Where are they writing about? Not Kauai, an island in the archipelago of ko Hawaii Pae Aina. This Kauai is not part of America. We'll preserve our own history...No Thank You America!
Kaua‘i a ‘Preserve America Community’
By The Garden Island
Published: Thursday, December 25, 2008 1:10 AM HST
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation yesterday announced the County of Kaua‘i has been designated a Preserve America Community, according to a county press release. Through this prestigious designation, the county becomes eligible for grants and other assistance to its historic preservation and heritage tourism efforts.
The County of Kaua‘i is the third Hawai‘i community, after Honolulu’s Chinatown Historic District and Maui County to receive this special designation.
“We’re proud to receive this designation,” Mayor Bernard Carvalho said in the written statement. “I’d like to thank the previous County Council and former Mayor Kaipo Asing for supporting our application to this program. We’ll be looking for opportunities to utilize these grants for historic and cultural preservation projects.”
ACHP Chairman John L. Nau, III officially welcomed the County of Kaua‘i as a Preserve America Community.
“There are significant economic, educational, and cultural benefits that historic preservation, through efforts such as heritage tourism, provides a community,” Nau said in the release. “Sustainable preservation is not a cost for maintaining the past; it is an investment in the future. Preserve America Communities are to be commended for their dedication to historic preservation and their visions for civic improvement. Congratulations to the County of Kaua‘i on their designation.”
The Preserve America initiative is a White House effort to encourage and support community efforts for the preservation and enjoyment of America’s priceless cultural and natural heritage.
The goals of the initiative, which is administered by the ACHP in partnership with other federal agencies include: a greater shared knowledge about the nation’s past; strengthened regional identities and local pride; increased local participation in preserving the country’s cultural and natural heritage assets; and support for the economic vitality of communities.
Preserve America began as a White House initiative in 2003. First Lady Laura Bush is honorary chair of Preserve America.
More than 600 cities, counties, tribes, and neighborhoods in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands have been designated Preserve America Communities.
Preserve America Communities become eligible for technical and financial support for educational and marketing opportunities.
Preserve America grants compliment the bricks and mortar funding of the Save America’s Treasures grant program by helping local communities develop sustainable resource and marketing management strategies, sound business practices for the continued preservation and use of heritage assets, and educational and interpretive efforts.
“The County of Kaua‘i has a long standing historical and culturally significant past that merits such a designation as a Preserve America Community,” Sen. Daniel K. Inouye, who supported the designation process, said in the statement. “The designation will offer a mechanism to recognize important federal heritage sites on Kaua‘i, thereby promoting an opportunity for interaction between the federal government and the public at the community level.”
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Imua na kanaka,my children always tell me when passing the post office,court house,football games,school,Papa how come the Americans still fly their flag over our flag?Im proud to say that my children know the truth that the only flags should be flying here is the Hawaiian flag.the programs of assimilation the u.s. has practiced here is sad to say working.But the hawaiians who r not afraid of the United States shall preserve Hawaii thruogh our examples, and sharing of our manao to everyone we know or meet.
There is a way to beat it. This is what some kanaka brothers did. Post offices close at noon on Saturdays. The American flags come down. In the afternoon or after sundown it is easy to attach a kanaka maoli flag to the swivel clamps (or whatever you call them) of the pull-up rope. Make sure that you cover the upper clamp with crazy glue or Gorilla glue. Pull up the flag quickly all the way until the upper clamp touches the ring or pully at the top of the pole. Tie the rope around the pole. The crazy glue or Gorilla glue will bond with whatever it touches within one hour so strongly that they cannot pull it down if they discover the new flag before Monday morning. The only way to get it off is to call the fire department or get a very tall ladder. But the flag will fly for a while. Of course you will lose the flag but you had already sent the message. Don't leave your fingerprints on the flagpole. Keep your kids around while you are doing it to keep an eye on if any māka‘i is around. And it will really be "i mua nā kānaka".
When slogans don't work, they try to entice you with money. Federal grants and so on. They presume that the Hawaiian soul is also for sale. It is our task to stress by using every possible means (radio, community television, newspapers, flyers, stickers, graffiti, displays, etc. that Kaua`i is not America, neither geographically, nor politically. We don't want American culture (is there such?) on Kaua`i or anywhere else i kō Hawai‘i pae ‘āina.
Tane > Janos (Keoni) SamuJanuary 9, 2009 at 12:04am
Pono's son, Kealaula, hung a Hawaiian flag on his jalousied window which is the back of the apartment which faces an empty lot and the Pearl Highland shopping center. The association told us, he would have to take it down because there were some complaints made. From who? Don't know. The opposite end of our complex, someone put up an American flag on her door, a large one and no one complainded, so, we did. eventually, she took it down. Pono wanted to put a Hawaiian flag on our door to counter hers. I told him NO; why agitate the situation. So I made a creative wreath with three Hawaiian flags and the top flag placed upside-down in distress. I added Ribbons and twigs; all done up creatively as a door decoration tastefully made. It's been up for two years now and there hasn't been a complaint. LOL... So, there's more than one way to skin the cat since door wreaths are acceptable within our complex. When we draw the front room drapes; people can look into our living room where there are a few flags and a large one on display among other artifacts and crafts. I just love it! My apartment faces the entrance to the property. I still get the last word. ROTFLMAO!
You know what else pisses me off?! That stupid sign in Mililani that says "All american City". more garbage! Seeing shit like that makes me sick! I hate seeing american flags all over the place too.
OK, let's do something about it. Measure the sign: height, width, thickness, take a picture of it. Post it on this site. Come to the `Iolani Palace in Honolulu on January 17th and you'll get from a kanaka a different sign of the same size with the message:
Mililani
Another Hawaiian town occupied by the U.S.A.
Then you organize the replacement in a way that nobody gets into trouble.
Aloha
Keliiaumoana > Janos (Keoni) SamuJanuary 3, 2009 at 5:20pm
It's a big heavy concrete sign. I don't think I could move it without bringing unwanted attention to myself.
Got some dynamite or C4?
Please forgive me Keli`i`aumoana, I just learnt that I had to check "My comments" each time to see if anyone had responded. I promise I will check it on a daily basis. Don't worry about the weight and position of the sign. Just give me the dimensions. No need for dynamite or explosives, it will get you in trouble. There is a better way and the sign never be the same, and no harm to you. Put the dimensions in your reply and you will get the instructions in the mail or in person shortly thereafter.
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Mililani
Another Hawaiian town occupied by the U.S.A.
Then you organize the replacement in a way that nobody gets into trouble.
Aloha
Got some dynamite or C4?
Aloha, L
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