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		<title>From Maui News 9/14/09</title>
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POSTED: September 14, 2009
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Looking back to when the illegal provisional government of the United States tried to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the farce that Ko Hawai&#8217;i Pae Aina was part of whatever: I enjoyed advocating for the truth by joining the demonstrations at the airport and the state building.
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<p>Looking back to when the illegal provisional government of the United States tried to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the farce that Ko Hawai&#8217;i Pae Aina was part of whatever: I enjoyed advocating for the truth by joining the demonstrations at the airport and the state building.</p>
<p>The biggest pleasure I had was seeing the small and watered-down celebrations of those who live the illusion that Ko Hawai&#8217;i Pae Aina is part of America. There were no fireworks, no parades, no waving of banners and flags. Why? Because you cannot celebrate evil.</p>
<p>The second thing that I found great pleasure in was when my fellow civilized people cut the 50th star from the American flag and put a match to it. The ultimate demonstration of our true feelings and ku&#8217;e. I only wished that I had done that and sent the ashes to President Barack Obama, Sen. Daniel Inouye, Gov. Linda Lingle and Sen. Daniel Akaka. They&#8217;re no Duke Paoa Kahanamoku, Kekuni Blasdell, George Helm, James Mitchell, Eddie Aikau, or auntie Nona Beamer. They&#8217;re just illusionists.</p>
<p>You cannot honor genocide, lies, theft, breaking of treaties and the occupation of a peaceful nation. America is the kid with his hand in the cookie jar and chocolate chips on his lips and still insists that he never ate the cookies. The only ones to back him are the ones that shared in the immoral behavior. America preaches the Ten Commandments and breaks every one. A culture of hypocrisy, not democracy.</p>
<p>Gaby Gouveia</p>
<p>Makawao</p></div>
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		<title>From Maui News 9/9/09</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Double standard is difficult to understand
Posted in the Maui News Sept. 9, 2009 
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In regards to Richard Hillman&#8217;s letter (Sept. 2), I find it amazing how people justify an illegal action with the mindset that if America didn&#8217;t take Hawaii then someone else would have. I know some people who really feel that way and that [...]]]></description>
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<p>Posted in the Maui News Sept. 9, 2009 </p>
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<p>In regards to Richard Hillman&#8217;s letter (Sept. 2), I find it amazing how people justify an illegal action with the mindset that if America didn&#8217;t take Hawaii then someone else would have. I know some people who really feel that way and that is why they think it&#8217;s a good thing that the Hawaiian people&#8217;s government was overthrown by the United States of America. This is how they justify stealing.</p>
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<p>If America hadn&#8217;t taken Hawaii, we may be under the control of Japan, France, England or Russia. But we are not. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, America sent in troops along with other countries to liberate Kuwait. Tell me what is the difference?</p>
<p>The Hawaiian government at the time of its overthrow was recognized by the world as a sovereign nation. If we still had control of our kingdom in 1942, I&#8217;m certain that America and its allies would have sent in troops as they did in the rest of the Pacific to stop Japan from getting closer to North America.</p>
<p>Yes, it&#8217;s a fact that America stole Hawaii and we are now a part of the United States. The part that Hawaiian people have a hard time understanding is if I steal from you, I will be prosecuted under the law, but if you stole from me it&#8217;s OK because some other country would have done it. What a great concept.</p>
<p>Boysie Maxwell</p>
<p>Waiohuli</p></div>
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		<title>Hawaii Pono I Coalition celebrates Queen&#8217;s Birthday at Iolani Palace</title>
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Pono Kealoha, Donnie Camvel, and Kuumeaaloha Gomes as minister, Mrs. Campbell, and Mrs. Nawahi
