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Akaka: Bill may have a shot at law

2009-05-02T23:30:00.001-07:00

Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:11:05 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>

fyi...

Akaka: Bill may have a shot at law
Opposition continues, but sympathetic new president could be key

By KEKOA ENOMOTO, Staff Writer

President Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka
Bill marks ninth anniversary

WAILUKU - Nine years after it was first conceived, a bill giving self-determination to Native Hawaiians may finally have a shot at becoming law, according to the office of U.S. Sen. Daniel Akaka.

But instead of bringing consensus, the passage of time seems to have only deepened divisions over whether the so-called Akaka Bill is the right thing for Hawaiians. Both sides say they want Native Hawaiians to govern themselves, but while supporters believe the Akaka Bill will give them the tools for self-determination, opponents call the measure a "fraud."

Akaka's Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009 was introduced Feb. 4 in both chambers of the 111th Congress, said Jesse Broder Van Dyke, Akaka's press secretary. Senate Bill 381 was referred to the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, while the accompanying H.R. 862 was referred to the House Natural Resources Committee.

The Akaka Bill would do a number of things, including provide a process for Native Hawaiians to attain self-determination and self-governance; enable Native Hawaiians to be recognized officially as the indigenous people of the Hawaiian archipelago; and affirm a trust relationship of Native Hawaiians and their eventual governing entity with the U.S. government.

Despite the country's ongoing economic crisis and a plethora of other priorities, Van Dyke indicated the tenor on Capitol Hill was positive toward the nine-year-old piece of legislation.

"We're very excited," he said Wednesday by phone from Washington, D.C. "We have a president who is a strong supporter, and who's pledged to sign it if it passes."

Race-based or move toward nationhood?

The Akaka Bill is "one of the most important pieces of federal legislation for Hawaii in the last 50 years since statehood," said Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement Chief Executive Officer Robin Puanani Danner.

Danner sees the Akaka Bill as a way for Hawaiians to move away from a race-based system toward a form of nationhood. She said the Akaka Bill is a federal document that "would make it the law of the land for our federal government to recognize Native Hawaiians not as race-based, but as a political collective."

"For 50 years since statehood, we've been in purgatory as a people," Danner said. "The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act doesn't tell us what to do. It tells the federal government what to do if we as Hawaiians decide to reorganize and decide to become a political entity. That bill requires every federal government agency, every office, the federal government itself, to see our entity as we decide it; that will be the will of the people."

But a Kahului resident, whose great-great-grandfather helped draft 1839 documents of the Hawaiian kingdom, said he opposes the Akaka Bill "mind, body and soul."

"The Akaka Bill is a race-based bill," said Foster Ampong, an advocate for Hawaiian independence. "Because you're talking about Native Hawaiians, as defined by law - 50 percent or greater Hawaiian blood."

Ampong said the Akaka Bill does not address the most critical legal issue for Hawaiians: nationhood.

"The Akaka Bill is another attempt at creating a fraud or appearance that the Hawaiian Islands and people were acquired by the U.S. lawfully - and in essence and in fact it wasn't," he said.

"For me, it's my passion. It's what I really, sincerely believe: We are Hawaiian nationals, not just Native Hawaiians by blood or ethnicity. . . . We have our very own bill of rights that formed our lahui, our nation," Ampong said.

Likewise, another Akaka Bill opponent points out that the kingdom of Hawaii had a relationship as a co-equal with "England, France, Russia, Belgium, Netherlands, all the powers of the world."

Kaleikoa Ka'eo, Hawaiian studies instructor at Maui Community College, said of the Akaka Bill: "I am actively involved to organize against its passage" because the bill would diminish Hawaii's international standing, making it "go to the back of the line" and give up a status it already had.

"It's like saying you attained citizenship - and now you give yourselves the right to attain a green card as an alien," he said.

Land an issue for some

For Ka'eo, a major issue "is that the so-called Akaka Bill provides no land, not one acre of land, and no access to water - that's not really self-determination," he said.

A Central Maui minister agreed.

"Akaka Bill, OHA, DHHL are all in my opinion a compromise of true reconciliation, a total distraction to overt giving back what was stolen," said Kahu Hanalei Colleado, kahuna pule, or priest, of Pu'uhonua 'O 'Iao, referring to the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the state Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

On the other hand, a Wailuku pastor and community organizer said the Akaka Bill was not about assets, but process.

"The Akaka Bill allows us to set up our nation," said the Rev. Tasha Kama, who serves as executive officer of the Sovereign Council of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly. "We should work with that process, fine-tune it as we go along. It does allow us to establish our nation within the U.S. Constitution," she said.

For purists who balk at any process that operates under the U.S. Constitution, she added: "Better half a loaf than no loaf. At least if we have something, we can protect what we have left," she said, referring to a slew of lawsuits filed in the past decade challenging Native Hawaiian trusts and entitlements.

"It's not perfect, nothing is perfect," Kama said. "All we can do is go from where we are now; working toward sovereignty, independence; keep working, keep talking, keep aloha flowing among the Hawaiian people. When the time comes, yes, let us all call ourselves sovereign."

Providing protection from barrage of suits

Some leaders support the Akaka Bill because they feel federal recognition could protect Hawaiian rights against that barrage of lawsuits.

Some suits have succeeded in overturning special programs for Native Hawaiians because the plaintiffs argued the programs were race-based - and therefore unconstitutional.

"Lack of 'official' recognition has caused us to become the brunt of litigation," said Hau'oli Tomoso, executive director of Hui No Ke Ola Pono, a Native Hawaiian health agency. "That talk about 'race-based' is something that other native peoples don't have to worry about. They're nations, they're entities in a way that we're not."

Retired 2nd Circuit Judge Boyd Mossman agreed that federal recognition of Native Hawaiians as an indigenous group will ensure the same rights that hundreds of Native American Indian tribes and Alaska Natives already enjoy.

"Failure to pass this bill will be the beginning of the end of legal battles in the courts," Mossman, the Maui trustee for OHA, said. "Loss after loss will likely result, because of no federal recognition to legally shield Hawaiians from the incessant attacks by those who don't see Hawaiians as indigenous and therefore only another race-based group receiving benefits from the government."

Yet a former Hana resident said he doesn't support the Akaka Bill because it seeks to place Native Hawaiians in the same "Native American" category as Native American Indians and Alaska Natives - who he felt sold out their birthright.

"We were a recognized, sovereign, independent nation," said Henry Noa, co-founder and leader of the nearly 10-year-old Reinstated Hawaiian Government. "For us to agree to be given a new definition, a new description of our identity - that really saddens me. That we have today Hawaiians that just take that lightly, that I see them support the Akaka Bill - it's as if they're willing to compromise their inheritance (for) handouts from the United States of America.

"When I look into the Alaska Native Act, when Alaskans made their deal with the United States government they gave up 392 million acres of land that they had control over because they wanted to be reclassified as Native American Alaskans," he said.

Critics question

public input for bill

Some critics also say not enough input from the Hawaiian community went into drafting the Akaka Bill - raising the question of whether it truly reflects Hawaiian self-determination.

Andre Perez, a coordinator of the activist group Hui Pu who formerly worked for the Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission, maintains insufficient input from Native Hawaiians invalidates the Akaka Bill.

"We Hawaiians never even conceived the name 'Akaka Bill,' " he said. "Most Hawaiians don't have a clear idea, don't even know the Akaka Bill."

But others said they had worked on formulating the Akaka Bill, saying they met repeatedly with the senator, who also attended a Sovereign Council of the Hawaiian Homelands Assembly convention to seek input.

Kahu Charles Kauluwehi Maxwell Sr., chairman of the Maui/Lanai Islands Burial Council, said he served on a six-member Akaka task force with lawyer Mililani Trask to forge an original draft of the bill.

Danner noted the bill was first introduced in Congress in 2000.

"The notion that the content, the concept has not been fully deliberated over a nine-year period is a little disingenuous," she said.

Van Dyke, Akaka's spokesman, said the senator had "fought hard for Native Hawaiians for many years."

"What happened in 1893 was wrong, but unfortunately cannot be undone," he said, referring to the U.S. overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. "Senator Akaka feels this is the best way forward to perpetuate Hawaiian culture and for Hawaiians to determine their own destiny - and with the reality that Hawaii is going to remain a part of the United States."

Kekoa Enomoto can be reached at kekoa@mauinews.com.

Fact Box
Provisions of the Akaka Bill

The United States recognizes and reaffirms that Native Hawaiians are a unique and distinct aboriginal, indigenous, native people, with whom the United States has a political and legal relationship; that Native Hawaiians have never relinquished their claims to sovereignty or their sovereign lands; and that Native Hawaiians have an inherent right to self-determination and self-governance.

A nine-member Native Hawaiian commission will certify that all those on a roll, who want to organize a Native Hawaiian government and to elect its officers, are of Native Hawaiian descent.

A Native Hawaiian Interim Governing Council will conduct a referendum to determine the organic governing documents and powers of a Native Hawaiian government, and will hold elections for its officers.

The secretary of the interior will certify that the organic governing documents are consistent with applicable federal law, and authorize the Native Hawaiian government to negotiate with federal, state and local governments.

"Nothing in this act is intended to serve as a settlement of any claims against the United States, or to affect the rights of the Native Hawaiian people under international law."

To read the full text, visit:

www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s111-381

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2009-03-31T23:51:00.001-07:00

Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:27:39 -0700
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Umi sent you a message.
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Subject: Kupuʻaina coalitionʻs take on the decision

Derek Kauanoe sent this, if you havenʻt seen it:

Aloha mai kakou,

You may have heard by now that the United States Supreme Court has ruled
on the "ceded" lands case. Unfortunately, several local media outlets do
not explain the Supreme Court ruling adequately and, in my opinion, may
inadvertently mis-lead the public.

Upon first glance, anyone might come to the conclusion that the State of
Hawai'i can sell ceded lands. But, Kupu'aina reads the opinion
differently. When the Hawai'i Supreme Court made its landmark ruling last
year placing a moratorium on the sale of "ceded" lands, it did so using
both the 1993 Apology Resolution AND relevant state law. When the U.S.
Supreme Court came out with its ruling this morning, it only ruled on the
1993 Apology Resolution and not state law. In fact, at the end of its
decision, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that it has no authority to
decide questions of Hawai'i state law or to provide redress for past
wrongs except as provided for by federal law. The U.S. Supreme Court sent
the case back down to the Hawai'i Supreme Court to proceed in a manner
that is consistent with the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling.

The Attorney General Mark Bennett, sought to take this "ceded" lands case
out of the Hawai'i Supreme Court. Now, however, the U.S. Supreme Court has
put the case back into the hands of the State Supreme Court.

This morning there are two good interviews on the KGMB website that is
helpful to people who want to understand today's ruling. There is an
interview with - Clyde Namuo (OHA Administrator)
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://tr.im%2FNamuo090331 and - Colleen
Hanabusa (Hawaii Senate President
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://tr.im%2FHanabusa090331.

Clyde Namuo explains how this ruling is exactly what the Office of
Hawaiian Affairs hoped for once the Supreme Court decided to take up the
case. Generally, the reason is because the ruling puts the case back into
State court. Senator Hanabusa also explains why, the State, still can't
sell "ceded" lands at this time. Hanabusa's statements are contrary to
today's Honolulu Advertiser headline which reads, "US Supreme Court says
state can sell ceded lands" which was changed just moments ago to read as
follows, "U.S. Supreme Court rules state has authority to sell ceded
lands"

Kupu'āina encourages the public to read the U.S. Supreme Court's short
opinion on this issue rather than rely only on media reports. You can
access the opinion at
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.supremecourtus.gov%2Fopinions%2F08slipopinion.html
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local stuffs

2009-01-23T21:27:00.001-08:00

dear folks, i am going to take a break from the blog. blessings for your
support. g

1. Yesterday, Jnauary 18, 1893
2. Interviews on 1/21/09 at State Capitol
3. Petition on line
4. Today January 19, 1893
5. FACEBOOK: The New Law Enforcement Tool
6. The Western Writers' Centre
7. Response to Kenneth R. Conklin's Letter (Jan. 17)
in Maui News
8. pacific food plants database
9. What matters most. For less. Starting at $298* to the Mainland.
10. Free Hawai`i TV - "Free Hawai`i People Power"
11. OHA Outreach Jan20
12. Legislative Hawaiian Caucus Meeting on the
Ceded Lands - Please read
13. self help health info
14. Small Media Success
15. New Report: The Silent Depression ( for people of
color)
16. Holmes Fighting Activities
17. MegaVote: HI 2nd, 1/21/2009
18. IMPEACH LINGLE NOW (fwd)
19. Check out Sovereignty Sunday ACCESS DENIED #8 - Maoliworld (fwd)
20. TEA.... helps you lose weight.....
21. 12 Natural Remedies for Winter's Ills, Chills,
and Aches
22. Voices Health/Environment News
23. celebrations
24. cartagena protocol on biosafety
25. Akaka Bill Rewrite? (from a usually unreliable source)
26. Obama to Sign Order to Close Guantanamo Within A Year
27. Saadi Youssef - poem
28. Integrity
29. Integrity - comment
30. Akaka Bill Rewrite? (from a usually unreliable source) - comment
31. Global Zero, check it out, sign the declaration
32. "DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 1 NEW ARTICLE
33. OHA Moratorium bill
34. Akaka Bill Rewrite? (from a usually
unreliable source)
35. Letters (fwd)
36. praise song
for the day
37. Important Meeting at the Capitol Thursday at 4pm Room 423
38. Punahou Kids Dig Obama
39. Critics of Obama's speech missed his point -- inclusiveness
40. Holy Land Peace Airdates: "Peace Not Walls" (repeat) -- Feb. '09,
Ch. 54
41. Chancellor's Update: January 2009
42. SNOPES ADVICE
43. OHA,
Ceded Lands & Any Proposed/Negotiated Kind of Settlement/Moratorium
44. Obama to Close CIA "Black Sites"
45. Robert Fisk - So far, Obama's missed the point on Gaza...
46. News Release 09-002: DOH ADVISES PUBLIC TO WASH PRODUCE THOROUGHLY TO
PREVENT EXPOSURE TO RARE FORM OF MENINGITIS
47. AKAKA BILL current 2007 SB & HR bills plus overview of the bills
purpose
48. UN Rapporteur: Initiate Criminal Proceedings Against Bush, Rumsfeld
49. Whistleblower: NSA Snooped on All US Communications,
Targeted Journalists
50. 1/17-1/20 2009
51. governor.lingle@hawaii.gov
52. KU I KA PONO March-Rally Jan. 17, 2009 (fwd)
53. O'odham Ancestors and the Wall
54. Benefit_Concert_-The_Gyre_Cleanup_Project:_Ocean_Rescue_Mission!_Sat,_Jan_31
55. Memorial Gathering for Epeli Hau`ofa
56. Airdates - Rich Indian Racism
57. Sovereingn Sunday 2009
58. Disappeared News - No response from Governor Lingle on Superferry
quarterly reports
59. the travels of language, bacteria and human migration in the pacific
60. Stolen Land = pink Elephant ,
Eveyone Knows it THERE!
61. Time has come to CUT JROTC from our schools!
62. Obama to Reverse Abortion Policy
63. The Empty Bowl Project: A fundraiser for the Hawai`i Foodbank
64. I Am Not A Crook........................ (fwd)
65. "Title Insurance and the Ownership of Land in Hawai`i"
66. Charley_Thweatt_-_Inspired_Acoustic_Music_-_3_events_on_3_islands!_Jan_25-30
67. Critics of Obama's speech missed his point
-- inclusiveness - comment

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:41:56 -1000
From: pilipo souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
1. Yesterday, Jnauary 18, 1893

Yellow Journalism to the max! On January 17, 1893 the western news print
beared this headline.

(As printed;)
Daily Pacific Commercial Advertiser, January 17, 1893

MASS MEETING--CITIZENS DETERMINED TO RESIST AGGRESSION --AN ENTHUSIASTIC
GATHERING AT THE RIFLES ARMORY PROTEST AGAINST THE REVOLUTIONARY ATTITUDE
OF THE QUEEN --RESOLUTION ADOPTED AND THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY
AUTHORIZED TO TAKE FURTHER STEPS.

At 2:00 p.m., yesterday the Honolulu Rifles armory was the scene of one
of the largest and most enthusiastic mass meetings ever held in Honolulu.
It was called by the committee of public safety for the purpose of
protesting against the revolutionary aggression of the Queen. At 1:30
citizens began to assemble, and before 2 o'clock the large building was
crowded to its utmost capacity, 1,200 being present, by actual count,
while many others came later. Every class in the community was fully
represented, mechanic, merchants, professional men, and artisans of every
kind being present in full force. The meeting was intensely enthusiastic,
being animated by a common purpose and feeling, and most of the speakers
were applauded to the echo

Hon. W. C. Wilder, of the committee of safety, was the chairman.
Mr. Wilder said: Fellow citizens, I have been requested to act as
chairman of the meeting. Were it a common occurrence, I would consider
it an honor, but to-day we are not here to do honor to any body. I
accept the chairmanship of this meeting as a duty.[Applause] We are here
to-day as men, not as any party, faction, or creed, but as men who are to
see good government. It is well known to you all what took place at the
palace last Saturday. I need not tell you the object of this meeting.,
and no such meeting has been held since 1887. There is the same reason
now as then. An impromptu meeting of citizens was called Saturday to take
measures for the public safety. The report of the committee will be read
to you. We do not meet as revolutionist, but as peaceful citizens
who have the right to meet and state grievances. [Loud applause] We will
maintain our rights and have courage to maintain them. [Universal cheers]

Noble Thurston being introduced by the chairman read the report of the
committee of safety.

To the citizens of Honolulu:
On the morning of last Saturday, the 14th instant, the city was startled
by the information that Her Majesty Queen Lili'okalani had announced her
intention to arbitrarily promulgate a new constitution, and that three of
the newly-appointed cabinet misters had, or were about to resign in
consequence hereof"

(End of print).

Thus began the propaganda externally from the shores of the Hawaiian
Islands that Queen Lili'uokalani caused the revolution against the Hawaii
Constitution of 1887, aka the Bayonet Constriction. The new majority of
1500 citizens of Honolulu decided that a minority of 30, 000 or more
citizens of the Nation Hawaii were incompetent, not knowing what was good
for themselves.

Mai poina ia'u, forget me not.

pilipo
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:48:50 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
2. Interviews on 1/21/09 at State Capitol

here's an opportunity to speak to issues we think are important...

----- Original Message ----- From: Evern Williams
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 6:59 PM

Aloha kakou,

Every year Olelo brings students to the opening day of the legislature to
interview our lawmakers and the general public. This year Palolo Media
Center will be bringing Kaiser and Kaimuki High School students to do
brief three minute interviews which will be put together for a 58 minute
show.

We would like to offer our producers and clients the opportunity to be
part of our Capitol Commentary special, especially if you will be
supporting legislative bills about your issue. Please let us know if you
or your organization representative can be available from 10am to 12 noon
at the state capitol for a brief interview. You should have a 3 minute
concise, effective sound bite ready so we can video tape you and include
your issue in our program.

We look forward to hearing from you by email or phone (721-3392) by 9pm,
Tuesday, January 20th

Mahalo,

Evern, Tom and Dane
Palolo Media Center Staff

Your interviews will be included among the 12 legislators from our
surrounding community. Air dates for Palolo/Kaimuki Area are:

2/1/09 Sunday 5:00pm FOCUS Channel 49
2/4/09 Wednesday 6:00pm VIEWS Channel 54
2/5/19 Thursday 8:00am VIEWS Channel 54
2/8/09 Sunday 5:00pm FOCUS Channel 49
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From: Marilyn Leimomi Khan
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2009 9:49 PM
3. Petition on line

The Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs adopted the petition shown below
at its recent convention. Currently, we have gathered approximately 700
signatures, and invite all in support of this petition to assist us in
further outreach. Send this e-mail to family and friends and encourage
them to support this petition. An online petition has been created and
can be accessed by going to the following site:
http://www.petitiononline.com/AHCCJA09/petition.html

For information on this issue, recommend going to the following websites:
Office of Hawaiian Affairs: http://www.oha.org
Kupu'aina Coalition: http://www.stopsellingcededlands.com

Mahalo for your consideration.

