Letter in the Maui News Tuesday
Native Hawaiian leaders called to a gathering
As a nonprofit citizen advocacy group, Citizens for Truth and Justice-Maui County, we encourage all of the Hawaiian sovereignty group leaders to come to a ho’okahi lahui that will take place on Aug. 21 at the Maui Botanical Garden Amphitheater, running from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. The main purpose of this ho’okahi lahui is to bring together all of the sovereignty leaders to share their mana’o in creating the unification of all the various government entities that strive for a Hawaiian government that is for the Hawaiians and administered by the Hawaiians.
Registration for voters is presently taking place to allow the people to eventually vote for their leader or leaders and the type of government they desire.
All of the sovereignty leaders who participate in this great effort will be showing their followers that they are truly pursuing a sincere desire and need to unite all of the sovereignty groups, which in reality is the only thing that will work. pision of the people has been historically the downfall of every effort to restore nations.
Here, now, is the opportunity to bring real strength to all of your efforts to get your country back.
Sam Miguel
Executive Director-Citizen Affairs
Citizens for Truth and Justice-Maui County
Aloha,
Please provide a map, address or directions to this event’s location since “Maui Botanical Garden” is vague.
Is this the Maui Nui Botanical Garden on Kanoloa Ave, for example? If so, where is the amphitheater?
Peace
I don’t know anything other than what was published in this letter, but I assume it is Maui Nui Botanical Garden.
http://www.mnbg.org/contact.html
“…various government entities that strive for a Hawaiian government that is for the Hawaiians and administered by the Hawaiians”
Aloha,
Is this an effort to bypass the Hawaiian Kingdom? Or rather, to create an agreed upon Government that is not the Hawaiian Kingdom? Like but not like the Governing Entity that the USA is proposing in the Akaka Bill? I’m confused; and where does it leave non-kanaka oiwi? Hey, and I do believe the blood quantum thing is pretty evil as to who is an aboriginal & who is hapa. or less-they are all one to me rejecting the divide and conquer strategy it is, i.e., the BQ- I can surmise that this is an initial gathering movement, but the Hawaiians have a government in the Constitution(s) of the Hawaiian Kingdom…some help here? Mahalo
Aloha Kakou.
Good luck to all attendees at the conference this coming Saturday. Just a quick two cents unsolicited input:
(1). There appears to be no Master Plan in relation to future de-colonization as to how it would affect resident U.S. Citizens. Only Poka Laenui (Hayden Burgess) appears to have provided some tantalizing clues as to what Independence would entail. Americans are asking very reasonable questions e.g. What will happen if the U.S. military withdraws and thousands of dockyard workers are laid off at Pearl Harbor? Who will provide social and emergency services under Independence? How will Independence affect my medi-care, pension, business, and land? There appears to be no website currently available on the internet to answer these pedestrian reoccurring questions. The Leadership is failing their own supporters by not making provision for the obvious.
(2). How can Hawaiian Nationals be incorporated into supporting Independence instead of remaining apathetic on the sidelines?
(3). At present much of the Independence cause appears ethnocentric can it become more inclusive to include American residents?
-Answers are not sought here, but hopefully they can be considered for discussion at the gathering on Saturday.
Good luck to you all in your worthy endeavors. -Onipa’a.