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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:36:21 +1200
From: karaka <tepaatu@gmail.com>
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Global Health & Development
Conference

Please forward widely. First abstract deadline is August 15.

Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health & Development Conference
"Achieving Global Goals Through Innovation"
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference

When: April 18-19, 2009 Where: Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut,
USA
What: Join 2,500 conference participants for a stimulating international
conference As Featured On CNN: The Unite For Sight Conference Is What CNN
Calls "A Meeting Of Minds"

NOW OPEN: Registration and Abstract Submission
http://www.uniteforsight.org/conference (First abstract deadline is
August 15 (oral presentation deadline and early bird poster presentation
deadline)

200 Speakers, Including Keynote Addresses by Dr. Jeffrey Sachs and Dr.
Sonia Sachs

Who is eligible to submit an abstract? Anyone may submit an abstract.
Abstract submitters range from students to professionals.

Who should attend? Anyone interested in international health, public
health, international development, medicine, nonprofits, eye care,
philanthropy, microfinance, social entrepreneurship, bioethics, economics,
anthropology, health policy, advocacy, environmental health,
service-learning, medical education, and public service.

Keynote Addresses

A Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia
University; Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of
Health Policy and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to
Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki- moon A Sonia
Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Villages

200 Featured Speakers (Listed Below Are The Speakers Confirmed Thus Far)

Sam Abbenyi, MD, MSc, Director, Programs and Logistics, International
Trachoma Initiative

Jane Aronson, MD, Director, International Pediatric Health Services;
Founder and Executive Executive Officer, Worldwide Orphans Foundation
(WWO); Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Weill Medical College
of Cornell University

Thomas Baah, MD, MSc, Ophthalmologist, Our Lady of Grace Hospital, Ghana

Richard Baraniuk, PhD, Founder, Connexions; Victor E. Cameron Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University

Paul Berman, OD, FAAO, Senior Global Clinical Advisor and Founder, Special
Olympics Lions Clubs, International Opening Eyes

David Bloom, Chair, Department of Global Health and Population; Clarence
James Gamble Professor of Economics and Demography, Department of Global
Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health

Peter Bourne, MA, MD, Visiting Scholar, Oxford University; Vice Chancellor
Emeritus, St. George's University; Formerly Special Assistant to the
President of the United States for Health Issues; Chair, Medical Education
Cooperation with Cuba (MEDICC)

Ronald Braswell, MD, MS, Department of Ophthalmology, University of
Alabama- Birmingham

Harry Brown, MD, Founder, Surgical Eye Expeditions (SEE) International

Richard Bucala, MD, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Pathology, and
Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

James Clarke, MD, Ophthalmologist and Medical Director, Crystal Eye
Clinic, Ghana

Emmanuel d'Harcourt, Senior Child Survival Technical Advisor,
International Rescue Committee

Margaret Duah-Mensah, RN, ON, Ophthalmic Nurse, Crystal Eye Clinic, Ghana

Dabney Evans, MPH, Executive Director, Emory University Institute of Human
Rights; Lecturer, Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of
Public Health at Emory University

Susan Forster, MD, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Medical
Studies, Department of Ophthalmology, Yale School of Medicine; Chief,
Ophthalmology, Yale University Health Services

Stanley O. Foster, MD, MPH, Professor, Hubert Department of Global Health
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University

James Fraser, MA, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Dignitas
International

Ulrick Gaillard, JD, CEO, The Batey Relief Alliance

Gannon Gillespie, Director of US Operations, Tostan

Susan Hayes, MD, President and CEO, Interplast

Scott Hillstrom, Chairman of the Board, CEO and Co-Founder, HealthStore
Foundation

Samuel Ho, MD, Lui Hac Minh Professor of Surgery; Director, Asian Liver
Center; Director, Liver Cancer Program, Stanford University School of
Medicine

Debbie Humphries, MPH, PhD, Clinical Instructor, Division of Chronic
Disease Epidemiology, Social and Behavioral Sciences Program, Yale
University School of Medicine

Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena, PhD, Department of Molecular Microbiology and
Immunology, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins School of Public
Health

Kaveh Khoshnood, PhD, Assistant Professor in Public Health Practice,
Division of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases, Yale School of Public
Health

Karen King, MA, Elementary School Teacher, Reed Intermediate School; Unite
For Sight Volunteer in Accra, Ghana

Laura Murray-Kolb, PhD, Assistant Professor, Center for Human Nutrition,
Department of International Health, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg
School of Public Health

Jamie Lachman, Clowns Without Borders

Doug Lawrence, Vice President/General Manager, BD Medical - Ophthalmic
Systems

Robert Lawrence, MD, Center for A Livable future Professor; Professor of
Environmental Health Sciences, Health Policy & International Health;
Director, Center for a Livable Future, Department of Environmental Health
Sciences; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Robert Malkin, PhD, Professor of Practice of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Duke- Engineering World Health, Duke University

Charles MacCormack, PhD, President and CEO, Save The Children

John McGoldrick, JD, Senior Vice President, International AIDS Vaccine
Initiative (IAVI)

Michelle McMurry, Director, Health, Biomedical Science and Society
Initiative, The Aspen Institute

Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, MPhil, Public Health Law Project Manager,
Center for Health Policy, IGERT-International Development and
Globalization Fellow, Columbia University

Carol McLaughlin, MD, MPH, Global Health, Center for High Impact
Philanthropy, School of Social Policy and Practice, University of
Pennsylvania

Mini Murthy, MD, MPH, MS, Assistant Professor, Department of Behavioral
Science and Community Health, Program Director Global Health, New York
Medical College School of Public Health

Neal Nathanson, MD, Associate Dean, Global Health Programs, University of
Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Edward O'Neil, Jr, MD, Omni Med

Santa Ono, PhD, Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives and Deputy Provost
of Emory University; Professor, Department of Ophthalmology, Emory Eye
Center

Robin Paetzold, MBA, Director, Global Programs, University of Iowa Carver
College of Medicine

Steven C. Phillips, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Global Issues and Projects,
Exxon Mobil Corporation

Suzanne Rainey, Forum One Communications

Susan Reef, MD, CDC

Steven Rothstein, President, Perkins School For The Blind

Lisa Russell, MPH, Filmmaker

Jinan Saaddine, MD, MPH, Medical Epidemiologist, Vision Health Initiative
Team Leader, Division of Diabetes Translation, Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention

Jeffrey Sachs, PhD, Director of Earth Institute at Columbia University;
Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, Professor of Health Policy
and Management, Columbia University; Special Advisor to Secretary-General
of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon

Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, MD, MPH, Health Coordinator, Millennium Village
Project

Sarwat Salim, MD, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology, University of
Tennessee- Memphis

Sarang Samal, Kalinga Eye Hospital, Orissa, India

Shlomit Sandler, MD, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary

Harshad Sanghvi, MD, Medical Director, JHPIEGO, Johns Hopkins University

Howard Schiffer, President and Founder, Vitamin Angels

Daniel D. Sedmak, MD, Director, Office of Global Health Education;
Executive Vice Dean, College of Medicine; Executive Director, Center for
Personalized Health care; Senior Associate Vice President, Office of
Health Sciences, The Ohio State University

Bruce Shields, MD, Chair Emeritus, Yale Department of Ophthalmology

Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH, Professor of Ophthalmology, Stanford University
School of Medicine

Ajit Sinha, MBBS, Founder and Director, AB Eye Institute; Former
President, All India Ophthalmological Society

Pooja Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

Satyajit Sinha, MBBS, Ophthalmologist, AB Eye Institute, Patna, India

D. Scott Smith, MD, MSc, DTM&H, Chief of Infectious Diseases and
Geographic Medicine, Kaiser Redwood City Hospital

Janice K. Smith, MD, MPH, PAHO/WHO Collaborating Center for Training in
International Health at UTMB

Georgia Sambunaris, MA, Senior Financial Markets Specialist, USAID

Chris Stout, PsyD, Founding Director, Center for Global Initiatives;
Clinical Professor, College of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago

James C. Tsai, MD, Robert R. Young Professor and Chairman, Department of
Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Yale University School of Medicine;
Chief of Ophthalmology, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Philippe Van Denbossche, Executive Director, Raising Malawi

Harold Varmus, MD, President and Chief Executive, Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center; Former Director of the NIH; Nobel Prize Recipient

Seth Wanye, MD, Ophthalmologist, Eye Clinic of Tamale Teaching Hospital,
Ghana

Tanya Whitehead, PhD, Research Associate Professor, University of Missouri
- Kansas City

David Zakus, BSc, MES, MSc, PhD, Director, Centre for International
Health; Associate Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences;
Associate Professor, Department of Health Policy, Management and
Evaluation; Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

Debrework Zewdie, Director, Global HIV/AIDS Program of the World Bank
Human Development Network World Bank
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:38:06 +1200
From: karaka <tepaatu@gmail.com>
Recharging Your Batteries

From: "Artemis Goldberg" <panthertracker@myself.com>

Recharging Your Batteries Getting Run Down

Our natural state of being is vibrant, happy to be alive. Yet, there can
be times when we feel run down and worn out. This does not mean that we
are lazy or unfit for the tasks in our lives; it means that we need to
recharge our batteries and find a way of keeping them charged. Vitamins
and extra rest can be very helpful in restoring our physical bodies. And
if we are willing to delve deeper, we may discover that there is an
underlying cause for our exhaustion.

Whenever you are feeling run down, take an honest look at how you have
been thinking, feeling and acting. You will likely find a belief, behavior
pattern or even a relationship that is out of alignment with who you
really are. Perhaps you believe you have to be perfect at everything or
you have been bending over backwards to get people to like you. Maybe you
are dealing with mild depression or simply have too much on your plate
right now. There may also be people or situations in your life which are
draining your energy. Once you get clear on the root cause, you can weed
it out and better direct your flow of energy in the future.

In time, you might notice that the reasons you feel run down have less to
do with how much you are doing and more to do with the fact that in your
heart, you would rather be doing something else entirely. From now on, try
and listen to what your heart really wants. It may take meditation, or
just a moment of silent tuning in to gain the clarity you need, but it is
well worth the effort. When you know what you truly want to do, and honor
that in all situations, you will find that getting run down is a thing of
the past.
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:20:30 -0500 (CDT)
From: ACLU Online <ACLUOnline@aclu.org>
Subject: ACLU sued over FISA, 2007 SCOTUS Wrap-up,
Watch List Hits One Million and more

Federal Court Rules Strip Search of 13-Year-Old Student for Ibuprofen
Unconstitutional

The ACLU applauded a federal appellate court ruling that school officials
violated the constitutional rights of a 13-year-old Arizona girl when
they strip searched her based on a classmate's uncorroborated accusation
that she possessed ibuprofen. The ruling reverses an earlier decision by
a divided three-judge panel of the same court. Eight of the eleven judges
held that the strip search violated Savana's constitutional rights, and a
six-judge majority further held that the school official who ordered the
search is not entitled to immunity as a result of his actions.

"Students and parents nationwide can breathe a sigh of relief knowing
that adolescents cannot be strip searched based on the unsubstantiated
accusation of a classmate trying to get out of trouble," said Adam Wolf,
an attorney with the ACLU Drug Law Reform Project. "This ruling is a
victory for our fundamental right to privacy, sending a clear signal that
such traumatizing searches have no place in America's schools."

After the school's vice principal, Kerry Wilson, discovered
prescription-strength ibuprofen in the possession of Redding's classmate,
she pulled Savana Redding, an eighth grade honor roll student at Safford
Middle School in Safford, Arizona from class based on the classmate's
accusation. Redding said she had never seen the pills before and agreed
to a search of her possessions, wanting to prove she had nothing to hide.
Joined by a female school administrative assistant, Wilson searched
Redding's backpack and found nothing. Instructed by Wilson, the
administrative assistant then took Redding to the school nurse's office
in order to perform a strip search.

In the school nurse's office, Redding was ordered to strip to her
underwear. She was then commanded to pull her bra out and to the side,
exposing her breasts, and to pull her underwear out at the crotch,
exposing her pelvic area. The strip search failed to uncover any
ibuprofen pills.

In response to the court victory, Redding said, "I took my case to court
because I wanted to make sure that school officials wouldn't be able to
violate anyone else's rights like this again. This was one of the most
traumatic experiences of my life, and I am relieved that a court has
finally recognized that the Constitution protects students from being
strip searched in schools on the basis of unreliable rumors."
>> Read more.
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ACLU To Fight For Religious Freedom of American Indian Incarcerated In
Wyoming

The ACLU and the ACLU of Wyoming have agreed to represent a man whose
rights to religious freedom are being violated by officials at the
Wyoming State Penitentiary (WSP) who are not allowing him to practice his
traditional Indian religion.

Corrections officials are refusing to allow Andrew John Yellowbear, a
member of the Northern Arapaho Tribe incarcerated since 2006, to possess
bald eagle feathers the single most sacred religious symbol to the tribe
and most American Indians.

"Denying Mr. Yellowbear these highly spiritual feathers is akin to
denying Catholics access to a rosary or crucifix," said Stephen Pevar,
staff attorney with the ACLU Racial Justice Program who, along with
Jennifer Horvath, staff attorney for the ACLU of Wyoming, will represent
Yellowbear.

Current policy at WSP permits American Indian prisoners to possess three
feathers, but the prison administration has singled out Yellowbear and
allowed him to have only one feather. That feather was confiscated after
Yellowbear filed a federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the
District of Wyoming last January challenging the prison's policy and
asking that he be allowed to possess 10 feathers the maximum number of
loose feathers the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife will provide
under federal regulations.

The lawsuit raises claims under the First Amendment, the Equal Protection
Clause and the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act
(RLUIPA), which bars states from imposing a substantial burden on a
prisoner's exercise of religion unless it furthers a compelling interest
and is the least restrictive means available. Other American Indian
prisoners at WSP have in the past been permitted to possess entire eagle
wings for religious purposes, and corrections officials have provided no
evidence of security problems that have arisen as a result of the
possession of multiple eagle feathers.
>> Read more about the ACLU Racial Justice Program.

Tell Your Friends
Do you know somebody who would be interested in getting news about the
ACLU and what we're doing to protect civil liberties? Help us spread the
word about ACLU Online - forward this newsletter to a friend.
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July 19, 2008
FISA: Bush Signed. The ACLU sued.

Democracy is about the government listening, not listening in. That's
what our ad will say.
Add your name if you agree.

The ACLU filed a landmark lawsuit last week to stop the government from
conducting surveillance under a new wiretapping law that gives the Bush
administration virtually unchecked power to intercept Americans'
international e-mails and telephone calls.

The FISA Amendments Act of 2008, passed by Congress and signed by
President Bush, not only legalizes the secret warrantless surveillance
program the president approved in late 2001, it gives the government new
spying powers, including the power to conduct dragnet surveillance of
Americans' international communications. And, by granting telecoms
immunity, it has greatly harmed the chances of ever learning the extent
of the administration's lawless actions.

Our lawsuit was filed on behalf of an impressive array of professionals
-- journalists, human rights organizations and lawyers-- whose ability to
perform their work will be greatly compromised by this new law.

Our clients include The Nation magazine and two of its contributing
journalists, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Service
Employees International Union (SEIU) and more.

Because of the nature of their calls and e-mails, our clients believe
that their communications are likely to be monitored under the new law.
Even the looming possibility of this surveillance disrupts their ability
to talk with sources, locate witnesses, conduct scholarship, and engage
in advocacy.

The ACLU took out a full-page ad in the New York Times, with over 65,000
signatures, to expressing our outrage at this abandonment of
Constitutional principles.

We'll keep fighting with everything we've got until this serious
violation of our constitutional rights is defeated once and for all.
>> Stand with the thousands of others who have added their name to the
ACLU's ad.
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Update from Guantánamo

A federal district judge ruled Thursday that the military trial of Yemeni
national Salim Hamdan can proceed, despite acknowledging questions about
the constitutionality of the Guantánamo military commission system. The
ACLU is at Guantánamo Bay this week in order to observe Hamdan's
hearings.

"It is unfortunate that this trial will go forward. As Judge Robertson
noted, there are serious questions about the constitutionality of the
rules under which Mr. Hamdan will be tried. It doesn't make sense to
conduct a trial under rules that are likely to be found unconstitutional
later on. Proceeding with this trial now will only draw out a legal
process that has taken far too long already, and further discredit a
system that has been a disgrace from the start," said Jameel Jaffer,
Director of the ACLU National Security Project.

Following last month's Supreme Court decision ruling that the
Constitution and habeas corpus apply at Guantánamo, news outlets have
reported that the Bush administration is engaging in detailed planning
for the closure of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. As the premise for
the existence of the Guantánamo prison camp and the military commission
system continues to crumble, the Bush administration is continuing to
rush through proceedings of high profile detainees before the November
election.

As part of its John Adams Project, a partnership with the National
Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys, the ACLU is sponsoring expert
civilian counsel to assist the under-resourced military defense counsel
of some detainees.

The ACLU renews its call for the prison and the military commissions
occurring there to be shut down once and for all.
>> Take action: Call on America's leaders to shut down Guantánamo Bay and
end the military commission system of injustice.
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Terrorist Watch List Hits One Million Names

The nation's terrorist watch list has hit one million names, according to
a tally maintained by the ACLU based upon the government's own reported
numbers for the size of the list.

"America's new million record watch list is a perfect symbol for what's
wrong with this administration's approach to security: it's unfair,
out-of-control, a waste of resources, treats the rights of the innocent
as an afterthought, and is a very real impediment in the lives of
millions of travelers in this country," said Barry Steinhardt, director
of the ACLU Technology and Liberty Program. "It must be fixed without
delay."

Controls on the watch lists called for by the ACLU included:
* Due process.
* A right to access and challenge data upon which listing is based.
* Tight criteria for adding names to the lists.
* Rigorous procedures for updating and cleansing names from the lists.
The ACLU called on the House Homeland Security Committee, during
Thursday's testimony of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
Secretary Michael Chertoff, to exercise vigorous oversight of the many
DHS programs, including the terrorist watch list, that endanger U.S.
citizens' privacy and civil liberties without increasing security. Tell
Congress: Small, focused watch lists are better for civil liberties and
for security.

The ACLU is also calling for the president -- if not this one then the
next -- to issue an executive order requiring the lists to be reviewed
and limited to only those for whom there is credible evidence of
terrorist ties or activities. The review should be concluded within 3
months.

We have created an online form where victims of the watch list can tell
us their stories, which will be collected and used -- with permission --
in various ways to advance our advocacy.
>> Tell your own stories
>> Learn more about the watch list.
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2007 Supreme Court Wrap-Up

The Supreme Court ended its 2007 Term by rejecting a centerpiece of the
Bush administration's crumbling Guantánamo policy for the third time in
four years while recognizing, for the first time in American history, an
individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment.

Habeas Corpus At Guantánamo

Most notably, Justice Kennedy both cast the deciding fifth vote and wrote
the majority opinion in Boumediene v. Bush, which upheld the right of
Guantánamo detainees, some of whom have been imprisoned for almost six
years, to challenge the basis for their detention by filing habeas corpus
petitions in a U.S. federal court.

Second Amendment

The Second Amendment has not been the subject of much Supreme Court
discussion through the years. To the extent it has been discussed, the
Court has described the Second Amendment as designed to protect the
ability of the states to preserve their own sovereignty against a new and
potentially overreaching national government. Based on that
understanding, the Court has historically construed the Second Amendment
as a collective right connected to the concept of a "well-regulated
militia" rather than an individual right to possess guns for private
purposes.

In Heller, the Court reinterpreted the Second Amendment as a source of
individual rights. Washington D.C.'s gun control law, which bans the
private possession of handguns and was widely considered the most
restrictive such law in the country, became a victim of that
reinterpretation.

Voting Rights

In Crawford v. Marion County Election Board, an ACLU case, the Court
upheld the validity of an Indiana law that requires voters to produce a
government-issued photo ID in order to vote, even if they have been
voting for many years without incident. By conservative estimates, there
are at least 43,000 voters in Indiana that lack the required ID, and
likely many more. Those voters are disproportionately poor, minority,
elderly, and persons with disabilities.

The Death Penalty

The Court heard two important death penalty cases. In Baze v. Rees, the
court rejected a challenge to Kentucky's lethal injection in which prison
officials first administer an anesthetic, then a paralytic and then a
drug that causes cardiac arrest. Medical personnel doctors and nurses are
prohibited from participating in the procedure by professional ethics.
Not surprisingly given the lack of trained medical personnel, autopsy
results show that some executions have been botched, which may cause
excruciating pain. The Court did leave the door open and did not
foreclose litigation against other states if death row inmates could show
a documented history of mistakes or inadequately trained staff.

Kennedy v. Louisiana was the other major death penalty decision this
Term. Thirty years ago, the Court had ruled that a defendant could not be
put to death for raping an adult woman but left open the question of
child rape. In Kennedy, the Court answered that question by reaffirming
that capital punishment is reserved for acts of murder. Once more,
Justice Kennedy cast the deciding vote and wrote the majority opinion.
After noting that no one has been executed for rape since 1964 and only
two inmates on death row are now facing execution for raping a child
(both in Louisiana), he observed that "[e]volving standards of decency
that mark the progress of a maturing society counsel us to be most
hesitant before interpreting the Eighth Amendment to allow the extension
of the death penalty..."

Employee Rights

In perhaps the Term's most unexpected development, the Court issued a
series of pro-employee decisions only one year after it was widely
criticized for sharply curtailing the ability of women to recover for pay
discrimination. In CBOCS West, Inc. v. Humphries, the Court ruled that an
employee who protests racial discrimination on the job is protected
against retaliation by a Civil Rights era statute that prohibits
discrimination in the "mak[ing] and enforc[ing] of contracts." In
Gomez-Perez v. Potter, the Court ruled that federal employees, like
private employees, are protected against retaliation for filing age
discrimination claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
(ADEA). And, in Meacham v. Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, the Court
ruled that an employer sued under the ADEA has the burden of proving that
the challenged employment decision was based on "reasonable factors other
than age."

