{"id":70308,"date":"2016-02-29T12:11:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T12:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=70308"},"modified":"2016-02-29T12:11:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T12:11:38","slug":"moral-courage-stand-up-to-wall-st-the-u-s-war-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2016\/02\/moral-courage-stand-up-to-wall-st-the-u-s-war-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"Moral Courage &#8211; Stand Up to Wall St. &#038; the U.S. War Machine!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/jim-albertini-james.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-54387\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-54387\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/jim-albertini-james-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"jim albertini james\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Have elections in the U.S. become mainly a contest between billionaires (Trump) and multi-millionaires (Clinton) funded and controlled by corporate special interests? Why does\u00a0 57% of the U.S. discretionary federal budget go to the military and those who profit from war, while there is growing homelessness, hunger, economic inequality and escalating costs to education, health care, etc. amid a crumbling infrastructure, escalating racism, police violence, and the world facing man-made climate disaster?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When Wealth Rules, Resistance Becomes Duty!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>\u201cFew are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; \u2013 <\/em>\u00a0Robert F. Kennedy<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/change-cartoon.jpg\"  rel=\"attachment wp-att-70309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70309 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/change-cartoon.jpg\" alt=\"change-cartoon\" width=\"525\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/change-cartoon.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/change-cartoon-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Show Your Moral Courage!\u00a0 Walk Your Talk!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Protest &amp; Organize for Change! <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Together we can stop these wars, narrow the divides, and heal our communities!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Live Aloha!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Ground the Drones!\u00a0 Say No to War!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li><strong><em>Mourn all victims of violence<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Reject war as a solution<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><em>Defend civil liberties.<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><em>Ground the Drones!\u00a0 Say No to War!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Mourn all victims of violence<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Defend civil liberties<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Seek peace by peaceful means through justice in Hawai\u2019i and around the world.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Hilo Peace Vigil (Mar 4, 2016 \u2013 754rd week<\/strong><strong>) &#8211; Friday 3:30-5PM Downtown Post Office.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>___________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>James Albertini is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>, and director of\u00a0<\/em>Malu &#8216;Aina Center for Non-violent Education &amp; Action<em> &#8211; P.O. Box 489 Kurtistown, Hawai&#8217;i 96760. Phone (+ 808) 966-7622 Email: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:ja@malu-aina.org\">ja@malu-aina.org<\/a>\u00a0 Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.malu-aina.org\/\" >http:\/\/www.malu-aina.org\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/malu-aina.org\/?p=3706\" >Go to Original \u2013 malu-aina.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFew are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8211; \u2013  Robert F. 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