The landscape is not as bleak as it might seem in the shadow of COVID-19. House Finance Chairwoman Sylvia Luke has just given low-wage workers reason to hope. She is reported to have said recently when asked about the state…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Blog Archives
Public should take priority when framing ‘public policy’
Tagged with: Living wage, living wage HI, Rep. Sylvia Luke
Posted in 2020 Hawaii legislative session, Fighting Poverty, Living wage, Uncategorized
Posted in 2020 Hawaii legislative session, Fighting Poverty, Living wage, Uncategorized
Guest Post: Rage, sadness and determination – Gary Hooser reflects on the 2020 legislative session & minimum wage issue
This blogpost is a re-publication of an important personal message that just went out from the founder President of the Hawai’i Alliance for Progressive Action and former Majority Leader of the Hawai’i Senate, Gary Hooser. It points us to actions…
Tagged with: Living Wage Hawaii, Minimum wage
Posted in 2020 Hawaii legislative session, Business and Justice, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in 2020 Hawaii legislative session, Business and Justice, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Honor MLK by carrying out his vision: It’s past time for a real LIVING WAGE in Hawaii
This post was first published as an Island Voices column in the SUNDAY STAR ADVERTISER. Republished here with permission. After the parades and the invocation of the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. what can we honestly expect in…
Tagged with: Living Wage Hawaii, MLK Jr.
Posted in Affordable Housing, Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, I BLOG, Politics and Religion
Posted in Affordable Housing, Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, I BLOG, Politics and Religion
Guest Post: Fundraiser for KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE
Sharing here a fundraiser created by my daughter, Sheela Jane Menon and her husband, John Fournie, in hopes of bolstering the efforts of those who are helping the thousands of children cruelly separated from their parents at the southern border,…
Tagged with: child internment camps, KIND, separating children from parents
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Hawaii’s Young Progressives Demanding Action (YPDA) are poised to make their voices count!
On a rainy Friday evening a few days ago, 17 people gathered for two hours in a meeting room at the Campus Center on the campus of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Their mission: to gather their thoughts about…
Tagged with: automatic voter registration, AVR, olvr.hawaii.gov, VBM, vote by mail, Young Progressives Demanding Action, YPDA
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
John Victor Morais:Teenage immigrant. “Self-made” man. Beloved father.
Neither of my parents were college graduates. But they were so wise, so open to the world and so adept at pointing all of their children in the direction of higher education that the fact that they had not had…
Tagged with: Gladys Vaz Morais, John Victor Morais
Posted in Family and Friends, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Family and Friends, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Guest Post: Rev. David Gierlach asks: “Do We Dare?”
With thanks to Fr. David Gierlach, Rector, St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, Honolulu, for permission to publish this sermon. Luke 21:5-19 Why do you suppose that Jesus is warning his friends about what the future holds? After all, in those…
Tagged with: Dorothy Kazel, Ita Ford, Jean Donovan, King's Bay Plowshares 7, M.O.R.E., Maura Clark, Poor people's Campaign, Rev. Dr. William Barber 11, Scott Warren
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Remembering Gladys Morais who joined the angels Nov 8, 2015.
Your grandchildren, Zubin and Sheela Jane, sing the Malayalam hymn you taught them. And we sing it now to your great-grandchild. It’s been four years since you crossed over to join the angels, but you still feel very present in…
Palestine and Decolonial November (and October): COME HEAR VOICES FROM PALESTINE
If you are haunted by the continued oppression of the Palestinian people, if you don’t know enough, but are open to hearing more, mark your calendar for this series of talks, part of PALESTINE and DECOLONIAL NOVEMBER (AND OCTOBER!). YOUSEF…
Tagged with: "deal of the century", J. KĒHAULANI KAUANUI, Noura Erakat, Rana Barakat, Yousef Aljamal
Posted in Grace, I BLOG, Palestine, Uncategorized
Posted in Grace, I BLOG, Palestine, Uncategorized
Do legislators feel the “fierce urgency of now?” Voters want to see that they do.
This OpEd was first published in the Honolulu Star Advertiser, Oct 2, 2019. I have the privilege of working with various nonprofits on issues of community well-being. These nonprofits are doing courageous work on shoestring budgets, filling the potholes in…
Tagged with: Business Roundtable, Jamie Dimon, Living Wage Hawaii, One Job Should be Enough, Speaker Scott Saiki
Posted in I BLOG, Living wage, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Living wage, Uncategorized