Campaign Finance Reform

Finally, in Davis v. Federal Election Commission, the Roberts Court again
showed its skepticism toward campaign finance regulation by striking down
the so-called "Millionaire's Amendment" adopted by Congress in 2004.
Under the provision, federal candidates facing a self-financed opponent
who contributes more than $350,000 to his or her own campaign are
permitted to raise funds at triple the normal contribution limits ($6,900
rather than $2,300). Congress viewed the amendment as an effort to level
the playing field. The Court concluded it was an effort to discourage
wealthy candidates from spending money on their own candidacy -- a right
that the Court had previously said was protected by the Constitution --
and thus struck down the amendment as a violation of the First Amendment.
>> Read a summary of all of the Court's civil liberties-related cases
from this Term.
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Proposed Bush Regulations Jeopardize Women's Health

The Bush administration has proposed outrageous regulations that could
jeopardize access to basic health care for millions of American women,
and possibly compel women's health clinics to hire individuals unwilling
to perform everyday job duties.

As currently drafted, the regulations could:
* Allow federally funded healthcare professionals and institutions to
refuse to provide reproductive health services, including some of the
most common forms of birth control.
* Undermine existing state laws that protect women's access to birth
control.
* Define abortion to include many of the most common forms of
contraception.
"It's deeply troubling and unfortunate that President Bush should fire
this parting shot at women's access to basic health care in the waning
days of his administration," said Caroline Fredrickson, Director, ACLU
Washington Legislative Office. "The proposed Bush regulations put
politics above the health care needs of Americans. At a time when more
and more Americans are either uninsured or struggling with the soaring
costs of health care the federal government should be expanding access to
important health services, not interfering in programs that have
successfully provided services for years."

American Civil Liberties Union
125 Broad Street, 18th Floor
New York, New York 10004-2400
Geraldine Engel and Lisa Sock,
Editors
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:30:32 -0400
From: Senator Daniel Akaka <senator.akaka@address-verify.com>
Subject: News from U.S. Senator Daniel K. Akaka

Medicare Bill Also Provides Much Needed Funds for Hawaii Hospitals

[dka_arroyo_crop.jpg] On July 15, the Senate rejected President George W.
Bush's veto of H.R. 6331, the Medicare Improvement for Patients and
Providers Act of 2008, by a 70-26 margin. The legislation prevents cuts
in Medicare reimbursements for physicians, and protects access to health
care for seniors, individuals with disabilities, and members of our armed
services and their families.

I am pleased that the bill also contains a provision to provide $15
million in Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) resources to Hawaii
hospitals. Medicaid DHS payments are designed to provide additional
support to hospitals that treat large numbers of Medicaid and uninsured
patients. To utilize the federal funding, the Hawaii State Legislature
must provide required matching funds. The provision would provide $2.5
million in the 4th quarter of 2008, $10 million in 2009, and $2.5 million
for the 1st quarter of 2010.

New GI Bill Will Improve Educational Benefits and Enhance Recruitment and
Retention

After months of bipartisan negotiations, Congress approved a much needed
revision of veterans' GI Bill benefits as part of H.R. 2642, the
Supplemental Appropriations Act. The GI Bill for the 21st Century
recognizes that our post 9-11 wartime veterans deserve modernized
benefits. I am thrilled to have played a part in this important effort
and I commend all those who worked on its passage, especially Senator Jim
Webb (D-VA). By passing this bill, we say thank you to our newest
generation of citizen soldiers. We also recognize that the ability of our
Armed Forces to recruit and retain quality personnel in the future - and
consequently our national security - depends on how we meet the needs of
those serving today. By supporting veterans, we strengthen our national
security.

As Chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, I am committed to
assisting DoD and VA as they get ready to provide this new educational
benefit. In its oversight capacity, the Committee will work to resolve
potential problems before the new benefits begin.

Aloha pumehana,

Daniel K. Akaka
U.S Senator for Hawaii
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Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:51:25 -1000
From: UH Announce <announce@HAWAII.EDU>
Subject: James Niino Honored with Kunimoto Award in News@UH

Honolulu^Òs James Niino honored for contributions to vocational education
with Kunimoto Award^×in the July 21 edition of News@UH now online at
http://www.hawaii.edu/newsatuh/2008/0721/index.php

More UH News

^Õ Manoa researchers discover a new pathway for methane that could impact
greenhouse gasses

^Õ The Society of Professional Journalists honors Manoa^Òs Beverly Ann
Deepe Keever

^Õ West O^Ñahu offers healthcare administration degree via distance learning

^Õ High school students learn about science and mechanics through GEAR UP
summer program

^Õ Kudos for Hilo^Òs Kanoe Wilson and Manoa^Òs Jane Freeman Moulin, Richard
Ogoshi, Brian Turano and Goro Uehara

^Õ In memoriam -- Manoa remembers Terence A. Rogers

^Õ Russell and Aki Oda establish a scholarship to honor Keru Oda

^Õ Association of Government Accountants of Hawai'i establishes a
scholarship for future accountants and auditors

^Õ Manoa's Heather Diamond publishes American Aloha: Cultural Tourism and
the Negotiation of Tradition

^Õ UH events include Hawai'i and Kapi'olani^Òs Abled Hawai'i Artists
Festival, Manoa^Òs Hanauma Bay educational activities and other more

^ÕAnnouncements -- Lyon Arboretum opens on Saturdays
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 09:47:03 -1000
From: pilipo souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
Hawaiians To Be Banned From `Iolani Palace? - comment

Everything must be in position before the 50th Jubilee Celebration of
Statehood. This a hana hou of the Overthrow Proclamation of January
17,1893. 'Io'lani Place is a vital "prop" and must be part of the show,
with federalized native Hawaiian actors in pageantry but a'ole those
Kanaka Maoli for they are of need of more cool-aid.

Soon, Kanaka Maoli and Hawaiian Nationals will be a visa to visit Hawaii
nei.

pilipo
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:29:51 +0000
From: kat brady <katbrady@hotmail.com>
Why is HECO getting into algae power?

re: http://www.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2008/07/14/daily23.html

these guys will do anything to avoid using solar, wind or our deep cold
ocean to produce all the power we need. in our 2006 public utilities
commission case objecting to heco's new power plant in campbell
industrial park, life of the land showed how hawai`i could be 100%
renewable in a few years.

for years they have been whining at the legislature that 'it's really
transportation that used a lot of fossil fuel, why is everyone picking on
them?' so now they want to use a fuel (which researchers have said is 10+
years in the future) that could be used for transportation? i'll answer
my own question: because they don't own the sun, they don't own the wind,
and they don't own the ocean.

here's a letter to the editor i wrote and published in the star bulletin
this morning...
-------

Why is HECO getting into algae power? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Is Hawaiian Electric suffering from cognitive dissonance?

In 1996, when asked why HECO doesn't install more solar photovoltaic
panels to meet its energy needs in 1996, a HECO vice president responded
that it is not a research and development company.
In 2006, HECO proposed a power plant that will run on 100 percent ethanol
(at the urging of the consumer advocate) and then, a week before the
Public Utilities Commission hearing, pulled a switcheroo to powering
their centralized plant with biodiesel from palm oil.
Now they are teaming up with Alexander & Baldwin Inc., HR BioPetroleum
Inc. and Maui Electric Co. to build an algae plant on up to 1,000 acres
of agricultural land on Maui.
Despite many scientists saying that algae as a liquid fuel is a long way
off, HECO is being praised as an "early adopter."
With oil at more than $140 a barrel and a plethora of clean and renewable
resources at hand to provide electricity, why in the world would HECO
want to invest in a fuel - one that should be used for transportation -
to power its aging dinosaur technology?

Kat Brady
Honolulu
________________________________________________________________________________

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dhira DiBiase <dhiradi@yahoo.com>
Subject: Fw: July 31 Creating Sustainable Food systems Oahu Conference

Purpose of the Conference

LEAF Project Hawaii is assembling national and local experts to discuss
the process of creating sustainable food systems in Hawaii. As well the
conference will provide a forum where everyone with an interest in solving
hunger and food insecurity can brainstorm and create long term
partnerships that make a significant impact on fresh food availability to
all. The daylong session on July 31 will focus on creating sustainable
food systems that can help close the gap between the rich and the poor.
Food projects are springing up across America in the form of urban farms
and CSA¢s that support farmers, green roofs and greencarts and they are
bringing hope to otherwise, crime-ridden, gang and drug-infested,
low-income neighborhoods. Why should anyone in Hawaii go hungry and unable
to afford themselves a healthy diet? It is time for Hawaii to take the
lead in the nation in malama aina.

Who should attend?

The conference will be an opportunity to bring together social service
agencies working with our at-risk ohana, Native Hawaiian practitioners and
other local farmers, gardeners and landscapers, ethnobotanists and
environmentalists. Also CTAHR and other research and outreach agencies,
state and county governments, schools, nutritionists, health institutions,
and any other organizations who want to make a difference in food
sustainability for all. The next day August 1, will launch the
establishment of a Food Policy Council who will help create community food
projects to serve our community.

For full information go to www.leafhawaii.org

Contact person,

LEAF Hawaii www.leafhawaii.org
David A. Santistevan, Executive Director
(808) 389-1819 cell
Laulima Eco-friendly Alliance of Farms
"Solving hunger and poverty, one farm at a time"
"Creating food systems in Hawaii, one ahupua'a at a time."

[ Part 2, Application/PDF 185KB. ]
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Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:47:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dhira DiBiase <dhiradi@yahoo.com>
Subject: RE/ Popcorn and Cell Phones---this is a crazy video!!!

my ears have been doing this too. g

MY EARS HAVE BEEN REACTING WITH A HOT PAINFUL BURNING
SENSATION FOR TOO LONG NOW AND AFTER TALKING ABOUT AND
REDUCING MY CELL PHONE USAGE i FORTUNATELY HAD MY PHONE
STOLEN FROM ME BEFORE LEAVING FOR MY TRIP...UPON MY RETURN I
WILL BE PRETTY MUCH OFF MY CELL PHONE AND WILL BE RETURNING
TO THE OLD METHOD OF USING AN ANSWERING MACHINE AT HOME.

IT IS EVEN WORSE FOR KIDS. AND IN PORTUGAL...I READ IN THE
PAPER WHILE I WAS THERE ...THAT THEY ARE TRYING TO OUTLAW
CELL PHONE USAGE BY KIDS UNDER 16

PEACE
d
-----

Fw: Popcorn and Cell Phones
> This is really weird.
>
> Just think of what is happening to all those
people who walk around with their cell phone
stuck to their ear all day! This is really
insane! Click on the link below to see something
you've never seen before.... It just takes a
minute and is definately worth watching!
>
http://www.koreus.com/video/telephone-portable-mais-popcorn.html
---------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Sat, July 20, 2008
From: pilipo souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Fw: [kaleimailealii] Hawaiians To Be Banned From `Iolani Palace?

Aloha kakou,

While most of us are focused on fuel prices and food at our table, there
are some who are federally subsidized and don't have a worry or care for
they march to the right music.

As noted in my original input, everything conducive to a peaceful
overthrow must be in position prior to the 2009 50th Jubilee Celebration
of Hawaii Statehood. The Commission of this celebration has hinted they
will be avoiding conflicts with "Native Hawaiian" as that of what
happened in 2006 at 'Io'lani Palace by a handful elected and appointed
government officials. But 'Io'lani Palace is center stage.

The Kanaka Maoli has failed to believe or accept their
political status in the Rice/Cayetano They have failed to accept that
OHA is not a "blood only" country club for Hawaiians. They have failed
themselves by registering their names and vital data to forms of
deceivement while parading with a T-shirt that promotes "I gave up my
country."

Now, the Kanaka Maoli must thank The Hawaiian Kingdom Government whom
have been conducting "HKG" business on the sacred grounds of 'Io'lani
Palace since April 2008 for forcing the exposure of a "fixed-card game"
called Native Hawaiian. While this game may include Native Hawaiian
"pit-bosses" it excludes Kanaka Maoli winners for only the House wins.

Because of these Hawaiian Nationals of the Hawaiian Kingdom Government
(HKG), new playing rules are being implemented. Maybe, finally, the
Kanaka Maoli and other Hawaiian Nationals will lokahi.

Lokahi can not be based upon genealogy or blood, nor the filing or
proclamation of Constitutions or Con-Cons. Only by individual identity of
what you are.

Our first duty to this identity is knowing who we are. The second is to
know you are not alone by attending 'so-called" public hearings whether
you speak pro or con, attend.

Check the scheduled times and places in your area. Attend at least two
meetings to affirm you are more than one. No man is an Island, and to
Lokahi, We are a Country.

pilipo
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Soon, Kanaka Maoli and Hawaiian Nationals will be a visa to visit Hawaii
nei.

pilipo

----- Original Message -----
From: Dedibble DeKepalo
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 8:22 PM

Whoa this is full blown

On 7/18/08, `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@koanifoundation.org>
wrote:

NEW RULES PROPOSED FOR `IOLANI PALACE

Show Your Outrage! - Attend Hearings & Tell Them
"'A'OLE!" ("NO!")

Department Of Land & Natural Resources (DLNR) will hold
public hearings on proposed new rules for `Iolani
Palace.

The rules are an attempt to banish the Hawaiian Kingdom
from the grounds and prevent anyone from claiming the
Palace as an active seat of government in the future.

If successful, DLNR would be able to assert force of
law to ensure "museum" status for `Iolani Palace.

It is vital for all concerned citizens of Hawai`i to
attend one of the hearings.

Let them know DLNR does not speak for you nor need to
"protect" `Iolani Palace from Hawaiians.

Hearings Schedule -

o Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 6:30 PM, Kaunakakai
Elementary School Cafeteria, 30 Ailoa Street,
Kaunakakai
o
o Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 5 PM, Lana`i High and
Elementary School, Room Ll6, 555 Fraser Ave.,
Lana`i City
o
o Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 6:30 PM, DLNR Boardroom
132, 1151 Punchbowl Street, Honolulu
o
o Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 6:30 PM, Events
Pavilion, Old Kona Airport Park, 75-5480 Kuakini
Highway, Kailua-Kona
o
o Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 6:30 PM, Maui County
Planning Department Conference Room, 1st floor, 250
South High Street, Wailuku
o
o Thursday, August 14, 2008, 6:30 PM, Conference
Rooms A, B, & C, State Office Building, 75 Aupuni
Street. Hilo
o
o Monday, August 18, 2008, 6:30 PM, State Office
Building 2nd Floor Conference Room, 3060 Eiwa
Street, Room 209, Lihu`e
------

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:07:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com

ALOHA Kakou, The State of Hawaii and it's governmental entities do not
have the laws on their side to control, alone deny Kanakamaolihawaii
access to the grounds of Iolani Palace.
The Stage is set.
KU I KA PONO, o Pomaikaiokalani
________________________________________________________________________________

From: <moderator@PORTSIDE.ORG>
Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2008 6:52 AM
Subject: Nukes: An Uncomfortable Conversation

> Dispatches From The Edge
> July 19, 2008
> Nukes: An Uncomfortable Conversation
> By Conn Hallinan
>
> Why are Henry Kissinger, George Schultz, William Perry and Sam Nunn
> writing opinion pieces in the Wall Street Journal calling for the
> abolition of nuclear weapons? It's a good question and the reasons are
> worth thinking about.
>
> Keep in mind, these four people are not just major defense hawks. People
> like Kissinger and Nunn helped push through the single most dangerous
> and destabilizing innovation in nuclear weaponry, the arming of missiles
> with multiple warheads. All four have supported every conflict the U.S.
> has engaged in since World War II, all have enthusiastically supported
> nuclear weapons, and none has suddenly gone kumbaya on us.
>
> But all have concluded that nuclear weapons no longer serve the
> interests of the great powers. Why the change of mind? The answer has
> some disquieting aspects.
>
> The sudden concern with nuclear weapons is, in large part, due to the
> steady erosion of the Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPF) and the
> real danger that the Big Five-China, Russia, the U.S., France and
> Britain-may one day confront a host of nations so armed. Countries like
> Brazil, Argentina, Syria, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Japan, South
> Korea, Egypt, Taiwan, and South Africa could all produce nuclear weapons
> in less than a decade if they wanted to. Several of these countries had
> begun the process before mothballing their programs several decades ago.
>
> Israel, Pakistan and India, of course, already have nuclear weapons.
>
> In the past, wars with countries like Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq
> involved loss of life and wealth-far greater for them than for us-but
> the countries we attacked then never presented a serious obstacle to our
> use of military power. We might not 'win' these wars in the conventional
> sense of the word, but none of these nations could prevent the U.S. from
> attacking them.
>
> Nuclear weapons change all that.
>
> The Bush Administration demonizes North Korea, but it has been careful
> not to let things get out of hand. Of course there are numerous reasons
> why White House rhetoric has not led to a war on the Korean peninsula,
> some of which have nothing to do with the fact that the North Koreans
> have nuclear weapons. But if North Korea (and any other nation) infers
> that their nuclear weapons program plays a role in holding the U.S.
> military at bay, it is hard to argue with that conclusion.
>
> The Bush Administration has invaded one member of its 'axis of evil' and
> is threatening to attack a second, Iran. However, it is treading lightly
> in North Asia. If small countries threatened by big countries conclude
> that the key to avoiding an invasion is to acquire nuclear weapons, one
> can hardly blame them.
>
> This is the proliferation conversation that few people are comfortable
> with, partly because of the nature of the beast.
>
> It is a misnomer to talk about nuclear weapons as 'weapons' in any
> meaningful sense. As John Hersey noted more than 60 years ago, the bomb
> that flattened Hiroshima was not just a bigger bomb. What it inflicted
> on that city and its residents is almost beyond human comprehension.
> Throughout his Pulitzer Prize winning book he struggled with how to make
> his readers understand what happened in Hiroshima, occasionally
> resorting to the devices of fiction to get his point across.
>
> And that bomb was the equivalent of a firecracker compared to today's
> nuclear weapons. 'Fat Boy,' the weapon that flattened an entire city in
> a millisecond, was 15 kilotons. The average warhead today is between 150
> and 250 kilotons, and there are monsters out there whose power is
> measured in megatons.
>
> A nuclear war between India and Pakistan-something both
> countries came perilously close to at Kargil in
> 1999-would do more than kill tens of millions of
> people. According to the 'Proceedings of the National
> Academy of Sciences, USA,' if both sides exchanged 50
> warheads the size of the Hiroshima bomb, it would
> destroy 70 percent of the ozone in northern latitudes,
> and 45 percent of the ozone in the mid-latitudes where
> most of the world's population resides. The loss of the
> earth's protective ozone would mean a sharp rise in
> skin cancers and cataracts from massive increases in
> ultraviolet radiation.
>
> One hundred Hiroshima bombs equal 0.03 percent of the
> explosive power of the world's nuclear weapons
> stockpiles.
>
> In short, a nuclear exchange between India and
> Pakistan-two minor nuclear powers-could derail the
> economies of nations across the globe, in particular
> those in the U.S. and Europe, whose northern latitude
> position would make particularly vulnerable to ozone
> depletion.
>
> Enter Kissinger, Nunn, Perry and Schultz. Nuclear
> weapons were fine with them when the Big Five and
> Israel held a monopoly on the devices. But India and
> Pakistan have joined the club, and several others are
> waiting in the wings. However, if the Big Five plus
> three' proliferation dam has cracks in it, they are
> wholly self-inflicted.
>
> When 181 nations signed onto the 1968 NPT they thought
> they were taking the first step toward the abolition of
> nuclear weapons. In short, they took the Treaty
> seriously, for example, Article VI of the NPT, which
> states: 'Each of the parties to the treaty undertakes
> to pursue negotiations in good faith on effective
> measure relating to cessation of the nuclear arms race
> at an early date and to nuclear disarmament, and on a
> treaty on general and complete disarmament under strict
> and effective international controls.'
>
> The heart of the NPT is Article VI. The only reason why
> smaller countries would forgo nuclear weapons is that
> the nuclear powers would agree to scrap theirs and,
> further, disarm their conventional forces. Instead, the
> Big Five increased the number of warheads in their
> arsenals and raised their military budgets. Finally,
> they even began threatening non-nuclear countries with
> nuclear weapons, a violation of a 1978 addendum to the
> NPT (and reaffirmed in 1995).
>
> President George W. Bush used such threats against
> Iraq, Syria and the Sudan, and in 2006, former French
> President Jacques Chirac warned 'states that use
> terrorists means against us' risk a 'conventional'
> response, but 'it could also be a different kind.'
>
> As for the section of Article VI that requires
> disarmament: the official U.S. military budget for
> fiscal 2009 will be $522 billion, but that figure
> doesn't include nuclear weapons, Homeland Security,
> Veterans Affairs, and a host of military programs in
> the State Department, Justice Department, and the
> National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
> Excluding the interest we pay on past military debts
> ($207 billion), the real figure is $728 billion.
>
> Even using the faux $522 figure, however, U.S. military
> spending makes up 47 percent of the world's total. If
> one adds to that the military expenditures of our NATO
> allies, that figure jumps to 70 percent.
>
> In comparison, our 'enemies'-Cuba, Syria, North Korea,
> Iran and Sudan-make up 1 percent of the world's arms
> spending. Iran, which President Bush calls the most
> dangerous country in the world, spends $5 billion on
> armaments, about what one could find rummaging through
> couch pillows at the Pentagon. Teheran's entire budget
> could buy 2 1/2 B-2 bombers.
>
> There is certainly a growing sentiment to get rid of
> the world's nuclear weapons.
>
> In Germany, the increasingly popular Left Party is
> pressing for the removal of U.S. nuclear weapons. 'If
> the federal government has some spine, it would
> immediately call on the U.S. to remove all nuclear
> weapons,' Gregor Gysi, co-leader of the Left Party told
> Der Spiegel, 'and preferably by destroying them.'
>
> Pressured by the Left Party, the Social Democratic
> Party, a minority member of Germany's ruling coalition,
> is moving in the same direction. Niels Annen, the
> Party's foreign policy expert, told the Berliner
> Zeitung that removing nuclear weapons from Europe
> 'would be a huge step forward in terms of nuclear
> disarmament.'
>
> The U.S. is estimated to have between 150 and 240 B-61
> warheads in Germany, Holland, Italy, Belgium, and
> Turkey.
>
> Australia's Labor Party Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has
> called for establishing an 'international commission on
> nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament' to lay the
> groundwork for reviewing the NPT in 2010 and begin the
> process of abolishing nuclear weapons.
>
> In the U.S., 79 religious organizations, representing
> Catholics, Protestants, Jews and Muslims have demanded
> that the Bush Administration end its plans to
> reactivate U.S. nuclear weapons plants. 'We call on our
> political leaders to show the moral and political
> courage necessary to bring about a shift in our
> nation's nuclear weapons posture,' the organizations
> wrote in a letter to the Energy Department. 'Today we
> have an historic opportunity to begin the journey out
> from under the shadow of nuclear weapons.'
>
> Presidential candidate Barak Obama said in October
> 'America seeks a world in which there are no nuclear
> weapons.'
>
> But any successful movement to abolish nuclear weapons
> will not only have to see that Article VI of the NPT is
> carried out, it will also have to address the Treaty's
> preamble: '...in accordance with the Charter of the
> United Nations, States must refrain in their
> international relations from the threat or use of force
> against the territorial integrity or political
> independence of any State ...'
>
> As long as the great powers maintain the ability to
> invade countries, overthrow regimes, or bomb nations
> into subservience, weaker countries will inevitably try
> to offset those advantages. The quickest and cheapest
> way to do that is to develop nuclear weapons.
>
> The threat of nuclear proliferation will not end until
> all nations have given them up. And the danger of
> nuclear weapons will not disappear until the weak need
> no longer fear the strong.
> _____________________________________________

