[Editor’s Note: When the newspapers failed to publish the original Kanaka Maoli Open Letter to President-Elect Barack Obama, the letter was revised and many more signers added to it. We’ll post the revised version of the letter when it is finalized. ]
PROTECT THE ʻĀINA, PROTECT THE PEOPLE, STOP MILITARY EXPANSION
I pray daily to Iehova Makua for that Kaulike (justice) and Malu (peace) long deserved by the Kanaka Maole of Hawai’i Nei. The spirit of Aloha is in you and it
shows thru even on television. May your heart guide you to bring a decision that is
Pono (just) to all people of a land that welcomed outsiders with Aloha and were betrayed .
Me ka ‘oia ‘i’o