Archive for August, 2024

Is Nuclear War on the Horizon? Aug. 16, 2024 Hilo Peace vigil leaflet

Tuesday, August 13th, 2024

Is Nuclear War on the Horizon?

The world is growing increasingly tense on several fronts where by accident or design a wider war could escalate very quickly to an all-out global nuclear holocaust. The Middle East, Ukraine/NATO Russia, the US and China are all possible escalating flash points. To understand what a nuclear war could mean for the planet and human civilization, view the 20-minute video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9BoeyKjZBw We all need to understand the devastating consequences of a nuclear war so we can work towards a world free of nuclear weapons.

Beware of “The Samson Option” – Israel’s Plan to Nuke Its Opponents

https://progressive.org/latest/the-samson-option-israels-plan-to-nuke-its-opponents-dilawar-20240624/

      Here are some resources for further information: • The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna… • The United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA): https://disarmament.unoda.org/ • The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: https://thebulletin.org/ Together, we can prevent the unthinkable from becoming reality. Share this video notes above and raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear war.

     Hawaii is one of the most militarized places on the planet with over 100 US military installations. Oahu is the Headquarters for the US Indo-Pacific Military Command that covers more than half the earth, Oahu includes major US military Force bases, such as the Naval base at Pearl Harbor, Army Garrison at Schofield Barracks, and the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base. Major military weapons are stored at West Loch of Pearl Harbor.

     The 133,000-acre Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) in the center of Hawaii Island is a training ground for war, including nuclear war, by all branches of the US military. The base has been contaminated with radiation from uranium spotting rounds for nuclear weapon systems fired there. B-52 and B-2 strategic nuclear bombers from Louisiana, Missouri, and Guam fly non-stop training missions to practice bombing at PTA. Join the movement to De-Militarize Hawaii and the world.

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 https://www.malu-aina.org

Aug. 16, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1194Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

Remembering Lahaina Wildfire 1 Year Later

Thursday, August 8th, 2024

Remembering Lahaina!

The 102 who died

and all those who lost homes and businesses

Aug. 8, 2023

 

 

 

Aloha Forever!

We Stand with You and Will Never Forget

Lahaina Strong!

 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 https://www.malu-aina.org

Number of Ceasefire arrests!

Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
Stop US/Israel Genocide in Gaza!  Ceasefire Now!
 
“Since October 2023, there have been more than 8,400 ceasefire arrests in the US and Canada on nearly 300 occasions in at least 112 cities and towns across 35 states and 5 provinces. Over 3,000 of these arrests have taken place on more than 60 university and college campuses. The total number of arrests exceeds the 7,500 arrests that the Nuclear Resister reported over a similar period of time around the March 2003 US invasion of Iraq!”
The Nuclear Resister, reported June 2024. www.nukeresister,org email nukeresister@igc.org P,O, Box 43383, Tucson, AZ 85733
 

Deadline May 7, 2024, for testimony opposing Military leases of Hawaiian lands

Wednesday, August 7th, 2024
Deadline today Aug. 7th for testimony opposing Military leases of Hawaiian lands. Please submit testimony.
Mahalo.
JiJim Albertini See below talking
points,
etc.Please submit testimony or public comment on three separate important measures due by tonight, 8/7.
HAPA is proud to partner with organizations working toward a deoccupied and demilitarized Hawaiʻi. Whether your focus is in food systems and sustainability, education, community-based resource stewardship, or social and economic justice, the heavy militarism in Hawaiʻi negatively impacts us all, and more importantly deeply impacts ʻāina, and all natural resources.
End the US Military’s Lease on Oʻahu!
From our partner, Hawaiʻi Peoples Fund:
“Speak out and provide public comment on the Army’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) proposing to renew leases from the state of Hawaiʻi on three parcels in Mākua (782 acres), Poamoho (4,390) and Kahuku (1,150 acres) currently used by the Army, Marine Corps and Hawaii National Guard. The leases expire in 2029 and 100% of the lands up for renewal are stolen Hawaiian Kingdom lands.
The written comment period is still open for the Army’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement. Written testimony can be submitted both online and via email.
Comments must be postmarked or received by 11:59 PM HST on WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2024.”
Submit a Comment
Submit Emailed comments to ATLR-Oahu-EIS@g70.design

Peace Holy week — Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki!

Sunday, August 4th, 2024

Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024

Alisson Shiozaki and others are having a Remember Hiroshima Day on Monday Aug. 5th (Aug. 6th in Japan) from 12:30-1:30 PM at Liliuokalani Park in Hilo.  Please join if possible and pass the word

I am sorry I won’t be able to make it.  My nephew and family will be visiting this week.  Below is this Friday, Aug. 9th (Nagasaki Day) Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet.  Please try and join the Hilo Peace Vigil too.  I will be there. We will have our 45-year-old banner there too “In Memory of Hiroshima & Nagasaki.”  Peace leaflet below. And mark your calendar: Peace organizing meeting will be held on Monday, Aug. 12, 2024 from 6-8 PM at the Keaau Community Center.  Meetings are regularly held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month.  Please pass the word.  Meetings are usually available on Zoom from 6:30-7:15 PM. Zoom Meeting https://us04web.zoom.us/j/9876901944… Meeting ID: 987 690 1944 Passcode: peace now

Jim Albertini for Malu ‘Aina

In Memory of Hiroshima &

Nagasaki!

 

 

       On August 6, 1945, the US dropped a uranium fission nuclear bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later, on Aug. 9, the US dropped a plutonium-fission nuclear bomb on the city of Nagasaki. In two blinding flashes of light, heat, and radiation, these cities were destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and injured. Many died days, weeks, and months later from radiation poisoning. Army General and future President, Dwight Eisenhower, and other military leaders said, the dropping of the bomb was completely unnecessary. Japan was already defeated.

      Today, Hawaii is a military command center and staging ground for nuclear war. Pohakuloa (PTA) is a training site for nuclear weapon systems. Weapons training at PTA has contaminated our island with radiation and a wide range of military toxins.

      As of January 22, 2021, Nuclear Weapons are illegal. The treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons bans the development, testing, production, manufacture, acquisition, possession or stockpiling, transfer, control or receipt, use or threat to use, stationing or development of nuclear weapons. But there are 9 nuclear rogue outlaw states still making, and possessing nuclear weapons: the US, Russia, China, Great Britain, France, North Korea, India, Pakistan, and Israel.

      The danger of global nuclear war, and the destruction of human civilization, has never been greater. Along with growing climate disasters, there is the growing risk of a widening war in the Middle East with Iran, etc. a US/NATO nuclear war with Russia over Ukraine, and between the US and China. The US wants to remain on top in a Unipolar, not a multipolar, world. The issues of preventing global nuclear destruction and climate catastrophe are directly linked. The US military is the largest consumer of oil and emitter of CO2 on the planet. Join the movement to de-militarize Hawaii & the world.

Stop the Profiteers of Armageddon!

Abolish All Nuclear Weapons Now!

No More 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, 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. 2 on the planet.

For more information see https://www.malu-aina.org

Aug. 9, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1193Fridays 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