Peace Holy week — Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki!
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.
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Aug. 9, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1193– 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
