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Will the 2019 legislative session in Hawai’i honor the spirit of Queen Liliʻuokalani and Father Damien?

Posted on April 22, 2019 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

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…

GUEST POST: Senate supporters of A&B planning to act on Tuesday to resurrect water theft bill, HB1326 HD2

Posted on April 7, 2019 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

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

GUEST POST: GARY HOOSER on CORPORATE WATER THEFT

Posted on March 6, 2019 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

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

Posted on February 5, 2019 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

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

Campaign to Raise Up Hawaii. Join us. Thurs Jan 10, 4.45p.m. Room 329, HI State Capitol

Posted on January 9, 2019 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

“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

Posted on October 25, 2018 by freecatholic808 — 4 Comments

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

Guest Post: Multiply or Divide? The Economy of Generosity

Posted on August 5, 2018 by freecatholic808 — 2 Comments

With thanks to Rev. David Gierlach, Rector, St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, for permission to publish this sermon of July 29, 2018. Back in my seminary days some 40 years ago (ouch!) our homiletics professor said there is one thing you…

Reduce houselessness with living wage, paid family leave

Posted on June 7, 2018 by freecatholic808 — 2 Comments

More than a quarter of the 25 seats in the Hawaii Senate are held by women. More than a quarter of the 51 seats in the Hawaii House of Representatives are held by women. But that apparently wasn’t enough woman…

A Living Wage: In Utah, as in Hawaii, lawmakers say no to struggling workers

Posted on April 23, 2018 by freecatholic808 — 1 Comment

The Fight for $15 in Hawaii ground to a halt in late February this year when it reached the Senate’s Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Senator Donovan Dela Cruz, a Democrat. The effort to help workers make ends meet…

GUEST POST: Kauai Residents: Still more help needed TODAY on SB3095 HD1

Posted on April 10, 2018 by freecatholic808 — Leave a comment

Originally posted on GaryHooser's Blog:
Kauai residents should EMAIL Senate President Ron Kouchi at senkouchi@capitol.hawaii.gov TODAY (if at all possible prior to April 12) and request politely and professionally that he support SB3095hd1 without making any further changes to…

Tagged with: Kauai, SB3095hd1, SE, Senator Kouchi
Posted in Business and Justice, Children's health, Environmental Justice, I BLOG, Pesticides, Uncategorized