Ka Lei Maile Alii Hawaiian Civic Club, a member organization of HIAA, sponsored today&#8217;s re-enactment titled, &#8220;Ka Lei Maile Alii - the Queen&#8217;s Women&#8217; at the Kanaina Building in honor of Queen Liliuokalani&#8217;s birthday and as part of the Hawaii Pono&#8217;i Coalition&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Pono Kealoha, Donnie Camvel, and Kuumeaaloha Gomes as minister, Mrs. Campbell, and Mrs. Nawahi</em></p>
<p>Ka Lei Maile Alii Hawaiian Civic Club, a member organization of HIAA, sponsored today&#8217;s re-enactment titled, &#8220;Ka Lei Maile Alii - the Queen&#8217;s Women&#8217; at the Kanaina Building in honor of Queen Liliuokalani&#8217;s birthday and as part of the Hawaii Pono&#8217;i Coalition&#8217;s larger remembrance of the Queen and her message to Onipa`a!  The re-enactment was first performed on Sept. 2, 2001, in this same building, to honor the Queen on her birthday.  Over the years a number of different people have taken the lead roles and brought each of the characters to life.  Mrs. Emma Aima Nawahi and Mrs. Kuaihelani Campbell, friends of Queen and country, were members of Hui Aloha Aina o Nawahine, supporters of the Queen and instrumental in gathering signatures to protest the annexation of Hawaii to the U.S.  Those petitions, with nearly 39,000 signatures, were successful in stopping  annexation via treaty.  And to this day, there is no treaty.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Kuumeaaloha Gomes and Donnie Camvel as Mrs. Nawahi and Mrs. Campbell</em></p>
<p>At today&#8217;s presentation, as in the past, Keanu Sai prefaced the re-enactment by providing a historic context&#8211;why the signatures were being gathered in the first place, and what the implications are for today.  The successful signature petition campaign resulted in the failed passage of the treaty of annexation in Congress (there was/is NO treaty of annexation).  This forced some members of Congress to devise a scheme to take Hawaii illegally via an internal (to the U.S.) document called the Newlands Resolution, thus a major theft occurred of Hawaii&#8217;s government, Hawaiian land, and Hawaiian nationals (the people themselves being transferred &#8220;like a flock of cattle&#8221;, as noted by Joseph Nawahi), but more seriously, a theft of our history.  It was unsafe to talk about the theft, so people kept quiet and, through a concerted effort over generations, and with the help of an educational system imported from the U.S., the people of Hawaii were reprogrammed to accept a false history so as to easily assimilate them and get them ready for statehood.  In 1900, the U.S. passed an organic act to create a territory of Hawaii.  In 1920, the U.S. passed the  Hawaiian Homestead Act, in the process creating an ethnic category called &#8220;Native&#8221; or &#8220;native&#8221; Hawaiian.  In 1950, the U.S. signed into law the statehood act with a subsequent vote in 1959 that included members of the U.S. military in Hawaii.  </p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Copies of petitions against annexation to the U.S.</em></p>
<p>In 1978, within the fake state of Hawaii, a constitutional convention created the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, which became operational in 1980.  Thirteen years later, in 1993, a huge demonstration by Hawaiians (by blood) and supporters gathered at Iolani Palace grounds to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.  That same year saw the passage of PL 103-150, the so-called apology bill, whereby the U.S. apologized to the &#8220;native Hawaiians&#8221; they created in 1920 for the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.  Other Hawaiian subjects were unacknowledged.  And finally, beginning in 2000, Senators Akaka and Inouye attempted to turn Hawaiians (by blood) into a native american tribe by making Hawaiians &#8216;indigenous&#8217; to the U.S. via federal recognition.</p>
<p>The point of the Keanu Sai&#8217;s talk and the re-enactment today was to call attention to the struggle faced by the Queen and her supporters during that time of turmoil, all of whom understood the call to onipa`a and who signed the ku`e petitions. These are the ancestors of those of us Hawaiians (by nationality) living today.  That struggle is not over as long as we remember our history and defend Queen and country until such time as our country is restored to us.  E onipa`a kakou!  Eo Hawaii!</p>
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Akaka Bill supporter ignores inherent Kanaka Maoli rights
By Kihei Soli Niheu and J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D.
