Hawaii’s Ann Wright on Ceasefire and Peace in Ukraine
Wednesday, June 14th, 2023Hawaii’s Ann Wright on Ceasefire and Peace in Ukraine
Archive for June, 2023
Join the Pope in Calling for a Ceasefire & Peace in Ukraine!
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023Join the Pope in Calling for a
Ceasefire & Peace in Ukraine!
Pope Francis announced that the Vatican is on a diplomatic mission to achieve a ceasefire and peace in Ukraine. We ask that people everywhere speak to their religious congregations and community associations about the urgency of a ceasefire and peace in Ukraine and issue a similar call now!
We are grateful for the Pope’s mission to secure a peaceful resolution to a war that never should have been launched in Ukraine. IT’S TIME TO STOP THE KILLING AND DEVASTATION IN UKRAINE. CEASEFIRE AND PEACE NEGOTIATIONS NOW!
As people of conscience who value human life, we encourage others to support a call for a ceasefire and diplomatic resolution to the war in Ukraine. We ask that religious leaders issue a public call urging their congregants to support a ceasefire.
The war in Ukraine has left hundreds of thousands dead or wounded, uprooted millions, contaminated land, air, and water, and worsened the climate crisis. The longer the war drags on, the greater the danger of spiraling escalation, which can lead to a wider war, environmental devastation, and possible nuclear confrontation.
Every day this war continues, more lives are lost, more people become refugees, and we edge closer to risking global nuclear annihilation. The fate of the world rests on all of our shoulders. Together, let us stand up and speak out now to end the war. May the miracle of peace prevail.
Peace is a Victory for All!
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, anti-Russian, anti-LGBTQ, 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), Hawai’i 96760
Phone (808) 966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org to receive our posts.
For more information see http://www.malu-aina.org
June 16, 2023, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1133– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office
Malu ‘Aina Peace Organizing meeting Monday, June 12th from 6-8 PM and on line
Thursday, June 8th, 2023Malu ‘Aina Peace organizing meeting Monday, June 12th, from 6-8 PM at the Kea’au Community Center & on line
Reminder –On the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month we have peace organizing meetings 6-8 PM at the Keaau Community center, with zoom from 6:30- 7:15PM.Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9876901944… Meeting ID: 987 690 1944 Passcode: peace now Steve Paulmier in our group is the person who sets up zoom. His email is Paulmier <stephen.paulmier@verizon.net> and his phone 430-8866The Keaau Community Center is located behind the Keaau Police station and Bay Clinic in Keaau.Among items on the June 12th agenda
1. Discussion of Pohakuloa change of command set for 10AM on Wed. June 28th. Present commander LTC Kevin Cronin to be replaced by new commander LTC Timothy Alvarado.
2. Ongoing war in Ukraine — Dam explosion and massive flooding in southeast Ukraine. –who did it? What’s next?
Ukrainian dam is destroyed; nuclear plant lives in a ‘grace period’
3. Increasing tensions with Russia and China and risk of nuclear war. — British sent thousdands of DU weapons to Ukraine. See the article https://consortiumnews.com/2023/05/02/using-poison-in-ukraines-depleted-hope-of-victory/?fbclid=IwAR1y7snfgclJ1vMvfE0NnoXzp_8mAXAL7-GRRcVFsjh_BWNQ2UqH2F3T-6E
See the leaflet that the ammo dump storing the British DU weapons was likely hit by Russian missiles/and or drones. Massive Mushroom cloud. https://malu-aina.org/?p=9018
See recent peace leaflets on the issues of increasing tensions with China and Russia at www.malu-aina.org
4. Connection between enormous military budget –62% of the federal discretionary budget goes to war and militarism. while human needs go unmet in Hawaii and throughout the US. Here in Hawaii –sweeps of houseless, lack of affordable housing, health care, treatment for drug addiction, enough food , etc.
5. Bring other issues for discussion.
6. Join the Friday Hilo Peace Vigil 3:30-5PM at the downtown Hilo Post Office. It is more important than ever to stand up and speak up for peace not further war escalation. Spread the word please.
Mahalo.
Jim
-- 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
Public testimony by Jim Albertini in opposition to Puna Geothermal Venture expansion.
Thursday, June 8th, 2023Below is my testimony sent on June 7, 2023 in Opposition to PGV, A special mahalo to Palikapu Dedman, Emily Naeole, and all the others who spoke in opposition at the public meeting on June 1, 2023.
