Below is a brief report on the public hearing held Jan. 11th at Hilo Intermediate School cafeteria on plans for military expansion at Pohakuloa. The plans call for new live-fire ranges and training, and construction activities, at Pohakuloa, as well as high altitude helicopter flights and landings on Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa in training for Afghanistan/Pakistan high altitude mountainous warfare.The first hour and a half was taken up with "open house" science fair type displays by military people who knew very little about the history of militarism in Hawaii and couldn’t answer many questions asked. But the public testimony portion on Pohakuloa was powerful.The public hearing portion started with Kumu Paul Neves and his Ohana/halau doing chants and then Paul led a Pule. Lots of young Hawaiians testified both in their native tongue and English. They spoke eloquently against the military desecration of the sacred mountains and aina. Other Hawaiians and people of all ages, testified as well. The testimony went for 2 hours. Not one person spoke in support of the military expansion plans. The PTA new commander and the Army Garrison commander from Oahu sat stoned-faced throughout the 2 hours of public testimonyMany citizens noted that no further military activity at the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) should go forward. On July 2, 2008 the Hawaii County Council passed a resolution by a vote of 8-1 calling for a complete halt to all live-fire at PTA and any activities that create dust until their is a comprehensive independent assessment of the depleted uranium (DU) at PTA and a clean up of the DU present. The council’s resolution also called for 7 additional actions, none of which have been implemented.Several people emphasized that stopping the bombing and all live-fire, construction, and other activities that create dust at PTA is key. Du particles are particularly hazardous when inhaled. People testified that the federal government should pay for the comprehensive independent assessment, testing and monitoring for radiation contamination and that federal funds should be sought through Hawaii’s congressional delegation –senators Inouye and Akaka, and representatives Hirono and Hanabusa. There has been plenty of money over the years for military build up but very little funding for military clean up. It’s time to change those priorities.The bottom line is this: Hawaii residents don't want the U.S. military training to do to others what the U.S. has already done to Hawaii: overthrow and occupy its government and nation, and contaminate it's air, land, water, people, plants, and animals with military toxins.Stop the Bombing! Stop All the Wars!Military Clean Up NOT Build Up Now!End all Occupations! Restore the Hawaii Nation!1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, etc. 5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.Contact: Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.Phone (808) 966-7622. Email ja@interpac.net http://www.malu-aina.orgHilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Jan. 14, 2011 - 487th week) - Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office--Jim AlbertiniMalu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & ActionP.O.Box ABKurtistown, Hawai’i 96760phone: 808-966-7622email: JA@interpac.netVisit us on the web at: www.malu-aina.org
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In the interest of reviving the economy of our neighbor, the Hawaiian Islands announces the Lili’uokalani Stimulus Package (LiliPack). This economic initiative calls for a comprehensive gift (Aloha Pumehana) to the people of California. Naturally there will be some costs involved.
Provision I
Millwrights will relocate all sugar mills of Hawai’i to the San Joaquin Valley.
Provision II
Pacific Missile Range Facility - PMRF on Kaua’i will relocate to Vandenberg AFB.
Provision III
Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) on the Big Island will relocate to the Sierra Nevada.
Provision IV
The U. S. Air Forces in Hawai’i will be distributed to:
Beale AFB Marysville
Edwards AFB
Los Angeles AFB El Segundo
March Air Reserve Base Riverside
McClellan AFB
Travis AFB Fairfield
Vandenberg AFB Lompoc
Provision V
The U. S. Naval Forces in Hawai’i will be distributed to:
NAS Lemoore Lemoore
NAS Point Mugu Point Mugu
Naval Air Facility El Centro El Centro
Naval Base Coronado San Diego
Naval Battalion Center Port Hueneme
Naval Hospital Pendleton Camp Pendleton
Naval Medical Center San Diego
Naval Postgraduate School Monterey
NAWS China Lake China Lake
North Island Naval Complex San Diego
NS San Diego San Diego
NWS Seal Beach Seal Beach
Point Loma San Diego
Provision VICost: one way Ticket and “cheap rent” for 3 years for any and all residents of the Hawaiian Islands who want to travel with these economic units because they feel that they will be economically ruined by the Lili’uokalani Stimulus Package (LiliPack). We hope to put this program under the Directorship of an expert in personnel relocation from the University of Hawai’i’s Globalization Research Center; but this is tentative.
Provision VII
The U. S. Marines in Hawai’i will be distributed to:
Mountain Training Center Pickel Meadows
Twentynine Palms Twentynine Palms
Camp Pendleton San Diego
MCAS Miramar San Diego
MCLB Barstow Barstow
MCRD San Diego San Diego
Provision VIII
The Island of Kaua’i has volunteered to offer the California pakalolo industry the temporary right to clone their best strains of herb to help get California back into the black.
Concluding Remarks:
Our Senator Daniel Inouye and Secretary of the Navy John Lehman have brought numerous Battle Groups and lucrative Defense Contracts to Hawai’i in competition
against California. Perhaps the easiest way to visualize the Lili’uokalani Stimulus Package (LiliPack) is to see it as the transfer of all that “pork” to the people of California in this time of need.
Californians, and your new Governor Jerry Brown, will certainly feel that your prayers have been answered when all of the details of LiliPack have been worked out. For now let’s have a champagne toast !
Me ka aloha pumehana !
Babe, do you remember..I was in the parking lot talking on the phone, I called Paul Neves! So I am truly happy that he and other Hawaiians was there to speak up against the military abuses. I was trying to get him over to the Jan 13, 2010, but it was too difficult for him to come on over at the time. I'm so glad that he is involved now because he can turn the misinformation into a clear process for everyone to read and understand. He is also..family. He was our representative to the UN when Mits Uyehara was alive. This issue needs to go before the Royal Order. I wish I had the funds for this to happen! I called my brother immediately after I talked to Paul Neves, if you recall. So two Royal Order organization, one Big Island and the other Maui, was in sinc with us on Jan 13, 2010.
Thank you for taking me to Waipio, and to walk through the two streams 'Hi'ilawe. I connected instantly to Waimanalo and Uncle Gabby and all my growing up experiences with my cousins.
All though Waianae (I) lost the argument with the Pentagon 'construction debris' vs 'depleted uranium' and their 'gavel' definition of DU, we will win the war on military toxicity. I jsut wished it happened that day, Jan 13, 2010. The AEC and the NRC based their decision on junk science and it will catch up to them. DU can never ever be safe, low or weak--it is poisionous to humans and they know it. Love you!