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<p><span class="postcredit"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">By Kihei Soli Niheu and J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Ph.D.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span class="brown"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Sep 06, 2009 </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As supporters of Hawaiian Independence, we wish to acknowledge Gov. Linda Lingle&#8217;s decision to somberly commemorate rather than callously celebrate what for Kanaka Maoli and other Hawaiian kingdom heirs was the third major crime committed against us by the U.S. when it fraudulently incorporated our country in 1959, its 1893 overthrow of our monarchy and 1898 annexation of our territory having already paved the way.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In contrast to the governor&#8217;s respectful stance, the piece on the Akaka Bill penned in your paper by Professor Jon Van Dyke (&#8221;<a href="http://www.starbulletin.com/editorials/20090824_Akaka_Bill_would_be_win-win.html" target="_blank">Akaka Bill would be &#8216;win-win&#8217;</a>,&#8221; Star-Bulletin, Aug. 24) &#8212; who needs to reveal what fees he has received for his decade-long work on and for the Akaka Bill since he regularly comments on it &#8212; exudes condescension and misinformation.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Van Dyke says the bill will &#8220;allow the Hawaiian people&#8221; to &#8220;govern themselves.&#8221; As an international lawyer and settler in our homeland, he should know that self-determination is inherent, not &#8220;allowed,&#8221; and that we call ourselves Kanaka Maoli. He then relates that the Hawaiian kingdom was racially discriminatory and seething with struggles for power but obliterates the fact that it was white plutocrats who launched discrimination, power grabs, the Bayonet Constitution and then went on to engineer, with U.S. agents, the overthrow of Queen Lili&#8217;uokalani when she sought to abrogate that infamous document.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We also find it ironic that Van Dyke tells us to emulate the Maori experience with the Waitangi Tribunal when a) Our Maori cousins tell us the opposite, and b) He promotes an Akaka Bill that will shut down all U.S. court doors to Kanaka Maoli claims: &#8220;It is the general effect of section 8 (c)(2)(B) [of the Bill] that any claims that may already have accrued and might be brought against the United States &#8230; be rendered nonjusticiable in suits brought by plaintiffs other than the Federal Government.&#8221;</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Finally, Professor Van Dyke artlessly uses possessive articles to advance a false identity of interests between settlers like himself and we who are the heirs of the kingdom: &#8220;our islands&#8221; (ours not his), &#8220;our national government&#8221; (his not ours). Equally gauche is the paragraph that praises our culture when its writer does all to frustrate the political independence that alone could still save us from U.S. ethnocide.</span></span></p>
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		<title>Difference Between Occupation and Colonization</title>
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<div><span style="color: #993300;">At the La Ho`iho`i events at Thomas Square last month, I had a good conversation with Candace Fujikane co-editor of &#8220;Asian Settler Colonialism.&#8221; She told me that she had read my law journal article &#8220;A Slippery Path Towards Hawaiian Indigeneity,&#8221; and wished she had read the article before her book came out. The article and the book both came out in Fall &#8216;08. What she told me was that she didn&#8217;t realize how profound the difference was between occupation and colonization.</span></div>
<div>I explained to her that Hawai`i was treated as a colony by the U.S. in order to hide the occupation, and that because it was treated as a colony doesn&#8217;t mean Hawai`i was colonized. She really liked that perspective because you don&#8217;t censor colonization, but rather contextualize it within the larger framework of occupation, rather than colonization/de-colonization being the framework itself.</div>
<div><span style="color: #993300;">I&#8217;ve also heard from other people that it&#8217;s just a matter of semantics and I&#8217;m too confined to the letter of the law. I have to disagree because individuals who use the term colonization also use the accompanying law and legal principles associated to colonization and de-colonization such as <em>self-determination</em>, <em>l</em><em>ist of non-self-governing territories pursuant to </em><em>Article 73(e) U.N. Charter</em>, <em>U.N. Resolution 1514 on De-colonization, Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and UN Special Committee on 24 on Decolonization</em>. These are all terms used when speaking to colonization and the prospect of de-colonization, and are not part of the political and legal dialogue regarding occupations, <em>e.g.</em> Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead the terminology used regarding the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan include the <em>principle of continuity of State sovereignty, 1907 Hague Convention, IV, 1949 Geneva Convention, IV, Duty of Non-intervention by other States, U.N. Security Council. </em>In these situations you wouldn&#8217;t conflate the terminology, because to conflate or combine the determinate terminology would add confusion to the situation.</span> </div>
