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Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea 2018, cominʻ in hot! This year the LHE Honolulu ʻohana is so proud to be honoring two kūpuna aloha ʻāina, two wāhine koa: Aunty Moanikeala Akaka and Aunty Nani Rogers.
Moanikeʻala Akaka (1944 – 2017) traced what she called the “beginning of the Hawaiian Movement for justice” back to the Kalama Valley struggle in 1970, where she herself was activated in organizing against evictions. Born Edwina Moanikeʻala Akaka in 1944, she was raised in Kaimukī and later in California. Aunty Moani was involved from earliest days of the contemporary Hawaiian movement as a founding member of Kōkua Hawaiʻi, the PKO, and Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi. Once she moved to Hawai‘i island, she became central to several land struggles, including the Hilo Airport blockade and efforts to protect Wao Kele o Puna. For many years, she and her husband, Tomas Belsky, published a newspaper titled, Aloha ʻĀina, which aimed to educate islanders and visitors. Aunty Moani served twelve years as an Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee. “I never wanted to sit on my ass in an office and do nothing,” she said of that time. And she didn’t. She never lived a lavish lifestyle, and she raised hell about political corruption and mismanagement. Fiery and fearless, Aunty Moani was always ready to go toe-to-toe with anyone in political and intellectual battle. Of the contributions and contentions she made at OHA, she looked most proudly upon the years she spent negotiating with the state on the back rents due to OHA for the so-called “ceded lands,” also known as the seized lands of the Hawaiian Kingdom. She was instrumental in securing over $100 million dollars in trust land revenues to be paid toward the betterment of Native Hawaiians. Her work protecting lands continued well after her years at OHA were done in 1996. She was always a fierce advocate of peace, demilitarization and anti-nuclearization in Hawai‘i and throughout the Pacific. In April 2015, Aunty Moani was among those arrested on Mauna a Wākea for resisting the construction of the Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT). She was seventy at the time.
Nani Rogers was born on September 8, 1939 in Kapaʻa, Kauaʻi. From the valleys of Manokalanipō, as an ʻōpio Nani found her way to the epicenter of s changing tide on Oʻahu. She attended Kamehameha Schools while living with her aunt on Kukui Street downtown, where the Territorial government was making way for businesses, buildings and ill-conceived schemes of domination. After high school, Nani became a hula dancer under the legendary Kumu Hula Maiki Aiu and toured the American Midwest with the Hilo Hawaiians for two years. For the past three decades, Aunty Nani has brought strength and grace to even the most contentious of struggles. Back in the days when sovereignty was considered a pipe dream by many, she answered Ka Lāhui Hawaiʻi’s call to engage with the Hawaiʻi State Legislature on issues affecting Kanaka Maoli rights and lands. Aunty Nani became a KLH citizen and served as Poʻo of the Kauaʻi caucus. Armed with a new understanding of Hawaiian history and the inner workings of Hawaiʻi government, Nani served tirelessly with KLH for over a decade. Her notion of ea began to shift, “I realized that a nation-within-a-nation model was quasi-sovereignty, and that total independence was the only way to free our people and nation.” Aunty Nani continues to be a fierce supporter of Hawaiian independence. She also exemplifies the struggle of her island of Kaua‘i. For example, she remained a faithful resident at the three-month vigil to protect nā ʻiwi kūpuna in Naue when developer Joseph Brescia began construction of a luxury home on Kaua‘i’s north coast. Between April and June 2008, she was always present at the site of disinterment and always mindful of the ʻaumākua whose bones she safeguarded. Over the many years of her activism and community organizing, she has participated as a member of countless hui designed to spark dialogue and progress toward ea. For many years, she broadcasted her sweet leo from Hanalei each week on KKCR community radio. She continues in the footsteps of her ancestors from the ʻāina where she came into this world and has consistently brought the strength of her ancestors to our Ea movement.
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Neil Hannahs is with Ulalia Woodside.
Beautiful day atop Ka’ala today...in great company...with Happy Face Spiders and Kahuli. PROTECT OUR WATERSHEDS!
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What did we tell you already? Pack it up! Your going home! This WILL NOT BE BUILT HERE!!
Sending much aloha to our alaka'i Kia'i in tomorrow's Supreme Court hea...ring on TMT!
Ku Kia'i Mauna!!
Sending much aloha to our alaka'i Kia'i in tomorrow's Supreme Court hea...ring on TMT!
Ku Kia'i Mauna!!
No matter how it goes tomorrow, what they saw in 2015 was just a Warm Up! Lāhui is only grown stronger! Peoples of the shared consciousness to Aloha 'Āina have just cleared our throats!
No Na Kau A Kau, KU KIA'I MAUNA!! ALOHA 'ĀINA!!
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Mileka Lincoln is in Pahoa, Hawaii.
