Hawai’i SEED Raise Awareness Inspire Change Speaker Series presents: DR. TYRONE HAYES – SILENCING THE INDEPENDENT SCIENTIST Honolulu, HI-May 2, 2014 Hawai’i SEED today announced the state-wide speaking tour of world-renowned University of California Berkeley Professor of Integrative Biology Dr. Tyrone Hayes. Dr. Hayes will be joined by local food advocates from each island community. […]
Comments Off on Hawai`i SEED/MOM Hui Tour with Tyrone Hayes Continue Reading...Action requests below : Email Maui Council member Hokama in support of their pesticide disclosure bill, 2 online petitions. Information below : 3 Pesticide & GMO stories, 2 related to Kaua’i specifically. Hope everyone is doing well , we certainly have exciting times in the movement for a cleaner Kaua’i and state of Hawai’i. Maui has begun […]
Comments Off on Action Alert! & Infos Continue Reading...Aloha GMO Free Kaua’i Ohana,Yes we did it! We the people of Kaua’i stood up to 4 of the worlds largest chemical companies doing GMO seed experiments on our island, and passed bill 2491 yesterday! The final vote was 5-2, with Gary Hooser, Tim Bynum, JoAnn Yukimura, Jay Furfaro, and Mason Chock voting for the […]
Comments Off on YES! Bill 2491 passes into law with 5-2 vote! Continue Reading...Aloha GMO Free Kaua’i Ohana, So today I am writing everyone to share a explanation statement from JoaAnn Yukimura about what happened at 3am Wednesday morning in the council chambers , about her testimony regarding the question of the bill’s deferral. This has come about because I got into a conversation with her husband after […]
Comments Off on JoAnn Yukimura explanation of vote against deferal statement Continue Reading...Aloha GMO Free Kaua’i Ohana, A huge historic victory last night for the people of Kaua’i, by the people of Kaua’i, when at 3:33 AM the Kaua’i County Council, passed Bill 2491 by a vote of 6-1. We are stoked! A big real step in the right direction for the health and well being Kaua’i […]
Comments Off on YES! YES! YES! Bill 2491 passes at 3:33am by 6-1 vote , after 19 hour Kaua’i county council meeting! Continue Reading...Aloha GMO Free Kaua’i Ohana, Well tomorrow looks like a very big day for Bill 2491. Please read the attached flyer and come down to the county council building tomorrow, by 6pm, if you can. The chemical biotech companies are working as hard as they can to get the bill deferred, so that they can […]
Comments Off on Big Day for Bill 2491 is tomorrow! Continue Reading...Aloha GMO Free Kaua’i Ohana, Today’s email starts with a new video interview with Gary Hooser, throws in some local GMO Free news, adds a big DIGEST list of GMO & pesticide related news, and finishes it off with a poem ! I know this is a big digest, I have a backlog from all […]
Comments Off on Kaua’i / Hawai’i GMO Free News Continue Reading...Aloha GMO Free Kaua’i Supporters, Please read the following announcement from Ohana O Kaua’i and Hawai’i Seed, regarding our shared efforts to pass bill 2491. This is a critical time, so if you can help out in any way please do so. Also , please go to www.stoppoisingparadise.org and sign the petition if you have […]
Comments Off on Kaua’i Newsletter Continue Reading...Aloha GMO Free Kaua’i Supporters, Hope this summer solstice finds you in good spirits. We have three local upcoming GMO Free events, including a new , VERY exciting draft bill introduced by Gary Hooser and Tim Bynum, relating to Pesticides and GMO’s. We also wanted to give you more info about a ‘Olelo special program […]
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