Opposition to draft EIS by Puna Geothermal Venture for expansion
June 7, 2023
Our organization founded in 1979, stands in strong opposition to Puna Geothermal Venture’s EIS to expand it’s power generation from 38 to 46 and possibly 60MW of power. We strongly urge that the existing plant be shut down as a cultural desecration to the Native Hawaiians goddess Pele, and a public health hazard due to numerous public releases of H2S deadly gas and other toxins. The EIS fails to address Hawaiian cultural concerns that have been raised for decades about the sacrilegious drilling into Pele, recognized as a Hawaiian deity.
It also fails to address the long history of toxic poisoning of the Puna community by its operation. I specifically recall when PGV first started its EIS stated that a major earthquake could possibly shear off its wells resulting in uncontrolled venting and a permanent evacuation zone of a six-mile diameter. The property value of that six-mile diameter zone was in the hundreds of millions of dollars yet PGVs liability policy was ONLY $20 MILLION. For the county to allow that limited liability was gross negligence and criminal. The county taxpayer would have been left holding the burden of reparations in the event of a PGV uncontrollable well blowouts. I also recall when a well blowout in the 1990s that resulted in an evacuation of surrounding properties for days. Experts brought in advised that the well should be permanently capped and never reopened because it was so badly damaged. But the county gave the go-ahead to reopen the well because PGV needed revenue. The decision clearly put PGV’s financial interest ahead of the Puna people’s health and safety. Disgraceful and Criminal! That damaged well again blew out and had to be permanently capped.
Our organization was involved in protesting the 500 MW geothermal project planned in Wao Kele O Puna rainforest by True Geothermal. Wao Kele O Puna was the last remaining lowland rainforest in Hawaii. That project was stopped because of massive protests, including hundreds of arrests for non-violent protest. Eventually, Pele’s lava cut through that rainforest, and had the 500 MW project been completed as planned with the energy going by undersea cable to Oahu, that entire 500 MW of energy would have likely been cut to Oahu, resulting in a massive energy crisis there. Yet no one from Oahu as far as I know, ever expressed gratitude to those who rightly protested and stopped that ill advised energy project.
We do not trust, and history has shown that our government officials do not act in the best interest of the people when it comes to geothermal energy in Hawaii. Enough! No More Geothermal. No More PGV. No Expansion. Time to shut it down here and now. Respect the Hawaiian culture and the voice of the people.
Jim Albertini,
President of Malu ‘Aina
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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
cc: government officials and the news media
deadline for submitting public comments is June 20, 2023
US Empire: Stop Bullying the World!
Tuesday, June 6th, 2023US Empire: Stop Bullying the
World!
Stop Poking & Provoking Russia and China!
US: “Mind Your Own Business!”
Get US Warships and Military Planes out of the Taiwan Strait & South China Sea, and remove bases surrounding and provoking Russia & China.
The US orchestrated a coup (pro-western regime change) in Ukraine in 2014, killing thousands in eastern Ukraine in the years that followed and kept pushing NATO to Russia’s borders despite promises it would not do so. This provoked the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The US keeps pumping Billions of Dollars of more lethal weapons into Ukraine, and the death toll and the destruction keep mounting. How many more people must die before there are peace talks?
Now we are seeing the US encircling China with more and more military bases and poking China in the eye with warships and military planes. This is highly provocative. The US has nearly 800 military bases in more than 70 countries. China has only one overseas naval base in Djibouti. http://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3125171/.. The US has spent $7.5 Trillion dollars on nuclear weapons since bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Yet the US is now asking China to help in providing much-needed cancer treatment drugs that have been depleted in the US. The US needs to get its priorities straight and stop bullying China if it wants China’s help.
The risk of US escalation to a direct hot war with Russia and/or China by miscalculation, accident, or design is increasing daily. Such a war could quickly grow to WW III and a global nuclear apocalypse, ending civilization as we know it. This must not be allowed to happen. The US empire must accept a Multi-polar (not Uni-polar) world. The US global empire’s domination of the world must end. Climate disaster is telling everyone on the planet loud and clear that we need to learn to live in harmony and take care of one another and the earth that sustains all life. Justice, peace, and malama ‘aina (taking care of the planet) go hand-in-hand. It’s a lesson we all need to learn before it’s too late.
Peace is a Victory for All!
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, anti-Russian, anti-LGBTQ, 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), Hawai’i 96760
Phone (808) 966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org to receive our posts.
For more information see http://www.malu-aina.org
June 9, 2023, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1132– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office