#LeilaniEstatesEruption #KilaueaVolcano UPDATE (June 20 at 8 PM): This is the horse trailer 77-year-old Jud Fero has been calling home for the last three weeks,... now that she can no longer get back to her house of 25 years in Kapoho Farm Lots because its completely inaccessible — surrounded by lava. “This is home sweet home. I live out of plastic boxes. It’s not much, but it’s not bad,” Fero said unlocking the doors to the horse trailer she never imagined she’d be living in. Fero is sleeping on two stacked mattresses and uses a rope to lift herself out of bed after just a few hours of sleep every night — but she’s not complaining. “I don’t have time to cry. Really. Why should we? There are so many things that are worst in the world than this. Believe me,” Fero insisted. No running water and no electricity is no problem as far as Fero is concerned — so long as her animals have some place to live. That’s why she’s been collecting pallets from Puʻuhonua o Puna to keep them out of the dirt, which gave her the idea to build a pallet kitchen. “It’s coming together, slowly. It’s a little lopsided, but most of my life has been like that so I’m used to it,” Fero said with a laugh. When I met Fero yesterday she was loading up more supplies at the Hub. I watched her push her cane aside to load a pallet into the back of her pickup truck. She’s so petite she sits on two pillows to drive, but her resiliency is bigger than you can imagine — even though the situation is trying with no end in sight. “I don’t think it will ever be normal again,” Fero said with another chuckle. “I don’t see any relief in this. She’s still pumping and strong. This will all probably end up becoming a national park area one day.” On June 1 when Fero was forced from her home, she managed to get her dogs, her cats, her horses and her cows out — but none of her belongings, including her mother’s and sister’s ashes. “I didn’t get one glass out. Matter of fact, I have to drink out of a measuring cup that I bought myself at Long’s and now I know exactly what I drink and that’s no good,” Fero said with another deep chortle. That firecracker spirit defines Fero — who is quick to laugh despite all the loss around her. “I don’t know if this is what I would call a challenge. I think it’s every day life. We do our thing, we wake up in the morning and we rebuild. When something is gone you stick with it and you rebuild and you survive. That’s why we’re all still here. We have a lot of strong people out here and a lot of love out here in Hawaiʻi — you wouldn’t find this in a lot of places but out here you do.” Fero tells us once she completes her palette kitchen — she’ll get to work building a pallette house. Until then she says the cozy quarters of her horse trailer suit her just fine. She relocated to property she bought years ago along Highway 130 — but it’s unfenced and therefore unsuitable for her horses. Making the trek to Hilo where they’re currently stabled is making it hard for her to settle in and build. With all her animals “under one roof” — even if it’s a tarp — Fero says she’ll sleep much better at night. Stay tuned to Hawaii News Now for the very latest developments #HInews#HawaiiNews#HNN#HawaiiNewsNow#WeAreYourSource#PunaStrong#ManaWahine
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Walter Ritte is with Earl DeLeon.
CHECK OUT KUPUNA EARL DELEON (center with white pu shell) AND HIS BROTHERS HELPING TO PROTEST THE NEW HOTEL ON WEST MOLOKAI IN THE MID 70's.
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Office of Hawaiian Affairs was live.
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Red circle is Kua O Ka La School. Less then a mile away. Aloha! #stayclassypuna #alohaforpuna
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Fissure 8 this afternoon still pumping a high volume of lava. We are looking from the south towards fissure and as you can see the channelized flow moving towar...ds the east to the Y junction near Pohoiki Rd and highway 132. The other pictures is taken on the southwest side of Pohoiki Boat ramp looking towards the Kapoho Ocean Entry. As you can see in the picture, the ocean entry is not that far from Ahalanui beach park and Kua O Ka La school. More updates on the volume of lava later tonight. Aloha! #stayclassypuna#alohaforpuna
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MAKA’ALA LA HUI TO THIS ARTICLE THIS MAY HAVE LINKS TO THE LAND SWAP ‘AINA IDEA (loss of county revenue $$$$)
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#LIVE: Health officials and the Queen's Medical Center discuss cases of Legionnaires' Disease on Oahu. One patient has died and two others remains hospitalized.
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Mileka Lincoln is in Pahoa, Hawaii.
#LeilaniEstatesEruption #KilaueaVolcano UPDATE (June 20 at 11:30 AM): The National Weather Service reports winds will push volcanic emissions into interior comm...unities of Hawaiʻi Island today — including over Hilo, up north and wrapping around to the west. Officials warn that Pele’s Hair and sulfur dioxide levels may become an issue here in Pāhoa and possibly into the Hawaiian Acres area as well. Air quality hasn’t just been a concern for Puna residents — that’s why the Hawaiʻi Department of Health will be holding Volcanic Ash and Vog Community Meeting tonight and on Thursday on the west side of Hawai’i Island. Tonight’s is at Konawaena Elementary School in Kealakekua beginning at 5 PM. Thursday’s will be at Waikaloa Elementary & Middle School Cafeteria beginning at 6 PM. In the meantime, the FEMA Disaster Recovery Center or DRC is open daily from 8 AM to 8 PM at Keaʻau High School. Tropic Care 2018 also continues today with free medical, dental and eye care at the same location from 8 AM until 5 PM. The Hawaiʻi County Civil Defense Agency confirms more than 1,000 Hawaiʻi Island residents affected by the eruption have registered for FEMA assistance so far. Stay tuned to Hawaii News Now#HInews#HawaiiNews#HNN#HawaiiNewsNow#WeAreYourSource
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What an interesting sight: A boater captured a piece of floating lava in the ocean off the Big Island. He coined it a "lava berg."
