2. DU & target practice/letter to editor
3. Gas pricing law called stalled
4. fyi NPR Author Kinzer Charts 'Century of Regime Change' - comment
5. DOT commits long list of errors
6. UN: Tasers Are A Form Of Torture, Stun Guns Under Fire After Six Deaths
This Week
7. People Power & The Superferry On "Voices Of Truth - One-On-One With
Hawai`i 's Future"
8. Women want O'Connor to quit
9. Francis A. Boyle] Law and Resistance: The Republic in Crisis and the
People^Rs Response
10. US Annapolis Conf: Everyone's Invited but the PLO
11. looking for lomilomi teacher
12. Teaching Thanksgiving from a different perspective
13. NSW Maori v NSW Aboriginal Haka 27-10-07
14. fyi NPR Author Kinzer Charts 'Century of Regime Change' - more
comment
15. PACIFIC: Pacific islanders wear red
16. nationhood dialogues
17. Preparations for the 2nd meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working
Group on Protected Areas (WG-PA/2), 11 - 15 Feb. 2008 & SBSTTA-13 meeting,
18 - 22 Feb. 2008, FAO, Rome, Italy
18. Is it possible that Australia may be overly concerned with others'
problems?
19. History News Network <hnn.us> -- book of the month june 2006 --
chapter one hawaiian overthrow by kinzer
20. is kinzer an imperialist at heart, or did he back imperialsim with
velvet glove only to sell his book in this holt press kit interview? mel,
is he accepting your invitation to visit?
21. gout in ancient polynesia? Radio Australia
22. Hawai'i Independence Day Wednesday
23. would ron paul support hawaiian sovereignty? it'd indeed be a
surprise if he knew...
24. live at UH-Hilo [nov. 27]
25. History News Network <hnn.us> -- book of the month june 2006 --
chapter one hawaiian overthrow by kinzer - comment
26. 'Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen' from The Nation
27. History News Network <hnn.us> -- book of the month june 2006 --
chapter one hawaiian overthrow by kinzer - more comment
27. NUPEPA Six non-Hawaiians intervene in OHA suit
28. nationhood meeting report
29. Dept. of English Colloquium: Morgan Cooper, "Palestine, Apartheid, and
Ethnic Cleansing."
30. is kinzer an imperialist at heart, or did he back imperialsim with
velvet glove only to sell his book in this holt press kit interview? mel,
is he accepting your invitation to visit? - comment
31. 4th thursday in november..... go to www.massmoments.org to read full
story
32. An Evening with Rumi
33. Jewelry Showing and Sale to benefit Indian villages
34. Iraq War Veterans to Launch "Winter Soldier" Investigation
35. Al Jazeera looks at Maori Nation
1. Mandela on Justice for the Palestinians
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:18:34 -0800 (PST)
From: patricia blair <cris6369@yahoo.com>
(retrieved by the indefatigable John Whitbeck)
Mandela on Justice for the Palestinians
MEMO
March 28, 2001
To: Thomas L. Friedman (columnist New York Times)
From: Nelson Mandela (former President South Africa)
Dear Thomas,
I know that you and I long for peace in the Middle East, but before
you continue to talk about necessary conditions from an Israeli
perspective, you need to know what's on my mind. Where to begin? How about
1964.
Let me quote my own words during my trial. They are true today as
they were then: "I have fought against white domination and I have fought
against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and
free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal
opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But
if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
Today the world, black and white, recognise that Apartheid has no
future. In South Africa it has been ended by our own decisive mass action
in order to build peace and security. That mass campaign of defiance and
other actions could only culminate in the establishment of Democracy.
Perhaps it is strange for you to observe the situation in Palestine
or more specifically, the structure of political and cultural
relationships between Palestinians and Israelis, as an Apartheid system.
This is because you incorrectly think that the problem of Palestine began
in 1967. This was demonstrated in your recent column "Bush's First Memo"
in the New York Times on March 27, 2001.
You seem to be surprised to hear that there are still problems of
1948 to be solved, the most important component of which is the right to
return of Palestinian refugees.
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not just an issue of military
occupation and Israel is not a country that was established "normally" and
happened to occupy another country in 1967. Palestinians are not
struggling for a "state" but for freedom, liberation and equality, just
like we were struggling for freedom in South Africa.
In the last few years, and especially during the reign of the Labour
Party, Israel showed that it was not even willing to return what it
occupied in 1967; that Settlements remain, Jerusalem would be under
exclusive Israeli sovereignty, and Palestinians would not have an
independent state, but would be under Israeli economic domination with
Israeli control of borders, land, air, water and sea.
Israel was not thinking of a "state" but of "separation". The value
of separation is measured in terms of the ability of Israel to keep the
Jewish state Jewish, and not to have a Palestinian minority that could
have the opportunity to become a majority at some time in the future. If
this takes place, it would force Israel to either become a secular
democratic or bi-national state, or to turn into a state of Apartheid not
only de facto, but also de jure.
Thomas, if you follow the polls in Israel for the last 30 or 40
years, you clearly find a vulgar racism that includes a third of the
population who openly declare themselves to be racist. This racism is of
the nature of "I hate Arabs" and "I wish Arabs would be dead".
If you also follow the judicial system in Israel you will see there
is discrimination against Palestinians, and if you further consider the
1967 Occupied Territories you will find there are already two judicial
systems in operation that represent two different approaches to human
life: one for Palestinian life and the other for Jewish life.
Additionally there are two different approaches to property and to
land. Palestinian property is not recognised as private property because
it can be confiscated.
As to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, there is an
additional factor. The so-called "Palestinian autonomous areas" are
Bantustans. These are restricted entities within the power structure of
the Israeli Apartheid system.
The Palestinian state cannot be the by-product of the Jewish state,
just in order to keep the Jewish purity of Israel. Israel's racial
discrimination is daily life of most Palestinians. Since Israel is a
Jewish state, Israeli Jews are able to accrue special rights which
non-Jews cannot do. Palestinian Arabs have no place in a "Jewish" state.
Apartheid is a crime against humanity. Israel has deprived millions
of Palestinians of their liberty and property. It has perpetuated a system
of gross racial discrimination and inequality. It has systematically
incarcerated and tortured thousands of Palestinians, contrary to the rules
of international law. It has, in particular, waged a war against a
civilian population, in particular children.
The responses made by South Africa to human rights abuses emanating
from the removal policies and Apartheid policies respectively, shed light
on what Israeli society must necessarily go through before one can speak
of a just and lasting peace in the Middle East and an end to its Apartheid
policies.
Thomas, I'm not abandoning Mideast diplomacy. But I'm not going to
indulge you the way your supporters do. If you want peace and democracy, I
will support you. If you want formal Apartheid, we will not support you.
If you want to support racial discrimination and ethnic cleansing, we will
oppose you.
When you figure out what you're about, give me a call.
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2. DU & target practice/letter to editor
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:24:42 -1000
From: "Cory (Martha) Harden" <mh@interpac.net>
TARGETS
Will people be hit, or radioactivity spread, by 2000-pound dummy bombs
falling on Pohakuloa?
The bombers are doing target practice with no global positioning systems.
They use calculations based on factors including wind speed. But wind
speed, and direction, can shift from instant to instant with Pohakuloa
gusts.
2000 pounds falling 10,000 feet should easily pulverize the six-ounce,
seven-inch spotting rounds containing radioactive DU (depleted uranium)
lying on the Pohakuloa range. There is evidence that DU particles and
compounds can be extremely dangerous if inhaled. There are reports of
airborne DU traveling over 25 miles. The Army doesn^Òt know where all the
spotting rounds are. Or if all the DU can ever be cleaned up.
Note how Army Colonel Killian hedges: ^ÓTO MY KNOWLEDGE, the depleted
uranium we^Òve got TEMPLATED ^Åin the far north of the impact area. And
the Air Force PRIMARILY uses a drop box^Åin the southern part^Å^Ô [HTH
11-22-07, emphasis added, definition of ^Ótemplated^Ó not given]
Mayor, Councilmembers, Governor, State legislators, Congresspeople--please
move this dangerous target practice out of the Hawaiian Islands!
Cory (Martha) Harden
PO Box 10265, Hilo 96721 residence Mt. View
mh@interpac.net
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3. Gas pricing law called stalled
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 08:56:38 -1000
From: viviane lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>
>>the agency is doing its best to analyze a high volume of information
while also protecting the confidentiality of companies involved in the oil
industry<<
>>"The commission is doing its best to report on data that can be
publicly disclosed, given the enormous amount of confidential information
that we work with every week and the short time frame we have to publish,
under the law," Lisa Kikuta, the PUC's chief researcher, said via e-mail<<
Too bad they don't take our privacy as seriously... are these data be a
matter of "national security"? One more law down the drain....
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http://starbulletin.com/2007/11/25/news/story02.html
Gas pricing law called stalled
Weekly data reports from the PUC so far have been of little use, a key
legislator says
STORY SUMMARY »
A key lawmaker says Hawaii's gasoline pricing transparency law is not
working as the Legislature intended.
Senate Energy Chairman Ron Menor says more specific information needs to
be reported for consumers to get a better idea of how gasoline prices are
set in the islands.
The Public Utilities Commission, which oversees the Petroleum Industry
Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting program, says the agency is doing its
best to analyze a high volume of information while also protecting the
confidentiality of companies involved in the oil industry. Meanwhile,
Hawaii's average price at the pump has once again climbed to among the
highest in the country. Friday's statewide average of $3.42 a gallon for
regular unleaded -- 33 cents above the national average -- was tied with
California's as the nation's priciest.
FULL STORY »
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM
Gas prices were displayed yesterday at the Tesoro station on South King
and Cooke streets in Honolulu.
By B.J. Reyes
bjreyes@starbulletin.com
As Hawaii gasoline prices again climb to among the highest in the country,
a new law aimed at helping island consumers understand how fuel prices are
set is not working as intended, a key lawmaker says.
Under the law, the Public Utilities Commission is required to post weekly
reports compiled from data submitted by oil companies, dealers, jobbers
and others who participate in the state's oil industry.
But Senate Energy Chairman Ron Menor, who helped write the law aimed at
providing more transparency in oil industry pricing, says the reports have
been of little use.
"I don't think that the implementation of the law by the PUC is providing
the kind of transparency that we need to be able to determine all of the
factors that are contributing to Hawaii's high gas prices," said Menor (D,
Mililani). "I think consumers are entitled to have more specific
information regarding the oil companies' pricing practices."
Oil industry participants are required to report on a variety of
operational factors, such as the volume of fuel imported and exported, the
costs of the fuel at various points in the supply chain and their weekly
gross margins. Members also must report data for as many as 18 different
types of products, ranging from conventional gasoline and diesel to jet
fuel, kerosene and propane.
It is up to the PUC to analyze the data and determine what figures can be
made public without giving up confidential, competitive information.
"The commission is doing its best to report on data that can be publicly
disclosed, given the enormous amount of confidential information that we
work with every week and the short time frame we have to publish, under
the law," Lisa Kikuta, the PUC's chief researcher, said via e-mail.
The Petroleum Industry Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting program was
passed in 2006 as part of the law that rescinded the state's one-of-a-kind
wholesale price caps, and lawmakers provided full funding for the program
last session.
Reports, which have been posted every week since Sept. 5, show figures
including wholesale prices for regular gasoline during the reporting
period, but the prices do not necessarily reflect what a gas station paid
wholesale before selling it at the pump.
Critics say the wholesale averages are misleading because they include
transactions for products that trade at different costs, such as
conventional regular unleaded, regular gasoline blended with 10 percent
ethanol and the lower-octane stock that is used to make the 10 percent
blend.
Retail prices for various products also are listed, but do not include
transactions from gas stations that sell fuel to the public.
Figures are broken down for eight geographic regions, but not all
information is published for competitive reasons. For example, because
there are only two oil refiners in the state, releasing the total amount
of crude oil inventory for both refiners would allow each competitor to
calculate the other's stock.
In addition to the weekly reports, Kikuta said a consultant is assisting
the commission with "examination and assessment" of the data to compile a
more detailed report for next year's Legislature.
