Friday, June 23, 2017

Vol VI No. 656 Part 3




A Woman Who Drives Without A License - And Tells How
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Harrie-Ann Aki AMEN, THIS IS WHAT MAOLI IS TRYING TO DO...SO UNCLE WE NEED TO CREATE OUR OWN...SO FAR THEY DON'T BOTHER HERE...REALLY ANYMORE...BUT WHEN WE ALL GET TOGETHER WE FIGURE IT OUT...LIKE I SAID HARD WORK, AMEN...THANKS FOR SHARING THIS...CAUSE IT IS A BLESSING, AMEN...ALOHA FOR EVERY SINGLE SOUL ON EARTH, ONE LESS BILL TO WORRY ABOUT...AMEN...THANK U LORD...AMEN...LOVE U UNCLE....I SEE U ALREADY CREATING THINGS OR DOING ALOT, KEEP IT IN MIND....IF USEABLE, WE USE...WE NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND CREATE LAWS AND FREEDOM...HAPPINESS...FOR US, SOMETHING LIKE THAT...AMEN...EVERYTHING...LIFE, BANK, DOCTOR, ETC. BUT WE NEED THAT GOLD TO HELP US TO MOVE FORWARD, AMEN...GOD BLESS U...ALOHA

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Rita Kanui Study Hawaiian Kingdom Civil laws 1820, "Hawaiiankingdom.org" site it
Is all there!

Hawaiian Kingdom Government - Welcome - E Komo Mai
The Web site of the acting Hawaiian Kingdom Government presently operating within the occupied State of the Hawaiian Islands.
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David Lopes Beautiful, from the Heart....
You are truly Loved and Respected for the Hard Work you do Robert..
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Valerie Chupik Awesome news. Thanks for sharing.

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The petition against annexation had 21,269 signatures, which caused support for the annexation treaty to drop from 58 to 46, resulting in its failure. Subsequently, the joint resolution did not unilaterally annex the Hawaiian Islands, which is not an enumerated power of U.S. Congress, nor was it supported by customary international law. In short, this Politico article commits occupation denial since occupation of Hawaiʻi exists in the absence of a treaty of cession.
Article: (June 15, 2017)
On this day in 1898, the House of Representatives approved Senate Joint Resolution 55 providing for the annexation of Hawaii as a U.S. territory. At the time, Hawaii was an independent republic. The vote was 209-91.
Hawaii had declared itself to be a republic on July 4, 1894, under the presidency of Sanford Dole. Born in Hawaii and fluent in the native language, Dole was a scion of a family of Protestant missionaries from Maine. A cousin of the pineapple magnate, Dole advocated the Americanization of Hawaiian society and culture, while pressing for the annexation of the Pacific island chain.
An alliance of anti-imperialist Republicans and Democrats in the House — including Speaker Thomas Reed (R-Maine) — opposed the annexation treaty negotiated under President William McKinley. For nearly a month, Reed blocked the resolution from coming up for debate.
The resolution was largely the handiwork of Rep. Francis Newlands (D-Nev.). Proponents of annexation eventually prevailed by sponsoring a joint resolution, which needed simple majority approval, rather than a vote on McKinley’s treaty, which would have required a two-thirds Senate majority.
Earlier in the year, the Senate had rejected the proposal after being presented with a petition signed by 38,000 Hawaiians. Eventually, overwhelming sentiment in the House in favor of annexation forced Reed to relent, although he voted against it.
The Senate approved the measure on July 4, 1898; McKinley signed it on July 7. In August, a ceremony on the steps of the former royal palace in Honolulu marked the impending transfer of sovereignty.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Admission Act on March 18, 1959 which cleared the way for Hawaiian statehood. After a popular referendum in which over 93 percent voted in favor of statehood, Hawaii was admitted as the 50th state on Aug. 21, 1959.
Hawaii still suffered from some cultural repression, a carryover from the territorial period that extended into the first decade of statehood. The so-called Hawaiian Renaissance in the 1960s led to renewed interest in the Hawaiian language, culture and identity.
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With the support of Hawaii Sens. Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka, both Democrats, Congress passed a joint resolution signed into law by President Bill Clinton on Nov. 23, 1993. The resolution apologized “to Native Hawaiians on behalf of the people of the United States for the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii on January 17, 1893 ... and the deprivation of the rights of Native Hawaiians to self-determination.”
Akaka also sponsored a bill to extend federal recognition to those of Native Hawaiian ancestry as a sovereign group, like Native American tribes. It was never enacted.
The history of Hawaii can be traced back to the time, roughly 1,500 years ago, when Polynesians from the Marquesas Islands landed on the Big Island in the Hawaiian chain. With only the stars to guide them, they sailed over 2,000 miles in canoes to migrate to the islands.


