HAWAI’I:

50TH OR FAKE STATE?

Aug. 21st marks the 51st anniversary of Hawai’i allegedly becoming the 50th State of the U.S.  The long history of misinformation goes like this:  in 1898 Hawai’i was annexed to the U.S. thus making Hawai’i a territory.  In 1959 Hawai’i, after first becoming a territory of the U.S., then became a state.

That history is a fraud.  International law says annexation to be legal must be by mutual agreement.   Annexation of Hawai’i was not mutual and therefore not legal.  In truth, Hawai’i has been under U.S. occupation since 1898.

There are those that say Hawai’i statehood was voted by a 9 to 1 majority.  The fact is the 1959 statehood vote was built on more than 6 decades of illegal U.S. occupation, misinformation, and a vast in migration of a U.S. settler population.  If the so-called annexation of Hawai’i was illegal in 1898, it doesn’t matter if the vote was 99-1 for statehood in 1959.  Stolen property is still stolen property.  Dr. Keanu Sai writes, “The challenge for …the fields of political science, history, and law is to distinguish between the rule of law and the politics of power.  In the history of Hawai’i, the might of the U.S. does not make it right.”  Nor does time erase the wrong.

Just because a vast majority of U.S.citizens initially supported the illegal U.S. wars and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, it didn’t make the illegal wars and occupations any less illegal.  Actually similar impulses lead to the occupation of Hawai’i, Afghanistan and Iraq.  In Hawai’i’s case the business interest was sugar .  In Iraq and Afghanistan, it’s oil and pipelines.  Expanding empire and military global positioning are also contributing factors to the ongoing occupations.

If we want genuine peace, we need to work for justice.  Justice and peace in Hawai’i means supporting….

Hawai’i Independence from U.S. Occupation!

As further symptoms of U.S. military occupation, within the next two weeks there are scoping meetings about Marine and Navy expanded operations and an Army closed door meeting about depleted uranium radiation contamination in Hawai’i.  For details see www.malu-aina.org

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

Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet (Aug. 20, 2010 – 466th week) – Friday 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office

The Kanaka Council Moku O Keawe is sponsoring a public presentation by Dr. Keanu Sai, on Saturday, April 24 at UH Hilo from 9am-12noon and Hamakua MacNut Factory in Kawaihae from 2pm-5pm. Dr. Sai will be speaking on the “1893 Clevleand-Lili`uokalani Executive Agreements and Their Impact Today”. Specifically addressing the impact of the “executive agreements”on the contested case hearing against Hawaiian Oceanic Technology (proposed Ahi Fish Farm off the Kohala Coast) filed by Kale Gumapac and the Kanaka Council Moku O Keawe. The Attorney General has rendered an opinion regarding “standing” of Kale Gumapac and the Kanaka Council and DLNR will use the AG’s opinion to make their decision on May 13th in Honolulu.

Dr. Keanu Sai, has a Ph.D. in Political Science specializing in International Relations and Public Law. He has been to the World Court at the Hague filing legal briefs on Larsen v. Hawaiian Kingdom. He has a forthcoming book to be published by UH Press on the American Occupation of the Hawaiian Islands, and is currently working on another book to be published UH Press on Hawaiian land law. He is also the author of law journal articles on the topic of the continued existence of the Hawaiian Kingdom as an independent and sovereign State. Dr. Sai will provide a legal analysis based on the executive agreements between President Cleveland and Queen Liliuokalani that affects most if not all the current issues today, which includes the desecration of Kupuna Iwi, gathering rights, native tenant rights, water and natural resources rights from mauka to makai, vested private property rights, etc.

UH Hilo UCB 127 will be from 9am – 12 Noon

Hamakua MacNut Factory in Kawaihae from 2pm -5 pm

PLEASE SHARE THIS INFO WITH OTHERS…….

Protest Democracy by Invitation Only!

Wednesday, Feb. 24th

8:30AM Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA)

Main Gate on Saddle Road

(Car pools leave Hilo bayfront parking lot makai/Hamakua side of Pauahi St. Kamehameha Ave. intersection at 7:30 sharp.  The picket at PTA is expected to last till 10:30)

The Military meeting 9-2 at Pohakuloa is only open to hand-picked officials and special interests.
(The doors are closed to the public, Peace groups, Kanaka Maoli organizations, environmental groups, community associations, etc.)

* What’s the Army afraid of?

* Is it citizen participation in government?

* Is it because we might object to more military land grabs on Hawaii Island, continued live-fire amid DU radiation contamination at PTA, new fast-track military superferry plans?

* Why hasn’t the Army stopped all live-fire, B-2 bombing missions and other activities that create dust until there is a complete assessment and clean-up of the DU already present as called for in County of Hawaii resolution 639-08? The NRC has not signed off on radiation at PTA.

* When will all of the 50-plus present and former military sites, totaling more than 250,000-acres on Hawaii Island, be cleared of unexploded ordnance, toxins, and other hazards?

* Thousands of acres of past and present militaery sites, Stryker land grab, Hilo National Guard rebuild, University military research, armed “Superferry”/Joint High Speed Vessel—what’s next?

We Demand Military Clean-up NOT Build-up!
Stop the Wars!  Fund Human needs!
End all occupations, including the ongoing illegal occupation of the
independent nation of Hawaii.

Contact: Malu `Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action P.O. Box AB Kurtistown, Hawai`i 96760.
Phone (808) 966-7622.  Email ja@interpac.net  http://www.malu-aina.org

Aloha Peace ohana,
Thee will be a special organizing meeting on Monday, Feb. 15th 7-9PM at the Keaau Community Center to plan for a Wed. Feb. 24th protest of a military PR event for politicians at the Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA).
The tentative plan is to picket the main gate of PTA from 8:30-l0:30AM (event starts at 9AM).  car pools to leave Hilo at 7:30AM from the bayfront parking lot on the makai/Hamakua side of the Pauahi/Kamehameha intersection.
We got two tips of the military public relations event to woo politicians and business leaders to military build up plans.  Our call is for Military CLEAN UP Not Build Up, especially with DU radiation contamination confirmed at PTA.  There should be a complete stop to all live-fire and other activities that create dust which risks spreading the contamination.  An increasing call is being made to “CANCEL THE LEASE” and executive orders at PTA.  Also in light of recent news about a new military JHSV Superferry
we may want to add the demand “No son of Superferry” to our list.

Join us to put pressure on the military and our local politicians.  We need to do some creative planning to build a peoples movement.
Mahalo.
Jim
for Malu ‘Aina
966-7622
ja@interpac.net
www.malu-aina.org

January 17, 2010 — Illegal overthrow of Hawaii’s Queen Liliu’okalani
in 1893 and beginning occupation of the independent Nation of Hawaii by
the U.S. that continues to this day.

“The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to
call ‘Father,’ and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are
crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His
promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children
lamenting for their homes.”
Queen Liliu’okalani

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January 18, 2010 — Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday

Apostle of non-violence shot and killed April 4, 1968 for his commitment
as a non-violent activist in opposing racism, the war in Vietnam, and
economic injustice .

“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the
silence of our friends.”   MLK, Jr.

Stop All the Wars!

End all Occupations!

“No Lie Can Live Forever.”

1.  Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3.
Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic,
anti-Semitic, etc. 5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around
the world.