Abercrombie went to a lot of suitable places to have his inauguration celebration on the Neighbor Islands, neighborhood centers and such. Please explain to me what was so attractive about the heiau on the banks of the Wailua River ??
One need to talk to Noelani, and Kehau..I believe they moved it not sure had a short talk with noelani. Check with Liko too. I don't know what had happen, all I know is that the Mayor joined us awhile back and so did yukimura for the ceremony at the mouth of the Wailua River.
Puanani Rogers was at this ceremony too maybe one knows her and can give her a call.
Per our conversation: this is the postings however, unable to connect, but I will try to remedy the problem because Liko Martin requested that we do this.
I got off the Indigenious track because of the Keanu Sai work that simply needs to happen in the US courts. I know there will be backlash to his intent, but best it happens now while we are all here. As a collective we have almost 40 years of activism, my starting during the 'Gospel of Salvation' in 1825 because of my missionary
great(s)parents.
We are the continuity and should see this through in our life time. The military ran a muck in Waianae and we need some intelligent people on board and not the nuts from Kauai such as Ku Kuna diggy dum tall black fool. If you can read Cornel West, one would understand the enegies behind the social movement that is picking up momentum.
I found this fascinating image surfing lady justice images on Google. Justice being raped. It happens 24/7 or haven't you noticed ?? If we could keep justice from being raped for just 6 hours, it might change the world as we know it !
The reactionary universities that blanket this planet actively support the rape of justice. If we could shut them down for one year, it might change the world as we know it !
This raper probably will most likely go home to "caring and loving wife!'
I knew that you wouldn't get it! This is a reflection of your standing of directing images to rape of indigenous women. This has nothing to do with justice because it's not in your thought processes. The universities are unbiased--stupid! The covenant of sorts for example Christian dogma has nothing to do with your version of hunching arches. World changes will not happen so long as penises get's caught in one's zipper. That is not what Virginia was about either that came out of the back side of a closet pooper.
As for calling the governor of the fake state a raper--maybe that's your way of being 'penis envy' and cowardly tail wagging.
Native Hawaiian children have someone looking out for them, and Nancy is bigger than sex creeps of the world. She was so far ahead of the behavior and I'm proud to know that she existed back then with the issue of Native Hawaiian children trafficking, I say where the hell was I!
PRINCETON – Influential professor Cornel West thinks convicted Philadelphia cop killer Wes Cook, best known now as Mumia Abu-Jamal, is an innocent victim of a racist American justice system.
“We believe you are innocent and we thank God that your voice is still alive,’’ West told the killer in a telephone conversation between Labyrinth Books here and Death Row at the Correctional Institution in Greene, Pa.
Abu-Jamal has been on Pennsylvania’s Death Row for 28 years for the murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner of the Philly police in 1982. Since his trial and conviction, activists the world over have spearheaded multiple “Save Mumia” campaigns.
Among other complaints, his supporters argue that Abu-Jamal was the victim of race biased in the selection of jurors because the panel that decided his fate was made up of mostly white people.
Activists, students, and professors gathered at Labyrinth Books to be part of the killer’s radio program, Live from Death Row, erupted in applause as the sound of his Abu-Jamal’s voice was heard at the start of the show on Wednesday evening.
The former Wes Cook used his program, only 15 minutes long under prison rules, to promote his new book, Jailhouse Lawyers, and to appeal to American judicial leaders to be more like the politicians of Turkey, whom he called more humane than their American counterparts.
“When a Turkish politician runs for office, what he promises to get elected is forgiveness and leniency and justice and fairness for people arrested and charged,” Abu-Jamal said. “You can’t think of something similar in the American context – it’s the exact polar opposite.”
West, a black studies professor regarded as one of America’s leading scholars, told Abu-Jamal he “represents a struggle for black freedom that’s concerned about the freedom of everybody.”
Abu-Jamal’s lawyers have repeatedly appealed court decisions upholding his death sentence. In the most recent ruling, the Supreme Court ordered the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to revisit its 2008 decision that Abu-Jamal deserved a resentencing due to confusing instructions from the judge to the jury.
