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Hoomanao (Remember): The Massie Case and Injustice, Then and Now‏

Posted by Pono Kealoha on October 6, 2009 at 7:44pm


Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i,
University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa Office of Multicultural Student Services present
Hoomanao (Remember)
The Massie Case and Injustice, Then and Now
UH Manoa Architecture Auditorium
Wednesday, October 21, 6 pm to 8 pm
A nationwide sensation in 193132, the notorious Massie Case served as a touchstone for
race, class, and injustice in Hawai‘i for decades. The case began with an accusation of rape
by European American naval wife Thalia Massie against five local young men, and ended
with the vigilante killers of one of the men, Joseph Kahahawai, having their prison sentences
commuted to one hour spent over drinks with the governor.
A distinguished panel will discuss the Massie Case and its relevance today, outlining the facts
of the case, discussing the ways it affected the subsequent history of Hawai‘i and its various
communities, and its contemporary echoes in such issues as racial differences in prison
sentencing:
․RaeDeen Keahiolalo-Karasuda, Ph.D., Research Analyst, Kamehameha Schools
․John Rosa, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa
․Carrie Ann Shirota, J.D., Soros Justice Fellow ’09
․David Stannard, Ph.D., Professor, American Studies, University of Hawaiʻi Mānoa, author of
“Honor Killing: How the Infamous “Massie Affair” Transformed Hawai‘i”
Co-Sponsors
African American Lawyers Association of Hawai‘i; American Civil Liberties Union of Hawai‘i; Community Alliance on Prisons; Hawai‘i
Filipino Lawyers Association; Hawai‘i People’s Fund; Hawai‘i Women Lawyers; Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian
Law, William S. Richardson School of Law; Imanaka Kudo & Fujimoto; National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Hawai‘i
Chapter; Native Hawaiian Bar Association; Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation; National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People, Honolulu-Hawaii Branch; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; UH Mānoa Hawai‘inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge; UH Mānoa
Kamakuokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies
For further information on this event, please contact Brian Niiya, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, at 945–7633, ext. 32.




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WHAT DOES THE FUTURE OF HAWAI`I LOOK LIKE ?

Posted by Free Hawai`i on October 6, 2009 at 5:28am

Federal Recognition, the Akaka bill, is not the answer, so what is?

Can the US really help create a bright future for the Hawaiian Nation? What solutions will benefit all residents of Hawai`i?

Hawaiians want and deserve freedom just as much as US citizens do.

Some say, “the illegal act of war that overthrew your Queen can’t be erased . . . like it or not, you’re all Americans now.”

But, every day we see people around the world fighting for, and winning back their native and national rights. Their quest, and ours are totally legitimate and very real.

Like everyone else, Hawai`i Nationals want four basic things –

FREEDOM – The freedom to decide their own future for themselves. That “freedom” was taken away when the sovereign Nation of Hawai`i was overthrown in 1893. It was taken away again by illegal annexation to the United States in 1898. And, it was taken away a third time by the fake statehood vote in 1959.

According to international law, a new vote must to be taken that offers three options – 1) Independence, or 2) Free-Association or 3) Integration (nation within a nation.)

RIGHTS – The rights of the independent Nation of Hawai`i were never relinquished. The destruction and denial of these rights must cease. Everyone who descends from citizens of the Hawaiian Nation prior to 1893, regardless of race, are entitled to these rights.

IDENTITY – The political identity of Hawai`i Nationals must be acknowledged by the United States. They will decide their own future, without interference by the US. And, only those with any measure of indigenous blood may define who is native Hawaiian. A blood quantum imposed by the US is an unacceptable means to divide and conquer.

LAND BASE - Hawai`i Nationals love their country and lands just as much as US citizens love the US. Hawaiians want all their land back, not just some of it.

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DOE, Let's make a Change

Posted by Ku'ulei Hanohano on October 5, 2009 at 11:04pm
Aloha Everybody!My name is Ku'ulei Hanohano and as part of my Modern Hawaiian Issues class at Maui Community College I am required to set up a blog about the issues we are facing here in Hawai'i. This is my first entry so please bare with me.I work as an Education Assistant so the recent decision on furloughs directly affect me. As many of you may know there will be a total of 17 furlough days. That's a lot of days of school children will be missing. The first question I want to ask is; how students expected to pass Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) testing with less days of school? In the 2008-2009 school year 101 out of the 284 schools who participated in the testing passed. That is only 36 percent of the DOE schools. A 36 percent on anything would be equivalent to an F! The AYP test is a test created by the state. So the state is failing its own test. That kind of sucks. Something I also noticed while looking at last years AYP summary is that 3 out of 17 Hawaiian charter schools passed AYP. That is a 17 percent of Hawaiian Charter Schools. Yes that might be low but those 3 schools are Hawaiian immersion schools. So how is it that those three schools passed the AYP test which is in English while majority of regular DOE schools did not? This gives a thumbs up to cultural based education. Maybe there is something the rest of the DOE schools can learn from these schools. Obviously the academic structure of DOE schools are not doing its job.While talking with my father he brought up an important point. He said (not in his exact words) a child must first learn their connection to a place, people and culture to give them the foundation to learn anything and everything else. I would have to totally agree with him. With the less school days children will have, there needs to be a change in the DOE system. Incorporating the Hawaiian culture and values into the DOE system may be just the thing we need to not only boost test scores but also give children a more valuable education.Malama Jah Bless,Ku'ulei Hanohano
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BE KOOL AND STAY IN SCHOOL

Posted by Namaka'eha on October 5, 2009 at 10:44pm
It never seems to end. So much homework, yet never enough time to do other activities. Staying in school provides opportunity to be akamai and develop literacy skills pertinent to career choice. School provides information to be akamai and learn more about life itself.It is alot of work to do homework, however the greatest reward is graduating from high school. Many vocations will require a diploma. Be AKAMAI and STAY IN SCHOOL! At times, I become overwhelmed, however I take the time to step back, breathe and pat my shoulders. Hang in there because the greatest reward you can give yourself is a "VOICE" in determining your own future.Make good use of your time. Knowing everything is ideal, however life is precious when education is a primary goal for all!
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Revolution thru Education?

