Aloha kakou,

March 27, 2020 was the last time we physically conducted the Friday Hilo Peace Vigil. That’s nearly 2 months. Since that time we have been writing and spreading the Peace Vigil message of justice and peace via the internet only. It seems to be the consensus that it’s time to resume the peace vigil on Friday, May 22nd. 3:30-5PM at the downtown Hilo Post Office/Federal Building, but to do so in a safe and responsible manner observing 6 feet social distancing and participants wearing face masks.

I have made 10 new signs (5 each) saying “Cancel RIMPAC” and Cancel Pohakuloa Lease” to go along with the wide range of sings we already have. Below is this week’s peace leaflet. Please share with family and friends. We welcome anyone who is free to join us on Friday.

Mahalo,

Jim Albertini

Trump’s New “Super-

Duper” Nuclear Missiles

 

“I call it the super-duper missile.” Donald J. Trump

It’s Trump’s Howdy Doody “Doomsday” Time!

      According to an article by Karl Grossman in Counterpunch, “The United States is seeking to acquire “volumes of hundreds or even thousands” of nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles that are “stealthy” and can fly undetected at 3,600 miles per hour, five times faster than the speed of sound.

     Why so many? A Pentagon official is quoted in the current issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology as saying “we have to be careful we’re not building boutique weapons. If we build boutique weapons, we won’t—we’ll be very reluctant to—use them.”

      “The article in the aerospace industry trade journal is headlined: “Hypersonic Mass Production.” A subhead reads: “Pentagon Forms Hypersonic Industry ‘War Room.’” On March 19, 2020, the U.S. conducted its first hypersonic missile test from its Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, Hawaii.”

     These Hypersonic missiles fly fast, Trump claims 17 times faster than any existing rockets, they fly at low altitudes, mostly invisible to radar, and can maneuver during flight.

      In this time of global Covid pandemic, it is more important than ever to focus on Healthcare not Warfare. Fund human needs. Cancel RIMPAC military war games by 25 countries now scheduled for Hawaii in August 2020, and begin to demilitarize Hawaii and the world.

For more information on these new missiles see

https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05/18/the-coming-nuclear-menace-hypersonic-missiles/?fbclid=IwAR0NVO3f9sET6JLD-p3voUeBI6uodTF2ATwzCSMpw5CD96H0-5TK37AjM1c

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/05/15/obvious-our-president-beyond-incompetent-chorus-ridicule-after-trump-brags-new-super?utm_term=AO&utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_content=email&utm_source=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_medium=Email

Outlaw Nuclear Weapons Now!

Cancel RIMPAC & Pohakuloa Lease!  

Wage Peace NOT War!

1. 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.

Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action

P.O. Box 489 Ola’a (Kurtistown), Hawaii 96760 Phone (808) 966-7622 Email ja@malu-aina.org

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May 22, 2020 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 973 – Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

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