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"HEREʻS WHY YOUʻVE BEEN BRAINWASHED"

 

You Think You Havenʻt Been Brainwashed?

Youʻre Saying Things Every Day That Prove Otherwise.

In Fact, Youʻre Living In A Lie & Probably Donʻt Even Know It.

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 KE AUPUNI UPDATE - OCTOBER 2021 

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.

 

 

 

 

 

The Papal Bulls To McKinley

The "Papal Bulls” set in motion 600 years of colonialism, the forceful spread of western civilization, religion and culture, often resulting in atrocities against native peoples, the forcible taking of lands (including whole continents); the rampant plundering of resources and wanton destruction of the environment…
 


Today, though not quite as obvious and masked by global pervasiveness, colonial attitudes and practices remain embedded in the culture, mindset and politics of modern society. Like it or not, colonial doctrines continue to drive society today.
 


Last month, the United Nations (a club consisting of colonial countries and their former colonies) issued a declaration of the Fourth International Decade for the Eradication of All Forms of Colonialism. Wow! Sounds great! The UN acknowledges it wants to eradicate all forms of colonialism! But wait! Fourth decade? What happened in the first three decades? Absolutely nothing!
 


Like the infamous 1993 U.S. Apology for the taking of Hawaii, the UN declaration is just lip service. There is no honor in saying you are sorry and going to make it right, but never getting around to it. There is no justice in allowing wrongs to continue.
 


At its root, much of today’s civil unrest is pushback against nearly 600 years of colonialism. People realize the system is not going to fix itself. The people of our nation — the lāhui — have taken the initiative by standing our ground and battling for our ʻāina from Kahoʻolawe, Kalama Valley, Waiahole-Waikāne... all the way to Āʻole Fed Wreck, Kū Kiaʻi Mauna, and most recently, Hūnānāniho. Our Kūʻē actions have caused the cessation of bombings and other destructive activity, the return of lands, the restoration of place-names, streets, sites, schools and buildings. We have seen the installations of numerous statues and memorials to the aliʻi and heroes of our lāhui.
 


One of the most obvious and offensive symbols of Manifest Destiny (the American brand of colonialism), is having the name, President William McKinley (and his statue) affixed to one of Hawaiʻi’s top schools. Changing its name back to Honolulu High School would have a huge impact in shifting the fake narrative to the truth of what really happened, and that our nation, the Hawaiian Kingdom, continues to exist and is on the rebound.

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THE BURNING OF THE PAPAL BULLS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Papal Bulls are edicts that were issued by Roman Catholic popes beginning in the 15th century. 

These edicts gave European “discoverers” like Christopher Columbus, Cortez, DeSoto, daGama, Hudson, Drake, etc. the church’s blessing and license to colonize and subjugate people, take possession of their lands and plunder their wealth and resources. 

This resulted in genocide, widespread looting, the slave trade and many other horrible practices of colonialism. 

Twenty-four years ago, Hawai`i activists started to call attention to the fact that the offensive Papal Bulls are still ʻon the booksʻ. 

We gathered in front of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace and the Headquarters of the Catholic Diocese in downtown Honolulu, and burned copies of the Papal Bulls to demand whichever Pope was in office, to rescind this remaining vestige of colonialism. 

This became an annual event. Due to the covid restrictions, this year we will not have a physical gathering, but will be observing the Burning of the Papal Bulls online with shares from past events.

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"WHATʻS NEXT AFTER THE STATUES?"

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"TAKE THESE STATUES DOWN"

Statues & Monuments Are Being Torn Down Across The US.

Does Hawai`i Have Any That Should Be Removed?

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AMERICAʻS NEWEST FAKE STATE?

CBS News - March 28, 2019

A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation Thursday that would admit Puerto Rico into the union as the 51st state without a referendum on the island's territorial status.

The bill was unveiled by Florida Rep. Darren Soto, a Democrat who represents parts of Orlando and its large Puerto Rican community, during a press conference in Washington attended by the island's Gov. Ricardo Rosselló, a vocal supporter of Puerto Rican statehood. If enacted, the legislation would automatically trigger the island's admission into the union, bypassing any referendum.

"I'm exited about the possibility of finally ending this historic injustice. It's time for all Puerto Ricans to be united behind a noble and Democratic effort," Soto said alongside Rosselló, local Puerto Rican leaders and Reps. Ruben Gallego, Jamie Raskin, Don Young and Jenniffer González-Colón, the island's non-voting delegate. "It's time to let the old battle lines fade away. It's time to end 120 years of colonialism."

In the past seven years, the Puerto Rican government has held two referendums on the status of the island. In both cases, voters chose statehood, but because any change in status requires Congressional approval, the results were symbolic. 

Boycotted by one of the main political parties and other groups, the last referendum in 2017 was marred by historically low turnout. 

