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Global Day of Action — Protest at Pohakuloa!

Published by jalbertini on January 14th, 2025 in Climate Change, Hawaii Independence, Military, Pohakuloa, Public Events, Radiation, Sacred Mauna Kea, Social Justice, Take Action!, Vigil leaflets.

Global Day of Action 

SHUT DOWN THE

Pohakuloa TOXIC Area (PTA)

Sunday, February 23, 2025    Noon – 2

PM Main Gate

      No New PTA Land Lease! No Land Swap! The area is zoned “conservation,” the highest protected land status. Bombing and shelling is not compatible land use. The land is really Hawaiian Crown and Government lands. Make the military Clean Up Its Toxic mess – lead, Depleted Uranium (DU) radiation, and a wide range of other toxins from 80 years of bombing and shelling and return the land to the Hawaiian people. Millions of live rounds from a wide variety of weapon systems are fired annually at PTA by the US Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and foreign countries too, on an island where 40% of families are food insecure. Feed the people, not the war machine!

      PTA is a 133,000-acre base in the dry, windy center of Hawaii Island above one of the island’s main aquifers. What toxins are blowing in the wind? We all know the military poisoned Oahu’s water by fuel spills at Red Hill. Are military toxins already in our water from PTA? The military spends nearly $4 million a year hauling water to PTA. More than 12 years ago the military drilled 2 water wells on the base and hit water at shallow depths, but is still not using that water. How come? What’s in the water under PTA? The Army admits to starting 892 wildfires at PTA since 1975, burning tens of thousands of acres, including more than 17,000 acres of an endangered species habitat off the base. PTA is Hawaii island’s Lahaina and LA fire catastrophe in the making. Shut it down before it is too late. Join the protest on Sunday, Feb. 23rd, and please pass the word. Speak up Now!  Mahalo!

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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

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