Hawaiian Independence Action Alliance

January 22, 2012

Low-tech video as front-line protest tool

Filed under: Events/Actions

SAT., FEB. 11 WORKSHOP for ACTIVISTS

 



January 20, 2012

Julia Flynn Siler’s “Lost Kingdom” in The Washington Post

Filed under: Media

“…Lili’u wrote more than a hundred songs about her country in her native tongue, evidence of a heart that had much to say to her people…”

 

 

Read the full book review here.



December 18, 2011

“…members of the U.S. House killed a provision in a bill that could have led to federal recognition of Native Hawaiians…”

Filed under: Akaka Bill / SB 1520

“OHA spent 10 years pursuing the passage of the ‘Akaka bill’ and dealt with multiple obstacles along every step. We will not give up. We are committed to gaining federal protection of Kanaka Oiwi rights.”

—OHA Chair Colette Machado

 

 

 

Read the the full article here.



December 10, 2011

“…(OHA) has been fighting for decades to get some $200 million in back-due revenues in return for the state’s use of so-called ‘ceded’ public lands…

Filed under: Media

“…here we go again…we have the state trying to justify a land exchange that they don’t have proper title to. They don’t even have the right to transfer the land.”

Henry Noa, prime minister , Reinstated Hawaiian Government

Read the full article here.



…the state-sponsored process set forth by Act 195 will usurp the longstanding efforts of various sovereignty groups…

“I oppose this measure because, like the Federal level Akaka bill, they would set up a Native Hawaiian governing mechanism that would further ensnare and entrench Hawaii into the US system by turning the Hawaiian people into an American Indian tribe, ‘indigenous’ to the US. This would further the US goal of extinguishing Hawaiian Nationals’ claims to our lands and our national identity.”

P. Kaanohi Kaleikini

 

Read the full article here.



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