Make 2025 A Year of Hope! Last Kahea of 2024
Make 2025 A Year of Hope!
My hope is that we can make a difference if we try our best. If we work together, we can help heal our communities and world and build a better future for all based on justice, peace, and aloha ‘aina. Sadly, too many people believe there is nothing we can do. They have lost hope.
I believe we are living in dark times. Our world is on a downward spiral to Omnicide defined as the destruction of all life by nuclear war and/or climate disaster. Right before our eyes, the Crime of Genocide is taking place now in Gaza by Israel with Western support, including the US. which is supplying a massive amount of weapons to Israel. We are all responsible!
There is the real potential for wars in the Middle East, in Ukraine, and a war with China quickly escalating to a global nuclear war. And human-made climate disasters are intensifying and becoming more and more visible and deadly. The big question is, can we take positive action for the common good of all humanity before it is too late? Jimmy Carter put solar panels on the White House. Ronald Reagan took them off. Now Donald Trump is preaching “Drill Baby Drill.” We are headed in the wrong direction to save the planet. So too with more and more weapons of war. Cutting, not expanding, the military budget and pushing to abolish nuclear weapons is the path to peace. It is a grand illusion to think that real solutions will come from the top down, from the billionaire corporate oligarchs, who have profited from creating the problems. Real positive change comes from the bottom up, from the grassroots, from ordinary people standing up for present and future generations. Let’s work together and help give each other more hope by our actions for justice, peace, and aloha ‘aina.
Never Give Up! We Can Make a
Difference!
Join the weekly Hilo Peace vigil on Fridays now in its 24th year, and join Big Island peace organizing meetings held on the 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at the Kea’au Community Center from 6 – 8 PM.
Help grow food at Malu ‘Aina farm to share with people in need. See core principles below.
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
January 3, 2025, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1214– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office
Last Call!
Malu ‘Aina Annual Appeal
December 2024
Aloha friends,
Once a year, during this Holy season, I write to ask for your help to sustain the work of Malu ‘Aina, an all-volunteer non-profit organization committed to justice, peace, and aloha ‘aina – a living planet for generations to come. Such work is more critical now than ever. There is so much suffering and death from war, injustice, and climate disasters. The danger of global nuclear war is increasing dramatically in Ukraine, the Middle East, and China.
2024 marks 45 years since the founding of Malu 'Aina. Some of you have been with us from the start. Others more recently. Please know, that we appreciate all of you for your solidarity and donations of support. You are our base. To maintain our independence and critical voice, we do not seek corporate or government funding. We started grassroots and want to stay grassroots.
We remain committed to the principle of non-violence, kapu aloha, as our guiding light. We believe deeply that the means we use must be in line with the end that we seek. We would like to transition to the next generation of leadership, but the going is tough, and will likely get tougher over the next 4 years. We hope the vision of Malu ‘Aina will be carried forward. Your ideas, and suggestions of next-generation leaders, both Volunteer Farm and Board members, are encouraged.
We continue to grow food at Malu ‘Aina to share with people in need but with limited volunteer farm volunteers. We have long served as an emergency food pantry. Each week we also write a new peace leaflet for widespread distribution and conduct a weekly peace vigil at the downtown Hilo Post Office/Federal Building. Friday, Dec. 6, 2024, will mark 1210 consecutive weekly peace leaflets, for a vigil that started the day after Sept. 11, 2001. You can read the new and past weekly leaflets, and other posts. on our website www.malu-aina.org. In addition, we continue our efforts to de-militarize Hawaii and the planet, support Hawaiian rights, a permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, Ukraine, etc., and negotiations for peace everywhere. The world needs a major shift in resources from warfare to healthcare, education, feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and protecting the environment. Protecting the planet from nuclear war and further climate disasters are the two greatest challenges facing human civilization.
We have plenty of work to do. Both on the farm and in our other work, we could use more volunteer peoplepower along with donations. Mahalo for your continued financial support and solidarity in this journey for justice, peace, and aloha ‘aina. You are a blessing and very much appreciated.
With gratitude and aloha,
Jim Albertini
Donations are tax deductible if checks are made to Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box 489 ‘Ola’a (Kurtistown), Hawaii 96760 A Pay Pal account (Donate Button) is on our webpage www.malu-aina.org. To receive our weekly posts, please send me an email at ja@malu-aina.org with a request. You can also reach us by phone (808) 966-7622. Mahalo.
