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DOCUMENTING THE TRUE MODERN HISTORY OF HAWAII...
We came oh so close to all becoming haoles...we were at the edge and ready to go off of the proverbial cliff in the 1970's.

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"Documenting Activism: The Early Days of the Native Hawaiian Movement" is now available to stream on our website!
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MALU played me the cassette tape of SUDDEN RUSH’S first songs recorded in his garage asking me my opinion if it was too da kine “controversial “, would the kupuna get upset?
I was OVERWHELMED, these young kanaka had in their hands a tool to unite our people as ONE
The MUSIC of SUDDEN RUSH educated the LAHUI KANAKA from the KEIKI to the KUPUNA
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EVERYONE WAS DANCING AND SINGING ALONG
SUDDEN RUSH played a major role in where we are at in our quest for INDEPENDENCE and restoration of the HAWAIIAN KINGDOM.
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When the word Hawaii is mentioned, thought bubbles of white sandy beaches, flowers in alcoholic beverages and swimming with dolphins might come to mind.... For many of the inhabitants of this exquisite and endangered environment, however, life in paradise can be far from ideal.

Most tourists would be hard-pressed to imagine 500 tons of TNT blasting into a pristine shoreline or toxic sewage flowing into the waters of Waikiki or whales beaching themselves to escape Navy sonar testing. A mother delivering a deformed infant doesn’t come to the minds of most vacationers.
Hawaii is, however, the “endangered species capital of the world.” It stands to reason that the United States military, being the greatest polluter and largest emitter of carbon dioxide on the planet, might have something to do with that unacceptable fact.
There are 57 known military sites on Moku o Keawe (Hawaii Island) alone, totaling more than 250,000 acres; the equivalent of nine islands the size of Kahoolawe.
They’ve been bombing and polluting these islands with impunity for over a century, paying only $1 a year for leased lands at Pohakuloa Training Area, for example.
Civil Beat reporter Anita Hofschneider takes a moment to reflect at Sailor's Hat, Kahoolawe. 9.30.14
Sailor’s Hat on Kahoolawe, where the Navy dropped a 500-pound TNT bomb to simulate the effects of an atomic blast.
PF Bentley/Civil Beat
It is the most militarized group of islands in the world, and though the military is not known for its environmental acumen, they proudly claim to be responsible stewards of both land and sea. Many view that claim as ridiculous while others see it as nothing shy of criminal.
It began with the Bayonet Constitution and Reciprocity Treaty of 1887 when the exclusive use of Pearl Harbor was granted to the U.S. Navy. In 1893, one of its warships, the USS Boston, landed troops in Honolulu to support a handful of treasonous sugar barons plotting to invade the internationally recognized, neutral Hawaiian Kingdom.
Hawaii Not Part Of America
The illegal occupation of Hawaii since that time has been a relentlessly painful thorn in the side of the Kanaka Maoli. It is also much to the dismay of human rights activists, environmentalists, history students and scholars, lawyers and other concerned citizens of the world.
With no proof of purchase or Treaty of Annexation, Hawaii is not actually or legally part of the United States. The U.S. Congress passed a “Joint Resolution” disguised as a Treaty of Annexation, legally binding only within its own borders. The military therefore has no legal jurisdiction here and in any case, should not be permitted to decimate Hawaii for “war games” in the name of national security.
In the past hundred years it has transformed scores of fertile valleys, fishing grounds and sacred sites into barren wastelands and burial grounds for unexploded ammunitions.
The once pristine Puuloa (Pearl Harbor,) for example, a major fish-breeding center, is now a Superfund toxic waste dump. Millions of gallons of radioactive liquid waste have been discharged directly into Pearl Harbor along with other told and untold military toxins.
The illegal occupation of Hawaii has been a painful thorn in the side of the Kanaka Maoli
The leaking of 250-million-gallon fuel tanks at Red Hill has put the island’s drinking supply at risk. More than 2,000 55-gallon drums of radioactive solid waste from refueling Navy submarine nuclear reactors were just simply dumped off the southern shores of Oahu. The cumulative environmental impacts are too numerous to mention, and yet there is an appalling lack of accountability and no up-to-date environmental impact study.
Still worse is the condition of Kahoolawe, used for target practice for over 50 years. An EIS done specifically for “The Target Isle” in the 1980s reported tens of thousands of unexploded bombs, some as deep as 20 feet underground. When the above-mentioned 500 tons of TNT was detonated in 1965, it likely cracked the water table of the island sacred to the Hawaiian people.
Today, Kahoolawe is still polluted and uninhabitable regardless of the military’s promised partial $400 million cleanup, along with decades of volunteer restoration efforts by Native Hawaiians and the federally funded Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission.
Pirates Of Plunder
Only 68 percent of Kahoolawe’s surface has been cleared, only 9 percent to a depth of 4 feet and absolutely zero percent of the surrounding waters. And yet the blame for this astounding environmental destruction, according to Wikipedia, belongs to pre-contact Hawaiians when: “violent wars among competing alii (chiefs) laid waste to the land.
Here on Moku o Keawe, live ordnance has been found on several beaches, in residential areas and even on public school grounds. At least nine people have been killed or injured by unexploded ordnance.
The author on a visit to Kahoolawe.
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No one knows how many birth defects have resulted from military activity over these many decades of belligerent occupation. No one knows how many have been exposed to depleted uranium oxide, the deadliest form of radiation when inhaled. The military claims that DU is not dangerous, but when DU is aerosolized during live fire training, DU oxide dust is created, a known cause of cancer, birth defects and genetic damage.
That means it is a trans-generational threat, not only to the military personnel and all who live or visit here, but to all their offspring as well.
Hawaii is also ground zero for GMO experimentation, spraying nearly 17 times more pesticides compared with the entire rest of the United States. Hawaii is also home to RIMPAC — the world’s largest U.S.-led “war games,” involving 26 nations, 45 ships, five submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 military personnel.
With projects on the horizon like the Navy’s Hawaii-Southern California Training and Testing expansion and the unethical Thirty Meter Telescope (an 18-story telescope on the top of Hawaii’s tallest and most sacred mountain), terms like “overkill” come to mind. Not to mention the Army’s environmental assessment published last week of “no significant Impact” to cultural and religious sites at the Pohakuloa Training Area, where more than 14 million live rounds are fired annually.
With so many people of such honor and integrity serving the U.S. military, it is a travesty for it to be behaving more like pirates of plunder than protectors of peace.
In any case, perhaps it is time to question why this degree of reckless destruction and illegal activity would be a prerequisite for national security. When does enough become enough?
For many, that time was a long time ago, but it most certainly is now before the next “perfect wave” of military expansion rolls in and over the rights of the kanaka maoli, their beloved Hawaii and all who live and visit here. For more information visit http://malu-aina.org.
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Overkill: The US Military In Hawaii

