We want to bring you an update on one of our recent guests on Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i’s Future.
Ka`iulani Edens-Huff, who was featured on our recent Radio Free Kaua`i segment, was taken off the air at KKCR radio and her weekly show, Songs Of Sovereignty, cancelled.
Moreover others staffers calling for her reinstatement were also removed from the station.
KKCR, which broadcasts from Kaua`i but can also be heard on parts of O`ahu, is not a commercial radio station but community owned and run.
It was the vision of the late John Butch Kekahu III, founder of the Koani Foundation.
Butch knew the importance of media without restrictions.
What has now become very clear is KKCR management’s real purpose in all of this - to silence Ka`iulani’s weekly message of a Free Hawai`i.
But instead of us telling you the rest of the story, here are the people of Kaua`i themselves.
Take a look –
We at the Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network call for Ka`iulani’s immediate reinstatement. We consider it outrageous her voice would be silenced.
If you agree, here’s how to help regardless of where on earth you live.
Email KKCR station management at kkcr@kkcr.org or call them toll free at (866) 275-1112.
Demand the immediate reinstatement of all who have been silenced and let them know you support a Free Hawai`i.
The voice of the people is indeed the basis for strong community whether it’s on local radio or the world over right here on Voices Of Truth – One-On-One With Hawai`i’s Future.
MONDAY, January 7th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, January 11th At 5:30 PM – Hawai`i Island – Na Leo, Channel 53
TUESDAY, January 8th At 6:30 PM & WEDNESDAY, January 9th At 6:30 AM – Maui – Akaku, Channel 53
THURSDAY, January 10th At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, January 11th At 8:30 AM – Kaua`i – Ho`ike, Channel 52
“Hidden In The Forest – A Visit With Dr. Baron Kaho`ola Ching”
Deep in a rain forest in Nu`uanu Valley sits one of the most remarkable sites in all Hawai`i.
Imagine a place lost in time and space to the modern world – Kaniakapupu.
A palatial summer residence for Kauikeaoli, Kamehameha III, Kaniakapupu was built over one hundred seventy years ago spanning twenty thousand acres.
Ka La Ho`i Ho`i Ea, Sovereignty Restoration Day, was celebrated on the site in 1843 with over ten thousand guests attending.
Several key documents in Hawaiian history were drafted there and many of Hawai`i’s future rulers visited the residence as children.
Then time swallowed up and forgot Kaniakapupu until one day a few years back Baron cut through thick bamboo forests to rediscover it for himself.
What he saw stopped him in his tracks.
Since then, Baron has overseen the caretaking of this astounding place that time forgot.
Whatever you do, don’t miss our visit with Baron to Kaniakapupu. One of the most unique places in all of Hawai`i, you’ll go with us hiking through dense rain forest as we come face to face ourselves with the ancient residence and artifacts left untouched for almost two centuries in this incredible voyage of rediscovery that is sure to take your breath away.
SATURDAY, January 12th At 8:00 PM – O`ahu - `Olelo, Channel 53
“Out Of The Box – A Visit With Hinaleimoana Wong”
Since she was last on Voices Of Truth Hina Wong has been, well, busy.
An educator at two charter schools in Hawai`i, Hina delivers the kind of education students crave – and can get virtually nowhere else.
“You don’t have to go far from home to be successful,” is the message she gives her students at Halau Lokahi charter school on O`ahu and another one on the island of Kaua`i.
Teaching Hawaiian cultural values, she helps her students answer the question, who are we as Hawaiians?
Yet don’t for a minute think it’s only native Hawaiians, as students of all ethnicities attend because, as Hina reminds us, her schools mirror the multicultural population of the independent Hawaiian nation before it was illegally overthrown.
The impact her curriculum has had on her students is both profound and lasting. For the first time they see they don’t have to assimilate to be successful.
Bring your entire `ohana together and watch our visit with Hina as she reminds us the children of Hawai`i really don’t have to go and live somewhere else to make it economically. As she herself says, “we want our people to live and thrive right here.”
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