Aloha mai kakou!

The primary local elections are heating up and there has never been a better time to get involved in the efforts to protect Hawaii's unique natural and cultural heritage. Here is the latest update on the issues that KAHEA champions. Mahalo for your continued support!

1. Plant Your Vote! Some of the candidates this year really make it worth it this time.

Primary Election- Saturday, September 20

The Primary Elections are very important because they decide which party candidate actually gets to the final General Elections, so don't miss your chance to vote for candidates that are truly worth electing in the General Elections!

Don't assume others will take a stand, it takes your involvement to make a change! Good candidates have missed election by a margin as small as 25 votes! Your vote really matters for your ahupua'a.

Elected officials make the political decisions that help - or hurt - the things we all love about Hawaii nei. That's why it is important for you to get out and vote. Now is the time to make a difference for the immediate future of Hawaii.

Look for candidates who promise to:

• Protect taro: improve state enforcement of taro farmer's constitutional water rights, protect against genetic modification and patents on taro, fund invasive species prevention efforts, and support traditional organic food farmers and community food security,
  

• Perpetuate our unique culture: protect cultural access rights mauka to makai, prevent private gates across public beach access ways, and address the abuse and misuse of enforcement powers by state agencies.
  

• Uphold our environmental protections: strengthen - not weaken - Hawaii's Environmental Impact Statement requirements and protections for unique conservation districts like Mauna Kea and Haleakala,
  

• Safeguard the public's health: advocate for environmental justice, clean up toxic contamination sites around communities and investigate threats from depleted uranium to Hawaii's people.
  
  

And, it's so easy
Register to vote and find out where to go: www.hawaii.gov/elections

Hawaii Island is leading the pack with the greatest increase in voter registration of all the counties this year.

DEADLINE TO REGISTER FOR THE GENERAL ELECTION IS OCTOBER 6! (Deadline to register for the Primary has passed.)

Got questions? Don't be intimidated. Contact us and we'll help you learn more about these important issues and how to get involved.

2. Leeward Coast Works Together for Eco Justice
Mahalo to the residents of the Leeward Coast of Oahu, from Nanakuli to Makua, for your dedication and hard work to confront the long-standing misuse of the land and sea of the Leeward Coast by landfills, industry, and the military's training & waste dumping. Together, we are officially forming the Working Group on Environmental Justice for the West Oahu communities. Our goal is to educate ourselves and our neighbors about the toxic contamination problems that plague the community and develop solutions to address the unfair and extreme effects on the health of Leeward residents. Our next meeting is Friday, September 26th, 5:30 pm at the Leeward Community College-Waianae Campus. Let us know if you can come.

3. Taro Security and Purity Task Force - ACT 211
TARO FARMER APPLICATION DEADLINE SEPT. 15th.

1. A minimum of three years as a taro farmer.

2. Be currently growing taro on the island you wish to represent.

3. A commitment to attend all Task Force meetings for a minimum of one year; the life of the Task Force is two years.

4. A commitment to communicate with all taro growers on your island; not just those in your own network. The success of the Task Force depends on this.

A broad group of taro representatives are sought that include commercial, sustenance, cultural and educational growers.

Mahalo pumehana to Taro Farmers across the state who have spent so much time off the farm and in meetings to coordinate and advance this effort. We deeply appreciate the inspiring commitment you have made to Malama Haloa. IMUA!

4. Protect the Sacred Summit of Mauna Kea
Mahalo to everyone who joined in on KAHEA's awa circle with Kealoha Pisciotta in July. Kealoha is the president of Mauna Kea Anaina Hou, one of the leaders in the struggle to protect the sacred summit of Mauna Kea from the destruction caused by telescopes. We learned about the history of this longstanding struggle and a new, absurd proposal to build a massive telescope - larger than all the current telescopes on the summit combined - on the last pristine plateau of Mauna Kea. This new proposed telescoped - called the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) - would be larger than the summit itself.

Mauna Kea is both ecologically unique and culturally sacred. We know that telescope operation and construction have already caused significant harm, and that the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy (IFA) has not done the job of protecting the natural and cultural resources of the summit over the last 30 years of telescope development.

• In 1998, the Hawai'i State Auditor issued a report criticizing the IFA's and BLNR's mismanagement of Mauna Kea. The Auditor found that the IFA's focus on telescope construction was "at the expense of neglecting the site's natural resources." Among the effects of the construction were: the damage or destruction of historic sites and Hawaiian family shrines; the destruction of the Wekiu Bug's habitat; trash and construction debris left on the summit; and abandoned facilities and equipment.