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 16:49:37 -1000
From: penny levin <pennysfh@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [evol-psych] First bees now bats

i only just heard about this when i went back east last week to the heart
of the area that is being affected (upstate new york) and it's going to be
a bad hit for the ecosystem - like bee colony collapse. bat's do a lot of
pollinating and like the article says, a whole lot of mosquito control.

white-nose was only discovered this winter and scientists are scrambling
to figure it out. so far, they think the fungus is a symptom and not a
cause of what's going wrong. they are looking at viruses, bacteria,
pesticides and other factors. it will take another six months before any
real clues emerge. one thing that i haven't heard mentioned yet is the
possibility that increased average temperatures and lighter moisture/rain
regimes in the area may be changing the climate of the caves. there is a
possibility that the fungus was always present but the climate of the
caves kept its growth in check. the fact that the bats lost their bodyfat
during the winter suggests, too, that they were infected prior to the
winter season. the answer will be like finding a needle in the haystack.

let's hope this doesn't reach hawaii. at least the native ope'ape'a
sleeps mostly in trees and not so much in caves where it would be more
susceptible to the disease. but, even more of a reason for us to use
fewer pesticides, grow fewer altered foods and keep the aina healthy.

----- Original Message -----
From: Lc
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 8:57 PM

yikes! penny, what's da scoops?

----- Original Message ----- From: Edgar Owen
Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 11:55 PM

The White-Nose Syndrome Mystery:
Something Is Killing Our Bats

Tens of thousands of hibernating bats died this winter in the northeast,
and we don't know why. In and around caves and mines in eastern and
upstate New York, Vermont, western Massachusetts, and northwestern
Connecticut, biologists found sick, dying and dead bats in unprecedented
numbers. In just eight of the affected New York caves, mortality appears
to range from 80 percent to 100 percent since WNS was first documented at
each site, based on winter surveys.

These bats often have a white fungus on their muzzles (hence the name
"white-nose syndrome") and other parts of their bodies. Despite the
continuing search to find the source of this condition by numerous
laboratories and state and federal biologists, the cause of the bat deaths
remains a mystery.

Bats are an important part of our ecosystem. One bat eats as many as 3,000
flying insects a night during the summer months. Because females produce
just one pup a year, the plunging number of bats ^× apparently as many as
90 percent loss in some hibernacula ^× translates into a crisis in bat
populations in four states with no end in sight and potentially
far-reaching effects, an ecological disaster in the making. This year we
may notice an absence of bats from our summer night sky, and what will
that mean for us?

http://www.fws.gov/northeast/white_nose.html
-----------------------------------------------------------------

Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 22:09:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: patricia blair <cris6369@yahoo.com>
Subject: Impeachment Begins July 25th

If you care about this country and the Constitution of the United States
then your MOST PATRIOTIC DUTY is to call your Congress person and demand
that they vote for Impeachment of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. That is
THEIR, CONGRESSES, responsibility. PB

Members and friends of the Hawaii Impeachment coalition,
Impeachment action is building to a critical point later this
week! Your action, and your attention, is needed. Let your
friends know, too!
We need to show Washington that we do care, and that this is
not just a partisan issue, but a basic issue of defending our
Constitution.

Here's the basic mechanics:
The House Judiciary Committee
decides whether or not to
proceed with impeachment. If
they do^Å
The Chairman of the Judiciary
Committee will propose a
Resolution calling for the
Judiciary Committee to begin a
formal inquiry into the issue
of impeachment.

And that would then be your ^Óimpeachment
investigation^Ô with the theoretically heightened
powers. If the investigation then warrants, the
HJC draws up Articles of Impeachment and sends
them to the full house for a vote. Taken from
here.

http://usgovinfo.about.com/od/thepresidentandcabinet/a/impeachment.htm

[B]eing impeached is sort of like being indicted
of a crime. There still has to be a trial, which
is where the US Senate comes in.

The struggle behind the scenes, and on camera, will be
whether the upcoming hearing will merely be a showcase for
much ado with little or no consequences, or will actually
serve to launch true impeachment hearings with the full
powers of an impeachment investigation. Such powers go beyond
what Congress ordinarily has: there is less basis for the
administration to continue to thumb their noses at subpoenas.
Furthermore, such hearings will help establish a public
record of impeachable offenses far exceeding what the public
has been aware of to date. It will help overcome the
resistance of the traditional media to covering this
important crisis.

Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:49:31 -0400
From: David Swanson <david@davidswanson.org>
Subject: [Activists] Impeachment Begins July 25th

IMPEACHMENT BEGINS: BE ON CAPITOL HILL ON FRIDAY JULY 25TH

http://afterdowningstreet.org/hearingday

At 10 a.m. on Friday July 25th, the House
Judiciary Committee will hold a preliminary
hearing on the topic of impeachment, with a
presentation by Congressman Dennis Kucinich. This
is not yet a true impeachment hearing, but it is
our opportunity to push for one, and it
represents a tremendous victory after years of
effort by millions of Americans who want to keep
the Constitution alive. This never would have
happened without your hard work. And we can't let
up now!

The National Impeachment Network is organizing a
rally and asking everyone who can to take a day
off for justice and meet at 9 a.m. on Friday July
25th in front of the Rayburn House Office
Building on the Independence Avenue side. Bring
impeachment shirts and posters! For more
information contact ningroup@gmail.com

NOTE: The hearing has not been announced, but two
members of Congress closely involved in this have
told us it is at 10 a.m. on the 25th, and
Chairman Conyers himself has so informed Veterans
for Peace.

Between now and Friday the 25th, please take
these steps:

Contact your member of Congress in support of
impeachment.
http://afterdowningstreet.org/bushaction

Ask the media to cover the hearing.
http://afterdowningstreet.org/node/1084

Sign the petition at Congressman Kucinich's
website.
http://impeachment.kucinich.us/petition

And this from Veterans for Peace (VFP):

A CALL TO ACTION FOR IMPEACHMENT

An intense 7-day VFP campaign of calls to
congress for impeachment.
Get everyone you know to call Congress before
July 25 demanding for impeachment now!

Lobbying Day for Impeachment - July 24th Wash, DC
VFP attends Judiciary Committee Hearing - 10AM
July 25th Wash, DC
VFP meets with Chairman of Judiciary Committee,
Rep. Conyers - 12 Noon July 25th Wash, DC

Dear VFP Members

Believe it or not, we finally had to threaten a
sit-in.

After more than two months of trying to schedule
a brief meeting with Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) to
deliver VFP's 23,000 impeachment signatures, we
politely informed the Chair of the House
Judiciary Committee, in writing, that we would
drop by his Washington office with them. And we
would sit there until he met with us or hauled us
off in handcuffs.

On June 10 VFP issued a news release explaining
our intention to call on Conyers the following
day. Coincidentally (!) the morning of the 11th,
his scheduler called asking, "I hear you're in
town today, would you like to meet with the
Congressman?"
*************

In the 1930's, who in Germany could correctly fix
the day when fascism actually arrived?

Today in the U.S., who knows for sure how close
we've come to it?

The human race learns slowly, but we do learn.
For example, as VFP members we've learnedÂ that
war is not the answer. And in these perilous
times more of our fellow citizens are learning
that the "Good German" excuse just doesn't get
it.

We know what our government is doing abroad. We
know that our republic here at home has been
beaten nearly unto death. We know we are the
responsible parties who must set things right
here at home - for our children, for the world.

One important way to begin absolving our
complicity and discharging our responsibilities
is to hold our malfeasant misleaders in
Washington accountable through the way the
Constitution provides - impeachment.

When we met with Congressman Conyers on June 11
(link to video 2 minute of that meeting) he said
he had not yet read the 35 Articles of
Impeachment Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH)
had introduced two days previously, but that he
would do so and report back at a meeting in early
July. A second meeting was held, with even more
VFP members attending, on July 9th (link to 9
minute video of that meeting, and link to 45
minute video) at which Conyers said he was still
trying to make up his mind whether to call
impeachment hearings in his committee. He said he
needs more support in Congress! Yet another
meeting is scheduled with VFP for July 25th.

The platoon of VFP members who attended the
meeting say if he says he needs more support in
Congress - we will give it to him. Then there
will be no more excuses. We need your help to
create this impeachment buzz on the Hill.

The Army used to tell us that it took 21 soldiers
to keep each one of us grunts fighting in the
field - providing us with our life support, from
ammunition, to fire support, to medevac. Today a
platoon of us is working in Wash, DC on
impeachment; we can do it together but we need
your support - raise your voice until Congress
hears you.

JOIN THE ACTIONS:

Let us know if you took action!

Respond to this email at vfp@veteransforpeace.net
and let us know how your phone call went!

FOR JUST NEXT 7 CRITICAL DAYS CALL YOUR
CONGRESSMAN AND DEMAND IMPEACHMENT.Â If they are
for impeachment have them push the Chairman of
the Judiciary Committee, Rep Conyers, to act
now.Â We need as many calls, emails and letters
as possible before July 25th. GET YOUR FRIENDS
AND NEGHBORS TO CALL.

If you are able come to Washington, DC, July 24th
will be an impeachment lobbying day where we will
personally visit Congressmen demanding
impeachment. On July 25th we will attend a
Judiciary Committee Hearing, and then meet with
Rep. Conyers.

CALL 202-224-3121 for the house switchboard and
LEAVE A MESSAGE FOR YOUR OWN CONGRESSMAN TO
IMPEACH.
Find your Congressman by ZIP Code

Call a member of the Judiciary Committee
(202-225-3951) demand impeachment now. ( List of
Judiciary Committee members) Maybe your
Congressman is on the Judiciary Committee call
him again.

For our 4,118 KIA'S, and the more than one
million Iraqis killed by the Administration's
lying & murderous policies, GET UP, & CALL
CONGRESS!
Elliott Adams
President

PS: Here is a link to a memo I got from David
Swanson, one of the most knowledgeable leaders of
the impeachment movement, explaining what
Congress members could do if they are seriously
interested in preserving the rule of law and what
is left of our republic.

And this:

July 17, 2008

...Wm Crain was told by Pelosi's office and by
Conyers' office that they were getting "only a
handful" of calls for impeachment.

WE MUST DO BETTER -- Make more calls -- lobby in
D.C.

THIS IS A PRELIMINARY HEARING ON THE TOPIC OF
IMPEACHMENT -- TO PUSH IT OVER THE EDGE INTO
FULL-BLOWN IMPEACHMENT, PLEASE --

-- we must do better at phone calls. It takes 30
seconds. PLEASE -- they need to hear from us.
CALL NOW:

House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers, Jr.:
(202) 225-5126 (Thank you for scheduling the
July 25th hearing) (ask how many calls he's
getting)

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: (202) 225-4965 (I
support hearings on Dennis Kucinich's article of
impeachment)(ask how many calls she's getting)

Call Toll Free 800-828-0498 & ask for your Rep.
(I support Dennis Kucinich's Article of
Impeachment and ask that you do so as well.)

Or see http://www.house.gov/house

This is definitely where the rubber meets the
road, friends! Let us LOBBY in peach!

Tobi Dragert

Let's do what we can!

Bob Schacht
Honolulu, HI
Impeachment isn't a political tactic, it's a Constitutional
duty.
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From: Kapono Ryan [mailto:kryan@chaminade.edu]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2008 4:34 PM
Subject: Please send to Leimomi Kahn and other AHCC Mahalo!
Importance: High

FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Media Contact: Kapono Ryan
Office (808) 735-4797
Cell (808) 429-2972

OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS SPONSORS EXHIBITION OF HISTORIC PHOTOS AND
DIARY TRANSCRIPTION --BRO. BERTRAM BELLINGHAUSEN PHOTOS AND DIARY:
HAWAI^ÒI FROM 1883 TO 1905 --

HONOLULU^×July 22, 2008^× The Office of Hawaiian Affairs (OHA) will
provide a sponsorship grant of $20,200 to Chaminade University to support
the tour of an exhibition of photographs taken by Bro. Bertram Gabriel
Bellinghausen, S.M. It will also provide an additional $13,000 grant,
supporting the transcript of Bellinghausen^Òs diary which will accompany
his photographs.

^ÓWe are grateful for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs^Ò support,^Ô said
Henry Gomes, Chaminade University associate provost. ^ÓIt will help us
make available for public viewing photographs that were taken more than a
hundred years ago, as well as share insights from Bro. Bellinghausen^Òs
diary, which will give readers a sense of historical context to those
photos.^Ô

A Marianist educator and first head of Saint Louis College (predecessor to
Saint Louis School), Bellinghausen arrived in Hawai'i in 1883 and left in
1905. During that period, he was an avid photographer who used a large,
bulky camera holding glass photographic plates, which acted as negatives
before photographic film. He had a passion for capturing the dignity of
the common people and changing beauty of island landscapes. His
photographs also documented the lives and special events of the monarchy,
including King Kalâkaua occupying the newly build Iolani Palace and Saint
Louis School's band leading the funeral processions of Princess Likelike,
Princess Ka^Òiulani and King Kalâkaua. He also photographed the famous
Chinatown fire of January 20, 1900. About 800 glass plates and his
handwritten journals have been stored in the Marianist Archives, mostly
archived in Dayton, Ohio, as well as a smaller portion at the State
Archives.

Celebrating more than 50 years of educating students for life, service and
successful careers, Chaminade University is a Catholic/ Marianist
university offering programs of study grounded in the liberal arts with
day, evening, online and accelerated courses. Chaminade is also a Native
Hawaiian / Pacific Islander serving institution with its main campus
located at 3140 Waialae Ave., Honolulu, HI 96816, and 10 satellite
locations around Oahu. For more information, visit the Chaminade Web site
at www.chaminade.edu or call (808) 735-4711.

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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:26:19 -1000
From: Kyle Kajihiro <keboi@aol.com>
Subject: [livingnation] What Palestinians and Hawaiians have in Common

http://a-doctor-in-galilee.blogspot.com/2008/07/what-palestinians-and-hawaiians-have-in.html
Friday, July 18, 2008
What Palestinians and Hawaiians Have in Common

My wife and I have spent the better part of our lives accommodating the
two sets of dissimilar realities of our roots in Palestine and Hawaii,
our birthplaces being nearly a pair of antipodes on the globe. Yet every
once in a while I come across a reminder of how similar certain
socio-political aspects of our two backgrounds are.

Spin-doctoring, as a journalistic art form and a political tool, came of
age only in recent years with the advent of neo-conservative dominance in
US politics. Neo-cons have used this tool masterfully in the promotion
and justification of the war on Iraq. In the process they have also
succeeded in demonizing Islam, Arabs, and Muslims in general, portraying
them as the twenty first century enemies of humanity, rationality and
God. The trend has been nurtured by the rising tide of born-again
Christian Zionism and cynically manipulated by the pro-Israel lobby for
its own gain. As a Palestinian citizen of Israel who is also familiar
with the American scene, I couldn^Òt help but recognize these propaganda
tactics as the very same ones that have been regularly practiced by my
country against my minority community and against other Palestinians,
especially those in the occupied territories of Gaza and the West Bank.
The recipe is quite simple; it is comprised of two components: First you
dehumanize the other; then you look in the mirror and ascribe all the
negative attributes you see to that enemy. What remains is to keep
hammering at it with all the media tools at your disposal till it sticks
to the now clearly evil other as his innate nature. Especially if this
other is handicapped by the lack of media access to your audience, then
you have it made.

That, at least, was what I had assumed until I read David E. Stannard^Òs
book Honor Killing depicting race relations in Hawaii in the early part
of the twentieth century. It turns out to be a tale of full-fledged
spin-doctoring before I thought the genre had been discovered. A mentally
unstable young navy wife invents a story about being abducted, beaten and
raped by a gang of Hawaiian young men. A jury fails to find in her favor
and her high-society mother arrives from the mainland USA. The outraged
mother takes matters in her own hands and murders one of the accused. The
cause of the two white women is championed by the interlinked triumvirate
of military commanders, business moguls and media bosses, all of whom
happen to be white newcomers to Hawaii. The meeting of their sick
mindsets and political interests prompts the three circles of influence
to act in unison in actively pursuing the elevation of this local
vendetta to the level of a national emergency that invites the
interference of the US congress and the president himself. Lurking in the
background, there is always the less than godly legacy and influence of
Christian missionaries to Hawaii. The sick accuser, her drunken navy
husband and her manipulative mother become national heroes defending
white women^Òs honor against the savages. Sympathy and generous donations
enable them to secure the services of the most prominent US criminal
defense lawyer, Clarence Darrow. He fails to secure them and their two
navy accomplices in the murder of the young Hawaiian man a verdict of
innocence. Still he manages to obtain a commutation of their sentence
from ten years of imprisonment with hard labor to one hour in the custody
of the Honolulu sheriff. In the process Hawaii^Òs native and immigrant
oriental population is vilified beyond redemption.

As I started reading this book it all seemed vaguely familiar. The more
the author exposed the factual information with the benefit of some seven
decades of hindsight the more I found its essence similar to the parallel
narrative of what happened in Palestine, though without the intriguing
plot surrounding a specific single event. Rather, it was the meeting of
minds and interests of aggressive foreign forces and the circumstances
that maximize the magical powers of spin doctoring that were similar in
the two narratives.

In Hawaii, even before WW II, and long before president Eisenhower coined
the term, the military-industrial complex was in full swing, its leaders
clamoring for imposing a military dictatorial system to govern the
Islands. The media, at the time mainly the print form and the nascent
radio and wire services, acting as hand in glove, picks up the banner of
the national interest and runs with it. The white population of Hawaii
has to be protected from the transgressions of the unruly savage natives
and the oriental rabble before these bring ruination upon the nation^Òs
moral fiber and endanger America^Òs military superiority in the Pacific.
Newscasters and editorial writers across the nation fall in line and
follow the chorus of bigoted and racist agitation, turning fables into
facts and creating new ones at will.

In Palestine too, there was and still is a meeting of military, business
and media interests, to the detriment of the native population. And in
Palestine too there is a strong negative role for religion, even a
decisive one. A three thousand year old legend is revived by the master
race, the Christian Zionists of Europe. It is brought to life as the
absolute and holy truth. With that the natives are not only
disenfranchised but also demonized as the aggressors against God^Òs
chosen people. ["Talk about the 'promised land' and the 'chosen people'
adds a religious dimension to racism which we did not have," declared a
veteran South African human rights leader recently.] As the European
self-soothing dream of ridding itself of Jews matures and is concretized
with the Belfour declaration and a three decade-long colonial rule
actively implementing it, the same dream starts to take hold across the
oceans in the minds of evangelical Christians in American. This is no
small matter: In America business is king and it has a massive vested
interest in the Middle East; in America the media has been well honed as
a mind-controlling tool serving and reinforcing business of which it is
an integral part; and in America by now the military-industrial complex
is an accepted fact of life and a central player in the ME which serves
both as a laboratory for the testing of its ware and as a major consumer
of its new products. And the circle is finally closed with the meeting of
minds between the mighty American Christian right and the no-less-mighty
Zionist pro-Israel lobby.

The two histories, of the Hawaiians and of the Palestinians, are quite
dissimilar in their details. Yet the basic operative mode and motivation
of the aggressors are highly similar despite the disparity in the level
of sophistication of the tools used. The Hawaiians were a demoralized and
conquered native minority imposed upon by the openly racist, crudely
oppressive self-serving haoles (Hawaiian for foreigner or white). The
Palestinians face a much more refined and infinitely more powerful circle
of interests with the added advantage and veneer of self-righteous
liberal intellectualism. Yet, step by step and feature by feature the
tale of demonization, land theft, and adding blame to injury is the same.
In both cases facts are turned on their heads and the victim is fully
guilty in the eyes of the wider world. And in both cases the local truth
is of no significance; it is the media that has the voice to sound off
its falsity to an attentive world that is not only happy to swallow the
lies whole but is willing to give of its sympathy, energy and financial
means to further establish it as the final operative reality.