<div>Here&#8217;s an example of why conflating the terms leads to not only confusion but contradictions. If Iraq were to use the principle of self-determination under and by virtue of U.N. Resolution 1514 it would say to the international community that Iraq is not a sovereign State and is a U.S. colony, but has the aspiration of becoming a sovereign State. As a colony of the United States, Iraq would claim that it has a right to self-determination under UN Resolution 1515 to become its own country and demand to be listed as a non-self-governing territory pursuant to Article 73(e) of the U.N. Charter, and that to be de-colonized means that Iraq would have to negotiate with the U.S. government through the Department of Interior, which controls matters of internal relations. This is a complete contradiction for Iraq to pursue such a course, because Iraq already exercised self-determination as a Mandate Territory since the end of World War I and achieved the recognition of its State sovereignty in 1932 by the League of Nations. Iraq used to be a colony of the Ottoman Empire before the end of World War I. As a sovereign State, Iraq possessed two qualities&#8211;<em>external sovereignty</em> and <em>internal sovereignty</em>. External sovereignty is <em>independence</em> of other sovereign States (including the U.S.), and internal sovereignty that includes<em> territorial supremacy</em> and <em>personal supremacy</em>. <em>Territorial supremacy</em> is territorial authority over all persons within its territory, including U.S. citizens, and <em>personal supremacy</em> is over its own citizenry who travel abroad.</div>
<div><span style="color: #993300;">This is why one State cannot colonize another State, because it would violate these qualities of a sovereign State universally recognized by all States including the U.S.</span></div>
<div>A territory that is not recognized as a sovereign State could be the subject of colonization whereby the laws of the colonizer extend over the territory; and when a colony desires to exercise self-determination it is pursuing the status of a sovereign State and if it succeeds in this process, whether by negotiation or revolution, it has been decolonized and from that point on is considered a sovereign State. If it is later invaded, like Iraq in 2003, it is a matter of occupation and not colonization. This is where the terms associated with the Hague and Geneva Conventions are used to apply to the U.S. troops in the territory of Iraq, and the U.N. Security Council for enforcement of Iraq&#8217;s State&#8217;s rights. This is why colonization was not used to explain the situation of Iraq after the U.S. invasion and occupation, and should also be the same reason why we should not continue to use colonization regarding Hawai`i because it is a contradiction of Hawai`i&#8217;s history and status as a sovereign State, and only feeds the illusion created by the U.S. administration since 1898 in order to conceal and hide an illegal and prolonged occupation of a co-equal sovereign State. This is a matter for the U.N. Security Council and not the Forums on Indigenous Rights or the Special Committee of 24 on De-colonization.</div>
<div>Keanu</div>
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		<title>More on the HIAA celebration of the Queen&#8217;s birthday at the ahu</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a very mellow afternoon at the Palace on Wednesday, Sept. 2.  About 40-50 people stopped by throughout the day, with 20 or so staying until the evening.  We had tons of food, but by the end of the day, most of it had been consumed.  No one went home hungry, so definitely a good [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It was a very mellow afternoon at the Palace on Wednesday, Sept. 2.  About 40-50 people stopped by throughout the day, with 20 or so staying until the evening.  We had tons of food, but by the end of the day, most of it had been consumed.  No one went home hungry, so definitely a good party!</p>
<p>The only downside was the removal of the tent covering the table with the Queen&#8217;s portraits by state law enforcement officers.  They had reminded us earlier of DLNR&#8217;s rules prohibiting the setting up of tents in the area.  This tent protected the Queen (via her portraits) from the elements, a sign of respect to the Queen and common sense.  DLNR&#8217;s rules purport to regulate cultural practice, but their hardline reminded us all that the point of cultural practice is to honor those who came before by celebrating their lives and honoring their memories, not as the rules permit, but as culture dictates.  Cultural practice existed long before those rules were put into place.  They&#8217;ll continue to exist, with or without some foreign entity determining how they should be carried out.</p>