"An in-depth analysis of the industry drawn from the reported data will be
a part of the report to be submitted to the Legislature," she said.
Menor said he would wait for the report before deciding whether to call
the PUC before his committee for an informational briefing on how the law
has been implemented.
Meanwhile, Hawaii's gas prices have climbed to among the highest in the
country.
The statewide average for regular, self-serve unleaded on Friday was $3.42
a gallon, tied with California's for the highest in the country, according
to AAA's Fuel Gauge Report. New York was next at $3.28, while the national
average was $3.09.
Since the first week of October, the national average has risen about 31
cents a gallon as crude oil has traded at record highs approaching $100 a
barrel. Hawaii's average prices have increased about 20 cents over that
same time, following a historic pattern of mimicking mainland trends with
a few weeks of lag time.
Nationally, prices rose sharply from mid-October until last week, but have
fallen 2.6 cents since, countering predictions that gas prices were
destined to add another 10 to 15 cents a gallon to catch up with
skyrocketing crude prices. Analysts now say gas prices are likely to hold
steady or even slide a little unless oil rises beyond $100 a barrel.
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4. fyi NPR Author Kinzer Charts 'Century of Regime Change' - comment
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 09:40:21 -1000
From: Leota Souza <tuwahine@hawaii.rr.com>
Aloha Imiola, Mahalo for post. Mr. Kinzer seems to be writing a eulogy of
a deceased character, the American. I would normally say its unfair to the
people of the United States because most are of goodness but they
continued to perpetuate their demise as long as they think they are number
one. They squawk about not losing their jobs to foreign manufacturing but
break the doors down shopping on Black Friday at Wal-Mart, Sam's Club,
Costco or even Macy's.
The United States of America may have greatness in history of the world
but their greatness will be overshadowed in their hypocrisy and being
proud fools will bring them to their knees.
Mahalo for Saturaday's Nation session.
Aloha ke Akua,
pilipo
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5. DOT commits long list of errors
From: "Maui Tomorrow List" <aina@maui-tomorrow.org>
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 11:12 AM
http://www.mauinews.com/edit/2007/11/25/01dot1125.html
The Maui News
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Editorial
DOT commits long list of errors
The state Department of Transportation seems bent on proving it suffered
from extreme myopia when preparing for the Superferry. Of course, No. 1 on
the list is the failure to consider public reaction to not conducting an
environmental assessment.
At the very least, logic would dictate that the Harbors Division would
consider conditions unique to Kahului Harbor before deciding to park the
ferry's landing barge in a surge-vulnerable spot.
The division would have had to check no further than its own Kahului
harbor master who said last year berth 2C is a poor place for the ferry to
tie up. So the first of the winter swells swept into the harbor and twice
broke the barge loose. The surge really wasn't much, compared to what has
been seen in the harbor during winter storms.
Another example of DOT nearsightedness is calling in a traffic expert who
doesn't apparently really understand Kahului traffic patterns. It led to a
court order to restripe the lanes on Puunene Avenue at Kaahumanu Avenue
that is now being reversed. It's question whether the "expert" spent
significant time observing daily traffic loads at the intersection before
making his recommendation in a court hearing for the striping that jammed
traffic and made it more difficult for container-loaded trucks to maneuver
through a key intersection for harbor traffic.
Now the DOT is closing "various" lanes on Kaahumanu Avenue during work
days to permit crews to undo what was done to the Puunene Avenue lanes.
The previous change took place over the space of one weekend.
The DOT stands convicted of gross mismanagement, at the very least.
Copyright © 2007 The Maui News.
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6. UN: Tasers Are A Form Of Torture, Stun Guns Under Fire After Six Deaths
This Week
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:42:58 -1000
From: viviane lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/25/5431/
Published on Sunday, November 25, 2007 by CBS News
UN: Tasers Are A Form Of Torture
^ÓStun Guns^Ô Are Under Fire After Six Deaths This Week; Rallies Held
Demanding They Be Banned
(CBS/AP) - A United Nations committee said Friday that use of Taser
weapons can be a form of torture, in violation of the U.N. Convention
Against Torture.
Use of the electronic stun devices by police has been marked with a sudden
rise in deaths - including four men in the United States and two in Canada
within the last week.
Canadian authorities are taking a second look at them, and in the United
States, there is a wave of demands to BAN them.
The U.N. Committee Against Torture referred Friday to the use of TaserX26
weapons which Portuguese police has acquired. An expert had testified to
the committee that use of the weapons had ^Óproven risks of harm or
death.^Ô
^ÓThe use of TaserX26 weapons, provoking extreme pain, constituted a form
of torture, and that in certain cases it could also cause death, as shown
by several reliable studies and by certain cases that had happened after
practical use,^Ô the committee said in a statement.
Tasers have become increasingly controversial in the United States,
particularly after several notorious cases where their use by police to
disable suspects was questioned as being excessive. Especially disturbing
is the fact that six adults died after being tased by police in the span
of a week.
Last Sunday, in Frederick, Md., a sheriff^Òs deputy trying to break up a
late-night brawl tased 20-year-old Jarrel Grey. He died on the spot.
^ÓI want to know what he did that was so bad,^Ô the victim^Òs mother,
Tanya James, said. ^ÓDid the deputy think that their life was in danger?
Did he have a weapon?^Ô
The death came just weeks after Frederick police used a Taser to subdue a
high school student.
Black leaders held a rally Tuesday calling for the department to ban
Tasers, at least until there is a clear policy on how they are used. The
NAACP says it appears the sheriff^Òs office is using Tasers routinely,
rather than as a weapon of last resort.
Also this week, in Jacksonville, Fla., in two separate cases two men died
after being stunned.
One suspect, who fled a car crash and tried to break into a nearby home,
struggled with a policeman, prompting the officer to tase him three times.
The man continued to fight, and tried to bite the officer, while he was
being tased. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Another man died Tuesday after a Jacksonville officer pulled over his car.
When the officer approached it, the man took off running. When the officer
caught up with him, during a struggle, authorities say the officer used
his Taser to subdue the suspect.
After being placed in the back of the police car the suspect became
unresponsive. He was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Last Sunday, in New Mexico, 20-year-old Jesse Saenz died after Raton
police used a Taser to subdue him. Police say Saenz was struggling and
fighting with them as they attempted to take him into custody.
Saenz died after being transported to a county jail.
In Nova Scotia, a 45-year-old man who was jailed on assault charges jumped
a counter and ran for the door as he was being booked. He died yesterday,
about 30 hours after being shocked.
And in Vancouver, where Royal Candian Mounted Police have been criticized
for their use of a Taser against an irate airline passenger at Vancouver
Airport last month, 36-year-old Robert Knipstrom died in a hospital four
days after police used a Taser, pepper spray and batons to subdue him.
Police earlier said Knipstrom was agitated, aggressive and combative with
officers. The cause of death has yet to be determined.
More than a dozen people have died in Canada after being hit by Tasers in
the last four years.
The reported incidents this week did not have cameras documenting the use
of the Tasers, but in British Columbia, a tourist^Òs video camera recorded
the death of a man tased twice while in custody at the Vancouver Airport
last month.
That horrifying video shows Robert Dziekanski, a Polish man who spoke no
English, become increasingly agitated. He was shocked twice, and then
died.
The stun guns were denounced at memorial rallies in Vancouver and Toronto
for Dziekanski.
Among the 1,000 people at the Vancouver rally was Paul Pritchard, who shot
the video of the confrontation at the city airport.
The crowd gave a hero^Òs welcome to Pritchard, who said he ^Ósaw the life
drain out of a man^Òs face^Ô and heard ^Óblood-curdling screams.^Ô
A rally in front of the Ontario legislature in Toronto drew several
hundred people, including Bob Rae, a Liberal candidate in the next federal
election.
Rae said the events leading up to Dziekanski^Òs death must ^Ónever, ever
be allowed to happen again.^Ô
The prominent - and sensational - reports of deaths following the use of
Tasers has increased attention to their legitimacy, and prompted a bold
defense by their manufacturer.
Taser International, based in Scottsdale, Az., released a statement
following the Vancouver Airport incident saying no deaths have ever been
definitively connected to what the company describes as: ^Óthe low-energy
electrical discharge of the Taser.^Ô
That^Òs 50,000 volts.
^ÓThe video of the incident at the Vancouver airport indicates that the
subject was continuing to fight well after the TASER application,^Ô Taser
International said. ^ÓThis continuing struggle could not be possible if
the subject died as a result of the Taser device electrical current
causing cardiac arrest. [Dziekanski^Òs] continuing struggle is proof that
the Taser device was not the cause of his death.
^ÓSpecifically in Canada, while previous incidents were widely reported in
the media as ^ÑTaser deaths,^Ò the role of the Taser device has been
cleared in every case to date,^Ô Taser said.
The devices are used by about 12,000 police departments, often in chaotic
situations.
Retired police officer Paul Mazzei told CBS News correspondent Joie Chen,
^ÓMinus the Taser, they would have to use an impact weapon like a baton,
possibly pepper spray or in some extreme cases of violent behavior they
might even have to use deadly force to control that individual.^Ô
In fact, in New Mexico earlier this month, the parents of a suicidal woman
who was shot to death by Bernalillo County deputies two years ago are
suing, contending that the police should have used Tasers instead of
firearms.
Brittany Wayne was killed in her bedroom 23 seconds after police arrived.
And in Utah, a patrol car^Òs dashboard camera caught an officer tasing a
driver who refused to sign a speeding ticket. The officer is now under
investigation, accused of being too quick on the draw.
Amid a growing outcry, civil rights groups are urging police to put down
their Tasers until more research is done.
^ÓThe danger of Tasers is that they seem safe, they seem easy and
therefore I think it^Òs natural that police will be inclined to use them
much more quickly than they would ever use a gun,^Ô Amnesty International
USA Executive Director Larry Cox told Chen.
CBSNews.com producer David Morgan contributed to this report.
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7. People Power & The Superferry On "Voices Of Truth - One-On-One With
Hawai`i 's Future"
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 12:17:43 -0800
From: Free Hawai`i <freehawaii@earthlink.net>
Aloha `aina,
This coming Saturday the Superferry resumes service to Maui.
Ignoring everything but the smell of money, the Linda Lingle
administration has forced the Superferry fiasco on Hawai`i, its people and
environment.
But who will have the last word?
With winter swells, the design of Kahului harbor and the arrival of
between 7,000 to 9,000 humpback whales into waters off Maui, things could
play out far differently than Superferry backers expect.
The Superferry has already broken free of some of its mooring several
times just while tied up in Honolulu harbor.
Then there's the residents of Kaua`i.
Officials have not dared announce resumption of Superferry service to
Nawiliwili harbor and for good reason.
No one knows what will happen when the ship attempts to return there.
One thing we do know - the people who love their land have stood up and
delivered a clear message - they do not want this ship coming back.
We can expect that will continue to be the case not only on Kaua`i and
Maui, but also Hawai`i island as Superferry officials attempt to establish
service there soon.
Be sure and stay tuned to Free Hawai`I TV for all the latest updates.
We debut another brand new show this week featuring Uncle Helemano of
O`ahu who's a prime example of seeing something needing fixing and
stepping forward to fix it.
Uncle noticed kahili in disrepair in Waikiki several years ago and
although he knew nothing about how to do it, took it upon himself to
learn.
Today he's not only one of Hawai`i's premier kahili makers, but a real
inspiration to be around.
See for yourself on http://FreeHawaiiTv.com
People power is what it's all about this week whether on the `aina or in
the water on Voices Of Truth - One-On-One With Hawai`i's Future.
MONDAY, November 26th At 7:00 PM & FRIDAY, November 30th At 5:30 PM -
Hawai`i Island - Na Leo, Channel 53
TUESDAY, November 27th At 6:30 PM & WEDNESDAY, November 28th At 6:30 AM -
Maui - Akaku, Channel 53
"Out Of The Box - A Visit With Hinaleimoana Wong"
Since she was last on Voices Of Truth Hina Wong has been, well, busy.
