Join the Weekly Friday Hilo Peace Vigil 3:30-5PM at the downtown Hilo Post Office/Federal Bldg.
Friday Oct. 13th vigil focus on Ending the Killing in Israel & Gaza. This week’s peace leaflet and other information below.
U.S. – Israel – Palestine!
Stand for Justice & Peace!
No More Violence!
An “eye for an eye” only makes the whole world blind!
Violence begets violence! Escalating Violence is NOT a Path to Peace! Dialogue works! War doesn’t! Dialogue with friends and enemies! Ceasefire & Negotiate! No Justice! No Peace! The Roots of Violence is Oppression! End Israeli Occupation of Palestine! End Israeli Apartheid! End the Blockade of Gaza! No More U.S. Arming of Israeli Apartheid! Kapu Aloha (Nonviolence) Always!
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.
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October 13, 2023, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1150– Fridays 3:30-5 PM 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
US National Public Radio (NPR) top story
Gaza is in a humanitarian crisis, days into the war between Israel and Hamas. Power is out, and the enclave is completely under siege — cut off from food, fuel, water and electricity. The conflict has claimed a total of at least 2,500 Palestinian and Israeli lives.The crossing into Egypt has been hit at least three times. Morning Edition host Leila Fadel is in Jerusalem, where she’s been calling people in Gaza overnight.
Fadel shares a conversation with NPR producer and Gaza resident Anas Baba on Up First. He says he left his job to evacuate his family but couldn’t find safety. “Where am I going to take them?” he says. “Where am I going to hide them?” Palestinians are worried they’ll be cut off from the world. One journalist tells Fadel, “Don’t forget us. We are innocent people.”
🎧 Wafaa Abuzayda was visiting her family in Gaza when the war broke out. She’s among hundreds of trapped Palestinian Americans. She says the hardest feeling is hiding her fear from her 1-year-old son, who doesn’t understand what’s happening. When asked to give a message to the U.S. government, she simply pleaded, “Please save us.”
Volunteer with ties to Honoka’a trapped in Gaza. See https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2023/10/12/volunteer-with-ties-to-honoka%ca%bba-trapped-in-gaza/
— 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
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| So many of us in the Peace Action family have been touched by the harrowing violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian Territories. From all of us at Peace Action, we are thinking of you. We work toward a peaceful world where all are free from this kind of devastating violence.
I know one thing we all can do as we grieve – and that is to take action.
Take action today. Urge your members of Congress to call for de-escalation and a ceasefire.
As details of the massacre by Hamas-led forces in Israel come out, the human response is profound disgust. But this attack can also be looked at through the lens of international law. There were clearly multiple war crimes committed, and as one humanitarian law scholar points out “they almost certainly constitute crimes against humanity”.[1]
Likewise, the Israeli government’s response is transparently engaging in gross violations of human rights. The far-right Netanyahu government announced these violations on TV, threatening to cut off food, water, and fuel adding “We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly.”
Most members of Congress have offered “unwavering” support for Israel despite the blatant crimes of siege starvation and indiscriminate bombing. This is a green light for further violations.
You and I can change that. What U.S. politicians say matters.
International law is a tool, rarely applied, not a panacea. But it’s a way of protecting civilians on the path to ridding the world of war and the mentalities and structures that drive it.
The UN Human Rights Chief pointed out that “the imposition of sieges that endanger the lives of civilians is prohibited under international humanitarian law”. He called on all countries to use their influence to stop this. When you and I lobby Congress on this we are pushing the U.S., the country with perhaps the greatest influence, to help prevent this crisis from getting worse and worse.
Can you sign today to ask your members of Congress to call for de-escalation, restraint, the protection of civilians under international law, and a ceasefire?
Of course, following international law means an end to the Israeli occupation and the complicity of the U.S. We can push toward that liberation while we work to end the current bloodbath.
Thank you for taking action at this important time,
Jon Rainwater
Executive Director
Peace Action
P.S. If you’ve already taken action, at a time like this I think it is appropriate to do so again. Or call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121. Or better yet, both!
Sources:
[1] The Siege of Gaza and the Starvation War Crime, Tom Dannenbaum, Just Security, October 11, 2023 |
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Uprooting the Causes of
Violence in Gaza & Israel
In 2012 the U.N. determined that without “herculean action” by the international community, by 2020 Gaza “will not be livable,” writes Phyllis Bennis. The year 2020 has come and gone. Read here…
— 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