Posted by Michelle Ritchie on October 5, 2009 at 10:14pm
Recently my kumu said that a friend of his, another Hawaiian activist, had a suggestion on how to educate all the visitors to Hawaii on the basics of Hawaiian culture, history and protocol.Not only that, but it would also offer a way to educate them on the overthrow, the illegal annexation, AND offer them a way to help right these wrongs. And it would be mandatory!How could this be accomplished?It started as a joke, he said.It wouldn't work, my kumu said.But I think it might.His suggestion was to create an educational video, to be shown on all incoming flights to Hawaii, a video that would not only inform the minds but also touch the hearts of those who saw it, inspiring them, maybe, to take action in support of the Hawaiian people. To teach, to inspire, to motivate people into action. Our video would end with the websites and phone numbers that people can contact to give donations, volunteer time through activism, whatever is needed.After all, every airline passenger has to watch that safety video on life jackets and oxygen masks, usually along with a short promo film put out by the airline showing hula girls, surfer boys, and sunsets on the beach. Our video would need to be finely made, to make it onto the airline screen---but it could be done. And it could be very worth it, if it succeded.A video? Some might say, shaking their heads. It's too....trendy. Too superficial. This kind of education carries a message of great depth and weight, a responsibility.That is surely true. Yet the more people we educate, whether it be our keiki, residents, or visitors, every person that can be educated can also be transformed by the truth.Yes, some viewers wouldn't get it, and some wouldn't care. But I believe that many would. And perhaps Akua would bring them a spark to get into action...and each person so transformed, has the potential to teach their own families and friends, and so on....If you teach them, they will learn....It's worth a try.
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Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia

Posted by Pono Kealoha on October 5, 2009 at 9:54pm
ARMY5.jpgsad so many have forgotten that it was a Huge "so called mistake" that
we are in and Illegally Occupying Iraq. humm, just like hawaii you
think !

Called Weapons of mass misinformationhttp://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/10/05-0Published on Monday, October 5, 2009 by TruthDig.comCelebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesiaby Chris HedgesWar memorials and museums are temples to the god of war. The hushed voices, the well-tended grass, the flapping of the flags allow us to ignore how and why our young died. They hide the futility and waste of war. They sanitize the savage instruments of death that turn young soldiers and Marines into killers, and small villages in Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq into hellish bonfires. There are no images in these memorials of men or women with their guts hanging out of their bellies, screaming pathetically for their mothers. We do not see mangled corpses being shoved in body bags. There are no sights of children burned beyond recognition or moaning in horrible pain. There are no blind and deformed wrecks of human beings limping through life. War, by the time it is collectively remembered, is glorified and heavily censored. I blame our war memorials and museums, our popular war films and books, for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as much as George W. Bush. They provide the mental images and historical references to justify new conflicts. We equate Saddam Hussein with Adolf Hitler. We see al-Qaida as a representation of Nazi evil. We view ourselves as eternal liberators. These plastic representations of war reconfigure the past in light of the present. War memorials and romantic depictions of war are the social and moral props used to create the psychological conditions to wage new wars.War memorials are quiet, still, reverential and tasteful. And, like church, such sanctuaries are important, but they allow us to forget that these men and women were used and often betrayed by those who led the nation into war. The memorials do not tell us that some always grow rich from large-scale human suffering. They do not explain that politicians play the great games of world power and stoke fear for their own advancement. They forget that young men and women in uniform are pawns in the hands of cynics, something Pat Tillman’s family sadly discovered. They do not expose the ignorance, raw ambition and greed that are the engine of war.There is a burning need, one seen in the collective memory that has grown up around World War II and the Holocaust, to turn the horror of mass murder into a tribute to the triumph of the human spirit. The reality is too unpalatable. The human need to make sense of slaughter, to give it a grandeur it does not possess, permits the guilty to go free. The war makers—those who make the war but never pay the price of war—live among us. They pen thick memoirs that give sage advice. They are our elder statesmen, our war criminals. Henry Kissinger. Robert McNamara. Dick Cheney. George W. Bush. Any honest war memorial would have these statesmen hanging in effigy. Any honest democracy would place them behind bars.Primo Levi, who survived Auschwitz, fought against the mendacity of collective memory until he took his own life. He railed against the human need to mask the truth of the Holocaust and war by giving it a false, moral narrative. He wrote that the contemporary history of the Third Reich could be “reread as a war against memory, an Orwellian falsification of memory, falsification of reality, negation of reality.” He wondered if “we who have returned” have “been able to understand and make others understand our experience.” He wrote of the Jewish collaborator Chaim Rumkowski, who ran the Lodz ghetto on behalf of the Nazis, that “we are all mirrored in Rumkowski, his ambiguity is ours, it is our second nature, we hybrids molded from clay and spirit. His fever is ours, the fever of Western civilization that ‘descends into hell with trumpets and drums.’ ” We, like Rumkowski, “come to terms with power, forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting.” We are, Levi understood, perpetually imprisoned within the madness of self-destruction. The rage of Cindy Sheehan, who lost her son Casey in Iraq, is a rage Levi felt. But it is a rage most of us do not understand.A war memorial that attempted to depict the reality of war would be too subversive. It would condemn us and our capacity for evil. It would show that the line between the victim and the victimizer is razor-thin, that human beings, when the restraints are cut, are intoxicated by mass killing, and that war, rather than being noble, heroic and glorious, obliterates all that is tender, decent and kind. It would tell us that the celebration of national greatness is the celebration of our technological capacity to kill. It would warn us that war is always morally depraved, that even in “good” wars such as World War II all can become war criminals. We dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The Nazis ran the death camps. But this narrative of war is unsettling. It does not create a collective memory that serves the interests of those who wage war and permit us to wallow in self-exaltation.There are times—World War II and the Serb assault on Bosnia would be examples—when a population is pushed into a war. There are times when a nation must ingest the poison of violence to survive. But this violence always deforms and maims those who use it. My uncle, who drank himself to death in a trailer in Maine, fought for four years in the South Pacific during World War II. He and the soldiers in his unit never bothered taking Japanese prisoners.The detritus of war, the old cannons and artillery pieces rolled out to stand near memorials, were curious and alluring objects in my childhood. But these displays angered my father, a Presbyterian minister who was in North Africa as an Army sergeant during World War II. The lifeless, clean and neat displays of weapons and puppets in uniforms were being used, he said, to purge the reality of war. These memorials sanctified violence. They turned the instruments of violence—the tanks, machine guns, rifles and airplanes—into an aesthetic of death.These memorials, while they pay homage to those who made “the ultimate sacrifice,” dignify slaughter. They perpetuate the old lie of honor and glory. They set the ground for the next inferno. The myth of war manufactures a collective memory that ennobles the next war. The intimate, personal experience of violence turns those who return from war into internal exiles. They cannot compete against the power of the myth. This collective memory saturates the culture, but it is “a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
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Send money to AID Nuiatoputapu island in Tonga. Not just AMERICAN Samoa was hit.