An educator at two charter schools in Hawai`i, Hina delivers the kind of
education students crave - and can get virtually nowhere else.
"You don't have to go far from home to be successful," is the message she
gives her students at Halau Lokahi charter school on O`ahu and another one
on the island of Kaua`i.
Teaching Hawaiian cultural values, she helps her students answer the
question, who are we as Hawaiians?
Yet don't for a minute think it's only native Hawaiians, as students of
all ethnicities attend because, as Hina reminds us, her schools mirror the
multicultural population of the independent Hawaiian nation before it was
illegally overthrown.
The impact her curriculum has had on her students is both profound and
lasting. For the first time they see they don't have to assimilate to be
successful.
Bring your entire `ohana together and watch our visit with Hina as she
reminds us the children of Hawai`i really don't have to go and live
somewhere else to make it economically. As she herself says, "we want our
people to live and thrive right here."
THURSDAY, November 29th At 8:30 PM & FRIDAY, November 30th At 8:30 AM -
Kaua`i - Ho`ike, Channel 52 SATURDAY, December 1st At 8:00 PM - O`ahu -
`Olelo, Channel 53 "Every Feather A Prayer - A Visit With Uncle Helemano"
One day at the Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center where he worked, Uncle
Helemano noticed an old kahili, the feathered standards of old Hawai`i, in
need of repair.
He decided he would take it upon himself to learn the skills in order to
repair it.
And that's how Uncle became one of Hawai`i's best-known contemporary
kahili makers.
Naturally when we sat down with him to talk story, he told us some amazing
things including who the very first kahili really were.
He also told us kahili marked parameters in the old days when ali`i were
present, since ancient Hawai`i had no flags.
We saw right away there's a lot more to it, since for Uncle creating
kahili is not just about passing the culture down through the generations,
"it's also about a positive message to our people."
Don't miss our fascinating visit with Uncle Helemano as he actually shares
with us his process of making kahili and also shows us some of his
astonishing and unique one-of-a-kind pieces. You'll see for yourself he
puts positive thoughts and prayer into each and every feather.
Voices Of Truth interviews those creating a better future for Hawai`i to
discover what made them go from armchair observers to active participants
in the hopes of inspiring viewers to do the same.
If you missed a show, want you see your favorites again or you don't live
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8. Women want O'Connor to quit
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:33:38 +1300 (NZDT)
From: Marakita Mehmet <maraki_tanga@yahoo.co.nz>
(So do the rest of us)
Women want O'Connor to quit
By KERRY WILLIAMSON - The Dominion Post | Monday, 26 November 2007
Two women are calling for Police Association boss Greg O'Connor to resign
following his comments that alleged sexual abuse by police was an isolated
incident.
"It wasn't an isolated incident. This has been happening for many years
right across the country," Louise Nicholas said.
"Don't tell me that this is just an historic event that happened. Am I
angry? Hell yes. I'd love to see him gone."
Mr O'Connor, who was reluctant to comment, said it was "unfortunate" the
way his comments had been interpreted.
"It's unfortunate that any remarks have been taken in that way. I
certainly have not made light of these incidents."
Mr O'Connor said after Mr Rickards' shock resignation on Thursday that he
hoped police would be able to move on.
He referred to the case as "the Rotorua incident" and said "most sensible
New Zealanders have seen it for what it is - an isolated incident from an
era some time ago".
Tauranga woman Donna Johnson, who accused former detective Brad Shipton
of sexual violation, said Mr O'Connor's comments about an isolated
Rotorua incident were "an absolute slap in the face".
"There was nothing isolated about nine serving officers being charged.
Isolation is one, not nine. We are being re-victimised by this.
"It's just another kick in the guts and I can't take that anymore. That's
why I'm saying: `Mr O'Connor, go'."
Dame Margaret Bazley's Government-ordered commission of inquiry uncovered
300 sex complaints against police officers from 1979 till 2005. Her report
cited "disgraceful" conduct by officers and highlighted a wall of silence
from officers protecting colleagues.
Mr O'Connor has been association president since 1995.
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9. Francis A. Boyle] Law and Resistance: The Republic in Crisis and the
People^Rs Response
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 14:12:59 -1000
From: viviane lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7408
Law and Resistance: The Republic in Crisis and the People^Òs Response
by Prof. Francis A. Boyle
Global Research, November 22, 2007
Transcript of Professor Boyle's lecture, Northwestern University Law
School, November 20, 2007.The event was sponsored by the National Lawyers
Guild, Northwestern University Student Law School Chapter and Chicago
Chapter of the NLG.
Since the impeachable installation of George Bush Jr. as President by the
U.S. Supreme Court^Òs Gang of Five, the people of the world have witnessed
a government in the United States that has demonstrated little if any
respect for fundamental considerations of international law, human rights,
or the United States Constitution. Instead, the world has watched a
comprehensive and malicious assault upon the integrity of the
international and domestic legal orders by a group of men and women who
are thoroughly Machiavellian and Straussian in their perception of
international relations and in their conduct of both foreign affairs and
American domestic policy. Even more seriously, in many instances specific
components of the Bush Jr. administration^Òs foreign policy constitute
ongoing criminal activity under well recognized principles of both
international law and United States domestic law, and in particular the
Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgment, and the Nuremberg Principles,
as well as the Pentagon^Òs own U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 on The Law of
Land Warfare, which applies to President Bush Jr. himself as
Commander-in-Chief of United States Armed Forces under Article II, Section
2 of the United States Constitution.
Depending on the substantive issues involved, these international and
domestic crimes typically include but are not limited to the Nuremberg
offences of ^Ócrimes against peace^Ô-- so far Afghanistan , Iraq , Somalia
, and perhaps their longstanding threatened war of aggression against Iran
. Their criminal responsibility also concerns ^Ócrimes against humanity^Ô
and war crimes as well as grave breaches of the Four Geneva Conventions of
1949 and the 1907 Hague Regulations on land warfare: torture at
Guantanamo, Bhagram, Abu Ghraib, and elsewhere; enforced disappearances,
assassinations, murders, kidnappings, extraordinary renditions, ^Óshock
and awe,^Ô depleted uranium, white phosphorous, cluster bombs, Fallujah,
etc. Furthermore, various members of the Bush Jr. administration have
committed numerous inchoate crimes incidental to these substantive
offences that under the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and Principles as
well as U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956) are international crimes in
their own right: planning, and preparation^×which they are currently doing
today against Iran^×solicitation, incitement, conspiracy, complicity,
attempt, aiding and abetting. Of course the terrible irony of today^Òs
situation is that six decades ago at Nuremberg the U.S. government
participated in the prosecution, punishment and execution of Nazi
government officials for committing some of the same types of heinous
international crimes that the Neo-Conservative Straussian members of the
Bush Jr. administration currently inflict upon people all over the world.
To be sure, I personally oppose the imposition of capital punishment upon
any human being for any reason no matter how monstrous their crimes,
whether they be Bush Jr., Tony Blair, or Saddam Hussein.
According to basic principles of international criminal law set forth in
paragraph 501 of U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10, all high level civilian
officials and military officers in the U.S. government who either knew or
should have known that soldiers or civilians under their control (such as
the C.I.A. or mercenary contractors), committed or were about to commit
international crimes and failed to take the measures necessary to stop
them, or to punish them, or both, are likewise personally responsible for
the commission of international crimes. This category of officialdom who
actually knew or should have known of the commission of these
international crimes under their jurisdiction and failed to do anything
about them include at the very top of America^Òs criminal chain-of-command
President Bush Jr. and Vice-President Cheney; former U.S. Secretary of
Defense Rumsfeld; Secretary of State Rice; Director of National
Intelligence Negroponte, who was previously in charge of the contra terror
war against the people of Nicaragua that murdered 35, 000 civilians;
National Security Advisor Hadley; his Deputy Elliot Abrams, who was also
criminally responsible for murdering 35,000 people in Nicaragua; former
U.S. Attorney General Gonzales, criminally responsible for the torture
campaign launched by the Bush Jr. administration; and the Pentagon^Òs
Joint Chiefs of Staffs along with the appropriate Regional
Commanders-in-Chiefs, especially for Central Command (CENTCOM).
These U.S. government officials and their immediate subordinates are
responsible for the commission of crimes against peace, crimes against
humanity, and war crimes as specified by the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment,
and Principles as well as by U.S. Army Field Manual 27-10 of 1956. Today
in international legal terms, the Bush Jr. administration itself should
now be viewed as constituting an ongoing criminal conspiracy under
international criminal law in violation of the Nuremberg Charter, the
Nuremberg Judgment, and the Nuremberg Principles, because of its
formulation and undertaking of serial wars of aggression, crimes against
peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes that are legally akin to
those perpetrated by the former Nazi regime in Germany. As a consequence,
American citizens possess the basic right under international law and the
United States domestic law, including the U.S. Constitution, to engage in
acts of civil resistance designed to prevent, impede, thwart, or terminate
ongoing criminal activities perpetrated by Bush Jr. administration
officials in their conduct of foreign affairs policies and military
operations purported to relate to defense and counter-terrorism.
For that very reason, large numbers of American citizens have decided to
act on their own cognizance by means of civil resistance in order to
demand that the Bush Jr. administration adhere to basic principles of
international law, of U.S. domestic law, and of our own Constitution in
its conduct of foreign affairs and military operations. Mistakenly,
however, such actions have been defined to constitute classic instances of
"civil disobedience" as historically practiced in the United States . And
the conventional status quo admonition by the U.S. power elite and its
sycophantic news media for those who knowingly engage in ^Ócivil
disobedience^Ô has always been that they must meekly accept their
punishment for having performed a prima facie breach of the positive laws
as a demonstration of their good faith and moral commitment. Nothing could
be further from the truth! Today^Òs civil resisters are the sheriffs! The
Bush Jr. administration officials are the outlaws!
Here I would like to suggest a different way of thinking about civil
resistance activities that are specifically designed to thwart, prevent,
or impede ongoing criminal activity by members of the Bush Jr.
administration under well-recognized principles of international and U.S.
domestic law. Such civil resistance activities represent the last
constitutional avenue open to the American people to preserve their
democratic form of government with its historical commitment to the rule
of law and human rights. Civil resistance is the last hope America has to
prevent the Bush Jr. administration from moving even farther down the path
of lawless violence in Southwest Asia, military interventionism in Latin
America and Africa, and nuclear confrontation with Iran , North Korea ,
Russia , and China .
Such measures of "civil resistance" must not be confused with, and indeed
must be carefully distinguished from, acts of "civil disobedience" as
traditionally defined. In today^Òs civil resistance cases, what we witness
are U.S. citizens attempting to prevent the ongoing commission of
international and domestic crimes under well-recognized principles of
international law and U.S. domestic law. This is a phenomenon essentially
different from the classic civil disobedience cases of the 1950s and 1960s
where incredibly courageous African Americans and their supporters were
conscientiously violating domestic laws for the express purpose of
changing them. By contrast, today^Òs civil resisters are acting for the
express purpose of upholding the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, human
rights, and international law. Applying the term ^Ócivil disobedience^Ô to
such civil resistors mistakenly presumes their guilt and thus perversely
exonerates the Bush Jr. administration criminals.
Civil resistors disobeyed nothing, but to the contrary obeyed
international law and the United States Constitution. By contrast, Bush
Jr. administration officials disobeyed fundamental principles of
international law as well as U.S. criminal law and thus committed
international crimes and U.S. domestic crimes as well as impeachable
violations of the United States Constitution. The civil resistors are the
sheriffs enforcing international law, U.S. criminal law and the U.S.
Constitution against the criminals working for the Bush Jr.
administration!
Today the American people must reaffirm our commitment to the Nuremberg
Charter, Judgment, and Principles by holding our government officials
fully accountable under international law and U.S. domestic law for the
commission of such grievous international and domestic crimes. We must not
permit any aspect of our foreign affairs and defense policies to be
conducted by acknowledged ^Ówar criminals^Ô according to the U.S.
government^Òs own official definition of that term as set forth in U.S.
Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956), the U.S. War Crimes Act, and the Geneva
Conventions. The American people must insist upon the impeachment,
dismissal, resignation, indictment, conviction, and long-term
incarceration of all U.S. government officials guilty of such heinous
international and domestic crimes. That is precisely what American civil
resisters are doing today!
This same right of civil resistance extends pari passu to all citizens of
the world community of states. Everyone around the world has both the
right and the duty under international law to resist ongoing criminal
activities perpetrated by the Bush Jr. administration and its nefarious
foreign accomplices in allied governments such as in Britain , Australia ,
Japan , South Korea , Georgia , etc. If not so restrained, the Bush Jr.
administration could very well precipitate a Third World War.
In this regard, during the course of an October 17, 2007 press conference,
President Bush Jr. terrorized the entire world with the threat of World
War III if he could not work his illegal will upon Iran . Then Russian
President Vladimir Putin responded in kind by likewise terrorizing the
entire world with the prospect of yet another Cuban Missile Crisis if he
did not get his way on the needlessly provocative anti-ballistic missile
systems that the Bush Jr. administration plans to locate in Poland and the
Czech Republic. The publicly threatened U.S./Israeli attack upon Iran
could readily set off a chain of events that would culminate in World War
III, and could easily go nuclear. It is my opinion that the Bush Jr.
administration would welcome the outbreak of a Third World War, and in any
event is fully prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons against Muslim and
Arab states and peoples.
After September 11, 2001 the United States of America has vilified and
demonized Muslims and Arabs almost to the same extent that America
inflicted upon the Japanese and Japanese Americans after Pearl Harbor . As
the Nazis had previously demonstrated with respect to the Jews, a
government must first dehumanize and scapegoat a race of people before its
citizens will tolerate if not approve their elimination: Hiroshima and
Nagasaki . In post-9/11 America we are directly confronted with the
prospect of a nuclear war of extermination conducted by our White Racist
Judeo-Christian Power Elite against People of Color in the Muslim and Arab
worlds in order to steal their oil and gas. The Crusades all over again.
But this time nuclear Armageddon stares all of humankind right in the
face!
We American lawyers must be inspired by the stunning example set by those
heroic Pakistani lawyers now leading the struggle against the brutal
Bush-supported Musharraf military dictatorship. We American lawyers must
now lead the fight against the Bush Jr. dictatorship! This is our
Nuremberg Moment!
Thank you.
Francis A. Boyle is a frequent contributor to Global Research.
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10. US Annapolis Conf: Everyone's Invited but the PLO
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 17:28:19 -0800 (PST)
From: patricia blair <cris6369@yahoo.com>
"Boyle, Francis" <FBOYLE@LAW.UIUC.EDU> wrote:
[As you will see from the list below, it seems the US has invited
practically everyone in the world to this fandango -- from Poland to
Sweden to Slovenia [Slovenia???] to Yemen to the World Bank and the IMF...
except the PLO -- which is the only body that has the authority and
international standing to negotiate on behalf of the Palestinian people!
In addition, the elected government of Hamas is also not invited, of
course.]
sent by Francis Boyle - Nov 23, 2007
My Dear Palestinian Friends:
As you can see from the US Government's list of Invitees [below] to
the Annapolis Conference, it has only invited the Palestinian Authority,
not the PLO. But only the PLO has the authority under international law to
negotiate on behalf of the Palestinian People and the State of Palestine.
That is why the Chairman of the PLO Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo
Agreement in the name of the PLO. The Palestinian Authority has no
authorization under international law to negotiate on behalf of the
Palestinian People, let alone the State of Palestine, whose Provisional
Government is the PLO Executive Committee. Indeed, an entire series of UN
General Assembly Resolutions have made it clear that only the PLO is the
sole and legitimate representative of the Palestinian People. Hence this
delegation of the Palestinian Authority to the Annapolis Conference has no
legal authority under international law to conclude anything on behalf of
the Palestinian People, let alone the State of Palestine
I would appreciate it if you would be so kind as to bring this
matter to the attention of the Palestinian People around the world.
Thank you.
Francis A. Boyle
Professor of International Law
Legal Advisor to the Palestinian Delegation
to the Middle East Peace Negotiations
and His Excellency Dr. Haidar Abdul Shaffi (1991-1993)
***
US State Department - Nov 20, 2007
statelists@LISTS.STATE.GOV
Announcement of Annapolis Conference
Press Statement
Sean McCormack
Washington, DC
November 20, 2007
Announcement of Annapolis Conference
On November 27, the United States will host Israeli Prime Minister
Olmert, Palestinian Authority President Abbas, along with the Members of
the Quartet, the Members of the Arab League Follow-on Committee, the G-8,
the permanent members of the UN Security Council, and other key
international actors for a conference at the U.S. Naval Academy in
Annapolis, Maryland. Secretary Rice will host a dinner the preceding
evening here in Washington, where President Bush will deliver remarks.
President Bush and the Israeli and Palestinian leaders will deliver
speeches to open the formal conference in Annapolis.
The Annapolis Conference will signal broad international support for
the Israeli and Palestinian leaders' courageous efforts, and will be a
launching point for negotiations leading to the establishment of a
Palestinian state and the realization of Israeli-Palestinian peace.
Those invited to attend the conference are:
United States
Israel
Palestinian Authority
Algeria
Arab League Secretary General
Bahrain
Brazil
Canada
China
Egypt
EU Commission
EU High Rep
EU Pres Portugal
France
Germany
Greece
India
Indonesia
Iraq
Italy
Japan
Jordan
Lebanon
Malaysia
Mauritania
Morocco
Norway
Oman
Pakistan
Poland
Qatar
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Senegal
Slovenia
South Africa
Spain
Sudan
Sweden
Syria
Quartet Special Envoy Tony Blair
Tunisia
Turkey
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom
UNSYG [??]
Yemen
Observers:
IMF
World Bank
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11. looking for lomilomi teacher
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 16:20:36 -1000 (GMT-10:00)
From: Milica Barjaktarovic <milica_b@earthlink.net>
Looking for the lomilomi teacher on O'ahu. Someone "called" me
energetically, now got to find them in person, so please any pointers are
appreciated. Thanks. milica_b@earthlink.net http://HumanRemodeling.com
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12. Teaching Thanksgiving from a different perspective
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:39:14 +0000
From: andre cramblit <andrekar@ncidc.org>
Teaching Thanksgiving from a different perspective
http://www.cnn.com/2006/EDUCATION/11/22/teaching.thanksgiving.ap/index.html
LONG BEACH, California (AP) -- Teacher Bill Morgan walks into his
third-grade class wearing a black Pilgrim hat made of construction paper
and begins snatching up pencils, backpacks and glue sticks from his
pupils. He tells them the items now belong to him because he "discovered"
them.
The reaction is exactly what Morgan expects: The kids get angry and want
their things back.
Morgan is among elementary school teachers who have ditched the
traditional Thanksgiving lesson, in which children dress up like Indians
and Pilgrims and act out a romanticized version of their first meetings.
He has replaced it with a more realistic look at the complex relationship
between Indians and white settlers.
Morgan said he still wants his pupils at Cleveland Elementary School in
San Francisco to celebrate Thanksgiving. But "what I am trying to portray
is a different point of view."
Others see Morgan and teachers like him as too extreme.
"I think that is very sad," said Janice Shaw Crouse, a former college dean
and public high school teacher and now a spokeswoman for Concerned
Women for America, a conservative organization. "He is teaching his
students to hate their country. That is a very distorted view of history,
a distorted view of Thanksgiving."
Even American Indians are divided on how to approach a holiday that some
believe symbolizes the start of a hostile takeover of their lands.
Chuck Narcho, a member of the Maricopa and Tohono O'odham tribes who works
as a substitute teacher in Los Angeles, said younger children should not
be burdened with all the gory details of American history.
"If you are going to teach, you need to keep it positive," he said. "They
can learn about the truths when they grow up. Caring, sharing and giving
-- that is what was originally intended."
Adam McMullin, a member of the Seminole tribe of Oklahoma and a spokesman
for the National Congress of American Indians, said schoolchildren should
get an accurate historical account.
"You can't just throw an Indian costume on a child," he said. "That stuff
is not taken lightly. That's where educators need to be very careful."
Becky Wyatt, a teacher at Kettering Elementary School in Long Beach,
decided to alter the costumes for the annual Thanksgiving play a few years
ago after local Indians spoke out against students wearing feathers, which
are sacred in their culture. Now children wear simple headbands.
"We have many mixed cultures in Long Beach, so we try to be sensitive,"
Wyatt said. "What you teach little children is important."
Laverne Villalobos, a member of the Omaha tribe in Nebraska who now lives
in the coastal town of Pacifica near San Francisco, considers Thanksgiving
a day of mourning.
She went before the school board last week and asked for a ban on
Thanksgiving re-enactments and students dressing up as Indians. She also
complained about November's lunch menu that pictured a caricature of an
Indian boy.
The mother of four said the traditional Thanksgiving celebrations in
schools instill "a false sense of what really happened before and after
the feast. It wasn't all warm and fuzzy."
After she complained, it was decided that pupils at her children's school
will not wear Indian costumes this year.
James Loewen, a former history professor at the University of Vermont and
author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your High School History
Textbook Got Wrong," said that during the first Thanksgiving, the
Wampanoag Indians and the pilgrims had been living in relative peace, even
though the tribe suspected the settlers of robbing Indian graves to steal
food buried with the dead.
"Relations were strained, but yet the holiday worked. Folks got along.
After that, bad things happened," Loewen said, referring to the bloody
warfare that broke out later during the 17th century.
Morgan, a teacher for more than 35 years, said that after conducting his
own research, he changed his approach to teaching about Thanksgiving. He
tells teachers at his school this is a good way to nurture critical
thinking, but he acknowledged not all are receptive: "It's kind of an
uphill struggle."
Firefly (Lilia Adecer Cajilog)
Tawo Seed Carrier
POB 1456
South Pasadena, CA 91031
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13. NSW Maori v NSW Aboriginal Haka 27-10-07
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:09:59 +1100
From: Mrs Lyn Welsh-Kirk <tepaatu@gmail.com>
NSW Maori v NSW Aboriginal Haka 27-10-07
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=pFKgR4uqbIA&feature=related
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14. fyi NPR Author Kinzer Charts 'Century of Regime Change' - more
comment
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 18:52:10 -1000
From: Pilipo Souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
Aloha brah, The honor was mine. I don't normally have the opportunity to
share a critical early stage of my life that forged my character.
I pray these type of meetings be continuing for as long as we kukakuka
there will be solution. Those in opposition meet constantly because they
are based upon deceit.
In the late early 1990 I recall Ka Lahui producing their white paper on
their mission and goals.It was an outstanding document on nation building.
I gave my copy to a independent group that misplaced it. Do you have or
recall this document?.
Again, mahalo for presence and makana to the people.
Aloha ke Akua,
pilipo
----- Original Message -----
From: 'imiola young
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 12:43 PM
your presence there as usual was of inestimable value and your talk
story as stimulating as ever...mahalo ia 'oe!
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15. PACIFIC: Pacific islanders wear red
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:04:29 +1300
From: karaka <tepaatu@gmail.com>
------ Forwarded Message
- 23/11/2007
Pacific islanders will be wearing red Saturday to show their concern the
threat of rising sea levele to their islands due to climate change. The
event is organised by the Pacific Conference of Churches and Greenpeace
Pacific prior to the departure of regional leaders leave for the Bali UN
climate change summit. Greenpeace's Pacific Climate Change Advisor, Arieta
Moceica says wearing red shows that Pacific islanders are outraged at
industrialised nations for dragging feet on the issue.
