Against a backdrop of hundreds of anti-vaccine demonstrators, most unmasked and close together, in Waikiki this evening, a small group of clergy and lay people of faith stood together on Kapahulu Avenue to bear witness to the basic teaching of…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Pax Christi USA Condemns US drone strikes
Just released. Re-published with permission: Media statement from Johnny Zokovitch, Executive Director of Pax Christi USA, in response to the U.S. drone strike in Kabul on Sunday, August 29th: “As The Washington Post and other media outlets report on the deaths…
Guest Post: Hui Aloha`O Maui Indivisible invites Christian clergy to sign on to Letter in Support of COVID-19 Vaccinations
Hui Aloha`O Maui Indivisible will be running ads in local media to communicate publicly Christian clergy’s support for vaccinations to fight the COVID19 pandemic. The letter below was written by Rev. Dr. Scott Landis, Kahu Kealahou Alika, Rev. Dr. Robert Nelson,…
Tagged with: Clergy for Vaccines, Covid-19, Hui Aloha 'O Maui Indivisble, vaccinations
Posted in Covid-19, Health and Wellness, Healthcare, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Vaccines
Posted in Covid-19, Health and Wellness, Healthcare, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Vaccines
Be kind, decent, smart: Get vaccinated
This OpEd was published in the Honolulu Star Advertiser on August 11, 2021. Reproduced here with permission. Hawaii seemed to be doing well. But the Delta variant has the daily tally of COVID infections now exceeding seven hundred cases. Governor David Ige is…
Tagged with: antivaxx, COVID19 Hawaii, healthcare workers, vaccinations
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Guest Post: Listen to Hawaii’s Women Leaders and Change-makers–and NINA TURNER for CONGRESS
Register here on Zoom for an exclusive virtual event featuring Nina Turner for Congress & 13 of Hawaii’s top progressive women candidates: State Representative Tina Wildberger Maui Councilmember Kelly King State Rep. Candidate Shannon Matson State Representative Jeanne Kapela State…
Tagged with: Amy Perruso, Becky Gardner, Felicia Cowden, Gary Hooser, Heather Kimball, Jeanne Kapela, Keani Rawlins-Fernandez, Kim Coco Iwamoto, Laura Acasio, Nina Turner, Rebecca Villegas, Shannon Matson, Tamara Paltin, Tina Wildberger, Women leaders in HI
Posted in 2022 Elections, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women in Politics
Posted in 2022 Elections, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women in Politics
Again: violent expulsion of Palestinians from their homes by Israel
Dr. Cindy Franklin of Student and Faculty for Justice in Palestine at the University of Hawai’i, suggests these resources to learn more about what’s happening in Sheikh Jarrah and Jerusalem: Middle East Eye – Israel-Palestine: A Glossary of Problematic Media…
Tagged with: Jerusalem, JVP-Hawaii, Noura Erakat, SFJP-Univ of Hawaii, Sheikh Jarrah
Posted in I BLOG, Palestine, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Palestine, Uncategorized
VETO HB499!
Native Hawaiian and Faith leaders are ramping up pressure on Gov Ige to veto HB499, just passed by the Hawaii legislature. The bill extends 65 year leases to tenants on state-owned public land to nearly 100 years, without competition. In…
Tagged with: Dr. Kahu Kaleo Patterson, HB499, Pacific Justice and Reconciliation Center, VETO HB499
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Guest Post: Rev. David Gierlach Good Friday 2021
“Why on earth do you call it ‘Good Friday’?,” my atheist friend demands one day. “What’s possibly ‘good’ about this day?” I suppose that’s a question we each of us have asked, if not out loud, then perhaps in the…
Tagged with: Good Friday, Honolulu, St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church
Posted in Good Friday, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Good Friday, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Remembering my father, “Honorary Submariner”
On this the 3oth anniversary of my father’s passing, I dipped into his memoirs again and found this little account of his visit to Honolulu in 1958 with a group of SouthEast Asian journalists. Knowing what a pacifist he was,…
Guest Post: Sheela Jane Menon:The Promise of a New Season
I don’t know if Saraswati Puja always falls this close to Ash Wednesday. I don’t recall celebrating this festival with the Menon side of my family, though I certainly remember marking other Hindu holidays with them. I’m not sure that…
Dawn Morais 