Hawaiians advocating the restoration of independence for the Hawaiian Islands celebrated the demise of the infamous "Akaka Bill" in the US Congress.
Without funding or political standing, Hawaii patriots fought an 11-year-long battle to stop the bill by facing down overwhelming odds of tens of millions of US lobbying dollars, the most powerful of the powerbrokers from Hawai`i to Washington DC, and a hostile press.
The defeat of the Akaka Bill is a true underdog/David-Goliath story, a testament to the power of the sheer tenacity of Hawai`i’s people armed with the truth. It is a convincing victory for the Hawaiian independence movement....
...With the Akaka Bill diversion out of the way, attention can be focused on the real issue of restoring the independent nation of Hawai`i.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
FREE HAWAI`I TV THE FREE HAWAI`I BROADCASTING NETWORK
"LYING & DENYING"
Robin Danner's A Planner & Some Say Scammer.
She's On A Mission For Akaka Bill Federal Recognition, But The Problem's Omission.
Only Those Like Her With Clout Will Really Make Out.
What's She Not Telling You Everyone Should Be Wise To?
HAWAI`I FAKE STATE PROTEST - WAS BURNING THE 50th STAR JUST?
First off, he kanaka `oiwi au. (I am native.)
I was one of the protesters and would like to point out that removing and burning just that star (and not the whole flag) was actually a show of restraint. It was a fairly mild and reserved act of defiance compared to the sort of protests you could find elsewhere in the world.
Secondly, the overthrow was not pono. The Republic of Hawai`i was not pono and neither were the means by which territorial status and statehood were obtained.
Third, if we're going to talk about "desecration," what about the desecration of na iwi kupuna, (ancient native burials) ground to dust beneath skyscrapers and malls? What about the desecration of our `aina (Makua valley, Ho`opili anyone?), our oceans (ordnance reef), and the culture, language and socioeconomic status of an entire living people?
So much fuss over burning one cloth star when we've (by "we" I mean both the `aina and na kanaka maoli, for we are one and the same) been getting burned for over a century.
Injustice cannot be relegated to the past if it is perpetuated in the present.
Puaena Pearl City, O`ahu
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
US RIGHTS PANEL OPPOSES AKAKA BILL
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - August 31, 2009
The US Commission on Civil Rights has sent a letter to congressional leaders urging opposition to the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act, also known as the Akaka Bill.
In the letter issued Friday, the commission said it believes Congress does not have the “constitutional authority to ‘reorganize’ racial or ethnic groups into dependent sovereign nations unless the groups have a long and continuous history of separate self-governance.” The letter said creating such a entity would be a “harmful precedent.”
“Ethnic Hawaiians will surely not be the only group to demand such treatment,” the letter said. “On what ground will Congress tell these other would-be tribes ‘no?’”
The commission called the bill an end-run around the Supreme Court’s decision in Rice v. Cayetano and City of Richmond v. J.A. Croson Co., and opposed passing “legislation with the purpose of shoring up a system of racially exclusive benefits.”
The letter closed by quoting the 1840 Kingdom of Hawai`i Constitution, signed by King Kamehameha III and Keoni Ana, the son of British-born minister John Young: “God has made of one blood all races of people to dwell upon this Earth in unity and blessedness.”
The letter said, “It would be ironic to attempt to honor the dynamic, cosmopolitan Kingdom of Hawai`i by disdaining these words.”
Monday, August 31, 2009
HONORING HAWAI`I'S QUEEN
QUEEN LILI`UOKALANI Her 171st Birthday - Sept. 2, 2009 4 - 7 PM `Iolani Palace Grounds At The Ahu Honolulu
Monday, August 24, 2009
PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND EXPOSES HAWAI`I THE FAKE STATE
Thursday, August 20, 2009
HAWAI`I FAKE STATE PROTEST TOMORROW
March & Rally To Protest 50th State Celebrations
HONOLULU, HAWAI`I – Hawai`i Nationals and their supporters will hold a march and rally Friday, August 21, 2009 to protest the continued US occupation of Hawai`i and the fraudulent claim that Hawai`i is actually the 50th US state.
Research has revealed Hawai`i being part of the US as legally dubious, as well as the fact that the majority of Hawai`i residents did not vote for statehood during the 1959 vote as has been widely accepted.
“We now know Hawai`i is a fake state,” stated Lynette Cruz of the Hawaiian Independence Action Alliance. “We were told we were being adopted. Only later we found out we’d been kidnapped.”
The rally will start at 10 AM at Ala Moana Beach Park on the Diamond Head side. The march itself will travel mauka along Atkinson Drive, ending in front of the Hawai`i Convention Center where participants will congregate to protest the day-long, fake state-sponsored 50th state Jubilee activities going on inside at that time.
Everyone is encouraged to attend the march and rally. Both are free and open to the public.
After the illegal annexation of Hawai`i in 1893, the US in 1959 conducted a domestic plebiscite on the question of whether or not Hawai`i should be admitted as a state, rather than an international body such as the United Nations conducting a plebiscite offering three choices for Hawai`i’s status: independence, compact of free association, or statehood, as required by international law. No real choice was ever offered to voters.
Recent research has shown that only 36% of all eligible voters participated in the 1959 statehood vote, while 64% did not. Voters were mainly American settlers and US military members and their families. The vast majority of Hawai`i residents boycotted the vote entirely.
“There is nothing to celebrate,” remarked Cruz. “We call attention to how US imperialism in our homeland has resulted in the fake state of Hawai`i commemorating itself inside the convention center. It’s a lie built on theft.”
Due to criticisms, the fake state subsequently toned down the language of “celebration” to "observation" or "commemoration" to avoid raising questions regarding the illegal 1959 vote.
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