If you live in District 26, you can now vote for a TRAILBLAZER and a COMMITTED PROGRESSIVE, KIM COCO IWAMOTO We live in perilous times. This most hideous of weeks in a hideous presidency should motivate us all, not just…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Hooser resigns as Vice-Chair, HI Democratic Party; Endorses Kim Coco Iwamoto for House Seat District 26
Tagged with: District 26, Gary Hooser, Hawaii Primary August 8, Kim Coco Iwamoto
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, 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
CRUNCH TIME: Tell Gov. Ige REIT shareholders need to pay taxes. DO NOT VETO SB301
Faith Action for Community Equity has issued an urgent call to action. Please contact Gov. Ige’s Office Let’s continue to flood Gov. Ige’s office (today & tomorrow) with calls AND emails asking him to NOT veto SB 301. Office phone:(808)…
Will the 2019 legislative session in Hawai’i honor the spirit of Queen Liliʻuokalani and Father Damien?
As Notre Dame Cathedral burned, people–Catholic or not, French or not– mourned. Buildings stand for something –good and bad–that we cannot always put into words. As the legislative session draws to a close here in Hawai’i, it is worth asking…
Tagged with: Fight for $15, Fr. Damien, Living wage, Queen Lili`uokalani
Posted in Business and Justice, Fight for $15, I BLOG, Living wage, Politics and Religion, Queen Lili`uokalani, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, Fight for $15, I BLOG, Living wage, Politics and Religion, Queen Lili`uokalani, Workers' Rights
GUEST POST: Senate supporters of A&B planning to act on Tuesday to resurrect water theft bill, HB1326 HD2
Originally posted on GaryHooser's Blog:
All hands on deck. As expected the power and political muscle of A&B will not easily be letting go of their $62,000,000 and our water. Civil Beat is reporting: “Some senators want to help…
Tagged with: Alexander & Baldwin, HB1326 HD2, WAter theft
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Uncategorized
GUEST POST: GARY HOOSER on CORPORATE WATER THEFT
First of two updates on key bills making their way through the current session of the Hawaii Legislature from former Hawaii Senate Majority Leader, Gary Hooser, founder and volunteer Board President of the Hawaii Alliance Alliance for Progressive Action (H.A.P.A.)…
Guest Post: Stacey Abrams’ Response to Trump’s SOTU
Good evening, my fellow Americans. I’m Stacey Abrams, and I am honored to join the conversation about the state of our union. Growing up, my family went back and forth between lower middle class and working poor. Yet, even…
Tagged with: SOTU, Stacey Abrams
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
Campaign to Raise Up Hawaii. Join us. Thurs Jan 10, 4.45p.m. Room 329, HI State Capitol
“Servants, laborers and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconvenience to the whole. No society…
“One Job Should Be Enough”– Clergy bless Local 5 workers on the picket line, pray for fair resolution
You can’t tiptoe towards justice. You can’t walk up to the door all polite and knock once or twice, hoping someone’s home. Justice is a door, that, when closed, must be kicked in. Daniel José Older in Jesmyn Ward’s…
Tagged with: Faith Action, Hawaiʻi hotel workers, Local 5, One Job Should be Enough
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
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