<p>We did get photos and video footage of the event, including the taking down of the tent (which the cops took away) and the issuing of a summons to Kahumoku to appear in court/pay a fine.  The cops really looked silly.  Maybe one day they&#8217;ll be on our side and protest stupid rules that make them look silly.  I also heard that Laura Thielen was there, hiding behind some building and making sure the cops did their job!  Photos are posted below.  When the footage makes its way to youtube, I will post the link.</p>
<p>But other than that, it was all good!  Hauoli La Hanau o Liliuokalani!</p>
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		<title>HIAA celebrates the 171st birthday of Queen Liliuokalani at Iolani Palace</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hawaiian Independence Action Alliance members, under the watchful eye of Kahumoku Flores, celebrated the Queen&#8217;s birthday with her at Iolani Palace grounds near the ahu on Wednesday, Sept. 2.  It was her 171st birthday, and an excellent time to reflect on her life and her struggle.  The food was excellent (mahalo to those who brought [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hawaiian Independence Action Alliance members, under the watchful eye of Kahumoku Flores, celebrated the Queen&#8217;s birthday with her at Iolani Palace grounds near the ahu on Wednesday, Sept. 2.  It was her 171st birthday, and an excellent time to reflect on her life and her struggle.  The food was excellent (mahalo to those who brought mea ono to share), music outstanding (mahalo to Mana Caceres ma, Tane, Laulani, and Baron for bringing their instruments and voices!), talk uplifting (mahalo to everybody, including Palani Vaughn)!  Work in the burial mound resulted in a neat and well-cared for landscape, but also a good deal of reflection and  expressions of commitment by those whose hands stripped yellow leaves or pulled weeds.  Ku Ching found his great (8 times removed) grandfather at Pohukaina, and his grandfather found him!  Mahalo to Kealaula for the opening chant. </p>
<p>Some photos are posted below.</p>
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Aloha Kakou,
I returned home safe and sound late last Friday night from a month in Europe (and a side trip to the US). Much has happened during this trip that I am still digesting&#8230; And of course I am catching up on things here at home.
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<p></span></strong></span><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Aloha Kakou,</p>
<p>I returned home safe and sound late last Friday night from a month in Europe (and a side trip to the US). Much has happened during this trip that I am still digesting&#8230; And of course I am catching up on things here at home.</p>
<p>Mahalo nui loa! I am deeply grateful for the faithful support (prayers, aloha and finances) you all so generously provided. It all worked out well. Your support allowed the necessary flexibility to move with the unexpected twists in scheduling and circumstances. It also allowed us to malama those helping us along the way. Maika’i loa.</p>
<p>I spent the first two weeks of August in Geneva, Switzerland, then went to Brussels, the Hague and Amsterdam. Then I went to Washington, DC for a couple of days, then back to Geneva for five days. This was truly an important journey, one of great significance. Below is brief report.</p>
<p></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>The UN and Hawaii<br />
</strong>Hawaii is no stranger to the UN. Over the years, Hawaii was well represented by people like: the late Kawaipuna Prejean in the 1970s; Poka Laenui through the 80s and 90s; Bumpy Kanahele (who continues to serve on an indigenous peoples council); Mililani Trask (who is a highly respected driving force at the UN for indigenous peoples); Kaiopua Fyfe (Koani Foundation); Malia Nobrega, Lilikala Kame&#8217;eleihiwa, Keli’i Gora, Joshua Cooper and others. All have served with distinction and people speak very warmly of them, both in Geneva and New York.</p>
<p>The reason I was in Geneva was to represent Hawaii (for the Koani Foundation and the Hawaiian Kingdom) at several United Nations conferences, in particular, the August meeting of the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD). Kaiopua Fyfe of the Koani Foundation has been the point-man for us at the CERD in Geneva, but he couldn’t attend this year.</p>
<p>While bodies like the CERD do not directly determine the policies of the UN, they do provide an international platform, and they can refer our case to other bodies up the UN food chain, such as the Human Rights Council and the Decolonization Committee and even the UN General Assembly.</p>
<p>(In recent years, we have been working together with Alaska natives because their country was also unlawfully acquired and fraudulently made into a “state” by the US. The native Alaskans have a full-time ambassador in Geneva who has been working the ropes at the UN for over 20 years regarding this issue.)</p>
