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Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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A chance to make history in Hawai‘i | Pesticide Action Network
Tagged with: Dr. Virgina Rauh, Hawaii Alliance for Progressive Action, Keiki First Rally
Posted in Environment, Environmental Justice, Healthcare, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Environment, Environmental Justice, Healthcare, I BLOG, Uncategorized
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
Syngenta, Geneva, Kauai and Compunction–Come rally April 9 at noon, HI State Capitol
Originally posted on GaryHooser's Blog:
What does the International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights held recently in Geneva Switzerland have to do with Kauai? Earlier this month, I was honored to be invited and to speak at…
Paid Family Leave FREE PUBLIC PANEL April 6 at 6p.m. Cathedral of St. Andrew, Honolulu. COME!
Listen to what the research says about how affordable paid family leave can be. Hear one young mother’s story of loss and heartache and how she is turning her pain into advocacy for a public policy that will help…
MARCH FOR OUR LIVES Honolulu: March 24, 2018
Tagged with: gun control, Honolulu March for our lives, NRA, Parkland
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Paid Family Leave Rally/Hearing 3/20 Hawai’i State Capitol 9 a.m.
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…
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
HB 1727 lets employers offer workers a raise OR paid sick leave. Is this who we are as a community in HI?
HB 1727 has a Senate Labor Committee hearing on Thursday at 2:45 pm in room 229 of the Hawaiʻi State Capitol. The bill is a disservice to workers.It gives employers the discretion to decide if they will give employees a…
Solemn Bell Ringing to Support Students Against Guns. Wed 3/14 from 10-10.17 a.m. Honolulu
This Wednesday, March 14, 2018, from 10 to 10.17 a.m. many public high schools in Hawaii are staging a walk out and silent vigil to commemorate the senseless violence that occurred a few weeks ago at the high school in…
Tagged with: Church of the Crossroads, churches bell ringing, Honolulu, St. Elizabeth's Episcopal Church, Students against guns
Posted in Gun violence, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Gun violence, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Remembering John Victor Morais 18 Dec 1910 – 6 March 1991
“To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.” That was the motto of Anderson School, Ipoh, Perak where an eager 16 year old transplant from Kerala, educated up to that point in Malayalam, started his adventure in what…
Tagged with: Anderson School, Dreamers, Gladys Morais, Ipoh, John Manuel Morais, John Victor Morais, Malaya Tribune, Pearl Harbor
Posted in Family, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Family, I BLOG, Uncategorized
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
Dawn Morais 