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Letter to the Editor: Open the public restrooms at the Hilo downtown Post Office/Fed/ Bldg.

Published by jalbertini on October 23rd, 2022 in Hawaii Independence, Military, Pohakuloa, Public Events, Social Justice, Take Action!, Vigil leaflets.

Oct. 22, 2022

Open the Public Restrooms at the downtown Hilo Post Office/Fed. Bldg.

The Public restrooms at the downtown Hilo Post Office/Federal Building have been locked for 3 years. Numerous verbal and written complaints to Hawaii Congressional Representatives and Senators have gone nowhere. Rep. Kai Kahele’s office informed me that the GSA and the FSC of Hilo Fed. Bldg made the decision to close the public restrooms, but no names were provided.  Fed. Bldg. officials blame the homeless for dirtying the restrooms. The US spends $800 Billion or more annually on its war machine but can’t keep its Federal Bldg. public restrooms open and clean?  Something is wrong with that picture.  There are 6 or more public restrooms in the Hilo 3-floor Post Office/Fed. Bldg.  At least open the men’s and women’s restrooms on the ground floor to the public.

 

Friday, Oct. 28, will mark our peace organization’s 1100th weekly Friday peace vigil at the downtown Hilo Post office/Federal Bldg. That’s 21-plus years. We started the day after Sept. 11, 2001. I give two other senior citizens a ride from Keaau nearly every week. One is an 89-year-old Hawaiian Kupuna.  It’s insulting and demeaning that she and others have no public restrooms to use.
 

Come on officials and Federal employees —  Stop showing contempt for the public that pays your salaries.  Unlock the public restrooms.  As Bob Dylan said, “Don’t stand in the doorways and block up the halls.”  You vote BILLIONS FOR WARS but provide Zero for clean public restrooms in the Hilo Fed. Bldg.
 
Auwe!  Shame on YOU!–
 
Jim Albertini

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
 
Jim Albertini
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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