“The US is the Greatest purveyor of violence in the world.” MLK
Those words were True in 1967 and remain True in 2024.
So too with what MLK called the giant triplets of evil: Racism, Capitalism, and Militarism.
January 15, 2024, is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Read the full MLK speech “Beyond Vietnam” and watch the video here
lhttp://www.worldfuturefund.org/Reports2013/Martinlutherkingspeech1967.htm
King spoke those words one year to the day of his assassination on April 4, 1968
Rev. King saw the US war in Vietnam as “a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit.” Later that spring, he asserted that “the evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism are all tied together”: we could not “get rid of one without getting rid of the others [and] the whole structure of American life must be changed.”
Today, and every day, we must speak out for justice, peace, and social change!
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
Jan. 12, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet below
A Protest is planned for Sunday, February 18, 2024, at the Military Pohakuloa TOXIC Area (PTA) main gate from 10 AM until Noon calling, for
1. Stopping the Bombing, 2. Canceling the Military lease of State lands, 3. Clean up of the military toxic mess, 4. Return the lands to the Hawaiian people, 5. Demanding the PTA commander LTC Tim Alvarado participate in town hall community public forums to respond to community concerns which he has refused to do since being repeatedly invited since Oct. 1, 2023.
Please share widely, and remember –Hilo Peace vigils are held weekly on Fridays from 3:30-5 PM at the downtown Hilo Post Office/Federal Building, with set-up help appreciated beginning at 2:30 PM.
Peace Organizing meetings are held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at the Kea’au Community Center from 6-8 PM Zoom participation is usually an option.
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
A Call to Action!
Israel is committing GENOCIDE in Gaza with weapons provided by the U.S. Blood is on all of our hands. We deplore and condemn the killings of more than 1000 people done by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, and we deplore and condemn the killings and injuring of more than 70,000 people, and the displacement of 90% of the 2.3 million Gaza population by bombing done by Israel in the last 3 months,
The time for urgent action is NOW! Call on our county, state, and federal elected officials to Introduce resolutions/legislation for —
1. Immediate permanent ceasefire in Gaza 2. End all US military aid to Israel. 3. Terminate the Strategic Partnership Between Hawaii and Israel signed in Oct. 2022. – Sign the Petition! https://chng.it/YF5QSKjg via @Change
The Hawaii Democratic Party Central Committee already called for a Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FL25K08w9G57X-1r5KRD-GGYZB0hgC5J/view
Also, call for –1. an end to the State lease of 23,000 acres of Hawaiian Crown and Government land at Pohakuloa for $1 for a total of 65 years, and presidential and governor executive orders that seized more than 85,000 acres of similar Hawaiian land at Pohakuloa at ZERO cost.
2. implementation by the military of 8 actions called for in County Council resolution 639-08 passed by a vote of 8-1 on July 2, 2008, none of which have been carried out in the last 16 years.
3. the current commander of PTA, LTC Tim Alvarado to participate in a series of town hall public meetings around the island to respond to concerns about Pohakuloa including toxins at PTA such as Depleted Uranium oxide particles blowing in the wind, possible military toxins contaminating the water, wildfires started by PTA bombing and shelling turning the Big Island into Lahaina, etc.
Urge Mayor Mitch Roth (808) 961‑8211 and Council members (808) 961-8225 to take action on the above concerns, and place Ceasefire, and Cancel Pohakuloa Lease ribbons on the County’s peace poles. Call your elected officials on the above matters.
Congressperson Jill Tokuda Phone: (202) 225-4906, Phone: (808) 746-6220 https://tokuda.house.gov/Senator Brian Schatz Phone: (202) 224-3934, (808) 523-2061 schatz.senate.gov. Senator Mazie Hirono, Phone (202-224-6361) or (808-522-8970) or email hawaiioffice@hirono.senate.gov. https://www.hirono.senate.gov Rep. Ed Case in DC 202-225-2726 Contact State Representatives and Senators here: https://lrb.hawaii.gov/par/ Contact Hawaii County Council members here: https://www.hawaiicounty.gov/our-county/legislative/county-council/council-members-and-districts
Stop Bombing Gaza & Pohakuloa Now!
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.
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Jan. 12, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1163– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office
-- 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
