It’s a great pleasure to let everyone know that Keala Kelly’s long-awaited article, “NATIVES, SENATORS, AND OIL: The connections between drilling in the ANWR and the Native Hawaiian Federal Recognition Bill.” will be the cover story published in the upcoming October 16th edition of Hawai’i Island Journal.
Make sure you get a copy and read it. Please share it with everyone you know.
It will also be online soon at www.hawaiiislandjournal.com as well as many other places. Send the link to everyone.
The article, an exhaustive investigative piece, exposes the fact that money was paid by Arctic Power to the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement’s President and CEO, Robin Danner, and her sister Jade, to interfere directly with the Native Hawaiian political process and dissuade Hawaiians from supporting the Gwich’in people who are trying to keep oil exploration out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. It also explains how an Alaska Native Corporation that is dependent on the oil industry has given money to the CNHA that has gone to lobbying efforts for the Akaka Bill.
Additionally, you can see Keala, along with Shane Pale and Haunani-Kay Trask on television in Hawai'i on “First Friday” all this month speaking about her article. It’s a show definitely worth watching.
The struggle to expose this information has been long and difficult. The wait is over. The truth will now be told.
And it’s now time for all of us to do our part – to read and study the article and spread the information as widely as we can.
