With thanks to Tomoko Ella Hotema (seen here with her family) whose commentary was first published on Big Island Now. Reposted here with her permission and the permission of the publisher. COVID-19 should make all…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Blog Archives
GUEST POST: Improved access to voting will ensure better leadership.
Tagged with: 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, Aug 8 Primary, AVR, Tomoko Hotema, vote by mail
Posted in 2020 Elections, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women's Right to Vote
Posted in 2020 Elections, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women's Right to Vote
BLM: Thousands protested. Now let’s make change happen: VOTE! HI PRIMARY AUG 8. Voting starts July 21.
An estimated 10,000–or more– turned out in Honolulu on Saturday, June 6, 2020 to remember George Floyd and the many victims of police violence. People also protested on the Neighbor Islands. WILL THOSE PROTESTING TRANSLATE THEIR ANGER INTO VOTES THAT…
Tagged with: Amy Truong, Aug 8 HI Primary, Common Cause Hawaii, Hawaii for Black Lives, Radford High
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Hooser resigns as Vice-Chair, HI Democratic Party; Endorses Kim Coco Iwamoto for House Seat District 26
If you live in District 26, you can now vote for a TRAILBLAZER and a COMMITTED PROGRESSIVE, KIM COCO IWAMOTO We live in perilous times. This most hideous of weeks in a hideous presidency should motivate us all, not just…
Tagged with: District 26, Gary Hooser, Hawaii Primary August 8, Kim Coco Iwamoto
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Public should take priority when framing ‘public policy’
The landscape is not as bleak as it might seem in the shadow of COVID-19. House Finance Chairwoman Sylvia Luke has just given low-wage workers reason to hope. She is reported to have said recently when asked about the state…
Tagged with: Living wage, living wage HI, Rep. Sylvia Luke
Posted in 2020 Hawaii legislative session, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Living wage, Uncategorized
Posted in 2020 Hawaii legislative session, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Living wage, Uncategorized
Guest Post: Rage, sadness and determination – Gary Hooser reflects on the 2020 legislative session & minimum wage issue
This blogpost is a re-publication of an important personal message that just went out from the founder President of the Hawai’i Alliance for Progressive Action and former Majority Leader of the Hawai’i Senate, Gary Hooser. It points us to actions…
Tagged with: Living Wage Hawaii, Minimum wage
Posted in 2020 Hawaii legislative session, Business and Justice, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in 2020 Hawaii legislative session, Business and Justice, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Guest Post: Fundraiser for KIDS IN NEED OF DEFENSE
Sharing here a fundraiser created by my daughter, Sheela Jane Menon and her husband, John Fournie, in hopes of bolstering the efforts of those who are helping the thousands of children cruelly separated from their parents at the southern border,…
Tagged with: child internment camps, KIND, separating children from parents
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Hawaii’s Young Progressives Demanding Action (YPDA) are poised to make their voices count!
On a rainy Friday evening a few days ago, 17 people gathered for two hours in a meeting room at the Campus Center on the campus of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Their mission: to gather their thoughts about…
Tagged with: automatic voter registration, AVR, olvr.hawaii.gov, VBM, vote by mail, Young Progressives Demanding Action, YPDA
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Uncategorized
John Victor Morais:Teenage immigrant. “Self-made” man. Beloved father.
Neither of my parents were college graduates. But they were so wise, so open to the world and so adept at pointing all of their children in the direction of higher education that the fact that they had not had…
Tagged with: Gladys Vaz Morais, John Victor Morais
Posted in Family and Friends, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Posted in Family and Friends, I BLOG, Uncategorized
Guest Post: Rev. David Gierlach asks: “Do We Dare?”
With thanks to Fr. David Gierlach, Rector, St. Elizabeth’s Episcopal Church, Honolulu, for permission to publish this sermon. Luke 21:5-19 Why do you suppose that Jesus is warning his friends about what the future holds? After all, in those…
Tagged with: Dorothy Kazel, Ita Ford, Jean Donovan, King's Bay Plowshares 7, M.O.R.E., Maura Clark, Poor people's Campaign, Rev. Dr. William Barber 11, Scott Warren
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized
Remembering Gladys Morais who joined the angels Nov 8, 2015.
Your grandchildren, Zubin and Sheela Jane, sing the Malayalam hymn you taught them. And we sing it now to your great-grandchild. It’s been four years since you crossed over to join the angels, but you still feel very present in…
Dawn Morais 