Posted by Donna Burns on October 5, 2009 at 9:12pm
The epicenter of the latest earthquake that shook the pacific was 150 miles from Samoa, and 150 miles from a small, low island of the Tongan island chain called Niuatoputapu. In typical American style...the press only reported that Samoa was hurt...American Samoa that is. Not nearly as populated as Samoa, it was nonetheless hit the same, and as there are NO mountains or hills on Niuatoputapu, there really was nowhere to run to higher ground.If you would like to send $10 or so to the relief fund, please send to this link: http://www.minfo.gov.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=960:niuatoputapu-tsunami-relief-fund&catid=234:state-of-emergency&Itemid=933 or go to: the official Kingdom of Tonga Government Website and search for the relief information.Yes, it was only 9 who died there, but if one of them had been your ohana...it would surely be felt.aloha no,Donna--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Tsunami waves wreck Niuatoputapu01 Oct 2009, 03:36Nuku'alofa, Tonga:By Pesi FonuaNiuatoputapuTHE island of Niuatoputapu in northern Tonga was severely damaged by tsunami waves early yesterday morning, September 30.The waves were generated by an 8.3 magnitude earthquake which occurred between Niuatoputapu and Samoa.To assess the impact of the tsunami waves on Niuatoputapu a government charted flight, with members of the government's Disaster Committee, police officers, soldiers from the Tonga Defence Services, a representative from the Ministry of Information and myself, a journalist flew over the island yesterday afternoon.From the air two of the three villages on the island, Hihifo and Falehau appeared to have been flushed out by the waves, and trees and houses were either pushed over or have been moved toward the sea or were sitting in odd places, such as the middle of the roads. On the other hand, the village of Vaipoa was sitting high and dry.'Eleni 'Aho the CEO for the Ministry of Transport who was on the charter flight confirmed that 10 people were reported dead. She said that her last communication with the island through the airport tower just before boarding the charter flight, that ten were confirmed dead. They were trying to escape on a vehicle to higher ground when they were struck by a wave which overturned the vehicle and they were trapped in the vehicle. She said that six were found dead four were still missing.The tsunami disabled the island's telephone communication facility and washed away its health center. The Tongan Development Bank branch on the island and government buildings were also wrecked. The only airport runway on the island was also damaged, making it impossible for an aircraft to land and help the 1029 inhabitants on the island.Tonga's 2006 census reported that there were 211 households on the island with a total population of 1029, 526 males and 493 females.After circling around the island a number of times, taking photographs and have a through observation of the situation on the ground we then headed back to Tongatapu. The CEO for the Ministry of Work Sione Taumoepeau who was on board said that three of the urgent task to be carried out by a team which will be dispatched on one of the patrol boats of the Tonga Defence Services are to fix the runway, establish a health centre and to provide food and drinking water for the people on the islands.It took just over three hours for our trip to Niuatoputapu and back, and once back in Nuku�alofa the TDS patrol boat was dispatched for Niuatoputapu.-----------------------a few days laterPM Office releases names of tsunami victims Email this articlePrinter friendly page04 Oct 2009, 16:35Nuku'alofa, Tonga:THE names of the nine people who died from the Tsunami that struck Niuatoputapu on Wednesday morning, September 30 was released by the Prime Minister's Office last night.The nine deaths are:1. Losalio Lefai2. Sefo Lefai3. Toni Lefai (child)4. Tina Lefai (infant)5. Kalolo Kivalu6. Lesina Tupouto'a7. Tu'ulomia Tavake8. Heneli Losalu9. Lupe PukengaThe fact that the tsunami disaster has further isolated Niuatoputapu from the rest of the world has made it difficult to assist the needy people of Niuatoputapu.There has been no ferry service to Niuatoputapu since the sinking of the MV Princess Ashika on August 5, and the tsunami disabled the Tonga Communication Corporation TCC communication facility on the island, and damaged runway.The first flight to land at Niuatoputapu was on Thursday morning, October 1more than 24 hours after the tsunami had struck.The patrol boat of the Tonga Defence Services also arrived at Niua on Thursday evening, and at last a range of assistances were available for the needy people of Niuatoputapu.The report of a survey that was carried out by staff of the Ministry of Works on the state of housing on the three villages on Niuatoputapu, on Friday, October 2 showed that 194 families lost their homes.The worst hit was the main village of Hihifo, where most government buildings are located, including a Royal Resident, a Health Center, a Police outpost, a branch of the Tonga Development Bank, and the Tonga Communication Corporation communication facility.At Hihifo, 132 families lost their houses and were homeless, 109 families have damaged houses, and 75 families have undamaged houses.At Falehau Village, where the Pasivulangi wharf is located, 32 families were homeless, 28 have damaged houses, and 37 have undamaged houses.Vaipoa Village has 30 homeless families, 6 families with damaged houses, and 177 with undamaged houses.Meanwhile assistance to the island are on their way. The French navy ship FNS Revi is scheduled to arrive on Monday 5 October with assistance from Australia, New Zealand, and France which arrived in Tongatapu yesterday afternoon.The Prime Minister's Office stated on a media report on yesterday evening, October 3 that the Tongan patrol boat VOEA Savea was scheduled to arrive at Niuatoputapu yesterday evening with relatives of the deceased, additional supplies, donated food, clothing, essential staff and equipment.
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ALERT - Honolulu City Council Proposes to Grandfather in Existing Shark Tour Operations on Oahu

Posted by Pono Kealoha on October 5, 2009 at 5:30pm
ALERT - Honolulu City Council Proposes to Grandfather in Existing Shark Tour Operations on OahuShark-1.jpg
Aloha Everyone,

Please be aware Councilmember Djou has amended Bill 67, a Bill for an Ordinance relating to a ban on shark tour operations on O’ahu.

Councilmember Djou’s amended version will GRANDFATHER in the two existing shark tour operations on the North Shore of Oahu. If you would like to let Councilmember Djou know you do not support his change to Bill 67, his office # is 768-5004.

