Aloha Mauna Kea – Day of Solidarity and Action

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Please support this call to action by MANA and hauMANA to oppose desecration of Mauna Kea. Actions will be happening at UH Mānoa, UH Hilo and at Mauna Kea.

E hoʻā i ka lāhui kākou – ignite into action! MANA and hauMANA are organizing an Aloha Mauna Kea, Day of Solidarity and Action. Bringin it home to UH Mānoa where the decisions to desecrate are made. In conjunction with actions at UH Hilo and the aloha ʻāina warriors holding it down on the mountain, please join us this week in a great showing of solidarity and love-for our people and for Mauna Kea. It’s time to turn up the heat! #TMTshutdown #alohaaina
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Moana Nui 2013: Obama’s “Pacific Pivot” Destroys Environment, Democracy, Cultures

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Press Release

ANNOUNCING:  MOANA NUI #2

June 1-2, 2013
Martin Luther King Auditorium, Berkeley

(“Moana Nui” is Polynesian for “Vast Ocean”)

The peoples of the Pacific need help. It is no longer sufficient to speak merely of working to “protect local cultures” and “traditional economic practices.”  Local peoples are being rapidly overrun by the larger hegemonic battles of the United States vs. China. As the saying goes, “when elephants battle, the ants are crushed.”

 In May, 2013, the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), in collaboration with a broad range of indigenous and small island peoples of the Pacific, and joined by activists from countries throughout the Pacific Basin, will sponsor and produce a three-day series of public events in San Francisco. These events will be a continuation of the first Moana Nui gathering in Honolulu, November 2011, at the University of Hawaii—which IFG created in partnership with several dozen Pacific Island activist groups.

Moana Nui #1 gathered 500 Pacific activists from 17 countries for three days of spirited public meetings, collaborative organizing, protest marches, and long term campaign planning. The events received enormous attention and praise in the Pacific region, and formed a unique bond among peoples who may live thousands of miles apart, across the sea, and had rarely attempted to join forces before. They are eager to continue.

The direct purpose of Moana Nui is to respond to some of the greatest threats ever to face Pacific peoples. Recent shifts in United States economic and military strategies are having broad negative effects on the peoples, resources, economies and geo-politics of the Asia-Pacific region.  These policy shifts, mostly under the Obama Administration program, “The Pacific Pivot,” particularly affect the future viability and sovereignty of indigenous peoples and small nations of the Pacific, and they greatly accelerate dangerous power struggles underway between the United States and China, and potentially Russia, over trade, ocean and island resources, and economic and military domination of an 8,000 mile region.

Moana Nui is created in direct response to this dire situation. Its primary goals are:  1) to stimulate new collaborations among Pacific Island peoples and nations, toward common purposes in behalf of their resources, cultures and sovereignty, and 2) to wake-up U.S. mainland policy-makers, activists and media —mostly still oblivious to the details– about what is underway in the Pacific right now, and to initiate contacts and support for the indigenous and small nation peoples as they resist domination, try to protect their environments, and to retain control of their experience.  The event will feature three days of speakers, workshops, rallies and celebration.

Aloha ‘Aina – Stop Bombing Pohakuloa!

Announcement of a demonstration at Pohakuloa by Malu ʻAina:

Aloha ‘Aina

Stop Bombing Pohakuloa!

Stop the desecration & contamination of Hawaiian Kingdom crown Lands at Pohakuloa

Sunday, April 28, 2013

10AM till Noon

Pohakuloa Main Gate

Pot Luck Picnic at Mauna Kea Park following the protest

 

(car pools leave Hilo bayfront parking lot makai/Hamakua side of Pauahi St. Kamehameha Ave. intersection at 9AM sharp. Bring water, sunscreen, and be prepared for cool, possibly wet, weather) This is a peaceful, non-violent protest, in solidarity with global anti-drone protests taking place throughout the month of April. Please show respect to all, even those that disagree with us.

