This blog is about Hawaii's status as an independent country under prolonged illegal occupation by the United States, and the history, culture, law & politics of the islands.
By Scott Crawford, Hana, Maui
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Check out this resolution HR68 in the state legislature:
RECOGNIZING HAWAIIAN NATIONALS AS A POPULATION RESIDING LAWFULLY IN THE HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Hearing in the Hawaiian Affairs Committee this morning “recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED.”
A Special Invitation to the:
President Grover Cleveland
Hoolaulea La Hanau – Birthday Celebration
& Cleveland Portrait Unveiling and Onipaa Photo Event
Date: March 17th, 2012, Saturday
Place: Cleveland Court – Mililani Street and Queen Street (Look for the Cleveland Pohaku)
http://archives.starbulletin.com/2007/09/23/news/kokualine.html
Time and Event Schedule: 10:00 AM
10:00 AM Registration (pre-registration recommended)
10:30 Program / Portrait Unveiling w/ Gov. John Waihee
11:15 Onipaa Photo Event (group photo – everyone, & groups) 11:30 Refreshments
Pre-registration available just contact PJRC 330-3771
Office of Hawaiian Affairs (event co-sponsor) Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs
Royal Societies, Royal Guard, Kingdom of Hawaii Crown Order
Pacific Justice and Reconciliation Center U.H. Peace Studies and
Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work St. Andrews Cathedral, Members and Na Kahu Hawaiian Kahu
Forgiveness Project
Interfaith Alliance
Others
Staging for large group photo behind Cleveland pohaku will take place after program. Photos will document Hawaii support for Cleveland and be sent to Cleveland’s home states of New York and New Jersey. Other group photos will follow.
A reproduced portrait of Cleveland from the Caldwell, NJ, Grover Cleveland Birthplace Museum will be unveiled and blessed for use in the community from the community – those who attend this March 17th event.
For more info and to pre-register please contact PJRC: (Pacific Justice and Reconciliation Center) at 330-3771
 
Aloha ‘Oe Uncle Charlie.
Breaking news from the Star-Advertiser.
New York Times has a review of Julia Flynn Siler’s new book, “Lost Kingdom: Hawaii’s Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America’s First Imperial Adventure,” which recounts the tale of Hawaii “using more than 275 sources, including contemporaneous Hawaiian newspapers and the letters and diaries of Lili’uokalani.”
Adam Keaweokaʻī Kīnaʻu has a new blog “Keawe, the Hawaiian History Columnist” located at hawaiianhistorian.blogspot.com with lots of relevant original content, including an extensive 3-part series on “Rethinking the Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement.” Check it out, and leave him some comments.
Sarah Vowell’s Unfamiliar Fishes is now available in paperback.
And here’s an interview with her in the LA Weekly, including this:
You mentioned some Hawaiians who carried signs that read, “We Are Not Americans” at a parade for the 50th anniversary of its statehood. Have those types given you any feedback on your book?
Oh, yes. There’s a pretty potent community of native activists there who have spent decades picketing and speaking out about Hawaiian sovereignty. To my delight, they have really embraced the book because someone with access to the American mass media is telling the story of how the United States took over their country and, in their opinion, wrecked it.
I also found those people to be an invaluable resource when I was researching the book. The nice thing about people who hold grudges is that they are exceedingly knowledgeable about the past and are more than happy to talk about it! One of the interviews I did with one of those protesters was supposed to be a half-hour lunch. It lasted six hours. I learned a lot.
From Hawai`i to Palestine: Indigeneity, Settler Colonialism, and the Politics of Occupation
a public lecture by J. Kēhaulani Kauanui
Monday, March 12, 2012
3:30-5:00pm
Saunders 624, The Friedman Room
University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
Co-Sponsored by American Studies, Ethnic Studies and Political Science
Local-Global Colloquium at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa
Refreshments provided!
J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is an Associate Professor of American Studies and
Anthropology at Wesleyan University. Kauanui’s first book is Hawaiian Blood:
Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity (Duke University
Press, 2008). Her second book project (in-progress), Thy Kingdom Come?
The Paradox of Hawaiian Sovereignty, is a critical study on land, gender and
sexual politics and the disavowal of indigeneity in state-centered Hawaiian
nationalism. Kauanui is the sole producer and host of a public affairs radio
program, “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond,” which
airs across 10-US states, Additionally, she co-produces and co-hosts an
anarchist radio program, Horizontal Power Hour. From 2005-2008, Kauanui
was part of a six-person steering committee that worked to found the
Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA), for which she
currently serves as an elected member of the inaugural council. For more
information: http://jkauanui.faculty.wesleyan.edu/
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Leon Siu writes in Hollywood Progressive “Free Hawaii: Beyond The Descendants“
From Leon Siu:
Today, Feb. 20 there will be a mass display of the placards with the names of Hawaiian patriots who signed the 1897 Ku’e Petition that stopped annexation to the US. The display will radiate out from the McKinley Statue in front of McKinley High School on King Street.
You are welcome to join us to set up display. If you want to kokua, come at 10am. It will take about 2 hours to set up, so viewing time of the finished display will be noon-2pm.
Also during the viewing time, Kuhio Voegler and I will be making respective presentations about recent development that will be of great interest to Hawaiian independence advocates.
The Hawai’i Pono’i Coalition is hosting the Annexation Debates, being held at the Hawai’i Judiciary Center, on February 23 through Feb 26.
Annexation Debate Flyer PDF
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