• The first-ever federal environmental review of telescopes on Mauna Kea was ordered by a federal court and conducted by NASA in 2005. The EIS concluded that 30 years of astronomy development had resulted in "substantial, adverse and significant" impacts to the cultural and natural resources of Mauna Kea. Such impacts violate Hawaii's laws protecting conservation district.

• The IFA also pays only $1 a year to use (and destroy) Hawaii's sacred summit. This is a violation of state law and the terms of IFA's lease, which require fair market value be charged for the use of ceded lands.
  

• The community has been offered $1.85 million towards Native Hawaiian causes for many past attempts to build telescopes on the summit, a gesture that Native Hawaiians noted did not address the actual desecration of the mountain.

• The IFA has continually ignored the call of hundreds of Hawaiian citizens to halt further exploitation and development of Mauna Kea's summit, and to assess cumulative damage to cultural and environmental resources before proceeding with future development.

• The IFA also recently pulled out of its appeal, thus the state court ruling that requires the Department of Land and Natural Resources to complete a comprehensive management plan prior to allowing any further development on the sacred sacred remains the law of the land.

Why then is IFA and its consulting firm, Kuiwalu, now using tax money to fund a survey of Hawaii residents? These issues concern longstanding legal requirements, not public opinion. The IFA survey did not ask questions relevant to establishing proper management of the sacred summit, and it only interviewed 600 people, most of whom do not live on Hawaii Island. Besides, the TMT-funders themselves already conducted a survey that concluded the TMT should not be built on Mauna Kea. This new IFA survey should not misuse public opinion in an attempt to circumvent the law.

If you are interested in learning more about the effort to protect the sacred summit of Mauna Kea, look for announcements on future awa circles around the islands this Fall! Mahalo to everyone who came out to our last awa circle. It was an amazing evening. Mahalo a nui loa to Kealoha for speaking so passionately, Kamu Enos & Kanoa Nelson for awa protocol, Jonathan Yee for Hawaiian awa, a

nd Moana Meyer for hosting us at StudioBe.

5. Hawaii County Council Searches for Answers about Depleted Uranium
Depleted Uranium (DU) is a radioactive component of some military weapons and is found in areas where military activities have used those weapons in the past, or continue to use such weapons presently. The primary concern is that inhaling or ingesting dust contaminated with DU could contribute to severe health problems, such as cancer and birth defects. Many military training activities, particularly live fire & bombing, cause dust to spread around the areas where they are training. Downwind communities are at risk if there are DU particles in that dust.

In early July, the Hawaii County council approved (in an 8 to 1 vote) a resolution from Puna Councilwoman Emily Naeole that requests the U.S. Army to halt B-2 bombing missions and live firing exercises until it is determined whether depleted uranium is present at the Pohakuloa Training Area.

Mahalo to friends/activists on the Big Island! Ho'omaika'i ia! And thanks to everyone who submitted testimony and responded to action alerts-the resolution on depleted uranium passed without any bad amendments- you helped make it happen!

The County Council also voted to place Dr. Lorrin Pang as its representative to an Army citizen monitoring committee. Dr. Pang (M.D., M.P.H.) is retired from the Army Medical Corps and has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO) since 1985.

6. Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Management Plan Gets Overhaul
You spoke and the Monument Trustees heard!! Right now, staff for the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument are "significantly" changing (and hopefully improving) the management plan in-progress for this important Hawaiian place. The first draft of the management plan failed to provide adequate protections for the NWHI, including expanded tourism and extractive research activities, no limitations on military exercises in the Monument and no public advisory council. But thanks to your involvement, the people of Hawaii continued their longstanding call for the strongest possible protections in the NWHI. Mahalo for taking the time to submit your personalized comments in July. The final version of the plan is expected to be released in December. Stay tuned - we'll let you know as soon as we know what is actually in the final version. Click here to read the comments submitted by the NWHI hui, which details the harm of expanded extractive research and tourism activities, as well as the serious threat posed by increased military exercises.

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By Chalmers Johnson, Metropolitan Books Posted on February 19, 2007, Printed on September 12, 2008http://www. alternet. org/story/47998/....