Presenter - Sam Seke Speaker - Arieta Moceica, Greenpeace's Pacific
climate change advisor
<http://www.abc.net.au/ra/asiapac/programs/m1500865.asx> listen windows
media > <http://www.abc.net.au/ra/asiapac/programs/m1500865.asx>
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16. nationhood dialogues
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 19:20:43 -1000
From: lcruz <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
hi all, i'll be posting notes from the 'nationhood dialogues: building
the nation from the ground up' gathering on saturday at chaminade. it
was, indeed, an interesting and useful meeting. at first i thought i
should expect some contentiousness (based on past experience), but it
worked out pretty well. we could all work together!
mahalo to those of you who attended (around 20 people). we'll probably be
holding the next one in waianae. i learned plenty! lc
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17. Preparations for the 2nd meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working
Group on Protected Areas (WG-PA/2), 11 - 15 Feb. 2008 & SBSTTA-13 meeting,
18 - 22 Feb. 2008, FAO, Rome, Italy
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:43:53 +1300
From: "john scott" <john.scott@cbd.int>
Date: October 24, 2007 12:47:51 PM PDT
Subject: Working Group on Protected Areas?
Dear Friends,
I have some funding for 3 or 4 indigenous peoples to participate in the WG
on PAs in Rome in February. ?I am therefore looking for indigenous experts
in this area ? especially those with first hand experience ? in management
and shared management of protected areas who can make a substantive
contribution to the discussions and perhaps facilitate a side event with
other indigenous peoples at the meeting.. ?If you are interested in being
considered please apply to the voluntary fund before 11 November 2007 at
http://www.cbd.int/traditional/fund.shtml
Information about the meeting is at:
http://www.cbd.int/meetings/default.shtml
11 - 15 February 2008
FAO, Rome, Italy
Second meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Protected Areas
(WGPA-2)
Best regards,
John SCOTT
Programme Officer for Traditional Knowledge, Innovations and Practices
Focal point for Indigenous and Local Communities
United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity
World Trade Centre
413 St. Jacques - Suite 800
Montreal. Quebec.
Canada. H2Y-1N9
Direct telephone 1 514 287 7042
General telephone 1 514 288-2220
fax 1 514 288-6588
Web? www.biodiv.org <http://www.biodiv.org>
Email:? john.scott@cbd.int
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From: Jessica Dempsey
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 10:05 AM
Dear all, See below the invitation from the secretariat already! (Deadline
Jan 28)
Time is flying. I do know that there are probably groups who want to have
preparatory sessions for both of these meetings, particularly the
agriculture and forest folks for the SBSTTA.
Do people want to see another session like the one in Paris to take place
prior to the SBSTTA? What about the Protected area meeting? What partners
in Rome can help us find space for such events?
Please send general comments, ideas. Hope everyone is well.
Jessica
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Begin forwarded message:
From: veronique allain <veronique.allain@cbd.int>
Date: November 2, 2007 7:58:52 AM PDT
Greetings from Montreal !
Please find attached a letter of invitation to attend both the second
meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-Ended Working Group on Protected Areas
(WG-PA/2) which will be held from 11 to 15 February 2008 at the
Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO), located at Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, in Rome, Italy
and the thirteenth meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical
and Technological Advice (SBSTTA-13) which will be held from 18 to 22
February 2008 at the same venue. Both provisional agendas are attached for
easier reference. The annotated provisional agendas and the Information
Notes for Participants for both meetings are available on the CBD website,
at the following addresses, respectively:
http://www.cbd.int/doc/meeting.aspx?mtg=WGPA-02 &
http://www.cbd.int/doc/meeting.aspx?mtg=SBSTTA-13.
Please advise the Secretariat of the name(s) and coordinates of your
Organization's representative(s) to these meetings. Kindly note that the
designation of representatives should be submitted, in the form of an
official letter, sent to the Secretariat, by fax (+1 514-288-6588) or by
e-mail as scanned attachments, to secretariat@biodiv.org must be received
no later than 28 January 2008.
Kind regards from the SBSTTA & WGPA Team !
(Ms.) Veronique ALLAIN
Programme Secretary
Scientific, Technical and Technological Matters (STTM)
U.N. CONVENTION ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY
413, rue Saint-Jacques - Suite 800
MONTREAL - QUEBEC H2Y 1N9
CANADA
tel: 514-287-7056 (direct); 514-288-2220 (main)
fax: 514-288-6588
veronique.allain@cbd.int
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18. Is it possible that Australia may be overly concerned with others'
problems?
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:25:40 -0500
From: kahiwal@cs.com
ramailinglists@YOUR.ABC.NET.AU wrote:
>>> AUSTRALIA: Parties forsee trouble in Pacific
>
>Australia's election campaign has been notable for the dark consensus on
>one area of foreign policy, the future of the South Pacific. The
>Coalition and Labor have been in agreement about the crisis looming in
>Pacific Islands. The Howard Government says Australia has to act tough in
>the Pacific to confront poor governance and declining law and order. The
>Labor Party has been even more dramatic, warning that refugees could
>start fleeing from Melanesia because of rising poverty. 6 DOBELL:The
>Coalition and Labor agree on the crisis in the South Pacific. The only
>difference seems to be in the tone of their response. DOWNER: Dealing
>with the Pacific you don't want to do so from a position of weakness, you
>don't want to look weak DOBELL: For the Foreign Minister, Alexander
>Downer, Australia has to be tough in confronting corruption and political
>breakdown in the Pacific Islands. DOWNER: It's tough work, you must be
>strong, not weak and you must be determined and have clear objectives
and every time you have an argument with a foreign leader, Labor says it's
Australia's fault. Actually Australia is a good, decent and strong
country. Sometimes these people are at fault, not us. DOBELL: The Labor
spokesman on Foreign Affairs, Robert McClelland, agrees about the problem
and the need for an Australian response. McCLELLAND: The rim around
Australia as you described has often been described by commentators as an
arc of instability. It's our arc of responsibility. DOBELL: The McLelland
language, though, is of partnership, not toughness, in the Pacific.
McCLELLAND: And I think the answer is to not focus on a reactive approach
where we've seen a revolving door in some instances of military
deployments, but to genuinely sit down in partnership with them and to
develop programs in partnership DOBELL: The Coalition's foreign policy
statement says Australia's more interventionist policy in the South
Pacific reduces the dangers of political and social instability in a
region threatened by poor governance and declining law and
>order. The Coalition says the costs and potential threats to Australia of
>ignoring problems in the Pacific are quote "immense". A promised
>redoubling of efforts in the Islands will partly involve greater economic
>integration of the South Pacific with Australia. The Prime Minister, John
>Howard, says that Australia's role in the Islands has changed. HOWARD I
>think of the new approach we have adopted to the Pacific, of saying to
>the nations of the Pacific we want to help you, but you have to lift your
>economic game and you have to improve your standards of governance.
>DOBELL: The Labor Leader, Kevin Rudd, has raised the prospect of refugees
>being forced to flee failed states in Melanesia - that is, Papua New
>Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu. Mr Rudd says Melanesia is one of the
>few places in the developing world where economic and social indicators
>are getting worse, and he says Australia has both moral and practical
>reasons to give more help. RUDD: Because if we fail to act in terms of
under-development across Melanesia, two consequences ensue if you are
looking at it from the self-interest point of view. You're going to be
looking at the need for rolling military interventions which are massively
expensive to the Australian taxpayer. Already seen a number of them. And
secondly, if you don't act, you will see over time, an outflow of refugees
from the region.
>
>http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/stories/s2099779.htm
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19. History News Network <hnn.us> -- book of the month june 2006 --
chapter one hawaiian overthrow by kinzer
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:08:06 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>
POTUS
Rick Shenkman
BUSH PLANS VAST PROTECTED SEA AREA IN HAWAII
This is the headline in today's NYT.
More Americans should know how we came to possess Hawaii. I recommend for
starters Stephen Kinzer's Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change
from Hawaii to Iraq, which is HNN's Book of the Month. The first chapter
is about Hawaii.
As Kinzer explains, Hawaii was the first country whose government the US
government overthrew. The story begins with the idealistic missionaries
who came to Hawaii in the middle of the 19th century, two of whom (Castle
& Cook) decided after a spell that sugar planting was both more profitable
and interestng than missionary work. By the end of the century the white
planters controlled the monarchy through a pliant king and all was well
(for the whites). Then the king died, his sister took over, and she
threatened to impose a constitution restricting the vote to native
Hawaiians.
At the same time the McKinley tariff was making it harder for sugar
planters to make money. Louisiana sugar growers had persuaded the US
Congress to protect homegrown sugar through a high tariff.
It was almost inevitable therefore that the Hawaiian sugar interests would
decide their best strategy would be to overthrow the monarchy and invite
the US government to take over the islands, thus bringing them under US
law and exempting them from the tariff.
Benjamin Harrison, then president of the US, wanted to offer them his
help. The US minister to Hawaii arranged to land US troops on the island
at the moment the planters orchestrated a rebellion. The queen abdicated
and they took over.
Recently, conservatives have argued in the debate over the Akaka bill that
the US government did not orchestrate the overthrow of the monarchy. This
is nonsense. The queen abdicated only because she knew she could not fight
the US government. True, our minister did not have express instructions to
connive with the planters in the overthrow of the monarchy. But he was
sent to Hawaii by Harrison to help the sugar planters.
Posted on Thursday, June 15, 2006 at 12:30 PM
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20. is kinzer an imperialist at heart, or did he back imperialsim with
velvet glove only to sell his book in this holt press kit interview? mel,
is he accepting your invitation to visit?
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:01:09 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>
HTTP://HNN.US/ROUNDUP/ENTRIES/27493.HTML
STEPHEN KINZER: INTERVIEWED ABOUT AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
Source: Henry Holt & Company Press Kit (6-26-06)
Your book is about the fourteen times the United States has overthrown a
foreign government. Why do we do this so often?
Americans consider their country to be a force for good in the world. We
believe we have found the way to success as a nation, and we want to share
our blessings with the world. This belief that we are an exceptional
nation, one with a global or even a cosmic mission, is fundamental to our
national character. Sometimes it turns to arrogance. It leads us to think
we have the right^×or even the obligation^×to recast the world in our own
image.
What tactics does the United States use to overthrow foreign leaders?
At the beginning, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, we
carried out these operations openly, through military power. During the
Cold War, that was no longer possible because an invasion or direct
intervention against a foreign government might bring a reaction from the
Soviet Union. So in the early 1950s, a new organization, the CIA, was
given the job of clandestinely overthrowing governments. It did so four
times, in Iran, Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Chile.
In recent decades we have returned to the original way of overthrowing
governments: by military invasion. During this period we have overthrown
four governments, those of Grenada, Panama, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Most of these overthrows seemed successful at first. What has been their
long-term impact in the countries where they were carried out?
A few of these operations, like the ones in Hawaii and Puerto Rico, have
turned out reasonably well because the United States took responsibility
for the countries that were seized. Most, however, have turned out very
badly.
Our 1954 intervention in Guatemala, for example, set off a thirty-year
civil war in which hundreds of thousands were killed. Our overthrow of
President Allende in Chile led to the imposition of a bloody dictatorship.
If we had not overthrown President Diem of South Vietnam in 1963, we might
have avoided the entire Vietnam War.
Our overthrows of foreign governments have led to the establishment of
dictatorships, turned millions of people against the United States, and
cast whole regions of the world into violent instability.
Many people have described the recent invasion of Iraq as breaking with an
American tradition of cooperative diplomacy. You write that it is just the
opposite, simply the latest in a long series of ^Óregime change^Ô
operations. What does our overthrow of Saddam Hussein have in common with
our overthrows of other leaders during the past century?
Like many past American interventions, the one in Iraq
^Õ was based on very unclear and inaccurate information
^Õ was planned with the assumption that local people would welcome it
^Õ was launched in part to assure American control of a valuable resource
^Õ was aimed at spreading the American political and economic system,
which American leaders believe is ideal for every country in the world
^Õ was based on the view that Americans can achieve anything they put
their minds to
^Õ threw a reasonably stable country into violent upheaval
^Õ seemed like a success at first, but ultimately came to look terribly
misconceived
You write that American intervention in Cuba in 1898 helped bring Fidel
Castro to power sixty years later. How?
In 1898 the United States sent troops to Cuba to help Cuban patriots
overthrow the Spanish. The Cubans agreed to welcome these soldiers only
after the U.S. Senate promised by law that they would be withdrawn as soon
as the war was won.