That decision wrecked any chance of Abu-Jamal ever getting out of prison. If he’s not eventually put to death, he’ll serve life without parole.
West and Princeton University sociology professor Patricia Fenandez-Kelly said Abu-Jamal is being targeted because of his political views.
“It’s because of his political ideas. It’s because he represents a particular group of people who don’t have proper representation, it’s because of the history of race that exists in this country,” Fernandez-Kelly said.
The sociology prof saw the opportunity to speak with an inmate on Death Row as an important way to spread word about injustice in the corrections system.
“While we are despairing about injustice and about the limitations in this country, let us also celebrate the things that are right about this country, and this particular effort is very, very important,” Fernandez-Kelly said.
West said Abu-Jamal is being persecuted “because of his intellect and patient disposition,’’ and called him “a free black man on Death Row.”
Abu-Jamal was bouyed by the interest of the Princeton students and professors: “Even despite my condition in this place, I feel surrounded by love,” Abu-Jamal told audience members in his final 60 seconds. “Thank you all, I love you all, and love is the most powerful force,” he said as the phone was cut him off.
With Abu-Jamal no longer on the line, audience members posed questions to the professors. One Princeton student wanted to know if the truth about the murder of the cop mattered at all.
“To me, truth certainly matters,” West said. “But I believe that my dear Mumia Abu-Jamal didn’t do it and that the trial has been so skewed.” West added that he was not downplaying the loss of life – including the police officer’s.
The Indigenous Peoples of the Americas have lived for over 500 years in confrontation with an immigrant society that holds an opposing world view. As a result, we are now facing an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of all natural life. Read Leonard Peltier's statement delivered at the People’s Conference on Climate Change in Bolivia in 2010.
We join with others to heal the earth, but we do this in a way that acknowledges Traditional Natural Law, protects Indigenous rights, and ensures environmental and economic justice for the Nations and the generations.
These are some of the issues we agree are critical to address:
Toxic contaminants, agricultural pesticides and other industrial chemicals that disproportionately impact Indigenous peoples, especially subsistence and livestock cultures.
Inadequate governmental environment and health standards and regulations.
Clean up of contaminated lands from mining, military, and other industry activities.
Toxic incinerators and landfills on and near Indigenous lands.
Inadequate solid and hazardous waste and wastewater management capacity of Indigenous communities and tribes.
Unsustainable mining and oil development on and near Indigenous lands.
National energy policies at the expense of the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Climate change and global warming.
Coal mining and coal-fired power plants resulting in mercury contamination, water depletion, destruction of sacred sites and environmental degradation.
Uranium mining developments and struggles to obtain victim compensation to Indigenous uranium miners, millers, processors and Downwinders of past nuclear testing experiments.
Nuclear waste dumping in Indigenous lands.
Deforestation.
Water rights, water quantity and privatization of water.
Economic globalization putting stress on Indigenous peoples and local ecosystems.
Border justice, trade agreements and transboundary waste and contamination along the US/Mexico/Canada borders and other Indigenous lands worldwide.
Failure of the US government to fulfill its mandated responsibility to provide funding to tribes and Alaska villages to develop and implement environmental protection infrastructures.
Backlash from US state governments giving in to the lobbying pressures of industry and corporations against the right of tribes to implement their own water and air quality standards.
Protection of sacred, historical and cultural significant areas.
Biological diversity and endangered species.
Genetically modified organisms impacting the environment, traditional plants and seeds and intellectual rights of Indigenous peoples - bio-colonialism.
Economic blackmail and lack of sustainable economic and community development resources.
Just transition of workers and communities impacted by industry on and near Indigenous lands.
Urban sprawl and growth on and near Indigenous lands.
Failure of colonial governments and their programs to adequately consult with or address environmental protection, natural resource conservation, environmental health, and sacred/historical site issues affecting traditional Indigenous lands and its Indigenous peoples.
De-colonization and symptoms of internalized oppression/racism/tribalism.
We have blatant Human Trafficking in Hawaii because of the likes of you and although Nancy is part of the Democratic Socialist of America since 1985--she has a position against men like yourself! And so do I!