From Pearl Harbor to Pohakuloa, from Kahoolawe to Red Hill, the armed forces are poor stewards of the aina.

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WHAT IS LA KU`OKO`A - INDEPENDENCE DAY IN HAWAI`I? - http://FreeHawaii.Info
#LaKuokoa #HawaiianIndependence #Sovereignty #FreeHawaii #HawaiianKIngdom #GoHawaii #LetHawaiiHappen
In the Kingdom of Hawai`i, November 28 was an official holiday called Lā Kū`oko`a, or Independence Day. This was the day in 1843 when England and France formally recognized Hawai`i's independence.
Faced with the problem of foreign encroachment of Hawaiian territory, His Majesty King Kamehameha III deemed it prudent and necessary to dispatch a Hawaiian delegation to the United States and then to Europe, with the power to negotiate treaties and to ultimately secure the recognition of Hawaiian Independence by the major powers of the world.
In accordance with this view, Timoteo Ha`alilio, William Richards and Sir George Simpson were commissioned as joint Ministers Plenipotentiary on April 8, 1842.
Sir George Simpson, shortly thereafter, left for England, via Alaska and Siberia, while Mr. Ha`alilio and Mr. Richards departed for the United States, via Mexico and the US on July 8, 1842.
The Hawaiian delegation, while in the United States of America, secured the assurance of US President Tyler on December 19, 1842 of its recognition of Hawaiian independence, and then proceeded to meet Sir George Simpson in Europe and secure formal recognition by Great Britain and France.
On March 17, 1843, King Louis-Phillipe of France recognized Hawaiian independence at the urging of King Leopold of Belgium, and on April 1, 1843, Lord Aberdeen on behalf of Her Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria, assured the Hawaiian delegation that:
"Her Majesty's Government was willing and had determined to recognize the independence of the Sandwich Islands under their present sovereign."
Formal Agreement of Recognition -
On November 28, 1843, at the Court of London, the British and French Governments entered into a formal agreement of the recognition of Hawaiian independence, with what is called the Anglo-Franco Proclamation.
To wit-
"Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of the French, taking into consideration the existence in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands) of a government capable of providing for the regularity of its relations with foreign nations, have thought it right to engage, reciprocally, to consider the Sandwich Islands as an Independent State, and never to take possession, neither directly or under the title of Protectorate, or under any other form, of any part of the territory of which they are composed.
The undersigned, Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs, and the Ambassador Extraordinary of His Majesty the King of the French, at the Court of London, being furnished with the necessary powers, hereby declare, in consequence, that their said Majesties take reciprocally that engagement.
In witness whereof the undersigned have signed the present declaration, and have affixed thereto the seal of their arms.
Done in duplicate at London, the 28th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1843.
[L.S.] Aberdeen [L.S.] St. Aulaire"
National Holiday -
November 28 was thereafter established as an official national holiday of the Hawaiian Kingdom to celebrate Hawaii's independence.
International Stature -
As a result of this recognition, the Hawaiian Kingdom entered into treaties with the major nations of the world and established over ninety diplomatic legations and consulates in seaports and cities around the world.
The Fake Revolution -
Fifty years later, in 1893, an illegal intervention by the U.S. military resulted in a "fake revolution" against the legitimate Hawaiian government, and a puppet oligarchy set itself up with its main purpose of annexing Hawai`i to the United States.
After a failed armed attempt by Hawaiians to retake their Kingdom in 1895, the usurpers announced that Lā Kū`oko`a would no longer be celebrated, and the American holiday Thanksgiving Day would be the official national holiday instead.
Removing a holiday like Hawai`i Independence Day was a way to cover up and try to destroy the history and identity of the Hawaiian Kingdom and its people.
At first Hawaiians protested and celebrated Lā Kū`oko`a anyway, telling the story of the national heroes who had traveled to Europe to secure Hawaii's recognition.
But over time, this history — knowledge of the holiday and how it was replaced — faded and was almost lost, until recently, when Hawaiian language scholars started translating Hawaiian language newspapers and rediscovered the story.
Today’s celebration of Lā Kū`oko`a asserts that Hawai`i is still an independent nation, even under prolonged illegal occupation.

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