      Pohakuloa is the largest U.S. live-fire training area outside the U.S. It is 133,000-acres, nearly 5 times the size of Kaho’olawe. The base is known to be contaminated with Depleted Uranium (DU) and other military toxins. Continued live-fire, and other activities that create dust, risks spreading the radiation and other toxic contamination.

      Pohakuloa is also used for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (Drone) training. The U.S. is using drones in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, etc. for surveillance and targeted assassinations. Thousands of people, including many innocent children, have been terrorized and killed by missiles and bombs from U.S. drones resulting in increasing hatred of the U.S. around the world.

      We pray that the U.S. not do to others what the U.S. has already done and continues to do to Hawaii: unlawfully occupy its government and nation, desecrate its sacred sites, contaminate its air, land, water, people, plants, and animals with military toxins.

Ground the Drones!

Void the Unlawful Military Lease

Pohakuloa is a Place for Peace & Healing!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.
5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.
Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone 
(808) 966-7622.  Emailja@malu-aina.org   http://www.malu-aina.org

 

Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (April 26, 2013– 605th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

 

Islands of Peace – Casualties of War, a Pan-Pacific Discussion

For Immediate Release: April 16, 2013  

Contact:  Kyle Kajihiro 

808-542-3668

kkajihir@hawaii.edu

Islands of Peace – Casualties of War, a Pan-Pacific Discussion

As a new wave of militarization bears down on the Pacific under President Obama’s so-called “Pacific Pivot”, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus and the Honolulu community will have a rare opportunity to hear the voices of those directly affected by these policies.

Islands of Peace – Casualties of War will be held on April 25, 2013, from 6:00 – 8:00 PM. at the Hālau o Haumea, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies.

The event will feature a presentation by Jeong Young-hee, Chairwoman of the Women Villagers’ Committee to Stop the Naval Base, Gangjeong, Jeju Island.  Ms. Jeong will share stories of her direct experience in her village’s ongoing nonviolent struggle against the construction of a South Korean naval base and its devastating ecological and cultural impacts.

Jeju Island was designated an “Island of Peace” by the Korean government and is heavily dependent on tourism from the main Korean peninsula. The coral reef near Gangjeong was designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage site. In contrast to protests against the presence of U.S. military bases in South Korea, the villagers are pushing back against the South Korean government, which has argued that Hawaiʻi is a model of how militarism and tourism uses can be mutually beneficial.  Some foreign policy analysts believe that the proposed naval base will also be integrated into the U.S. missile defense program, a move seen by China as a provocation. For more information about the campaign to save Jeju see: http://savejejunow.org/

The event also brings together Native Hawaiian and Chamorro scholar-activists who have been active in efforts to confront militarization and its impacts in their home islands. ʻIlima Long, M.A. student in Hawaiian Studies and member of HauMĀNA, a Hawaiian student political organization will discuss the impacts and resistance to the U.S. military “pivot” in Hawaiʻi.  Ken Gofigan Kuper, M.A. student in Pacific Island studies and Guam native will discuss the military buildup threatening the Marianas Islands under the military “pivot”.  This multi-island dialogue has particular resonance given Hawaii’s use as a strategic outpost for the U.S. military has been the model for Jeju, Guam and Okinawa.

Co-sponsors:  Oceania Rising, HauMANA, Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies, Center for Korean Studies, US-Japan Committee for Racial Justice, Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice, DMZ-Hawaiʻi /Aloha ʻĀina.

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Militarization in the Pacific – Teresia Teaiwa

Church of the Crossroads, United Church of Christ

A Just Peace and Open and Affirming Congregation

The Watada Lectures 2012

November 8-11

Militarization in the Pacific

featuring

Dr. Teresia Teaiwa

Thurs. Nov. 8, 5:30 – 7:00 pm   UH Manoa Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies 

“Fiji, Women, Soldiers, And Poetry”

Sponsors: Center for Pacific Island Studies, the Women’s Studies Program, the Brandt Chair Fund, and the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies

Saturday, November 10, 7:00 – 9:00 pm, Church of the Crossroads

“The Military Cultural Complex”

 Sunday, November 11, Church of the Crossroads

9:00 am – Adult Education conversation with Dr. Teaiwa

10:30 am – Morning Worship “Religions and Militarization”

Noon – Lunch

Afternoon – Veterans’ Day Forum with Veterans and Dr. Teaiwa

 

 

 

 

 

 

Protest the environmental and cultural destruction on Jeju Island! Vigil at the South Korean Consulate in Honolulu

Protest the environmental and cultural destruction on Jeju Island.  No Naval Base!