If Virginia was here she would cut it off and shove it where the Sun don't shine. You know the drill--Kukuna of course you have been there many times in your life so don't make a fuss over your penis getting caught in your zipper each time you use it!
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Kukuna o ka la
One need to talk to Noelani, and Kehau..I believe they moved it not sure had a short talk with noelani. Check with Liko too. I don't know what had happen, all I know is that the Mayor joined us awhile back and so did yukimura for the ceremony at the mouth of the Wailua River.
Puanani Rogers was at this ceremony too maybe one knows her and can give her a call.
aloha Noelani,
Per our conversation: this is the postings however, unable to connect, but I will try to remedy the problem because Liko Martin requested that we do this.
I got off the Indigenious track because of the Keanu Sai work that simply needs to happen in the US courts. I know there will be backlash to his intent, but best it happens now while we are all here. As a collective we have almost 40 years of activism, my starting during the 'Gospel of Salvation' in 1825 because of my missionary
great(s)parents.
We are the continuity and should see this through in our life time. The military ran a muck in Waianae and we need some intelligent people on board and not the nuts from Kauai such as Ku Kuna diggy dum tall black fool. If you can read Cornel West, one would understand the enegies behind the social movement that is picking up momentum.
I found this fascinating image surfing lady justice images on Google. Justice being raped. It happens 24/7 or haven't you noticed ?? If we could keep justice from being raped for just 6 hours, it might change the world as we know it !
The reactionary universities that blanket this planet actively support the rape of justice. If we could shut them down for one year, it might change the world as we know it !
This raper probably will most likely go home to "caring and loving wife!'
kukuna o ka la,
I knew that you wouldn't get it! This is a reflection of your standing of directing images to rape of indigenous women. This has nothing to do with justice because it's not in your thought processes. The universities are unbiased--stupid! The covenant of sorts for example Christian dogma has nothing to do with your version of hunching arches. World changes will not happen so long as penises get's caught in one's zipper. That is not what Virginia was about either that came out of the back side of a closet pooper.
As for calling the governor of the fake state a raper--maybe that's your way of being 'penis envy' and cowardly tail wagging.
Native Hawaiian children have someone looking out for them, and Nancy is bigger than sex creeps of the world. She was so far ahead of the behavior and I'm proud to know that she existed back then with the issue of Native Hawaiian children trafficking, I say where the hell was I!
We can work for and hope for a better future for her.
Cornel West: Conviction be damned; Mumia didn't kill cop
Published: Friday, March 05, 2010
By WOODY HINES
Special to The Trentonian
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PRINCETON – Influential professor Cornel West thinks convicted Philadelphia cop killer Wes Cook, best known now as Mumia Abu-Jamal, is an innocent victim of a racist American justice system.
“We believe you are innocent and we thank God that your voice is still alive,’’ West told the killer in a telephone conversation between Labyrinth Books here and Death Row at the Correctional Institution in Greene, Pa.
Abu-Jamal has been on Pennsylvania’s Death Row for 28 years for the murder of Officer Daniel Faulkner of the Philly police in 1982. Since his trial and conviction, activists the world over have spearheaded multiple “Save Mumia” campaigns.
Among other complaints, his supporters argue that Abu-Jamal was the victim of race biased in the selection of jurors because the panel that decided his fate was made up of mostly white people.
Activists, students, and professors gathered at Labyrinth Books to be part of the killer’s radio program, Live from Death Row, erupted in applause as the sound of his Abu-Jamal’s voice was heard at the start of the show on Wednesday evening.
The former Wes Cook used his program, only 15 minutes long under prison rules, to promote his new book, Jailhouse Lawyers, and to appeal to American judicial leaders to be more like the politicians of Turkey, whom he called more humane than their American counterparts.
“When a Turkish politician runs for office, what he promises to get elected is forgiveness and leniency and justice and fairness for people arrested and charged,” Abu-Jamal said. “You can’t think of something similar in the American context – it’s the exact polar opposite.”
West, a black studies professor regarded as one of America’s leading scholars, told Abu-Jamal he “represents a struggle for black freedom that’s concerned about the freedom of everybody.”
