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…
Dawn Morais
Communications Consultant/ Instructor/ Blogger/ Issue Advocate • Born in Kerala. Raised in Malaysia. Living in Hawaii.
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Guest Post: Rage, sadness and determination – Gary Hooser reflects on the 2020 legislative session & minimum wage issue
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
Honor MLK by carrying out his vision: It’s past time for a real LIVING WAGE in Hawaii
This post was first published as an Island Voices column in the SUNDAY STAR ADVERTISER. Republished here with permission. After the parades and the invocation of the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. what can we honestly expect in…
Tagged with: Living Wage Hawaii, MLK Jr.
Posted in Affordable Housing, Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, I BLOG, Politics and Religion
Posted in Affordable Housing, Business and Justice, Catholic Social Doctrine, I BLOG, Politics and Religion
Do legislators feel the “fierce urgency of now?” Voters want to see that they do.
This OpEd was first published in the Honolulu Star Advertiser, Oct 2, 2019. I have the privilege of working with various nonprofits on issues of community well-being. These nonprofits are doing courageous work on shoestring budgets, filling the potholes in…
Tagged with: Business Roundtable, Jamie Dimon, Living Wage Hawaii, One Job Should be Enough, Speaker Scott Saiki
Posted in I BLOG, Living wage, Uncategorized
Posted in I BLOG, Living wage, Uncategorized
‘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…
PLEASE CALL/EMAIL NOW: There is still time to raise the minimum wage for Hawaii’s struggling workers
GUEST POST BY GARY HOOSER This past Friday, the House was unable to get the approvals needed from their Finance Committee to pass the minimum wage bill out of the Conference Committee. Unless another committee meeting is scheduled tomorrow, April…
Tagged with: Fight for $15 Hawaii, Living Wage Hawaii, raise up Hawaii
Posted in I BLOG, Living wage
Posted in I BLOG, Living wage
Campaign to Raise Up Hawaii. Join us. Thurs Jan 10, 4.45p.m. Room 329, HI State Capitol
“Servants, laborers and workmen of different kinds, make up the far greater part of every great political society. But what improves the circumstances of the greater part can never be regarded as an inconvenience to the whole. No society…
Dawn Morais 