House votes to annex Hawaii, June 15, 1898
On this day in 1898, the House of Representatives approved Senate Joint Resolution 55 providing for the annexation of Hawaii as a U.S. territory.
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Three years. More than 46,000 miles. Nineteen countries.
One last mile.
Thousands of spectators gathered at Magic Island on Saturday to cheer the Hokule‘a and its safe return to Hawaiian waters, after the traditional sailing canoe wrapped up the longest and most ambitious voyage of its 42-year history.
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Warm welcome: Hokule‘a comes home
Three years. More than 46,000 miles. Nineteen countries.
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Older women in Hawaiʻi are 57 percent more likely to live in poverty than older men
by Theresa Kreif, UH News June 14, 2017
A new analysis finds that Social Security benefits are especially crucial for older women in Hawaiʻi, who are more likely to live in poverty and less likely to have access to assets or savings in retirement. This report, released by Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, is a first in examining more closely the economic status of older adults in Hawaiʻi by gender and race/ethnicity.
Just over nine percent (9.1 percent) of older women in Hawaiʻi live in poverty, compared with 5.8 percent of older men. Single older women in Hawaiʻi, however, are three times more likely than married older women to be living in poverty (13.0 percent and 4.1 percent poverty rates, respectively). The majority of older women in Hawaiʻi are single, while the majority of older men are married. There are also differences by race/ethnicity—rates of pension coverage are highest among older Japanese women and lowest among older Filipinas and rates of marriage also vary, with Filipinas most likely and Native Hawaiian women least likely to be married.
Economic challenges stem from gender inequities
“Many of the economic challenges that older women experience stem from inequities that women face earlier in life, including a persistent wage gap, the high cost of child care and a shortage of affordable housing. This builds up over the course of a lifetime and limits women’s ability to lay the foundation for economic security in retirement, especially for the many older single women living without a spouse,” said Colette Browne, Richard S. and T. Rose Takasaki Endowed Professor in Social Policy at the Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work and author of the report’s recommendations.
The paper finds that Social Security is the most common source of income for both older men and women in Hawaiʻi, and is especially crucial for women. In Hawaiʻi, nearly 40 percent (39.4 percent) of older women’s annual income is from Social Security, compared with 29 percent of older men’s. Still, Social Security benefits received by older women in Hawaiʻi total about 80 percent of the amount older men receive ($12,000, compared with $15,158).
Older men have greater access to pensions, retirement savings, and asset income than older women. Nearly half (47 percent) of older men receive income from a pension or retirement savings plan, compared with just over a third (35.5 percent) of older women in the state. Even for those with a pension or retirement savings plan, women’s median annual income is about 60 percent of men’s ($12,596 compared with $21,344).
Strategies to address inequity
The report concludes with recommendations for Hawaiʻi policymakers to focus on strategies and programs that alleviate age-, gender- and race-based inequalities and poverty across the lifespan.
Strategies to address inequity and support the health, educational and employment aspirations of women of every age in Hawaiʻi, coupled with policies that support women with child and elder caregiving responsibilities, such as paid sick days, paid family leave and an affordable and secure long-term care funding mechanism, would bolster women’s financial security throughout their life course and especially in their later years.
“Today’s younger woman is tomorrow’s older woman, so improving the economic status of older women in Hawaiʻi must start with addressing inequality at school, work and home,” said Browne. “But, we must also pay attention to the needs of older women today, and this means honoring women’s contributions to family and community, protecting Social Security and committing ourselves to funding for health and long-term care if and when disabilities occur.
The findings are presented in a paper by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. The Myron B. Thompson School of Social Work funded the analysis and authored the paper’s recommendations through the school’s Takasaki Endowment.
