Never Give Up! Let Your Little Light Shine!
Digging in for the Long Haul!
The work of justice, peace and malama honua (caring for the earth) involves a life long commitment and our efforts today in Hawaii and around the world are more important that ever before. Never give up!
This week saw solidarity actions around the world, including actions on several Hawaiian islands, where people stood with Native Americans seeking to protect sacred land and water at Standing Rock, North Dakota from another oil company pipe line. This week also saw Hawaii’s native people, the Kanaka Maoli, standing in an ongoing contested case hearing to protect Hawaii’s most sacred temple, Mauna Kea, from further desecration in the name of scientific astronomy development. It also saw Hawaii’s native people speaking out about imposed toxins in the Hawaiian Homestead area of Keaukaha and Panaewa and a planning meeting to stop the bombing of Pohakuloa and the spread of radiation and other military toxins around our island home.
Throughout Hawaii and the U.S., thousands of people are demonstrating in cities and towns against President elect Trump who during his campaign made blatant racist, sexist, Islamaphobic statements, threatened to expel millions, close the EPA, cancel all efforts to halt climate change, cut services to the poor, for healthcare, for schools, and to expand an already bloated military budget and even use nuclear weapons.
In such dark times, we must rededicate ourselves in the spirit of nonviolence – kapua aloha, toward all people and redouble our efforts for justice, peace and the earth. Together, we can build a movement that rejects violence and can change the course of history for the better. Get involved, dig deep, carry on for the long haul, and let your light shine!
Let It Shine!
- Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties.
4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.
5. Seek peace through peaceful means and work for justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
Contact: Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action
P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawai’i 96760 Phone (808) 966-7622. Email: ja@malu-aina.org
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Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Nov. 18, 2016 – 791st week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office
