This is a sweet story of a small kindness on which to end a week filled with continuing stories of war and wretchedness on the world stage. A young woman standing in the checkout line at a supermarket saw the…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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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
From Palestine to Ferguson to Hawaii: Solidarity in Resistance
Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? When did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? When did we see you ill or in prison,…
Tagged with: ferguson, Michael Brown, Noura Erakat, Palestine, Waikiki protests
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
A Circle of Violence: Deir Yassin to Har Nof
Originally posted on Wallwritings:
By James M. Wall Early Tuesday, November 18, two young Palestinians broke into a synagogue in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of West Jerusalem’s Har Nof. Armed with a gun, knives and axes, the assailants killed three rabbis and…
Posted in Uncategorized
Noura Erakat: 3 Talks in Honolulu Nov 28- Dec 1
Originally posted on Humanize Palestine:
Salma Al-Radiya, 2 years old, was killed by shrapnel from an Israeli tank shell in Beit Lihaya, north of Gaza Strip on July 23, 2014.
Tagged with: Hawaii Friends of SABEEL, HCJP, Noura Erakat, Occupation, settler colonialism
Posted in Human Rights, I BLOG, Israel, Justice, Palestine, Uncategorized
Posted in Human Rights, I BLOG, Israel, Justice, Palestine, Uncategorized
Get your fatwa off our backs! by amina wadud
Originally posted on Feminism and Religion:
It’s not so easy any more to control the parameters of Islam and the way it is practiced by those who wish to stuff their opinion down the throats of other Muslim citizens, be…
Tagged with: fatwa, Malaysia, Sisters in Islam
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
What Happens In Gaza After The U.S. Elections?
Originally posted on Wallwritings:
By James M. Wall National U.S. congressional elections come around every two years. The latest arrives Tuesday, November 4. The election will relieve U.S. television viewers of a steady diet of noxious attack ads funded, in…
Tagged with: James Wall, Noura Erakat
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Gaza, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Gaza, I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
“Look Beyond the Frame” to Build a Better Church
This is how the Media Literacy Project(MLP) describes its mission: to “transform people into critical media consumers and engaged media justice advocates who deconstruct media, inform media policy, and create media that reflect their lived experience.” Andrea Quijada, Executive Director…
A Happy Atheistic Deepavali (aka Diwali) to Each and Every One of You!
Originally posted on S. SHANKAR:
I’m an atheist. There was a time—a green adolescent time of stumbling discovery—when because of my atheism I refused to enter temples, choosing rather to wait outside while my family disappeared inside for a while.…