Leimomi Khan
President, AHCC

Petition reads:

To: Governor Linda Lingle & Administration

We, the undersigned, strongly urge the Governor, members of her
Administration, including the Attorney General and his office, to withdraw
their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court of the decision of the Hawaii
Supreme Court regarding the sale or transfer of ceded lands (Office of
Hawaiian Affairs, No. 07-1372 (cert. granted Oct. 1, 2008), and to
renegotiate a resolution in good faith with the Office of Hawaiian Affairs
and other plaintiffs. We feel that the continuation of this lawsuit at the
U.S. Supreme Court level acts against the better interest of Native
Hawaiians and other residents who benefit from the ceded lands corpus.
________________________________________________________________________________

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:47:31 -1000
From: pilipo souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
4. Today January 19, 1893

Aloha kakou, On January 19, 1893, just two days after the overthrow of
Queen Lili'okalani, a commission of six leave for Washington, D. C.
knowing full well all is secured with Martial Law in the Hawaiian Islands
reinforced with deployed United States Marines. The following message of
introduction clears the path;

pilipo

As printed:

Mr. Stevens to Mr. Foster
No. 80 United States Legation
Honolulu, January 19,1893.

SIR: The Provisional Government of Hawaii, by special steamer, send a
commission to Washington with full powers to negotiate with the
Government of the United States. It is composed of six representative men
of the highest respectability. Hon William C Wilder is the president and
chief manager of the Inter-island Steanship Company running steamers
among the islands, and he has large property interst in Honolulu. Hon. C.
M. [surname omitted] is a leading lumber merchant in Honolulu, doing
business with Puget Sound and Oregon, born here of best American stock.
Hon. L. A. Thurston is one the most, if not the most, talented and
influential man on the islands, and is one of the highest respectability.
He and his father were born on the islands, of Connecticut parentage.
Though a young man, he is the leading member of the reform cabinet from
July 1, 1887 to 1890.
Hon. William H. Castle is a lawyer of eminence, born on the islands,
of western New York parentage, his father still living here at the age
84, having resided in Honolulu nearly half a century, and for many years
exercised a large influence here. Mr. Charles P. Carter is the son of the
recent Hawaiian minister at Washington, Hon. H. P.Carter, and is an
accomplished and most reliable gentleman, American to the core, and has
a Michigan wife. Hon. Mr. Marsden is of Englsh birth, is a prominent
business man and noble in the Legislature.
These six commissioners represent a large preponderating proportion of
the property holdings and commercial interests of these islands. They are
backed by the influences which enable them to fully carry out their
agreements with the United States Government.
I am, sir, etc,
JOHN L. STEVENS .

.
The head lines of the western news print, Daily Pacific Commercial
Advertiser, January 18, 1893 read:

THE NEW ERA---THE REVOLUTION TERMINATED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE
PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT---CITIZENS RISE AND SEIZE THE GOVERNMENT
BUILDING---ENTHUSIASTIC VOLUNTEERS RALLY ROUND THE NEW GOVERNMENT---THE
LATE QUEEN AND CABINET YEILD AND LEAVE THE TOWN UNDER QUITE PROTECTION
OF ITS OWN CITIZENS---FULL TEXT OF PROCLAMATION AND ORDERS.
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 01:20:13 +1300
From: karaka <tepaatu@gmail.com>
5. FACEBOOK: The New Law Enforcement Tool

------ Forwarded Message
NZ police use Facebook images to solve burglary By RAY LILLEY Associated
Press Writer

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - Police in New Zealand nabbed a man who was
trying to crack a bar's safe after posting security camera footage of the
act on the Internet networking site Facebook.

Police said it was New Zealand's first such arrest and said they would use
the site again, part of a growing trend among law enforcement officials
and lawyers who are turning to online networks to fight crime.

"Facebook was very, very handy, and it's a good little tool," Senior Sgt.
John Fookes of Queenstown police told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Privacy advocates, however, were concerned about the free-for-all way in
which private information is often shared on such sites, and the potential
for misuse.

"Because of the inherent insecurity and the known high-level of identity
deception on Facebook, it won't be very long before people start to abuse
it," said David Vaile, the vice-chairman of the Australian Privacy
Foundation.

Anyone could set up a Facebook page claiming to be a police officer and
post photographs of "wanted" people they sought to harass, he said.

Facebook's communications team did not immediately respond to a request
for comment Thursday.

The video showed a man, wearing a face-covering balaclava and carrying a
bag of tools, breaking into a tiny storage room inside the Franklin Tavern
in the tourist town of Queenstown early Monday. He tried to cut into a
safe containing $12,000 (NZ20,000) in takings from gambling machines.

After nearly an hour in the cramped space, the man removed his balaclava
and gloves and looked around - red-faced from fruitless toil. As he left,
the video showed the man suddenly spotting the lens of the security camera
that was recording his every move.

"He looks around and sees it and there's just a shocked look of 'gutted,'
said tavern assistant manager Mel Kelly. "His face definitely drops."

Officers posted the footage on the Queenstown police Facebook page and
identification was "very, very quick; overnight, we had a number of
responses" from the public, Fookes said. "If we've got something that the
public can help us with then we'll certainly be putting it on Facebook."

The man was charged with two counts of burglary and was due to appear in
court on Jan. 26.

Queenstown police launched a Facebook site last month, and posted
photographs and details of purse-snatch robberies and other crimes in the
hopes of attracting useful information from Web users.

It is part of a wider trend of using Facebook for detective work by media,
lawyers and others.

A court in Australia last month approved a mortgage lender's application
to use Facebook to serve legal documents on a couple who had defaulted on
their payments. In November, a restaurateur in the Australian city of
Melbourne reportedly used Facebook to track down a group who racked up a
large bill then fled without paying.

Facebook has attracted more than 140 million users worldwide since it
began in 2004.
---

Associated Press Writer Rohan Sullivan contributed to this report from
Sydney, Australia.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:17:27 -0600
From: "[ISO-8859-1] Séamas Cain" <seamascain@GMAIL.COM>
6. The Western Writers' Centre

PETITION TO REINSTATE ARTS COUNCIL FUNDING TO WESTERN WRITERS' CENTRE

The Arts Council of the Republic of Ireland have removed all funding from
the Western Writers' Centre, Ionad Scríbhneoirí Chaitlín Maude.
http://www.twwc.ie/

The Centre has been in operation as the only Writers' Centre west of the
Shannon for almost seven years and has provided workshops, readings, a
website, and a newsletter, "The Word Tree."

They were the first to organise a writers' residence to a Galway hospital.
They also run an annual festival, "The Forge at Gort."

Their commitment to the Irish language and Irish language writers has also
been a foremost feature of their working policy.

The Arts Council grant of ^À10,000 enabled them to plan forward, to
develop this Centre. http://www.twwc.ie/

Please take the time to add your name to the petition calling for
REINSTATEMENT of Arts Council Funding! You will find the petition at
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/WESTERNWRITERS

For additional information, contact the WESTERN WRITERS' CENTRE at
westernwriters@eircom.net

Best regards,

Séamas Cain
http://alazanto.org/seamascain
http://seamascain.writernetwork.com
http://www.mnartists.org/Seamas_Cain
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:38:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Kekahuna Keaweiwi <kekahunakeaweiwi@yahoo.com>
7. Response to Kenneth R. Conklin's Letter (Jan. 17)
in Maui News

Again Kenneth R. Conklin (Letter, Jan. 17) conveniently omits a
fundamental fact relating to the Department of Hawaiian Homes Land (DHHL)
and that being, it was created by the United States government. The
minimum blood quantum and displacement of Hawaiians onto these so-called
^Óceded lands^Ô are all the inception, execution and enforcement of your
government Mr. Conklin, not that of native Hawaiians.

As for the Akaka Bill, I agree with you. It is race-based. How can it not
be? The fact no one seems to want to address, let alone acknowledge is the
lands, Will and Legacy of Bernice Puahi (Kamehameha Schools) are all
fundamentally issues of ^Ónationality^Ô not that of blood or race.

To remedy this Mr. Conklin, return these lands White Anglo Saxon
plantation owners with the aid of White Anglo Saxon American nationals
stole from the Hawaiian people. I assure you we Hawaii nationals will do
away with DHHL, the Akaka Bill and the limitations on our schooling.

We^Òll demonstrate to you and the world the true essence of living an all
inclusive, sustainable society. After all, my ancestors achieved (the
ahupua`a tenets) this great feat the past two thousand years; that is
until your ancestors arrived in 1778.

Foster Ampong
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:12:13 -1000
From: penny levin <pennysfh@hawaii.rr.com>
8. pacific food plants database

Food plants database online
From : Didinet

An extensive database of edible plants, most of which are from PNG, is now
online, courtesy of the Food Plants International (FPI), a not-for-profit
organisation that aims to provide information about edible plants with the
objective of 'Helping the Hungry Feed Themselves'. The url is:
www.foodplantsinternational.com. According to this site, it is the world's
largest database of edible food plants, containing useful information on
over 18,000 food plants.

There are a huge number of undervalued and overlooked food plants in the
world. Although not complete, the FPI database provides accessible
information about these plants to support production of locally relevant
and nutritious food, and enable people to appropriately value their local
foods. Information posted on the site says that: ^ÓThe searchable database
has information on scientific name, genus, common names, synonyms, plant
description, production and use notes, nutritional value, pictures and
references.^Ô

^ÓOur goal is to provide information that enables people to choose the
right plant for their environment, to give them stable food production and
a greater choice of plants to enrich their diets and improve their
nutritional wellbeing.^Ô

FPI was formally established in 1999, with origins going back to 1980.
Bruce French, founder of FPI, was living in PNG at the time, and noticed
that many villagers suffered disease and malnutrition, often while
surrounded by nutritious food plants. It wasn't that they didn't know
anything about their local plants, but there were clearly a lot more
edible plants than was readily recognised. Also, there was very little
nutritional information available about the plants. Bruce also observed
that most of the information taught in agricultural colleges related to
temperate plants commonly produced in Western agriculture. From these
humble beginnings, Bruce set out to document the food plants of PNG, an
effort that soon spread to include the entire world of food plants.

The website says increasing the diversity of food plants available is the
simplest solution to a balanced diet. What one plant lacks; another will
provide. Maintaining a diversity of food plants enhances food security. If
some plants are affected by adverse weather and environmental conditions,
others will still be there to provide food. The people who make up FPI are
based in Tasmania, Australia. Are all volunteers who wish to make a
difference to the three billion people of the world whose most important
concern each day is having enough nutritious food to eat. They can be
contact if anyone has any information to contribute.
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:02:27 -0500
From: Hawaiian Airlines <hawaiianairlines@mail.hawaiianairlines.com>
9. What matters most. For less. Starting at $298* to the Mainland.

Hawaiian Airlines

This year, why not trade acquisition for excursion? Instead of
accumulating things, try collecting travel experiences. Your memories will
outlast almost anything you own - plus they'll never wear out or take up
too much space.

With roundtrip fares from Honolulu to select West Coast cities starting at
$298*, now's a great time to rediscover what really matters.

Book by January 23, 2009 for travel through March 13, 2009. See all
special fares for travel through June 4, 2009.

* Fares are subject to seat availability during the travel period shown
and may change at any time without notice. Additional fare of $65 each way
for neighbor island direct connection of 4 hours or less to/from Honolulu.
Additional cost of $3.60 ZP tax per segment, a $2.50 per enplanement
September 11th Security Fee (not to exceed $10) and PFC surcharge of
$3-$4.50 where applicable will be applied to each ticket purchase. Taxes,
fees & other restrictions apply. Additional baggage charges may apply.

Hawaiian Airlines · 3375 Koapaka Street, Suite G350 · Honolulu, HI 96819
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:08:10 -0800
From: `Ehu Kekahu Cardwell <ehukekahu@koanifoundation.org>
10. Free Hawai`i TV - "Free Hawai`i People Power"

FREEHAWAII.INFO PRESENTS

FREE HAWAI`I TV

THE FREE HAWAI`I BROADCASTING NETWORK

TODAYÕS VIDEO COMMENTARY

"FREE HAWAI`I PEOPLE POWER"

See & Hear The Sights & Sounds Of Saturday's Protest March Through
Waikiki For A Free Hawai`i.
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From: David Rodriguez
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 3:10 PM
11. OHA Outreach Jan20

Dear Colleagues:

Thank you for attending our legislative preview at the Bishop Museum. We
hope it encourages you to work together with us as we deliberate during
the 25th State Legislature.

We apologize that we were unable to provide specifics to our public land
trust payment proposal (OHA-03) in a timely manner but offer the following
statements:

This bill seeks to resolve past claims from November 7, 1978, to July 1,
2008, for a value of $200 million that will be provided to OHA in two
phases.

Under the bill, this year OHA would receive property valued at over $127.2
million and next year receive nearly $72.8 million in yet-to-be-determined
land. The property conveyed this year would include parcels:

^Õ In Kaka^Ñako Makai in Honolulu. These parcels are the same parcels
identified in last year^Òs proposal. ^Õ Along the Banyan Drive resort area
in Hilo. These parcels include the Country Club Condo Hotel, Reed^Òs Bay
Resort Hotel, Uncle Billy^Òs Hilo Bay Hotel, the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel and
the Naniloa Hotel and Golf Course.

While OHA continues to believe that the Kalaeloa Makai property in last
year^Òs proposal continues to fit within our real estate strategy and
criteria, it was removed from the land mix at the request of the State
Attorney General and the State Department of Land and Natural Resources.
To address concerns raised by the community, this legislation does not
resolve future claims and instead continues the annual payments of $15.1
million to OHA. Also in response to concerns, OHA is doing full due
diligence on the lands.

The OHA legislative package is available on our website by clicking on>
OHA Legislation 2009 or at http://tr.im/82zr .

By this communication, the Trustees of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs has
been informed of some concerns you have raised:

· Support for more beneficiary services.
· Trustee outreach and transparency.
· Institutionalizing more grants.
· Learning from past mistakes.
· Beneficiary consultation on policy^Òs prior to its adoption.

And in this regard, OHA will be conducting community meetings to discuss
public land trust payments and our strategic plan.

Please do not hesitate to reach me should you have additional questions or
concerns related to OHA legislative matters.

Also, please send me an e-mail should you wish to be removed from this
thread which hopes to engage your advocacy throughout this legislative
session.

Aloha,

David Rodriguez
Policy Coordinator
Office of Hawaiian Affairs
(808) 594-1756
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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 22:34:51 -1000
From: Lc <lcruz@hawaii.edu>
12. Legislative Hawaiian Caucus Meeting on the
Ceded Lands - Please read

i have class thursday evening, but if anyone is interested in attending,
please do. sounds like it will be interesting. lc

----- Original Message ----- From: Marilyn Leimomi Khan
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 7:10 PM

The Legislative Hawaiian Caucus will be holding a meeting this Thursday,
January 22, 4:00 p.m.-5:30 p.m., Hawaii State Capitol, Room 423, to
discuss the ceded lands issue. The caucus will likely take a position
concerning the placement of a moratorium on the sales and transfer of the
ceded lands. It's important that civic clubs have presence at this
meeting and that we make known our support for a moratorium. Please turn
out. Come early; expect that the meeting room will be packed.

Guests include: Mark Bennett, Hawaii Attorney General; Sherry Broder,
Hawaii Civil Attorney; and Micah Kane, Chair of the Department of Hawaiian
Home Lands.

Eventually, this meeting will be shown on 'Olelo.

Leimomi
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:20:48 +1300
From: karaka <tepaatu@gmail.com>
13. self help health info

http://www.lung.ca - diseases-maladied/copd-mpoc
http://www.on.lung.ca - lung -health/Asthma
http://aaaai.org - patients/publedmat/tips
http://www.nzdoctor.co.nz/news - re Paracetomol & Asthma link study
http://www.copd.co.uk - re emphysema- copd __._,_.___

He wahine, he whenua, ka mate te tangata.
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:25:38 -0600
From: Kaiopua Fyfe <kaiokauai@gmail.com>
14. Small Media Success

Aloha kakou:

Although I don't really like U.S.A. Today, I regularly check for Hawai`i
news and was pleasantly surprised to see the below article. Normally,
this section has nothing but drivel, but this one is good for us. If we
can learn how to get our news briefs in this daily section of this rag,
we'll be touching a lot of potentially supportive U.S. voters.
------

Monday, January 19, 2009
USA Today
Across the USA

Hawaii: Honolulu ^Ö About 5,000 people marched through the Waikiki
district in protest of the state's claim to lands that once belonged to
the Hawaiian monarchy. The demonstrators want Gov. Lingle to drop her
appeal, pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, of a ruling that bars the
state from selling or transferring the lands until Native Hawaiian claims
to the lands are resolved.

`Owau me ka mahalo nui, Kai`opua
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:21:15 -0500
From: Amaad Rivera <amaadr@gmail.com>
15. New Report: The Silent Depression ( for people of
color)

New Report Finds Silent Economic Depression
For People of Color

Boston^×A new report released today concludes that the current economic
recession is being experienced as a depression by people of color.
Entitled State of the Dream 2009: The Silent Depression, the report is the
sixth annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Day report from United for a Fair
Economy (UFE). It is available for download from
http://www.faireconomy.org/dream.

"While media and public attention has focused on the recession that
started a year ago for the total population, people of color have been
experiencing a recession for five years," said Amaad Rivera, Racial Wealth
Divide Initiative Leader for UFE and one of the report's co-authors. "By
definition, a long-term recession is a depression."

The report ^Ö based on extensive research of current and historical data,
academic papers, speeches, policy papers and government statistics ^Ö
includes a critique of mainstream economic analysis and posits a new
framework for evaluating economic well-being. The report is the first of
its kind to do a thorough analysis of the historical reasons for the
disparity in economic realities between whites and people of color, and to
suggest steps toward remedying the problem.

"The current economic crisis requires more than a color-blind stimulus.
It demands a complete economic restructuring that addresses the racial
wealth divide," said Dedrick Muhammad, Senior Organizer and Research
Associate at the Institute for Policy Studies, a co-author of the report.

The report explains the mechanisms that helped create the silent economic
depression for people of color, explores how the depression affects
individuals and communities of color, and proposes policy solutions to
close the racial economic divide.

United for a Fair Economy is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that
spotlights the growing economic divide and works across races, ethnicities
and classes to help close the divide.
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 18:15:52 +0000
From: brian roa <brianroa@hotmail.com>
16. Holmes Fighting Activities

direct action in opposition to plans to shut down a school A plan
(Renaissance 2010) which was promoted by the new Education Sec'y, Arne
Duncan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: <jvail900@aol.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:10 AM

Oliver Wendall Holmes teachers will have a sit-in today. Several teachers
are prepared to be arrested. The sit-in will begin from 5-7, and when the
school should be evacuated at 7:30pm, the teachers will not leave. Any
support would be wonderful. Plus - Holmes wil have a vigil at 5pm on Tue.
Jan. 27th, the night before the Jan. 28th protest at 3:30 and Board of Ed
meeting at 10:30am. Any and all are welcome to show your support. The
following is a letter written questioning how the Board decided to
"turnaround" Holmes and its dedicated fellow teachers.