Read the full report: The Economic Security of Older Women and Men in Hawaiʻi
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The Economic Security of Older Women and Men in Hawaii
UH School of Social Work
This briefing paper examines many aspects of the economic security of women and men aged 65 and older in Hawai`i, including their marital status, poverty, and various sources and amounts of income, with attention to disparities by gender and race/ethnicity. The paper builds on IWPR’s “The Economic Security of Older Women and Men in the United States” (Finkle, Hartmann, and Lee 2007). The empirical analysis of this briefing paper is based on microdata from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (Ruggles et al. 2015). Five years of data (2010-2014) were combined to ensure sufficient sample sizes of older women and men in Hawai`i from different racial and ethnic groups, including those who identify as Japanese, White, Filipino, Native Hawaiian, Chinese, with another Asian group, 1 with another race or two or more races, and Hispanic. Racial groups except Native Hawaiian are non-Hispanic; since fewer than half of Native Hawaiians in the state identify as Native Hawaiian alone, all older people who report having any Native Hawaiian background, including those who are of multiple races or Hispanic, are counted as Native Hawaiian in the analysis (see Methodology for more detail).
While this brief focuses on the status of older women, many of the challenges that older women experience stem from inequities that women face earlier in life. In Hawai`i, as in the nation as a whole, younger women experience a gender wage gap (Hess et al. 2015) and must contend with the high cost of child care and shortage of affordable housing, which can undermine their efforts to achieve economic stability and lay the foundation for security as they age (Hawai‘i Appleseed Center for Law and Economic Justice 2016). The wage gap is linked to the interaction of numerous structural inequalities, including occupational segregation, pay secrecy, the uneven distribution of care work, gender discrimination in education and employment, and the lack of a strong work-family policy infrastructure (e.g., paid family leave and paid sick leave; Blau and Kahn 2016; Costello and Hegewisch 2016; Hegewisch and Hartmann 2014). Ensuring that older women in Hawai‘i are able to achieve economic security and stability, therefore, requires attending not only to the challenges women face later in life, but also to the disparities they encounter at younger ages.
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ed in the last 25 years. Those who participated in the march in 2009 commemorating 50 years of the fake state (from Ala Moana to the Waikiki Convention Center) might remember the two cardboard rifles that accompanied the cardboard tank depicting militarization of our aina as a result of u.s. occupation of our homeland and supposed annexation of Hawaii to the u.s. and subsequent fake statehood. The big Uncle Sam head that we tried to save for the archive got beaten with sticks and shredded to pieces (obviously a sign of some deep - seated rage against the occupier), so the only remnants we have of that event are the cardboard rifles. And lots of photos. Mahalo to Maleko Mark Swearingen for crafting those pieces for our march. We still have the Linda Lingle head from the Waikiki march, also in 2009, when marchers threw shoes and slippers at the effigy. Those of you out there with flyers, programs, papers, banners, signs, shirts, ephemera in general, etc. who'd like to donate your stuff for eventual display in a collection that documents resistance in a contemporary archive available for/to all, not just university students, feel free to email me at palolo@hawaii.rr.com. Eventually, these will be on display. A digital collection will, at some point, be up online and available for public access. Hope some generous folks will want to help fund the effort. Right now we're all volunteers working to put together the means by which up and coming researchers and anyone else, including just the curious, will be able to access this material and share stories about how we, the lahui, got to where we are today using a community collection of memorabilia.

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Amelia Gora so, doesn't that mean that you people should be linking up to our Royal Families because we are the land owners/land lords of the properties which includes the Archives sitting on King Lunalilo's lands, etc.? email: hawaiianhistory@gmail.com p.s. the Bureau of Conveyances is sitting on our great great grandmother's land, etc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRzpHlHWOuA


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