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
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
Episcopal Bishop of Honolulu calls for rehabilitation, not another new jail on Oahu
On behalf of the Episcopal Church in Hawai‘i, I am writing to affirm our belief in the humanity of all of the people of Hawaii, including those who are incarcerated, and to support the recommendations of the House Concurrent Resolution…
Tagged with: Bishop Fitzpatrick, Episcopal Church of Hawaii, Oahu jail
Posted in Business and Justice, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Prison Reform, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, Family and Friends, I BLOG, Prison Reform, Uncategorized
HI legislators must act now in the face of Trump tax cuts for the rich, and assault on the safety net for the most vulnerable
The OpEd below was first published in the Honolulu Star Advertiser, April 25, 2017 and republished on this blog with permission. As the 2018 Hawai‘i state legislature convenes, it is worth remembering that our new Gilded Age is a call…
Tagged with: CEO to worker income ratio, Income disparity, Living wage, Sen. Russell Ruderman, tax fairness, United Airlines, Wells Fargo
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Income disparity, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Income disparity, Justice, Uncategorized
We live in the future. Come join us.
Originally posted on KE KAUPU HEHI ALE:
Adapted from NASA [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons We Live in the Future. Come Join Us. by Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada “Hawaiians need to stop living in the past.” We’ve all heard this before,…
Tagged with: Mauna Kea, Native Hawaiians, Thirty Meter Telescope
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Science and Culture, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Science and Culture, Uncategorized
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
The Nuns Jumped Over the Wall
in memory of Fr. William Brennan, S.J. 1920- 2014. A prophet for social justice and equality, including women’s ordination. One of the most prized dishes in Chinese cuisine is called “The Monk Jumped Over the Wall.” It takes its name…
Tagged with: Dianna Mae Ortiz, Donna Quinn, Hour Children, Jeannine Grammick, Jo Piazza, Joan Dawber, Lloyd Blankfein, Madonna Buder, Maureen Fiedler, Megan Rice, Nora Nash, School Sisters of Notre Dame, Sr. Simone Campbell, TASSC, Tesa Fitzgerald
Posted in Business and Justice, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, US Bishops, US Nuns
Posted in Business and Justice, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, US Bishops, US Nuns
David Cohen: “I believe in grace.”
What better time to believe in grace than in the Easter season? Or, for David Cohen, in the season of Passover. The former president of Common Cause and “the preeminent voice of public advocacy” was still in Passover observance mode…
Raising the Minimum Wage is Pro-Life. So why aren’t all Pro-lifers for it?
Speaker of the House, John Boehner, a Catholic pro-lifer who has previously said he would rather commit suicide than raise the minimum wage, offered the logic that a raise would adversely affect minorities who hold low-wage jobs and would be…
Tagged with: Catholic Charities Hawaii, FACE, Faith Action for Community Equity, Give Hawaii a Raise, Jery Rauckhorst, John Boehner, Minimum wage, Paul Ryan, PHOCUSED, Pro Life, RE. Bob Nakata, USCCB, Women and Minimum Wage, Women's Chamber of Commerce
Posted in Business and Justice, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
Posted in Business and Justice, Equality and Faith, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, US Bishops
