Hawaii Peace and Justice

“Other expenses consist of program expenses, supplies, insurance, telephone, website and other misc expenses”

“The Hawaii Peace and Justice conducts research, education, and technical assistance on issues related to peace, social justice, and solidarity with communities and social”

“movements in Hawaii. We seek to make the connection between local and global social movements for peace, social justice, and environmental justice.”

“Two main program areas are 1) building the capacity of communities to work for the demilitarization of their communities; and 2) supporting the development of youth”

“leaders.”

“Hawaii Peace Justice continues to collaborate with the Concerned Elders of Wai'anae to conduct an intergenerational environmental justice mentorship program. Youth and elders”

“from the Wai'anae community, one of the communities hit hardest by poverty and negative environmental impacts of the military, industry, and agriculture, work together to organize an educational film series on topics relevant to”

“their community. They use these events as a community organizing space to raise awareness, develop leaders, mobilize around critical issues, and make demands on public officials. We work with students at the University of”

“Hawai'i to build alliances between different Asian and Pacific Islander communities and to organize educational and mobilizing activities for students as well as community members. We suport a collaboration across four islands to”

“raise awareness about the costs of and alternatives to military service. The collaboration, called 808 Truth-2- Youth, is developing an online resource on alternatives to the military.”

“Hawaii Peace Justice continues to research, conduct education and support local activism addressing military related impacts of Hawai'i. One of the popoular projects is”

“called Hawai'i DeTours, a historical and geographic study tour of various military impacted sites on O'ahu. We provide these services to local universities, high schools,”

“community and church groups as well as visiting conferences and delegations of scholars, activists, educators, artists, writers and media producers.”

“HPJ supports local womens' groups who are confronting the effects of militarization on women, which connects with the International Network of Women Against Militarism.”

“HPJ also works with University of Hawai'i students and volunteers to develop a Hawai'i Peace and Justice movement archive based on materials collected over nearly fifty years of work in Hawai'i. The archive project has updated the”

“hawaiipeacearchive.info website uploading the inventory that volunteers have been developing to list the types of items and information that is in the basement archive. So”

“far, "collections" based on the boxes and file cabinets in the basement have been created. Under each collection is an inventory, which is the quickest way to visualize the”

“results from our inventorying and preservation projects thus far. Regarding this online portal, there is more work to be done to allow searchability across the inventory. Work has”

“begun to start scanning the AFSC-Hawaii Newsletters, and there are a few already scanned. But, there is a need for more resources to support the person/people who would”

“further develop this next phase of the project.”