Whats Happening on the Big Island
November 7th 2009

Live Broadcast From Hilo Nov 7th: Anti War Protest in Response to Parade with Stryker Vehicles, Tomahawk Helicoptors, and Army Transport Vehicles

This marks the first broadcast YouthBuilt Media Inc. will be doing, at 3 pm eastern time 10 am Hawaiian Time.

It will be of a veterans parade in Hilo Hawaii, where the military will parade stryker assault vehicles, and people will be protesting.

Please pass this on. Youthbuiltmedia.com. We were informed there will be strykers in this parade, as well as other military vehicles and troops.

Here is a press release we received on the parade from malu aina.

Hilo’s Veterans Parade Sat. Nov. 7, 2009 l0AM

Please join with others to hold peace signs beginning at 8:30AM on Saturday Nov. 7th on the makai side of Kamehameha Ave. across from the Hilo farmers Market. (The sign holding will be stationary, not in the parade). Prior to the parade we will need several people to hand out a flyer ahead of the parade (see below) along the parade route. In all we do (message on signs included), we request that people come with a respectful attitude to vets and their families and to all encountered during the day. We want to raise our concerns to stop the wars and depleted uranium contamination in the spirit of aloha and the tradition of non-violence.

We support veterans being given the best possible medical care but we are opposed to U.S. wars of aggression that keep producing more and more disabled veterans. It’s time to end (not escalate) these illegal wars and the illegal occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Hawaii. The money being spent to kill people abroad should be spent to create jobs at home. The only people who get rich off war are the arms makers. We commend LTC Warline Richardson, Commanding Officer at PTA, who has ordered the removal of all mobile weapon systems from parade vehicles. We expressed concern that parading weapons glorifies war and desensitizes young and old to the horrors of war.

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