January 13, 2009
To Whom It May Concern:

The Administration, LSC, Parents, Staff and students feel it is unfair to
have O. W. Holmes become a turnaround school. We work very hard at Holmes
to offer an instructional program for our students which addresses the
needs of all learners. We acknowledge that we need to improve student
achievement at Holmes. This is the fourth year of our current
administration. During this time our school has and continues to embrace
many new opportunities to improve student learning and achievement. For
two out of last three years, our scores increased by eleven and seven
percentage points respectively. We have seen some positive change and
anticipate even more. However, change takes time. We are asking that you
would allow the current staff to continue to work with the students of
Holmes school to achieve these positive results. We implemented PBIS and a
Social Emotional Learning Partnership to create a positive climate at our
school. We have updated our core curriculum and entered into partnerships
for PAS (Promoting Academic Success in Pre-3rd grade Boys of Color),
joined the Middle Grades Project to offer departmental classes and AVID to
our 5th ^Ö 8th grade students. Our Math teacher, Ms. Martin was honored
by Mayor Daley for obtaining a Masters with an endorsement in Algebra and
offering an Algebra class to our eighth grade students. Our staff members
continue to attend university classes and professional development to
further their education and offer a rigorous curriculum to our students.
We need time for full implementation. Last year one of our students was
shot and killed. This impacted our school immensely. Students were
traumatized. A social agency (Research Triangle) asked to help target
students who had traumatic experiences. There are so many students who
need help. The counselors have just scratched the surface of our
students/families needing counseling. The students are gaining their
trust and look for their sessions every week. Please let this continue.
Sherman School, which is just down the block from us, is a turnaround
school. Their current profile is the same as ours, specifically in the
area of test scores. They were offered capital improvements, new programs
and funding. We as a staff are working to achieve the same goal without
capital improvements or extra funding. Attached you will find additional
information that we want to highlight concerning our school including
other new initiatives. After implementation, it takes time to see results
of new programs. We too believe in the motto "Children First . We care
about our students and want them to receive a quality education. We feel
that with the dedication of our teachers, collaboration with parents and
the community, along with these initiatives, we will see increase in
student achievement. Please reconsider our turnaround status.

Sincerely,
________________________________________________________________________________

Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:03:15 -0500 (EST)
From: megavote@mailmanager.net
17. MegaVote: HI 2nd, 1/21/2009

Congress.org presents: M E G A V O T E
January 21, 2009

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

Recent Congressional Votes -
* Senate: Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
* Senate: Cloture Motion; Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
* House: ChildrenÂ^Òs Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009

Upcoming Congressional Bills -
* Senate: Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
* House: TARP Reform and Accountability Act
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Recent Senate Votes:

Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=3&chamber=S&congress=1111
Vote Passed (73-21, 4 Not Voting)

The Senate passed this bill, which is a package of over 160 bills related
to public lands, national parks, and water development legislation.
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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Cloture Motion; Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=4&chamber=S&congress=1111
Vote Agreed to (72-23, 3 Not Voting)

On Thursday, the Senate garnered the necessary 60 votes to start debate on
this employee pay discrimination bill.
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:

ChildrenÂ^Òs Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/issues/votes/?votenum=16&chamber=H&congress=1111
Vote Passed (289-139, 6 Not Voting)

The House passed this bill to expand the ChildrenÂ^Òs Health Insurance
Program to cover an estimated total of 11 million children.

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:

Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 - S.181
The Senate is expected to vote on passage of this pay discrimination bill.

TARP Reform and Accountability Act - H.R.384
The House is scheduled to complete consideration of this bill that would
modify the Troubled Assets Relief Program.
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18. IMPEACH LINGLE NOW (fwd)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:24:17 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com

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19. Check out Sovereignty Sunday ACCESS DENIED #8 - Maoliworld (fwd)
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:37:12 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com

_Sovereignty Sunday ACCESS DENIED #8 - Maoliworld_
(http://www.maoliworld.com/video/sovereignty-sunday-access-1)
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:04:12 +1300
From: karaka <tepaatu@gmail.com>
20. TEA.... helps you lose weight.....

------ Forwarded Message
From: "Yellowbird, Dorreen" <mailto:DYellowbird%40gfherald.com> >

Be sure and read the part of the article about green tea and diabetes and
also about weight loss. dorreen

Brewing Up the Latest Tea Research Tea is the most-consumed beverage
worldwide next to water. For some 5,000 years, people have been getting a
lift from brewing tea leaves. But it's only been in the last three decades
that researchers have immersed themselves in the science behind tea's
purported health benefits.

Several ARS scientists at various laboratories are studying the
bioactivity of tea compounds. Some have studied the relationship between
tea and metabolism, and some have looked at the effect of tea on blood
glucose and cholesterol levels. Others are studying tea's impact on the
ability of the body's cells to handle oxidative stress. And some are
looking at the effect of green tea on slowing development of abnormal
blood vessels in lab mice. In certain diseases, including cancer,
angiogenesis˜growth of new blood vessels˜becomes excessive.
These new vessels not only provide nourishment to tumors, but they also
serve as portals through which tumor cells can escape into the body's
circulatory system and spread to other organs. Compounds found to be
anti-angiogenic may prove therapeutic by "starving" the tumors.

Differences in Tea Types

The age-old Camellia sinensis plant is the source of all nonherbal teas.
Manufacturers process C. sinensis leaves three different ways to produce
the three major classes of teas known as green, black, and oolong. Today,
about 75 percent of the tea produced worldwide is black; about 23 percent
is green; and about 2 percent is oolong.

Consider that coffee beans are green before roasting turns them brown and
ready for market. Tea leaves are also green at harvest. To achieve a
variety of taste profiles, manufacturers carefully control whether, and
for how long, tea leaves are exposed to air, a process called
fermentation. When fermentation is completely arrested, the tea stays
"green" or yellowish brown. When fermentation time is long, the leaves
darken and become "black" tea. Somewhere in between these two extremes,
"oolong" tea is created.

Over the centuries, as C. sinensis plants grew in the sun, they protected
themselves against photosynthetic stressors by forming chemicals known as
polyphenols. This group of beneficial compounds includes
flavonoids˜the same class of compounds that give many fruits and
vegetables their antioxidant boost. It is perhaps because of tea's high
antioxidant activity that tea research is taking such a variety of turns.

The Metabolics of Tea

Physiologist William Rumpler is investigating the ancient Chinese belief
that oolong tea is effective in controlling body weight. Rumpler is with
ARS' Diet and Human Performance Laboratory (DHPL), one of seven
laboratories that make up the Beltsville Human Nutrition Research Center
(BHNRC), Beltsville, Maryland.

To measure how tea influences energy expenditure (EE), Rumpler and
colleagues gave each of 12 male volunteers 4 separate beverage formulas
for 3 consecutive days. Before the study, the volunteers refrained from
consuming caffeine and had their 24-hour EE measured. EE was measured
again on the third day of each formula treatment. The treatments consisted
of full-strength tea, colored water with caffeine equal to full-strength
tea, half-strength tea, and colored water.

The results showed that the EE of volunteers was about 3 percent higher
after they drank either the caffeinated water or the full-strength tea
than after they drank the colored water. On average, the volunteers burned
an additional 67 calories a day when they drank tea instead of an equal
amount of water. Perhaps most interesting was that fat oxidation was a
significant 12 percent higher after the full-strength tea treatment than
after the water treatment.

"Our data suggested that a component of tea other than caffeine might have
promoted preferential use of fat as an energy source," says Beverly
Clevidence, a study coauthor and head of the DHPL. "But the information is
tentative, and we need more studies to confirm it," she adds.

It is universally accepted that caffeinated tea raises metabolic rate
because caffeine is a stimulant. "The interesting part of our study, which
agreed with findings from a similar study in England, was that when you
drink tea you turn on the fat-burning spigot a little bit more than when
you drink caffeinated water," says Rumpler. Some scientists speculate that
caffeine and EGCG˜a highly active catechin in tea˜may act
together to increase fat oxidation.

"Anecdotal evidence over time, particularly in China, points to a
relationship between green tea consumption and weight loss," says Rumpler.
"But until we do a really comprehensive study in which we have humans
drink tea and see whether they lose weight, we can't actually say that
green tea makes people lose weight. What we can say is that it raises
metabolic rates and increases fat oxidation rates. Those are two things
that are predictive of weight loss."

Coping with Confounding Variables

In September 2002, ARS and other researchers met at the U.S. Department of
Agriculture in Washington, D.C., for the Third International Scientific
Symposium on Tea and Human Health. The symposium was hosted by organizer
Jeffrey B. Blumberg, associate director of the Jean Mayer USDA Human
Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in Boston,
Massachusetts. Blumberg is also director of HNRCA's Antioxidants Research
Laboratory.

One issue discussed there was inconsistency among early studies of tea.
"Confounding"˜a situation in which findings are affected by a variety
of uncontrolled factors˜can occur. "Some studies are simply not
sensitive enough to eliminate confounding factors," says ARS chemist
Joseph T. Judd, who is with DHPL. In the case of tea studies, it could be
as simple as a volunteer's getting the same flavonoids that are in tea
from other foods consumed during the study.

Blumberg notes that flavonoid concentrations differ in tea beverages,
depending on whether the preparation was blended, decaffeinated, brewed,
or iced. Milk protein, for example, when added to tea, had previously been
reported to possibly bind to, and therefore reduce, the flavonoid
concentrations.

"There has been only one study that showed that adding milk decreased the
bioavailability of catechins in tea," says Blumberg. "Those results were
not replicated in any of several subsequent studies." Many factors can
affect the way tea compounds are absorbed, metabolized, and excreted,
according to Blumberg.

A Low-Down on Lipids

Judd, who is with the DHPL, is the lead author of a recent study that
found that drinking tea lowered cholesterol and, therefore, could possibly
reduce the risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Judd points out that
while several epidemiological studies found that green and black tea
consumption is associated with reduced risk of CHD, experimental studies
had not confirmed this. "The experimental studies did not control the
background diet of the volunteers," says Judd. "Other foods or nutrients
consumed during the studies could very well have affected the risk
factors."

Judd's recent study assessed the effects of black tea consumption on blood
lipid and lipoprotein concentrations in adults with mildly high
cholesterol. He carefully controlled the volunteers' diet and weight.
Seven men and eight women were given five servings of black tea a day for
3 weeks and a tea-flavored water for another 3-week period. In a third
study period, caffeine was added to the tea-flavored water in an amount
similar to that found in the tea.

"Overall, we found a 6 to 10 percent lowering of blood lipids in drinkers
of black tea in just 3 weeks," says Judd. What's more, the study showed no
effect on high-density lipoprotein, or "good," cholesterol.

The study's authors concluded that drinking black tea˜along with
following a prudent diet moderately low in fat, cholesterol, and saturated
fatty acids˜reduces total and LDL cholesterol by significant amounts
and may, therefore, reduce the risk of CHD. The study is slated to appear
in an upcoming issue of the Journal of Nutrition that will feature the tea
symposium proceedings and an introduction by Blumberg.

Judd is now conducting a study on the antioxidant effects of tea
phytonutrients on smokers.

Enhancing Insulin Activity

ARS chemist Richard Anderson found that regularly brewed tea, when added
to the fat cells of laboratory rats, increased insulin activity by more
than 15 times. Anderson is with the BHNRC's Nutrient Requirements and
Functions Laboratory. He noted that this increased insulin activity was
found with green, black, and oolong teas, regardless of whether
caffeinated or decaffeinated.

Further, his research showed that in green and oolong teas, the catechin
EGCG was largely responsible for the results. In black tea, active
ingredients included tannins and theaflavins, in addition to EGCG. "The
amount we tested was comparatively very small, considering the effect we
observed," says Anderson. Confirmational studies in humans are required
before the results can be applied to people.

Ernst J. Schaefer, director of the HNRCA's Lipid Metabolism Laboratory,
recently completed a pilot study during which 8 volunteers with type II
diabetes had lower blood sugar levels by 15 to 20 percent after drinking 6
cups of tea per day for 8 weeks. Schaefer and Blumberg have since launched
a 24-week, randomized, double-blind study involving 40 male and female
volunteers with type II diabetes, not taking insulin. "We want to examine
the effect that green and black teas have on the glucose levels of the
volunteers," says Schaefer.

Topping the Flavonoid Charts

Since nearly 95 percent of tea's polyphenol compounds are flavonoids, tea
ranks among plants with the highest total flavonoid content. Green tea
contains more simple flavonoids, called catechins, while black tea
contains more complex varieties, called thearubigins and theaflavins. Some
polyphenols have recently been determined˜in test tube
studies˜to be more potent antioxidants than the well-known vitamins
A, C, and E. But results from such test tube, or in vitro, tests cannot be
applied to humans because they do not account for factors such as
bioavailability, metabolism, and excretion, says Blumberg.

"We know that these flavonoids are not as bioavailable as vitamin C on a
per-milligram basis," says Paul E. Milbury, a scientist with the Boston
HNRCA's Antioxidants Research Laboratory. Still, one 6-ounce cup (about
173 grams) of green tea has about 235 milligrams of catechins, whereas a
medium-large (178 grams) apple has 16 milligrams of catechins and 10
milligrams of vitamin C. This data is available from the BHNRC's Flavonoid
and National Nutrient databases.

Up to 90 percent of tea consumed in the United States is black. But green
tea consumption has more than doubled recently. "Over the last 4 years,
green tea consumption increased tremendously, going from 3 to 4 percent of
total tea consumed in the United States to about 9 percent today," says
Joe Simrany, president of the New York City-based Tea Council of the
U.S.A. Simrany says the council is seeking a standardized system for
measuring and labeling commercial teas' antioxidants.

Blumberg says consuming a variety of tea types and preparations adds
nutritional benefits to the diet. "The beauty of tea is that it can be
enjoyed in so many ways, depending on individual tastes and preferences,"
he says. "My hope is that future studies will be designed to accurately
assess tea's polyphenol levels and to measure tea's role in lowering the
risk of chronic diseases."˜By Rosalie Marion Bliss, Agricultural
Research Service Information Staff.

This research is part of Human Nutrition, an ARS National Program (#107)
described on the World Wide Web at www.nps.ars.usda.gov.

To reach scientists mentioned in this article, contact Rosalie Bliss,
USDA-ARS Information Staff, 5601 Sunnyside Ave., Beltsville, MD
20705-5129; phone (301) 504-4318, fax (301) 504-1641.
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Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 01:23:26 +1300
From: chook <tepaatu@gmail.com>
21. 12 Natural Remedies for Winter's Ills, Chills,
and Aches

1. Vitamin C to Prevent Colds

Cold and flu season in the U.S. stretches from November to March. As much
as 20% of the U.S. population contracts influenza (200,000 are
hospitalized and 36,000 die) and most people get two or three colds.

To prevent a cold, try vitamin C, delivered either the old fashioned way
with a daily dose of orange or grapefruit juice, peaches, red peppers or
other Vitamin C-rich food -- or with a vitamin supplement. Double up with
Echinacea for an added boost.

Other natural cold-preventatives include the herb andrographis, zinc and
elderberry extract.

2. Thyme for a Cough

If the worrying news about over-the-counter cough syrup has you down, try
this natural alternative:

Add three tablespoons of dried thyme to one pint of boiling water. Let
cool, then add one cup of honey. Take one teaspoon every hour as needed.
You can store the mix in the fridge for up to three months.

Another option: Vitamin C-rich ziziphus fruit tea.

3. Leafy Greens for Nosebleeds

Dry indoor air, coupled with a sneeze, can be a recipe for nosebleeds.

A daily cup of leafy greens can provide enough Vitamin K to fortify
sensitive capillaries and help your blood clot quickly. Kale and collard
greens have the highest Vitamin K content, followed by spinach.

Another natural remedy for nosebleeds is yarrow, a flower available as a
supplement.

4. Tea for Sore Throats

A little illness can take a lot out of you - like your voice or your
desire to speak at all.

For a sore throat, the tea remedy is as old as time, it seems. Try jujube
tea for an extra Vitamin C boost.

Other natural sore throat remedies include a goldenseal gargle,.

5.Carrots for Headaches

If the foot traffic at the mall gives you a headache, fortify yourself
ahead of time with this natural remedy: a simple salad.

Phytonutrients in fresh produce, like the beta carotene in carrots, can
reduce inflammation in the blood vessels of the brain. Eating two cups a
day can help some people reduce headache incidence by 70%!

6. Nuts for Energy

There's nothing like watching the sun set from your office window to suck
the energy out of you. No question: Winter can be tough.

Find time to exercise and to laugh, get enough sleep -- and look to
unsalted nuts like almonds for a good energy booster.

Raisins or dried apricots are also good options.

7. Lavender for Anxiety

You're hosting your family for a holiday meal, you have presents to buy
and the household finances are tighter than they have been in years.
Winter is a recipe for anxiety.

Lavender can help. Apply lavender oil or a sachet to your pulse points --
the arteries at your wrists, neck and feet are a good start -- for a
subtle soothing experience.

Other natural anxiety remedies include sipping chamomile or black tea, or
bathing in hot water sprinkled with dry valerian root.

8. Pineapples for Better Digestion

Eating well during the holiday season is a goal more than a reality for
many of us. All that bad food can make your digestive tract complain
loudly.

Make a half cup of pineapple part of your routine to reduce intestinal
inflammation, speed the breakdown of protein and, most importantly, reduce
gas.

9. Tomatoes for Burns

A pellet or wood stove can be an efficient way to warm your home, but it
can also leave you walking away with a burn.

For minor burns, slice a tomato and apply it to the burn, allowing the
juice to fully dry. Tomatoes have nature's healthiest dose of lycopene,
which is anti-inflammatory.

Also try a baking soda and water salve or St. John's wort oil.

10. Celery for Better Sleep

Cold nights, the stress of the holiday season and the shifting hourglass
sands brought on by the end of Daylight Savings can throw off your sleep
pattern.

If all the usual non-medicinal remedies have failed you, try munching some
celery for the sedative powers of the phthalides it contains.

Also try Valerian root, chamomile tea, lemon balm or lavender.

11. Walnuts for Dry Skin

Dry, cracked skin is a part of the season for many -- but it doesn't have
to be so bad.

Fortify your skin by eating one ounce of walnuts daily. Within two weeks,
the natural Omega-3 oils will not only keep your energy levels up, but
improve the elasticity and natural moisture in your skin.

12. Honey Yogurt Lotion for Dry Skin

If dry skin has already set in, set about soothing and restoring cracked,
itchy spots with this natural salve.

