Bravo Nuclear Test Remembrance!

On March 1, 1954 the U.S. government tested Bravo, a hydrogen bomb on Bikini atoll in the Marshall Islands. The test – 15 megatons (15 million tons of TNT equivalent) proved to be 1,000 times stronger than the Hiroshima A-bomb. The Bravo test was just one of 67 nuclear tests done at Bikini and Enewetak atolls from 1946 to 1958 carried out by the U.S. Hundreds of additional nuclear tests have also been conducted by Britain and France in the Pacific. March 1 is now known as Nuclear Free & Independent Pacific Day. Join Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific on Facebook.

There will be a Bravo Test Remembrance Hilo Worship Event sponsored by various Marshallese churches on Friday, March 1, 2019, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Sanctuary, Church of the Holy Cross 440 Lanikaula St. Hilo, Hawaii (Across from the UH Hilo) Pot luck dinner to follow.  The event is open to all!

      This week, while US President Trump meets with North Korea President Kim Jong-un to discuss nuclear matters, the US is threatening war against Venezuela, Iran, and initialing a new nuclear arms race with Russia after the US pulled out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces agreement. Many scholars believe the current global situation is now the most dangerous since the Soviet-US Cuban missile crisis of 1962. For more information on the current dangers of nuclear weapons see

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists https://thebulletin.org/

The Bikini Atoll Apocalypse of 1954 was a vision of Trump’s “fire & Fury” future

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bikini-atoll-apocalypse-o…

3% of U.S. military spending could end starvation on earth.

See explanation of the 3% calculation here. https://worldbeyondwar.org/explained/

A Day to Never Forget!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties.
2. 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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March 1, 2019 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet — week 910 – Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

The Real Global Emergency:

Preventing Climate Disaster & Nuclear War!

Beware of Trump’s Fake Border Wall National Emergency!

      The symbolic Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is now set at two minutes till midnight – the Doomsday Hour! The climate change denier in Chief in the White House has said – we have all these nuclear weapons, why can’t we use them? In his short time in office, Trump has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal, and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, or INF, Treaty (a pact that had actually resulted in thousands of ready-to-use nuclear weapons being scrapped) . Now Trump and his Doomsday advisers, John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, have rolled out a new “low yield” nuclear weapon –the W76-2.  Some have called this the Most Dangerous Weapon Ever because it’s considered most useable by a logic which defies gravity.  Trump’s quest is for nuclear-war-fighting “flexibility.” The W76-2 is a weapon  to make the unthinkable, thinkable, to make nuclear war “winnable” by destroying the earth!  God help us!  See more about the horror — http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176526/tomgram:_james_carroll,_how_many_minutes_to_midnight/#more https://consortiumnews.com/2019/02/05/dismantling-the-doomsday-machines/

      Meanwhile, the signs of climate disaster are everywhere. More extremes in weather patterns, intense storms, droughts, fires. The tipping point is fast approaching but to those blinded by greed, it’s full speed ahead toward the abyss. Don’t go blindly into the abyss!  Resist!

Save the Planet!   Abolish Nukes!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties.
2. 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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Feb. 22, 2019 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet — week 909 – Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

Aloha Kakou,

I watched the whole 37 min of this video by Big Island Video News. The last 13 min — the section 24 -37min is really about TMT.

While Kim recognizes the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent nation, he cities the apology bill of Clinton, and now it’s go forward with TMT and education.

In my view Harry’s “Vision” for Mauna Kea is nothing more than sugar coated desecration of Hawaii’s most sacred temple.  If Harry wants peace, his vision for Mauna Kea needs to be built on a foundation of justice.  That means for a start — NO TMT.  Stop Bombing Pohakuloa and have the military clean up their toxic mess.  Then we can begin to talk peace.

Jim Albertini

VIDEO: Mayor Kim Finishes Mauna Kea Vision Statement <VIDEO: http://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2019/02/14/video-mayor-kim-finishes-mauna-kea-vision-statement/

Watch the Film the Israel Lobby Didn’t Want You To See

https://electronicintifada.net/content/watch-film-israel-lobby-didnt-want-you-see/25876?

The resulting film exposes the efforts of Israel and its lobbyists to spy on, smear and intimidate US citizens who support Palestinian human rights, especially BDS – the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.

Exporting the Technology of Occupation

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/01/04/exporting-the-technology-of-occupation/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NYR%20Mr%20Rogers%20California%20Armenia&utm_content=NYR%20Mr%20Rogers%20California%20Armenia+CID_58d3a40bf7e9432b98315d4db2bf1cbe&utm_source=Newsletter&utm_term=Exporting%20the%20Technology%20of%20Occupation

https://mondoweiss.net/2019/01/divisive-political-history/

https://www.rt.com/usa/451583-israel-lobby-millions-influence/ 269 house members 57 Senators

Boycott, Divest, & Sanction (BDS) Israel!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties.
2. 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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Feb. 15, 2019 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet — week 908 – Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office