Beware of the War Machine Monster
Beware of the War Machine Monster
Photo at the Oct. 28, 2022 Hilo Peace Vigil-- 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
Open the Public Restrooms
at the downtown Hilo Post Office/Federal 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, and others, 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.
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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
PS. The Honolulu Star-Advertiser published my letter similar to the above on Tuesday, Oct. 25, 2022. Still waiting to see if the Hawaii Tribune-Herald and West Hawaii Today will also publish the letter.
Call Senator Brian Schatz 808-523-2061, 202-224-3934, Senator Mazie Hirono 808-522-8970, 202-224-6361, Representative Kai Kahele 808-746-6220, 202-295-4906. Representative Ed Case, 808-650-6688, 202-225-2726. Mahalo.
-- 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