2 tablespoons honey
1/2 cup plain regular yogurt
1 teaspoon grapefruit zest

1 cup iced black tea

Apply mixture of first three ingredients to skin and leave for 15 minutes.
Splash off with the tea.
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Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:05:07 -0600
From: nimchira <tepaatu@gmail.com>
22. Voices Health/Environment News

News from the Health and Environmental Communities.
Published since Nov, 2005
Nov. 24, 2008

In this Issue:

Top Scientist Rails Against Bush Hirings
Juliet Eilperin and Carol D. Leonnig, The Washington Post: "The president of
the nation's largest general science organization yesterday sharply
criticized recent cases of Bush administration political appointees gaining
permanent federal jobs with responsibility for making or administering
scientific policies, saying the result would be 'to leave wreckage behind.'"
http://www.truthout.org/112308E

AP IMPACT: Govt pays millions for unapproved drugs
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081123/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/unapproved_drugs

New Evidence Linking Meat To Cancer
http://www.naturalnews.com/024887.html

Davie trailer park residents blame contaminated water for ailments.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18569/3057/24161/0/

Children at risk in food roulette.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18569/3057/24162/0/

Genetically engineered meal close to your table. "Enviropigs" are just one
of dozens of genetically engineered animals at research institutions around
the world whose genes have been altered for human benefit. And, due to a
recent move in the U.S., may be the first to arrive on your dinner plate.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18569/3057/24170/0/

New mad-cow rule poses health dangers of its own. A federal regulation aimed
at preventing mad cow disease from getting into the food supply could create
health risks of its own: many thousands of cattle carcasses rotting on
farms, spreading germs, attracting vermin and polluting the water.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18569/3057/24171/0/

Bush rule on oil shale highlights partisan divide in West. Seven weeks after
a congressional moratorium on oil shale development expired, the Bush admini
stration has issued rules that take the first step toward tapping an
estimated 800 billion barrels of oil trapped in sedimentary rock in Wyoming,
Utah and Colorado.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18591/3057/24200/0/

Gas-rich lake is at stake in feud. In the midst of a rush to tap what could
be the biggest natural gas discovery in the country, Louisiana is entrenched
in a heated legal battle with the federal government over control of a
sprawling lake that holds a portion of the underground treasure.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18591/3057/24219/0/

Rich countries, corporations launch great land grab to seize food supply
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/22/food-biofuels-land-grab

Govt pays millions for unapproved drugs Dozens of deaths have been linked to
them.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gSODvMRZvml_Pl3v9U01o6x1VXNgD94KRRHO0

Washington State Voters legalize Physician-Assisted Suicide
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news109.htm

Five Myths About Our Ailing Health Care System
http://www.truthout.org/112408M

Children from FEMA trailer park battle serious health problems. Children of
displaced families from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita have serious health and
mental ailments, a new study says.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18642/3057/24254/0/

Lightning Warns of Flash Floods
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081124/sc_livescience/lightningwarnsofflashfloods

Diabetes Drug Linked to Higher Risk of Death
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/health/25diabetes.html?ref=health

Plants from the Mint Family Found Highly Effective Against HIV and Herpes
http://www.naturalnews.com/024900.html

Study Shows Grapefruit Pulp May Reduce the Risk of Osteoporosis
http://www.naturalnews.com/024899.html

Reduce Risk of Macular Degeneration with Omega-Three
http://www.naturalnews.com/024894.html

Texas Attorney General Sues Pharmaceutical Companies for Overcharging State
Medicaid http://www.naturalnews.com/024893.html

"Elderspeak" Can Negatively Affect Health of Older People
http://www.naturalnews.com/024884.html

Study Shows Green Tea Reduces Risk of Heart Disease
http://www.naturalnews.com/024882.html

Whole Fruit and Green Leafy Vegetable Decrease Risk of Diabetes
http://www.naturalnews.com/024881.html

Why the Economic Crisis Shouldn't Mean Putting Off Health Care
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wV055s0kqCTLDVjaNjHP%2BLLhw5PAqEaA

Industry and EPA Collaborated to Hide the Truth about How Natural Gas
Drilling Is Threatening Drinking Water
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UQNs4yWvqYup1Wcxg%2F4%2B2LLhw5PAqEaA
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Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 18:57:05 -0600
From: nimchira <tepaatu@gmail.com>
Voices Health/Environment News

News from the Health and Environmental Communities.
Published since Nov, 2005
Nov. 25, 2008

Pet Safety Tips for the Holidays

These tips are based on emergencies and problems veterinarians see on or
around Thanksgiving. Please take special care with the following:

1. Prevent access to counter tops - some cats will jump up on to counters.
This is so tempting to cats with the succulent smells of turkey and food.
Jumping on counters is especially dangerous during this holiday as often all
the burners are on and there are additional hot things on the counters. The
hot stove and hot items on counters can cause severe burns. Hot burners can
also cause tail and hair to catch on fire.

2. Safely dispose of the turkey string - the string that wraps or ties
turkey legs is often haphazardly placed aside and found and eaten by cats.
The same danger exists with the plastic turkey wrapper. Ingestion of these
indigestible items can require life-saving surgery. Place in a secure
covered trashcan.

3. Take care with the fireplace - many times Thanksgiving is the first of
the winter holidays and the first time the fireplace has been used. Take
special care that pets stay away from the fire. It is a good idea to have a
carbon monoxide detector in your home to ensure all heaters are adequately
ventilated.

4. Careful with table scraps and food - some cats deal well with table
scraps and others get stick. This is especially true with high fat meals.
Don't feed your cat the skins to get rid of them. If you feed anything -
offer small amounts of vegetables or meat.

5. Special care with candles - this is a wonderful occasion to light some
beautiful candles. Only do this if the candles are supervised. Never leave
the room with a burning candle. Pets can knock them over causing burns or
house fires.

6. Beware of liquid potpourri - this is another item that is commonly used
during the holidays to give the home a wonderful aroma. The liquid potpourri
can be very caustic to the gums and throat if ingested. Spray or plug in air
fresheners may be a safer alternative.
============

In this Issue:
Recalls

Stop and Shop Recalls Butternut Squash in Prepared Turkey and Ham Dinner
Following a recall from its vendor, the Stop and Shop Supermarket Company
has announced it is recalling all butternut squash sides that are packaged
with the supermarket chain's prepared turkey and ham holiday dinners.
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/stopnshop11_08.html
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Nine Arctic Nukes Exploded in Eighteen Hours
http://educate-yourself.org/zsl/arcticnukes18nov08.shtml

Change Is Coming to FEMA
http://www.truthout.org/112508K

Zimbabwe on brink of collapse as outbreak of cholera spreads: The situation
in Zimbabwe may soon "implode" as a cholera outbreak spreads and basic
services collapse, South African leaders and a group of international
statesmen warned yesterday.
http://tinyurl.com/5hej3y

Underwater volcano found off Wash. coast - UPI.com
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/11/24/Underwater_volcano_found_off_Wash_coast/UPI-53621227549753/

Asteroid Turned Fireball Shakes Up Canada (Video) Two Great Video Captures:
(1) Police Patrol Car Dash Camera - Devon, Alberta:
ftp://satchmo.dyndns.info/astro/fireball-devon.wmv (2) Security Camera
Western Canada: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7sZV4ESUXuk

Not a drop to drink.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18675/3057/24295/0/

Man-made pollution is raising ocean acidity at least 10 times faster than
previously thought
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18675/3057/24296/0/

A sea slug that gains the ability to turn sunlight into energy from the
algae it eats is arguably the first functional plant-animal hybrid found in
nature.
http://email.newscientist.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/eBfd80MjKwg0mli0FQYf0Ex
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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 19:06:29 -0600
From: nimchira <tepaatu@gmail.com>
Voices Health/Environment News

News from the Health and Environmental Communities.
Published since Nov, 2005
Nov. 26, 2008

In this Issue:

Recalls

Mars Extends Pet Food Recall; More Salmonella Found, Expanded recall covers
cat food sold in East Coast states.
http://consumeraffairs.list-manage.com/track/click?u=48290de6249ef2cecba9fe5de&id=f41e704cc1&e=0fa96e422d

Balanced Health Products, Inc. Conducts Voluntary Urgent Nationwide Recall
of Starcaps Dietary Supplement Capsules Found to Contain an Undeclared Drug
Ingredient: Balanced Health Products, Inc. is voluntarily recalling STARCAPS
DIET SYSTEM DIETARY SUPPLEMENT, Lot 12/2011 - 84810, sold in 30 capsule
plastic bottles.
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/balancedhealth11_08.html

Fashion Sanctuary Issues a Voluntary Nationwide Recall of All Lots of Zhen
De Shou Fat Loss Capsules Found to Contain an Undeclared Drug Ingredient:
Fashion Sanctuary is recalling all lot codes of Zhen De Shou Fat Loss
Capsules sold in 10 count blister cards.
http://www.fda.gov/oc/po/firmrecalls/fashionsanctuary11_08.html
============================

FDA Finds Melamine in U.S. Infant Formula Agency insists amounts were
"minute" and do not pose an immediate danger.
http://consumeraffairs.list-manage.com/track/click?u=48290de6249ef2cecba9fe5de&id=78382471f5&e=0fa96e422d

Border Fence to Carve up Nature Reserve
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pB07DBlr%2Foq67RFLFh9mkTbgYxcpkK4K

Plan for New Orleans Hospitals Draws Outcry
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2008/11/26-6

Many Kids in Katrina Trailer Park Anemic
http://www.truthout.org/112608N

Medicare's Private Insurers Await Impending Cutbacks
http://www.truthout.org/112508HA

Ailing FDA may need major restructuring.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18704/3057/24331/0/

Many drug trials never see publication.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18704/3057/24332/0/

EPA moves to ease pollution rules.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18704/3057/24334/0/

Lawmakers push government to enforce chemical ban in toys.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18704/3057/24343/0/

Washington suing U.S. over slow cleanup at Hanford.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18704/3057/24344/0/
=======================

News from the Health and Environmental Communities.
Published since Nov, 2005
Nov. 28, 2008

In this Issue:

Avoiding Drug Interactions: Be careful about the three main types of
interactions: drugs with food and beverages, drugs with dietary supplements,
and drugs with other drugs.
http://www.fda.gov/consumer/updates/interactions112808.html

FDA Acts to Reduce Risk of Salmonella Infections: Find out why pet turtles
may be a health risk and how FDA is enforcing a ban on the small creatures.
http://www.fda.gov/consumer/updates/turtles112808.html

The Price Of Dissent On Global Warming
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24700827-7583,00.html

Food Prices Will Rise, Causing Export Bans, Riots: Chart of Day
http://bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=aC.nz4FiZpkg

FDA Hid Names of Melamine Contaminated Infant Formula Products from the
Public
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000554_melamine_infant_formula_FDA.html

Calls grow for infant formula recall.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18736/3057/24377/0/

Government backs off drilling near national parks
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/25/AR2008112502347.html

Obama's Budget Head Would Cut Social Security
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Fzoh2%2FJ3URUirHSX4VMBwdDqTE%2FhlYJ2

Eating Fish May Save Diabetics from Kidney Disease
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000550_fish_protein_fish_oil_diabetes.html

Teens Remain Dangerously Ignorant of Destructive Health Effects of Junk Food
http://www.naturalnews.com/News_000549_junk_food_teens_childrens_health.html

Thinning Hair in Women: Warning Sign of Underlying Health Issues
http://www.naturalnews.com/024929.html

New Harvard Research Investigates the Causes of Aging
http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_New_Harvard_Research_Investigates_the_Causes_of_Aging_30066.html

Pig organs: Ready for humans at last?
http://email.newscientist.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/nBfrD0MjKwg0uMh0FQ5F0Er

Down's symptoms may be treatable in the womb
http://email.newscientist.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/nBfrD0MjKwg0uMh0FQ5J0Ev

'Test and treat everyone' to vanquish HIV
http://email.newscientist.com/cgi-bin1/DM/y/nBfrD0MjKwg0uMh0FQ5X0EB

Injured veterans engaged in new combat: In a little-noticed regulation
change, the Pentagon's definition of combat-related disabilities is
narrowed, costing some wounded veterans thousands of dollars in lost
benefits. http://tinyurl.com/5nygc2

Worried Sick: How Vulnerable Are You Really to Heart Attacks, Strokes and
Breast Cancer? Americans are continually bombarded with messages that death
and danger are just around the corner. Reality is usually much different.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=b%2BswIKQDx7aOL1oU5jqNbpK%2BrfaxZzKI

Study ties chicken trucks to bacteria. Poultry carriers apparently trail an
airborne plume of potentially harmful bacteria, according to a new study by
Johns Hopkins researchers. The results suggest that motorists and those who
live along roads traveled by chicken trucks may be exposed to
antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18736/3057/24394/0/

Nuclear waste piles up in state. Pennsylvania, like 35 other states, no
longer has a place to get rid of its low-level radioactive waste. That means
anyone generating it--power stations, hospitals, universities--has to store
it until a permanent site becomes available. And that could take years.
http://newsletters.environmentalhealthnews.org/t/18781/3057/24422/0/
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A group of scientists working in the FDAs Center for Devices and
Radiological Health division has revolted against the corrupt managers of
its own department, accusing them of committing crimes by claiming, "There
is extensive documentary evidence that managers at CDRH have corrupted and
interfered with the scientific review of medical devices."

Letter from FDA scientists:
http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_1...

Statement of Congressman John Dingell:
http://energycommerce.house.gov/Press_1...
(Full copy included below)

Pharmalot article, the original source for this story:
http://www.pharmalot.com/2008/11/congre...

Congressman John Dingell's statement:
http://www.naturalnews.com/024910.html
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 14:25:44 -1000
From: Tim Bostock Productions <tbp@artsatmarks.com>
23. celebrations

Dear Friends

What an amazing inauguration yesterday! Has anyone recovered from the
celebrations? With Chinese New Year this weekend there's more to come!

THIS WEEKEND - CHINESE NEW YEAR & MORE

Friday, January 23, FREE - Chinese New Year with Lion Dancing &
Firecrackers all over Chinatown. The ARTS at Marks Garage celebrates with
Narcissus Court visit, flying oxen in the streets, Martial Artists, and
special dance performances from Phoenix Dance Chamber and Isla Tango. Good
Fortune Lychee Bacardi cocktails & Tsing Tao at $3 special price... bar
open all night, live performances from 5pm to 11pm, free entry.

Saturday January 24, FREE - Keiki Festival all day on Maunakea Street,
Chinatown Open House at the Cultural Plaza, and the Night in Chinatown
Parade from 4pm along Hotel Street from the Capitol to Maunakea.
Essentially 9 in the morning to 11 at night festivities, with wonderful
food, dance, music, martial arts, and a 150foot dragon... Welcome the
Lunar New Year in style!

Honolulu Theatre for Youth opens Music of Dolphins at Tenney Theatre this
Friday, Jan 23 at 7.30pm, with another show on Saturday Jan 24, at 4.30pm.
This story of a vibrant girl and her unusual journey of assimilation is a
world premiere based on the award winning book by Karen Hesse. HTY will
bring Hesse's rich language to life by adding video, music and dance to
the theatrical production - bring the kids and they will thank you!

UH Drama Dept presents Translations by Brian Friel, Jan 21, 22, 23, 24 at
8pm and Jan 25 at 2pm. This is a stunning play by an excellent author.
Set in 1833 Ireland, the play shows the personal and cultural effects of
the loss of the Irish language - with strong parallels to Hawai'i in the
late 19th century. Just 100 capacity in the Earl Ernst lab Theatre - buy
tickets NOW at http://www.etickethawaii.com/kennedy.html

NEXT WEEK

Thursday, January 29 at 7pm, FREE Artist Talk with Susan Middleton at The
ARTS at Marks Garage - wine, cheese & insight...a V.I.P gallery tour
supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation

Saturday, January 31 at 8pm, The Immigrant's Table: La Tavola
Dell'immigrante A staged reading by the author Mary Lou Sanelli at The
ARTS at Marks Garage. Part cookbook part poetry - "a rich fabric of
memoir" - $20 ticket includes a glass of wine & delicious antipasti.
Tickets going fast! Get them at www.honoluluboxoffice.com

FIRST FRIDAY IN FEBRUARY is Friday Feb 6

HiSAM presents "Poetry, Opera and Jazz"; a full lineup with Hawaii Opera
Theatre singing from Abduction of Serraglio and Malia in Hawaii belly
dancing, Youth Speaks Hawaii, Hawaii Slam Poets, Tinfish Press authors,
Joe Tsujimoto, Kerry Poree and many more. Plus the effervescent Bop
Tribal on the Lanai.

At The ARTS at Marks the Hawaii Potters Guild presents the Empty Bowl
Project - local ceramicists have made soup bowls, which are filled with
soup donated by Side Street Inn, Downtown, Cafe Laufer and Great Life
Cuisine. Bowls, soup and bread go for a donation of $15 - which benefits
the Hawaii Foodbank. Now that's a fine collaboration.

With Aloha - let's celebrate Obama all year!

Tim

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to be deleted from the list please let me know. If you want to forward to
others please fee free!

PS. The Grammy Concert last Friday was an extraordinary achievement - 4 TV
cameras and over 200 lights stayed dry enough through the afternoon to
take advantage of a dry evening, and a star studded lineup of Hawaiian
musicians. Thanks to all of you that braved the elements and were treated
to excellent live music. For everyone else - the concert will be
broadcast next week, on KITV and OC16, primetime on Tuesday January 27.
Don't miss it!
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 16:50:09 -1000
From: penny levin <pennysfh@hawaii.rr.com>
24. cartagena protocol on biosafety

Something you may find interesting and useful.
----

https://www.cbd.int/biosafety/background.shtml

The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety was adopted as an adjunct to the
Biodiversity Convention, a global treat on protecting biodiversity in
2000.

The Protocol seeks to protect biological diversity from the potential
risks posed by living modified organisms resulting from modern
biotechnology. It establishes an advance informed agreement (AIA)
procedure for ensuring that countries are provided with the information
necessary to make informed decisions before agreeing to the import of
such organisms into their territory. The Protocol contains reference to a
precautionary approach and reaffirms the precaution language in Principle
15 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development. The Protocol
also establishes a Biosafety Clearing-House to facilitate the exchange of
information on living modified organisms and to assist countries in the
implementation of the Protocol.

The link above provides extensive background as well as links to the AIA.
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:51:33 -0500
From: KahiwaL@cs.com
25. Akaka Bill Rewrite? (from a usually unreliable source)

[Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:21:50 -1000
From: Lc <lcruz@hawaii.edu>

fyi. hawaii reporter is not a friend (supporter of the grassroots
institute).]

Clarence Ching <kauila3339@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?06c44332-edaa-4bb1-8ad0-26e26b81d3f3
Akaka Bill Rewrite: Tribal Jurisdiction for Hawaii?
By Andrew Walden, 1/16/2009 2:47:44 PM

>The Akaka Bill, authorizing creation of a Hawaiian tribal entity, is
>being rewritten prior to submission to a vote in the House and Senate.
>The rewrite has not been in the news, but a January 16, 2009 Advertiser
>editorial warns the Akaka tribe against overconfidence. Three key
>sentences in the editorial make it possible for a highly informed reader
>to understand what Senator Dan Akaka's (D-HI) staffers are changing:
>
>"Because of previous opposition from the Bush administration and Capitol
>Hill Republicans, the bill had been constrained. For example, Native
>Hawaiians were to be treated the same under criminal and taxation laws as
>anyone else. And land claims by Native Hawaiians were to be confined to
>the negotiations between the state and Native Hawaiian representatives."
>
>Barack Obama's repeated pledge to sign the Akaka Bill was the key
>condition of Hawaii Democrats' early-money support for his Presidential
>campaign. The House has easily passed the Akaka Bill twice with little
>debate. But if the language imposed by the Bush Justice Department in
>2005 is written out of what will become the 2009 version of the Akaka
>Bill, the changes could impact the dynamics of Senate debate.
>
>Quoting from the 2005 DoJ document, the four key changes were:
>
>* First, the legislation should include explicit language clearly
>precluding potential claims for equitable, monetary or Administrative
>Procedures Act-based relief, whether asserting an alleged breach of
>trust, calling for an accounting, or seeking the recovery of or
>compensation for lands once held by native Hawaiians.
>
>* Second, S. 147 should be amended to make clear that the consultation
>process contemplated in sections 5(b) and 6(d) may not be applied so as
>to interfere in any way with the operation of U.S. military facilities on
>Hawaii or otherwise affect military readiness.
>
>* Third, the legislation should state clearly whether the federal
>Government, the State of Hawaii, or the native Hawaiian governing entity
>will have jurisdiction to enforce criminal laws on native Hawaiian lands.
>
>* Fourth, the legislation should clearly provide that the Indian Gaming
>Regulatory Act will not apply to the native Hawaiian governing entity,
>and that the governing entity will not have gaming rights.
>
>The issues regarding point two, military bases and military readiness,
>and point four, gambling, are self-evident. The bill either supports
>national defense or not. The bill either prohibits gambling or not.
>
>The other items require more analysis. Point one requires that all
>Hawaiian claims be settled through the establishment of the Akaka Tribe.
>Without this item being included in the Akaka Bill, there is no end to
>the constant flow of greenmail lawsuits by OHA-backed activists. An Akaka
>Bill without this provision settles nothing while increasing the power of
>the greenmailers exponentially.
>
>Point three prevents the Akaka Tribe from serving as a separate legal
>jurisdiction as do many mainland Indian tribes. If the Akaka Tribe
>establishes a separate legal jurisdiction it is guaranteed to serve as a
>shield for politically corrupt activities. To understand this, readers
>need to refer back to the "Broken Trust" Bishop Estate Trustees' 1995
>proposal to relocate KSBE's legal domicile to the Cheyenne River Sioux
>Indian Reservation. In contrast, Alaskan Native corporations are not
>separate legal jurisdictions and are not immune from US or Alaska law.
>
>An Akaka Tribe with criminal jurisdiction simply recreates the Indian
>Reservation around the Trust and thereby eliminates the need to leave
>Hawaii. The so-called 'sovereignty' activists, who now pretend to oppose
>the Akaka Bill, can be counted upon to agitate for a tribe of the most
>sovereign type within the Ka`u Inoa electorate. Cheyenne River was
>selected for the Broken Trust trustees by ex-Governor John Waihe`e who
>continues to play an important behind-the-scenes role in pushing the
>Akaka Bill forward.
>
>In addition to issues related to political corruption and white collar
>crime, a legal jurisdiction for the Akaka Tribe brings with it the
>possibility that reservation Hawaiians will not have the same rights as
>full American citizens. According to law, the Bill of Rights does not
>automatically apply under tribal jurisdictions.
>
>OHA is now attempting to prevent the State of Hawaii from exercising its
>constitutional right to access the courts in the Ceded Lands case. Free
>speech has also been an OHA target. Haunani Apoliona, writing in her
>capacity as "Chairperson, Board of Trustees, Office of Hawaiian Affairs"
>(OHA) went after an internet cartoonist in a Jan. 24, 2008 statement
>demanding: "The cartoon should be pulled and the secret author publicly
>identified." These acts are a hint at the future status of democratic
>rights under the jurisdiction of the Akaka Tribe.
>
>It will not be clear whether all of the changes made to accommodate the
>Bush administration demands will be stricken. But given the fact that
>Sen. Akaka himself spoke of secession by Hawaii in the midst of 2005
>Congressional debate on the Akaka Bill, there can be little doubt of the
>overconfidence of his staffers.
>
>Sixty votes would be required for the Senate to win a vote for cloture of
>any filibuster attempt. With party unity, Republicans have the votes to
>support a filibuster, but a handful have supported Akaka's bill.
>
>In addition to Republican Senators, The Hill April 1, 2008 identified
>three Democrat Senators which Akaka's staff had not convinced to support
>the Akaka Bill. These were:
>
>* Jim Webb (D-VA) http://webb.senate.gov/contact
>* Sherrod Brown (D-OH) http://brown.senate.gov/contact
>* Bob Casey Jr. (D-PA) http://casey.senate.gov/contact
>
>There are also nine new Senators for 2009, two Republicans and seven
>Democrats. And a Minnesota Senate seat remains contested as Democrat
>comedian Al Franken seeks to unseat Republican Senator Norm Coleman.
>
>The contact point for all US Senators is:
>http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
>
>'''Andrew Walden, editor of Hawaii Free Press, can be reached at
>mailto:hfpeditor@email.com <hfpeditor@email.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:32:40 -0800
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>
26. Obama to Sign Order to Close Guantanamo Within A Year

http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

Obama to sign order shutting Guantanamo prison within a year 21 Jan 2009
President Barack Obama plans to sign an executive order Thursday to close
the Guantanamo Bay detention center within a year and halt military
[kangaroo] trials of terror suspects held there, a senior administration
official said. The executive order was one of three expected imminently on
how to interrogate and prosecute 'al-Qaida,' Taliban or other foreign
fighters believed to threaten the United States. The official said the
president would sign the order Thursday, fulfilling his campaign promise
to shut down a facility that critics around the world say violates
domestic and international detainee rights.