Councilmember Djou’s change reads, “The CD1 amends Sec. 40-_.3 Violation – Penalty stating that “Any person who violates this article shall be subject to a civil fine of not more than $1,000”; and adds SECTION 3 stating - “This ordinance shall not apply to any shark tour operations that was in operation prior to August 31, 2009.”

YOUR TESTIMONY IS NEEDED NOW TO STOP THIS AMENDED VERSION OF BILL 67.

For our family, friends and neighbors of the North Shore Community, including the North Shore Canoe Club and Manu O Ke Kai Canoe Club North Shore who support the efforts of Safe Waters for Hawai’i, this directly effects the ocean waters you paddle in. For our swimmers who are part of the North Shore Swim Series and all our surfers, divers, and ocean lovers in the North Shore, this bill will keep shark feeding by tour operators in the ocean waters of the North Shore.

The Executive Meeting on Bill 67 will be held on:

THIS Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 at 1pm at Honolulu Hale.

If you can, it is IMPORTANT community members attend the meeting to testify, also please send in your testimony is sent in to the Honolulu City Council ASAP.

Your testimony can simply state your reasons for supporting Bill 67 but that you DO NOT support shark tour operations that feed sharks to be grandfathered in.

Some ideas on what to write:

It can be simply that you support this ordinance and want to make sure shark tour operations are banned in the waters of O'ahu County.

Shark tours are extremely disrespectful and insensitive to Hawaiian cultural beliefs and all those who value Hawaiian culture.

Shark viewing and feeding tours put ocean users at risk if sharks learn to associate humans with food.

Shark viewing and feeding tours alters the behavior of these wild animals.

Shark tours upset the delicate ocean ecosystem.

Testimony Subject Line:

In Support of Bill 67 BUT not Grandfathering in existing shark tour operations

To send in your testimony, email:


If you can please also send your testimony to the Council members.



Here are the Honolulu City Councilmembers office numbers to call. Let them know you do not support the grandfathering in of existing shark tour operations in Bill 67.

Todd Apo 768-5001
Donovan Dela Cruz 768-5002
Ikaika Anderson 768-5003
Charles Djou 768-5004
Anne Kobayashi 768-5005
Rod Tam 768-5006
Romy Cachola 768-5007
Gary Okino 768-5008
Nestor Garcia 768-5009

Mahalo for your continued support of the efforts of Safe Waters of Hawai’i.
It is all of us working together to create positive change for the ocean waters of Hawai’i for the present and future generations.

Aloha,
Safe Waters for Hawai’i


Community Organizations & Individuals who have joined with the efforts of Safe Waters for Hawai’i

Ka Iwi Coalition
Save our Surf
Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation
Hawai`i State Bodysurfing Association
Livable Hawai’i Kai Hui
Malama Maunalua
Hawai’i Kai Boating Club
Halau No'eau Kahelemauna
Kulana Huli Honua
Betty Kanuha Foundation, Hawai’i
Waikiki Swim Club
Maui Sierra Club
Halau Hula O Na Lei Mokihana
North Shore Canoe Club
Manu o ke Kai Canoe Club North Shore
Hawaiian Canoe Club, Maui
Kihei Canoe Club, Maui
Anuenue Canoe Club
Waikiki Beach Boys Canoe Club
Hui Nalu Canoe Club
Kamehameha Canoe Club
Kumulokahi Canoe Club
Koa Kai Canoe Club
Waimanalo Canoe Club
Windward Canoe Club
Kailua Canoe Club
Kawaikini Canoe Club, Kaua’i
North Shore Renegades Canoe Club, Maui
Hawai'i Military Surfing Organization
Surfrider Foundation, O'ahu Chapter
Hawai’i Kai Neighborhood Board
Kuli'ou'ou Kalani-Iki Neighborhood Board
The Waimanalo Construction Coalition
Windward Ahupua’a Alliance
‘O Hina I Ka Malama Hawaiian Immersion Moloka’i High School
Kuhai Halau O Kahealani Pa Olapa Kahiko
Makana Aloha Group, California
Oswald Stender, Trustee Office of Hawaiian Affairs
Walter Heen, Trustee Office of Hawaiian Affairs
Dr. Carlos Andrade, Director Center for Hawaiian Studies UH Manoa
Ben Cayetano, Former Governor of the State of Hawai’i
(in 2002 Governor Cayetano signed the law prohibiting
feeding sharks in State Waters)
Pelagic Shark Research Foundation, Santa Cruz, California
The Humane Society of the United States

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College Opportunities Program (COP) Alternative Route into UH Mānoa for those that don't meet the minimum SAT & GPA requirements

