H.E. Leon K. Siu giving a Press Briefing at Palais des Nations, Geneva — Photo by ACANU
8y Leon Siu - Hawaiian National
Keeping in touch and updated on activities regarding the restoration of Ke Aupuni o Hawai`i, the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka `Aina I Ka Pono.
• Press At The UN
I just returned again from another trip to the United Nations headquarters in New York and Geneva.
The main benefit in attending meetings at the UN is to be able to tell our story and drum up interest among diplomats, UN officials and agencies, NGOs and all the other onlookers. The UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, is an ideal platform to tell our story by presenting interventions on the items being discussed in the plenary sessions, speaking on various panels, and mingling with people in the margins of the meeting.
One of the most important components in the talk-story mix is the international press.
Over the years, we have established solid credibility through dozens of articles published by various news agencies from around the world. A recent article that got much attention at the UN was in the January 2019 issue of Diva International Diplomat, a quarterly glossy magazine published at the UN in Geneva.
ACANU (the Association of Accredited Correspondents at the United Nations) oversees the press corps at the UN. On June 28, ACANU hosted a press briefing featuring Rob Kajiwara, Catherine Fisher and me, about human rights violations occurring in Hawaii and Okinawa. Interest was so keen, the briefing lasted over 90 minutes (far exceeding the allotted 1 hour) during which we were able to answer a lot of questions and cover a lot of ground… our history, living under foreign rule, current conditions, the struggle to restore self-governance and self-reliance; the TMT and Mauna Kea, illegal detentions, discrimination and persecution of Hawaiian subjects, falsification and transferal of land titles to foreign interests, economic tyranny, pillaging of Hawaii’s resources, etc.
As I said before, the world is waking up and beginning to listen. Briefings like this is to prepare the international press so they won’t be surprised when we start to move… Imua!
Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.
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Malama pono,
Leon Siu