Judge Suspends Guantanamo Cases at Obama's Request 21 Jan 2009 A U.S.
military judge Wednesday suspended the trial of five prisoners accused of
involvement in plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, acceding to
a request from military prosecutors in accordance with a directive from
the new Obama administration late Tuesday.

Obama orders Guantanamo prosecutor to seek trial delays 21 Jan 2009
President Barack Obama late Tuesday sought a 120-day freeze in the war
crimes trial of prisoners held here to give the new administration time to
study ongoing war-onof-terror prosecutions. Pentagon prosecutor Clayton
Trivett filed a motion seeking a 120-day continuance in the case of five
men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at 8:51 p.m.
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:55:26 +0100
From: Tia Ballantine
27. Saadi Youssef - poem

FROM AMERICA, AMERICA

I too love jeans and jazz and Treasure Island
and John Silver's parrot and the balconies of New Orleans.
I love Mark Twain and the Mississippi steamboats and Abraham Lincoln's
dogs.
I love the fields of wheat and corn and the smell of Virginia tobacco.
But I am not American.
Is that enough for the Phantom pilot to turn me back to the stone age?
. . .
America:
let's exchange gifts. Take your smuggled cigarettes
and give us potatoes.
Take James Bond's golden pistol
and give us Marilyn Monroe's giggle.
Take the heroin syringe under the tree
and give us vaccines.
Take your blueprints for model penitentiaries
and give us village homes.
Take the books of your missionaries
and give us paper for poems to defame you.
Take what you do not have
and give us what we have.
Take the stripes of your flag
and give us the stars.
Take the Afghani Mujahideen beard
and give us Walt Whitman's beard filled with
butterflies.
Take Saddam Hussein
and give us Abraham Lincoln
or give us no one.

. . .
We are not hostages, America
and your soldiers are not God's soldiers ...
We are the poor ones, ours is the earth of the drowned gods,

the gods of bulls
the gods of fires
the gods of sorrows that intertwine clay and
blood in a song...
We are the poor, ours is the god of the poor
who emerges out of farmers' ribs
hungry
and bright,
and raises heads up high...
America, we are the dead.
Let your soldiers come.
Whoever kills a man, let him resurrect him.
We are the drowned ones, dear lady.
We are the drowned.
Let the water come.

---Saadi Youssef
---translated form the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 20:58:04 -1000
From: pilipo souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
28. Integrity

Aloha kakou,

As the Hawaii Legislature convenes to address concerns and laws for Hawaii
today, I find myself examining communication that created legislation of
yesteryears which strangled the Sovereign Independent Nation, Hawaii.

From this record may I past a few quotes of integrity of the past 116
years which altered the destiny of a freindly neutral nation in the sea of
greed;

MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

A treaty of annexation concluded on the 14th day day of February, 1893,
between the United States and the Provisional Government of the Hawaiian
Islands.

To the Senate:

5th paragraph;

"The overthrow of the monarchy was not in any way promoted by this
Government, but had its origin in what seems to have been a reactionary
and revolutionary policy on part of Queen Lili'uokalani, which put in
serious peril not only the large and preponderating interest of the United
States in the islands, but all foreign interests, and indeed the decent
Administration of civil affairs and the peace of the islands"

BENJ. HARRISON February 15, 1893.
-----

MESSAGE OF U.S. MINISTER TO HAWAII TO U. S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Mr. John L. Stevens to Mr. John W. Foster

No. 82 United States Legation, February 1, 1893

7th paragraph;

"The Hawaiian pear is now fully ripe, and this is the golden hour for
the United States to pluck it. If annexation does not take place promptly,
all is held in doubt and suspense for six to tens months, there certainly
will be here revulsion to dispair, and these people, by their necessities,
might be forced towards becoming a British colony, for the English here of
the monarchial type would then avail themselves of their opportunity and
stir up all possible opposition to annexation. The wealtiest Englishman of
these islands has to-day called at this legation, and no man in Hawaii is
more earnest for annexation. His two sons, large business men, are with
him in this regard, and the next old British resident, a Scotchman by
birth, is with the man first named for annexation. I can not otherwise
than urge prompt action at Washington."

I am, etc
JOHN L. STEVENS

e ala e, pilipo
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:23:35 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com
29. Integrity - comment

"We are Marching every year unitil Our Kingdom is Restored"
Vicky Holt Takemine, Ilioulaokalani
Dec. 26, 2009

Those who continue to live in the past, have no vision for the future.
We all failed the Queen and our ancestors on Sovereign Sunday 2009.

Pono and I had a Great Day at the Opening of the Legislature today.
We got to show the Flag of our nation, the Kingdom of Hawaii.

The First Day of Action begins tomorrow when the Legislative Hawaiian
Caucus will meet with Attorney General Mark Bennett and other attorneys
about Hawaiiâ^À^Ùs â^À^Üceded landsâ^À^Ý on Thursday, January 22, from 4
pm to 5:30 pm in room 423 of the state capitol.

Attorney Sherry Broder is scheduled to update the caucus on the legal
challenges to preserve lands for Native Hawaiians. Ms. Broder has
represented the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs in obtaining entitlement
to â^À^Üceded landsâ^À^Ý revenues and was the chief attorney for OHA from
1986 to 2002.

I plan to join Pono who will record the Meeting tomorrow on Jan 22.
We can not and should not allow the State of Hawaii to sell our National
Lands and once more failed the Queen and our ancestors to save our
Kingdom.

Kua Ku Uli, Hee Ka Laho, o Pomaikaiokalani, SOVEREIGN, HPACH
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:34:33 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com
30. Akaka Bill Rewrite? (from a usually unreliable source) - comment

ALOHA Kakou, Everything that has happened since January 16, 1893 is
Illegal. Including the actions taken against our people on Sovereign
Sunday at the Ahu at Iolani Palace.

The AKaKa BILL is not worth the paper that it is printed on. Even
Toillet Paper is worth more then the AKaKa BILL.

The future is in the Restoration of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
ALOHA KUU AINA HAWAII

Richard Pomaikaiokalani Kinney, SOVEREIGN
Hawaiian Political Action Council of Hawaii
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Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 06:55:13 -0800
From: Jonah House <disarmnow@jonahhouse.org>
31. Global Zero, check it out, sign the declaration

Hi,

We just joined an extraordinary global campaign for the elimination of
nuclear weapons, and I thought you'd want to help out too. The only way to
stop the spread of nuclear weapons and make sure they are never used is to
get rid of them. To join the thousands of citizens and to support the
political leaders committed to this effort, please click below:
http://www.globalzero.org/sign-declaration

2009 could be a pivotal year! A growing group of leaders around the world
is calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons and a majority of the
global public agrees. This is an historic window of opportunity. We must
choose between two very different futures. In one, nuclear weapons
continue to spread, increasing the chances that a country or terrorists
use them, with catastrophic consequences. In the other, all nuclear
weapons are eliminated according to a comprehensive global agreement for
phased and verified reductions.

A growing group of political and military leaders agree that Zero is not
only desirable, it is also achievable with political will. With momentum
already building in favor of Zero, a major show of support from people
around the world could tip the balance.

When it comes to nuclear weapons, one is one too many. Join us today by
clicking below: http://www.globalzero.org/sign-declaration

The vision of a world free of nuclear weapons can come to be, but we must
get involved to make it happen. So please, sign and ask your friends to do
so as well. Make your voice count.

Thanks!
................................................................

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 02:43:59 -0500
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>
32. "DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 1 NEW ARTICLE

1. Flash â^À" unverified â^À" Superferry hits whale?
2. More Recent Articles
3. Search Disappeared News

Flash â^À" unverified â^À" Superferry hits whale?

by Larry Geller Update: HSF said they did not hit a whale, but stopped in
time. See, for example, this story. Just heading out for meetings, but
this just in, via Brad Parsons (PWF=Pacific Whale Foundation?) From PWF:>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 07:54:26 -1000> Subject: HSF hits whale>> Today!>>
7:25- 7:30 likely off penguin bank.>> Ship comes to screaching halt, then
resumes travel.>> Passenger....

More Recent Articles

* Advice for America from our postal service
* Beware Circuit City liquidation
* Good day in court on Kauai
* NOAA's Fisheries Service regs to allow whale and dolphin kills by
Navy
* Watch that ferry barge
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 22:50:03 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
33. OHA Moratorium bill

fyi...

[ Part 2, Application/PDF 155KB. ]
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Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 23:09:01 -1000
From: pilipo souza <pilipohale@hawaii.rr.com>
34. Akaka Bill Rewrite? (from a usually
unreliable source)

Aloha kakou,

Mahalo nui Ku.

When will the people realize you can not make sugar out of kukai! Know
who and what you are! There are only two things one controls in life,
choice and consent. If that is taken away from you, you had no life. Nou
ke koho, the choice is yours!

In the next several months we will be overwhelmed like your ancestors were
in 1893 with legislation, especially if you are Kanaka Maoli. Rewrites,
amendments to legislation that was never legislated. You ain't see nothing
yet! There is one thing that remains in your control, choice and consent
yet the elements of power want you believe they control your choice and
consent. .

The difference that separtes Native Americans and Native Hawaiians is
international recognition. Kamehameha the Great consolidated the tribes of
the Hawaiian Islands under one Kingdom. His son Kamehameha III gave his
people a Constitution and citzenship that equates to a Nation. In 1843,
that Nation secured external international recogition as an Sovereign
Independent Nation. The Native American people had nations within,
internally among themselves but remained tribal because they lacked
international recognition.under so-called civilized world.

The United States of America wants the Hawaiian people to forget who, by
the goodness Kauikeaouli, Kamehameha III and grace of God, they are, and
the Akaka Bill reinforces their dementia..

Native American tribes come under American Indian Law created by the
Department of Interior as Indian Affairs just as the Office of Hawaiian
Affairs is designed to be. Hawaiians consenting to provisions of the Akaka
Bill will become a category of wards under this Indian Law. Some 500 plus
native American tribes have consented to this legislation.

Not all native Americvan tribes are under "favorite-son status of American
Indian Law and get nothing. It is similar to Hawaiian Homes Act that
divides the people by recognizing only 50 % Hawaiian blood as
"favorite-son" status.

To solidfify nation citizen status Kamehameha III gave his people part of
his sovereignty, the aina. One can not sell a makana, one can only honor
the giver by malama the aina. Consenting to the Akaka Bill or any federal
legislation is selling your gift and your citizensship as a Hawaiian
National, and is disgrace to the Kamehameha Dynasty. .

That dear friends is who and what you are! But nou ke koho!

pilipo
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:31:29 -1000 (HST)
From: Tony Castanha <castanha@hawaii.edu>
35. Letters (fwd)

*fyi Po
*******

1/21/09
Letters to the Editor
Honolulu Advertiser
Rights of "Recognition" are No Guarantee

Your editorial, "Isles should send unfettered Akaka Bill for a vote"
(1/16), makes at least one big assumption that needs mentioning. If the
Akaka bill is approved, do you really believe that anti-Hawaiian groups
and individuals are just going to throw their hands up and say, "we quit,"
as to their legal challenges?

Federally recognized American Indian groups within the United States have
been challenged in federal courts for a long long time, including many
losses in the Supreme Court. Some of these have been in recent years. The
rights and reservation system first peoples have been left with are
nothing to brag about.

Federal recognition only holds weight as long as the interests of the
hegemony, along with the State of Hawai'i as we see right now, are not at
stake. Regarding this bill, sometimes less is more.

Tony Castana
Honolulu
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:19:50 -0600
From: Mariame Kaba <MKaba@fic-sff.com>
36. praise song
for the day

Here is the accurate version of Elizabeth's Inauguration poem -- praise
song for the day.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: shirlette ammons <shirlettet@yahoo.com>
Date: 2009/1/22

thought this was worth sharing...

Matching Skin
June 2008
www.carolinawrenpress.org
-----------------

hello my friends,

i wanted to send you all the official version of the poem. various
improper version of "praise song for the day" have been circulated on the
internet and even in newspapers, culled from transcription. this
community can understand how it feels for the poem to be out there with no
line or stanza breaks -- yikes. you can feel free to circulate this *as
long as you include the credit line from graywolf press at the bottom*,
which indicates that it is the official version and respects copyright.
in fact, given all of your networks, you'd be doing me a favor to
circulate the poem -- i'm trying to rectify those incorrect version out
there.

it was a day beyond words, i have to say.

i also wanted to tell you all that during the official sound check, the
day before, they asked me to speak some poetry into the mike so they could
get the sound levels right. i recited miss brooks' kitchenette building.
it went out for miles and miles across the mall. at the end i said, "that
was kitchenette building by gwendolyn brooks." hundreds of tourists burst
into applause!

that felt good.

love, elizabeth
------

Praise Song for the Day
A Poem for Barack Obama's Presidential Inauguration
Elizabeth Alexander

Each day we go about our business,
walking past each other, catching each other's
eyes or not, about to speak or speaking.

All about us is noise. All about us is
noise and bramble, thorn and din, each
one of our ancestors on our tongues.

Someone is stitching up a hem, darning
a hole in a uniform, patching a tire,
repairing the things in need of repair.

Someone is trying to make music somewhere,
with a pair of wooden spoons on an oil drum,
with cello, boom box, harmonica, voice.

A woman and her son wait for the bus.
A farmer considers the changing sky.
A teacher says, Take out your pencils. Begin.

We encounter each other in words, words
spiny or smooth, whispered or declaimed,
words to consider, reconsider.

We cross dirt roads and highways that mark
the will of some one and then others, who said
I need to see what's on the other side.

I know there's something better down the road.
We need to find a place where we are safe.
We walk into that which we cannot yet see.

Say it plain: that many have died for this day.
Sing the names of the dead who brought us here,
who laid the train tracks, raised the bridges,

picked the cotton and the lettuce, built
brick by brick the glittering edifices
they would then keep clean and work inside of.

Praise song for struggle, praise song for the day.
Praise song for every hand-lettered sign,
the figuring-it- out at kitchen tables.

Some live by love thy neighbor as thyself,
others by first do no harm or take no more
than you need. What if the mightiest word is love?

Love beyond marital, filial, national,
love that casts a widening pool of light,
love with no need to pre-empt grievance.

In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air,
any thing can be made, any sentence begun.
On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp,

praise song for walking forward in that light.

Copyright (c) 2009 by Elizabeth Alexander. All rights reserved.
Reprinted with the permission of Graywolf Press, Saint Paul,
Minnesota. A chapbook edition of Praise Song for the Day will be
published on February 6, 2009.
--

"A long-range goal to me is a direction that grows out of loving people,
and caring for people, and believing in people's capacity to govern
themselves." ~Myles Horton
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From: Kupuaina Coalition
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:16 AM
37. Important Meeting at the Capitol Thursday at 4pm Room 423

Aloha mai kakou, We just found out today that there is an important
Hawaiian Caucus meeting happening tomorrow at the State Capitol in Room
423 at 4pm. The Hawaiian Caucus will explore the "ceded" lands issue by
listening to three panelists, the Attorney General Mark Bennett, Attorney
Sherry Broder, and Attorney Bill Meheula.

All three panelists are involved in the "ceded" lands litigation. Sherry
Broder is the lead attorney representing the Office of Hawaiian Affairs,
Bill Meheula represents the four individual plaintiffs and Mark Bennett
represents the State of Hawai'i as the attorney general.

This caucus meeting is open to the public. The importance of this meeting
is to provide information to the caucus members who are also legislators
working at the capitol.

We encourage people to attend the caucus meeting which is scheduled to
last 90 minutes.
--
Kupu'âina Coalition
www.stopsellingcededlands.com
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From: mark
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:12 AM
38. Punahou Kids Dig Obama

Teacher Magazine
January 22, 2009
Published: January 20, 2009
Honolulu School Cheers President Obama

HONOLULU (AP) ^× Students at President Barack Obama's alma mater said
Tuesday his inauguration has inspired them to pursue their dreams.

Several hundred students in kindergarten through 8th grade squeezed into a
large auditorium at Punahou School to watch Obama take the oath of office
just after 7 a.m. local time.

The crowd cheered and applauded loudly when Obama was sworn in. They gave
the Class of 1979 graduate a standing ovation after he delivered his
inaugural address.

Maya Reid, 13, said she was impressed by the support the crowd in
Washington, D.C. gave him.

"It was really inspiring that he could do this," said Reid, an 8th grader.

Her classmate, Kimberly Low, said she's wanted to be president since she
was a small child, "even though I was a girl." And Obama's election has
showed her she should continue to pursue that dream.

"No matter what race, or what size and shape you are, you can still have
what you want, you can still try to achieve your goals," said Low, who is
also 13.

Fifth-grader Khalil Edwards, 10, said his dream was to invent things and
Obama's achievement gives him a lot of hope.

"He went through probably the same things we went through," Edwards said.

Obama attended Punahou for eight years from fifth grade until he
graduated from high school and left Hawaii to attend college on the
mainland.

He wrote in his memoir, "Dreams of My Father," that he returned to Hawaii
from Indonesia, where he had been living with his mother and stepfather,
in part to attend Punahou.

