Peace not WW3 in Ukraine March 18, 2022 Hilo Peace vigil leaflet
Peace in Ukraine or
World War 3
Global Nuclear Destruction
This is the most dangerous time since the Cuban Missile crisis in 1962 when the world came very close to global nuclear destruction. Too few are alive to remember it. Fortunately, the U.S. and the Soviet Union came to an agreement that prevented a nuclear war. The agreement was that the Soviet Union would remove its nuclear missiles from Cuba, ninety miles from the US. The US would remove its nuclear missiles from Turkey on the border with the Soviet Union, and the US pledged NOT to invade Cuba.
The world urgently needs something similar today in the form of a peace agreement over Ukraine. Already thousands have been killed or injured and enormous destruction has taken place in just a few weeks of war between Russia and Ukraine. Millions have become war refugees. But unless there is a peace agreement, the war could escalate very quickly by accident or design to a global nuclear war resulting in unparalleled death and destruction, and the end of civilization as we know it. We must not let this happen. Even an accidental strike on one of Ukraine’s 15 nuclear power plants and more than 2 dozen bio-labs could cause widespread death and contamination.
One thing is clear. More war, weapons of war from the US, NATO, and China are not answers. The important thing is to stop the fighting and have a withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. But that will take commitments. Russia must commit to respecting the sovereignty of a neutral Ukraine. Ukraine must commit not to join NATO and respect the sovereignty of Crimea and the Donbas region. Once the fighting is stopped and the basic principles of a peace agreement are reached, discussions can begin about rebuilding and healing from the enormous damage already done by the war. Let’s hope and pray that peace will come soon and remain in place.
See https://popularresistance.org/waltzing-toward-armageddon-with-the-merchants-of-death/
No More War! War Never Again!
On Wed. March 9, 2022 the Hawaii County Council voted 7-0 to pass Resolution 337-22 in support of Ukraine. In discussion, prior to the vote Council member, Aaron Chung spoke about being “on the cusp of WWIII.” Council member Kimball spoke about the “possibility of nuclear war.” Council member Kaneali’i-Kleinfelder also noted the possibility of “WWII” and said, “can’t we do better as a species.”
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, etc.
5. Seek peace through peaceful means and work for justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
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March 18, 2022 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1068– Fridays 3:30-5PM 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