Abu-Jamal’s lawyers have repeatedly appealed court decisions upholding his death sentence. In the most recent ruling, the Supreme Court ordered the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to revisit its 2008 decision that Abu-Jamal deserved a resentencing due to confusing instructions from the judge to the jury.
That decision wrecked any chance of Abu-Jamal ever getting out of prison. If he’s not eventually put to death, he’ll serve life without parole.
West and Princeton University sociology professor Patricia Fenandez-Kelly said Abu-Jamal is being targeted because of his political views.
“It’s because of his political ideas. It’s because he represents a particular group of people who don’t have proper representation, it’s because of the history of race that exists in this country,” Fernandez-Kelly said.
The sociology prof saw the opportunity to speak with an inmate on Death Row as an important way to spread word about injustice in the corrections system.
“While we are despairing about injustice and about the limitations in this country, let us also celebrate the things that are right about this country, and this particular effort is very, very important,” Fernandez-Kelly said.
West said Abu-Jamal is being persecuted “because of his intellect and patient disposition,’’ and called him “a free black man on Death Row.”
Abu-Jamal was bouyed by the interest of the Princeton students and professors: “Even despite my condition in this place, I feel surrounded by love,” Abu-Jamal told audience members in his final 60 seconds. “Thank you all, I love you all, and love is the most powerful force,” he said as the phone was cut him off.
With Abu-Jamal no longer on the line, audience members posed questions to the professors. One Princeton student wanted to know if the truth about the murder of the cop mattered at all.
“To me, truth certainly matters,” West said. “But I believe that my dear Mumia Abu-Jamal didn’t do it and that the trial has been so skewed.” West added that he was not downplaying the loss of life – including the police officer’s.
Caring for Mother Earth
These are some of the issues we agree are critical to address:
Toxic contaminants, agricultural pesticides and other industrial chemicals that disproportionately impact Indigenous peoples, especially subsistence and livestock cultures.
Inadequate governmental environment and health standards and regulations.
Clean up of contaminated lands from mining, military, and other industry activities.
Toxic incinerators and landfills on and near Indigenous lands.
Inadequate solid and hazardous waste and wastewater management capacity of Indigenous communities and tribes.
Unsustainable mining and oil development on and near Indigenous lands.
National energy policies at the expense of the rights of Indigenous peoples.
Climate change and global warming.
Coal mining and coal-fired power plants resulting in mercury contamination, water depletion, destruction of sacred sites and environmental degradation.
Uranium mining developments and struggles to obtain victim compensation to Indigenous uranium miners, millers, processors and Downwinders of past nuclear testing experiments.
Nuclear waste dumping in Indigenous lands.
Deforestation.
Water rights, water quantity and privatization of water.
Economic globalization putting stress on Indigenous peoples and local ecosystems.
Border justice, trade agreements and transboundary waste and contamination along the US/Mexico/Canada borders and other Indigenous lands worldwide.
Failure of the US government to fulfill its mandated responsibility to provide funding to tribes and Alaska villages to develop and implement environmental protection infrastructures.
Backlash from US state governments giving in to the lobbying pressures of industry and corporations against the right of tribes to implement their own water and air quality standards.
Protection of sacred, historical and cultural significant areas.
Biological diversity and endangered species.
Genetically modified organisms impacting the environment, traditional plants and seeds and intellectual rights of Indigenous peoples - bio-colonialism.
Economic blackmail and lack of sustainable economic and community development resources.
Just transition of workers and communities impacted by industry on and near Indigenous lands.
Urban sprawl and growth on and near Indigenous lands.
Failure of colonial governments and their programs to adequately consult with or address environmental protection, natural resource conservation, environmental health, and sacred/historical site issues affecting traditional Indigenous lands and its Indigenous peoples.
De-colonization and symptoms of internalized oppression/racism/tribalism.
And many others.
Compiled by the Indigenous Environmental Network
Kukuna O Ka La,
We have blatant Human Trafficking in Hawaii because of the likes of you and although Nancy is part of the Democratic Socialist of America since 1985--she has a position against men like yourself! And so do I!
If Virginia was here she would cut it off and shove it where the Sun don't shine. You know the drill--Kukuna of course you have been there many times in your life so don't make a fuss over your penis getting caught in your zipper each time you use it!