Malu 'Aina

Update:  Hawaii County Council Bill 206 draft 2 — Repeal the military exemption from Hawaii County’s Nuclear-Free Law

Bill 206 draft 2 was sent to Mayor Mitch Roth on Friday, Nov. 15th.  He has 10 days (until Nov. 25th) to sign it, let it become law without his signature, or veto the Bill and send it back to the Council for a possible 2/3 vote override.  Please pass the word widely. 

Please encourage people to call or email the Mayor and urge him to sign Bill 206 Draft 2.

Mitch Roth’s phone Number is 808-961-8223 and his email is mitch.roth@hawaiicounty.gov

Mahalo.

Jim

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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

Bomber Biden’s Last Hurrah! 

Biden gives Green-light to Ukraine to use US long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia!

Such missile strikes could quickly escalate to Nuclear War.  Russia says such missile strikes would amount to a NATO declaration of war against Russia.

See articles below:

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2024/11/18/biden-ramps-up-nuclear-brinkmanship-on-his-way-out-the-door/

Stop the Madness!  Ceasefire Now!  Negotiate Peace!
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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

Painting by the late artist and school teacher, Setsu Okubo, that hangs in the kitchen at Malu ‘Aina

Please call or email Hawaii County Mayor Mitch Roth and urge him

to sign Bill 206 Draft 2 to repeal the military exemption from

Hawaii County’s Nuclear-Free Law

that was passed unanimously by the Hawaii County Council

on Nov. 8, 2024.

For more background on the history of the Nuclear-Free law see

https://malu-aina.org/?p=10617

May Peace Prevail on Earth!

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 to receive our posts.

For more information see https://www.malu-aina.org

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,anti- Russian, anti-LGBTQ, etc.

5. Seek peace through peaceful means and work for justice in Hawai`i and around the world.

Nov. 15, 2024, Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1207– Fridays 3:30-5 PM downtown Post Office

Hawaiian activist, Moanikeala Akaka, on the far right of the photo above, initiated the

original historic Nuclear Free Law of Hawaii County in 1981

Yugo Okubo, brother of artist and school teacher Setsu Okubo, protesting a visiting nuclear warship

at the Hilo docks in the 1980s. 

Yugo was a 100th infantry battalion soldier of the 442 who fought in Europe in WW II

Yugo was a freshman at UH Manoa who dropped out of school following the Pearl Harbor

attack to enlist in the Army to prove his loyalty as a Japanese American.

Within 5 years after the war he was jailed as an “Unamerican” under the McCarthy era. 

He was one of the Hawaii 39 jailed for union organizing. 

Yugo said his claim to fame was “He went from hero to Unamerican in less than 5 years.

Yugo lived at Malu ‘Aina for 7 years.

Behind Yugo in the photo are goodwill fruit gifts from Malu ‘Aina farm to the warship crew.

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 to receive our posts. For more information see https://www.malu-aina.org

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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