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Aloha! The Hub is once again ACCEPTING donations. Here is a list of our most pressing needs. We appreciate your patience as 100% volunteer crew continuously wor...ks to get all of your generous donations to those impacted by ongoing lava events. We don't take your kōkua for granted, which is why we will only ask for what we need and know we can distribute. Mahalo nui loa. We love you all 
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Seismic activity and steam explosions at the summit of Kilauea have been happening on an almost regular basis, and scientists say this is no coincidence (Image: USGS)
Seismic activity and steam explosions at the summit of Kilauea have been happening on an almost regular basis, and scientists say this is no coincidence (Image: USGS)
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Large earthquakes and steam explosions at the summit of Kilauea have been occurring on an almost daily basis in the past few days, with one happening approximately 24 hours after the next, and scientists say the activity is in fact following a "fairly reliable pattern."
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Seismic activity and steam explosions at the summit of Kilauea have been happening on an almost regular basis, and scientists say this is no coincidence (Image: USGS)
Seismic activity and steam explosions at the summit of Kilauea have been happening on an almost regular basis, and scientists say this is no coincidence (Image: USGS)
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Large earthquakes and steam explosions at the summit of Kilauea have been occurring on an almost daily basis in the past few days, with one happening approximately 24 hours after the next, and scientists say the activity is in fact following a "fairly reliable pattern."
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The latest large earthquake to strike the summit happened around 4:20 a.m. Wednesday, measuring at a magnitude of 5.3, but it was not powerful enough to generate a tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. Officials said the quake happened after another explosive eruption at the summit that produced an ash plume that was less than 2,000 feet above ground level.
Wednesday marked the ninth day in a row that there was an earthquake above a magnitude of 5.0 at the summit. None of them was strong enough to trigger a tsunami, and all of them were triggered by explosive eruption at the summit.
Seismic activity in the region has ramped up over the past month as eruptions continue at Kilauea. And the U.S. Geological Survey said it's no coincidence that the uptick in large quakes and steam explosions are happening almost routinely. Over a 24- to 36-hour period, small earthquakes are building up until an ash explosion occurs at the summit, experts say.
"Following the explosion at the summit, the seismicity will sharply drop off, and then gradually begin to build up as we approach the next summit explosion," said Alex Demas, of the USGS.
Demas said these are not traditional earthquakes, like where rock breaks along a fault line, but it's what he calls a pressure wave from the explosion.
"So as long as the summit explosions continue, there likely will be earthquakes and ground shaking associated with the explosion," he said.
Most are centered at the summit of Kilauea volcano, and the vast majority are small (under magnitude 2.5).
But there have also been a number of bigger quakes.
But the biggest quake so far associated with ongoing eruptions of Kilauea was on May 4, when a 6.9-magnitude tremor shook the island. The temblor was felt as far away as Oahu, and caused some minor damage.
Chip McCreery, director of PTWC, said the quake was the largest to strike the Big Island since November 1975, when a tremor centered two miles off Kalapana Beach was measured at a magnitude 7.2.
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The latest large earthquake to strike the summit happened around 4:20 a.m. Wednesday, measuring at a magnitude of 5.3, but it was not powerful enough to generate a tsunami, the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said. Officials said the quake happened after another explosive eruption at the summit that produced an ash plume that was less than 2,000 feet above ground level.
Wednesday marked the ninth day in a row that there was an earthquake above a magnitude of 5.0 at the summit. None of them was strong enough to trigger a tsunami, and all of them were triggered by explosive eruption at the summit.
Seismic activity in the region has ramped up over the past month as eruptions continue at Kilauea. And the U.S. Geological Survey said it's no coincidence that the uptick in large quakes and steam explosions are happening almost routinely. Over a 24- to 36-hour period, small earthquakes are building up until an ash explosion occurs at the summit, experts say.
"Following the explosion at the summit, the seismicity will sharply drop off, and then gradually begin to build up as we approach the next summit explosion," said Alex Demas, of the USGS.
Demas said these are not traditional earthquakes, like where rock breaks along a fault line, but it's what he calls a pressure wave from the explosion.
"So as long as the summit explosions continue, there likely will be earthquakes and ground shaking associated with the explosion," he said.
Most are centered at the summit of Kilauea volcano, and the vast majority are small (under magnitude 2.5).
But there have also been a number of bigger quakes.
But the biggest quake so far associated with ongoing eruptions of Kilauea was on May 4, when a 6.9-magnitude tremor shook the island. The temblor was felt as far away as Oahu, and caused some minor damage.
Chip McCreery, director of PTWC, said the quake was the largest to strike the Big Island since November 1975, when a tremor centered two miles off Kalapana Beach was measured at a magnitude 7.2.
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Almost a dozen lava evacuees now have shelter thanks to a Big Island landowner who took matters into her own hands.
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