Posted by kira on October 5, 2009 at 12:00pm

Aloha mai kākou,If you or someone in your ‘ohana would like to go to UH Mānoa and doesn't have the 2.8 GPA or 510 SAT scores, if they don't fit that box that UH wants for guaranteed admission, please check out the College Opportunities Program (COP). Plenty of our alumni have gone on to the charter school movement and other parts of the community! It is a FREE PROGRAM - 6 FREE WEEKS IN THE DORMS IN THE SUMMER, then a 1st year freshman support program. If you pass the summer program, you enter UH Mānoa as a regular freshman in the fall. You truly get a big family to take care of you at UH - academic, financial aid, and other support. There is no age limit - anybody can apply who has a High school diploma (C/O 2010 seniors apply now), hawai'i residency, financial need, less than 12 credits in college above the 100 level, 2.0 high school gpa, and a desire and drive to go to UH but lacks the minimum requirements to get in. COP does not require SATs! The hardest part about getting in is just finishing the application process - so please push and get 'um done! They're due December 15th 2009! COP recruits people of all ethnicities that are underrepresented at UH, but there is a strong Hawaiian presence. We're going out to most schools, so ask your counselor or kumu. If you get questions or need help, please ask the COP program at 956-6186.Manawa Kūpono Native Hawaiian Scholarship is a grant-funded program that COP runs. It guarantees that half the spots in COP will be for Hawaiian students. We also wrote the grant to provide UHM tuition scholarships for students from our target schools: (O‘ahu Native Hawaiian Language/Culture focus charter/immersion schools) Ānuenue, Hālau Lōkahi , Hālau Kū Māna, Kamakau, Hakipu‘u Learning Center, (Maui County) Moloka‘i High, Hāna High, and (O‘ahu Public Schools) Nānākuli High, Kahuku High, Wai‘anae High, Kailua High, Castle High. The scholarship goes to Hawaiians going to UH both in and not in COP. Scholarship applications out in 2010.While COP and Manawa Kūpono prioritize certain communities and schools, everybody is encouraged to apply! Application link: www.hawaii.edu/copDETAILED INFORMATION BELOW:***********************************************************************************************COP INFO SHEETCOP provides an alternative pathway for individuals who desire to attend the UHM but who do not possess the minimum requirements for admission. Participants engage in an intensive 6-week summer academic and residential program focused on preparing individuals for a successful freshman year at the UHM. Participants live on-campus and enroll in classes designed to upgrade academic and social skills. There is no cost to participate in the program as room, board, textbooks, and instructional expenses are covered by COP. Participants who successfully complete the COP program requirements are admitted to the UHM in the fall semester and advance to the First-Year Academic Program.During the First-Year Academic Program, students enroll in classes on a full-time basis (12 credits), live in an on-campus residence hall, and attend group meetings and individual appointments with COP counselors. Participants benefit from “one-stop advising” at the COP office on issues related to coursework, career planning and exploration, financial aid, on-campus employment, and other concerns. The COP office also serves as a comfortable place on campus to do homework, use computers, meet friends, eat lunch, or just hang out. During the First-Year Academic Program, students are fully responsible for all of their college-related expenses.WHO CAN APPLY?Everyone is encouraged to apply; however, primary consideration will be given to applicants who meet the following criteria:1. A bona fide Hawai’i resident and U.S. citizen, national, or person holding a permanent visa,2. A high school graduate by the start of the 2010 Summer Program,3. An annual family income under 185% of the 2009 family income levels established by the Census Bureau for determining poverty status.To see if you qualify, go online to: http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/09poverty.shtml4. A current high school cumulative GPA (all institutions attended) of at least a 2.00,5. Earned no more than 12 college credits above the 100-level,6. Lack the minimum requirements for guaranteed admission to the UHM,7. Represent a positive role model to communities underrepresented at the UHM.TO APPLY, SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING:1. A completed and signed COP Application Form, which may be downloaded from the COP website (www.hawaii.edu/cop). A completed application shall also include a Personal Essay and two (2) COP Recommendation Forms to be completed by a high school college preparatory class teacher and a high school grade level or college/career counselor.2. An official high school transcript with 1st quarter senior grades. If applicable, submit SAT/ACT scores and all college transcripts.3. A copy of your parent’s/guardian’s 2008 Federal Income Tax Return (Form 1040).4. A copy of your 2010-11 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) Student Aid Report (SAR) by February 1, 2010. If your parents have not filed their 2009 Federal Income Tax by this date, use their 2008 Federal Income Tax information to complete the 2010-11 FAFSA. NOTE: You will need to update your SAR immediately after your parents file their 2009 taxes.APPLICATION DEADLINE: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2009Application documents must be received by the COP office, or be postmarked, by the deadline.Applications that do not comply with the deadline requirements will not be considered.FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT COP2600 Campus Road • Queen Lili’uokalani Center for Student Services, Room 308 • Honolulu, HI 96822-2205Phone: 956-6186 Fax: 956-6837 • Email: copuhm@hawaii.edu • Website: www.hawaii.edu/cop*****************************************************************************************COP 2010 Application Packet.pdfCOP Poster2.pdf
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Protest of Stryker and other live-fire training at Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA)

Posted by Pono Kealoha on October 5, 2009 at 11:53am
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Press Release Monday, Oct. 5, 2009
Protest of Stryker and other live-fire training at Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA)
Saturday, Oct. l0, 2009 Mauna Kea State Park

There will be a peaceful protest l0AM Saturday Oct. l0th at Mauna Kea State park --l mile east of the Pohakuloa main gate on Saddle Road. (Car pools will leave 9AM from the Hilo Bayfront parking lot at Pauahi and Kamehameha Ave.) The protest will begin at the park and then move to PTA's main gate. The protest is over Stryker tank and other ongoing live-fire training at the base known to be contaminated with Depleted Uranium (DU) radiation from past weapons training. Live-fire and other activities that create dust, risk spreading the radiation off base into civilian areas. The Hawaii County Council passed a resolution 8-l in July 2008 calling for a halt to all live-fire at PTA until there is a complete assessment of the radiation contamination and clean up of the DU present. The military continues to ignore the Council's call to action.

Reports are that l00 Stryker l9 ton eight-wheeled tanks (perhaps more) are currently doing training at PTA. These tanks have recently returned from Iraq where their l05 mm canons and 50 cal machine guns have fired DU munitions.

The protest is sponsored by Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action.
Jim Albertini of Malu 'Aina said: It's time to Stop Strykers! Stop all live-fire on Pohakuloa, and live-fire in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. The military needs to clean up its mess and end its occupations, not make more of a mess."



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STRYKER PROTEST
Stop Live-fire on Pohakuloa,
Iraq, Afghanistan, & Pakistan, etc.

Time: l0AM
Date: Saturday, Oct. l0th
Meeting place: Mauna Kea State Park
One mile east of the new main gate of the Pohakuloa Training Area on Saddle Rd. in the center of the island. Car pools will leave 9AM from the Hilo Bayfront parking lot at Pauahi and Kamehameha Ave.

A Stryker is an eight-wheeled, l9-ton modern tank (urban assault vehicle). It's not a defensive weapon. It is a killing machine. A full Stryker Brigade is based on Oahu at Schofield Barracks. Earlier this year the Brigade, including more than 300 Stryker tanks, returned from Iraq. The Brigade is now training for another deployment to Iraq or possibly Afghanistan, as President Obama escalates the war there.

The Stryker tanks fire depleted uranium (DU) ammunition. They have fired it in Iraq and have contributed to the widespread DU contamination there which is causing widespread health problems, including cancer, birth defects, and deaths. Whether these tanks have brought DU contamination back to Hawaii is unknown. No independent testing has been done.

Reports are that a hundred Strykers (perhaps more) have been brought via Kawaihae Harbor from Ohau and are now doing training at the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), including live-fire. While the Army says no DU weapons are presently used in training at PTA, the area is already officially acknowledged to be contaminated with DU from earlier weapons training. Live-fire, and other activities that create dust such as tank maneuver training, risk spreading radiation contamination -- toxic deadly poison, off-base into civilian areas, carried by the strong winds that travel through the Saddle Area toward the Hilo and Kona sides of our Island.

Stand Up and Speak Out!