The following is excerpted from Chalmers Johnson's new book, "Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic" (Metropolitan Books).
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Once upon a time, you could trace the spread of imperialism by counting up colonies.
....America....'s version of the colony is the military base; and by following the changing politics of global basing, one can learn much about our ever more all-encompassing imperial "footprint" and the militarism that grows with it.
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It is not easy, however, to assess the size or exact value of our empire of bases. Official records available to the public on these subjects are misleading, although instructive.
According to the Defense Department's annual inventories from 2002 to 2005 of real property it owns around the world, the Base Structure Report, there has been an immense churning in the numbers of installations.
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The total of ....America....'s military bases in other people's countries in 2005, according to official sources, was 737.
Reflecting massive deployments to ....Iraq.... and the pursuit of President Bush's strategy of preemptive war, the trend line for numbers of overseas bases continues to go up.
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Interestingly enough, the thirty-eight large and medium-sized American facilities spread around the globe in 2005 -- mostly air and naval bases for our bombers and fleets -- almost exactly equals Britain's thirty-six naval bases and army garrisons at its imperial zenith in 1898.
The Roman Empire at its height in 117 AD required thirty-seven major bases to police its realm from Britannia to ..Egypt.., from Hispania to ....Armenia..... Perhaps the optimum number of major citadels and fortresses for an imperialist aspiring to dominate the world is somewhere between thirty-five and forty.
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Using data from fiscal year 2005, the Pentagon bureaucrats calculated that its overseas bases were worth at least $127 billion -- surely far too low a figure but still larger than the gross domestic products of most countries -- and an estimated $658.1 billion for all of them, foreign and domestic (a base's "worth" is based on a Department of Defense estimate of what it would cost to replace it). During fiscal 2005, the military high command deployed to our overseas bases some 196,975 uniformed personnel as well as an equal number of dependents and Department of Defense civilian officials, and employed an additional 81,425 locally hired foreigners.
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The worldwide total of ....U.S.
.... military personnel in 2005, including those based domestically, was 1,840,062 supported by an additional 473,306 Defense Department civil service employees and 203,328 local hires. Its overseas bases, according to the Pentagon, contained 32,327 barracks, hangars, hospitals, and other buildings, which it owns, and 16,527 more that it leased. The size of these holdings was recorded in the inventory as covering 687,347 acres overseas and 29,819,492 acres worldwide, making the Pentagon easily one of the world's largest landlords.
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These numbers, although staggeringly big, do not begin to cover all the actual bases we occupy globally.
The 2005 Base Structure Report fails, for instance, to mention any garrisons in Kosovo (or Serbia, of which Kosovo is still officially a province) -- even though it is the site of the huge Camp Bondsteel built in 1999 and maintained ever since by the KBR corporation (formerly known as Kellogg Brown & Root), a subsidiary of the Halliburton Corporation of Houston.
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The report similarly omits bases in Afghanistan, Iraq (106 garrisons as of May 2005), Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar, and Uzbekistan, even though the U.S. military has established colossal base structures in the Persian Gulf and Central Asian areas since 9/11. By way of excuse, a note in the preface says that "facilities provided by other nations at foreign locations" are not included, although this is not strictly true.
The report does include twenty sites in ....Turkey...., all owned by the Turkish government and used jointly with the Americans. The Pentagon continues to omit from its accounts most of the $5 billion worth of military and espionage installations in Britain, which have long been conveniently disguised as Royal Air Force bases. If there were an honest count, the actual size of our military empire would probably top 1,000 different bases overseas, but no one -- possibly not even the Pentagon -- knows the exact number for sure.
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In some cases, foreign countries themselves have tried to keep their ....U.S.
.... bases secret, fearing embarrassment if their collusion with American imperialism were revealed.
