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Kona Hawaiian Civic Club sponsoring Ku`e display & reenactment

Kona Hawaiian Civic Club is sponsoring Ku`e sign display and reenactment titled, “Ka Lei Maile Alii – the Queen’s Women.”

Sunday, January 13, 2013, at 1:00 p.m. Keauhou Cultural Site (*formerly Outrigger Keauhou)

The event is free and open to the public. For more info, contact Pohai Kirkland at pohaikalani@aol.com.

Aloha ‘Oe

Learned that both Uncle Soli Niheu and Uncle Wiliama Waiohu have recently passed away. Both were warriors for their country.

Uncle Soli was a wise contrarian who always made sure the grassroots reality view was heard.

And Uncle Wiliama was a regular presence in many Ohana Council/Nation of Hawaii and kupuna gatherings and conventions back in the 90s, often alongside Auntie Helen Hoopai, always observing from the side and sharing mana’o quietly but firmly, a pure Hawaiian with a pure heart, who also made sure those of us non-Hawaiians present felt fully comfortable and welcomed.

Aloha ‘Oe, Uncle Soli and Uncle Wiliama.

Update: There will be a celebration of Soli’s life at ʻIolani Palace on Saturday, January 5th 2013. Here’s a facebook page set up in his memory.

Also, here’s Uncle William’s obituary. Visitation will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, December 8, 2012, at Waiola Church; services will begin at 11 a.m..

Chinese to Sec. Clinton: “We could claim Hawaii”

Secretary of State Clinton after her remarks at the Foreign Policy Group’s “Transformational Trends 2013” Forum in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 29, made this statement in response to a question about China, in the context of China’s claim to certain territorial seas:

At one point in one of my long discussions about this, one of my Chinese interlocutors said, “Well, we could claim Hawaii.” I said, “Well, go ahead, and we’ll go to arbitration and prove we own it. That’s what we want you to do.”

Interesting… both that the Chinese are raising the issue of Hawaii’s status with the United States’ top diplomat, even rhetorically; and that the U.S. thinks they can prove they own it. So far, no proof we’ve ever seen…

Reenactment and Sign Display at Waimea 11.25.12

Check out the photos at Lynette Cruz’ Facebook Gallery

Ku`e signs went on display at Waimea this past Sunday, with wonderful ceremony that lasted for as long as it took for the signs to be laid out. at 1 pm, the reenactment (Ka Lei Maile Alii – the Queen’s Women) was performed before a large and receptive audience, many of whom attended in costume. Royal Order of Kamehameha attended dressed in regalia. it was awesome. Mahalo to Pua Case ma for hosting this fabulous event!

La Ku’oko’a – Hawaiian Independence Day concert

Ku`e signs at the National Mall

Lynette Cruz has posted photos on Facebook of Ku’e signs at the National Mall earlier this month. These are names of na kupuna that appeared in the 1897 Ku’e petition.

Update: Pono Kealoha posted this video of the event on YouTube.

Moolelo Refigured: Developing a New Hawaiian History Textbook

Umi Perkins at TEDxManoa

South-South News interview re UN Protest and Demand

Begin forwarded message:

From: “Keanu Sai, Ph.D.” <anu@hawaii.edu>
Subject: UPDATE: UN Protest and Demand (South South News)
Date: October 26, 2012 7:53:19 AM HST

UPDATE. Last week when I was in New York city meeting with an ambassador and an official from the United Nations regarding the Hawaiian Protest and Demand that was filed on August 10, 2012, an invitation was extended to me to do an interview with South-South News about Hawai‘i as a sovereign and independent state. The interview was done this past Friday in New York City and today the video was posted on their website under the title “Experts on Development.” It was a great opportunity to share with a broader audience the prolonged and illegal U.S. occupation of the Hawaiian Islands and the impact it has today from a legal, political and economic standpoint.

(Direct link to interview)

South-South News is an initiative launched in February 2010 during the sixteenth session of the United Nation General Assembly High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation (SSC). The purpose for South-South News is to advance the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) through the sharing of best practices in the areas of South-South and Triangular Cooperation. South-South News disseminates news about Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and the Caribbean. South-South News is a digital media platform for the countries of the South that is facilitating, connecting, and publishing news on various efforts in sustainable economic and social development to audiences and multiple constituencies not only in the South but also around the world.

“Noho Hewa” Review by DGR News

Deep Green Resistance News Service has a good review of Anne Keala Kelly’s film “Noho Hewa: The Wrongful Occupation of Hawai’i” that ends with this conclusion:

The Hawai’i that exists in our imagination is not the real Hawai’i. The real Hawai’i is a land that is under cultural, psychological, economic, ecological, and military siege. It is a land where sacred places are desecrated every day to humiliate Hawaiian people and prop up a colonial culture. It is one of the most militarized places in the world. It has the highest concentration of GMOs anywhere in the world. It has more endangered species per square mile than anywhere else in the world.

As Trask says in the film, “This is not our natural environment anymore. This is a tourist environment. This is a military environment.”

There is nothing about this that is inevitable. As the existence of this film shows, and as the voices within it make clear, the wrongful occupation of Hawai’i is not something that has to be taken for granted. It is something that can and will be resisted, and it is something that can and will be won. And this powerful film is an important step in making it happen.

Read the whole thing and learn more about the film at NohoHewa.com.

Names from anti-annexation petition to be displayed in Washington

By Associated Press

The names of more than two thousand people who more than a century ago signed petitions opposing the U.S. annexation of Hawaii will be displayed this month in the heart of Washington, D.C.

The names will be displayed on the center panel of the National Mall next Monday and Tuesday.

Honolulu-based Ka Lei Maile Alii Hawaiian Civic Club is sponsoring the exhibit.

Nearly 40,000 people signed Kue petitions opposing annexation in 1897. The U.S. went ahead and annexed the islands in 1898, five years after businessmen backed by U.S.-Marines overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy.

The civic club is also sponsoring a historical reenactment of a meeting of Hawaiian patriots that will be performed at the National Museum of the American Indian on Sunday and at a Washington hotel on Tuesday.

(I do want to correct a common misrepresentation here that I wish folks on this side of the argument would stop making. It is simply not accurate to say, “Nearly 40,000 people signed the Ku’e petitions opposing annexation in 1897.” There were two petitions, one referred to as the Ku’e petitions opposing annexation, which was signed by about 21,000 people, and another separate petition calling for the restoration of the monarchy which was signed about about 17,000 people. Almost certainly there was significant overlap between these two petitions, although the second one has never been recovered from the archives so there is no way to verify the exact extent of this. So while it is accurate to say there were close to 40,000 signatures between the two petitions, it is very likely not the case that 40,000 people signed the two petitions, let alone the Ku’e petition like this article says. The facts are impressive enough, that the numbers don’t need to be repeatedly misrepresented in this way.)

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