Faith Action for Community Equity

01/06/2026

18/05/2026

In a three-hour service on Saturday, May 16, 2026, following the 78th anniversary of the ongoing Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic), we shared from our various faiths and spoke aloud the names of 968 individuals under one year old and 262 journalists killed in Gaza between October 2023 to July 2025.

Grateful to gather as people of faith and conscience to hold space, to remember and honor the lives taken, to know we are not alone in our grief, to allow the magnitude of loss to move us.

While our Community Vigil for Peace centered around Gaza where over 75,000+ have been killed since October 2023, our thoughts and prayers include all who have been maimed, murdered, held captive around the world.

We affirm our shared commitment to peace, justice, and the dignity of every human life.

View the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/live/EALyCjP3pmg?si=uA_y976ZXWVTFNFi

15/05/2026

Join us for a Community Vigil for Peace on Saturday, May 16, 3-6 PM in the Sanctuary at Central Union Church of Honolulu.

This interfaith service will include a speaking of the names of people who have been killed in Gaza, interspersed with prayers and readings by representatives of various faith traditions.

Join, as you’re able, to mourn and honor the lives lost. Come and leave as needed.

May our grief be transformed into collective action for peace and justice.

🕊️ Community Vigil for Peace
🗓️ Saturday, May 16, 2026
⏰ 3:00-6:00 PM
📍 Central Union Church (1660 S. Beretania Street, Honolulu)
🅿️ Free parking available on campus
🚏 Bus stop along Beretania Street

The service will also be live streamed: bit.ly/vigil4peace

07/05/2026

A great opportunity for community and learning on FOUR islands: O‘ahu, Kaua‘i, Maui, Hawai‘i (Hilo)

29/04/2026

Join us tomorrow to honor the Negros 19 in grief and solidarity.
📍Thomas Square
925 S Beretania St. Honolulu, HI 96814
⏰ 6:30- 7:30 PM
Justice for the Negros 19!
Justice for Lyle Prijoles! Justice for Kai Sorem! Justice for RJ Nichole Ledesma! Justice for Alyssa Alano! Defend Negros! Cancel Balikatan! End U.S. military aid to the Philippines! U.S. out of the Philippines!

29/04/2026

(RESCHEDULED FROM 4/21)

The State of Hawaiʻi is proposing a public-private partnership to finance, design, build, and maintain a new and larger 1,300-bed jail on Oʻahu, at an initial estimated cost of $1 billion. Join a panel of experts as they facilitate an informed, balanced examination of the potential costs, benefits, and impacts of this proposal.

Examining For-Profit Correctional Facilities in Hawaiʻi
🗓️ Wednesday, April 29, 2026
⏰ 12:00 - 1:00 PM (HST)
📍 Ali‘iōlani Hale, Hawai‘i Supreme Court
🏛️🌐 In person or Zoom

Register for in-person/virtual option:
👉 https://examining-for-profit-correctional-facilities-in-hawaii.eventbrite.com/

The panel includes voices with direct experience across the spectrum of this public policy issue: moderator Liam Chinn facilitates the Hawaiʻi Community Safety Coalition and brings two decades of experience designing and implementing data driven public safety frameworks; Carrie Ann Shirota is a civil rights attorney and public policy advocate who has studied for-profit prison incarceration; Eric Seitz is a civil rights litigator whose work has advanced accountability in correctional systems; and Jim Richardson taught as a University of Hawaiʻi business professor for 30 years, where his research included evaluating the economic costs of recidivism in Hawaiʻi’s prisons.

Together, they bring legal, policy, and business expertise to bear on the proposal’s risks, costs, and potential benefits. The discussion will be grounded in evidence, respectful of the legitimate public safety and fiscal considerations that motivate public-private partnership proposals, and focus on what best serves the long-term interests of Hawaiʻi’s communities and justice system.

This public program is presented in partnership by the King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, Hawai‘i Friends of Restorative Justice, and Hawai'i Community Safety Coalition.

To join via Zoom webinar, or to recieve a recording of the discussion, please RSVP here:
https://courts-hawaii-gov.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_niY4sDr5SS2NsQP_cqgLzQ

13/04/2026

05/04/2026

Last weekend, alongside thousands across Hawai‘i and the US, we stood together in the streets—organizing, marching, and refusing to accept a future shaped by fear, power hoarding, or complicity. We showed up with our partners for a movement grounded in justice, dignity, and collective courage.

We began with a Peace March where our director shared these words: “One voice may be a whisper… but together, we are a chorus. And today, we are that chorus.”

Faith leaders led the march, a diverse procession of identities and causes, toward the Capitol where we joined with hundreds more for the “No Dictators” protest and rally. (In Hawai‘i, organizers have changed to out of respect for the monarchy and illegally occupied Hawaiian Kingdom where we reside.)

This moment isn’t about individuals—it’s about all of us. Students, workers, parents, children, dreamers. People choosing love over apathy, justice over comfort, and community over division.

We don’t just hope for change. We become it.

15/02/2026

What does love look like in your community? Yesterday, we saw love and faith in action through the people who invested their time and showed up for our training with Organizing For Mission Network, “Building Collective Power through Community Organizing.”

In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, we asked folks about LOVE, reflecting on the quote by Dr. Cornel West: “Justice is what love looks like in public.”

Some shared about love in the here and now, some shared about what could be if we truly loved all. Let us know what love looks like, or could look like, in your community! ❤️👇

Mahalo to ACLU Hawai‘i for co-sponsoring the training and to Nu‘uanu Congregational Church for sharing space to gather and to ALL who engaged in this space with us over the past couple days. Your love inspires us! 💓