In other instances, the Pentagon seems to want to play down the building of facilities aimed at dominating energy sources, or, in a related situation, retaining a network of bases that would keep ....Iraq.... under our hegemony regardless of the wishes of any future Iraqi government.
The ....U.S.
.... government tries not to divulge any information about the bases we use to eavesdrop on global communications, or our nuclear deployments, which, as William Arkin, an authority on the subject, writes, "[have] violated its treaty obligations.
The ....U.S.
.... was lying to many of its closest allies, even in NATO, about its nuclear designs. Tens of thousands of nuclear weapons, hundreds of bases, and dozens of ships and submarines existed in a special secret world of their own with no rational military or even 'deterrence' justification.
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In ....Jordan...., to take but one example, we have secretly deployed up to five thousand troops in bases on the Iraqi and Syrian borders.
(....Jordan.... has also cooperated with the CIA in torturing prisoners we deliver to them for "interrogation.
") Nonetheless, ..Jordan.. continues to stress that it has no special arrangements with the ....United States...., no bases, and no American military presence.
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The country is formally sovereign but actually a satellite of the ....United States.... and has been so for at least the past ten years.
Similarly, before our withdrawal from ....Saudi Arabia.... in 2003, we habitually denied that we maintained a fleet of enormous and easily observed B-52 bombers in Jeddah because that was what the Saudi government demanded. So long as military bureaucrats can continue to enforce a culture of secrecy to protect themselves, no one will know the true size of our baseworld, least of all the elected representatives of the American people.
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In 2005, deployments at home and abroad were in a state of considerable flux. This was said to be caused both by a long overdue change in the strategy for maintaining our global dominance and by the closing of surplus bases at home.
In reality, many of the changes seemed to be determined largely by the Bush administration's urge to punish nations and domestic states that had not supported its efforts in ....Iraq.... and to reward those that had.
Thus, within the ..United States.., bases were being relocated to the South, to states with cultures, as the Christian Science Monitor put it, "more tied to martial traditions" than the Northeast, the northern Middle West, or the ....Pacific.. ..Coast..... According to a ....North Carolina.... businessman gloating over his new customers, "The military is going where it is wanted and valued most.
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In part, the realignment revolved around the Pentagon's decision to bring home by 2007 or 2008 two army divisions from Germany -- the First Armored Division and the First Infantry Division -- and one brigade (3,500 men) of the Second Infantry Division from South Korea (which, in 2005, was officially rehoused at Fort Carson, Colorado).
So long as the ....Iraq.... insurgency continues, the forces involved are mostly overseas and the facilities at home are not ready for them (nor is there enough money budgeted to get them ready).
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Nonetheless, sooner or later, up to 70,000 troops and 100,000 family members will have to be accommodated within the ....United States..... The attendant 2005 "base closings" in the ....United States.... are actually a base consolidation and enlargement program with tremendous infusions of money and customers going to a few selected hub areas.
At the same time, what sounds like a retrenchment in the empire abroad is really proving to be an exponential growth in new types of bases -- without dependents and the amenities they would require -- in very remote areas where the ....U.S.
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After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was obvious to anyone who thought about it that the huge concentrations of American military might in ..Germany.., ..Italy.., ..Japan.., and ....South Korea.... were no longer needed to meet possible military threats.
There were not going to be future wars with the ..Soviet Union.. or any country connected to any of those places.
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In 1991, the first Bush administration should have begun decommissioning or redeploying redundant forces; and, in fact, the Clinton administration did close some bases in Germany, such as those protecting the Fulda Gap, once envisioned as the likeliest route for a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
But nothing was really done in those years to plan for the strategic repositioning of the American military outside the ....United States.........

