Malu 'Aina

Peace in Ukraine or

World War 3

Global Nuclear Destruction

      This is the most dangerous time since the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962 when the world came very close to global nuclear destruction. Too few are alive to remember it. Fortunately, the U.S. and the Soviet Union came to an agreement that prevented a nuclear war. The agreement was that the Soviet Union would remove its nuclear missiles from Cuba, ninety miles from the US. The US would remove its nuclear missiles from Turkey on the border with the Soviet Union, and the US pledged NOT to invade Cuba.

      The world urgently needs something similar today in the form of a peace agreement over Ukraine. Already thousands have been killed or injured and enormous destruction has taken place in just a few weeks of war between Russia and Ukraine. Millions have become war refugees. But unless there is a peace agreement, the war could escalate very quickly by accident or design to a global nuclear war resulting in unparalleled death and destruction, and the end of civilization as we know it. We must not let this happen. Even an accidental strike on one of Ukraine’s 15 nuclear power plants and more than 2 dozen bio-labs could cause widespread death and contamination.

      One thing is clear. More war, weapons of war from the US, NATO, and China are not answers. The important thing is to stop the fighting and have a withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. But that will take commitments. Russia must commit to respecting the sovereignty of a neutral Ukraine. Ukraine must commit not to join NATO and respect the sovereignty of Crimea and the Donbas region. Once the fighting is stopped and the basic principles of a peace agreement are reached, discussions can begin about rebuilding and healing from the enormous damage already done by the war. Let’s hope and pray that peace will come soon and remain in place.

See https://popularresistance.org/waltzing-toward-armageddon-with-the-merchants-of-death/

No More War! War Never Again!

      On Wed. March 9, 2022 the Hawaii County Council voted 7-0 to pass Resolution 337-22 in support of Ukraine. In discussion, prior to the vote Council member, Aaron Chung spoke about being “on the cusp of WWIII.” Council member Kimball spoke about the “possibility of nuclear war.” Council member Kaneali’i-Kleinfelder also noted the possibility of “WWII” and said, “can’t we do better as a species.”

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, anti-Black, anti-Asian, etc.
5. Seek peace through peaceful means and work for justice in Hawai`i and around the world.

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March 18, 2022 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1068– Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

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Jim Albertini Malu 'Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Ola'a (Kurtistown) Hawai'i 96760
Phone 808-966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org

Honor                                         

George Helm

Protect Pohakuloa! Stop the Bombing!

Gathering at PTA Main Gate

10 AM – Noon

Wed. March 23, 2022

(Carpools leave Hilo 9 AM from Komohana and Saddle Rd.)

      March 23 is the Birthday of George Helm who was a leader of the Protect Kaho’olawe Ohana (PKO). George lost his life in 1977 along with Kimo Mitchell in the movement to Stop the Bombing of Kaho’olawe. The bombing was eventually stopped in 1990 due to the dedication of George, Kimo, and many others of the PKO movement. George, and kupuna of that movement remain an inspiration in our efforts to Stop the Bombing of Pohakuloa.

      Please join us on March 23^rd to honor George and Protect Pohakulo and Stop the Bombing. The Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), otherwise known as the Pohakuloa Toxic Area, is a 133,000-acre military live-fire range in the center of Hawaii Island that has been bombed for more than 75 years. Pohakuloa is nearly 5 times the size of Kaho’olawe. Millions of live rounds are fired annually at PTA and have involved a wide range of weapons and toxins, including radioactive Depleted Uranium (DU) radiation. When DU metal is hit with high explosives it is turned into DU oxide particles that can be carried long distances in the wind and easily inhaled causing various cancers and other serious health problems.

      Everyone on the Big Island is downhill and downwind from PTA which is at 6500 feet elevation. The land, water, air, people, plants, and animals, including the thousands of troops who train at PTA, are all part of a Military Sacrifice Zone. The bombing must be stopped, the military mess cleaned up, and the land returned to the Hawaiian people. Mahalo to Liam O’Malley of Lanihuli Farm for initiating this action in honor of George Helm.

Forever Aloha Aina!

Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown), Hawai’i 96760

Phone (808) 966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org to receive our posts.

For more information http://www.malu-aina.org/

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Jim Albertini Malu 'Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Ola'a (Kurtistown) Hawai'i 96760
Phone 808-966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org

March 11, 2022 photo of Hilo Peace Vigil

Letter as printed

Expensive fighter jets are false gods of metal

It is impossible not to notice an increased number of flights of military aircraft, including several F-22 Raptor jets. Each one of these “false gods of metal” F-22s costs $334 million and $70,000 per hour to fly.

This year’s U.S. military budget is $778 billion. That’s $24 billion more than President Joe Biden requested in the midst of growing human needs, including responding to a global pandemic, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless and war refugees, and averting climate disaster.

Remember the words of former president and general Dwight Eisenhower: “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.”

Stop glorifying war and weapons of mass destruction and get back to basics: Honor the Earth and respect and love one another as a human family.

Jim Albertini

Kurtistown, Hawaii island

letter sent.

Several F-22 Raptors flew over the Friday, March 4, 2022 Hilo Peace vigil

False gods of metal

It is impossible not to notice recently, the increased military flights, including several F-22 Raptor jets.  Each one of these “False gods of metal” F-22s  costs $334 million and $70,000 per hour to fly. 

This year’s US military budget is $778 Billion. That’s $24 Billion more than Biden requested in the midst of growing human needs — responding to a global pandemic, feeding the hungry, sheltering the homeless and war refugees, averting climate disaster, etc. 

Each time we hear the roar of these military jets, desecrating the heavens and the earth, remember the words of former President, and General, Dwight Eisenhower more than 60 years ago: “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 of ours is not spending money alone.  It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, and the hopes of its children.”

It’s time we stop glorifying war and weapons of mass destruction and get back to basics: honor the earth, and respect and love one another as a human family.

Jim Albertini

— Jim Albertini Malu ‘Aina Center For Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown) Hawai’i 96760 Phone 808-966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org