Arnold Martines (Exec VP, Central Pacific Bank), Mayor Kirk Caldwell, Randy Perreira (Exec Dir, HGEA), Roy Amemiya (Managing Dir, C&C Honolulu), Justin Kollar (Prosecuting Attorney, Kauaʻi County)
Hawaiʻi State Capitol - site of Menʻs March Against Violence Opening Ceremony in which the six people who were murdered in 2018 were remembered.
Queen Liliʻuokalani statue at Hawaiʻi State Capitol
Domestic Violence Action Center staff prepare table to distribute free Menʻs March Against Violence T-shirts to marchers
Tables with information were set up by a variety of social service organizations, including Catholic Charities and the Domestic Violence Action Center, two of the Marchʻs sponsors.
Honolulu Police Department has supported the March for the past 24 years.
Women join us to "Stand together against domestic violence."
Stand Up... Speak Out Against Violence!
Men of all ages and walks of life participated.
Another man against violence!
YMCA represented.
Offender defined as "Children we failed"
Representatives of Alexander & Baldwin Company marching.
HMSA represented.
HMSA - Strive 4 Peace
HMSA (Hawaiʻi Medical Service Association) represented.
Kaiser Permanente represented.
"Nā Leo Kāne," a community initiative in Hawaiʻi focused on expanding the conversation of what it means to be a man distributed fans and marched.
Our objective - men speaking-up against violence.
Seeds of Service, American Savings Bank represented.
Hawaii Pacific University "Sharks" basketball team represented.
Damien Memorial High School represented.
Bank of Hawaiʻi represented.
Youth 2 Youth, a JobCorp program represented.
Bank of Hawaiʻi represented.
Big Brothers Big Sisters represented.
St. Louis High School represented.
Marching in support of Domestic Violence awareness for the first time.
First Hawaiian Bank represented.
Peace Begins With Me
1,067 marchers entered the Iolani Palace grounds.
Social organizations provided refreshments, as well as information concerning their programs.
Corporate involvement has had a positive effect on helping to raise awareness of DV in their employees and increasing participation in the March.
Randy Perreira, Exec Director, HGEA, spoke of the need for men to model positive relationships and voiced his concerns over attitudes toward women currently being expressed on the national level.
Randy Perreira, Executive Director, Hawaiʻi Government Employees Association (HGEA).
Mayor Caldwell, Roy Amemiya, Father of DV victim, with friend on his right, Marci Lopes (DVAC), David Tumilowicz (Kaiser Permanente), Justin Kollar, Dr. Jamie Ford (Emergency Medicine)
Justin Kollar accepts Distinguished Citizen Award presented by Nanci Kreidman (DVAC) and David Tumilowicz
Keliʻi Beyer directs the Lei Ceremony in which David Tumilowicz symbolically passes positive values of respect in relationships to the next generation.
Members of MMAV Steering Committee: (front l-to-r) K.Beyer, D. Tumilowicz, J. Kollar, N. Kriedman, T. Kajimura; (back l-to-r) S. Lanzilotti, DVAC staff, P. Haro, M. Lopes,
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