In solidarity with the Gangjeong villagers in the movement to protect their island from a South Korean/U.S. naval base, Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice is calling for a vigil at the South Korean Consulate of Honolulu

Thursday, September 6, 2012

5:30 – 6:30 pm

2756 PALI HWY, Honolulu, Hawaii 96817

 

Watada lecture pre-event: “Environmental and Economic Impacts of Militarization in Hawaiʻi”

“Environmental and Economic Impacts of Militarization in Hawaiʻi”

On September 7 from 6:30-8:00 in the Crossroads Sanctuary there will be a panel moderated by Renie Wong Lindley on the topic, “Environmental and Economic Impacts of Militarization in Hawai’i” with panelists Jim Albertini of Malu ‘Aina Learning Center, Sparky Rodrigues Malama Makua and Olelo, Steve Dinion, Pride At Work, Hawaii Labor for Peace, Hawaii Peace and Justice Board of Directors, and Henry Curtis, Life of the Land, Ka Lei Maile Ali`i Hawaii Civic Club. The discussion will include ideas on how we can and must become a sustainable society without depending on war policies and war machines.

E Ola Ke Awalau o Puʻuloa: Kanaka Maoli speak on Puʻuloa / Pearl Harbor

Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice presents: 

Kanaka Maoli speak on Puʻuloa

DATE: June 19, 2012

TIME: 6:00-8:00pm

LOCATION: Center for Hawaiian Studies, UH Manoa Classroom 202, 2645 Dole Street

COST: free

WHAT:

Kanaka Maoli panelists will present historical, cultural, environmental and social significance of Ke Awa Lau o Pu’uloa (Pearl Harbor) and engage in a dialogue about its past, present and future.

This presentation is sponsored by the Hawaii Council for the Humanities through a grant to Hawaii Peace and Justice. Our presenters, Dr. Jon Osorio, Dr. Leilani Basham, Andre Perez and Koa Luke will tell the “hidden” histories of Pearl Harbor, from the mo’olelo of its ancient past and sacred sites to its present uses. Pearl Harbor is a site of great historical importance to Hawai’i, the U.S. and the world, but the discourse is unbalanced and incomplete. Most people know only of Pearl Harbor and the Japanese attack and World War II. This is an opportunity to unearth its Hawaiian past and open doors for its future.

WHO:

  • Dr. Leilani Basham, assistant professor, West Oahu University – Hawaiian Pacific Studies will share her research regarding old place names and stories.
  • Dr. Jonathan Osorio, professor in Manoa’s Hawai‘inuiakea School of Hawaiian Knowledge will be presenting a Kanaka Maoli historian point of view from a paper he published entitled Memorializing Pu’uloa and Remembering Pearl Harbor.
  • Andre Perez, a Hawaiian cultural practitioner and community activist/organizer. Andre will present work being done at Hanakehau Learning Farm (off shore of Pu’uloa) showing how Hawaiians today can take grassroots approaches to reclaim and restore lands impacted by militarism and industrialization, creating a space where Hawaiians can come to teach, learn and reconnect with the ‘aina and engage in Hawaiian traditions and practices. Andre will explain how these types of efforts are building blocks towards a Hawaiian consciousness of self-determinations and sovereignty.
  • Koa Luke: University of Hawaii Library Science graduate student. Koa will talk about his ohana’s history and experience growing up in Waiawa, an ahupua’a of Ke Awa Lau o Pu’uloa.

http://www.wp.hawaiipeaceandjustice.org/2012/06/16/kanaka-maoli-speak-on-puuloa/