I should read about other indigenous peoples^Ò tales of dispossession:
Native Americans, Native Canadians, Maoris, Aborigines and more. I bet
you the story repeats itself.

Posted by Hatim Kanaaneh, MD, MPH at 9:09 PM
Labels: Apartheid, Israel, Media, Middle East Conflict,
Military-industrial complex, Minorities, Palestine, Racial
discrimination, Racil profiling, Spin-doctoring
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:50:25 -0400
From: Harvey Arden <harveyarden@starpower.net>
Subject: ~**~ Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon wins USA Book News
First-Prize for Native American books~**~

WOW! Grandma Edna won FIRST PLACE in the NATIVE AMERICAN BOOK category
for 2007!! Send her congratulations at rdgordon@hotmail.com with a CC to
me (please!) Get remaining first-printing copies on shelf NOW. Go to
www.haveyouthought.com or contact Publisher George Blitch at
george@haveyouthought.com. EDNA, WE'RE PROUD OF YOU!! /Harvey Arden

VOICE of the HAWK ELDER
by
Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon

BestBooks2007Winner
First-Prize for Native American books

Order at www.haveyouthought.com
Wholesale orders contact george@haveyouthought.com

From the desk of Harvey Arden, Founder: ~The Wisdomkeepers Collective ~
"Bringing the Elders to the World & the World to the Elders"
Author: WISDOMKEEPERS: Meetings with Native American Spiritual
Elders
DREAMKEEPERS: A Spirit-Journey into Aboriginal Australia
NOBLE RED MAN: Lakota Wisdomkeeper Mathew King
TRAVELS IN A STONE CANOE: The Return to the Wisdomkeepers
Editor: PRISON WRITINGS: MY LIFE IS MY SUN DANCE by Leonard
Peltier
WHITE BUFFALO TEACHINGS by Chief Arvol Looking Horse
VOICE OF THE HAWK ELDER by Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon
-----

Excerpts from Seneca Wisdomkeeper Edna Gordon's VOICE
OF THE HAWK ELDER:

WE NEED CHANGES in this world, really big big changes. I'm prayin'
they'll be peaceable changes, not violent and bloody ones. I'd like to see
a peaceable revolution, a revolution of broomsticks instead of guns.

Call it a Broomstick Revolution.

That's right. The People pick up their broomsticks and march
together and Sweep Injustice Out! Make a clean sweep, a big cleanin'
like's never been seen before.

Broomsticks against Injustice. Now that'll be the day!

We'll take our broomsticks and we'll sweep Leonard Peltier right
out o' prison, along with all the other innocents.

Yep-a Broomstick Revolution! That's what we need!

NOW: ORDER ONLINE AT www.haveyouthought.com

This book is dedicated to my People, the Seneca Nation, to our kindred
Peoples of the Haudenoshaunee, or Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, to all
the Indian Nations of Great Turtle Island, and to all other Indigenous
Peoples around this Mother Earth. I send it out like an arrow of love
from my heart to YOUR hearts! If other folks want to read it too, why,
that's fine by me. Might be you even learn something!

This book is FULL of secrets for those who understand'm!

But always remember, the BIGGEST secret is Creation itself!

What I see
I want you to see,
so that what you see
your children will be able to see.

--Hawk ElderEdna Gordon

EDITOR'S FOREWORD

"WELCOME TO MY UMBRELLA TREE," says Hawk Elder Edna Gordon, seating
herself opposite me at her well-weathered backyard picnic-table, gesturing
with a wide sweep of her hand at the rich tapestry of overhanging branches
arching all the way to the ground around us, creating a kind of natural
gazebo.

She nods at the tree as at a cherished old friend, and nods at
me, her visitor.

"This old tree's the whole of Creation, you know, if you got
eyes to see...," she says, and her throaty voice trails away
thoughtfully.

I look upward into the drooping canopy of heavily leafed
branches all but encasing us.

"Like a house of leaves," I say.

"More'n that," she says, "...the whole Creation's right here in
this tree, if you can see it... You're sittin' right inside o' Creation
itself! Don't you see it? Can't you feel it?"

I put the palm of my hand on the rough bark of the trunk.

"I ...I can feel it, I think," I say.

"Your hand on the tree, that's Life on Life," Edna says. "This
Umbrella tree here's at the center of the Universe! And so are we!"

CERTAINLY, when you're with a visionary like Edna Gordon, the Universe,
the Creation itself, occupies not the background of your consciousness but
the foreground. She's continually reminding me-and all of us-of the
oft-forgotten fact that We Exist! that the World, the Universe, the very
Creation itself is here and now with us at every magical instant-and that
it's our privilege, our joy, and our duty as living beings to realize this
in every conscious moment, to see it, to appreciate it, to be
ever-thankful and ever-marveling at all of this unthinkable vastness and
infinite particularity around us and within us. She insists that we
see-and, yes, feel--this miracle that we ourselves are an integral, even
essential part of this Mystery beyond all mysteries.

"Yep, it's all a Mystery. A Holy Mystery," Edna says, "No
matter how far you look, that's all you're ever going to find at the end
of your lookin'-a Holy Mystery."

"But how are we individual human beings essential to that
Mystery....? " I ask.

Edna smiles that radiant smile of hers. With her bare toetip
she lightly taps a tiny bloom in the grass at her foot.

"Is a flower essential to the Universe?" she asks, "Some
folks'll tell you, `Oh, no It's just a flower! It lives and dies in a day
or two. What does Creation need that silly little flower for?' "

"Well, I tell you, that little tiny flower...you see it there by
my toe...that little white one, no bigger than an earring... That flower
is essential-that's right, I'm telling you, essential-to the whole wide
Universe, same as you and me and everybody else. We're ALL essential,
each and every one of us!

"Why, without that tiny little flower there it'd be a different
Universe, a different Creation, not this one we have.

D'you understand? So THAT's a mighty power, don't you think? One little
flower can change the entire World! Just like one person can!"

She chuckles, amused at her thought.

SOME might see a `quaint little old lady' here. But of Edna Gordon I can
tell you from years of personal observation: quaint she ain't. No, in
this diminutive octogenarian-maybe 5'2 on her stretched-taut tiptoes-I see
a fearless warrior against injustice, a bold partisan on behalf of Mother
Earth, an implacable defender of her People and of ALL indigenous Peoples.

I see her also as a natural-world philosopher, or Wisdomkeeper,
a kind of aboriginal existentialist....but not the Sartrean Existentialist
of the 1940's, whose tremulous confrontion with the naked Being of a
tree's root (as in Jean-Paul Sartre's novel Nausea) elicited terror and
spiritual nausea.

No, in Edna's world, a tree's root or a tiny flower or a
red-tailed hawk in flight or a sudden windstorm elicits not fear and angst
but joy, celebration, total communion with and immersion in the wonder of
being in this world-the wonder of Being itself, of the whole vast living
Mystery of Creation. Edna radiates that wonder, that devout appreciation,
that thankfulness, that celebration in every word of this little book.

I FIRST MET EDNA GORDON some five or six years ago, when I was (alas,
unsuccesfully) trying to create a website-dreamkeepers.net-that would be
the digital portal to an ever-growing constellation of personal websites
for and by indigenous Elders. It's motto was "Bringing the Elders to the
World & the World to the Elders."

Itself the successor to another (alas, equally unsucceful
website named wisdomkeepers.com, dreamkeepers.net was to be the cumination
of more than a quarter-century traveling among and working with indigenous
peoples, begun while a staff writer for 23 years at National Geographic
magazine, and continuing after my 1991 `retirement' in such trade books as
Wisdomkeepers: Meetings with Native American Spiritual Elders and
Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey into Aboriginal Australia.

One day I answered the phone. A rough-gravel woman's voice said:

"You Harvey Arden? This is Edna Gordon. I got some books for you to
publish..."

"You do? Books you say? How many books?"

"Oh, maybe ten, maybe thirty."

"Hmmm... Really! Paper books? I'm trying to create a website
for the Elders, but I've never published a book-though I've had half a
dozen of my own books published. You're maybe talking about a digital
online book?"

"Nope, a paper book...a REAL book! I got thirty of'm. Maybe
forty!"

"Already published?"

"Had'm printed myself. Got a few copies each. Whaddayou
charge?"

"We don't charge anything to Elders at dreamkeepers.net, but we
don't publish books-certainly not paper books."

"Well, you WILL!"

AND SO, against all odds I might have given at the time, here is Edna's
book Voice of the Hawk Elder-to my mind, an incandescent torch to light
our way in these dark times.

--Harvey Arden
June 1, 2006

VOICE of the HAWK ELDER

YES, THIS IS MY VOICE. These are my words. My good friend Harvey has
helped me sort and arrange them, like he's done for lots of good people
over the years, even back when he wrote for National Geographic. He fixes
my spelling and spruces up my grammar here and there, though I tell him,
not too much, Harvey! I want folks to know who I am and how I really talk
and what I'm really like. Don't make me some saintly old lady come down
from Heaven on a moonbeam spoutin' high-flown words.

Me, I'm just me, Grandma Edna Gordon, Hawk Clan Elder of the
Seneca Nation, Six Nations Iroquois. I just turned 85, and am tryin' my
darndest to be a good person. Sometimes I succeed, but don't stay around
me when I get mad! I'm a raging hawk!

I'M HONORED Harvey's chosen me to work with. Or am I the one did the
choosing? <smile> . Harvey's a helper, and that's a holy thing to be.
People'mselves aren't holy. But what they do can be holy. Living a holy
life, that's what life's for. Helping others, fighting injustice, standing
up for the People, saving our Mother the Earth-those are holy things to
do.

But always be sure to remember, it ain't you yourself who's
holy. People are just people. If God'd wanted'm to be holy, he'd have
given'm wings and set'm up on a cloud somewhere playin' a big gold harp.

Sounds pretty boring to me. Me, I'd rather just be a human
being. I'm thankful that's all I am or need to be. Being human, that's a
tough enough job for me.

USED TO BE I KEPT QUIET. I let my husband Hannibal do most of the
talking. He was a spiritual leader of the Seneca Nation, though he wasn't
a chief, just an ordinary man, a Wolf Clan Elder. When Hannibal talked,
folks listened. He spoke from the heart and they listened from the heart.
He changed their lives, like he changed mine. Hannibal made this world a
better place, and that ain't easy to do.

Hannibal also wrote poems like me, and I include some of his
poetry in these pages. To tell the truth, his thoughts and words are so
mixed with mine I can hardly tell'm apart anymore. No matter. They're
all one piece.

Now Hannibal's gone on ahead and left me here awhile to carry on
alone-though my son Richard's always here for me, like his Dad was. So
I've raised four kids, and helped with more'n a few grandkids as well. I
love every one of'm for their own selves.

That's how we all need to be loved. That's how God, the Creator
loves each of us. He created us and he loves us, each one of us for our
own self.

THESE WORDS, these poems, these thoughts come to me like falling leaves
drifting into my lap. I study each leaf, each thought, then the autumn
breeze carries them away. A few I write down, if I can remember'm.
Others are gone forever. Once again, no matter. More'll be drifting down
into my lap any time now. There's always another breeze, and there's
always another poem.

Here's a little leaf-poem that drifted into my lap one day not
long ago when I was out walking in our meadow and a hawk flew out of the
woods high over my head, making that high-pitched squealing sound they
make.

It's a just a little poem, a very simple poem, but I like it.
Some other leaf-poems follow.

IF I HAD NEVER BEEN BORN

If I had never been born,
what would there be
instead of me?

A young girl? A yellow rose?
A hawk?

Oh, yes, a hawk!
A hawk there'd be
instead of me.

SEEING WITH VISIONARY EYES

Take my hand, this weathered branch,
and walk with me along Life's Pathway
in this, my land, my sacred land.
I'll not lead... nor you.
Creator shows the Way.
Side-by-side we'll walk, just we two.
Yes, you and me. You'll see. You'll see.
With visionary eyes you'll see.
So don't be shy, dear friend.
Take my hand and let us make our visit.
Even now the spirits come, Creator-sent.
As we, too, are Creator-sent,
if we but knew.
Look there! A Hawk!
She flies before our eyes,
a red-tailed miracle.
She flies within us, too, you know.
Use your inner eyes
to see how she flies.

SPELLBOUND

I am spellbound when my eyes
capture the height of a mountain.
I wonder, would my dreams reach so high?

If I could challenge the towering mountain
and look down into the valley below,
would I be satisfied with the green pastures?

When I follow a cool, winding brook,
I often ask, "Just where does it end?"
And I wonder, "How far in life could I go?"

I sit and listen to the lapping of the sea.
now peaceful, now angry,
like my heart within.

On the beach I find a shell and put it to my ear,
and within I hear roar of the whole ocean,
the roar of my own heart.
--------

"The more selfish you are
the smaller your world becomes.
*

You make yourself smaller
by being selfish."
*

ACCEPT THE SHADOW-SIDE WITHIN

Deep in the well of the Soul
the shadow-side of yourself,
cries out for release.

Deep in the savage-side of the Soul,
your darkest Self
sings your Death Chant.

Deep in the Soul's twilight,
where clouds are passing by,
and souls are marching on,
you pray, one day you, too, will belong.

Accept the shadow-side within;
Accept your whole Self.
Transform those inward demons
into the Warriors they are meant to be

For you are made of dark and light,
of sun and shadow,
of good and, yes, of bad.
You need them all.
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 09:22:15 -0700
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@koanifoundation.org>
Subject: [livingnation] Stand Up & Be Counted On "Voices Of Truth"

Aloha `aina,

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From: mark swearingen
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 6:57 AM
Subject: LA TIMES: Hawaii's tatoos

HAWAII
In Hawaii, tattoos are a mark of pride
To native Hawaiians, tattoos are cultural. To visitors, they're cool.
By Jay Jones, Special to The Los Angeles Times
July 20, 2008
Wailuku, Hawaii

'Mom, Dad, can I get a tattoo?"

That's a hot-button issue for many parents. They panic at the thought of
their teenager being inked -- scarred! -- for life at a still tender age.

If, however, the question is posed in Hawaii, the parents' reaction may
be quite different. In the 50th state, tattoos are part of the culture,
having been introduced centuries ago by early voyagers from other
Polynesian islands. Today, tattoo parlors are just about as prolific as
souvenir shops. The number has increased 16% in just one year, state
records show. Tourists, it seems, are returning home not only with the
obligatory shell necklaces and pineapples but also with tattoos.

"People are saying, 'I want your culture, a part of it, tattooed on my
body for the rest of my life,' " says David "Boze" Kapoi, a tattoo artist
in Wailuku on Maui.

Kapoi is a talented, in-demand artist. Earlier this year -- when Eli
Kapilii wanted a meaningful design on his left leg -- he rejected the
dozens of tattooists on the Big Island, where he lives. Instead, he
forked out a couple hundred bucks for a plane ticket to Maui, where Kapoi
runs the Pride Ink shop in Wailuku, just a few miles from the airport in
Kahului.

According to Kapilii, "Boze is the best in the state."

"If you want a good Polynesian tattoo, you've got to book him," he says.

"I told Boze I wanted a tiki representing guidance. The tiki oversees
everything. I wanted it on my leg, the lowest part of my body, as a
foundation. It represents me, always looking forward."

Kapoi does his designs freehand, combining modern and traditional
elements from various Polynesian cultures. His clients include a father
and son who got identical tattoos on their chests just before the dad, a
soldier, left for Iraq. Kapoi has also tattooed members of a graduating
class from a Maui high school.

For several years, tattoos have been part of the graduation ritual for
seniors in the Hawaiian immersion program at King Kekaulike High School
in Pukalani.

"It's a rite of passage," says Pauahi Hookano, a teacher in the school's
immersion program, in which all classes are taught in Hawaiian. Hookano
created the design for the class of 2007.

"I put three years of thought into it," she says of the design, which
consists of nine connected patterns, one for each graduate. Hookano and
six of her students got the tattoo, which she named "maluoia," Hawaiian
for "protected."

"My hope for my students is that they're protected, that they're safe and
they're sheltered in their lives," she says. "It's a responsibility to
put your mark on somebody else."

Hookano explains that, in Hawaii, tattoos often contain lizards, sea
turtles, tropical flowers and other symbols of the ancient traditions she
teaches. She tells her students that, for some Hawaiians, tattoos hold
great spiritual significance.

"Once you put a mark on your skin, you've got to take into perspective
that from that moment in time, your identity changes," cautions
45-year-old Keeaumoku Kapu, a taro farmer in the mountains above the town
of Lahaina, in western Maui.

"The younger generation is so anxious to get a tattoo," he says. "In my
family, the only way to get a tattoo is through [spiritual] rites of
passage. And I tell my kids, 'Just because you get a diploma from high
school, that's not a rite of passage.' "

Kapu's three grown sons all bear the same hip-to-ankle tattoo as their
father, a design that represents 27 generations of their family. Kapu did
the work himself - as his father had done to him -- but not until he
thought his sons were mature enough to articulate why they deserved the
branding.

The growing popularity of tattoos is helping to revive native Hawaiian
culture, which first Christian missionaries and then politicians tried
for decades to erase, Kapu says.

"You've got to remember that a lot of these [cultural] things were
forbidden," he says. "The resurgence is great, because people are in dire
need of their identity."

Kapu, however, shuns the commercial tattoo parlors that seem to be
everywhere on the islands. He's concerned that their artists use ancient
symbols they don't understand or appreciate, going so far as to describe
their work as nothing more than "graffiti."

"We get a lot of people who get a tattoo on Maui and go back home saying,
insincerely, that they're Hawaiian," Kapu says. "Do they want to live in
the true identity of the old traditional symbols or just live an
illusion?"

Hookano, the teacher, understands Kapu's reverence but doesn't share his
perspective, at least not completely.

"There are people out there that feel that tattooing is a very sacred
thing," she says. "But on the flip side, even traditionally, tattoos were
also used as they are now -- as body art."

Artist Kapoi thinks Hawaiians should celebrate the fact that people from
all over the world are choosing traditional Hawaiian symbols for their
tattoos.

"I'm proud, happy and honored to tattoo them with my native style," he
says.

travel@latimes.com
--
Mark Swearingen
Po Box 1100
Kaneohe, Hawaii 96744
phone: 808-853-7981
fax: 208-445-2173
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:32:17 -1000
From: pilipo souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
What Palestinians and
Hawaiians have in Common - comment

Aloha kakou, Mahalo for sharing this insight.

It is said, truth will always surface. There was a time when truth was
everywhere but now it is hidden and even not recognized when discovered.

For me the people of Palestine have an advantage over the aboriginal
people of Hawaii , the Kanaka Maoli.They have a physical concrete walls
and wired-fences to remind them they are endangered. Palestinians know
the difference between Jew and Gentile even though biblically, they are
half-Jew.

The Kanaka Maoli does not have this daily reminder except when they
trespass into the legal system. But their greatest barrier is they don't
realize they are being divided by their own people.

Dr. Kanaaneh points out there is a vicious circle whose perpetual motion
is fueled by the American Christian right and the no-less mighty Zionist
pro-Israel lobby. In the middle of this circle are the lesser chosen
people of the world. As long as this circle gets bigger and bigger these
promoters never will meet each other and their prey will never know their
hunter.

But the circle is getting smaller, and one day when there is no victims
these promoters will finally meet each.

Aloha ke Akua,
pilipo
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Date: Sun, 20 July 2008
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Taxes and Stories

wanted to share this with you folks, from another list. our collective
history is rich and interesting. ku, oct. 11 this year is on a saturday.
what about a concert at uluhaimalama saturday morning? lc

----- Original Message ----- From: kahiwal@cs.com
Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 10:39 AM

Stephanie Laxton <NAIHE@msn.com> wrote:

>However, I am aware that you Ku took care of this as a safety net to the
"Ass'n". I'm looking at the future and should this
Uluhaimalama@yahoogroups.com disband or grow old and die out how can we
make certain there will be a safety net that is perpetual? Or should we
just cross this road when it occurs? Something to think about.

I started out paying all the taxes by myself - as I will never let unpaid
taxes be one of the problems with the place.

For those who may read this and not know or realize Uluhaimalama's
importance - especially if you're not a member of this list - Uluhaimalama
is or should be one of the primary symbols of our Nation.

Uluhaimalama was one of "the" projects that Queen Lili'uokalani supported
- that, in turn, supported the idea of counter-revolution and a return to
government of the Kingdom.

On the other hand, it was Uluhaimalama - where the original "Kaulana Na
Pua" was played and it was the Royal Hawaiian Band that was so dedicated
to the Kingdom. The Band played at the Dedication of Uluhaimalama Nursery
on October 11, 1894 - and it must have been thrilling to have been there
to hear the song in public (before a loyal audience).

This brings to mind - the 100th Anniversary Celebration of the planting of
the garden when Don Ho sang the song - accompanied by a stand up hula by
two or three of his hula dancers. It was awesome.

I hope this list never dies out. And if Yahoo kills it - we can always
start up another.

We have a very dedicated group who are wonderful supporters of
Uluhaimalama. We all know the stories about the place. And, if we want
to reread and relive some of those stories, the archives of this list is
rich in content. Each of us should, when we are thinking the thoughts
about Uluhaimalama that can be shared - contribute an email to the list -
and that email will be added to the stories that are currently on here.

And, if we have been deficient in this idea - then maybe we should make it
a point to see that the archives are rich with Uluhaimalama stories.