By the end of the 1990s, the neoconservatives were developing their grandiose theories to promote overt imperialism by the "lone superpower" -- including preventive and preemptive unilateral military action, spreading democracy abroad at the point of a gun, obstructing the rise of any "near-peer" country or bloc of countries that might challenge U.S. military supremacy, and a vision of a "democratic" Middle East that would supply us with all the oil we wanted. A component of their grand design was a redeployment and streamlining of the military. The initial rationale was for a program of transformation that would turn the armed forces into a lighter, more agile, more high-tech military, which, it was imagined, would free up funds that could be invested in imperial policing.
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What came to be known as "defense transformation" first began to be publicly bandied about during the 2000 presidential election campaign.
Then 9/11 and the wars in ..Afghanistan.. and ....Iraq.... intervened.
In August 2002, when the whole neocon program began to be put into action, it centered above all on a quick, easy war to incorporate ....Iraq.... into the empire. By this time, civilian leaders in the Pentagon had become dangerously overconfident because of what they perceived as America's military brilliance and invincibility as demonstrated in its 2001 campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda -- a strategy that involved reigniting the Afghan civil war through huge payoffs to Afghanistan's Northern Alliance warlords and the massive use of American airpower to support their advance on Kabul.
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In August 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld unveiled his "1-4-2-1 defense strategy" to replace the ..Clinton.. era's plan for having a military capable of fighting two wars -- in the Middle East and ..Northeast Asia.. -- simultaneously. Now, war planners were to prepare to defend the United States while building and assembling forces capable of "deterring aggression and coercion" in four "critical regions": Europe, Northeast Asia (South Korea and Japan), East Asia (the Taiwan Strait), and the Middle East, be able to defeat aggression in two of these regions simultaneously, and "win decisively" (in the sense of "regime change" and occupation) in one of those conflicts "at a time and place of our choosing."As the military analyst William M. Arkin commented, "[With] American military forces ... already stretched to the limit, the new strategy goes far beyond preparing for reactive contingencies and reads more like a plan for picking fights in new parts of the world.
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A seemingly easy three-week victory over Saddam Hussein's forces in the spring of 2003 only reconfirmed these plans.
The ....U.S.
.... military was now thought to be so magnificent that it could accomplish any task assigned to it. The collapse of the Baathist regime in Baghdad also emboldened Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld to use "transformation" to penalize nations that had been, at best, lukewarm about America's unilateralism -- Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, and Turkey -- and to reward those whose leaders had welcomed Operation Iraqi Freedom, including such old allies as Japan and Italy but also former communist countries such as Poland, Romania, and Bulgaria. The result was the Department of Defense's Integrated Global Presence and Basing Strategy, known informally as the "Global Posture Review.
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President Bush first mentioned it in a statement on November 21, 2003, in which he pledged to "realign the global posture" of the ....United States..... He reiterated the phrase and elaborated on it on August 16, 2004, in a speech to the annual convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in ....Cincinnati..... Because Bush's ....Cincinnati.... address was part of the 2004 presidential election campaign, his comments were not taken very seriously at the time.
While he did say that the ..United States.. would reduce its troop strength in Europe and ..Asia.. by 60,000 to 70,000, he assured his listeners that this would take a decade to accomplish -- well beyond his term in office -- and made a series of promises that sounded more like a reenlistment pitch than a statement of strategy.
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"Over the coming decade, we'll deploy a more agile and more flexible force, which means that more of our troops will be stationed and deployed from here at home. We'll move some of our troops and capabilities to new locations, so they can surge quickly to deal with unexpected threats. ... It will reduce the stress on our troops and our military families. ... See, our service members will have more time on the home front, and more predictability and fewer moves over a career. Our military spouses will have fewer job changes, greater stability, more time for their kids and to spend with their families at home.
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On September 23, 2004, however, Secretary Rumsfeld disclosed the first concrete details of the plan to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
With characteristic grandiosity, he described it as "the biggest re-structuring of ....America....'s global forces since 1945." Quoting then undersecretary Douglas Feith, he added, "During the Cold War we had a strong sense that we knew where the major risks and fights were going to be, so we could deploy people right there. We're operating now [with] an entirely different concept. We need to be able to do [the] whole range of military operations, from combat to peacekeeping, anywhere in the world pretty quickly.
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Though this may sound plausible enough, in basing terms it opens up a vast landscape of diplomatic and bureaucratic minefields that Rumsfeld's militarists surely underestimated. In order to expand into new areas, the Departments of State and Defense must negotiate with the host countries such things as Status of Forces Agreements, or SOFAs, which are discussed in detail in the next chapter. In addition, they must conclude many other required protocols, such as access rights for our aircraft and ships into foreign territory and airspace, and Article 98 Agreements.
The latter refer to article 98 of the International Criminal Court's Rome Statute, which allows countries to exempt ....U.S.
.... citizens on their territory from the ICC's jurisdiction.
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Such immunity agreements were congressionally mandated by the American Service-Members' Protection Act of 2002, even though the European Union holds that they are illegal. Still other necessary accords are acquisitions and cross-servicing agreements or ACSAs, which concern the supply and storage of jet fuel, ammunition, and so forth; terms of leases on real property; levels of bilateral political and economic aid to the United States (so-called host-nation support); training and exercise arrangements (Are night landings allowed? Live firing drills?); and environmental pollution liabilities.
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When the United States is not present in a country as its conqueror or military savior, as it was in Germany, Japan, and Italy after World War II and in South Korea after the 1953 Korean War armistice, it is much more difficult to secure the kinds of agreements that allow the Pentagon to do anything it wants and that cause a host nation to pick up a large part of the costs of doing so. When not based on conquest, the structure of the American empire of bases comes to look exceedingly fragile.
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From the book NEMESIS: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson. Reprinted by arrangement with Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, LLC. Copyright (c) 2006 by Chalmers Johnson. All rights reserved.
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Chalmers Johnson is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, a non-profit research and public affairs organization devoted to public education concerning ....Japan.... and international relations in the Pacific.
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© 2008 Metropolitan Books All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www. alternet. org/story/47998/....

