South Pole Discovery Day 348 of 2007 17 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The gift is sounded.”

December 14th, 1910: Maui is quarantined because of a breakout of diphtheria.Strangely, no other island has this problem, and the quarantine lasts for just five days.

Diphtheria is an infection of the upper body, lungs, throat, nasal passages, tonsils, and accompanied by fever. It has largely been eradicated from the U.S., with just five cases reported here in the past seven years.

FROM MAUI PEACE ACTION
We’re so lucky to have Ann Wright coming to Maui to read from her new book “Dissent: Voices of Conscience” and we’re hoping the 5:30 pm time on Friday, 12/21 will make it possible for you to come and meet Ann and still go to your Friday night social events or complete Christmas shopping errands.  If you can print this poster (in color best or in black and white) and stick it up somewhere in your community, that would be great. 
 
Ann is a very dynamic and important person in the peace movement.  Based in Honolulu, she travels the country, sometimes with IVAW, Cindy Sheehan, and CodePink,  speaking out for a sane US foreign policy, an end to the Irraq occupation, adherence to US Constitutional rights, and fair treatment for veterans and war resisters.  Recently Ann was put on a Homeland Security list of “terrorists” and not allowed to enter Canada on behalf of US war-resisting soldiers seeking refuge in that country.

The reading is co-sponsored by Maui Peace Action, Hawaii Institute for Human Rights, CODEPINK Maui, and Koa Books.

Voices of conscience are usually smothered in spin. That the stories of these heroes are recorded here gives me great hope and shows that it is still possible to do the right thing.
—Ray McGovern, Retired CIA Analyst and Presidential Briefer for George H. W. Bush

As a soldier and a diplomat, Ann Wright always placed her country, its direction, and its welfare at the top of her priority list. She is, without question, one of the most honest and ethical individuals I have been privileged to know. I salute Ann Wright and the powerful voices of truth heard in Dissent. 
—Brig. General (Ret.) Pat Foote, Former Commanding General, Fort Belvoir

This remarkably impressive book should be leaked into the government. It could awaken officials to withdraw their complicity and tell the truth.
— from the Foreword, by Daniel Ellsberg

Ann Wright is not one to be silenced.
— Ms. Magazine

Dissent: Voices of Conscience, by Colonel (Ret.) Ann Wright and Susan Dixon
Trade Paperback Original • 296 pages • $17.95 • ISBN 978-0977333844
Published by Koa Books, PO Box 822, Kihei, Maui • www.koabooks.com • www.voicesofconscience.com
Distributed to the trade by SCB Distributors, www.scbdistributors.com