Although it could secure passage in the Democrat-controlled House, the legislation will almost certainly be opposed by the Trump administration and the Republican-controlled Senate. President Trump said last year he is an "absolute no" on Puerto Rican statehood, as long as critics such as San Juan's mayor remain in office.

Democratic backers of the measure said it will allow the party to send a clear message on Puerto Rico during a time when they believe the federal government is mistreating the U.S. territory, which is still recovering from a pair of powerful storms and grappling with decades of financial instability....

...Asked if it was problematic to cite the results of the 2017 referendum given the low turn out, Rosselló told CBS News the bill "ratifies" the will of the Puerto Rican people. 

"Every time we start approaching a resolution to the status issue, a new excuse comes about," he said, touting the victories for the statehood options in the last two plebiscites.

"What we hope to avoid is this never-ending obstacle-imposing path towards equality for the people of Puerto Rico," he said, adding that opponents of Puerto Rican statehood should state clearly why they don't want "equality" for the island.

For decades, the Caribbean island has faced a perpetual struggle over questions of self-determination, which dates back to the late 19th century, when the U.S. acquired the territory after the Spanish-American War....

HAWAI`IʻS BLNR, MAUNA KEA &  SETTLER COLONIALISM

By Sam Ikehara- November 13, 2017 - Honolulu Civil Beat


On Oct. 27, members of the Hawaii Unity and Liberation Institute gathered at the state Board of Land and Natural Resources meeting demanding the resignation of Sam Gon III, the so-called “cultural expert” who serves on the board and has voted in favor of the Thirty Meter Telescope three times.

Despite their peaceful protest, three Hawaiian protectors — Kaleikoa Ka`eo, Kaho`okahi Kanuha and Andre Perez — were arrested for speaking the truth, that Gon, as a non-Hawaiian, doesn’t have the kuleana to represent the interests of Hawaiian people.

It’s crucial that Hawaiian voices are foregrounded in the TMT struggle, which is why this op-ed isn’t about the TMT or Mauna Kea as much as it’s about the responsibilities we as non-Hawaiians have to Hawaiians.

I write as an Asian settler myself, calling on all settlers in Hawaii to recognize that Gon isn’t just a “Hawaiian issue” — he is our problem too, and arguably the problem of everyone in Hawaii who desires a sustainable future.

Perhaps even more significantly, however, Gon is just the latest iteration of a systemic issue of Asian-settler colonialism. We can call for his resignation and stand in solidarity with HULI while also staying focused on the larger system that enables individuals like Gon to occupy positions of power and make decisions at the expense of Hawaiians.

As Ka`eo has revealed, the struggle over Mauna Kea isn’t a rejection of science; it’s about the humanity of Hawaiians and their right to be self-determining.

“Weʻre demanding to the world that we be recognized as human,” K`eo states, “that we be afforded the right to protect our sacred sites.”

A lot of people see themselves as having nothing to do with the TMT or Hawaiian independence. They believe the most convenient truth available to them: that they can happily live in Hawaii and remain apolitical. What they don’t realize is that, in an illegally occupied territory like Hawaii, there is no neutral space to claim.

Settler colonialism has us believe that development is necessary because it’s in service of “progress.” But developmental narratives are predicated on envisioning a future where Hawaiians remain on the periphery, or worse, don’t exist at all.

As non-Hawaiians in Hawaii, or settlers, we’re all implicated in the violence against Hawaiians that happens every day through settler colonialism, through our participation in and identification with the US settler state, through our refusal to name the violence and interrogate our complicity in it. By violence, I mean the unjust arrests, as well as Gon’s disavowal of the very people whose culture he claims expertise in.

While Act 104 once stated that a cultural expert must assist the board “with respect to native Hawaiian issues,” later iterations no longer include that language, despite the law’s original intention to represent “Hawaiian concerns” on the BLNR.

This begs the question: why have a “cultural expert” if they aren’t representing Hawaiian interests? To push for development while claiming they have the backing of a “cultural expert”?

I don’t doubt that Gon is knowledgeable of Hawaiian culture, but his “expertise” must be called into question if he doesn’t believe that desecration of a sacred site is hewa. 

Non-Hawaiian people can and should learn about Hawaiian culture, but we must do so while acknowledging our position as settlers and the privileges that we have under US occupation.

And when it comes to positions of authority, like this “cultural expert” seat on the BLNR, we need to recognize that this isn’t our place to settler-splain (like man-splaining, but with our settler privilege). In a settler colonial system that actively works to diminish and even eradicate Hawaiians’ relationship with their ancestors, the land, Hawaiians must be the ones leading these conversations.