Let a cry go out by all of us who are charged to be responsible stewards of this 'aina: Stop Strykers! Stop all live-fire on Pohakuloa, and live-fire in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. But let us do more. Let us work to end the illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai'i as well as illegal occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan, etc. The people and the land are spiritually interconnected as one. So too are the issues of Justice & Peace. Join our non-violent protest, where hearts come together to help remove the obstacles to peace. Mahalo.

For more information please contact: Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760. Phone (808) 966-7622. Email ja@interpac.net http://www.malu-aina.org
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Jim Albertini

Malu ‘Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action

P.O.Box AB

Kurtistown, Hawai’i 96760

phone: 808-966-7622

email: JA@interpac.net

Visit us on the web at: www.malu-aina.org


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Sincere Ignorance...

Posted by Donna Burns on October 5, 2009 at 11:37am
I found this simple sentence, which speaks volumes...so am sending. Something to really think about.Donna--------------------------"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Havai'ki

Posted by Kaapuikinaea on October 5, 2009 at 3:25am
Aia kekahi hoomauana ma ka punaewele puni honua, eia hoi me ka huaolelo o Havai'ki. He aha la kela? He mea puni hoi ia! Nui kuu iini ole i ka ikena i ia huaolelo kakau ia. Nui ka hoonaukiuki, nui ka huikau no ka poe i ka ike-hepa a nui ka hupo i ke kakau ana ia ia.Estas formas sao as normais: Hawai'i, Savai'i, Havai'i, Hawaiki, 'Avaiki. A parada glotal represente o som de proto-polinesia [k]. Em poucas palavras havaianas, tem duas formas, por exemplo: moko/mo'o ou ha'i/haki. Por isso, se nao deve escrever a palavar assim: Havai'ki. O ' e [k] eh a mesma foneme.
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Cleaning Water Through Flowforms: Of Possible Use? Possibly Adaptable to Hawaiʻi Nei?

Posted by Waihili on October 4, 2009 at 9:30am
Have you ever looked really, really deeply into the structure of water in a flowing stream? I have had a day in the Sierra mountains, in a stream, where this happened. I could see deeply into the three dimensional structure of the flow, all the way down to the bottom. I saw the micro currents in every layer of the water. Itʻs so complex. I wasnʻt on drugs to see all this! (Grin!) Itʻs just that the sunlight was just right and the stream was clear enough to pick out the numerous layers of tiny currents and swirls as the water flowed. Plus, I also took a lot of time to really look.Watching the posted video of the young men restoring flow and cleanliness to the stream, I was reminded of these "flow forms" which have been used to restore health to water in many places of the world. Wondering if Hawaiian adaptations of these forms could be used to hasten the restoration of fresh water in the ʻaina - just as restoring the flow to the natural stream began to bring it back to life. For really polluted waterways, like the Ala Wai Canal, could something like a series of these forms be used? Apparently a really long series of flowforms have been used in Sweden to process raw sewage (at the top) to pure water at the bottom.Posting here as a conversation starter...----------------This text below is from a company which manufactures the forms. But I see no reason why people canʻt look at them and replicate in other areas, locally.---------------http://www.livingwaterflowforms.com/livingwater.htm<<Water - The Vehicle of LifeIn a mountain stream, nature provides a complex bed through which water flows. As gravity pulls it in, around, and over rocks, sand and vegetation, water constantly creates within itself patterns and vortices the action of which creates winding river beds. Water in its natural state does not travel in straight lines, it loves to meander and spread itself out.When water moves too fast, as it does in a “straightened” river, or when it is forced out of its natural meander patterns, as in hydroelectric dams or in water pipes, or when it is polluted, it loses its vortex patterns, and some would say, its vitality.Flowforms seek to emulate this vital pattern of water.Flowforms originated in the 1960s from the work of Theodore Schwenk, George Adams and John Wilkes. Wilkes saw that the secret of water’s vitality lay in its rhythmical movement. The fact that all living things depend on water, implied for him that regenerative processes are continually at work within it, otherwise it would be unable to maintain its function as a life sustaining element.As Schwenk had observed, rhythmical motions are evident in many water phenomena: rising and falling tides, the repeated crashing of waves on a beach, the alternating left and right curves of a river’s meanders, even the Earth’s hydrological cycle. But the orderly form exists only fleetingly, and then quickly dissolves. Apparently, water can manifest its potential of creating orderly forms within itself only momentarily, and then returns to the state the poet Novalis called “sensitive chaos”, the name Schwenk chose for his book on fluid movement.Would it be possible, Wilkes wondered, to design a sequence of forms through which water could fulfill its capacity to manifest orderly metamorphic process, to create artistically what he calls an “organ of metamorphosis” for water? Such a sequence of forms, he argued, might bring to physical expression the delicate potential for ordered movement that appears to be inherent in the nature of water.Thus the Flowform came into being, after much experimentation and painstaking modifications – the water lemniscate was born – i.e. the movement of water in a figure of 8 rhythm that has been the basis of this amazing revitalising effect on water. Creating flowforms is akin to making musical instruments.Flowforms are cascades of water that aid in the reoxygenation of water to restore it to as close as possible to its mountain stream state. They work as a sort of living lung, aiding the aerobic micro-organisms to break down the “unwanted matter” in the water, e.g. grey water or sewage. The action of the water is to fold oxygen into itself. According to Wilkes, the Flowforms are preferable to spray systems used in other standing pond sewage systems. “We are always technologically trying to force things. When you force oxygen or air under pressure through the water, it will mainly try to bubble out again, and about 5% may really dissolve. And besides,” Wilkes explains, “when using pressurized sprays, you may run the danger of mutilating organisms.” He summarizes this way: “The question is, can we learn ways of bringing water into a situation where it will draw oxygen in its own right, as it does in a mountain stream?”But Flowform advocates are insistent about a second benefit…. They say that the rhythms of water, enhanced by Flowform proportion and shape, create an environment which supports the rhythmical processes in which micro-organisms are always involved. As Wilkes explains:“When you look at these organisms through a microscope, you see that they are pulsing and spinning and moving spirally in their environment…”The rhythms created in the water by the Flowforms are intended to relate to these micro-movements.We need to take care of water as if our lives depended on it – which it certainly does, and not just treat it as just a carrier for removing our wastes. We have all come to realise that pure fresh water is a precious commodity, and we are already buying sanitized, but “lifeless” water in the supermarket, as we know that what comes out of the tap at home is indeed inferior to what we find in a mountain stream.Flowforms can be used for many purposes – as many as the uses of water – such as for revitalising drinking water, in dams, for stirring BioDynamic preparations, sewage and grey water treatment, dairy and piggery effluent, nurseries, ponds in zoos for aquatic birds and wildlife, aquaculture, swimming pools, in office buildings to revitalise and enhance the environment, air conditioning plants, and of course, for parks and gardens for our enjoyment. Children love to spend countless hours playing in the running water connecting to nature.>>Water is in us all – it is the life blood of the Earth. It is up to us all to make sure we treat it with the utmost care.
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Mamala Hoa takes legal action to save Mauna Kea