Mahalo Nui Loa !!! EO ~ EA !!!

The Truth of Corrupt Colonialism & ILLEGALL OCCUPATION made Simple !


Part 1 Illegal United States Occupation of Hawaii --Keanu Sai

Part 2 Illegal United States Occupation of Hawaii --Keanu Sai

Part 3 Illegal United States Occupation of Hawaii --Keanu Sai

Part 4 Illegal United States Occupation of Hawaii --Keanu Sai

Part 5 Illegal United States Occupation of Hawaii --Keanu Sai

The Truth of Corrupt Colonialism & ILLEGALL OCCUPATION made

Simple ! Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnx1p9tiz2k Sept 7.08

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Sept 7,08 Kaleimaileali'i the Queens Women play 10

Sept 7.08 Kaleimaileali'i the Queens Women play Snipits From Keanu Sai's comments from questions from the audience After the play "Kaleimaileali'i the Queens Women" done by the Kaleimaileali'i Hawaiian Civic Club at the Kanaina building on the grounds of 'Iolani Palace. 2008 Hawaii Pono i event. Brought to you by: "kepalo"

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR NON-HAWAIIANS"

What Will Happen To Non-Native Hawaiians In A Free Hawai'i?

Will They Be Welcome Or Kicked Out?

Watch To Find Out.

Garden Island article Iwi Decision Expected Today / Nancy McMahon - running for Kauai County Council‏

Posted: Wednesday, Sep 03, 2008 - 11:59:54 pm HST
Iwi decision expected today

By Blake Jones - The Garden Island

A decision is expected today on a request for a preliminary injunction to halt construction at a Wainiha homesite known to contain at least 30 iwi, or graves.

Fifth Circuit Judge Kathleen Watanabe said yesterday, the hearing’s second full day of testimony, that attorneys could continue to present witnesses, but that a decision would be rendered.

Native Hawaiian Legal Corp., representing Jeff Chandler, who claims ancestral ties to the land, put four witnesses on the stand yesterday, many of whom presented emotional testimony on the importance of iwi to Hawaiian culture as well as the cultural impact of building near or around the graves.

Watanabe has allowed construction to continue at the property, owned by California businessman Joseph Brescia, as the hearing plays out.

Brescia has been trying to build a home on the 18,000-square-foot North Shore lot for the past seven years. His attorneys argue that state and county requirements have been met, and Brescia should be allowed to proceed with his plans for a single-family residence.

Late last year, building permits were approved by the county Planning Department with the knowledge that remains had been discovered during excavation work.

In April the Kaua‘i/Ni‘ihau Island Burial Council in a split decision determined that the roughly 30 burials should be preserved in place.

The seven-member group, an arm of the state Historic Preservation Division, only has authority over whether the bones are relocated or remain in place; it lacks the power to stop construction on the site.

The subsequent Burial Treatment Plan, approved by state archaeologist Nancy McMahon,called for cement jackets to encase the seven burials expected to be impacted by the house footings, as well as a vertical buffer to prevent the home from sitting directly on top of the sites.

Throughout the preliminary injunction hearing, Native Hawaiian Legal Corp. attorney Alan Murakami has argued that McMahon, at the Historic Preservation Division, did not do her job to protect the burial sites or to notify possible descendants.

“We’re saying the state was responsible for the major conflict because of the minimalist attitude toward Hawaiian burial laws,” Murakami said.

The state, represented by Deputy Attorney General Vince Kanemoto, counters that it followed the rules and is not responsible for the Kaua‘i County Planning Department’s decision to approve building permits before thoroughly vetting the issue of iwi at the site.

Burial Council members Barbara Say and Presley Wann testified yesterday that when they voted to preserve the iwi in their current location, they assumed that construction above and around them would not take place.

“The whole place should be preserved,” Say said, adding that it was a “surprise” to hear later that footings had been poured at the property.

However, both council members said they declined to make recommendations to McMahon or to the Planning Department as to what protection measures should be taken in light of their ruling.

