fired is not known but the Army has said it is prohibited from firing DU weapons in training at PTA since 1996.
6. Comprehensive, independent, testing and monitoring to determine the full extent of radiation contamination at PTA is being opposed by the military.
7. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) drone aircraft are used in training at PTA. A drone airfield has been constructed less than 1 mile on the Hilo side of Mauna Kea Park between the old and new Saddle Rd.
8. PTA contains many important cultural and historic sites and has the highest concentration of endangered species of any U.S. Army installation in the world, native and endangered birds such as, Nene, Palila, Amakihi and many others.
9. PTA has known health hazards – lead, radiation, and other military toxins, and is located in a dry environment adjacent to a Girl Scout Camp where continued bombing and military maneuvers, together with frequent high winds, risk spreading the contamination in small dust particles. Pohakuloa is also subject to flash flooding. Flooding risks the introduction of military toxins into the ground water and toxins being flushed all the way down into the ocean, endangering humans, plants and animals.
10. On July 2, 2008, the Hawaii County Council, by a vote of 8-1, passed Resolution 639-08 calling for a halt to all live-fire at PTA due to the presence of Depleted Uranium radiation. The Army has ignored the Council’s call.
11. Overall, Hawaii is the most heavily militarized group of islands in the world. The Bayonet Constitution and the Reciprocity Treaty of 1887 stationed the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor, lead to the removal of Hawaii’s Queen in 1893, and continued U.S. occupation ever since.

Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760. Phone (808) 966-7622 Emai ja@malu-aina.org http://www.malu-aina.org

Statement to Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Depleted Uranium used at Pohakuloa

NRC petition by JVA

NRC petition by JVA

The Real “Going Nuclear”

     The real “Going Nuclear” is not the changing of rules in the US Senate to a simple majority for confirmation of a Supreme Court Judge. The real “Going Nuclear” is the preemptive first-strike use of nuclear weapons which can end civilization as we know it. That option, appears to be an increasing likelihood of a declining U.S. empire grasping to maintain global dominance.

See http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/46726.htm

http://www.marvinzonis.com/posts/how-trump-and-china%E2%80%99s-xi-could-stumble-into-war

https://www.transcend.org/tms/2017/04/us-navy-prepares-decapitating-attack-against-russia/

     There is a very real risk of nuclear weapons being used in a confrontation with Korea as well as with Russia, China and Iran. While there is enormous propaganda put out to demonize others, and to think of the U.S. as the world’s “good guy” we need to remember the words of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. spoken 50 years ago. On April 4, 1967, exactly one year to the day of his assassination, King said the U.S. is “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” Despite denial by many Americans, that statement remains true today and the violence conducted in the names of Americans has only increased.

See http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_beyond_vietnam/

Speak Up & Stand Up Now!

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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 peaceful means and work for 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 April 7, 2017– 811th week – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2017/03/protesters-outcry-against-live-fire-bombing-in-hawaii/