After the victory, however, we reneged on that promise. We kept Cuba under
military occupation, turned it into a protectorate, and imposed a series
of dictators who protected our interests. In 1952, one of those dictators
canceled an election in which the young Fidel Castro was running for
Congress. That led Castro to take up the idea of revolution.
In Castro^Òs first speech after his victory, he promised that the future
^Ówill not be like 1898, when the Americans came and made themselves
masters of the country.^Ô
You devote a chapter to the CIA coup in which the government of Iran was
overthrown in 1953. Did that episode help create the radical Iran we see
today?
The United States was beloved in Iran until 1953. In that year, we
overthrew the only democratic government Iran ever had. This was the
beginning of Iran^Òs drift toward radicalism.
The CIA coup in Iran brought the Shah to power. His increasingly
repressive rule ultimately set off the Islamic Revolution of 1979. That
revolution brought bitterly anti-American clerics to power and inspired
Islamic radicals around the world.
Had we not overthrown the Iranian government half a century ago, Iran
might be a mature democracy today, and the Middle East might look very
different.
Americans have been quite willing to support their government when it sets
out to overthrow foreign leaders. Why?
Americans have a strong compassionate side. They eagerly support foreign
interventions that are presented as ^Órescue missions^Ô to save people
from tyranny or oppression. Presidents realize this, and when they plan
interventions for ignoble reasons, they always cloak the interventions in
the rhetoric of liberation.
Should the United States simply stop intervening in other countries?
For better or worse, the United States is going to continue to be an
interventionist power. Our position in the world makes this inevitable.
And since we^Òve overthrown fourteen governments over a little more than a
century, we will probably try to do it again.
So the question is not whether we should continue to intervene, but how we
can do it more effectively, in ways that promote stability rather than
instability. If we look back at our past interventions, we can understand
why many of them have gone so terribly wrong. That should help guide us
for the future.
Posted on Friday, June 30, 2006 at 7:19 PM | Comments (0)
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21. gout in ancient polynesia? Radio Australia
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 23:22:19 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>
Radio Australia - Pacific Beat - Latest Program - 23/11/2007
PACIFIC: Gout prevalent in ancient Polynesians
Gout is a medical problem facing many men in the Pacific, particularly
among Polynesian communities. Some experts blame modern lifestyles, eating
processed foods, lack of exercise and a diet rich in seafood for the
extent of the painful and debilitating complaint. But new research on
ancient human remains in Vanuatu may show that gout has been around for a
lot longer than many might think. 5
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/pacbeat/stories/s2099775.htm
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22. Hawai'i Independence Day Wednesday - Today!
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:11:33 +1300
From: karaka <tepaatu@gmail.com>
------ Forwarded Message
Mahalo To ~ Free Hawai'i
WEDNESDAY IS KA LA KU'OKO'A - HAWAIIAN INDEPENDENCE DAY
In the Kingdom of Hawai'i, November 28 was an official holiday called Ka
La Ku'oko'a, or Independence Day. This was the day in 1843 when England
and France formally recognized Hawai'i's independence.
His Hawaiian 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.
The Hawaiian delegation, while in the United States of America, secured
the assurance of U.S. President Tyler on December 19, 1842 of its
recognition of Hawai'i, and then proceeded to meet Sir George Simpson in
Europe and secure formal recognition by both Great Britain and France.
As a result, the Hawaiian Kingdom entered into treaties with the major
nations of the world and had established over ninety legations and
consulates in multiple seaports and cities.
But in 1893, an illegal intervention into Hawai'i's affairs by the U.S.
resulted in a "fake revolution" against the legitimate Hawaiian
government, and a puppet oligarchy set itself up with its main purpose
being Hawai'i's annexation to the United States.
Hawaiians protested and celebrated Ka La Ku'oko'a anyway, telling the
story of the national heroes who had travelled to Europe to secure
Hawai'i's recognition.
This Wednesday we celebrate Ka La Ku'oko'a - Hawaiian Independence Day, to
remember that Hawai'i was a fully recognized member of the world family of
nations, and that's its independence is still intact under prolonged
illegal occupation.
http://www.myspace.com/freehawaii
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23. would ron paul support hawaiian sovereignty? it'd indeed be a
surprise if he knew...
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:35:59 -1000
From: Tane . <Tane_1@msn.com>
They conveniently sidestep Dennis Kucinich. Their headline is a spin for
Ron Paul and misleading. Dennis is a better candidate all the way around.
He's more of the people's candidate than Ron Paul. At least Dennis came
to Hawaii a few times whereas none of the others came to speak with
Hawaii's people.
Tane
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From: imiola@hawaii.rr.com
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:01:00 -1000
http://hnn.us/articles/44661.html
11-19-07
RON PAUL: THE ONLY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE TO CHALLENGE THE AMERICAN
EMPIRE
By David T. Beito and Scott Horton
David T. Beito is a member of the Liberty and Power group blog at the
History News Network and Scott Horton is the host of Antiwar Radio in
Austin, Texas and runs The Stress blog.
Flying under the radar of mainstream media coverage, supporters of Dr. Ron
Paul, a seventy-two year old ten-term congressman and obstetrician from
Texas, have staged a political revolution. Despite little publicity, they
have raised over $15 million, mostly in small donations, giving Paul more
money in the bank than John McCain.
In a November 5 ^Ómoney bomb^Ô (inspired by Guy Fawkes Day as depicted in
the film, ^ÓV for Vendetta^Ô) the Paul Revolutionaries raked in $4.3
million. In doing so, they set a new one-day record for all Republican
candidates. In addition, Paul^Òs backers have spontaneously organized over
1,100 meet-up groups. That^Òs more than any other candidate in the race
including the youthful and photogenic Barak Obama. By all indications,
most of the meet-up group members, now numbering over 60,000, are under
age twenty-five. Paul^Òs appeal can be attributed to his no-holds-barred
small government, pro-liberty message as well as his consistent call to
bring home the troops.
Reporters are right to emphasize the wide gap between Paul and the pro-war
Republican presidential field but they should not stop there. If they dig
a little deeper, they will find that his disagreements with Democrats are
equally great. Paul is the only candidate in either party who wants to
shut down the entire American overseas political and military Empire.
Rather than ^Óisolationist^Ô in foreign policy, however, Paul embraces as
his own Thomas Jefferson^Òs stated goal of ^Ópeace, commerce, and honest
friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.^Ô But, unlike
our third president, Paul appears bound and determined to apply these
words across-the-board. His voting record shows a consistent support for
free trade and legislation to redirect the military strictly to home
defense rather than foreign occupation. The Democrats, by contrast,
largely share the bi-partisan post-World War II consensus of spreading
democracy, human rights, or ^Óvital interests^Ô by military force.
Few subscribe to this consensus more zealously than Democratic frontrunner
Hillary Clinton who has considerable credentials as a hawk dating back to
her husband^Òs administration. Most notably, she was an aggressive
cheerleader for the bombing campaigns against both Iraq and Serbia in
Kosovo. Paul, like many Republicans at the time, opposed both. Although
Hillary later broke with Bush on Iraq, she rejects a non-interventionist
approach. She wants to leave U.S. troops behind in Iraq to fight al Qaeda
as well as keep them in the region. When asked in a recent debate whether
she would promise that the troops would be home from Iraq by the end of
her first term, Clinton refused. Although Barak Obama opposed the war from
the outset, his current views are not much different. He also intends to
station U.S. forces permanently in the region and reserves the right to
put them back in Iraq again in full force to stop ^Ógenocide^Ô (a term he
never defines). John Edwards advocates the same approach.
While it is true that the Democrats are dovish on Iraq when compared to
Bush, they blow bugles on the Darfur region of Sudan. The frontrunners
demand tougher sanctions, imposition of a no-fly zone, and U.S. aid for
more UN troops. Edwards pledges to work with NATO and deploy U.S.
^Ómilitary assets^Ô to enforce the zone. Clinton has even suggested a
blockade of the Port of Sudan, an act of war under international law. The
truculence of the Democrats on Darfur defies logic given their objections
to the Iraq War. The same conditions apply in Darfur that also led to the
Iraq quagmire including a history of Islamic sectarian strife, a long
civil war, and no real tradition of the rule of law and democracy. Despite
widespread violence and Sunni fundamentalism in Sudan, there has never
been a suicide bombing there. Were the Democrats to spread the War on
Terror into Darfur, that statistic would certainly change.
Rather than avoid all foreign political entanglements, as would Paul, the
Democratic frontrunners promise to extend them. All three, to quote
Edwards, hope to exercise ^ÓAmerican leadership to forge powerful
alliances-with longtime allies and reluctant friends, with nations already
living in the light of democracy and with peoples struggling to join
them.^Ô In contrast to Paul, they do not intend to scale down foreign
American bases, much less reconsider the merits of George McGovern^Òs old
dream to ^ÓCome Home America.^Ô As Obama puts it, the United States
^Ócannot afford to be a country of isolationists right now....we need to
maintain a strong foreign policy, relentless in pursuing our enemies and
hopeful in promoting our values around the world." Woodrow Wilson could
not have said it better.
If Americans expect a ^Ógreat debate^Ô about foreign policy fundamentals
in 2008, absent an upset by Paul and his campaign against the American
empire and for free trade, they will not get it. That would be a pity. As
examples of ^Óblowback^Ô from previous and ongoing interventions continue
to mount, such as spiraling oil prices, the free-fall in the value of the
dollar, and the current strife in Pakistan and Kurdistan, Americans need
such a debate more than ever before.
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24. live at UH-Hilo
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 07:46:43 -1000
From: "Cory (Martha) Harden" <mh@interpac.net>
Aloha Kakou,
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25. History News Network <hnn.us> -- book of the month june 2006 --
chapter one hawaiian overthrow by kinzer - comment
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:03:03 -1000
From: mia <kaimi@lava.net>
Interesting to see the various versions of "history"...in my research
which included Mission Station Reports and letters--after time the
American Mission headquarters told the missionaries that they could not
keep subsidizing them so they had to find ways to become more
self-sufficient. "Accountant-missionaries" Castle & Cooke asked if they
could start a merchandizing/textile business and were told okay but they
still had to help the other missionaries with their records, etc. Over
time because their business did well, they also became factors; first for
family/friends, then others. And as things got tougher and their "clients"
could not pay, they were "paid" in land, and/or failing ventures...some of
which they turned around.
In the meantime...military/government had been very interested in finding
a suitable harbor to refuel/resupply etc. -- needed for their economic
ventures, etc. (China, etc.). They did soundings throughout the Pacific
and found Pu`uloa/Pearl River to be the best. Over time they also
recruited missionaries and monarchy cabinet members to send reports....
Annexation had been discussed since K-III's time and before, but as to
Castle & Cooke...it was primarily the children of Castle that became
pro-annexation. After a few generations Castle & Cooke became a
corporation and no longer a "family" business.... I also believe that the
powers-that-be put the squeeze on both Kalakaua and the planters [some who
were never missionaries or missionary children...some were "retired" ship
captains, etc.]. It's not hard to "persuade" someone when their stomachs
and pockets are being threatened...happens all the time in very creative
ways and has never stopped...mix that with patriotic propaganda....
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26. 'Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen' from The Nation
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:51:10 -0800
From: Kate Stewart <kanadabasics@gmail.com>
Missed this when it first came out at beginning of month.
Still seems relevant....
Privatization of firefighters, too? Money buys everything - even
getting your specific house saved!
Rapture Rescue 911: Disaster Response for the Chosen
by Naomi Klein
I used to worry that the United States was in the grip of extremists who
sincerely believed that the Apocalypse was coming and that they and their
friends would be airlifted to heavenly safety. I have since reconsidered.
The country is indeed in the grip of extremists who are determined to act
out the biblical climax--the saving of the chosen and the burning of the
masses--but without any divine intervention. Heaven can wait. Thanks to
the booming business of privatized disaster services, we're getting the
Rapture right here on earth.
