Members and friends of the Hawaiian Independence Action Alliance staged a show of protest on Monday, March 31 at 5:30 pm in response to the decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm the state of Hawaii’s clear title to so-called ceded lands. With our “SEIZED NOT CEDED” signs and Hawaiian Independence banners, the group gathered for a small ceremony at the Queen’s statue, then moved to Beretania St. to make our presence known. We were there to protest the fake state and the U.S. fiction of an annexation that never occurred, as well as the presumption of the state and feds that lands had legally transferred from the Hawaiian Kingdom to the Republic of Hawaii and then to the United States, thus becoming lands ceded to the U.S. The protest was to call attention to the seizure of Hawaiian lands and the continuous use of terms like “ceded lands” that confuse the issue.
