Join in a Black Lives Matter Candlelight Vigil on Thursday,, June 11th, from 5-7pm. Vigil will be held on Ka‘ahumanu Avenue fronting the Police Station and the (old) Kaiser Clinic. There will be a “sharing area” with songs, prayers and speeches, as well as youth, LGBTQIA+ and other voices. There'll also be a petition and information to share. Attendees are asked to wear masks, … [Read more...] about Black Lives Matter Candlelight Vigil
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An Easy Way For White People To Fight White Supremacists
It’s wonderful that so many people showed up Sunday night in front of the State Office Building in Wailuku for a candlelight vigil for the three people killed at a white supremacist Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Vigils like these have become all too necessary. Two years ago we were calling for peace after a white supremacist killed nine black people at the Emanuel … [Read more...] about An Easy Way For White People To Fight White Supremacists
Use Your Voice! How Hawaii will survive life in Trumpland
Hawaii, and Maui, is in a bubble. Enclosed by the Pacific and with our own unique culture and heritage, we are literally and figuratively removed from much of what happens on the mainland. Though residents are quite aware of island politics, national politics seems far away and foreign. It’s tempting to think that the miles of land and ocean that separate us from the White … [Read more...] about Use Your Voice! How Hawaii will survive life in Trumpland
The Dallas sniper, bomb-armed robots and the Maui Police Department
First off, the killings last night in Dallas at the conclusion of an otherwise peaceful Black Lives Matter rally was horrible and abhorrent and straight-up mass murder. Five police officers died, and five others (as well as two civilians) were wounded. It was barbaric and horrible. The sniper (and so far, there only seems to have been one) put Dallas law enforcement in an … [Read more...] about The Dallas sniper, bomb-armed robots and the Maui Police Department