We are all busy–sometimes busier than we should be. And we don’t always have the time to research candidates running for office as well as we should. But in the case of Sergio Alcubilla who is challenging the incumbent Blue…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
Blog Archives
Sergio Alcubilla: A REAL Democrat to represent Hawaii’s CD1–Look at who is endorsing him!
Tagged with: 350.org HI, AFL-CIO, Congressional District 1, HI Nurses, HSTA, ILWU, Maritime Workers, PONO Hawaii Initiative, Sergio Alcubilla, Unite Here Local 5
Posted in 2022 Elections, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
Posted in 2022 Elections, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
ROE V. WADE REPEAL?
If justices strip rights from women, strip Republicans from office Republished with the permission of the Honolulu Star Advertiser where it first appeared in a Sunday “Insights” section (5/08/2022)devoted to the draft decision written by Justice Alito. Justice Alito’s leaked…
Reduce houselessness with living wage, paid family leave
More than a quarter of the 25 seats in the Hawaii Senate are held by women. More than a quarter of the 51 seats in the Hawaii House of Representatives are held by women. But that apparently wasn’t enough woman…
Tagged with: DBEDT, Fight for $15 HI, Living wage, Paid family leave, public family leave insurance
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Living wage, Paid family leave, Uncategorized, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Living wage, Paid family leave, Uncategorized, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
A Living Wage: In Utah, as in Hawaii, lawmakers say no to struggling workers
The Fight for $15 in Hawaii ground to a halt in late February this year when it reached the Senate’s Ways and Means Committee, chaired by Senator Donovan Dela Cruz, a Democrat. The effort to help workers make ends meet…
Tagged with: Brian King, Donovan Dela Cruz, Fight for $15, gender gap, Hawaii, Minimum wage, Utah
Posted in Business and Justice, Fight for $15, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, Fight for $15, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
The Acid Attack on WomanPriest Alexandra Dyer: The Cancelation of Evil with the Face of God/ess by Cynthia Garrity-Bond
On August 20, Alexandra Dyer, a Roman Catholic WomanPriest was the victim of a targeted acid attack to her face. Dyer had just left a meeting at The Healing Arts Initiative in Queens, NY. As she was walking to her…
Catholic workers: Irene Fernandez and Dorothy Day
On March 31, 2014, Irene Fernandez, passed away in her country, Malaysia, after a heart attack at the age of 67. She had decades ago given up the possibility of a safe teaching career for a life devoted to addressing…
Tagged with: Amnesty International, Catholic social teaching, Catholic Worker Movement, Chaminade University, Danny O'Regan, Dorothy Day, Honolulu, Irene Fernandez, Mackey Lecture, Malaysia, Martha Hennessy, Mary House, Notre Dame University, Peter Maurin, Tenaganita
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, Human Rights in Malaysia, I BLOG, Justice, Lay Catholics, Malaysian Government, Uncategorized, War, Women in the Church, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
Posted in Catholic Social Doctrine, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, Human Rights in Malaysia, I BLOG, Justice, Lay Catholics, Malaysian Government, Uncategorized, War, Women in the Church, Women's Rights, Workers' Rights
Catholic Voter Guide: Listen and Love
These pre-election days are filled with the noise of a number of Catholic Bishops issuing denunciations of “some candidates and one party” because of positions on contraception, abortion and gay marriage that the Bishops deem “intrinsically evil” or against the…
Tagged with: 47%, common good, Fr. George Cerniglia, Intrinsic Evils, Marianists, pro-life, Thomas Friedman
Posted in 2012 Elections, Catholic Vote, I BLOG, LGBT Families, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Women's Rights
Posted in 2012 Elections, Catholic Vote, I BLOG, LGBT Families, Uncategorized, US Bishops, Women's Rights
GOP and GOD: More than a one letter difference
Maybe it is because Halloween is almost upon us. But some very ghoulish men are walking the earth spewing hateful, uneducated nonsense at women. Let’s make one thing clear: When Mary said, “Be it done to me according to Thy…
Tagged with: Andrew Sullivan, Bob McDonnell, Cardinal Martini, Community Organizer, Mitt Romney, Paul Ryan, President Obama, Richard Mourdock, Sr. Sandra Schneiders, Thomas Aquinas, Todd Akin, VP Biden
Posted in Catholic Politicians, Catholic Social Doctrine, Fighting Poverty, Healthcare, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women's Rights
Posted in Catholic Politicians, Catholic Social Doctrine, Fighting Poverty, Healthcare, I BLOG, Uncategorized, Women's Rights
Pro-Life Politicians and “Gender Nonsense”
This is the week in which we mark the fiftieth anniversary of the start of Vatican II, that empowering event that makes it possible to still be a thinking Catholic today. This is the week in which two Catholic politicians,…
Tagged with: Elizabeth Warren, Joe Biden, Kathleen Parker, Malala Yousafzai, Pakistan, Paul Ryan, Second Vatican Council, Taliban, Todd Akin
Posted in Catholic Politicians, I BLOG, Islam, Uncategorized, Women's Rights
Posted in Catholic Politicians, I BLOG, Islam, Uncategorized, Women's Rights
Recognizing “Intrinsically Evil Practices”
Earlier this year, Pope Benedict XVI spoke to US Bishops about the need for an “engaged, articulate and well-formed Catholic laity endowed with a strong critical sense” to counter any effort to draw Catholic individuals and institutions into “intrinsically evil…
Dawn Morais 