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A progressive voice in Hawai'i promoting the
positive healing role of religion in public life by encouraging
dialogue, challenging extremism, and facilitating nonviolent community
activism
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Commission on Human Concerns
Commission Members
Douglas Pyle, MDiv
Chair
Travis Idol
Jean Sadako McKillop King
Kekapa Lee, MDiv
Bob Nakata
The strategic positioning goal of the
Commission on Human Concerns is to be a catalyst and channel of
communication, engaging the interfaith community in concern for
social and human conditions that contravene accepted ethical and
moral values e.g. poverty and violence.
—Responsible for engaging the
interfaith community in social justice activities, and acting as
a catalyst and channel of communication to or for other
individuals and agencies promoting the well-being of all people
in Honolulu and the State of Hawaii.
—Be concerned for social and
human conditions that contravene accepted ethical and moral
values, such as, homeless, wages, housing, crime, violence, and
poverty.
Recent Action Items: Homelessness, Civil Unions, Crime,
Participating in the Forum on Economics of Jobs & Justice in
the Current Economic Crisis, with economist Dr. Lawrence
Bill Boyd of CLEAR (Center for Labor Education and Research, UH
West Oahu).
Membership is open. For more information, please contact
Rev. Doug Pyle.
Thank you very much.
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