Homegrown Terrorism! Jan. 10, 2025, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet
Homegrown Terrorism!
Most people know by now that on New Year’s Day, 14 people were killed and dozens injured in two homegrown terrorist truck attacks in the US by US Army decorated Afghanistan war vets – one in New Orleans and one by an active duty Green Beret in Las Vegas. The casualty figures could have been much higher if planted explosive devices in New Orleans had detonated.
A US Gulf War Vet carried out the most deadly domestic homegrown terrorist attack in US history on April 19, 1995. It involved a massive truck bomb explosion outside the Oklahoma City Federal Building by 26-year-old Timothy McVeigh that killed 168 people and injured 684.
The US has been using young people to wage military coups and imperial wars around the world for a very long time. The death toll, injury, and displacement figures are in the tens of millions. See
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change
It now appears that US imperial terror is tragically coming home to roost in homegrown Veteran terrorist attacks. It’s also tragic that every day 22 US Vets are committing suicide. That points to a lack of meaningful medical care for Vets to address the trauma of killing and war for the merchants of death.
Jan.. 17, 2025, marks 132 years since US troops assisted Sugar barons in the 1893 illegal overthrow of the independent nation of Hawaii and Hawaii’s Queen Liliu’okalani. Hawaii has been under illegal US military occupation ever since and is now one of the most militarized and military-contaminated toxic places on the planet. It’s time the US stops sending young people to kill and die in US Imperial wars to enrich corporate war profiteers and billionaire oligarchs. The US needs to end its addiction to war and redirect military spending to address healing the planet from human-made climate catastrophe, and providing basic needs such as food, housing, medical care, education, etc. not more bombs and wars!
High Tech Billionaires have replaced Hawaii sugar barons. People like Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Marc Benioff of Salesforce, and others have palatial estates in Hawaii while Hawaii’s native people are priced out of their homeland.
This must end!
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.
The next peace organizing meeting is Monday, Jan. 13th.
Help grow food at Malu ‘Aina farm to share with people in need.
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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January 10, 2025, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1215– 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