He said he received financial aid to go to school on the lush, green
campus on a hill near downtown Honolulu. Tuition today is $16,675, but 10
percent of the student body receives aid.

The school has educated the Hawaii's elite since it was founded by
missionaries in 1841. Famous graduates include AOL founder Steve Case,
professional golfer Michelle Wie, and "Dancing with the Stars" judge
Carrie Ann Inaba.

Later on campus, the school replayed key scenes from the inauguration and
inaugural parade for an assembly of kindergartners through fifth graders.

The students laughed with delight when they saw Obama flash the shaka, or
"hang loose," sign when the Punahou marching band and Junior ROTC
marching unit passed his reviewing stand.

The Punahou students had practiced at Hawaii's only ice rink, the Ice
Palace in Salt Lake, earlier this month to prepare for the cold in the
nation's capital.

Emma Stewart, a 10-year-old 5th grader, said she hoped Obama will bring
peace to the U.S. and stop wars.

"I just felt so proud that I was going to a school that our new president
went to," said Stewart.

Mike Walker, principal of Punahou's junior school, said he hopes the
students who watched the inauguration will take home with them a lesson
that the president grew up in the same place they did.

"They'll be called upon to lead, and to serve, and I hope that's what was
stirred in them," Walker said. "That message may not unfold for 5,10 15
years. But I think seeds were laid."

Copyright 2008 Associated Press. All rights reserved
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 08:41:04 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
39. Critics of Obama's speech missed his point -- inclusiveness

i read this and thought of imiola, who was in that march in selma in 1963
with MLK. i suspect imiola was there tuesday, on the National Mall,
having a good laugh...

----- Original Message ----- From: mark
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 2:26 AM

interesting opinion...

latimes.com
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-brooks22-2009jan22,0,7110090.column
From the Los Angeles Times
Opinion
Critics of Obama's speech missed his point -- inclusiveness
The president didn't talk about black or white people, he just talked
about all of 'us.' Rosa Brooks
January 22, 2009

Keep quiet, please.

Yes, you members of the chattering classes who can't stop dissecting
Barack Obama's inauguration speech and finding it somehow wanting. It
wasn't soaring enough for you! It was full of cliches! It invoked George
Washington but didn't even mention Abraham Lincoln! Or Martin Luther King
Jr.! It didn't talk about race!

You hush up. You're talking so loudly you can't hear the echoes.

Obama's speech was just right. You could see that from the tear-streaked
faces of so many of those gathered on the National Mall on Tuesday,
people who had stood for hours in the cold January wind just to be there,
part of history.

The president's speech can't be understood from a transcript alone. Its
meaning and power lay not just in its words but in all that came before
it. Start with the echoes, and the ghosts.

The National Mall is a haunted place. Stand on it, and if you listen
carefully, you can still hear King speaking of his dream. Close your
eyes, and you can still see those thousands of upturned faces. You can
still hear the singing, not just of those who marched with King in 1963
but of the millions who marched before and after, for peace or for
rights, all calling on their nation to make good on its promises of
justice and equality.

Obama didn't have to quote King. To those gathered on the Mall, King was
already speaking, loud and clear.

There are other echoes too. Listen close enough and you can still hear
the young John F. Kennedy, urging us to "ask what you can do for your
country." Listen harder, and you hear the cannons of the Civil War.
Harder still, and you hear the sound of bugles playing "Taps," drifting
over from Arlington National Cemetery.

For President Obama -- the child of a black man from Africa and a white
woman from the American heartland -- speaking in that place, at that
time, to that audience, there was much that didn't need to be said. But
he deftly invoked history, seamlessly joining the imagined future to the
achievements and the sorrows of the past.

Those "cliches" some derided, such as his reference to "gathering clouds
and raging storms"? A quote from an early speech by Abraham Lincoln.
Obama's reference to the words Washington ordered read at Valley Forge?
They were the words of radical patriot and abolitionist Thomas Paine.

True, Obama referred only elliptically to his status as our first black
president. He didn't talk about black people or white people. He did
something simpler. He talked about "us."

This is what gave Obama's speech its power: His generous vision of an
America that includes all of us, belongs to all of us, shapes and is
shaped by all of us.

Speaking of the "men and women ... who have carried us up the long,
rugged path toward prosperity and freedom," Obama repeated the refrain:
"For us, they packed up their few worldly possessions and traveled across
oceans in search of a new life. For us, they toiled in sweatshops and
settled the West; endured the lash of the whip and plowed the hard earth.
For us, they fought and died, in places like Concord and Gettysburg;
Normandy and Khe Sahn."

"For us." With these small words, Obama invited us all to claim a past
full of contradictions that can neither be resolved nor disowned but only
accepted as part of that "patchwork heritage" that shapes and can
strengthen us all.

This, I think, is why so many found Obama's speech so moving, even as
some professional critics tut-tutted over it.

For blacks -- long marginalized -- Obama's speech was an invitation to
take ownership of all that is most noble about American history, even
when that same history is also rife with exclusion and oppression. Obama
invited black Americans to look at the whole sweep of that history, from
the Pilgrims to the power of the presidency, and say, "Yes, that's ours."

For whites, Obama's speech was an invitation to share in the legacy of
those who lived and died as slaves, of King and the struggle for civil
rights, and to see that legacy as "ours," not as something of "theirs" to
which we owed respect but couldn't claim.

In a nation that has so long been riven by exclusion and the politics of
division, the message behind Obama's words is that we all own America's
past -- its triumphs and cruelties alike.

And as we now struggle to forge America's future out of "our better
history," we all share responsibility for the hard work ahead.

rbrooks@latimescolumnists.com
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:53:53 -0800 (PST)
From: patricia blair <cris6369@yahoo.com>
40. Holy Land Peace Airdates: "Peace Not Walls" (repeat) -- Feb. '09,
Ch. 54

Feb. 2d, then Feb. 25th. Please resolve to watch one of
these (repeat: we first aired "Peace Not Walls" in Sep. '08)
broadcasts where the core documentary of some 40 minues was
produced in 2008 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America.

Aloha, Bob (and Ramsis)

----- Original Message -----

Holy Land Peace: "Peace Not Walls" (repeat)
Both on Channel 54/VIEWS

2/2/09 Mon 10:00 am
2/25/09 Wed 6:00 pm
(includes 8 prefacing voiced-over slides;

total running time 43 minutes, 5 seconds)

Aloha!

Cherisse Ferreira
Olelo Traffic Department
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 09:00:34 -1000
From: Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw <announce@HAWAII.EDU>
41. Chancellor's Update: January 2009

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University of Hawaii at Manoa
January 2009
Chancellor's Update

ALOHA!

Chancellor Hinshaw This new year promises to be both exciting and
challenging - and also full of opportunities! I hope everyone is refreshed
from the holiday season and recharged for 2009. As we prepare for this
year, there is much news to report on how we're adapting to a difficult
financial climate and on changes here at UH Mānoa. I believe higher
education must be an agent of change and help society deal with change -
and this is a critical time for us to play an active role in helping
society face some dramatic changes.

This update looks back at some of the exciting progress we've made since
the start of the fall semester and gives you an idea of what's in store
for UH Mānoa in the coming year.

In this Update:

* Our Approach to Budget Planning
* Celebrating Our Campus Community
* Conserving Energy
* Improvements in Student Services
* Strengthening Our College of Arts and Sciences
* Accreditation Update
* Research Activity
* Alumni and Development Update
* Changes at UH Mānoa
* Congratulations to...

OUR APPROACH TO BUDGET PLANNING

Our University is not exempt from the economic crisis facing our state,
nation, and world. Many of you may have been touched by recent layoffs or
have loved ones hurt by our economic downturn. During these times, more
than any other, we need to pull together as the UH Mānoa community
and support our ʻohana.

UH Mānoa's budget situation is somewhat uncertain as we head into
the 2009 state legislative session, but we must be prepared to operate
with less. It's my belief that we cannot be expected to do more with
less, but we can do better with less - that requires examining all that
we are currently doing and developing new approaches to accomplish our
priorities. This is a time for UH Mānoa to reassess our goals as a
campus and to ensure that our limited resources are wisely invested in
priorities that reinforce our mission as an educational and research
institution.

We have two committees comprised of representatives from across our
campus working on our strategic plan/academic priorities and decisions
regarding budget allocations:

* The Process Committee will recommend a process for updating our
Strategic Plan so our academic priorities are clear and recommend a
process to advise me on the investments/reallocations needed to
accomplish those priorities. This committee is chaired by Professor
Alan Teramura, interim dean of Natural Sciences.
* The Budget Workgroup will advise me on decisions that will be
required for UH Mānoa to accommodate budget reductions within
the near future. Vice Chancellor Kathy Cutshaw (Administration,
Finance and Operations) serves as convenor of the group, which
includes representatives of our faculty and staff.

I encourage you to learn about these committees. I believe we need to
start planning now because waiting until it happens is not advisable and
learning what we might need and want to do beforehand enables the campus
to be more strategic in our decisions.

CELEBRATING OUR CAMPUS COMMUNITY

We continue to make progress in polishing the jewel that is our UH
Mānoa campus through an active program of repairs and modernization.
You will see Mānoa Makeover signs on campus containing information
on a dozen major construction projects that are contributing to our
campus renewal. Our Facilities Management website contains a wealth of
information about these projects and our efforts to improve the
energy-efficiency of our buildings.

Campus groups have undertaken new Mānoa Makeover projects that
continue to make a positive difference:

* The Honors Program planted and is helping maintain a native Hawaiian
garden at the Biomedical Sciences Building.
* The Music Department, under the leadership of chair Laurence Paxton,
renovated and refreshed its offices. When major improvements to the
Orvis Auditorium and painting of the music complex are completed
later this year, our music program will be a beautiful - and heavily
utilized - part of our campus.
* On January 19, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, campus volunteers
installed new landscaping at the Varsity Gate entrance at our makai
campus.

Let us know if your group would like to initiate a Manoa Makeover project
of your own.

In addition, this academic year has been highlighted by several
campus-wide events.

* Our Homecoming Celebration on October 10 culminated a week of
activities and was the first in many years to be staged on the lawn
of Bachman Hall, enabling our campus community to enjoy music, food,
and fun on UH Mānoa's front porch. Other activities included
Shidler College of Business' Back to Business lectures, College of
Engineering Centennial Alumni Event and Sinclair Library's special
commemorative exhibit.
* That was followed on November 15 by our first-ever campus-wide open
house, called the Mānoa Experience. This featured activities -
open houses, tours, exhibits, presentations - by all of UH
Mānoa's schools and colleges to provide a glimpse to potential
students of why we should be their destination of choice.
* We enjoyed a memorable Commencement exercise on December 20 for the
nearly 1,800 students who received degrees and certificates in the
past fall academic term, highlighted by an inspiring address by Mary
Bitterman, president of the Bernard Osher Foundation and presentation
of a Regents' Medal of Distinction in memory of the late educator and
composer Winona K. Beamer. We've already begun planning for Spring
Commencement on May 16, 2009 - and here's a reminder that, in
response to many requests, we've changed commencements to Saturdays
(instead of Sundays). Learn more

CONSERVING ENERGY

UH Mānoa is taking a leadership role in sustainability - as
befitting a flagship campus and leading research institution. Our energy
conservation efforts included a voluntary shut-down of air-conditioning
in 18 buildings from December 24-January 4. Participants in Mānoa
Green Days opted to take leave or find alternate work sites during this
period. This experiment was an effort to model sustainable operating
practices, conserve energy, and reduce our huge electricity bill - and
provide a learning opportunity for future projects. We are currently
assessing what we learned and need to do for the future, so stay posted.

We will be launching a new campus initiative in the next few months to
conserve energy by delamping or removing unnecessary electrical lights
and upgrading inefficient fixtures. You'll be hearing more about this
soon.

IMPROVEMENTS IN STUDENT SERVICES

Academic Affairs and Students Affairs moved to more efficient and
paperless transactions by automating our student scholarship and housing
applications. Student Affairs hired five new staff in the Financial Aid
Office to help students access their grants, loans, and scholarships.

Preparations are under way for the second phase of major improvements at
the Campus Center to begin this spring - plans include a recreational
facility for students. Read more

Housing Services is preparing for the first phase of renovations to the
Hale Aloha Towers. They will modernize and provide safety improvements in
the housing areas for freshmen students.

We launched a new website for prospective students to help them navigate
the steps necessary to complete the admission process. Visit
Undergraduate Admissions to learn more.

Started in the fall semester, we initiated an academic advising program
that involves all freshman students - a major step in adding to our
supportive environment for students. Next year this advising program will
be extended to all sophomores as well.
STRENGTHENING OUR COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

A wide spectrum of our campus was involved in helping us move forward
with the reorganization of the College of Arts and Sciences - this
campus-wide collaboration is a model for the way we are approaching our
budget planning.

The goal of our Arts and Sciences reorganization is to enhance the
quality of undergraduate education by ensuring that our productive
faculty are supported by an organizational structure that promotes
coordination, visibility and support for them, along with students and
staff.

I am moving ahead based on the input of two committees (Chancellor's
Working Group and the Arts and Sciences Transitional Committee) which
have worked for many months on examining and considering structures and
leadership that might work best for UH Mānoa. The summary of the
committees' recommendation can be read at online.

The recommendation, which I've adopted, is to pursue the hybrid model of
an Arts and Science dean supported by academic leaders of key units of
Arts and Sciences - this model provides flexibility and is a proven model
at many research campuses. We are engaging a search firm to begin the
process of finding the best person available to strengthen this very
important segment of UH Mānoa. We hope to conduct interviews of top
candidates in February and March, and welcome a new dean of Arts and
Sciences sometime this summer.

ACCREDITATION UPDATE

We are preparing for the Capacity and Preparatory Review (CPR) phase of
reaccreditation for UH Mānoa, scheduled for December 2009, less than
one year from now. The three-part reaccreditation process began in 2006
with the development of an Institutional Proposal (IP) that established
UH Mānoa's goal for the re-accreditation process. The IP, which was
accepted by WASC in November 2006, was developed through a series of
focus groups meetings with wide engagement of campus members. It sets
forth three major initiatives: Building a Mānoa Community in Support
of Student Success, Campus Renewal to Support the Manoa Experience, and
Reform Campus Governance to Promote Communication, and Student Success.

This past summer, six teams of faculty, staff, and students prepared
draft essays that will form the core of the narrative for the CPR report.
The essays document our progress in meeting the initiatives and goals
established in the IP. A campus-wide forum was held on November 18 to
discuss the draft essays and gather campus input prior to finalizing the
essays. Evidence is being gathered to document UH Mānoa's compliance
with the four WASC standards and 42 Criteria for Review. Assessment and
institutional research are major requirements under the revised WASC
standards. To strengthen UH Mānoa's support in these areas, the
Mānoa Academic Assessment Office was established this summer with
the hiring of two assessment specialists. Recruitment for a faculty
director is underway as is recruitment of an institutional research
analyst.

The Educational Effectiveness Review (EER) is the final part of the
re-accreditation process. UH Mānoa's EER review is scheduled for
March 2011. I encourage you to learn more about what's being done to
improve student success, renew our campus, and other projects. Read more

RESEARCH ACTIVITY

Research activity as measured by the awarding of competitive grants and
contracts to our faculty at UH Mānoa continues to grow. Research
grants in particular have seen a significant jump with $134.2 million
awarded between July and December 2008. This compares with $103.9 million
awarded to UH Mānoa faculty between July and December 2007 and the
current activity represents an increase of nearly 30 percent over last
year. Total grant volume for the same period (to include training grants
and other contracts) has grown from $166.2 million to $195.7 million.
This is truly significant given these difficult fiscal times and is a
testament to the quality of our faculty and the importance of their
scholarship.

We recently announced an internal competition for a $1 million research
grant in the broad area of sustainability. Funding will be provided over
two years for an interdisciplinary research effort of significant
relevance to Hawai`i that would build and expand on research strengths
presently at UH Mānoa. Deadline to apply is March 1, 2009. The
faculty recipient(s) of the $1 million research grant will be announced
on Earth Day, April 22, 2009. Read more

ALUMNI AND DEVELOPMENT UPDATE

During the past year, UH Mānoa has been re-connecting with our
alumni here in our state and around the world - I can assure you that
their passion for UH Mānoa is strong. Since the start of the
Centennial Campaign in July of 2002, gifts to Mānoa totaled $190.4
million.

In fact, in spite of the economy, through December of this fiscal year
alone, gifts to our campus have totaled $17.4 or 75 percent of the amount
raised so far this year system-wide. Thirty thousand of our 153,000 UH
Mānoa alumni have made a gift to the campaign, and we are certainly
grateful to them for their strong support.

CHANGES AT UH MāNOA

The search committee for the position of vice chancellor of academic
affairs resumed its activities, as vice chancellor Gary Ostrander
requested that his name be removed from consideration due to his current
responsibilities in the research arena, which would delay his ability to
assume this role. The goal of the committee, under the leadership of dean
of Nursing Mary Boland, is to recruit and conduct candidate interviews
early this year. Dr. Reed W. Dasenbrock, a candidate for this position,
will visit the campus Monday and Tuesday, January 26-27, for interviews
and meetings. Dr. Dasenbrock currently serves as cabinet secretary for
the State of New Mexico's Department of Higher Education. Read more

Dean of Travel Industry Management (TIM) Walter Jamieson has stepped down
after serving for five years to pursue other activities. TIM professor
Juanita Liu currently serves as interim dean. Read more

Dr. Carl-Wilhelm Vogel resigned as director of the Cancer Research Center
of Hawai'i and is returning to research. Dr. Michele Carbone, director of
the Center's Thoracic Oncology program and chair of the Department of
Pathology at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, is serving as interim
director. Read more

Mahalo nui loa to Walter and Carl for their service to UH Mānoa and
our community.

New members of Mānoa's Advancement Team are director of
communications Diane Chang and manager of government relations Elmer
Kaʻai Jr. Read more

CONGRATULATIONS TO...

Students Krystle Salazar, Grace Kwan, and Margaret Ruzicka won the Best
Rookie Team and a Bronze Medal at the 2008 International Genetically
Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM), despite being the smallest of 83
other teams at this prestigious event. Read more

An anthurium named " Mauna Loa" developed by the College of Tropical
Agriculture and Human Resources has won a Red Ribbon in the Society of
American Florists' 2008 Outstanding Varieties Competition. Read more

Naleen Andrade, MD, professor and chair of the Department of Psychiatry
at the John A. Burns School of Medicine, received the 2008 Robert Cancro
Academic Leadership Award from the American Academy of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry. Read more

Satoru Izutsu, senior associate dean of the John A. Burns School of
Medicine, was honored with the Forever Young Award from the city of
Honolulu for demonstrating - at the age of 80 - that senior citizens do
lead active and full lives.

Victoria Niederhauser, associate professor at the School of Nursing and
Dental Hygiene, was selected as a 2008 Robert Wood Johnson Executive
Nurse Fellow, a national fellowship program focused on leading the
country's health care system into the 21st century. Read more

Daniel Rubinoff, associate professor of plant and environmental
protection sciences in the College of Tropical Agriculture & Human
Resources, helped identify a butterfly found in Waikiki as a species
previously unknown in the islands or in the United States. Read more

A research team led by astronomer Karen Meech is one of 10 selected
nationally for a NASA Astrobiology Institute grant to expand
investigations and education on the origin, history, and distribution of
water and its relationship to life in the universe.

Study Abroad's Allison Yap was one of 17 international education and
enrollment management officers selected to attend the Baden-Wuerttemberg
Seminar in Germany, to study the German educational system and student
exchange between Germany and the U.S.

Natural Resources & Environmental Management researcher Chennat
Gopalakrishnan was elected a fellow member by the International Water
Resources Association in recognition of his expertise in sustainable
water resource management.

Our UH Mānoa Cheerleaders won the "Rah! Paula Abdul's Cheerleading
Bowl" which was featured on MTV.