Let me share a story - about a woman who was somewhat associated with
Uluhaimalama. Kealoha was the daughter in law of Lizzie Mana. Lizzie
Mana was married to John Mana and they lived in a 2-story house next to
what became the garden of Uluhaimalama.

Anyway - in the 1950s - when H-1 was being built - one night Kealoha and
at least one of her daughters dragged a marble tabletop down to the
excavation that became the highway - and buried the tabletop. That
tabletop remains there - under H-1 - 'til this day.

I don't know the story of the mysterious tabletop - but I would guess that
it had something to do with either Uluhaimalama or the Queen or with
Lizzie (and Judge Whiting).

Remember - Lizzie was the woman (and she is such a favorite person of mine
in the history of our land) who - with her partner - had 3 children in the
1880s.

Her partner was the first Attorney General of Queen Lili'uokalani and also
the President of the military tribunal that tried the Queen for misprision
of treason in 1895. He was the person at whose home Lizzie obtained the
newspapers that were wrapped around the flowers and leis that from
Uluhaimalama that went to the Queen - and from which she was informed of
the happenings of the day (that was being kept from her).

William Austin Whiting was that person.

I wouldn't be in the least surprised that the tabletop was once part of a
table owned by the one-time judge, a member of the Queen's cabinet and the
Queen's prosecutor.

I just ran across the following (google) written by Amy Marsh (and some
lyrics she wrote) about John and Lizzie Mana and Judge Whiting. (see
below).

ku
___________

Hunakai
A lei of aloha for Hawai'i nei.
Monday, April 10, 2006

Song for a Forgotten Love Triangle

I heard the story of this historic "love triangle" from Clarence
Kukauakahi Ching, who has made a major contribution to Hawaiian culture by
leading efforts to preserve the once forgotten garden of Queen
Liliu'okalani, Uluhaimalama, helping to get it designated a historic
place. He featured a re-enactment of a historic protest planting of that
garden in "The 'Aina Remains," a film he produced and in which he acted in
the 80's. This garden is located in Pauoa Valley, Honolulu, and is not the
same as the famous "Queen's Garden" elsewhere in the city.

Lizzie Mana was a Native Hawaiian woman, a caretaker of this garden, and a
close friend of the Queen. During her imprisonment, the Queen was allowed
flowers, but no newspapers. Lizzie was the clever woman who smuggled
newspapers to Lili'u, as wrappings for the flowers from her garden. Legend
has it that Lizzie obtained the newspapers from the house of her former
lover, Judge Whiting. She had three children with the judge, but he never
married her. Judge Whiting served in Queen Liliu'okalani's cabinet and
later betrayed her by acting against her in the trial that resulted in her
imprisonment by the traitors who overthrew her kingdom. The third member
of the triangle, John Mana, was a Native Hawaiian man who became Lizzie's
husband after she left the Judge.

A very touching example of the strength of the Hawaiian feeling for 'ohana
(family) is that Lizzie and John took care of the Judge in the last years
of his life. He moved in with them. As the father of Lizzie's children,
John must have considered the Judge to be "punalua" to him and therefore
bore him no ill will.

In this song below, written by me as one of a series of librettos, I
imagine the relationship between Lizzie, the Judge, and John. I imagine
the influences of Christianity on the Hawaiians, and of the Hawaiian
culture on the hard-headed New England Judge, who must have softened in
later years. I also imagine the lure of the "exotic" as it influenced both
the Judge and Lizzie in their initial attraction to each other. And I
imagine the faithfulness and quiet generosity of John. What follows should
not be taken as factual in any sense of the word, but as an artist and
writer's attempt to imagine the feelings of these people long ago. E kala
mai (apologies) if there is anything in this portrayal which causes
offense to any descendents of the people in the song.

--------- LITTLE WIFE (by Waihili)

LIZZIE (to Judge):

Sometimes you'd call me "little wife,"
How long ago it seems!
And I was lost in loving you,
And the larger world which beckoned to
me, shining in my dreams.

But when I bore your children,
How long ago it seems!
I handed each small babe to you,
You said I should repent with you,
For all our sinful dreams!

JUDGE (to Foreign Chorus, not meeting Lizzie's eyes):
(different tune) (Foreign women turn away. Men exchange knowing glances.)

I charmed a native beauty,
and brought her to my bed. Oh yes I called her "little wife,"
But we were never wed!

LIZZIE (to Judge):
(Apologetic glance/gesture to John Mana)

I thought we were to share our lives,
How long ago it seems!
Why did I spurn the boys I knew?
Whatever did I see in you?
And all your foriegn schemes?

JOHN MANA (to Lizzie):
(different tune, but related to Lizzie's)
(Picks a flower, hands to Lizzie)

This flower's all the sweeter,
For having now been plucked.
A cherished lei I'll always wear.
Now I find flowers for your hair,
That shimmers in my dreams!

JUDGE:
I charmed a native beauty,
And beguiled her in bed.
Oh yes we had three children,
But we were never wed!

LIZZIE and JOHN MANA:
(John's tune) (Lizzie puts flower in hair. She and John hold hands.)

This flower's all the sweeter,
For having now been plucked,
A cherished lei we'll always wear,
And we'll find flowers both to share,
To shimmer in our dreams.

(Repeat the last verse in Hawaiian lyrics--which have yet to be written)
Posted by Waihili at 5:43 PM
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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:37:21 -1000
From: Viviane Lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>
Subject: Cynthia Mckinney Accepts Green Party Nomination [10-mn. video]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N14HYcopWEU
Cynthia Mckinney Accepts Green Party Nomination
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:48:32 +0000
From: Ana <uriohau@gmail.com>
Subject: [mana_wahine] Re: No To Pope Protest pictures and video

POPE'S VISIT - JULY 2008

The visit of the Pope to Australia led to a number of protests, including
the main one held on 19 July 2008 at Taylor Square, Sydney, in what has
become known as the heart of gay Sydney.

This page covers the July 19 protest, the successful Federal Court
challenge to the "annoyance" regulations and photos of police officers not
wearing identification.

The rally and march of about 1,000 people attracted varied interest
groups, from socialists to cross-dressers to atheists and others, opposed
to the Pope's teachings on contraception, sexuality, abortion and his
characterisation of masturbation as a "sin."

Many of the groups formed a coalition to plan the protest, the No To Pope
coalition.

There were several atheist groups.

As well as those Christians who were specifically opposed to the Pope's
teachings.

HUMAN RIGHTS MONITORS

At the request of protest organisers, about a dozen Human Rights Monitors
attended the protest.

Human Rights Monitors were concerned at the very heavy police presence, at
what was a relatively small protest which was light-hearted and which
indicated a very low risk of public disorder. A Catholic pilgrim was
arrested at the protest after allegedly attacking a protester.

POLICE HORSES

We were concerned at the presence of police horses. Being animals, they
are unpredictable and can cause injury by standing on people's feet.
This photo shows police using horses to push the crowd forward from the
rear, as police presumably considered the crowd to be moving too slowly
(from people dancing). This practice risks foot injuries.

Regulation
Just prior to the main protest against the Pope, a regulation making it
an offence to annoy visiting pilgrims was ruled void by the Federal
Court.

Overview
A special Act of Parliament was passed for the Pope's visit - the World
Youth Day Act 2006 and an additional Act in 2007.

Under these laws, Ministerial regulations were passed - published in the
Gazette of July 27 (scroll down to page 5815). These regulations
included making it an offence to "annoy" Catholic pilgrims. These
Regulations were challenged in the Federal Court, with the Court
unanimously holding that the provision in relation to "annoying" people
was invalid.

The Court argued (the established legal position) that if Parliament
intended a Minister to have the power to breach (what the Court called)
"the fundamental value of free speech" then it must clearly say so. The
Court case was brought by two actvisits, Rachel Evans and Amber Pike.

The challenge received extensive coverage, including

Rules 'would ban giving water to faithful' by Jano Gibson Sydney Morning
Herald 12 July 2008.

Anti-annoyance regulations irk judges by Michael Pelly The Australian 12
July 2008

Court dumps 'annoy' law by Malcolm Brown 15 July 2008 Sydney Morning
Herald.

An analysis of the laws can be found in an article in The Australian's
Legal Section, World Youth Day 'anti-annoyance' law be damned: appalled
barristers qui ck to fight state by Michael Pelly The Australian 18 July
2008 (no apparent link).

The Court judgement itself is interesting reading - Evans v State of New
South Wales [2008] FCAFC 130 (15 July 2008).

Rather than relaxing in their new-found victory, No To Pope organisers
received a letter on the morning of July 17 from NSW Police. The letter
attemped to impose "conditions" on the planned protest which in many ways
would have duplicated the regulation which had just been ruled invalid by
the Federal Court.

Police asked organisers to promise to obey directions as to movements and
to self-censor placards and posters. At a meeting held that evening at
6.00pm, the protesters refusal to abide by any "imposed" conditions left
police with the choice of doing nothing or making an application to the
Supreme Court for a "prohibition order" under s25 Summary Offences Act.
Perhaps realising their weak position, police backed down.

BADGELESS POLICE OFFICERS

For those who may not have seen one, this is a correctly uniformed police
officer. Note the blue badge (viewer's left) on top of the yellow vest.
The identification badge itself is small and of limited use, but is
useful in identifying misbehaving police officers.

REF: POPE 1

This police officer has refused to wear his identification badge. Why?
Why have his superior officers similarly refused to ensure that he is in
uniform? Human Rights Monitors have made a complaint to the NSW
Ombudsman's Office about these breaches of police regulations. See how
the complaint is going by going to the Ombudsman's Office section of this
website.

REF: POPE 2

Do you know any of these police officers? We are keen to pass the
information on to the NSW Ombudsman's office in order to faciliate our
complaint.

REF: POPE 3

And another.

REF: POPE 4

And another.

REF: POPE 5

And another.

FINALLY, CONGRATULATIONS...

Congratulations to the four mounted police who were not wearing their
badges but put them on after we took their photos. As promised, we are
not putting their photos up on this website.

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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:54:33 -1000
From: Brad Parsons <mauibrad@hotmail.com>
Subject: Al Gore's 10 yr Challenge to America Last Week

MONDAY, JULY 21, 2008
Al Gore's 10 yr Challenge to America Last Week
See: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idlJDcr669o
And: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srq9_mdoYBw

I think Al Gore is right, this needs to be attempted with in the next 10
years, not 20 years, but here is an interesting blog that got me to
viewing the above videos:
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2008/07/boondoggle-to-end-all-boondoggles.html

Too bad Al can't be Barack's running mate, to be put in charge of this,
Aloha, Brad
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:26:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: megavote@mailmanager.net
Subject: MegaVote: HI 2nd, 7/21/2008

Congress.org presents: M E G A V O T E
July 21, 2008

In this MegaVote for Hawaii's 2nd Congressional District:

Recent Congressional Votes -
* Senate: Veto Override; Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act
* Senate: U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act
* House: Veto Override; Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act
* House: Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands Act

Upcoming Congressional Bills -
* Senate: Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act
* Senate: American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act
* House: American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act
* House: The National Highway Bridge Reconstruction and Inspection Act
* House: U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and
Malaria Reauthorization Act
--------

Recent Senate Votes:

Veto Override; Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=177&chamber=S&congress=1102
Vote Passed (70-26, 4 Not Voting)

The Senate overrode the President's veto of a bill that cancels a scheduled 10.6 percent cut in Medicare physician payments.
Sen. Daniel Inouye voted
YES
send e-mail (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/mail/?id=201&mailid=custom)
see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=201)

Sen. Daniel Akaka voted
YES
send e-mail (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/mail/?id=202&mailid=custom)
see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=202)
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U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=182&chamber=S&congress=1102
Vote Passed (80-16, 4 Not Voting)

The Senate passed this bill to triple spending for President Bush's
program to treat and prevent AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis in foreign
countries.

Sen. Daniel Inouye voted
YES
send e-mail (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/mail/?id=201&mailid=custom)
see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=201)

Sen. Daniel Akaka voted
YES
send e-mail (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/mail/?id=202&mailid=custom)
see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=202)
===============

Recent House Votes:

Veto Override; Medicare Improvement for Patients and Providers Act
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=491&chamber=H&congress=1102
Vote Passed (383-41, 11 Not Voting)

The House overrode the President's veto of a bill that cancels a scheduled
10.6 percent cut in Medicare physician payments.

Rep. Mazie Hirono voted
YES
send e-mail (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/mail/?id=31644&mailid=custom)
see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=31644)
-------------------

Drill Responsibly in Leased Lands Act
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=511&chamber=H&congress=1102
Vote Failed (244-173, 18 Not Voting)

The House failed to attain the necessary two-thirds margin needed to pass
this bill that would have required energy companies to drill for oil and
gas in areas where licenses have already been acquired.

Rep. Mazie Hirono voted
YES
send e-mail (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/mail/?id=31644&mailid=custom)
see bio (http://capwiz.com/congressorg/bio/?id=31644)
=========

Upcoming Votes:

Stop Excessive Energy Speculation Act - S.3268
The Senate is scheduled to vote on this bill intended to prevent price
speculation in the oil markets.

American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act - H.R.3221
The Senate is expected to vote on this housing-recovery package after it passes the House.

American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act - H.R.3221
The House will vote this week on this housing-recovery bill.

The National Highway Bridge Reconstruction and Inspection Act - H.R.3999
The House is scheduled to vote on this bill to improve highway bridge safety.

U.S. Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act - H.R.5501
This bill funds programs in foreign countries that combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria.
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:54:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Kevin Zeese <action@votersforpeace.org>
Subject: Tell Sen. Obama: It is time to work to "end the mindset" of war

VotersForPeace Marquee
July 21, 2008

Senator Obama has told voters over and over, throughout this campaign and
throughout his political career that it is our job to hold him and other
politicians accountable.

As Obama travels abroad in Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan and
Europe, it is time for the anti-war movement to hold Obama accountable.
Early in the campaign Obama made an important promise that we should hold
him to, he said:

"I want to end the mindset that got us into war in the first place."

As he meets with foreign leaders, particularly in the Middle East and
Afghanistan, we need to let him know that peace voters expect him to live
up to that pledge.

Please sign the petition today, copied below, and urge your friends to do
so as well. The more people Obama hears from the more seriously he will
take this demand. Sign now! You can do so by going to
www.VotersForPeace.US.

Thank you for your efforts.

Sincerely,
Kevin Zeese
Executive Director
VotersForPeace

Sen. Obama: It is time to work to "end the mindset" of war

In recent comments you have urged voters to "hold you accountable" and
make policy demands on you. On January 31, 2008 you said "I want to end
the mindset that got us into war in the first place." This is the
standard we urge you live-up to - the statement for which we write to hold
you accountable.

As you embark on your tour of Europe, the Middle East and Afghanistan as
the putative Democratic nominee it is time to begin to "end the mindset"
of war. When you visit Israel urge them do not bomb Iran; tell the
Israelis and Palestinians that peace is the priority; urge U.S. commanders
in Iraq to speed up the withdrawal you have proposed and make it a
complete withdrawal - do not leave a residual force, mercenaries, a strike
force in Kuwait or any long-term bases, and when you are in Afghanistan
emphasize non-military solutions to the conflict there. Militarism
dominates U.S. statecraft. It is time for greater emphasis on negotiation,
diplomacy, multi-lateralism and foreign aid.

Your recent writings and speeches on Iraq indicate that you have not
backtracked. It is critical that you do not do so. Already many in the
peace movement are concerned with some of your positions particularly the
incomplete withdrawal that leaves tens of thousands of residual forces in
Iraq, leaves more than 100,000 private military forces (mercenaries) and
creates a combat strike force in Kuwait while continuing to threaten Iran.
DO NOT TAKE AMERICANS OPPOSED TO WAR FOR GRANTED. Anti-war voters - the
majority of Americans - have many options. We do not have to donate time
or money to your campaign, we can vote for clearly anti-war third party
and independent candidates or we can not vote at all.

War is not the answer to any of these conflicts. The U.S. is not made
more secure by creating new enemies and draining our treasury. The U.S.
military budget is sapping the economic strength of the nation and making
it impossible to face up to the urgent needs of a new energy economy,
upgraded infrastructure, health care for all and other necessities of the
American people. When you "end the mindset" that led to the Iraq War it
will allow for a re-prioritization of resources at home and abroad away
from a military economy toward a civilian one.

SIGN THE PETITION NOW!

VotersForPeace
2842 North Calvert Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
443-708-8360
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:15:35 -0700
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@koanifoundation.org>
Subject: [kaleimailealii] Link To New Proposed `Iolani Palace Regulations &
Upcoming DLNR Hearings

Aloha `aina,

For those who have not yet seen the actual wording of the new proposed
DLNR regulations for `Iolani Palace, here's the link to do so -

http://www.hawaiistateparks.org/documents/hsp_proposed_admin_rules_iolani_pala1.
pdf

I urge you to down load the file and study it closely.

You will quickly be able to read between the lines and see what they're
attempting to prevent in the future, especially as it relates to the 2009
50th State Jubilee Celebration. They want Kanakas as far away as
possible. They're scared of what could happen - the truth about Hawai`i's
status could get out to the world.

Here's the schedule of public hearings about these new regulations should
you care to let them know how you feel -

Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 6:30 PM, Kaunakakai Elementary School
Cafeteria, 30 Ailoa Street, Kaunakakai

Tuesday, August 12, 2008, 5 PM, Lana`i High and Elementary School, Room
Ll6, 555 Fraser Ave., Lana`i City

Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 6:30 PM, DLNR Boardroom 132, 1151 Punchbowl
Street, Honolulu

Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 6:30 PM, Events Pavilion, Old Kona Airport
Park, 75-5480 Kuakini Highway, Kailua-Kona

Wednesday, August 13, 2008, 6:30 PM, Maui County Planning Department
Conference Room, 1st floor, 250 South High Street, Wailuku

Thursday, August 14, 2008, 6:30 PM, Conference Rooms A, B, & C, State
Office Building, 75 Aupuni Street. Hilo

Monday, August 18, 2008, 6:30 PM, State Office Building 2nd Floor
Conference Room, 3060 Eiwa Street, Room 209, Lihu`e

Ho`oku`oko`a,

`Ehu Kekahu Cardwell
The Koani Foundation
New Email Address - ehukekahu@koanifoundation.org
Visit FreeHawaii.Info
Watch FreeHawaiiTV.com
"Voices Of Truth" online - VoicesOfTruthTV.com
The Free Hawai`i Broadcasting Network
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:19:08 -0700
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>
Subject: While we build Bunker Busters and mechanical insects

From: Ben Noyes

COPENHAGEN (Thomson Financial) - Danish utility Dong Energy AS is today
expected to announce a partnership with a California start-up, Better PLC,
to build a nationwide system to charge electric cars, the Wall Street
Journal reported.

Better and Dong are planning by 2010 to build the infrastructure to
support a countrywide electric-car system, with charging spots and
battery-exchange locations, the newspaper said.

The deal will provide an outlet for the country's surplus wind power, with
consumers able to charge batteries at windy times when power is cheap."
http://www.forbes.com/markets/feeds/afx/2008/03/27/afx4819715.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23832749/
http://media.cleantech.com/3075/renault-nissan-to-bring-electric-cars-to-portugal

The solution from our best and brightest
Drill for oil

It's not the Reduplicates or the Demonrats, it's the whole system Built to
keep us stupid and enslaved. Let's ask the pols what they think of the
Danes idea. I am sure their reply will be "I'll look into it" Vote third
party Give the USA a chance

"every question, if it's a truthful question,can be answered by askin'
it." Bob Dylan

^ÓWe have, as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light may
enter their (the slaves) minds.
If we could extinguish the capacity to see the light, our work would be
complete; Virginia House of Delegates 1832,^ÓHenty Berry

BaNoyes.tripod.com
No to the Dictatorshipevolution
________________________________________________________________________________

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 03:55:16 +0000
From: Ana <uriohau@gmail.com>
Subject: [mana_wahine] Laban Lap Dog for Neo Liberalism in the Pacific

Scoop: Laban to attend PI Forum Trade discussions

True to form, the sellable face of spreading neo liberalism throughout
the Pacific is sadly yet again Winnie Laban. She also recently headed a
delegation of Pacific Island Businesses to Guam, and with Condalezza Rice
visiting Aotearoa soon, what ever the administration NZ is firmly locked
into supporting American hegemony in the Pacific. Don't believe the hype
that that slave labour settler grubbyment are spreading about Trade in
the Pacific, ours cousins across the ocean have told us about NAFTA. Here
Jane Kelsey lays out what the implications of PACER & PICTA will be on
the peoples of the Pacific. Time to get busy people.

The picture that emerges is deeply disturbing. As one NZ
government official confirmed with disarming frankness: when
it comes to trade there is no `special relationship' with the
Pacific. Effectively, international trade strategy takes
priority over the views of Pacific governments and the needs
of Pacific peoples.

This is not just a power grab by Australia and NZ for control
of the South Pacific. As a World Bank report spelt out in
2002, PACER aims to lock the Pacific Islands irrevocably into
the neoliberal paradigm. The link to the Pacific Regional
Economic
Partnership (REPA) negotiations with the EU is partly
defensive. But PACER and Cotonou are also flip sides of the
same coin. Both swap preferential agreements for reciprocal
ones that guarantee more extensive market access without
having to
make any additional concessions. Both promise sensitivity to
the realities of poor, small and vulnerable Pacific Islands,
while they treat them as pawns to advance their global
strategic game plan. Both reach beyond the rapidly expanding
`trade' agenda of goods, services, investment, competition
and procurement to advance the Washington Consensus policies
of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank,
including labour market `flexibility', fiscal austerity and
privatisation of
state assets and services. The broader and deeper the
liberalisation, the more `structural adjustment' will be
required.