<p>Four years ago, in 2006, Hawaii and Alaska each filed a “Shadow Report” with the UN Human Rights Committee showing the US violated the UN charter and a number of UN procedures and regulations in making the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska into US “states.” The HRC recommended we file with the CERD. That was done in 2007 and again in 2008.</p>
<p>In the February 2008 CERD meeting there was a dramatic breakthrough. While the US was presenting its periodic report to the CERD, the Russian and Romanian committee members confronted the US with a series of strong, direct questions as to why Hawaii (and Alaska) were not yet independent nations. They were drawing their questions from the Shadow Reports! The US arrogantly ignored the questions and when the incident failed to appear on the final report (minutes) of the meeting, it became obvious that someone (the US?) was exerting political pressure (arm-twisting) to delete the incident and thus, avoid the issue. This backfired because instead of making it go away, the under-handed political maneuvering by the US piqued the interest of the rest of the international body. The question then became, what was the US trying to hide? The Russians and Romanians had opened the door and the US reaction to suppress, and the CERD’s apparent complicity in an apparent US cover-up, caused the CERD, in order to save face, to at least appear to be receptive to hear our case the next time around (August 2009).</p>
<p>So, taking advantage of this opportunity, we ramped up our petition effort for this August’s meeting, urging the CERD to issue a letter to the UN Decolonization Committee requesting it investigate the United States’ violations of UN policies and mandates (and other international laws) in claiming the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska as US states. The Alaska ambassador and other influential UN people went to bat for us and eventually managed to wrangle a dedicated meeting for us to give a face-to-face oral presentation to the CERD members (Which is why I flew back to Geneva from Washington, DC, and was joined by two Alaska tribal council chiefs who also flew in for the meeting).</p>
<p>Politics at the UN is way more intense than local or national politics. The players are much bigger and the stakes are much higher. Non-violent pursuit of independence, justice or fairness simply do not register as politically important to these guys. To them, the facts do not really matter, only political capital does. So issues of justice and liberty are usually given lip-service then relegated to die in endless layers of procedures and bureaucracy.</p>
<p>What it boils down to for us is that certain key leaders of the CERD are afraid of what the US would do to them if they were to help us in our pursuit of independence. These certain committee members know just how powerful the US government can be (e.g. The US’ recent breech of the strict confidentiality policies of the Swiss banks) so they are trying to dodge the issue by hiding behind excuses of procedures and mandates.</p>
<p>Despite the US’ behind-the-scenes arm-twisting, the Alaska/Hawaii team cleared some major hurdles during this meeting. We were able to use our face-to-face presentation with the committee members, to get our petition deeply embedded into their system. We are locked into a position that they cannot continue to avoid. Our petition is like a little nail sticking up through the sole of the shoe. At this point, every step this UN body takes, try as it may, it cannot sidestep or dismiss our petition. Eventually the pain from the nail pricks will become too severe to ignore and they will have to satisfy our petition or become permanently crippled.</p>
<p>The Alaska/Hawaii team left the CERD’s opposing committee members no excuses, no way to dismiss our petition on technicalities such as procedures or lack of documentation or information. They cannot duck out with “ees not my job, man!” We showed them that this responsibility is clearly spelled out in their UN mandate. We are determined to stay on top of them and not allow them to wiggle out.</p>
<p>Alaska/Hawaii will continue to provide the CERD with updates, such as the August 21 activities exposing Hawaii as a fake state. The fake state demonstrations in Hawaii came at the tail end of the CERD meeting in Geneva when certain committee members were cynically asking, “Is there support back home for independence?” Wow, did they get an eye/ear full! Especially with the NY Times and USA today articles.</p>
<p>One of the key elements in winning a battle is how you position yourself. As a result, of the past month’s activities, the Alaska/Hawaii petition is very well positioned for passage. As our campaigns on other fronts intensify, we expect the CERD will find strong incentives to act favorably on our petition during their next meeting in the Spring.</p>
<p></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><strong>The International Community<br />