Contact Us
Chancellor's Office
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
2500 Campus Road
Hawai`i Hall 202
Honolulu, HI 96822
808-956-7651
________________________________________________________________________________

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:10:01 -0500
From: Curt Ellerbe <bigcurtlrb@juno.com>
42. SNOPES ADVICE

WELL, THIS IS GOOD TO KNOW.

SNOPES ADVICE
By now, I suspect everyone is familiar with www.snopes.com
and/or www.truthorfiction.com for determining whether
information received via email is just that: true/false or
fact/fiction.

Both are excellent sites.
From the folks that understand best......Read and heed. Use or lose.

Advice from Snopes.com MEMORIZE THIS!
1) Any time you see an E-Mail that says forward this on to '10' of
your friends, sign this petition, or you'll get bad luck, good
luck, or whatever, it almost always has an E-Mail tracker program
attached that tracks the cookies and E-Mails of those folks you
forward to. The host sender is getting a copy each time it gets
forwarded and then is able to get lists of 'active' E-Mails
addresses to use in SPAM E-Mails, or sell to other spammers.

2) Almost all E-Mails that ask you to add your name and forward on
to others are similar to that mass letter years ago that asked
people to send business cards to the little kid in Florida who
wanted to break the Guinness Book of Records for the most cards.
All it was, and all any of this type of E-Mail is , a way to get
names and 'cookie' tracking information for telemarketers and
spammers - - to validate active E-Mail accounts for their own
profitable purposes.

You can do your friends and family members a GREAT favor by sending
this information to them; you will be providing a service to your
friends, and will be rewarded by not getting thousands of spam
E-Mails in the future!

If you have been sending out (FORWARDING) the above kinds of
E-Mail, now you know why you get so much SPAM!

Do yourself a favor and STOP adding your name(s) to those types of
listings regardless how inviting they might sound!

You may think you are s suppor ting a GREAT cause, but you
are NOT in the long run. Instead, you will be getting tons of junk
mail later! Plus, we are helping the spammers get rich! Let's
don't make it easy for them!

Also: E-Mail petitions are NOT acceptable to Congress or any other
organization.
To be acceptable, petitions MUST have a signed signature and full
address of the person signing the petition.

Read the full story
here: http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/petition/internet.asp
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:17:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Kekahuna Keaweiwi <kekahunakeaweiwi@yahoo.com>
43. OHA,
Ceded Lands & Any Proposed/Negotiated Kind of Settlement/Moratorium

Aloha Ka Kou,

I am fully oppossed to any Proposals and negotiations OHA has conducted
with the State Attorney General and his office, The Governor and her
Office and the State Legislature/legislators regarding the so-called
"ceded lands."

Though I personally and fully believe the Hawaii State Supreme Court is
not the "venue' to legally adjudicate on this matter (lands, beit
so-called "ceded lands" or otherwise), it's January 31st 2008 decision
barring the Sate of Hawaii from selling/settling said lands is in effect a
moratorium in itself.

Suffice it to say, the State of Hawaii et al. simple needs to adhere to
this ruling unconditionally and with no strings, hidden or otherwise that
may result from any proposals that may in fact be a disguise to
circumvent this legal ruling from your Hawaii State Supreme Court.

As it is, based on the High Courts ruling, native Hawaiians, I.E. "Hawaii
Nationals" do have "Legal Claim" to these lands of Hawaii nei/Pae Aina,
contrary to what Attorney General Mark Bennett has previously claimed and
continues to maintain; and that the only party that lacks "legal" claim,
but in part may have a "moral claim" to portions of our aina (2nd, 3rd,
etc. generation immigrants) are those that have resided in these islands
after January 17, 1893.

OHA has not/is not listening to the native Hawaiians. How can they? They
do not communicate with us.

Foster R. Ampong
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:36:02 -0800
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>
44. Obama to Close CIA "Black Sites"

http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

Breaking: Obama to Close CIA 'Black Sites' --President issues executive
orders dismantling much of Bush's architecture for 'war on terror' 22 Jan
2009 President Obama on Thursday will order the closure of 'black sites,'
where CIA and European security services have interrogated [and tortured]
terrorist suspects, under executive orders dismantling much of the Bush
regime's architecture for the war on [of] terror, according to four
individuals familiar with a draft executive order. Mr. Obama will shutter
"all permanent detention facilities overseas," the draft said, according
to the individuals who asked not to be named because the orders have not
yet been signed. There are at least eight such prisons [not to mention,
the floating 'black sites' ships at sea], according to published reports.
The Bush dictatorship never revealed the number or location of the
facilities, although several were said to be in Eastern Europe.

Breaking: Obama signs order closing Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba 22
Jan 2009 President Barack Obama has begun overhauling U.S. treatment of
terror suspects. He has signed orders to close the Guantanamo Bay
detention centre, review military trials of terror suspects and ban the
harshest interrogation methods. With three executive orders and a
presidential directive today, Obama is reshaping how the United States
prosecutes and questions 'al-Qaida,' Taliban or other foreign fighters who
pose a threat to Americans.

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/22/obama-close-terrorist-black-sites/

Obama to close terrorist 'black sites'
Sara A. Carter (Contact) and Eli Lake (Contact)
Thursday, January 22, 2009
*

President Obama on Thursday will order the closure of so-called black
sites, where CIA and European security services have interrogated
terrorist suspects, under executive orders dismantling much of the Bush
admistration's architecture for the war on terror, according to four
individuals familiar with a draft executive order.

Mr. Obama will shutter "all permanant detention facilities overseas," the
draft said, according to the individuals who asked not to be named because
the orders have not yet been signed. There are at least eight such
prisons, according to published reports. The Bush administration never
revealed the number or location of the facilities, although several were
said to be in Eastern Europe.

The individuals said there will be three executive orders. One will order
the black sites closed and require all interrogations of detainees across
the entire U.S. intelligence community to adhere to the U.S. Army Field
Manual. The manual specifies a range of interrogation techniques that are
not considered torture.

Another executive order will close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
within 12 months, in accordance with an Obama campaign pledge. The final
order deals with overall detention policy.

The orders discuss the status of the estimated 250 detainees at Guantanamo
and what to do with them and calls for a series of reviews on the status
of the prisoners and the military commissions set up to try them. The
review will look at transferring prisoners to military facilities in the
United States.

Mr. Obama, in one of his first acts as president, on Wednesday suspended
all the military commissions for 120 days. During his campaign and after
his election, he promised that his administration would not practice
torture. In his Inaugural address Tuesday, he said, "we reject as false
the choice between our safety and our ideals ^Å Those ideals still light
the world and we will not give them up for expedience's sake."

Congressional committees were informally briefed about the executive
orders on Wednesday. Administration officials discussed them with senior
Republican legislators late Wednesday and will be briefing others opposed
to changing current U.S. policies involving terrorist suspects, a former
Justice Department official familiar with the drafts said. He asked not
to be named because of the sensitivity of the topic.

The official said "there are serious concerns as to where the detainees
will be held" and that sending them "into the U.S. federal court system
may lead to some of them being released" because the military commissions
have different guidelines regarding evidence.

White House officials declined to comment on the status of the orders.

A Pentagon official said it "would be to speculative to say what will
happen with each detainee once the facility is closed" but "clearly there
are some dangerous detainees at Guantanamo and they will continue to
fight us. It's still way to soon to make judgement calls as to what
facilities they will be held in the U.S. or abroad." The official also
asked not to be named.

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:36:03 -0800 (PST)
From: patricia blair <cris6369@yahoo.com>
45. Robert Fisk - So far, Obama's missed the point on Gaza...

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-so-far-obamas-missed-the-point-on-gaza-1488632.html
Robert Fisk: So far, Obama's missed the point on Gaza...
Thursday, 22 January 2009

It would have helped if Obama had the courage to talk about what everyone
in the Middle East was talking about. No, it wasn't the US withdrawal from
Iraq. They knew about that. They expected the beginning of the end of
Guantanamo and the probable appointment of George Mitchell as a Middle
East envoy was the least that was expected. Of course, Obama did refer to
"slaughtered innocents", but these were not quite the "slaughtered
innocents" the Arabs had in mind. There was the phone call yesterday to
Mahmoud Abbas. Maybe Obama thinks he's the leader of the Palestinians, but
as every Arab knows, except perhaps Mr Abbas, he is the leader of a ghost
government, a near-corpse only kept alive with the blood transfusion of
international support and the "full partnership" Obama has apparently
offered him, whatever "full" means. And it was no surprise to anyone that
Obama also made the obligatory call to the Israelis. But for the people of
the Middle East, the absence of the word "Gaza" ^Ö indeed, the word
"Israel" as well ^Ö was the dark shadow over Obama's inaugural address.
Didn't he care? Was he frightened? Did Obama's young speech-writer not
realise that talking about black rights ^Ö why a black man's father might
not have been served in a restaurant 60 years ago ^Ö would concentrate
Arab minds on the fate of a people who gained the vote only three years
ago but were then punished because they voted for the wrong people? It
wasn't a question of the elephant in the china shop. It was the sheer
amount of corpses heaped up on the floor of the china shop. Sure, it's
easy to be cynical. Arab rhetoric has something in common with Obama's
clichés: "hard work and honesty, courage and fair play ... loyalty and
patriotism". But however much distance the new President put between
himself and the vicious regime he was replacing, 9/11 still hung like a
cloud over New York. We had to remember "the firefighter's courage to
storm a stairway filled with smoke". Indeed, for Arabs, the "our nation is
at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred" was pure
Bush; the one reference to "terror", the old Bush and Israeli fear word,
was a worrying sign that the new White House still hasn't got the message.
Hence we had Obama, apparently talking about Islamist groups such as the
Taliban who were "slaughtering innocents" but who "cannot outlast us". As
for those in the speech who are corrupt and who "silence dissent",
presumably intended to be the Iranian government, most Arabs would
associate this habit with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt (who also, of
course, received a phone call from Obama yesterday), King Abdullah of
Saudi Arabia and a host of other autocrats and head-choppers who are
supposed to be America's friends in the Middle East. Hanan Ashrawi got it
right. The changes in the Middle East ^Ö justice for the Palestinians,
security for the Palestinians as well as for the Israelis, an end to the
illegal building of settlements for Jews and Jews only on Arab land, an
end to all violence, not just the Arab variety ^Ö had to be "immediate"
she said, at once. But if the gentle George Mitchell's appointment was
meant to answer this demand, the inaugural speech, a real "B-minus" in the
Middle East, did not. The friendly message to Muslims, "a new way forward,
based on mutual interest and mutual respect", simply did not address the
pictures of the Gaza bloodbath at which the world has been staring in
outrage. Yes, the Arabs and many other Muslim nations, and, of course,
most of the world, can rejoice that the awful Bush has gone. So, too,
Guantanamo. But will Bush's torturers and Rumsfeld's torturers be
punished? Or quietly promoted to a job where they don't have to use water
and cloths, and listen to men screaming? Sure, give the man a chance.
Maybe George Mitchell will talk to Hamas ^Ö he's just the man to try ^Ö
but what will the old failures such as Dennis Ross have to say, and Rahm
Emanuel and, indeed, Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton? More a sermon than
an Obama inaugural, even the Palestinians in Damascus spotted the absence
of those two words: Palestine and Israel. So hot to touch they were, and
on a freezing Washington day, Obama wasn't even wearing gloves.
------

The Independent
© 2009 Independent News and Media
________________________________________________________________________________

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 11:47:26 -0800
From: keaumoe@yahoo.com
46. News Release 09-002: DOH ADVISES PUBLIC TO WASH PRODUCE THOROUGHLY TO
PREVENT EXPOSURE TO RARE FORM OF MENINGITIS

Aloha Kakou Just something to alert you to if you have not rec'd this
already good to know Aloha nui K

----- Forwarded Message ----
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 9:16:29 AM

News Release 09-002: DOH ADVISES PUBLIC TO WASH PRODUCE
THOROUGHLY TO PREVENT EXPOSURE TO RARE FORM OF MENINGITIS

For Immediate Release: January 21, 2009

HONOLULU ^Ö The Hawai'i State Department of Health (DOH) is
advising the public to wash produce thoroughly to help
prevent exposure to pesticides, bacteria, and parasites such
as angiostrongylus, or rat lung worm. The DOH identified six
probable cases of illness caused by angiostongylus in 2008.
All individuals were residents of the island of Hawai'i and
regularly ate fresh raw vegetables from backyard gardens.

The parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis causes a rare form
of meningitis called eosinophilic meningitis or
angiostrongyliasis. The condition is also referred to as "rat
lung worm" because rats are part of the life cycle of the
parasite. The parasite is found in snails, slugs, and
freshwater prawns, crabs fish, and possibly the flatworm in
Hawai'i. Eating uncooked snails, slugs, freshwater prawns and
fish can cause the rare infection, which can lead to serious
illness.

"It's important to always wash raw vegetables and fruits
thoroughly before eating them to remove insects, parasites,
bacteria and other possibly harmful contaminants," said Dr.
Sarah Park, DOH State Epidemiologist and Chief of the Disease
Outbreak Control Division. Keeping home gardens free of
rodents, snails and slugs can also reduce the risk of rat
lung worm disease.

Signs of rat lung worm disease can include severe headaches,
nausea, vomiting, neck stiffness, and other problems related
to the brain and spinal cord. Most patients recover from the
infection without treatment. If you think you may have
angiostrongyliasis, see your health care provider and let
him/her know of your exposures.

The DOH warns that freshwater prawns, crabs or fish and
mollusks such as snails should be cooked thoroughly before
eating. Sufficient heat (boiling 3-5 minutes) kills the
parasites. Thoroughly wash fresh vegetables and fruit before
consuming and visually inspect to be sure they are free of
slugs or snails. Controlling rodents, snails and slugs
around your home will also decrease the risk of exposure.

For more information call the DOH East Hawai'i District
Health Office at (808) 933-0912 or the West Hawaii District
Health Office at (808) 322-4877. Additional information is
also available on the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention webpage at:
http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/DPDx/HTML/Angiostrongyliasis.htm
________________________________________________________________________________

From: Lynette Cruz
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 1:52 PM
47. AKAKA BILL current 2007 SB & HR bills plus overview of the bills
purpose

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Hawaiian_Government_Reorganization_Act

Go to the site in order to get links to the SB and HR 2007 version of the
Akaka Bill

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Hawaiian_Government_Reorganization_Act

Akaka Bill
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act)

The Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2007 (S. 310, H.R.
505), was a bill before before the 110th United States Congress. It is
commonly known as the Akaka Bill after U.S. Senator Daniel Akaka[1][2],
D-HI, who has proposed various forms of this bill since 2000.

The bills proposed seek to establish a process for Native Hawaiians to
gain federal recognition similar to the recognition that some Native
American tribes currently possess.[3] The House version of the bill (H.R.
505) passed on October 24, 2007[4].

Contents [hide]
1 Purpose
2 Proposed Provisions
3 Support for the Bill
4 Opposition to the Bill
5 Previous versions of the Akaka Bill
6 See also
7 References
8 External links

[edit] Purpose
The stated purpose of the Akaka Bill is "to provide a process for the
reorganization of the single Native Hawaiian governing entity and the
reaffirmation of the special political and legal relationship between the
United States and that Native Hawaiian governing entity for purposes of
continuing a government-to-government relationship"[5].

The government that the Akaka Bill intends to reorganize is identified as
the Kingdom of Hawaii in the first paragraphs of Indian Affairs Committee
Report 108-85.[6].

[edit] Proposed Provisions

The recognition proposed in the Akaka bill is somewhat similar to the
recognition that federally recognized Tribes in the continental 48 states
and Alaska have. However, unlike those groups, the current version of the
Akaka Bill prohibits Hawaiians from establishing casinos under current
laws without banning the establishment of casinos under future
negotiations (Section 9a), from participation in programs and services
enjoyed by Indians (Section 9f), from being included on the Secretary of
the Interior's list of Tribes eligible for federal benefits because of
their status as Indians ("Public Law 103-454, 25 U.S.C. 479a, shall not
apply."), and from pursuing claims against the United States for past
wrongs in court while still leaving open claims issues for future
negotiations (Section 8. Claims - defers settlement of claims to
negotiations). Also, unlike recognized Tribes in the continental 48
states and Alaska, the Akaka Bill does not require any of
the same requirements for tribal recognition. The Bureau of Indian
Affairs requires the satisfaction of 7 criteria before recognizing a
tribe,[7] none of which are present in the Akaka Bill. They are:

83.7a:The petitioner has been identified as an American Indian entity on
a substantially continuous basis since 1900.
83.7b:A predominant portion of the petitioning group comprises a distinct
community and has existed as a community from historical times to the
present.
83.7c:The petitioner has maintained political influence or authority over
its members as an autonomous entity from historical times until the
present.
83.7d:A copy of the group's present governing documents including its
membership criteria.
83.7e:The petitioner's membership consists of individuals who descend
from a historical Indian tribe or from historical Indian tribes which
combined and functioned as a single autonomous political entity.
83.7f:The membership of the petitioning group is composed primarily of
persons who are not members of an acknowledged North American Indian
tribe.
83.7g:Neither the petitioner nor its members are the subject of
congressional legislation that has expressly terminated or forbidden the
federal relationship.
The current version of the bill provides for negotiations between the
United States and the proposed new Hawaiian government. The bill provides
for the new Hawaiian government to negotiate for land, rights,and
resources, however, the bill does not indicate what the Federal
government will be negotiating for, that is what it is Hawaiians have
that the Federal government will expect in return at the negotiating
table. Typically however, in Tribal/U.S. negotiations, Indians give up
their legal and other grievances against the United States in exchange
for a portion of disputed land, rights, and resources. (See United States
Code Title 25 Chapter 19 for examples.)

Section 2 of findings is based primarily upon the Apology Resolution of
1993.

Section 3 defines "Native Hawaiian" as:

(i) an individual who is 1 of the indigenous, native people of Hawaii and
who is a direct lineal descendant of the aboriginal, indigenous, native
people who--
(I) resided in the islands that now comprise the State of Hawaii on or
before January 1, 1893; and
(II) occupied and exercised sovereignty in the Hawaiian archipelago,
including the area that now constitutes the State of Hawaii; or
(ii) an individual who is 1 of the indigenous, native people of Hawaii
and who was eligible in 1921 for the programs authorized by the Hawaiian
Homes Commission Act (42 Stat. 108, chapter 42) or a direct lineal
descendant of that individual.
Section 5 establishes the "United States Office for Native Hawaiian
Relations". In a revision to a previous version of the Akaka Bill,
S.147,[8], the new S.310 no longer requires consultation with the
Governor of the State of Hawaii explicitly, but only the "State of
Hawaii".

Section 6 establishes the "Native Hawaiian Interagency Coordinating
Group" for coordination of various federal agencies and policies, with
the specific exclusion of the Department of Defense.

Section 7 establishes a commission of 9 members to certify which adults
meet the definition of â^À^ÜNative Hawaiian" established in Section
3(10), and to prepare and maintain a roll of adult "Native Hawaiians" by
that definition. Originally requiring specific ancestry to be a member of
the commission in S.147, S.310 only requires "(i) not less than 10 years
of experience in the study and determination of Native Hawaiian
genealogy; and (ii) an ability to read and translate into English
documents written in the Hawaiian language." The bill cites the overthrow
of the Kingdom of Hawaii, which was multi-racial from its inception, but
it does not provide any opportunity for non-Native Hawaiians as defined
by the law to participate in the new governing entity.[9]

Once a roll is established, those on the roll will establish a "Native
Hawaiian Interim Governing Council", who would establish a permanent form
of government. The bill provides that governing documents may, but do not
have to be approved by a majority of the people on the roll, and that the
form of government chosen "provide for the protection of the civil rights
of the citizens of the Native Hawaiian governing entity and all persons
affected by the exercise of governmental powers and authorities by the
Native Hawaiian governing entity", but does not enumerate if equal
protection on the basis of race is one of those civil rights.