The Pacific was viewed as an inherited millstone - but one
they were determined to keep under their control. As the
multilateral regimes began to falter and a scramble for
regional and bilateral deals accompanied the revival of US
imperialism, Australia and NZ focused on securing their own
small sphere of influence. The desire to recolonise `their
lake' now dominates their economic, political and military
relationship with their Pacific neighbours.

BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5225641567811910626

The report found the following, that the major impacts of globalization in
the Pacific were, number one, rapid increase in extreme poverty; and
number two, destabilization of governments. After decades of failed
economic development and stagnant private investment, we see now the rapid
rise of extreme poverty in the Pacific. 40% of the peoples of Vanuatu live
in poverty. 48% in Samoa. Over 50% in Kiribati. "The Island of Hope"
documented that the primary cause of poverty in the Pacific relates to
globalization, and that this rise in poverty is interlinked with the
adoption by national governments of liberal policies promoting investment
and competition, and this has operated to the detriment of social
services, including health, education, housing, and social welfare.

Native Hawaiian attorney, Mililani Trask, speaking at a forum sponsored by
the International Forum on Globalization

INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' RESISTANCE TO ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION: A CELEBRATION OF
VICTORIES, RIGHTS AND CULTURES

http://uriohau.blogspot.com/2008/07/laban-lap-dog-for-neo-liberalism-in.html
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Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:14:12 -1000
From: Brad Parsons <mauibrad@hotmail.com>
Subject: HSF Crunching the numbers for June, Part 2

MONDAY, JULY 21, 2008
Crunching the numbers for June, Part 2

This is almost funny. What is the difference between 'passenger bookings'
and actual 'ridership?' I guess with this company we have to ask
questions about semantics like this. Here is why. From my recent prior
post:

http://hisuperferry.blogspot.com/2008/07/crunching-numbers-for-june.html
'The current issue of Pacific Business News has the first and only report
of total ridership for June. 'Superferry officials said the Alakai had
more than 30,000 passenger bookings in June, up 20 percent over May.''

And a reply I got from a person who would know at DOT-Harbors:

'Brad, the HSF reporting format to Harbors is by revenue generated. So
for passengers departing Honolulu in June, they show 12,992, and for
passengers departing Kahului in June, they show 13,183. Autos departing
Honolulu in June are 3,095 and autos departing Kahului in June are 3,182.
Commercial vehicles departing Honolulu are 278 in June and 288 departing
Kahului in June. I'm not sure if 'bookings in June' is the same thing as
units reported to Harbors. I tend to think 'bookings' encompasses more
than actual ridership. HSF provides a brief to the Oversight Task Force
which is on our DOT website. This brief typically includes their
passenger and vehicle counts for the reported period.'

So, that's almost 4,000 passengers less than the 'bookings' reported to
PBN, meaning the prior overly generous numbers should be re-calculated.
I'm not going to waste time on that, it can still be said that they only
covered their fuel costs for June, at best, and that's as good as it has
gotten for these PR geniuses.

Aloha, Brad
________________________________________________________________________________

Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:38:31 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Reminder: "A Political History of Kamehameha I: From Chiefly to
British Governance."

aloha all, just a reminder of this event, wednesday, july 23, 7:30 pm.
for more info, email palolo@hawaii.rr.com or call 284-3460. please
forward to anyone you think might be interested. mahalo.

"A Political History of Kamehameha I: From Chiefly to British
Governance."

Join us on Wednesday evening, July 23, 7:30 pm at Jarrett Middle School
Cafeteria for a talk by David Keanu Sai. This presentation will cover
chapters I and II (soon to be published) of his dissertation.

For more information, call or email Lynette Cruz at 284-3460 or
palolo@hawaii.rr.com. This event is sponsored by Ka Lei Maile Alii
Hawaiian Civic Club and is free and open to the public.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:06:36 -1000
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>
Subject: Feds coming to weigh vog risks

Gosh, wonder why they don't want any publicity about this issue... m
------

"While advance notice has been given of previous task force meetings, the
Tribune-Herald received no prior notification of Friday's meeting....When
asked why the task force is not subject to the state's Sunshine Law
mandating openness in government, Okubo referred the matter to state Civil
Defense. "Basically, this was ... different government agencies getting
together to look at the problem of the vog and to try to decide on next
steps," Lovell said. "We had checked with the Attorney General's office
and was told that this did not fall under the Sunshine Law."

Feds coming to weigh vog risks
by John Burnett
Stephens Media
Monday, July 21, 2008 9:04 AM HST

HILO - A team from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is
coming to the Big Island next month to assess the health risks of vog
from Kilauea.

The team will include investigators from the federal Agency for Toxic
Substances and Disease Registry. They'll meet with staff from the state
Department of Health to do an environmental health risk analysis and
assessment of the volcano's emissions, and develop strategies to mitigate
their effects.

The pending visit was revealed at an unannounced meeting called Friday
morning by Gov. Linda Lingle at the State Office Building in Hilo.
According to a DOH statement put out Friday evening, the meeting of the
state interagency task force on vog hazards was led by state Civil
Defense Director Maj. Gen. Robert G.F. Lee.

The task force includes Mayor Harry Kim, and representatives of the
county Fire Department, state Departments of Health, Civil Defense,
Public Safety, and Agriculture, the University of Hawaii College of
Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Farm Service Agency, Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.

Officials in Honolulu participated in the meeting via teleconference,
state Civil Defense spokesman Ray Lovell said.

Since March 12, sulfur dioxide emissions from a new vent in Halemaumau
Crater have caused respiratory problems among residents, leading to
voluntary evacuations and significant damage to farms and ranches
downwind of the volcano. Concerns have been raised over the long-term
effects on health, water quality and agriculture.

On June 20, Lingle requested that USDA Secretary Edward Schafer declare
Hawaii County a disaster area due to volcanic emissions. A response is
expected soon on whether federal disaster aid will be available.

Also in June, Lingle asked the EPA to help the state assess and address
the volcanic emissions. EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson responded in a
July 11 letter indicating the agency's willingness to assist the state
and offered technical support for both air and water quality issues.

Johnson also accepted the governor's invitation to participate in the
multi-agency task force.

Lovell said state Civil Defense will assemble information from Friday's
meeting and develop recommendations for short-term and long-term actions.

While advance notice has been given of previous task force meetings, the
Tribune-Herald received no prior notification of Friday's meeting.

"The meeting was convened by state Civil Defense to get the partner
agencies together to assess the problem and to plot strategy," Janice
Okubo, DOH communications director, said Friday night. "If members of the
press or public showed up, they probably would have let them in."

When asked why the task force is not subject to the state's Sunshine Law
mandating openness in government, Okubo referred the matter to state
Civil Defense.

"Basically, this was ... different government agencies getting together
to look at the problem of the vog and to try to decide on next steps,"
Lovell said. "We had checked with the Attorney General's office and was
told that this did not fall under the Sunshine Law."
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:32:27 -0500
From: revolutionbks@yahoo.com
Subject: [UTF-8] Talk by Dennis Loo on Wed July 23!

Reminder!

Wednesday, July 23, 7pm
Talk by Dr. Dennis Loo
Co-Editor of "Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush & Cheney"
Professor of Sociology, Cal-Poly Pomona College
Member of the World Can't Wait National Steering Committee
Initiator of the "Declare It Now: Wear Orange! campaign"

Dennis Loo will speak on the Rupture that is needed to break with the
fascistic trajectory of the Bush Regime - whether implemented by Bush
himself or the administration that follows. Dennis has written numerous
articles on the criminality of the Bush policies, including on the Iraq
War, the legalization of torture, and FISA. His articles appear regularly
on the World Can't Wait website, on CounterPunch, and on other e-news
sources. Dennis was also an activist in Honolulu before going to UC-Santa
Cruz for his Ph.D.

The talk will be at 7pm, followed by a discussion. A reception will
follow.

There is little parking in front of the store. We'll have some spaces
reserved behind Mango Season (the little lot in the alley next to the
store). There's often parking on Varsity Place, and always parking at the
lots next to Eastside Grille or Church of the Crossroads (pay).

Dennis's talk is sponsored by World Can't Wait-Hawai`i and Revolution
Books
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From: Jenny James
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2008 9:23 PM
Subject: Urgent: Solidarity with the people of Colombia -

- On Mon, 7/14/08, International Action Center
<Actioncenter@action-mail.org> wrote:

International Action Center

Political repression is on the rise in Colombia,
despite recent news!

The international community must speak out!

The International Action Center issues urgent appeal
for solidarity with the people of Colombia and to
support the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal in Bogotá,
Colombia July 21-23

Support the fact-finding mission to investigate human
rights violations in Colombia and the Tribunal!

The human rights crisis in Colombia is dire! In the
last two weeks, two trade unionists and the 10-year-old
son of one of them were killed. According to some
unionists, more than 4,000 unionists have been killed
in Colombia in the last 20 years. Four million people
have been displaced from their homes due to a
U.S.-backed war against the civilian population and the
social movement.

Progressive people, including journalists, human rights
activists, community leaders and student organizers,
Make a donation to help send students, anti-war and
community activists, and working people to document
U.S.-backed abuse in Colombia.
have been killed, threatened or attacked for mobilizing
against economic and political repression.

In spite of recent events in Colombia, which have
captured vast media attention, the reality is that
political repression by the Uribe regime goes on
day-in-and-day-out against those those who oppose it.
This is not publicized by the press. It must be
publicized by all who want human rights and justice!

The attacks are carried out by forces trained, funded
and endorsed by the U.S. government. It is part of a
war that has dangerous ramifications against the other
countries in the region.

You can help end this war by supporting the Colombian
people and by demanding that the U.S. government and
corporations stop supporting state terror by Colombian
President Alvaro Uribe's regime.

What you can do:

Send messages of solidarity to the Tribunal!

Donate here to support the international fact-finding
mission to Colombia!

Send this email out far-and-wide to organizations and
individuals to get the truth out!

The Colombian labor union SINALTRAINAL, which
represents Coca-Cola workers, and other progressive
organizations are hosting a Permanent Peoples'
Tribunal in Bogotá, Colombia on July 21-23, and an
international labor delegation which will visit
hospitals, schools and worker centers, and meet with
social organizations,

The International Action Center is working with the
U.S.-Cuba Labor Exchange to take a delegation of labor,
anti-war and other progressive activists on a
fact-finding mission that includes participation in the
Tribunal. The delegation will meet with labor and other
social activists who are leading the struggle in
Colombia for political, economic and social justice and
equality. The trip will help participants understand
how U.S. policies abroad affect workers in Colombia and
in the U.S.

The fact-finding delegation will bring back the truth
to activists in the U.S. about the U.S. role in
Colombian repression against students, unionists, human
rights activists and other progressives. This will help
to build the solidarity movement with the Colombian
people.

Background of Peoples' Tribunal: The Permanent Peoples'
Tribunal is an international independent tribunal that
examines and judges complaints regarding violations of
human rights that have been submitted by the victims.
The Tribunal was founded in June 1979 in Italy by legal
experts, writers and other intellectuals. It followed
the Bertrand Russell International War Crimes Tribunal,
which held two sessions in 1967 to expose war crimes
committed against the Vietnamese people.

The upcoming Tribunal session in Bogotá, entitled
"Transnational corporations and crimes against
humanity," will be the last held there after four prior
hearings on (1) how foreign-owned agribusinesses have
affected farmers and Indigenous peoples; (2) the mining
companies' role; (3) the impact of transnational
corporate-controlled development on biodiversity and
the environment and (4) oil companies and human rights
violations.

The Tribunal is an extremely important event that will
help expose the dangerous, and escalating U.S.
corporate-backed state repression against people's
movements.

It will also reinvigorate the many peoples' movements
and progressive forces with the solidarity that
international delegations bring.

Edgar Paez from SINALTRAINAL says of the Tribunal's
purpose: "Through this process we will increase the
exposure of the relations between paramilitarism,
transnational corporations and the policy of impunity
and terror of the Colombian state. Its main purpose is
the search for truth, justice and complete reparations.
Several transnational corporations have been accused at
the Permanent Peoples' Tribunal--Colombia Session,
regarding their responsibility for the murder of union
leaders for the violation of union freedom and the
right of association."

This is a critical situation! It needs the attention
and help of progressive people throughout the U.S.!

Tell your friends about it!
http://www.iacenter.org/colombia/delegation

Make a donation to help send students, anti-war and
community activists, and working people to document
U.S.-backed abuse in Colombia.

Help with costs of videotaping and publishing reports
from the trip--and more!
http://www.iacenter.org/colombia/delegation

Send messages of solidarity to the Peoples' Tribunal!
Ask community, union, religious, anti-war and other
organizations and activists to email messages of
support!

Post messages here :
http://www.iacenter.org/colombia/delegation

Ywww.organizerweb.com/mailman/listinfo/action.news

This list is primarily set up to distribute the 'Green Letters' edited by
Jenny James which give a running account of the activities and experiences
of the Atlantis Community in Colombia since 1995

Archived messages may be seen at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Green-Letters/messages See also
http://afan.org.uk/
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:59:29 -1000
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>
Subject: Court action paralyzes many key state imports

July 22, 2008
Court action paralyzes many key state imports
By Dan Nakaso
Advertiser Staff Writer

Hundreds of imported plants, micro-organisms and seafood shipments have
been held up for six weeks while state agriculture officials figure out
whether they need to undergo time-consuming environmental assessments
after a recent court ruling.

The delays affect an unknown number of a wide-ranging group of importers,
including King Kekaulike High School's effort to bring in daphnia (tiny
crustaceans) for classroom study on Maui, to hundreds of medical and
other research projects at the University of Hawai'i, to Fresh Island
Fish, which normally ships in seafood through the docks of Honolulu
Harbor.

The ruling by the state's Intermediate Court of Appeals in the case of
'Ohana Pale Ke Ao; Kohanaiki 'Ohana; GMO-Free Hawai'i; and Sierra Club,
Hawai'i Chapter v. the state Board of Agriculture directly addresses the
state's role in imports on state- or county-owned land or over operations
funded by the state or counties.

Widely felt impact

But the ruling indirectly has affected almost everyone trying to import a
wide range of products into the Islands as a staff of five agricultural
specialists on O'ahu struggles to figure out who is on state or county
land or funded through the state or counties, said Carol Okada, plant
quarantine branch manager for the state Department of Agriculture.

"Everyone's going to suffer, I kid you not," Okada said. "All the
operations that don't require an EA (environmental assessment) are also
impacted because they've all been backed up. How are we going to address
the backlog? This is ridiculous."

Domesticated animals, such as dogs, cats, horses and cattle, are not
affected, Okada said.

But all of Hawai'i's aquaculture operations - ranging from abalone to
algae cultivation - potentially could be, Okada said.

"This is still the beginning of a problem that began June 13 when we were
notified by the (attorney general's) office not to issue permits, permit
renewals or letters of authorization for anything on state or county
lands or funded by state or county funds," Okada. "Since then, we've been
getting interpretations of the ruling. We've been trying to work with the
applicants so they don't have to turn anything around" before it gets to
Hawai'i's docks.

exemptions listed

Yesterday, the Department of Agriculture sent a letter to importers
telling them that live fish, shellfish or algae shipped in for direct
sale would not be subject to an environmental assessment - even if they
were unloaded on state land or sold on land leased from the state.

But, the letter said, "the large-scale import of live fish, shellfish, or
algae for breeding that involves the extended use of a facility on state
or county land may be considered a 'project or program' and thus an
action that may require an EA as a condition for permit. Certain
activities under this category, however, may be eligible for 'exemption'
... if the project or program is determined to have little or no impact
on the environment."

The delays began after the Intermediate Court of Appeals ruled in May
against the state in a case involving a permit to import genetically
engineered algae at a Big Island facility on state land.

In response, the state attorney general's office is helping the
Department of Agriculture review its procedures in granting permits.

"You can't categorically answer every question about what's going to
require an EA or not until you address what's being proposed and answer
whether or not there should be an exemption," said state Attorney General
Mark Bennett.

UH research stalls

In the meantime, UH researchers have no idea how long it will take to get
their projects back on track.

"UH officials are in touch and actively discussing this issue with both
the state A.G. and the Department of Agriculture to try and resolve it,"
UH spokesman Gregg Takayama said. "It would potentially affect all
research programs at UH."

At the UH medical school, "hundreds" of projects are on hold, said Duane
Gubler, chairman of the Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical
Microbiology and Pharmacology.

Gubler's researchers are trying to get permission to bring in species of
various infectious agents, including dengue fever and avian flu, for
studies that could potentially help generations of people.

"A lot of the imports for a lot of types of biologicals are affected,"
Gubler said. "This will affect a lot of research at the university, and
it's had a negative effect on our ability to get grants. A lot of
researchers are having to deal with this."
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:30:19 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
about imiola young

claire shimabukuro talks about imiola at his "celebration of life" at
honolulu community church last saturday, july 19, 2008.

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=QUvarKArMno&rel=1&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//i.ytimg.com/vi/QUvarKArMno/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskKc3eBIkva0rQmKqjcy6R3m
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:40:15 -1000
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>
Subject: Feds arrest 43 illegal workers in Waipahu

Interesting little blurb, especially in its vagueness. There is no place
called "The Farms" in Kunia which I can find...tho there is a place called
Kunia Farms...operated by Monsanto... m
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008 - 9:21 AM HAST
Feds arrest 43 illegal workers in Waipahu
Pacific Business News (Honolulu)

Forty-three agricultural workers who were in the U.S. illegally were
arrested by federal agents in Waipahu over the weekend.

All of the workers, who were employed by The Farms in Kunia, were
arrested Sunday at The Oasis Apartments complex, according to a statement
issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The 43 workers were all men and citizens of Mexico. They have all been
taken into custody.

The U.S. Attorney's office will determine whether to file criminal
charges in cases where evidence suggests the workers provided false
information to get jobs, according to Immigration and Customs
Enforcement.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:41:23 -1000
From: Kyle Kajihiro <keboi@aol.com>

Yes, I think they mentioned Monsanto on one TV news cast.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:51:35 -0500
From: Warren Blumenfeld <wblumen@iastate.edu>
Subject: [edliberation] Commentary on Jesse Helms

Jesse Helms: National Treasure or Unapologetic Bigot
A Commentary by Warren J. Blumenfeld

In his commentary ^ÓJesse Helms: Statesman, Patriot, Practical American^Ô
(Iowa State Daily, Tuesday, July 22, 2008), Ed Feulner, president of The
Heritage Foundation, inducted the late Senator Jesse Helms from North
Carolina into the pantheon of those he considered as illustrious national
heroes - specifically John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe,
who, like Helms, died on the Fourth of July. (One could argue, however,
that anyone who had enslaved others could not be considered as
^Óillustrious,^Ô but that is the focus for another commentary).

In his 52-year political career, and previously working as a radio and
television commentator, Helms^Òs words and actions, however, seriously
call into question Feulner^Òs high praise.

As a radio commentator and aid in the 1950 US Senatorial campaign of
conservative Raleigh lawyer, Willis Smith, Helms was instrumental in
creating attack posters against Frank Porter Graham, Smith^Òs opponent.
One poster and flyer read: ^ÓWhite People Wake Up Before It^Òs Too Late.
Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and daughter in your
mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.^Ô In a TV
commentary on the topic of civil rights demonstrators, Helms argued that
^ÓThe Negro cannot count forever on the kind of restraint that^Òs thus
far left him free to clog the streets, disrupt traffic, and interfere
with other men^Òs rights (WRAL-TV, 1963). Referred to by his
Congressional colleagues as ^ÓSenator No,^Ô on numerous occasions as US
Senator, Helms denounced Civil Rights legislation, and is quoted as
referring to civil rights activists as ^ÓCommunists and sex perverts.^Ô
In addition, he claimed that there was ^Óevidence that the Negroes and
whites participating in the march to Montgomery participated in sex
orgies of the rawest sort.^Ô Later, he asserted that ^Ócrime rates and
irresponsibility among Negroes are a fact of life, which must be faced^Ô
(New York Times, 2/8/81). Helms loudly bellowed the song ^ÓDixie^Ô in an
elevator ride with Carol Mosely-Brawn, the first African American woman
elected to the US Senate. ^ÓI^Òm going to make her cry,^Ô he bragged.
^ÓI^Òm going to sing ^ÑDixie^Ò until she cries^Ô (Chicago Sun-Times,
8/5/93). Helms pushed the Congress to open Martin Luther King Jr.^Òs
F.B.I. files, and he led the Congressional opposition to the creation of
the federal Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. He also opposed the Voting
Rights Act of 1982, among other civil rights legislation.

Helms demanded that ten female House of Representative members ^Óact like
ladies^Ô when they disrupted a Senate Foreign Relations Committee in
their call for support of a United Nations treaty against gender
discrimination. Helms ordered the women forcibly removed by Capitol
police (St. Louis Post Dispatch, 10/28/99). In 1973, Helms pushed through
his amendment to the Foreign Assistance Act, which prevented
international family planning organizations to ^Óprovide or promote^Ô
abortion.