Just look at what is happening in Southern California. Even as wildfires
devoured whole swaths of the region, some homes in the heart of the
inferno were left intact, as if saved by a higher power. But it wasn't the
hand of God; in several cases it was the handiwork of Firebreak Spray
Systems. Firebreak is a special service offered to customers of insurance
giant American International Group (AIG)--but only if they happen to live
in the wealthiest ZIP codes in the country. Members of the company's
Private Client Group pay an average of $19,000 to have their homes sprayed
with fire retardant. During the wildfires, the "mobile units"--racing
around in red firetrucks--even extinguished fires for their clients.
One customer described a scene of modern-day Revelation. "Just picture it.
Here you are in that raging wildfire. Smoke everywhere. Flames everywhere.
Plumes of smoke coming up over the hills," he told the Los Angeles Times.
"Here's a couple guys showing up in what looks like a firetruck who are
experts trained in fighting wildfire and they're there specifically to
protect your home."
And your home alone. "There were a few instances," one of the private
firefighters told Bloomberg News, "where we were spraying and the
neighbor's house went up like a candle." With public fire departments cut
to the bone, gone are the days of Rapid Response, when everyone was
entitled to equal protection. Now, increasingly intense natural disasters
will be met with the new model: Rapture Response.
During last year's hurricane season, Florida homeowners were offered
similarly high-priced salvation by HelpJet, a travel agency launched with
promises to turn "a hurricane evacuation into a jet-setter vacation." For
an annual fee, a company concierge takes care of everything: transport to
the air terminal, luxurious travel, bookings at five-star resorts. Most of
all, HelpJet is an escape hatch from the kind of government failure on
display during Katrina. "No standing in lines, no hassle with crowds, just
a first class experience."
HelpJet is about to get some serious competition from some much larger
players. In northern Michigan, during the same week that the California
fires raged, the rural community of Pellston was in the grip of an intense
public debate. The village is about to become the headquarters for the
first fully privatized national disaster response center. The plan is the
brainchild of Sovereign Deed, a little-known start-up with links to the
mercenary firm Triple Canopy. Like HelpJet, Sovereign Deed works on a
"country-club type membership fee," according to the company's vice
president, retired Brig. Gen. Richard Mills. In exchange for a one-time
fee of $50,000 followed by annual dues of $15,000, members receive
"comprehensive catastrophe response services" should their city be hit by
a manmade disaster that can "cause severe threats to public health and/or
well-being" (read: a terrorist attack), a disease outbreak or a natural
disaster. Basic membership includes access to medicine, water and food,
while those who pay for "premium tiered services" will be eligible for VIP
rescue missions.
Like so many private disaster companies, Sovereign Deed is selling escape
from climate change and the failed state--by touting the security
clearance and connections its executives amassed while working for that
same state. So Mills, speaking recently in Pellston, explained, "The
reality of FEMA is that it has no infrastructure, and a lot of our
National Guard is elsewhere." Sovereign Deed, on the other hand, claims to
have "direct access and special arrangements with several national and
international information centers. These proprietary arrangements allow
our Emergency Operations Center to...give our Members that critical head
start in times of crisis." In this secular version of the Rapture, God's
hand is unnecessary. Not when you have retired ex-CIA agents and
ex-Special Forces lifting the chosen to safety--no need to pray, just pay.
And who needs a celestial New Jerusalem when you can have Pellston, with
its flexible local politicians and its surprisingly modern regional
airport?
Sovereign Deed could soon find itself competing with Blackwater USA, whose
CEO, Erik Prince, wrote recently of his plans to offer "full spectrum"
services, including humanitarian aid in disasters. When fires broke out in
San Diego County, near the proposed site of the controversial Blackwater
West base, the company immediately seized the opportunity to make its
case. Blackwater could have been the "tactical operation center for East
County fires," said company vice president Brian Bonfiglio. "Can you
imagine how much of a benefit it would be if we were operational now?" To
show off its capacity, Blackwater has been distributing badly needed food
and blankets to people of Potrero, California. "This is something we've
always done," Bonfiglio said. "This is what we do." Actually, what
Blackwater does, as Iraqis have painfully learned, is not protect entire
communities or countries but "protect the principal"--the principal being
whoever has paid Blackwater for its guns and gear.
The same pay-to-be-saved logic governs this entire new sector of country
club disaster management. There is, of course, another principle that
could guide our collective responses in a disaster-prone world: the simple
conviction that every life is of equal value. (emphasis: KS)
For anyone out there who still believes in that wild idea, the time has
urgently arrived to protect the principle.
This article can be found on the web at:
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071119/klein
Visit The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/
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27. History News Network <hnn.us> -- book of the month june 2006 --
chapter one hawaiian overthrow by kinzer - more comment
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:36:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Kekahuna Keaweiwi <kekahunakeaweiwi@yahoo.com>
Pololoe!!!
The push for annexation started in the late 1840's with subsequent to the
"Anti-Foreign" Movement" in Lahaina, led by David Malo with
kokua/involvment by Keaweiwi, D. Ii, Paki, etc. (source; HMA, BM)
Also to note.....though BlackWater "Contractors" were not yet
created....the business (ie. missionaries) elite hired and brought in
their own Mercernaries begnning in the 1850's....they stayed, and played a
covert role in the Hawaiian Kingdom....serving the pilau business well
into the 1890's.....then came the regime change by the US backed
traitors...led by Thurston.
Thurston Twig-Smiths grandfather....hila hila.
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27. NUPEPA Six non-Hawaiians intervene in OHA suit and comment
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:39:44 -1000
From: huliau06 <huliau06@hawaii.rr.com>
THESE ARE THE 'CARPET-BAGGERS' WHO SHOULD STICK TO THEIR 'OWN' PEOPLES
PILIKIA. THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS DECIDING NATIVE HAWAIIAN ISSUES PERIOD!
ALTHOUGH I HAVE DISAGREEMENTS WITH OHA LEADERSHIP, MANNER OF ELECTIONS AND
WHO CAN AND CAN'T BE TRUSTEES, OHA SHOULD BE RESTRUCTURED SO EACH ISLAND
HAS 'HOME-RULE.'
ORIGINALLY OHA WAS SET UP CONCEPTUALLY AS, 'ONE MAN, ONE VOTE.' THAT DOES
NOT WORK AS MOST OF THAT LED TO CANDIDATES CAMPAIGNING ON O'AHU, THE MAIN
POPULATION CONCENTRATION, WHICH INDIRECTLY MEANT O'AHU VOTERS GETTING TO
DECIDE WHO'S THE BEST CANDIDATE FOR EACH ISLAND REPRESENTATIVE.
A BETTER METHOD WOULD BE TO ALLOW KANAKA VOTERS OF THEIR PERSPECTIVE
ISLANDS TO VOTE FOR THEIR REPRESENTATIVE.
OHA'S CORPU$ SHOULD BE DIVIDED ACCORDING TO THE ISLAND CONSTITUENTS NEEDS
OF THEIR HAWAIIAN POPULATION. THERE SHOULD NOT HAVE ONLY ONE PO'O, HEAD,
BUT AGAIN ACCORDING TO EACH ISLAND'S GEOGRAPHIC AREAS & UNIQUE
DIFFERENCES, THE LEADERSHIP SHOULD REPRESENT THEIR AREAS MORE EQUITABLY.
THE 'BULK' OF THE CORPUS SHOULD REMAIN IN A 'TRUST' BANK TO GROW ITS
EQUITY IN PERPETUITY AFTER THE NEED$ A$$E$$MENT FOR EACH ISLAND IS
DISTRIBUTED AND U$ED ACCORDING TO THEIR REQUE$T$.
TO ME THIS WOULD ELIMINATE THE GANGING UP AND PLAYING SPECIAL FAVORS FOR
VOTES ON PROJECTS FROM ANOTHER REPRESENTATIVE OVER ANOTHER ISLANDS
REPRESENTATIVE. IT WOULD ALSO ENSURE THAT ONLY THOSE FROM THEIR ISLANDS
ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE FOR THAT ISLANDS PROJECTS, FUNDING ALLOWANCES, ETC.!
IT ALSO ENSURES THAT THAT ISLAND KANAKA REPRESENTATIVE IS ACCOUNTABLE TO
HIS CONSTITUENTS DIRECTLY AND CAN RECALLED EASIER THEN THE PRESENT SYSTEM
SHOULD THEY NOT HAVE THE INTERESTS OF THEIR KANAKA ISLAND CONSTITUENTS.
OHA RECEIVES ONLY A PORTION OF THE CEDED MONIES...NOT EVEN THE 20% OF THE
5F $$$$, BUT 20% OF THE 20% AS THE REAL MONEY MAKER$, THE AIRPORT,
HARBORS, MILITARY & OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE USED BY STATE, CITY, ETC., ARE
NOT AT ALL! THAT IS ANOTHER STORY WHICH HOPEFULLY COULD BE RESOLVED WITH
THE ABOVE THINKING.
ENIHUS, IF U DON'T MAOPOPO I UNDERSTAND, BUT THINK ABOUT IT AFTER READING
IT A COUPLE TIMES TO GET THE PROPER GIST, HIKI?
MAHALO
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Posted on: Monday, November 26, 2007
Six non-Hawaiians intervene in OHA suit
By Gordon Y.K. Pang
Advertiser Staff Writer
"As beneficiaries of Hawai'i's Ceded Land Trust ... they are among the
equitable owners of the trust corpus which is the source of the money at
issue in this case, i.e., the millions of dollars in ceded-land revenues
the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has spent and continues to spend to lobby
for the Akaka bill."
H. William Burgess | attorney
A group of non-Hawaiians want their say in a court case against the Office
of Hawaiian Affairs that asks the state agency to spend its money helping
only those with 50 percent or more Native Hawaiian blood.
The irony is that the six Hawai'i residents, led by former Advertiser
publisher Thur-ston Twigg-Smith, are on the opposite side of those
bringing the lawsuit. Twigg-Smith and his associates want OHA dismantled
because they feel it discriminates against non-Hawaiians such as
themselves.
The case is Day v. Apoliona, which was filed in 2005 by Virgil Day, Mel
Ho'omanawanui, Josiah Ho'ohuli, Patrick Kahawaiola'a and Samuel Kealoha,
all of whom are at least 50 percent Hawaiian.
The suit argues that OHA has too many beneficiaries and that most of the
agency's $28 million annual budget should be spent on people with at least
50 percent Hawaiian blood.
OHA officials say they have a mandate to help all Hawaiians.
In August, a panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San
Francisco ordered U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway to hear the case
in her Honolulu court. Mollway had rejected the case last year.
The state attorney general's office filed a petition asking that a larger
group of appeals court judges rehear the decision made by the three-member
panel. Twigg-Smith's group opposes that request and wants Mollway to hear
the case as ordered by the three-member panel.
Recently, attorney H. William Burgess requested intervenor status to
counter the attorney general's request on behalf of Twigg-Smith and five
others, all of whom had been involved in court cases seeking to dismantle
Hawaiians-only programs.
The other five are James Kuroiwa, Patricia A. Carroll, Toby Kravet, Garry
P. Smith and Earl F. Arakaki.
"As beneficiaries of Hawai'i's Ceded Land Trust ... they are among the
equitable owners of the trust corpus which is the source of the money at
issue in this case, i.e., the millions of dollars in ceded-land revenues
the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has spent and continues to spend to lobby
for the Akaka bill," Burgess wrote in his motion.
The Akaka bill could lead to federal recognition of a Native Hawaiian
entity. The bill's supporters say it is necessary to stave off challenges
by Burgess and others against programs and agencies that serve only
Hawaiians or primarily Hawaiians.
The state attorney general's office is opposing Burgess' petition for
intervention.
OHA Administrator Clyde Namu'o said he believes agency attorneys will also
oppose Burgess' request. "I don't see them having any business in this
lawsuit at all," Namu'o said.
Walter Schoettle, attorney for the five Hawaiians who brought the original
lawsuit, did not return calls requesting comment.
Reach Gordon Y.K. Pang at gpang@honoluluadvertiser.com.
