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.
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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
Speaker Saiki cites Obama to explain failure to raise the minimum wage. Really???
While Speaker Saiki’s recent OpEd (Honolulu Star Advertiser 5/27/2019) makes passing reference to “a blue state like Hawaii,” his arguments for why the legislature failed to ensure a raise for working people are more likely to make them see red.…
Tagged with: Living wage, Minimum Wage Hawaii, Scott Saiki, Sheela Jane Menon, Sid Goldstein
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Living wage, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
Posted in I BLOG, Justice, Living wage, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
‘Democratic’ lawmakers fail to pass living wage for Hawaii workers
National and local research has shown that raising the minimum wage is good for the economy. Yet, despite an avalanche of calls from workers, clergy, enlightened businesspeople, mental health experts and doctors, Hawaii lawmakers let the minimum wage bill die…
Will the 2019 legislative session in Hawai’i honor the spirit of Queen Liliʻuokalani and Father Damien?
As Notre Dame Cathedral burned, people–Catholic or not, French or not– mourned. Buildings stand for something –good and bad–that we cannot always put into words. As the legislative session draws to a close here in Hawai’i, it is worth asking…
Tagged with: Fight for $15, Fr. Damien, Living wage, Queen Lili`uokalani
Posted in Business and Justice, Fight for $15, I BLOG, Living wage, Politics and Religion, Queen Lili`uokalani, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, Fight for $15, I BLOG, Living wage, Politics and Religion, Queen Lili`uokalani, Workers' Rights
Guest Post: Stacey Abrams’ Response to Trump’s SOTU
Good evening, my fellow Americans. I’m Stacey Abrams, and I am honored to join the conversation about the state of our union. Growing up, my family went back and forth between lower middle class and working poor. Yet, even…
Tagged with: SOTU, Stacey Abrams
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, I BLOG, Justice, Politics and Religion, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
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
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
How would you spend $86,400 every day?
Imagine having $86,400 deposited in your bank account every day. It comes with conditions. You have to use it –or lose what is left of it–by the end of the day. What would you do? That was the challenge Sr.…
Tagged with: Bishop Remy DeRoo, Capital, Dorothy Day, Gustavo Gutiérrez, labor, liberation theology, Pope Francis, Second Vatican Council, Sr. Anne Smollin
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, Governing, Human Rights, I BLOG, Justice, Lay Catholics, Obamacare, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
Posted in Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, Governing, Human Rights, I BLOG, Justice, Lay Catholics, Obamacare, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
Homage to Joe Bageant
This post is dedicated, with thanks, to Pat Gozemba who introduced me to Joe Bageant—one of her heroes. It’s a tiny tavern at the corner of Kent and Fairfax in historic Winchester, Virginia. Despite its name, there is nothing royal…
Tagged with: Blue-collar worker, Brian Patrick, Christine Patrick, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War, Joe Bageant, Pat Gozemba, Royal Lunch, Virginia, Winchester, Winchester Book Gallery
Posted in Class warfare, Faith, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Justice, Middle Class, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
Posted in Class warfare, Faith, Feeding the Hungry, Fighting Poverty, I BLOG, Justice, Middle Class, Uncategorized, Workers' Rights
Dawn Morais 