Come, bring family, friends, students. Join in the rally on Tuesday March 20 at 9 a.m. Various members of the community will offer their perspectives on what paid family leave means for Hawaii’s working families. Stay and testify at…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Paid Family Leave Rally/Hearing 3/20 Hawai’i State Capitol 9 a.m.
Tagged with: Paid family leave, SB 2990, state-run insurance plan
Posted in Business and Justice, Equality and Faith, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, Equality and Faith, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Uncategorized
SB3095 SD1 Needs to restore “Disclose and Notify” Provisions; ban Chlorpyrifos. Please send in testimony TODAY
SB 3095 SD1 RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION will be heard by the Hawaii State House Committee on Finance on Thursday, March 15, 2018, 2:30 P.M. in Conference Room 308 The original draft of SB 3095 included provisions for mandatory disclosure…
Tagged with: buffer zones, chlorpyrifos, disclose and notify, Dylan Hooser, Hawaii Center for Food Safety, pesticide drift, Pesticides, SB3095, Waimea
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Pesticides
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Pesticides
HB 1727 lets employers offer workers a raise OR paid sick leave. Is this who we are as a community in HI?
HB 1727 has a Senate Labor Committee hearing on Thursday at 2:45 pm in room 229 of the Hawaiʻi State Capitol. The bill is a disservice to workers.It gives employers the discretion to decide if they will give employees a…
Solemn Bell Ringing to Support Students Against Guns. Wed 3/14 from 10-10.17 a.m. Honolulu
This Wednesday, March 14, 2018, from 10 to 10.17 a.m. many public high schools in Hawaii are staging a walk out and silent vigil to commemorate the senseless violence that occurred a few weeks ago at the high school in…
Tagged with: Church of the Crossroads, churches bell ringing, Honolulu, St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, Students against guns
Posted in Gun violence, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Gun violence, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Remembering the Women of Ghouta on International Women’s Day
While our news is dominated by a porn star’s escapades with the President of the United States, the women of Ghouta get barely a mention. Our sin is the sin of inattention to what matters, and gluttony for the grotesque.…
Tagged with: Douma, Dr. Faten Rajab Fawaz, Ghouta, Nivin Hotary
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Syria
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Syria
Remembering John Victor Morais 18 Dec 1910 – 6 March 1991
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” That was the motto of Anderson School, Ipoh, Perak where an eager 16 year old transplant from Kerala, educated up to that point in Malayalam, started his adventure in what…
Tagged with: Anderson School, Dreamers, Gladys Morais, Ipoh, John Manuel Morais, John Victor Morais, Malaya Tribune, Pearl Harbor
Posted in Family, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Family, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Tell legislators to restore pesticide disclosure, notification to SB3095. Protect ALL our kids with buffer zones around schools. Deadline Feb 19.
URGENT ACTION ALERT: Remember SB3095–the so-called environmental protection bill from last week? It WAS a mandatory pesticide disclosure bill with a five school buffer zone pilot program. The heart of the bill (mandatory pesticide disclosure) was gutted, and as a…
Tagged with: buffer zones, Center for Food Safety, Pesticide disclosure and notification Hawaii, SB3095
Posted in Environmental Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Environmental Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Support SB3095 (Environmental Protection) if you believe in Care of Creation. Testimony due Sun Feb 11
https://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/measure_indiv.aspx?billtype=SB&billnumber=3095&year=2018 If Catholic teaching on stewardship of the planet matters to you, supporting SB 3095 would be a practical expression of that faith. Below are excerpts from http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/care-for-creation.cfm “We show our respect for the Creator by our stewardship of…
Former Senate Majority Leader, Hooser, calls for servant leadership in opening reflection at the Capitol
Former Kaua‘i Senator and County Councilmember Gary Hooser was honored Friday February 3rd by an invitation to offers words of “reflection and contemplation” to the Hawai‘i State Senate. Hooser was invited to speak by Oahu Senator Les Ihara and welcomed…
Tagged with: Gary Hooser, Hawaii State Capitol, opening prayer, Senate, servant leadership
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Raise HI’s minimum wage to $15 an hour. Your testimony could make it happen
Support working families: Submit testimony for SB 2291 by 3:30pm Mon Feb 5, 2018. The hearing for this bill is scheduled for Tuesday, February 6, 2018 at 3:30 PM in conference room 229. See the hearing notice. SB 2291: Raises…
Tagged with: Diana Wernet, FightFor$15, HawaiiFightFor$15, Kihei Ice, Tina Wildberger
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice
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