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28. nationhood meeting report
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:45:50 -1000
From: lcruz <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
hi june,
i had scheduled a 3 hour session, 9 - noon. the introductions took 3
hours! then we began the exercise, consisting of 1) identifying values
that we would want to have underlie our nation and 2) identifying elements
of sovereignty/nationhood (similar to the hui na`auao list of elements),
and breaking up into small groups that discussed the descriptions of
elements (like 'defense' for example) and what areas would be included
under the element topic. the elements together would constitute a
structure of sorts, but the structure would have to align with the
foundation of values that had already been laid down.
we didn't get to do all of it. half the people left around 12:30 for
other meetings, thinking that we would have been pau by noon. but the
discussions that went on in different small groups seemed productive.
and we didn't get pau until 2:30! i gathered all of notes and will be
writing up sending them out to all participants, but also to our club
list, in case others want to attend the next one. we agreed that december
was a bit too hectic, so will schedule for january, probably in waianae
somewhere. the civic clubs out there will host.
all in all, i thought it was a good day. it was suggested that the intros
be limited to 3-5 minutes each, but the stories shared were all so
fascinating. i didn't have the heart to cut anyone off. and besides, i
was interested, myself in hearing people's stories. pilipo's was really
interesting! i had no idea he was mentored by pilahi paki. and leon's
early connections with hank fergustrom and eric enos--fascinating stuff!
btw, this is what happened at convention--3 hours of intros and no actual
workshop (unless the intros were the workshop). next time i'll schedule
it for 6 hours, and we can do a good bit of work in the workshop part.
hope you can all attend the ones coming up. it was suggested that we do
two a month, one for resource people and materials/presentations, and one
for workshop work. we could do that. a question was asked about desired
outcomes. i replied that the outcome really was two-fold: 1) raise
consciousness about our nation and history among the general population of
civic club members (and others), and 2) give them a sense of what their
role might be in the (re)building of a nation, and how much work is
required to bring it all to fruition. if participants, for example, agree
that kuleana is part of the foundation, then their kuleana will become
evident as they participate in such exercises. i suppose if we had
thousands of such workshops we could all, at some point, engage in
informed dialogue. right now, people are all over the place. but we can
teach each other.
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29. Dept. of English Colloquium: Morgan Cooper, "Palestine, Apartheid, and
Ethnic Cleansing."
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:16:13 -1000
From: Robert Sullivan <rsulliv1@hawaii.edu>
The UHM Department of English Colloquium Series
presents...
Morgan Cooper, ^ÓPalestine, Apartheid, and Ethnic Cleansing: Re-framing
Israel's ^ÑSecurity Fence^Ò and Palestine's ^ÑApartheid Wall^Ò."
Thursday, November 29 in Kuykendall 410, UH Manoa Campus, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m.
In June 2002 Israel began constructing what the state officially terms the
^ÓSecurity Fence^Ô in and around the West Bank of Palestine. Intensely
contested in Palestine, Israel and internationally, the ^ÓSecurity Fence^Ô
has effected devastating consequences on the Palestinian population.
Palestinians term the structure the ^ÓApartheid Wall,^Ô and while both the
Israeli and Palestinian terms draw on rich genealogies in an attempt to
justify or to challenge the structure, neither adequately describes the
structure. After first considering the language currently in use, Morgan
Cooper argues that discursive constructions of the structure ultimately
fail to capture either the various configurations or their purposes.
Rather, she suggests that we can only understand the violence the
structure enacts through historical and contemporary narratives. She
proposes that those of us who dispute the structure^Òs route and effects
theorize new terminology that can allow us to better understand and more
fully challenge the violence Israel commits through this structure.
Morgan Cooper is a graduate student in English and Women's Studies at UHM.
Her scholarly work focuses mainly on Palestine and Israel, where she has
lived and worked several times; she recently presented ^ÓIn the Shadow of
the Wall: Testimony, Feminism and Violence in Occupied Bethlehem^Ô for the
UHM Women^Òs Studies colloquium series and published "The Role of
Palestine in September 11th: the locus of terrorism." She has received
multiple grants to pursue research in the West Bank of Palestine and
speaks about her work in the local media, including a recent interview on
Hawaii Public Radio. Morgan is also a dedicated activist who coordinates
the Women In Black Honolulu vigil, the "Sustaining Bethlehem and the Life
Within^Ô tour, and a spring symposium on Palestine.
For more information contact the Department of English, phone 9563085.
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30. is kinzer an imperialist at heart, or did he back imperialsim with
velvet glove only to sell his book in this holt press kit interview? mel,
is he accepting your invitation to visit? - comment
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:34:10 -1000
From: Pilipo Souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
Aloha Imiola, Mahalo for this post. Kinzer's remarks are interesting for
while he exposed the interventions of lesser nation he seems to be also
saying that intervention is needed of lesser nations and that the greater
nations don't need it.
Throughout history of record, better known as the "won/loss" record of the
conquer, great leaders have conquered their very own people, then expand
their will onto bordering nations. Most people revere winners and become
beholden to them.
All the great Empires of time have done so. In Revelations 17:9 -10 we are
cautioned;
"And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven
mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings, five are
fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he
must continue a short space"
Roma is the "one is" that exist today and will be replaced with the all
knowing kingdom "not yet come". All this has been revealed but most still
deny, yet the picture grows clearer and clearer while the time gets
shorter and shorter.
Mahalo my friend for being one of the "watchman on the wall" E ala e!
Aloha ke Akua,
pilipo
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31. 4th thursday in november..... go to www.massmoments.org to read full
story
From: Laurel Douglass
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 11:25 AM
November 26, 1970: First ^ÓNational Day of Mourning^Ô Held in
Plymouth.
...in 1970, a group of Native Americans attending a
Thanksgiving feast in Plymouth walked out in protest. The
Indians and their supporters gathered on a hill overlooking
Plymouth Rock near a statue of Massasoit, the Wampanoag
leader who had greeted the Mayflower passengers 250 years
earlier. The protesters spoke about their long struggle to
preserve their land and culture. The fourth Thursday in
November was not a day for thanksgiving and feasting, they
declared, but for grieving and fasting. As most Americans
continued to observe the holiday in what had become the
customary way ^× with football, parades, and family
gatherings ^× the native people of Massachusetts began a new
tradition: a "National Day of Mourning," held in lieu of
Thanksgiving celebrations.
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32. An Evening with Rumi
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:04:35 -1000
From: "Gere, Jeffrey L." <jgere@honolulu.gov>
Aloha Friends,
My Arabian Night collaborating musicians, flute-playing wizard STEVEN
ROSENTHAL and percussionist REGGAE McGOWEN, are teaming up with the basso
profundo sufic bard DAN FURST this Saturday, Dec. 1 @ 7:30. I thought
you'd like to be alerted. Ecstatic poetry, exquisite musicians, powerful
dramatic rendering.... I'm going. See you there?
Jeff Gere
An Evening with Rumi
A journey into sacred words, music and the ecstatic turning of the
dervishes, and the heart and soul of the world's most God-intoxicated
poet.
With Dan Furst as the Sufi poet Jalaluddin Rumi Music by Steven Rosenthal
and Reggae McGowen Dervish Turning by Valerie Noor Karima
While Rumi is the most popular of all poets among American readers, and
his words have been read from a million pages this year in Mevlana
festivals everywhere, this evening will be only the second time that an
actor has set out to play Rumi, delivering the words from memory and
becoming the poet's body, voice and heart. Dan Furst first create the role
of Rumi in Hawaii in 2003, using versions and translations by Coleman
Barks, Kabir Helminski and Jonathan Star. In the 800th anniversary of the
birth of Mevlana, "the Master" Jalaluddin Rumi, UNESCO has designated 2007
as the International Year of Mevlana.
More information on the performance, and background on Rumi and the
Dervishes at www.hermes3.net/rumi.htm.
Dec. 1 (Saturday) at 7:30pm
The Honolulu Academy of Arts Doris Duke Theatre
900 S. Beretania St., Honolulu HI 96817
Admission: $15.00; $12.00 for Students and Seniors
Box office (808) 532 - 8374, www.honoluluacademy.org
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33. Jewelry Showing and Sale to benefit Indian villages
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:08:10 -1000
From: Oahu Deeksha <ohm.oahu@gmail.com>
Jewelry from Asia and India
A Sale that benefits you, me and the 100 Village project in India
December 1st and 2nd
2pm until 8pm.
Get your Christmas shopping done and benefit others at the same time.
Easy parking, easy viewing, easy shopping
American Association of Univeristy W omen
1802 Ke'aumoku St. Honolulu, Hi
Suite # 4
Go up the outside stairs and to the end of the hall
Free parking to the immediate right of the building; the driveway into
the lot is behind the outdoor phone booth on the street.
For more information
Call Heddy at 536 8308
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34. Iraq War Veterans to Launch "Winter Soldier" Investigation
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:08:20 -1000
From: viviane lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_aaron_gl_071120_iraq_war_veterans_to.htm
November 20, 2007
Iraq War Veterans to Launch "Winter Soldier" Investigation
By Aaron Glantz
Iraq Veterans Against the War is launching a"Winter Soldier" investigation
into atrocities in Iraq modeled on a similar effort by Vietnam vets 36
years ago.
In March 2008, Iraq Veterans Against the War will gather in our nation's
capital "to break the silence and hold our leaders accountable for these
wars." The gathering will feature first-hand stories of atrocities
committed by soldiers in Iraq, with the idea of bringing the truth of war
to the surface.
Four members of IVAW are featured on the War Comes Home website: Lance
Corporal Jeff Key, Army Medic Augustin Aguayo, Specialist Patrick Resta,
and Specialist Joshua Casteel.
From the IVAW website:
In 1971, over one hundred members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War
(VVAW) gathered in Detroit to share their stories with America. Atrocities
like the My Lai massacre had ignited popular opposition to the war, but
political and military leaders insisted that such crimes were isolated
exceptions. The members of VVAW knew differently.
Over three days in January, these soldiers testified on the systematic
brutality they had seen visited upon the people of Vietnam. They called it
the Winter Soldier investigation, after Thomas Paine's famous admonishing
of the "summer soldier" who shirks his duty during difficult times. In a
time of war and lies, the veterans who gathered in Detroit knew it was
their duty to tell the truth.
Over thirty years later, we find ourselves faced with a new war. But the
lies are the same. Once again, American troops are sinking into
increasingly bloody occupations. Once again, war crimes in places like
Haditha, Fallujah, and Abu Ghraib have turned the public against the war.
Once again, politicians and generals are blaming "a few bad apples"
instead of examining the military policies that have destroyed Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Did you know?
A team of researchers from Walter Reed Army Medical Center found 95% of
soldiers deployed to Iraq reported seeing dead bodies and remains, 95% had
been shot at, and 89% had been ambushed or attacked. 69% had seen an
injured woman or child and felt they could not provide assistance.
How well do you know your facts about U.S. veterans returning from Iraq or
Afghanistan? Take the War Comes Home "Did You Know?" Quiz and find out!
by Aaron Glantz, Author How America Lost Iraq
Authors Website: warcomeshome.org
Authors Bio: Pacifica radio network reporter Aaron Glantz is author of the
new book "How America Lost Iraq" (Tarcher/Penguin). More information at
www.warcomeshome.org
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35. Al Jazeera looks at Maori Nation
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:57:25 -1000
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>
...or might do a program on Hawaii Nation???
m
------ Forwarded Message
From: Hone Harawira - Maori Party MP Tai Tokerau <hone@tokerau.co.nz>
AL JAZEERA TV BROADCAST DEBATE ON MAORI NATION TODAY
101 EAST: Al Jazeera's Asia Pacific current affairs programme, hosted by
Teymoor Nabili, looks this week at the Maori nation, in particular, the
raids on the Tuhoe nation. Guests on this programme include Maori Party MP
Hone Harawira, NZ First MP Ron Mark and Tracy McKintosh, a sociology
lecturer from Auckland.
* Sky (channel 89): Monday 26 November at 3.30pm
* Freeview (channel 21): Monday 26 November at 3.30pm
* Sky (channel 89): Tuesday 27 November at 11.30pm
* Freeview (channel 21): Tuesday 27 November at 11.30pm
* Online (from November 29) at
*
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1EBB4C7F-7F2E-4257-A04C-56678862E31A.
* htm
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