Posted by Royal Order of Kamehameha I on October 4, 2009 at 8:34am
Mauna Kea plan sparks suitby Peter SurTribune-Herald Staff WriterPublished: Friday, October 2, 2009 10:54 AM HSTTelescope foes want summit restoredHawaiian and environmental advocates have appealed the state land board's approval of the Mauna Kea Comprehensive Management Plan.The lawsuit filed Thursday in Third Circuit Court challenges the unanimous vote of the Board of Land and Natural Resources on April 9 to approve the CMP, which provides a framework for managing the cultural and natural resources of Mauna Kea.The plaintiffs are Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, the Royal Order of Kamehameha I, the Hawaii chapter of the Sierra Club, and former Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee Clarence Ching. They ask the court to vacate the BLNR's April 9 vote and require the land board to grant the plaintiffs' petition for a contested case hearing on the CMP. They are also asking for attorneys' fees and costs and any relief the court deems proper.The university, the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy and the BLNR are all named as defendants. They have 20 days to file a response.The request for a contested case stems from a BLNR meeting Aug. 28 in Honolulu, when the board denied to grant standing to the plaintiffs, who were -requesting a contested case hearing on the CMP's approval. The board's vote followed a recommendation by the Department of Land and Natural Resources to deny the request for standing. A contested case hearing would have given the land board an opportunity to reconsider their April vote."Mauna Kea holds a place of paramount interest in Hawaiian culture," the plaintiffs contend, maintaining they do have standing to request a contested case hearing because the CMP will affect their rights.The UH Office of Mauna Kea Management could not be reached for comment. UH-Hilo Chancellor Rose Tseng was aware of the appeal but could not comment because she had not seen it yet.The lawsuit alleges that the Aug. 28 meeting violated an administrative rule requiring that hearings related to conservation districts be held in the county in which the land is located, and that inadequate public notice was given. They say that the CMP relies on the University of Hawaii 2000 Master Plan for Mauna Kea, which was itself never adopted by the land board, even though "the BLNR has a duty to substantially evaluate all aspects of management plans submitted for its approval and to involve the public in that process."The lawsuit also says the board violated the procedure for contested cases by approving the CMP before deciding whether any of the plaintiffs had standing to request a contested case hearing.Except for KAHEA, the plaintiffs in this case are the same ones who successfully sued the University of Hawaii in 2004 over a plan to build "outrigger" telescopes on Mauna Kea, and in 2007 forced the drafting of the current management plan.A comprehensive management plan must be approved before the land board can issue any new conservation district use permits.If the approval of the current management plan is reversed, then the land board cannot approve any new telescopes, including the Thirty Meter Telescope, on Mauna Kea."The board's decision undermines the basic right everyone in Hawaii has to stand up for their environment, their culture and their religion," said Kealoha Pisciotta, the president of Mauna Kea Anaina Hou. "Despite extensive evidence on the record of our cultural, spiritual, environmental and recreational connections to Mauna Kea, the board is now claiming we suddenly have no right to ensure it is protected from bulldozers.""UH and the land board are pushing this new management plan because they want to guarantee building another massive telescope on this sacred site," said Ching. "But they can't do anything until they first deal with the adverse impacts of all the telescopes they have built on our summit over the last 30 years. These telescopes have leveled cinder cones, dumped human waste and toxic chemicals over our aquifer, and impaired cultural practices on the summit. The courts agree, it is time for this to stop."E-mail Peter Sur at psur@hawaiitribune-herald.com.
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MAN WITH A PLAN TO SAVE HAWAIIAN LANDS ON "VOICES OF TRUTH - ONE-ON-ONE WITH HAWAI`I'S FUTURE"

Posted by Free Hawai`i on October 4, 2009 at 7:41am
Mahalo to an overwhelming number of people who responded this last week with anger and indignation at the fake state of Hawai`i’s attempt to remove Hawaiian patriot Jon Osorio from protecting Hawai`i’s stolen lands.Fake state attorney general Mark Bennett is attempting to have Jon removed from the stolen lands legal case because Jon is less than 50% Hawaiian blood and therefore does not fall within the US definition of “native Hawaiian.”Many asked if you could help. Watch Free Hawai`i TV this coming Wednesday for answers. We’ll show you what you can do.Our thanks to all who have let us know how much you’ve enjoyed watching our newest show featuring haumana (students) of Hakipu`u Learning Center. If you haven’t seen them for yourself, don’t miss them this week on Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future.MONDAY, October 5th At 6:30 PM – Maui – Akaku, Channel 53MONDAY, October 5th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, October 9th At 5:30 PM – Hawai`i Island – Na Leo, Channel 53THURSDAY, October 8th At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, October 9th At 8:30 AM - Kaua`i – Ho`ike, Channel 52SATURDAY, October 10th At 8:00 PM – O`ahu, `Olelo, Channel 53“Telling Stories – A Visit With Calvin Hoe”Storytelling has long been an important part of Hawai`i’s culture. Calvin Hoe, whose family started the Hakipu`u Learning Center in Kane`ohe, O`ahu, showcases his students & music at Maui’s Celebration of the Arts. In a very special segment, join the circle of students, hear the story & music of whales & rediscover that connection we all have to our earth & elders - Watch It HereVoices Of Truth interviews those creating a better future for Hawai`i to discover what made them go from armchair observers to active participants. We hope you'll be inspired to do the same.If you support our issues on the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network, please email this to a friend to help us continue. A donation today helps further our work. Every single penny counts.Donating is easy on our Voices Of Truth website via PayPal where you can watch Voices Of Truth anytime.For news and issues that affect you, watch Free Hawai`i TV, a part of the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network.Please share our Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network videos with friends and colleagues. That's how we grow. Mahalo.
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Maui council OKs ban on GMO taro