A Hawaiian Epistemology
 

There are so many questions we need to continually ask ourselves in an effort to unsettle our positions as settlers, but one crucial one we all need to be thinking about now is, why have a non-Hawaiian person serve as “cultural expert” when there are numerous Hawaiian cultural practitioners who have the expertise to serve the board?

How can we use our privilege to stand behind Hawaiians and support their struggle for self-determination? Part of this is realizing that what’s often cast as “Hawaiian issues” are everyone’s issues, and that rather than retreat to an apolitical space, we can think critically about our own practices and beliefs, make the effort to learn more about Hawaiian history and epistemologies, and get involved with one of the many ongoing struggles in the island against development and militarization.

As Ka`eo said on the morning of his arrest, “to be Hawaiian is a criminal act.”

This is precisely because the Hawaiian principle and practice of aloha `aina and cultural literacy of mo`olelo that recognizes the sacred and cultural significance of land directly contradicts the settler state’s interests.

Above all else, the settler state cares about development, and Candace Fujikane, a professor at University of Hawaii Manoa, has argued in her research that the state divides land into smaller areas in order to say that while one area may be significant, another is not, so that developers can go ahead with their projects.

This is impossible in a Hawaiian epistemology. The environmental and cultural impact statement of Mauna a Wakea, for example, claims that all of the mountain is sacred, not just the summit. And if this wasn’t already clear from the testimony of a number of Hawaiian cultural practitioners, no amount of money from the TMT is worth the desecration of Mauna Kea.

Land And People
 

Mauna Kea was born of the union of Papahanaumoku and Wakea, just as the Hawaiian people were. As Kekuewa Kikiloi, a professor of Hawaiian Studies at UH Manoa, writes, this shared ancestry “forges links between the genealogies of both land and people.” 

 

As people of non-Hawaiian descent, however, our own genealogical ties are elsewhere, my own being in Okinawa, Japan and China.

By acknowledging the political power that we now have, I don’t mean to diminish the histories of oppression that Asian laborers on plantations suffered. While it is important that those histories are not lost, we must recognize what our role is in the present moment.

We can do nothing and thus stand with the settler state who perpetuates violence against Hawaiians every day in the form of dispossession, water diversion, militarization, sand-mining, the desecration of Haleakala and Mauna Kea. Or we can fulfill our moral and political imperative and stand behind the lahui Kanaka, who are tirelessly working to actualize a sustainable future for all people who live in Hawaii.

Gon made his choice to align himself with the settler state, and for that reason, he must resign. But we can still make ours.

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For awhile, Hawai`i was right where it belonged - on a United Nations list of forcibly colonized nations. But in 1959 the US claimed Hawai`i was now the 50th state and Hawai`i was dropped from that list. After over half a century a move is now afoot to relist Hawai`i as an illegally occupied country. Hawaiian Kingdom Foreign Minister Leon Siu gives us an update on this effort and reveals some surprising new details not only about how it can happen but which other countries actually support it. - Watch It Here

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"Na Kama Kai - A Visit With Duane DeSoto"

2010 World Longboard Champion Duane DeSoto wanted to help repair a broken relationship - the one between people and Hawai`iʻs land and ocean. While the importance was well understood and appreciated in ancient times, todayʻs western values caused the loss of this vital connection. So Duane and his wife co-founded Na Kama Kai, which reconnects Hawai`iʻs most precious resources - itʻs youth with both the land and sea. Join us in our visit with Duane at Queenʻs beach in Waikīkī and youʻll see how Na Kama Kai is once again teaching Hawai`iʻs children that which had long been forgotten - Watch It Here

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"Back On The List - A Visit With Leon Siu"

For awhile, Hawai`i was right where it belonged - on a United Nations list of forcibly colonized nations. But in 1959 the US claimed Hawai`i was now the 50th state and Hawai`i was dropped from that list. After over half a century a move is now afoot to relist Hawai`i as an illegally occupied country. Hawaiian Kingdom Foreign Minister Leon Siu gives us an update on this effort and reveals some surprising new details not only about how it can happen but which other countries actually support it. - Watch It Here

MONDAY, December 24th At 5:30 PM – O`ahu - `Olelo, Channel 53
MONDAY, December 24th At 6:30 PM – Maui – Akaku, Channel 53
MONDAY, December 24th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, December 28th At 5:30 PM – Hawai`i Island – Na Leo, Channel 53
TUESDAY, December 25th At 7:30 PM, THURSDAY, December 27th At 7:30 PM & SATURDAY, December 29th At 8:00 PM - Kaua`i - Ho`ike, Channel 52

 
Now you can become a fan of Voices Of Truth on Facebook by clicking Here and see behind the scenes photos of our shows and a whole lot more.  

Voices Of Truth interviews those creating a better future for Hawai`i to discover what made them go from armchair observers to active participants. We hope you'll be inspired to do the same.
 
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