Yes. If we have truly evolved as a species,if we wish to call ourselves civilized, and people of faith, we should have long ago abolished the death penalty. It is barbaric. How can we express horror at beheadings in faraway…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Catholics Leave Mass Over Bigoted Homily, but Not All Priests Oppose Marriage Equality
Originally posted on Bondings 2.0:
Gaelic footballer Eámon McGee, left, supporting the ‘Yes’ campaign Catholics in Ireland walked out of Mass recently after a priest made prejudiced and personal attacks during a homily against marriage equality, about which the Irish are…
Lent: Letting in Light and Beauty
Lent: a time of abstinence and fasting; small penances amidst our everyday abundance that remind us to savor the sweetness of life. Lent invites us to pare our lives down to essentials. It does not require us to dwell in…
Tagged with: Abstinence, Easter, Fast, Lent
Posted in Easter, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Lent, Uncategorized
Posted in Easter, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Lent, Uncategorized
Random Kindness in the Checkout Line
This is a sweet story of a small kindness on which to end a week filled with continuing stories of war and wretchedness on the world stage. A young woman standing in the checkout line at a supermarket saw the…
A Path to Justice and Survival: Divestment from Fossil Fuels
. . .until he establishes justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait for his teaching. Is. 42: 1-4 It was a good way to begin the New Year: testifying before the Budget and Finance Committee of the University…
Tagged with: Divestment, fossil fuels, Regents, University of Hawaii
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Environment, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Environment, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Honolulu Protests Failure to Indict Officer for Eric Garner Killing. HNL City Lights 5.15 p.m. Sat 12/06/14
Kollin Elderts. Michael Brown. Tamir Rice. Eric Garner. The list is far from complete. People of color dying at the hands of those who are supposed to protect and serve. Honolulu resident, Carolyn Hadfield looks nothing like any of these…
Tagged with: Eric Garner, Honolulu City Lights, Kollin Elderts, Michael Brown, Noura Erakat, Tamir Rice
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Police Brutality, Racism, US Bishops
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Police Brutality, Racism, US Bishops
Noura Erakat in Honolulu: Solidarity Across Borders
No matter how much you thought you understood–or did not understand–about Palestine and Israel, you would have come away from Noura Erakat’s first talk in Honolulu with new information and a new lens through which to look at the laws,…
Tagged with: Calvary by the Sea, Divestment, Hamas, Israel, Jon Osorio, Noura Erakat, Palestine
Posted in I BLOG, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
Posted in I BLOG, Israel, Middle East, Palestine
From Palestine to Ferguson to Hawaii: Solidarity in Resistance
Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison,…
Tagged with: ferguson, Michael Brown, Noura Erakat, Palestine, Waikiki protests
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
A Circle of Violence: Deir Yassin to Har Nof
Originally posted on Wallwritings:
By James M. Wall Early Tuesday, November 18, two young Palestinians broke into a synagogue in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of West Jerusalem’s Har Nof. Armed with a gun, knives and axes, the assailants killed three rabbis and…
Posted in Uncategorized
Noura Erakat: 3 Talks in Honolulu Nov 28- Dec 1
Originally posted on Humanize Palestine:
Salma Al-Radiya, 2 years old, was killed by shrapnel from an Israeli tank shell in Beit Lihaya, north of Gaza Strip on July 23, 2014.
Tagged with: Hawaii Friends of SABEEL, HCJP, Noura Erakat, Occupation, settler colonialism
Posted in Human Rights, I BLOG, Israel, Justice, Palestine, Uncategorized
Posted in Human Rights, I BLOG, Israel, Justice, Palestine, Uncategorized