“All we take care of is the iwi; that is all we do,” Say said.

Kai Markell, director of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ Native Rights, Land and Culture Division, testified that iwi at the Brescia property constitute a cemetery, and that the surrounding Naue area is culturally significant as a place of healing and a “leaping off point for people who have passed on.”

Holding back tears, Markell said iwi are Hawaiians’ most “cherished possession.” Once a burial site is identified, there’s a great responsibility to care for the kupuna who reside there, he continued.

Markell said he doesn’t think vertical buffers or cement jackets are sufficient protection in this case, though he admitted they were better than no mitigation measures if the construction could not be stopped.

Under cross-examination by Kanemoto, Markell went as far as to say the seven directly impacted iwi might have been better off relocated.

“You don’t know who’s there (in the graves), but you’re allowing someone to look down on them without having any relationship in the Hawaiian sense,” he said.

Chandler, who began his testimony on his connection to the iwi yesterday, and will continue today, said the worst threat to the burials is construction.

“The damage is we lose one significant cultural site for future generations,” he said, quietly crying in between answers.

Brescia’s attorney is expected to present two witnesses today to conclude testimony.

Watanabe has twice declined requests for temporary restraining orders because the foundation for the home in question is already completed and no further disruption to the ground is anticipated.

Should Watanabe deny a preliminary injunction today, Chandler can proceed with his counterclaim against Brescia — but there might not be any timely legal recourse to preventing the home from going up.

“This is the case right here,” Murakami said.

The Garden Island
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County Council candidates answer, part 2

• Nancy McMahon
• Bob Cariffe

Editor’s note: The following seven questions were posed to the 23 candidates for Kauai County Council. Beginning today, two candidates a day will have their answers reprinted in their entirety until all candidates’ answers have appeared.

1)Define what future development on Kaua‘i means to you. Please use specifics.

2) What is your vision of the island in 10 years?

3) What specific credentials do you have for being a county council member? Why are you the best for our county? Again, let’s get specific. What positions of power have you held in the past? What connections do you have that will benefit the county?

4) How will you work with the other six members of the County Council if elected? Would like some specific tactics and strategies you would use to act on the county’s behalf within the larger group.

5) What is your history? Born and raised here? Mainlander? Family? Residence? Career? Education?

6) What does open government mean to you?

7) What is the single, most important issue to you?

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Nancy McMahon

1) It means new housing, new opportunities for new jobs, new business opportunities, use of renewable and alternative energy sources. Better health care for all.

2) Keep Kaua‘i a rural county laced with small towns across the landscape, less dependent on tourism, more truck farmers and hopefully smart development and more sustainable environment to live in. There will be a larger elderly population which we need to prepare for.

3) I am a good listener. I have 20 years of working in government at state, county and federal levels. I know how to write policies and get people to reach consensus. I know all the current heads of the various departments in the state government and the county department heads, as they have to deal with me in my professional job. I think this is a great advantage for me. I think I present a fresh honest choice for the citizens of Kaua‘i to vote for. I am one of the heads of a state agency that preserves a sense of place and preserves Hawaiiana for future generations. I work for the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

4) Working with people, understanding their needs and empowering them is one of my strong points, along with being able to negotiate a win-win situation as one of my best assets. Understanding where folks are coming from and their direction is how I think I can work together to resolve issues that come to us.

5) I came to Hawai‘i to play volleyball at University of Hawai‘i. I started the women’s softball program there, finished my undergraduate and three graduate degrees at the University of Hawai‘i. I have worked for the City and County of Honolulu, county of Kaua‘i as a planner, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Honolulu and currently work for the State Historic Preservation Division for 20 years as the Historic Preservation Specialist for Kaua‘i. Relocated to Kaua‘i by the state after Hurricane ‘Iniki. I currently am the deputy administrator for the division and the state archaeologist. I raised my son who is now 26, a college graduate and fireman. I was born in Denver, Colo., and moved here after high school graduation to attend University of Hawai‘i, Manoa.

I live in Koloa and have for the past 12 years.

6) Empowering people to take major roles in directing our future. Being honest with folks on how decisions and directions for government are made.

7) Trying to have our community deal with the current economic situation of the U.S. High costs of fuels, need to train the work force to deal with an expanding older population, increasing health care, trying to create more affordable housing, keep new business opportunities here and meet transportation needs.

on behalf of Terri Kekoolani