Ua hāʻawi ka US Peace Memorial Foundation i kāna ʻO 2016 Loaʻa Kaukana i Veterans For Peace "I ka ʻike ʻana i nā hoʻoikaika ikaika e hōʻike i nā kumu a me nā kumukūʻai o ke kaua a e pale a hoʻopau i ka hakakā kaua."
Ua hāʻawi ʻo Michael Knox, ka luna o ka Foundation, i ka makana ma ʻAukake 13 ma ka ʻahaʻaina ʻaha aupuni o Veterans For Peace, i mālama ʻia ma ke Kulanui o Kaleponi, Berkeley. Ma kāna ʻōlelo, ua ʻōlelo ʻo Knox, "Mahalo iā ʻoe, e nā Veterans For Peace, no kāu hana antiwar pau ʻole, ka hana ʻana, a me ke alakaʻi. He mea hoʻoikaika kāu hui i ka poʻe aloha maluhia ma ka honua holoʻokoʻa.
Ua ʻae ʻia ka Peace Prize e Michael McPherson, Veterans For Peace Executive Director; Barry Ladendorf, Pelekikena o ka Papa Hoʻokele; a na Doug Rawlings, he mea hoʻokumu i ka VFP, i ka paʻipaʻi nui ʻana mai ka lehulehu ma kahi o 400.
Ua ʻōlelo ʻo Pelekikena Ladendorf, "No nā makahiki 31, ʻo Veterans For Peace wale nō ka hui o ka poʻe kahiko i alakaʻi mau i ka neʻe ʻana o ka maluhia i ka hoʻāʻo ʻana e hoʻopau i ke kaua, hoʻopau i nā mea kaua nuklea, hōʻike i nā kumukūʻai maoli o ke kaua, kū i ka lōkahi me ka poʻe kahiko. ka poʻe i loaʻa i ke kaua, a me ka mālama ʻana i ko kākou lāhui mai ke keʻakeʻa ākea a hūnā i nā hana o nā lāhui ʻē aʻe. He hanohano nui kēia makana no Veterans For Peace a he hōʻike ia i ka ʻike maka, ka naʻauao a me ka hoʻolaʻa ʻana o kā mākou mau mea hoʻokumu a me nā tausani o nā lālā VFP ma ka honua holoʻokoʻa i alakaʻi iā mākou i kā mākou hakakā hakakā ʻole no kahi honua maluhia. Mahalo a mahalo mākou i ka loaʻa ʻana o ka 2016 US Peace Memorial Foundation Peace Prize.
E ʻike i nā kiʻi a me nā kikoʻī piha ma: www.uspeacememorial.org/PEACEPRIZE.htm.
Ma waho aʻe o ka loaʻa ʻana o kā mākou hanohano kiʻekiʻe, ua koho ʻia ka 2016 Peace Prize, Veterans For Peace Ka mea i hoʻokumuʻia o ka US Peace Memorial Foundation. Ua hui pū lākou me nā mea i loaʻa mua iā Kathy F. Kelly, CODEPINK Women for Peace, Chelsea Manning, Medea Benjamin, Noam Chomsky, Dennis Kucinich, a me Cindy Sheehan.
ʻO nā poʻe ʻAmelika hanohano a me nā hui kaulana ʻAmelika i koho ʻia a noʻonoʻo ʻia no ka makana i kēia makahiki ʻo Center for Global Nonkilling, Lynn M. Elling, Colman McCarthy, a me Psychologists for Social Responsibility. Hiki iā ʻoe ke heluhelu e pili ana i nā hana antiwar/peace o nā mea loaʻa a me nā mea i koho ʻia i kā mākou hoʻolaha, ka US Registry Registry.
Ke alakaʻi nei ka US Peace Memorial Foundation i kahi hoʻoikaika aupuni e hoʻohanohano i nā ʻAmelika e kū nei no ka maluhia ma o ka paʻi ʻana i ka US Registry Registry, e hāʻawi ana i ka makana maluhia makahiki, a me ka hoʻolālā ʻana no ka US Peace Memorial ma Wakinekona, DC. Ke kōkua nei kēia mau papahana i ka neʻe ʻana o ʻAmelika Hui Pū ʻIa i kahi moʻomeheu o ka maluhia ma o ka hoʻohanohano ʻana i nā miliona o nā ʻAmelika noʻonoʻo a wiwo ʻole a me nā hui US i kū i ka lehulehu e kūʻē i hoʻokahi a ʻoi aku paha nā kaua US a i ʻole i hāʻawi i ko lākou manawa, ikaika, a me nā kumuwaiwai ʻē aʻe e loaʻa ai. nā hoʻonā maluhia i nā paio honua. Hoʻohanohano mākou i kēia mau hiʻohiʻona e hoʻoikaika i nā ʻAmelika ʻē aʻe e ʻōlelo kūʻē i ke kaua a e hana no ka maluhia.
E ʻoluʻolu e kōkua mai iā mākou e hoʻomau i kēia hana koʻikoʻi. E pili mau i kou inoa me ka maluhia ma ke komo ʻana i ka papa inoa o nā kānaka, nā hui, a me nā mea loaʻa i ka Peace Prize. Nā lālā hoʻokumu. Ua helu ʻia nā lālā i hoʻokumu ʻia ma kā mākou pūnaewele, i kā mākou hoʻolaha ʻana i ka US Registry Registry, a i ka hope ma ka Ka Hale Hōʻikeʻikeʻo US Peace Memorial.
Inā ʻaʻole ʻoe i lilo i a Ka mea i hoʻokumuʻia a i ʻole i hana i kāu Hāʻawi 2016, e ʻoluʻolu e hana pēlā i kēia lā! Mahalo nui iā ʻoe no kāu kākoʻo.
ʻO Lucy, Charlie, Jolyon, a me Michael
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