-- 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 j...@malu-aina.org Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org
Shut
Down Red Hill &
Drain the Tanks
The Hawaii State Dept. of Health has said to the
US Navy – Shut down and drain the Red Hill Fuel Tanks
where leaks allowed petroleum to contaminate the
drinking water of nearly 100,000 people, and puts more
than 400,000 people in Honolulu at risk. Under the
order, the Navy has 30 days to submit a plan to
“safely defuel” its World War II-era fuel facility.
The military, which considers Red Hill to be a vital
national security asset, has strongly protested the
demand to drain the fuel entirely. Twenty massive
Navy underground fuel tanks have a total capacity of
storing 250 millions gallons of fuel 100 feet above
Honolulu’s main aquifer.
Massive citizen outcries, lead by Kanaka Maoli
(Native Hawaiians) and military families, have brought
pressure to US militarism and its strong hold on
political leaders and Hawaii’s economy. Activists
from around the world are now supporting local calls
to close the Navy’s Red Hill fuel facility.
“At this very moment, the US government is committing
a crime of historic proportions against the people of
Hawai’i,” the group said in a public letter. “Yet the
US Navy continues to reject calls by residents and the
state government to drain the remaining tanks. The
health of hundreds of thousands across Oʻahu is now in
jeopardy.”
The letter draws parallels between the Red Hill
crisis and the military’s impacts on other places in
the Pacific. It cites “the Tomb” on Enewetak Atoll in
the Marshall Islands, “a nuclear coffin” installed by
the U.S. military that is leaking radioactive waste
into the ocean and the thousands of Micronesians who
still suffer the impacts of 67 atomic and
thermonuclear weapons the U.S. military detonated in
the Marshall Islands in the 1940s and 50s. For the
complete letter and list of signers see https://www.civilbeat.org/beat/noam-chomsky-cornel-west-call-for-immediate-shutdown-of-red-hill-reparations-for-victims/
Shut Down & Clean Up Pohakuloa Toxic Area
too!
The US Military’s Pohakuloa Toxic Area (PTA),
has been contaminating Hawaii Island for more than 75
years. Millions of live-rounds have been fired
annually at PTA involving a wide range of weapons and
toxins, including radioactive Depleted Uranium (DU)
oxide dust particles than can be carried long
distances in the wind. In 2008 the Hawaii County
Council passed Resolution 639-08 by a vote of 8-1.
That resolution called for a halt to all live fire at
PTA until there was a complete assessment of the DU
present and it was cleaned up. 7 other actions were
called for. The military did not do any of them. Now
what?
Everyone on the Big Island is downhill and downwind from the 133,000-acre PTA, which is located in the center of the island at 6500 feet elevation. The land, water, air, people, plants and animals surrounding PTA, including the thousands of troops who train there, residents and tourists too, are all part of a Military Sacrifice Zone. Actually the Hawaiian islands are one of the most militarized places on the planet with more than 100 active US military installations and many more abandoned military toxic sites. Enough!
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.
Malu ‘Aina
Center for Non-violent Education &
Action P.O. Box 489 Ola'a (Kurtistown),
Hawai’i 96760
Phone (808) 966-7622 Email j...@malu-aina.org to receive our posts. For more information www.malu-aina.org
Jan. 7, 2022 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet – week 1058– 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 j...@malu-aina.org Visit us on the web at www.malu-aina.org