In his response to HIV in 1987, he proposed that ^ÓSomewhere along the
line, were going to have to quarantine people with AIDS,^Ô and for over
20 years, he consistently opposed expanded federal support and funding to
AIDS research. For example, he opposed the Kennedy-Hatch AIDS bill
stating that ^ÓThere is not one single case of AIDS in this country that
cannot be traced to sodomy^Ô (States News Service, 5/17/88), and ^ÓWe^Òve
got to have some common sense about a disease transmitted by people
deliberately engaging in unnatural acts^Ô (New York Times, 1995). In
1987, Senator Jesse Helms sponsored an amendment in the US Senate,
prohibiting federal funding for AIDS educational materials that ^Ópromote
or encourage...homosexual sexual activity.^Ô Under Helms^Òs sponsorship,
Congress passed an amendment in 1989 to restrict all National Endowment
for the Arts funding of any art deemed ^Óhomoerotic^Ô or ^Óreligiously
offensive.^Ô In 1990, he referred to gay and lesbian people as ^Óweak,
morally sick wretches,^Ô and has accused them of ^Óengaging in incredibly
offensive and revolting conduct.^Ô He warned against ^Óhomosexuals,
lesbians, disgusting people marching in the streets, demanding all sorts
of things, including the right to marry each other.^Ô

In line with Helms^Òs opposition to President Clintons foreign policies,
Helms once warned President Clinton that if he were to ever visit any
military base in the state of North Carolina, ^Óhe had better have a
bodyguard.^Ô

These of simply a few of the many statements and actions of the late
Senator Jesse Helms. By conferring the status ^Óstatesman,^Ô ^Ópatriot,^Ô
and ^Ópractical American^Ô on Jesse Helms, Ed Feulner is lowering the bar
to the very ground and trivializing the honor and integrity of our true
political and civic heroes.

Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld
Assistant Professor
Multicultural and International Curriculum Studies
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011
wblumen@iastate.edu
515.294.5931 office
515.232.8230 home
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:01:22 -1000
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>
Subject: Google Maori goes live

Google Mâori goes live
Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 8:34 am
Press Release: Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Maori

Google Mâori goes live

Google Mâori goes live to the world tomorrow. The Mâori interface of
Google, the world^Òs largest online search engine, is being launched at Te
Wânanga o Aotearoa, Rotorua.

Last year Potaua and Nikolasa Biasiny-Tule of www.TangataWhenua.com
requested assistance to complete the translation of Google into te reo
Mâori. They were overwhelmed with offers of help, and media enquiries from
national and international media.

A team of dedicated volunteers was formed from Aotearoa to New York,
including a team of people who translated more than 8,750 words which
enables anyone to navigate the Google interface in te reo Mâori. All the
words, messages, buttons and advanced search fields are now in te reo
Mâori.

^ÓDigital technology is a vital means of transmitting te reo Mâori,
mâtauranga Mâori, strengthening Mâori identity, expressing a Mâori world
view and communicating with the world^Ô, says Huhana Rokx, Chief Executive
of Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Mâori (the Mâori Language Commission).

^ÓA living language is an evolving language, and Google Mâori is an ideal
way to make te reo Mâori available in an ever increasing digital
environment. It enables learners to increase their understanding of te reo
Mâori by using the Google Mâori Language Tool. Fluent and native speakers
are able to search and access online content and connections in te reo
Mâori^Ô, says Huhana Rokx.

The launch of Google Mâori follows two days after Te Taura Whiri i te Reo
Mâori^Òs launched the largest online monolingual dictionary ^ÓHe Pâtaka
Kupu^Ô available on www.koreromaori.co.nz.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:57:16 -1000 (HST)
From: Tony Castanha <castanha@hawaii.edu>
Subject: Fw: Sunday July 27, Ka La Ho'iho'i Ea (fwd)

*Sorry for the bulk of this message. The event celebrates the restoration
of the Hawaiian nation after the British had illegally seized control of
the Hawaiian Kingdom government for six months in 1843.

Here's a chance for all you students out there to support the Kanaka Maoli
movement and struggle. It's what we went over and over about in class.

Aloha no, Tony

----- Original Message -----
From: Marilyn Leimomi Khan
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 10:59 AM

An upcoming event in celebration of La Ho'iho'i 'Ea.

Leimomi

----- Original Message -----
From: katie kamelamela
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 9:49 AM

Aloha mai kakou,
Please come join us next week Sunday on July 27 at Thomas Square in
celebration of Ka La Ho'iho'i Ea, Hawaiian Restoration Day. There will be
family fun, good music and keiki activities from 10-4pm. Music will
include 10:30 'Oiwi (from Moloka'i), 11:30 Just Jamming (part Big Island,
part Oahu), 12:30 La Ho'iho'i Ea Allstarts (Imai Kalahele, Uncle Skippy,
Snake), 1:30 Jon Osorio n' Ikaika Hussey, 2:30 Kupa'aina and 3:30 Ernie
Cruz. There will be live printing so bring pillow case, tshirt, or
anything you want to screen to Thomas Sqaure. For the kids there will be
a bouncy castle, face painting and create your own hae hawaii. In
addition there will be an art exhibition featuring maoli artists, some
will have their own vending booths. Please join us and if you can forward
this message to someone who will be able to come out and enjoy good music
and company!

Na'u no,
Katie Kamelamela

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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:41:38 +0000
From: Ana <uriohau@gmail.com>
Subject: [mana_wahine] Re: Laban Lap Dog for Neo Liberalism in the Pacific

NZ to suggest single Pacific economy
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200807/s2311632.htm?tab=pacific

New Zealand's Pacific island affairs minister, Luamanuvao Winnie Laban, is
expected to call for closer economic ties between Pacific states at the
forum trade meeting in Cook Islands today.

He says the meeting will be an opportunity for forum members to make
progress towards a single economic market in the Pacific.

The two-day meeting of trade leaders and officials from around the Pacific
will be chaired by Cook Islands foreign minister, Wilkie Rasmussen.

Cook Island News reports that senior officials from forum islands
countries will be continuing negotiations for a trade in services
agreement.

Mr Laban, who will be representing New Zealand, says it is timely to be
discussing trade and economic integration in the Pacific, as the price of
food and fuel continues to rise.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:42:00 -1000
From: UHM Library Services <announce@HAWAII.EDU>
Subject: Hamilton Library Construction Update

Aloha UH Manoa students, faculty & staff:

Construction continues around and under Hamilton Library to repair the
damage caused by the 2004 floor and to provide mitigation to help prevent
a similar disaster in the future. The Ground Floor is being rebuilt and
the "moat" along Maile Way and between the Library and Paradise Palms will
be covered. There are also construction zones along McCarthy Mall and
between the Library and Edmondson Hall. This work, funded by state flood
recovery funds and FEMA, is scheduled to be completed Fall 2009.

Until then please be patient with the noise, distractions, delays and
other inconveniences this may cause. We strive to make sure that the
construction does not greatly impact Library services or the campus.
Your kokua is appreciated.

Library hours are available at:
http://library.manoa.hawaii.edu/about/hours.html
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:49:52 +1200
From: clarke <tepaatu@gmail.com>
Subject: [mana_wahine] FW: Great moments in Blakistory #22 July 2008 - YAGAN

Please take the time to read and share these great moments in BLAKISTORY!
Celebrating BLAK HISTORY MONTH!!!!

Without knowledge, ignorance grows
- Unknown

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders are advised
this article may contain images and references to the
deceased.

Great moments in Blakistory #22 July 2008

YAGAN

Yagan - born in 1795 was the leader of Noongar and Wajuk resistance to the
early British settlement of Perth in Western Australia. With conflict over
land at its height in 1831-1832, Yagan's leadership of attacks on stock,
provisions, and settlers led him to be both feared and admired by the
incomers.

In 1831, a Noongar was shot while taking potatoes from a settler's garden.
Yagan was amongst the group that returned to seek revenge. A settler,
Enion Entwhistle, was speared in the attack, but his two sons escaped to
report the incident.

In June 1832, another man, named Gaze, was killed by Noongar warriors.
Yagan was named one of the leaders responsible and officially declared an
outlaw.. A reward of £320 was placed on his head.

Attacks and reprisal attacks grew. The Perth Gazette wrote: "The reckless
daring of this desperado, who sets his life at a pin's fee, is being the
subject of general observation, and we firmly believe for the most trivial
offence, even with a loaded musket at his breast, he would take the life
of any man who provoked him." Efforts to capture Yagan were increased, and
later in 1832 he was captured.

Yagan was described as over six feet (1.8 metres) tall and possessing "a
dignified bearing ... head and shoulders above his fellows, in mind as
well as in body, and though a subject of terror to the white people, he
yet commanded their admiration". The contradictory views of Yagan by the
settlers can be seen in reports of the time that described him as either
courteous and hospitable or very menacing.

Yagan was saved from execution by a settler, Robert Lyon, who argued that
Yagan should be treated as a prisoner of war rather than a criminal. It is
tragic that this never became a precedent for later indigenous resistance
fighters.

Yagan was sentenced to exile on a rocky island off Fremantle, Carnac,
where Lyon was to be responsible for "civilising" him. Lyon sympathised
greatly with Yagan's fight to protect his people and his land, and he
published many articles about him. Yagan did not stay in exile long,
however. After six weeks on Carnac, he and his Nyungar companions stole a
small boat and returned to the mainland.

Yagan was soon being pursued by the military again, after taking part in a
pay-back slaying of two men who had shot a Nyungar without provocation.
The reward on his head was increased to £330, but the armed patrols that
scoured the countryside had no success.

The growing conflict between muskets and spears took a heavy toll on the
Nyungar people. Yagan's brother, Domjuim, was killed and decapitated, and
his father, Midgegooroo, was captured, tried and shot. Tensions in the
colony were high, with rumours that hundreds of well-armed Nyungar were
mobbing to attack outlying areas.

Yagan next appeared at the farm of George Moore and demanded to know what
had happened to his father. Moore wrote in his diary: "Yagan stepped
forward, and leaning his left hand on my shoulder, while he gesticulated
with the right, delivered a short of recitative, looking earnestly at my
face. I regret that I could not understand it; I thought from the tone and
manner that the purport was this: `You came to our country; you have
driven us from our haunts and disturbed us in our occupations. As we walk
in our country we are fired upon by the white men. Why should the white
men treat us so?'"

On July 11, 1833, with a group of Nyungar, Yagan approached two young
shepherds he knew, James and William Keats, and asked them for flour.
Recognising Yagan and keen for the reward, William, when he saw the
chance, levelled his musket at Yagan behind his back and shot him dead.
Both brothers then fled, but William was caught and speared to death.

James soon returned to the scene with an armed party. They found the body
of William and, some distance away, the bodies of Yagan and another
Nyungar, Heegan. Heegan was still alive and was shot in the head. Yagan's
head was cut off and his tribal markings skinned off his back.

James Keats received the £330 reward, but the Perth Gazette criticised his
actions as "a wild and treacherous act ... which it appears to us will
annihilate the surest road to perfect amity -- mutual confidence ... We
are not vindicating the outlaw, but, we maintain, it is revolting to hear
this lauded as a meritorious deed."

Nyungar resistance was to continue under leaders such as Calyute, south of
Fremantle, and Weeip of the upper Swan group, until the Battle of Pinjarra
in 1834, when troops slew up to 50 Nyungar warriors and forced a
surrender.

Yagan's head was preserved by smoking in a hollow tree stump for several
months and was then taken to England by one Ensign Robert Dale. It was
described as having had the hair combed, possum fur string tied around the
forehead and red and black cockatoo feathers added for show.

The head was presented to the Liverpool Royal Institute for exhibition. In
January 1835, London's Literary Gazette noted that phrenological
examination had confirmed the "barbarous passions" of its owner when
living.

In 1894 the head was passed on to the Liverpool City Museum, where it was
exhibited until 1964, it was buried in the Everton Cemetery, along with
the remains of fetuses, Maori Warriors and other "curiosities". In 1993
its location was identified, and four years later it was exhumed and
repatriated to Australia.

Elder Ken Colbung, part of the delegation sent to retrieve Yagan, tells
the story of being on the plane with Yagan cased and set on his lap for
the whole journey. When asked by the passenger next to him, what it
contained, he proudly exclaimed, "our finest Warrior". To date, the head
remains unburied and the search for his body continues, so that they can
be buried together. A statue is erected on Hierisson Island in Perth.

Famous throughout Australia, he is considered a hero by the Noongar
people.

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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:19:04 -0500
From: nimchira <tepaatu@gmail.com>
Voices Health/Environment News

News from the Health and Environmental Communities.
Published since Nov, 2005
July 22, 2008

In This Issue:

Video: MVR Multimedia - 3d Medical Animation
http://feedblitz.com/r.asp?l=36108236&f=24137&u=5222917
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Todays Recalls:

Recall totals 5.3 million pounds: E. coli linked to beef now reported in 5
states
http://www.ajc.com/wednesday/content/health/stories/2008/07/16/EColi_Outbreak.html

Grande Produce, LTD.CO Recalls Jalapeno Peppers, Serrano Peppers, and
Avocados Because of Possible Health Risk-The Jalapeno Peppers, Serrano
Peppers and Avocados were distributed to the following states: TX, DE, NC,
GA, OK, IA, MN, IL, FL, IN, MD, NY, MS, AR, KS, and KY. The avocados being
recalled were shipped in boxes labeled "Frutas Finas de Tancitaro HASS
Avocados, Produce of Mexico," all sizes, with lot number HUE08160090889. The
Jalapeno Peppers and Serrano peppers being recalled were shipped in 35lb.
plastic crates with no brand name or label.
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/grandeproduce07_08.html

Agricola Zaragoza, Inc. Recalls Jalapeno Peppers Because of Possible Health
Risk (July 21)
The recall is a result of sampling by FDA, which revealed that these
Jalapeno Peppers were contaminated with the same strain of Salmonella
Saintpaul responsible for the current Salmonella outbreak. It is unknown at
this time which, if any, of the more than 1,200 illnesses reported to date
are related to this particular product or to the grower who supplied this
product. Distribution of these products has been suspended while FDA, the
Texas Department of State Health Services and the company continue their
investigation as to the source of the problem.
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/agricola_zaragoza07_08.html

"It's My Binky" Pacifiers
http://list-manage.com/track/click?u=48290de6249ef2cecba9fe5de&id=f7549e0897&e=0fa96e422d

Cuddly Comfort Pillows
http://list-manage.com/track/click?u=48290de6249ef2cecba9fe5de&id=80ef2218d3&e=0fa96e422d

Lithonia Recessed Light Fixtures
http://list-manage.com/track/click?u=48290de6249ef2cecba9fe5de&id=de004a6e6d&e=0fa96e422d

Amsterdam Bicycles
http://list-manage.com/track/click?u=48290de6249ef2cecba9fe5de&id=032acc4ffb&e=0fa96e422d

Mideast facing choice between crops and water.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/14464/3057/18627/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5ueXRpbWVzLmNvbS8yMDA4LzA3LzIxL2J1c2luZXNzL3dvcmxkYnVzaW5lc3MvMjFhcmFiZm9vZC5odG1s&x=b3dc8d76

Rise in number of children diagnosed with autism makes parents wary. With
autism spectrum disorders now diagnosed in 1 out of 150 children nationally
and 1 in 94 in New Jersey, rare is the parent who isn't aware of autism.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/14464/3057/18644/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5uai5jb20vbmV3cy9pbmRleC5zc2YvMjAwOC8wNy9yaXNlX2luX251bWJlcl9vZl9jaGlsZHJlbl9kaWEuaHRtbA%3d%3d&x=b3eeff54

Scientist cites dangers of U.S. food supply. Dependence on foreign food and
massive commercial agriculture place Americans at greater risk than
dependence on foreign oil.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/14435/3057/18597/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5wanN0YXIuY29tL25ld3MveDE4MTY0NDI3MDQvU2NpZW50aXN0LWNpdGVzLWRhbmdlcnMtb2YtVS1TLWZvb2Qtc3VwcGx5&x=b9568c54
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Big Pharma is controlling the FDA, politicians and the public airwaves to
get to you.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Bl%2BaGVekDaaVpdeGC8IdS1PlBH1%2FHrT8

Federal Lawsuit Filed to Halt Florida's Toxic Algae Blooms
http://www.truthout.org/article/federal-lawsuit-filed-halt-floridas-toxic-algae-blooms

Trial for Vaccine Against HIV Is Canceled
http://www.truthout.org/article/trial-vaccine-against-hiv-is-canceled

EPA Cuts Value of a Human Life
http://www.truthout.org/article/cosmic-markdown-epa-says-life-is-worth-less

Colorado River drought. The south-western US is suffering its eighth
consecutive year of drought. There are concerns that the Colorado River,
which has sustained life in the area for thousands of years, can no longer
meet the needs of the tens of millions of people.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/14417/3057/18537/0/?u=aHR0cDovL25ld3MuYmJjLmNvLnVrLzIvaGkvYW1lcmljYXMvNzUwNjQwNS5zdG0%3d&x=fb41819d

Fish virus feeds fears it will spread to Mississippi River. A deadly fish
virus has been found for the first time in southern Lake Michigan and an
inland Ohio reservoir
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/14417/3057/18549/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy53YXNoaW5ndG9ucG9zdC5jb20vd3AtZHluL2NvbnRlbnQvYXJ0aWNsZS8yMDA4LzA3LzE4L0FSMjAwODA3MTgwMzMxMy5odG1s&x=3e1391b5

Disappearing prairies leave North Dakota ducks fewer places to nest.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/14417/3057/18552/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5tYWRpc29uLmNvbS90Y3Qvc3BvcnRzLzI5Njg3MA%3d%3d&x=ac37f03f

Salmonella scare hit state growers hard.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/14417/3057/18555/0/?u=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5zZmdhdGUuY29tL2NnaS1iaW4vYXJ0aWNsZS5jZ2k%2fZj0vYy9hLzIwMDgvMDcvMTgvTU44TDExUkhDMi5EVEwmdHNwPTE%3d&x=f8ee72bd

Human-to-Human Transmission of Bird Flu Discovered in China
http://www.naturalnews.com/023664.html

Conservatives Protest Obama's AIDS Bill
http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff238.htm

Ruling Gives South Dakota Doctors a Script to Read-Women Seeking Abortion
Must Be Told About 'Unique Living Human Being'
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901586.html

Link between poor eyesight and increased suicide risk
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/25550674.html

CDC: Offline generators caused germ lab outage and has heightened concerns
in Congress about lab safety at the Atlanta agency, which experiments on
smallpox, Ebola, anthrax and other deadly germs
http://www.ajc.com/wednesday/content/metro/atlanta/stories/2008/07/18/cdc_power_outage.html

Groups Want Action on Consumer Safety Bill Congress eyes its summer recess
while legislation languishes.
http://list-manage.com/track/click?u=48290de6249ef2cecba9fe5de&id=eeb07a8fa6&e=0fa96e422d

Vicious Ideologue Renews Attack on Social Security
http://www.truthout.org/article/vicious-ideologue-renews-attack-social-security

Ecuadorian Assembly Approves Constitutional Rights for Nature
http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2008/07/ecuadorian_asse.html

Eat Shit and Die: Contaminated Veggies Are the Meat Industry¹s Fault
http://www.alternet.org/environment/89015/?page=entire

Are You Storing Food Safely? When, where, and how you store food can help
prevent foodborne illnesses. Here are pointers for safely storing food in
your refrigerator, freezer, and cupboards.
http://www.fda.gov/consumer/updates/foodstorage072108.html

This new plan from Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel would rein in health care inflation
and insulate our health system from lobbyists.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0KVpbcxYvFRALMUoaNCBMxxqKmldO3jq

Doctors are getting fed up with private insurers. Here's a look at what
out-of-pocket costs could look like for patients.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qh2G9ztzK1PZs2tdWus6zxxqKmldO3jq

Starving yourself sends your body into famine survival mode, causing you to
store extra fat.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dXutRdFSpIDtyYCIvsyfgxxqKmldO3jq

Pushing Prescriptions: How the Drug Industry Sells Its Agenda at Your
Expense
Big Pharma is controlling the FDA, politicians and the public airwaves to
get to you.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xc%2FODFR90g0umR4AjDkLMRxqKmldO3jq

McCain Opposes Contraception -- Pass It On -- He's voted against
contraception for more than 20 years, and yet doesn't even care or know
enough to explain why.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=uAQYTFI4lgm8rtT4coAUliOnWc5xWymz

Lab Notes : Tapping Tobacco to Cure Cancer
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/07/21/tapping-tobacco-to-cure-cancer.aspx

Wetlands Could Unleash "Carbon Bomb"
http://www.truthout.org/article/wetlands-could-unleash-carbon-bomb

HIV Digs Deeper Into Deep South
http://www.truthout.org/article/hiv-digs-deeper-into-deep-south

World warned over killer flu pandemic
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/health-news/world-warned-over-killer-flu-pandemic-872809.html

US food groups plan hefty price rises
http://money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=600793

Chinese Hair Bands Made From Used Condoms
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/hairband.asp
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/used-condom-hairbands.shtml
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WARNING - Toxic Pancake Mix - READ ON...AND CHECK SNOPES TOO

From Snopes:

I recently made a batch of pancakes for my healthy 14-year-old son, using
a mix that was in our pantry. He said that they tasted 'funny,' but ate
them anyway. About 10 minutes later, he began having difficulty breathing
and his lips began turning purple. I gave him his allergy pill, had him
sit on the sofa and told him to relax. He was wheezing while inhaling and
exhaling.

My husband, a volunteer Firefighter and EMT, heated up some water, and we
had my son lean over the water so the steam could clear his chest and
sinuses. Soon, his breathing became more regular and his lips returned to
a more normal color. We checked the date on the box of pancake mix and, to
my dismay, found it was very outdated. As a reference librarian at an
academic institution, I have the ability to search through many research
databases. I did just that, and found an article the next day that
mentioned a 19-year-old male DYING after eating pancakes made with
outdated mix. Apparently, the mold that forms in old pancake mix can be
toxic! I hope your readers will take the time to check the expiration date
on their boxes.

Also, beware of outdated Bisquick, cake, brownie and cookie mixes.

