Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
YES! The once dilapidated rectory at St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church has been given new livery and new innards, and is reborn as Honolulu’s first Catholic Worker house of hospitality. It is affectionately named “Wallyhouse” in recognition of the efforts…
Where there is no water, there can be no life. This is true of plants and animals alike. There is no substitute for water. This week, I began to pull out some of the overgrowth in the little garden behind…
Originally posted on GaryHooser's Blog:
Governor David Ige’s leadership, core values and resolve under pressure was clearly demonstrated by his recent signing into law SB3095. Hawai‘i residents concerned about their health and the health of their children and grandchildren…
Originally posted on GaryHooser's Blog:
By now, most of you have heard that Governor David Ige has signed into law SB3095. Yes, we won. It’s amazing really. The real story of course is about how it happened. How a…
Call To Action, a Catholic organization committed to justice in our Church and world, is appalled by the forced separation of migrant families, as well as the practice of detaining children in Border Patrol facilities, tent camps and other horrific locations. This…
More than a quarter of the 25 seats in the Hawaii Senate are held by women. More than a quarter of the 51 seats in the Hawaii House of Representatives are held by women. But that apparently wasn’t enough woman…
“No country in this chamber would act with more restraint than Israel has,” said Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the United Nations at today’s Security Council meeting to discuss the violence in Gaza. She took a minute to mark the…
Jesus said: “I call you friends.” That reminder was offered by The Very Rev. Martin Solma, Provincial of the Marianist Province of the United States, the main Presider at the mass to celebrate the diamond jubilee of Fr. George Cerniglia. Not…
Scientists raised the alarm. Doctors raised the alarm. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) raised the alarm, warning that “the risk to infant and children’s health and development is unambiguous.” Sickened teachers and schoolchildren raised the alarm. Mothers who found…
The Fight for $15 in Hawaii ground to a halt in late February this year when it reached the Senate’s Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Senator Donovan Dela Cruz, a Democrat. The effort to help workers make ends meet…