</strong>As an added benefit, Hawaii’s presence at the CERD also provided us access to the diplomatic delegations and the multi-national community in Geneva. We used this opportunity to greatly expand our base of friends and supporters for Hawaiian independence. Our strategy is to engage the broader international community and prompt them to echo and amplify the questions raised at the CERD last year by Russia and Romania regarding correcting Hawaii’s impaired condition (due to the prolonged occupation by the US) and to notch up the discussion to another level of awareness on the world platform.</p>
<p>While in Europe I also called on other diplomatic delegations, international bureaus and organizations in Berne (Switzerland), Brussels (Belgium) and the Hague (Netherlands) to discuss our reactivation of Hawaii’s independence. Numerous opportunities are open to us. I can honestly say that upon hearing our story, these diplomatic entities and agencies are very supportive and are eager to help in whatever way they can. This is crucial because these are entities outside the confines and limitations of a corporate body like the UN. They can act independently to be the “ice-breakers,” the first in line, to support our cause.</p>
<p>Our plan is to activate a variety of international mechanisms that will deal directly with the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent nation, thus out-flanking the US efforts to keep us contained. Our developing these various types of international relations will eventually force the U.S. to abandon its fraudulent claim of Hawaii being a “state” (of the US) and trigger the end of US occupation of both Hawaii and Alaska.</p>
<p>Aloha Aina,<br />
Malama pono,<br />
Leon </span><br />
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		<description><![CDATA[Recap of Fake State Resistance Actions

Congratulations to everyone who participated in the fake state demonstrations&#8230;
I was away August 21, the 50th anniversary of the fake state. But Kahu Hanalei Colleado and I were in Washington DC where we took pictures in front of the US Capitol and the US Supreme Court holding “Fake State” and [...]]]></description>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Congratulations to everyone who participated in the fake state demonstrations&#8230;</p>
<p>I was away August 21, the 50th anniversary of the fake state. But Kahu Hanalei Colleado and I were in Washington DC where we took pictures in front of the US Capitol and the US Supreme Court holding “Fake State” and “Free Hawaii” signs. (I also had similar pictures taken in front of the UN in Geneva and the World Court in the Hague)</p>
<p>The resistance actions turned out even better than we had hoped, with the fake state trying to be as invisible and un-celebratory as it could, surrendering the public arena again to the spirited and colorful displays of anti-statehood protests. The demonstrations were on all the major islands, with the biggest one in front of the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, as the state was inside holding their “conference.”</p>
<p>(Even the conference’s panel discussion, broadcast live on channel 9, was co-opted with distinguished Hawaiian scholars and leaders advocating independence. The re-broadcast on PBS a few days later, served to further bolster the case for independence.)</p>
<p>The media coverage was prodigious. References to Hawaii being a ‘fake-state’ appeared in print in over 430 publications across the US and around the world! There was TV coverage on CNN, MSNBC and several other networks, and the term “fake state” was all over the world-wide-web.</p>
<p>The strongest coverage, of course, was in Hawaii with stories running the whole week in the Honolulu Advertiser, Star Bulletin, Maui News, Honolulu Weekly, etc., reinforcing the key reasons why (as we have been contending all along) the State of Hawaii is not legitimate. These same key points were reiterated in the New York Times, USA Today and Associated Press stories.</p>
<p>In sympathy with the protests in Hawaii were concurrent solidarity actions in cities across the US, Europe, and even New Zealand and Australia. It was a clear indication of the growing global awareness and support for Hawaiian independence.</p>
<p>Congratulations to HIAA and all the others who contributed tremendously to the success of the Fake State resistance actions. You provided the visible action (amplified many times more through the media) affirming our conviction and commitment to free our nation.</p>
<p>In co-opting the 50th anniversary of “statehood” a key turning point has been reached. The press is now taking the quest for Hawaiian independence as a serious, credible, and legitimate pursuit. The notion of Hawaii being a “Fake State” has been successfully implanted in people’s minds all over the world. As it takes root and we make sure that it is fed and nurtured, it will grow into an irresistible, world-wide cry for the restoration of Hawaii as an independent nation.</p>
<p>Ku‘e! Imua! Onipa’a!</p>
<p>Malama pono,<br />
Leon</span></p>
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