PASS IT ON! This is TRUE--Check it out!
http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/pancake.asp
=============

Big Pharma will do anything to keep aspartame on the market because they
know if it was banned millions of people would wakeup from hideous symptoms
and diseases it triggers. In the meantime this poison is even in pediatric
and over the counter medications. Parents must take charge and make sure its
not in products in their homes and forbid this product being fed to children
in schools. http://www.mpwhi.com/report_on_aspartame_and_children.htm

Drug Company Corruption Endangers Our Children: Media Report by Respected
M.D.
This message is available online at
http://www.WantToKnow.info/008/080721_children_drugs_corruption

In 1996, for example, Biederman suggested that drugs like Ritalin might
serve 10 percent of American kids for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity
Disorder. By 2004, one in nine 11-year-old boys was taking the drug.
Biederman and his team also are more responsible than anyone for a
child bipolar epidemic sweeping America (and no other country) that has
2-year-olds on three or four psychiatric drugs.
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS194846+06-Jun-2008+PRN20080606

The science of children's psychiatric medications is so primitive and
Biederman's influence so great that when he merely mentions a drug during a
presentation, tens of thousands of children within a year or two will end up
taking that drug, or combination of drugs. This happens in the absence of a
drug trial of any kind - instead, the decision is based upon word of mouth
among the 7,000 child psychiatrists in America.
=============

Research funding must be directed to the needs of patients and their
doctors, not to the bottom line of stockholders. Drug companies can still
make money, but it's ethically immoral when stockholder profits trump
children's health needs (as in the cover-up of negative studies of
antidepressants in children).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/panorama/6317137.stm Sens. Grassley, a
Republican, and Herbert Kohl, a Wisconsin Democrat, have introduced the
Physician Payments Sunshine Act, which will require more vigorous reporting
and enforcement on payments (anything more than $500) received by doctors
from drug companies.
http://grassley.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressReleases.View&PressRelease_id=11cd00f9-c566-e5c4-06f5-6a247f4919ff
============

We have posted an article courtesy of the ASPCA titled "Sago Palm Toxicity.
The ASPCA runs a Poison Control Center staffed by 30 veterinarians, 13 of
who are board-certified general and/or veterinary toxicologists. The Poison
Control Center operates 24-hours a day, 365-days a year. To contact the
ASPCA® Animal Poison Control Center you can call (888) 426-4435
To learn how to protect your cat from Sago Palm Toxicity go to:
petplace.com/cats/sago-palm-toxicity/page1.aspx
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:43:11 -1000
From: Tane . <Tane_1@msn.com>
Court action paralyzes many key state imports - comment

With all the whining, are they being pressured to allow questionable
imports? First they should build up their staffing since this is a
serious and controversial issue. Second, An EA/EPA ishould be mandatory
on all imports and it should have been established decades before this
came to a head. If they are understaffed then it is obligatory for the
state to rectify the situation. Third, the state better get its
priorities straight. They have truly been negligent in allowing GMO
companies experiment in the islands without first studying the impact it
would have in the islands. Commerical shipping must have a permit as
well as the U.S. military, one of the biggest violators of introducing
invasive species.

This has not been a sudden dilemma that they woke up yesterday and
discovered this problem. This has been ongoing for scores of years.
Wake up and take responsibility to protect the island's fragile
ecosystem. Is it fast cash that is a priority or the quality of life in
the islands? If it's worth importing; it's worth investigating and the
wait before introducing it into the islands. Common sense and logical!
Simple!

Tane

AKA: David M. K. Inciong, II
Pearl City, HI 96782-2581
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:15:02 -1000
From: Tane . <Tane_1@msn.com>
SUPER Events This Weekend! 'Awa Talk Story &
Ka La Ho'iHo'i Ea

Note: The King instructed his minister, Gerrit P. Judd to compose a
letter to the British government in protest and dispatch it. This was
written under candlelight in the tomb on the Palace grounds.

Tane
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:51:59 -0400
From: kahea-alliance@hawaii.rr.com

This FRIDAY
`Awa Circle + Talk Story: Sacred
Landscapes[half%20page%20mauna%20kea%20flyer%20copy.jpg]
Friday, July 25, 2008
7PM to when pau
at StudioBe
corner of Beretania + Smith
63 N. Beretania St., 2nd Floor
More information see our blog
A night for share `awa and talk story with Mauna Kea conservation and
cultural rights activist, Kealoha Pisciotta.
We will also screen excerpts from the Na Maka o ka `Aina film Mauna Kea:
Temple Under Siege.

WHAT IS HAPPENING ON MAUNA KEA?
Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawai'i, is sacred as an elder ancestor and
kinolau (physical embodiment) of spiritual deities. The summit area is
also ecologically unique.
On a summit long untroubled by humans, today thirteen telescopes and
related facilities crowd the sacred landscape of Mauna Kea. Even after 30
years of community opposition, a consortium of institutions led by the UH
Institute for Astronomy (IFA) continues to propose even more new
telescope construction. Currently, over 1,000 IFA employees regularly
drive to the summit, leaving behind some 500,000 gallons of human waste
annually and reported spills of toxic chemicals such as ethylene glycol
and liquid mercury over Hawaii Island's only aquifer. The University of
Hawaii currently pays only $1 per year for their mis-use of this sacred
summit, while profiting from charging 13 of the world's wealthiest
nations to use these facilities

Construction has damaged and leveled the sacred mountain peaks, spewing
dust and facilitating more human intrusion that is wreaking havoc on this
fragile and unique Hawaiian ecosy stem. These impacts, coupled with the
introduction of invasive predatory insects, are decimating populations of
the rare Wekiu beetle, one of 11 endemic and imperiled species that call
the mountain home.

"In our worldview, we cannot support de-creation. It is against the law
of the universe and creator to eliminate a species. Mauna Kea is vast,
but it is also a finite resource. You cannot keep abusing it." -Kealoha
Pisciotta
Kealoha Pisciotta, who dat? Our hero. A Hilo kupa'aina, cultural
practitioner and former telescope tech, Kealoha's tireless activism has
helped to protect Mauna Kea's sacred summit from unmitigated telescope
development. She is the president of Mauna Kea Anaina Hou.

This SUNDAY
Honor KA LA HO'IHO'I EA (Sovereignty Restoration Day)

[hoihoi%20ea.JPG]
Sunday, July 27, 2008
10 AM to 5PM
at Thomas Square, Downtown Honolulu
between Beretania & King + Victoria & Ward

Come to celebrate and support the ongoing movement for Hawaii's
independence!
AWESOME Event Activities include: keiki fun, art exhibit, community
booths (like Us Guys at KAHEA!), and plenny Kanaka Maoli culture to
enjoy! Music from: Ka La Ho'i All Star Band, Ernie Cruz Jr, Kupaaina, Jon
Osorio and Ikaika Hussey, Oiwi, Kupaukolu....
Hope to see you there, don't forget your chair (or lauhala mat)!
The Story of Ka La Ho'iho'i Ea
For generations, Hawaiians have celebrated & honored the date of July 31,
the day in 1843 when Hawaii's sovereignty was returned to the Hawaiian
Kingdom after five months of illegal British occupation by a Lord George
Paulet, a rogue British naval commander. Paulet was seeking to coerce
special land and rights for British subjects. Under duress & protest King
Kamehameha III was forced to cede his kingdom to Paulet, but then the
king appealed to Queen Victoria for justice. In response, Queen Victoria
send British fleet commander Adm. Richard Thomas to enforce the British
law which stated that 'native government be treated with forbearance and
courtesy, and their laws and customs be respected.'
Admiral Thomas restored native rule in Hawaii on July 31, 1843 by raising
the Hawaiian flag at Kulaokahua, known today as Thomas Square- the first
public park on Oahu. On that same day, King Kamehameha III proclaimed,
"Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono." The precise translation of this now
State-motto is "The sovereignty of the land continues because of our
righteousness."
On November 28 of that same year, 1843, France and England jointly
recognized the Hawaiian Islands as an independent, sovereign country, at
that time the United States also recognized the independence of the
Hawaiian kingdom. This became Hawaiian Independence Day. The Hawaiian
people continue to press for the United States to end the occupation of
Hawaii and restore Hawaiian independence.
With Aloha, a hui hou,
Us Guys at KAHEA: The Hawaiian Environmental Alliance
www.kahea.org
blog.kahea.org
toll-free phone/fax: 888-528-6288

E ho`omalu kakou i ka pono, ke `ano o ka nohona a me ka `aina mai na
kupuna mai
Protecting Native Hawaiian Traditional and Customary Rights and Our
Fragile Environment
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:20:01 -1000
From: penny levin <pennysfh@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Re: Feds coming to weigh vog risks - comment

next steps? what, going to plug the volcano so she can't breath sulpher
on us? sue pele?

i have three questions:

how much money are we spending on something we already know the answer to
and couldn't change even if we tried? i mean, so what, sulpher vog
attacks proteas. it's part of the reality of doing that kind of ag on the
big island. it happens, just like big rain storms or typhoons. we really
got to stop this thing of trying to predict and control every aspect of
the earth's movement.

wonder what was the tipping point in the percentage of hawaiian vs
non-hawaiian population on the big island that all of a sudden made living
with the volcano something to be villified or controlled?

could it be, the money/study might be better spent nailing the cane
companies once and for all on the impact of cane burns so we can put an
end to something we actually can control? guarantee on maui the number of
children and adults affected by sinus conditions and severe asmtha has a
whole lot to do with being set up by years of inhaling black cane ash.
not to mention all the extra hours you spend cleaning your house every
time they burn. oh wait, i forgot, some people might actually miss the
plantations. oops.
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:55:48 -0700
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>
Subject: Natives Set Up Own Genocide Tribunal in Canada (Kevin Annett)

http://www.rense.com/general82/natives.htm Natives Set Up Own Genocide
Tribunal In Canada
By Kevin Annett
7-23-8

O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth,
That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!
Thou art the ruins of the noblest
who ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!
(Julius Caesar, Act 3:1)

A Moment of Reflection ...

If only we in Canada had an ounce of Marc Antony's outrage when it comes
to murder in our midst.

All the "honorable men" who slew Caesar had the weight of law on their
side, as do the officials of church and state in our country who legally
killed generations of innocent children in the "Indian residential
schools", and who now absolve themselves of their crime.

Can we dare to ask for pardon from the slaughtered children, for our
meek gentleness with their butchers?

Can we ask them to forgive us, when we watch a recent CBC TV broadcast
in which Irene Favel described seeing a newborn baby shoved live into a
roaring furnace by a priest in Saskatchewan, and we do nothing?

Why should we be forgiven? Who are we to issue an "apology" for our
crimes when we refuse to be held accountable for them? When names are
not allowed to be named? When priests and nuns are allowed to get away
with murder? And when "misconduct" in residential schools cannot even be
referred to at the government's upcoming "Truth and Reconciliation"
hearings?

Crimes without criminals. Words without substance. That is the Canadian
way.

Looking Back, and Forward:

Written on Squamish Nation Territory, under Foreign Occupation - July
21, 2008

Over the past year, the impossible has happened: the government and
churches of Canada have been forced for the first time to publicly
acknowledge that massive numbers of children died in their Indian
residential schools, and that many of these deaths were criminal in
nature.

But the predictable has accompanied the impossible: the very same guilty
parties have responded to this exposure by effectively absolving
themselves of this crime with a verbal "apology" and a self-appointed
"inquiry" that is structured to ensure that the crime will be officially
whitewashed.

Nothing less can be expected in a place like Canada, where the
institutions that ran the residential schools are still in power and
call the shots, with the help of their aboriginal collaborators.

But rather than being a cause of despair, this predictable scramble by
the guilty to hide their filth is yet another crumbling piece of masonry
in the collapsing facade called colonial Canada, which has never
resolved what it likes to call its "Indian Problem" - and never will.

Only in an insecure and guilt-haunted nation could the fact of missing
aboriginal children generate the enormous turmoil and change that we've
witnessed in Canada since April of 2007, when the Harper government was
forced to address the missing residential school children in Parliament.

The media scramble that resulted, and has never abated, hovers around
the issue of dead residential school kids like a voyeuristic John,
watching but not daring to touch all those mass graves. And yet two
years ago, the topic was strictly forbidden and censored in the
monopolized corporate media in Canada. Today, the Establishment seems to
be struggling to gradually acclimatize the populace to the fact of
genocide in their midst.

This is all a repeat, but on a bigger scale, of what was tried a decade
or more ago, when the first lawsuits by residential school survivors
threatened to nail the Catholic, Anglican and United churches to the
wall. By slowly leaking to the public some aspects of the residential
school nightmare in small, digestible pieces, the media and the courts
contained the potentially-explosive issue to yet another ho-hum abuse
litigation, complete with "apologies" and "compensation".

Back then, by reducing genocide to a matter of personal injury claims,
Canada spared itself what it's now forced to face: its own history of
deliberately exterminating aboriginal nations. But, then as now, the
strategy of the guilty churches and state seems to be identical: namely,
to minimize and contain the issue by pretending to address it whole not
addressing it.

Just as the so-called "Aboriginal Healing Fund" contained the fallout of
residential school lawsuits with hush money to survivors, so now does
the misnamed "Truth and Reconciliation Commission" (TRC) appear to
inquire into missing children by studiously preventing any actual
disclosure of their fate.

A simple reading of the TRC mandate reveals an alarming deception. While
portraying itself as the definitive investigation into Indian
residential schools, the TRC in fact is not an investigative body or a
legal inquiry; it has no power to subpoena or compel involvement, does
not allow the naming of the names of perpetrators, and will not allow
any statement involving wrongdoing by a person or organization; nor does
it extend immunity or protection to anyone offering evidence.

In short, the TRC is an explicit whitewash of any criminal behaviour in
the residential schools. Imagine a "final report" on these schools that
has not a single mention of misconduct in it!

Again, this is precisely what one expects when church lawyers and
officials like the United Church's former Moderator Bill Phipps - a TRC
convenor - establish an inquiry into themselves. And yet, this whole
effort by the guilty is doomed to failure.

For one thing, the crime is too huge to contain. Since April 10, we have
documented and released to the press thirty-three mass grave sites
across Canada near former residential schools, where countless children
are reputedly buried. In response, I have been inundated with stories
from eyewitnesses who buried children, witnessed the incineration of
others, and who saw killings and other crimes in the schools. And many
of these stories have appeared in the media.

But what is especially encouraging and unusual about this disclosure is
that it is being accompanied by a new wave of lawsuits against the
churches responsible for these deaths, brought by relatives of children
who were killed. For the first time, the churches and government of
Canada are being named in criminal lawsuits for acts of murder.

It gets even better. In some cases, like on Squamish territory in what
whites call Vancouver, these lawsuits will be launched not through
Canadian courts of law, which have time and again disqualified claims
involving murder, but in aboriginal courts of Justice, convened by
traditional elders like Squamish Chief Kiapilano.

In other words, raising the spectre of murdered children is unleashing a
revolutionary challenge to Canada and its courts, as survivors and other
native people invoke their own sovereignty to win justice.

This fact raises the second problem of Canada's attempt to co-opt and
contain its culpability for genocide: namely, that there is no consensus
"at the top" of how to deal with the threat of indigenous sovereignty.
The power of the Canadian establishment is too fractured and
regionalized to devise a common response to the growing breakdown of
native peoples' imprisonment in their own land.

Today, the Canadian state does not have a single, credible group of
collaborating native elites to impose a uniform "Indian policy" across
the nations, which means that any effort to simply shut down or contain
the furor over missing residential school children will meet with
failure. The growing native populaces, restless, off reserve and plagued
by poverty and discontent, are too diverse to be so easily managed
anymore.

This fact highlights the third roadblock to any easy resolution of the
residential school crimes: the particularly vulnerable position of
Canada in the world economy as an exporting and tourist nation, and the
battering its "humanitarian" image and credit rating have taken as a
result of the residential school scandal.

One of the main reasons behind the creation of the fraudulent "Truth and
Reconciliation Commission" was the need to create a convincing public
relations front to the world during the period leading up to the 2010
Olympics in British Columbia, a region that is the hotbed of independent
native protest and non-treatied communities.

The Canadian elites - native and white - are terrified of the prospect
of native road and railway blockades during the B.C. Olympics,
disrupting as these will the "new relationship" between these elites in
their efforts to secure new foreign export markets for Canadian
resources, most of which are located on unceded native land. An upstart
aboriginal bourgeoisie is acting as the chief arm of the Canadian state
in securing these markets, especially with Asian countries, and
restraining protests by their own people in the process.

Nevertheless, all of these factors add up to a single truth: Canada and
its churches - and their aboriginal accomplices - will be unable to
extricate themselves from their liability for their crimes, and
therefore will remain extremely vulnerable to any public criticism or
protest campaigns aimed at exposing the full extent of the residential
school genocide.

The Implications for Us, and the Challenge

Until recently, the movement to bring Canada and its churches to justice
for genocide has been localized and relatively unpopular, even among
supposed "progressives and radicals". And yet its impact on events has
been profound, and has forced Canada's back to the wall, simply by
continuing to make public the hard evidence of death and torture in
residential schools.

This work is finally paying off, as our efforts are stimulating a much
broader reaction among even mainstream Canadians, and we are linking up
with more disgruntled residential school survivors and aboriginal youth.
There are now twenty six local groups across Canada working with our
network, organizing protests, documenting evidence, and educating the
world about the Canadian holocaust.

As the frustration of survivors continues to grow with their loss of any
avenue for resolving their claims, as the bogus "TRC" exposes itself as
Canada's version of the Warren Commission, and as the puppet native
chiefs continue to become alienated from their own people, a huge crisis
of leadership is emerging in the aboriginal world.

This crisis has created a unique opportunity for those committed to
indigenous sovereignty and full justice for residential school
survivors. What is lacking is the audacity, the networks, and the
overall strategy to begin uprooting the causes of genocide and the
colonial political-economic system that is ruining our lands and people.

Last April 15, ten indigenous elders launched their answer to the
government's TRC: an independent "International Human Rights Tribunal
into Genocide in Canada". That Tribunal will begin its work this autumn,
by convening local inquiries into deaths and other crimes in residential
schools, in open opposition to the TRC.

As part of its work, this Tribunal will begin enforcing the Eviction
Notices issued by Squamish hereditary Chief Kiapilano against the
Catholic, Anglican and United churches on his territory, in "Vancouver".
We will claim these buildings and lands as our Mohawk cousins are doing
in their land reclamation battle in "Ontario". And within these
liberated zones, we will be establishing popular courts of justice to
try and convict those persons and organizations responsible for the
residential school crimes.

Until September 15, I will be travelling in Europe and elsewhere to gain
new international allies for this campaign and cause. Let us begin
planning for this "hot autumn" by planning local Tribunals and direct
actions of sovereignty and reclamation in all of our communities,
against the churches, corporations and government responsible for the
murder of our peoples.

May our hearts and courage rise to this challenge. Spread the fire.

I am your brother,
Kevin Annett Eagle Strong Voice
for the Tribunal and sovereignty campaign
hiddenfromhistory@yahoo.ca
www.hiddenfromhistory.org

Read and Hear the truth of Genocide in Canada, past and present, at this
website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org

"Kevin is more deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize than many who have
received it in the past."
- Dr. Noam Chomsky
Institute Professor Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"A courageous and inspiring man." (referring to Kevin Annett)
- Mairead Corrigan-Maguire
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Belfast , Northern Ireland

The very lands we all along enjoyed
they ravished from the people they destroyed ...
All the long pretenses of descent
are shams of right to prop up government.
' Tis all invasion, usurpation all;
' Tis all by fraud and force that we possess,
and length of time can make no crime the less;
Religion's always on the strongest side.

Daniel Defoe, Jure Divino (England, 1706)
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:27:31 -0700
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@koanifoundation.org>
Subject: [livingnation] Free Hawai`i TV - "Do You Trust Them?"

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS
FREE HAWAI`I TV
THE FREE HAWAI`I BROADCASTING NETWORK
TODAYÕS VIDEO COMMENTARY

ÒDO YOU TRUST THEM?Ó

Can The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Trustees Be Trusted?

What Does The Honolulu Advertiser Say Is Going On?

Can It Be Fixed? Watch & Find Out
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:46:21 -1000
From: pilipo souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [kaleimailealii] about imiola young

Kala mai. The video is no longer available. pilipo
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 22:16:57 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>

i uploaded two videos to my youtube site:
http://www.youtube.com/user/palologyrl

the one with claire and another with richard salvador should be up there
now. i'm uploading a couple more--comments from poka and a song by jon
osorio (buffalo springfield's "everybody get together, try to love one
another right now."
lc
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Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:03:12 -1000
From: Dedibble DeKepalo <dekepalo@gmail.com>
Google Alert - Oha lies

Eh dis guy got the axe! Who next? dekepalo

OHA Lies

OHA LIES!
OHA LIES! The Office Of Hawaiian Affairs Is Not Telling You
The Truth! - E Ala E, E Na Po`e Hawai`i! - Wake Up, People Of
Hawai`i! - Eia Ka `Oia`i`o! ...
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Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:08:51 -0400
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Subject: Disappeared News - 2 new articles

"DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 2 NEW ARTICLES

1. Plaintiffâ^À^Ùs statement on why suit was filed to block Hawaii from
using Hart voting computers
2. Why impeachment matters, but will we ever get there?
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Plaintiffâ^À^Ùs statement on why suit was filed to block Hawaii from
using Hart voting computers

by Larry Geller Iâ^À^Ùll repeat a suggestion Iâ^À^Ùve made before: why
doesnâ^À^Ùt Hawaii (or any other state) commission the writing of
open-source voting software so we know what these machines are doing?
Hmmm? Or could it be that the powers that be really want a machine that
can manipulate the vote? An article appeared in OpEd News by Bob Babson
of Maui,the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit to block the....

Why impeachment matters, but will we ever get there?

by Larry Geller [Dennis Kucinich, in a statement last week] "Our
Constitution is being destroyed. We are losing our nation to a war based
on lies. I am determined to get this bill to committee for a hearing," he
said. "The President has conducted the affairs of the nation in a manner
which cries out for justice and it is the Constitutional obligation of
Congress to check his wanton abuses of U.S....

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