Posted by Pono Kealoha on October 3, 2009 at 10:09am
NOGMO-1.jpgMaui council OKs ban on GMO taroBy MELISSA TANJIThe Maui NewsWAILUKU, Maui - A bill prohibiting genetically modified taro in Maui County received final approvalFriday by the Maui County Council.The taro bill prohibits anyone from testing, propagating, growing or introducing genetically engineered ormodified taro, or kalo, within Maui County. Council members voted 9-0 to approve the ban, saying theybelieved taro's cultural and spiritual significance to Native Hawaiians was more important than any otherfactor.Mayor Charmaine Tavares said after the vote that she would support the ban."I will be signing the bill into law and recognize that the passage of this new law will send a message ofsupport for state Representative Mele Carroll's efforts to introduce and pass a bill at the stateLegislature," she said in an e-mailed statement."The input from various stakeholders that I've received has been valuable," Tavares said. "I am told thatthis important law will bring us closer to protection of kalo on a statewide level. I support the intent of thebill and the protection of Hawaiian kalo, which deserves our respect and acknowledgment for itsancestral ties to Native Hawaiians, our host culture."Tavares previously had expressed doubts about the bill, saying it might be difficult to enforce.Council Member Sol Kaho'ohalahala said after the vote that he appreciated everyone's support on thebill and asked that council members continue to improve the language of the bill.Council Member Bill Medeiros thanked people who had testified or sent e-mails in support of the bill heintroduced.Around 15 people Friday morning made it clear they were testifying in support of the ban on geneticallymodified taro. Supporters of the ban have argued passionately that taro is a sacred plant and staplefood for Native Hawaiians and should be kept in its natural form. They feared that even if limited use orresearch were allowed, genetically modified forms of taro could mingle with other strains beingcultivated.Caren Diamond of Hawaii Seed - a nonprofit coalition of grass-roots groups composed of farmers,doctors, scientists, lawyers, concerned citizens and Native Hawaiians opposing the use of geneticmodification - said taro was vital to Hawaiian culture."You have an opportunity to protect this living culture," she said.But Harold Keyser, the Maui County administrator for the University of Hawaii's College of TropicalAgriculture and Human Resources in Maui County, testified in opposition to the bill.He asked for some way to conduct research on Hawaii taro, saying in one case research on taro has ledto the replenishment of a taro crop that was lost in American Samoa. He said he and others who supportthe bill also want to see taro thrive and have it preserved."We care, but in a different way," Keyser said.Also Friday, council members voted unanimously at first reading to support the prohibition of alcohol atKamaole Beach Park I. The proposal would extend a drinking ban, applicable at the neighboring CharleyYoung Beach, that was passed by the council in August.Council Member Jo Anne Johnson, who introduced the bill, said the ban at Kamaole I would makeenforcement easier for police. There is no clear boundary between the two parks.
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FREE HAWAI`I VS. AKAKA BILL

Posted by Free Hawai`i on October 3, 2009 at 7:00am
A Free Hawai`i is a sovereign country with dominion, the right to join the UN, and fly it's own flag.Under federal recognition and the Akaka bill, Hawai`i would technically become a "captured nation," meaning that international law could not prohibit the US from aggression and extermination of its indigenous Hawaiian population.Even worse, native recognition would be conditional only after extinguishing Hawaiian Kingdom Citizenship political status (your right to exist.)US law would not grant full autonomous self-rule and would in fact destroy territorial integrity which continues to exist right now, even as you read this.Why reject federal recognition for a Free Hawai`i ?Independence is a formal recognition of Hawai`i's territory and laws. It's citizens are not under US jurisdiction.The Hawaiian Kingdom still has its own bill of rights, constitution and comprehensive complied laws.Which future do you want to live in - as a captive of US occupation or in a Free Hawai`i?
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A Bit of Aloha in All of Us!

Posted by Namaka'eha on October 2, 2009 at 1:00pm
Time is precious and often overlook the improtance of our own ke kino. Don't forget to do a check up. Hawaiians are at risk for diabetes, cancer, etc. Why would you want to be a statistic for the western world to say they will "BE EXTINT"!It takes time to care for self. Make it a priority. I have been eating more vegetables and fruits (cucumber, tomato, avocado,, watermelon, etc.). The most improtant is drinking WATER daily to wash out the the toxins. Drink water when you get up and in between meals. A health tip from cousin Bobby to wash out toxins. Water does wonders for our body!THE BEST THING TO DO IS CARE FOR YOUR SELF! A WONDERFRUL WAY IS TO LIVE A HEALTHIER LIFESTYLE BY NOT DRINKING SODA.Have a nice day!namaka'eha
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The Kanaka Maoli and Tangata Māori Connection

Posted by Ka Nāʻo o ka lani -o- Nākoloi on October 2, 2009 at 12:43pm
Researchers studying the evolution of culture say analysis of Polynesian canoe design suggests New Zealand was at least partially settled from Hawaii.The concept of Hawaii as the ancestral home of Maori fell out of fashion in archaeological circles over 60 years ago.But the new research in the November Proceedings of the Royal Society B (crct) suggests a course of Polynesian settlement that started in the far western islands, jumped to the far eastern islands, then worked backwards towards the original point of origin.Archaeologists have said the Lapita peoples - probably from China and South East Asia - who colonized Pacific islands between about 1400-900 BC became the Polynesians who settled several island groups outwards out of Tonga and Samoa beginning about 500 BC, arriving in the Marquesas about 300 AD, the Hawaiian islands by 800-900 AD, and finally in New Zealand about 1200 AD.Stanford University researcher Marcus Feldman, Deborah Rogers and Paul Erlich analysed a big 1930s study of traditional canoe design by AC Haddon and James Hornell.They tracked functional characteristics such as outrigger attachments, construction technique, keel shape, and symbolic things such as painting, detailed designs, and figureheads of pre-European canoes from different island groups.Canoe construction techniques persisted, with the Polynesians bringing traditional techniques but changing decorative features as they colonized new island groups.The study showed scientists could measure the effects of cultural evolution, they said."Evolution is a logical way of looking at change over time," said Rogers, an evolutionary biologist.The study involved computing 10 million possible configurations of canoe taxonomy and Rogers said the same methods could be applied to anything from pottery design and fishhook construction to social and legal structures.Erlich said that if science can shed insight into the mechanisms underlying cultural change, it might help modern cultures turn climate change insight into action or avoid ill-advised wars.
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