It’s time to rock and roll my friends. Important bills are being scheduled at the legislature and your testimony, both in person and via email, is important. Trust me on this. While some think that just a little ol’ email…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Blog Archives
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
Guest Post: Rev. Jazzy Bostock on finding living water in a parched landscape
Where there is no water, there can be no life. This is true of plants and animals alike. There is no substitute for water. This week, I began to pull out some of the overgrowth in the little garden behind…
Kings Bay Plowshares: Honoring MLK by resisting militarism, racism, materialism
Seven Catholic plowshares activists were detained early Thursday morning at the Kings Bay Naval Base St. Mary’s Georgia. They entered on Wednesday night April 4. Calling themselves Kings Bay Plowshares, they went to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command: “beat…
Tagged with: King's Bay Plowshares, Martha Hennessy, Martin Luther King, MLK
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Nonviolence, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Nonviolence, Politics and Religion, 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
Tell legislators to restore pesticide disclosure, notification to SB3095. Protect ALL our kids with buffer zones around schools. Deadline Feb 19.
URGENT ACTION ALERT: Remember SB3095–the so-called environmental protection bill from last week? It WAS a mandatory pesticide disclosure bill with a five school buffer zone pilot program. The heart of the bill (mandatory pesticide disclosure) was gutted, and as a…
Tagged with: buffer zones, Center for Food Safety, Pesticide disclosure and notification Hawaii, SB3095
Posted in Environmental Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Posted in Environmental Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Uncategorized
Former Senate Majority Leader, Hooser, calls for servant leadership in opening reflection at the Capitol
Former Kaua‘i Senator and County Councilmember Gary Hooser was honored Friday February 3rd by an invitation to offers words of “reflection and contemplation” to the Hawai‘i State Senate. Hooser was invited to speak by Oahu Senator Les Ihara and welcomed…
Tagged with: Gary Hooser, Hawaii State Capitol, opening prayer, Senate, servant leadership
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
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
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
Dawn Morais 