Peace Challenge to President & VP

Elect

U.S. relations with the rest of the world must be based on respect, cooperation, and diplomacy—not war. We hereby challenge President-elect Biden to agree to a 10 point plan initiated by the Peace organization Code Pink. Add your name now! 

1. Reduce Military Spending. Invest at Home. Under both Republicans and Democrats over $700 billion dollars has been allocated annually to the Pentagon. Instead cut the war budget and use that money to invest in what really keeps us safe: universal healthcare, infrastructure, a Green New Deal, education, housing, tax cuts for the lowest incomes, and humanitarian aid. Create a transition program for workers to move from military to peace-based jobs.

2. End Wars, Use Diplomacy, and Respect International Law. Rejoin the Iran Nuclear Deal and remove crippling U.S. sanctions against Iran, Venezuela, Cuba, and others. (Recognize Hawaii as independent nation and end the U.S. illegal overthrow and occupation of Hawaii.)

3. China is Not Our Enemy. Now, more than ever, we need cooperation, not another Cold War and that’s why we are calling on Biden to fight COVID, not China! 

4. Stop Supporting Israel’s War on Palestinians. U.S. $3.8 billion dollars a year in aid for Israel to maintain a system of apartheid is shameful!

5. Stop Arming the Middle East, No Weapons to Human Rights Violators. End the U.S. practice of selling or giving weapons to countries — such as Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the Philippines — that violate human rights. 

6. Work for a Nuclear-Free World. A peaceful country is a country that abides by its obligations under the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)… And we want to see the U.S. join the UN’s Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons now signed into international law by 50 countries.

7. Close Overseas Military Bases. Did you know that the U.S. has nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries and territories abroad? (Many in Hawaii including Pohakuloa on Hawaii Island.)

8. Grow a Green Local Peace Economy. The U.S. needs a peace economy that respects people and the planet and supports the Green New Deal.

9. End the Corporate Influence of Weapons Manufacturers. Deny cabinet positions for any former CEOs or lobbyists from weapons companies.

10. Stop Militarizing the Border and the Police. Stop attacks on migrants and refugees. Likewise, end racist U.S. policing, as well as the transfers of military-grade weaponry and surveillance equipment to local police departments. 

Wage Peace NOT War!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject violence & war as solutions. 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.

Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action

P.O. Box 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown), Hawaii 96760 Phone (808) 966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org

For more information and to receive our posts go to www.malu-aina.org

Nov. 13, 2020 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 998 – Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

TIME FOR HEALING!

      Uncertain election results, though leaning toward Biden as I write, make clear the US is a very divided nation. At 2:30AM on Wed. Nov. 4 Trump falsely claimed victory with millions of votes in several states yet to be counted. Without evidence, Trump claimed FRAUD and now has filed legal action in several states. Even in Hawaii, the land of aloha, a heavily Democratic state, there is much division.

      It is time for healing in many ways. We are in the midst of an out of control global pandemic. The number of cases are spiking at unprecedented levels in many states and the deaths from the Corona virus in the US now top 230,000.

      Too many people, Democrat and Republican, support the US war machine. The weapons industry knows it doesn’t matter who is president. An example of this was an Op Ed piece in the Hawaii Tribune Herald Sunday, Nov. 1st by three Chamber of Commerce leaders expressing their support for the 133,000-acre military Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) in the center of Hawaii Island. Their main reason for support of a new lease of state land to PTA is because the military brings in money. Money rules. Apparently it doesn’t matter that the ongoing bombing at Pohakuloa spreads poisons, including Depleted Uranium (DU) radiation in the air, on the land, and in the water. And that’s part of the problem. We need to change the political and economic values of Hawaii and the US that are based on military desecration and domination instead of justice, peace, aloha aina.

      Regardless of whether a Democratic or Republican President, Congress, etc. are elected, the US is on a path to war with China and Russia. Both nations are surrounded by US military bases. The U.S. wants to remain the top global empire. Rather than seek peace and stability, the US wants to dictate to others. The US is escalating confrontations, and initiating new arms races. A war with China and/or Russia could quickly escalate to a nuclear war and the end of all human life on earth.

      Regardless of election results it is time to organize. We have important work to do for justice, peace, and the earth. Despite difficult days ahead, let’s keep our eyes on the prize for future generations.

Remain committed to Kapu Aloha! Nonviolence! And Never Give Up!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject violence & war as solutions. 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.

Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action

P.O. Box 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown), Hawaii 96760 Phone (808) 966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org

For more information and to receive our posts go to www.malu-aina.org

Nov. 6, 2020 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 997 – Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office