Section 8 defers any settlement of issues such as the transfer of lands,
the exercise of governmental authority, civil and criminal jurisdiction,
and "grievances regarding assertions of historical wrongs committed
against Native Hawaiians by the United States or by the State of Hawaii"
to future negotiations between the newly organized Native Hawaiian
Government and the United States and the State of Hawaii. Also
provides:â^À^Ý Nothing in this Act is intended to create or allow to be
maintained in any court any potential breach-of-trust actions, land
claims, resource-protection or resource-management claims, or similar
types of claims brought by or on behalf of Native Hawaiians or the Native
Hawaiian governing entity for equitable, monetary, or Administrative
Procedure Act-based relief against the United States or the State of
Hawaii, whether or not such claims specifically assert an alleged breach
of trust, call for an accounting, seek declaratory relief,
or seek the recovery of or compensation for lands once held by Native
Hawaiians. Also Provides: "Nor shall any preexisting waiver of sovereign
immunity (including, but not limited to, waivers set forth in chapter 7
of part I of title 5, United States Code, and sections 1505 and 2409a of
title 28, United States Code) be applicable to any such claims. This
complete retention or reclaiming of sovereign immunity also applies to
every claim that might attempt to rely on this Act for support, without
regard to the source of law under which any such claim might be
asserted." And Also:â^À^Ý It is the general effect of section 8(c)(2)(B)
that any claims that may already have accrued and might be brought
against the United States, including any claims of the types specifically
referred to in section 8(c)(2)(A), along with both claims of a similar
nature and claims arising out of the same nucleus of operative facts as
could give rise to claims of the specific types
referred to in section 8(c)(2)(A), be rendered nonjusticiable in suits
brought by plaintiffs other than the Federal Government."

Section 9 Provides: "Native Hawaiians may not conduct gaming activities"
and; "the Secretary (of the Interior of the United States) shall not take
land into trust on behalf of individuals or groups claiming to be Native
Hawaiian, and; " (c) Real Property Transfers- The Indian Trade and
Intercourse Act (25 U.S.C. 177), does not, has never, and will not apply
after enactment to lands or lands transfers present, past, or future, in
the State of Hawaii. If despite the expression of this intent herein, a
court were to construe the Trade and Intercourse Act to apply to lands or
land transfers in Hawaii before the date of enactment of this Act, then
any transfer of land or natural resources located within the State of
Hawaii prior to the date of enactment of this Act, by or on behalf of the
Native Hawaiian people, or individual Native Hawaiians, shall be deemed
to have been made in accordance with the Indian Trade and Intercourse Act
and any other provision of
Federal law that specifically applies to transfers of land or natural
resources from, by, or on behalf of an Indian tribe, Native Hawaiians, or
Native Hawaiian entities." and;â^À^Ý nothing in this Act provides an
authorization for eligibility to participate in any Indian program."

[edit] Support for the Bill
Supporters of the bill include:

Democratic President-Elect Barack Obama
Hawai`i's Democratic congressional delegation Senators Daniel Akaka and
Daniel K. Inouye and Representatives Neil Abercrombie and Mazie Hirono.
A Bi-partisan group of Congressional co-sponsors Senators Dorgan (D-ND),
Cantwell (D-WA), Coleman (R-MN), Stevens (R-AK), Murkowski (R-AK), Smith
(R-OR), and Dodd (D-CT).
Hawai`i's Republican Governor Linda Lingle.[10]
Hawai`i's State legislature, which has unanimously passed at least three
resolutions supporting federal recognition for Native Hawaiians.
Hawai`i's Attorney General Mark Bennett. [11]
The National Congress of American Indians, the oldest and largest
national Native American organization.<National Congress of American
Indians, 2005.>
The Alaska Federation of Natives, the largest organization representing
the Native people of Alaska.
The National Indian Education Association.
The American Bar Association.
The Japanese American Citizen League.
Those who seek legislation to provide federal recognition for Native
Hawaiians to ensure that the native (especially at-risk) [12] population
continues to receive services in health care, housing, education, job
training, employment, culture, and the arts.
Supporters of the bill seek to protect the programs assisting Native
Hawaiians, such as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Kamehameha
Schools, as well as health-care and housing for the Hawaiian population.
Senator Akaka said, as he introduced the 2007 version on the
Congressional floor,

"The legislation I introduce today seeks to build upon the foundation of
reconciliation. It provides a structured process to bring together the
people of Hawai`i, along a path of healing to a Hawai`i where its
indigenous people are respected and culture is embraced. Through
enactment of this legislation, we have the opportunity to demonstrate
that our country does not just preach its ideas, but lives according to
its founding principles. As it has for America's other indigenous
peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to
Native Hawaiians." [13]

In response to opponents who state the bill is race-based, supporters of
the bill - including other Congressional delegates, Governor Lingle,
Hawai`i Attorney General Bennett, Native American groups, and Asian
American groups - argue that rejecting the bill would be racially
discriminatory. Supporters also argue that the State legislature, which
has unanimously supported the bill, is bi-partisan, multiracial, and
multicultural and, as Hawai`i residents, closely understand the needs of
the Native Hawaiian community. In support of the bill, Senator Inouye
responded that failing to pass the bill would discriminate against the
Native Hawaiians, for Congress had already provided federal recognition
of the other indigenous and aboriginal peoples of America. He also argued
that the Rice v. Cayetano case cited by opponents was irrelevant to the
Akaka Bill, reminding Congress that current Chief Justice John Roberts
himself had written the State brief and had
argued that Native Hawaiians were aboriginal and indigenous people and
could be recognized as such by Congress. [14] Senator Akaka had also
asserted in his introduction of the bill:

This measure does not result in race discrimination. But discrimination
will occur if this measure is not passed. It is undisputed that Native
Hawaiians are the aboriginal, indigenous people of Hawaii. Yet some of my
colleagues want to discriminate against them and treat them differently
from other Native Americans -- the American Indian and the Alaska Native.

In response to opponents citing Congressional requirements for Native
Americans and arguing that Native Hawaiians donâ^À^Ùt meet such
requirements, Governor Lingle and Hawai`i Attorney General Bennett
responded that the bill did not authorize Native Hawaiian participation
in American Indian programs, that Native Americans and Alaska Natives
support the bill, that to suggest otherwise resulted in placing native
groups against each other, that barring Native Hawaiians from programs
that provided to other natives was offensive. [11] In addition, they also
wrote:[11]

â^À^ÜThe arguments against recognition for Native Hawaiians because
Hawaiians cannot satisfy the requirements Congress set out for the
recognition of Native Americans (in the Indian Reorganization Act of
1934) are simply not relevant because Congress has not and need not
include those conditions in S. 147. Native Hawaiians have always had to
rely on a separate bill for recognition because the Indian Reorganization
Act of 1934 was never intended to be the means of providing recognition
for Native Hawaiians â^À^Ó- it literally only applies to the native
people of the "continental United States." See 25 U.S.C. Â§ 473; 25
C.F.R. Â§ 83.3....
Rather than crack the "melting pot" that is Hawaii (an outcome opponents
of S. 147 purport to fear), passage of S. 147 will finally give official
and long overdue recognition to the losses Hawaiians have suffered -- the
blurring, if not diminution, of Hawaiiansâ^À^Ù native identity; the
erosion of their confidence as a people; the destruction of any semblance
of self-determination and self-governance; and, as the United States
Supreme Court put it, the loss of a "culture and way of life." Finally,
Native Hawaiians will have restored to them what they lost more than a
hundred years ago -- status as a people and recognition of their roots.
In a 2005 interview,[15] Senator Akaka said that the bill, "creates a
government-to-government relationship with the United Statesâ^À^Ý as it
provides a legal parity similar to that of native tribal governments in
the contiguous states and Alaska. When the reporter commented that the
bill could potentially lead to independence, Senator Akaka replied "that
could be" but that it would be up to future generations to decide. Some
who oppose the bill cite this statement as indicative of its potential
support of secession of a Native Hawaiian government from the United
States. However, the 2007 version of the bill has specified that
secession is not a provision of the bill.[16]

[edit] Opposition to the Bill
Opposition to the Akaka Bill includes:

Those who believe that the bill is unconstitutionally race-based;
Those who believe the 'tribe' created via the Akaka Bill would shield
corrupt trustees from prosecution;
Those who believe that a school voucher system would allow Kamehameha
Schools to serve all interested Hawaiian students and also admit
non-Hawaiians thus eliminating the race-discrimination basis of the
lawsuits;
Those who believe that it could begin the process of secession of a
single racial group from the United States;
Those who believe that it could thwart the process of secession of Hawaii
from the United States and the restoration of an independent Hawaiian
nation controlled by native Hawaiians (native Hawaiian sovereignty
activists);
The United States Commission on Civil Rights;
The George W. Bush Administration, which issued a letter arguing against
the earlier version of the bill;[17]
Aloha for All, a Hawaii based civil rights group;
The Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, a Hawaii-based think-tank
Republican Presidential candidate Senator John McCain
Native Hawaiian sovereignty activists who oppose the bill believe that it
blocks their attempts to establish their independence from the federal
government and disregards 1993 Public Law (103-150), in which Congress
apologized "for the overthrow and the deprivation of the rights of Native
Hawaiians to self-determination." Washington-based constitutional scholar
Bruce Fein has outlined a number of counter-arguments disputing the
accuracy of the assertions made in the Apology Resolution, stating "The
apology wrongly insinuates that the overthrown 1893 government was for
Native Hawaiians alone".[18]

In 2006, the United States Commission on Civil Rights held hearings on
the Akaka bill, and published a report recommending strongly against it.
The report states in part:

The Commission recommends against passage of the Native Hawaiian
Government Reorganization Act of 2005 (S. 147) as reported out of
committee on May 16, 2005, or any other legislation that would
discriminate on the basis of race or national origin and further
subdivide the American people into discrete subgroups accorded varying
degrees of privilege.

Some opponents believe that programs maintained exclusively for Native
Hawaiians, such as the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Kamehameha
Schools, are race-based and discriminatory and see the Akaka bill as an
attempt to subvert the February 23, 2000 U.S. Supreme Court decision in
Rice v. Cayetano, which ruled that limiting participation in OHA
elections to Native Hawaiians was an unconstitutional restriction on the
basis of race.

Some opponents are also skeptical of the billâ^À^Ùs language disallowing
casinos or other gaming in Hawai`i, since although it denies the newly
created government "inherent" authority to conduct gaming, it leaves that
issue open to future negotiation.

In May 2006, Senator Akaka began a run of fifteen daily speeches on the
issue to gain support for a cloture vote on the bill, after the
Commission on Civil Rights report recommended against the bill. Opponents
of the Akaka bill have responded to his daily speeches, as well as to the
arguments in favor made by other politicians.

Regarding the latest version of the bill, S.310, Akaka's website states,
"This language has been publicly available since September 2005 and has
been widely distributed." However, opponents note, S.147, which failed to
get enough votes for cloture on June 8, 2006, did not include the
revisions now present in S.310.

In 2007, at a hearing before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs,
Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General Gregory Katsas stated:

By dividing government power along racial and ancestral lines, S. 310
(the bill) would represent a significant step backwards in American
history and would create far greater problems than those it might purport
to solve[19]

[edit] Previous versions of the Akaka Bill
The Akaka Bill was previously introduced, in different forms, on the
following occasions:

From the 106th Congress:
S. 2899 (July 20, 2000)
H.R. 4904 (July 20, 2000)
107th Congress:
S. 81 (January 22, 2001)
H.R. 617 (February 14, 2001)
S. 746 (April 6, 2001)
S. 1783 (December 7, 2001)
108th Congress:
S. 344 (February 11, 2003)
H.R. 665 (February 11, 2003)
H.R. 4282 (May 5, 2004)
109th Congress:
S. 147 (January 25, 2005)
H.R. 309 (January 25, 2005)
S. 3065 (May 25, 2006)
110th Congress:
S. 310 (January 17, 2007)
H.R. 505 (January 17, 2007)

[edit] See also
Hawaiian sovereignty movement

[edit] References
^ http://akakabill.org/
^http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20081222_akaka_bill_backers_like_the_new_odds.h
tml
^ Full text of S.310
^ Status of H.R. 505
^ Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress)
^ Search Results - THOMAS (Library of Congress)
^ 25CFR83.7, Code of Federal Regulations
^ Full text of S.147
^ Honolulu Star Bulletin, August 7, 2005: Perspectives on the Akaka Bill
^ Bennett and Lingle, 2005
^ a b c Bennett and Lingle, 2005.
^ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Minority Health,
April 17, 2007; United States, Presidentâ^À^Ùs Advisory Commission
Report, 2003; University of Hawai`i at Manoa Public Policy Center, 2003;
and State of Hawaii, Hawaii Policy Academy on Chronic Homelessness,
September 2004.
^ Akaka. January 17, 2007.
^ Inouye, June 7 and 8, 2006.
^ Inskeep, Kaste, Akaka, et al., August 16, 2005.
^ S. 310/H.R. 505, Summary on akaka.senate.gov website
^ International Herald Tribunehttp://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/22/america/NA-GEN-US-Hawaiian-Recognition
.php
^ PDF file (592 KB): HawaiÊ»i Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
^ Rewritten Akaka Bill stirs same objections, Honolulu Star Bulletin
5/4/2007

[edit] External links
"The Akaka bill â^À^Ô What would it mean for Hawai'i?" Special article
from the Honolulu Advertiser, April 10, 2005
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akaka_Bill"
Categories: United States proposed federal legislation | Hawaii law |
Native Hawaiian
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:29:04 -0800
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>
48. UN Rapporteur: Initiate Criminal Proceedings Against Bush, Rumsfeld

UN Rapporteur: Initiate criminal proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld now
By Scott Horton 21 Jan 2009 In an interview on Tuesday evening with the
German television program "Frontal 21," on channel ZDF Professor Manfred
Nowak, the United Nations Rapporteur responsible for torture, stated that
with George W. Bush^Òs head of state immunity now terminated, the new
government of Barack Obama was obligated by international law to commence
a criminal investigation into Bush^Òs torture practices. "The evidence is
sitting on the table," he stated. "There is no avoiding the fact that this
was torture." He pointed to the U.S. undertakings under the Convention
Against Torture in which the country committed that it would criminally
prosecute anyone who tortured, or extradite the person to a state that
would prosecute him. "The government of the United States is required to
take all necessary steps to bring George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld
before a court," Nowak said.

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/01/hbc-90004250

January 21, 8:21 AM, 2009 ·
UN Rapporteur: Initiate criminal proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld
By Scott Horton

In an interview on Tuesday evening with the German television program
^ÓFrontal 21,^Ô on channel ZDF Professor Manfred Nowak, the United Nations
Rapporteur responsible for torture, stated that with George W. Bush^Òs
head of state immunity now terminated, the new government of Barack Obama
was obligated by international law to commence a criminal investigation
into Bush^Òs torture practices.

^ÓThe evidence is sitting on the table,^Ô he stated. ^ÓThere is no
avoiding the fact that this was torture.^Ô He pointed to the U.S.
undertakings under the Convention Against Torture in which the country
committed that it would criminally prosecute anyone who tortured, or
extradite the person to a state that would prosecute him. ^ÓThe government
of the United States is required to take all necessary steps to bring
George W. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld before a court,^Ô Nowak said.

Manfred Nowak, an internationally renowned law professor at the University
of Vienna, currently serves as an independent expert for the United
Nations looking at allegations of torture affecting member states. In
2006, he undertook a special investigation of conditions at the U.S.
detention facilities at Guantánamo in which he concluded that practices
approved by the Bush Administration violated human rights norms, including
the prohibition against torture.

The ZDF piece also includes an interview with attorney Wolfgang Kaleck,
who brought charges against Rumsfeld before German prosecutors. He states
that the Obama administration is ^Óoff to a good beginning^Ô with its
explicit renunciation of torture, but it still has not shown how it will
hold Bush, Rumsfeld, and others to account for their crimes, nor has it
demonstrated its legally obligated duty to provide compensation to torture
victims.

Law professor Dietmar Herz clarifies that under U.S. and international
law, George W. Bush bears personal responsibility for the introduction of
torture. From the point of his departure from office, head of state
immunity terminates, and under clear principles of international law, the
United States is obligated to commence a criminal investigation and then a
prosecution.
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:33:40 -0800
From: Kathy Roberts <weerkhr@pacbell.net>
49. Whistleblower: NSA Snooped on All US Communications,
Targeted Journalists

http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news

Whistleblower: NSA Targeted Journalists, Snooped on All U.S.
Communications --NSA analyzed metadata to determine which communications
would be collected 22 Jan 2009 Just one day after George W. Bush left
office, an NSA whistleblower has revealed that the National Security
Agency's warrantless surveillance program targeted U.S. journalists, and
vacuumed in all domestic communications of Americans, including, faxes,
phone calls and network traffic. Russell Tice, a former NSA analyst, spoke
on Wednesday to MSNBC host Keith Olbermann. "The National Security Agency
had access to all Americans' communications," he said. "Faxes, phone calls
and their computer communications. ...They monitored all communications."

In Final Legal Act, Bush Appeals Spy Ruling 20 Jan 2009 With a mere 64
minutes left in its last full day in office, the Bush administration asked
a federal judge to stay enforcement of a ruling that would keep alive a
lawsuit which tests whether the president can bypass the Congress and
eavesdrop on Americans without warrants. The request was lodged with U.S.
District Judge Vaughn Walker of San Francisco at 10:56 p.m. EST on the
Martin Luther King Jr. holiday -- about 13 hours before the inauguration
of President Barack Obama.
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From: "arnie" <ohnie@earthlink.net>
Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 3:35 PM
50. 1/17-1/20 2009

> http://statehoodhawaii.org/wp/index.php/2009/01/21/from-overthrow-to-president/
> Blog post on this past weekend's events...
> http://statehoodhawaii.org
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:58:23 -0800 (PST)
From: kukuna_o_ka_la <kukuna_o_ka_la@yahoo.com>
51. governor.lingle@hawaii.gov

governor.lingle@hawaii.gov
808- 586- 0034

Non- Hawaiians, the Hawaiian people need your help NOW ! These
are your classmates and neighbors. You must telephone or eMail your
Governor, Linda Lingle, NOW because she is sending State legal officers to
the U.S. Supreme Court on this February 25th. You and I can stop this by
contacting her.

At stake is the economy of the Hawaiian people. These lands are
the basis of the prosperity of the Hawaiians that you encounter every day
on the streets and shopping. Please, communicate to your Governor that
you do NOT want her officials in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 25th. Her
officials are taking a "fixed", "loaded", or fraudulent case to Court.
All indications are that our whole Hawaiian population will lose millions
of dollars in this hoax. $999,999,000.00 to $billions gone ! .... right
here in February. You and I must stop this. Please, take a moment.
Please, go out of your way for just a few minutes. We can mercifully
spare these people of huge economic losses that they cannot afford. Thank
you. Aloha.

governor.lingle@hawaii.gov
808- 586- 0034
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52. KU I KA PONO March-Rally Jan. 17, 2009 (fwd)
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 05:59:19 -0500 (EST)
From: HIAHAWAII@aol.com

(http://api.ning.com/files/pDF-TLIdpApzrciW6msw4jAboHi*RZAsX9mo90M9Ok9pmTivJDhyM2DN70JZ1Aj3Um7KLtmQfoOZpOa65xXHUM3QZLaBYNAQ/P1170054.JPG)
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:23:45 -1000
From: Mia <kaimi@lava.net>
53. O'odham Ancestors and the Wall

Auwe!!!

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 15:29:10 -0800 (PST)
From: Vern Grant <apachevern@yahoo.com>

http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2009/01/sixty-nine-graves-oodham-ancestors-desecrated-border-wall

Sixty-nine graves of O'odham ancestors desecrated for border
wall
Posted by Brenda Norrell - January 21, 2009 at 2:03 am
By Brenda Norrell

NOGALES, Ariz. -- Homeland Security destroyed 69 graves of
Tohono O'odham ancestors in one location alone while
constructing the US/Mexico border wall south of Tucson, in
violation of all federal laws created to protect American
Indian remains.
Homeland Security and US courts waived all federal laws to
protect Native American graves and the environment and then
allowed for border wall construction at San Pedro near
Nogales. The graves were violated and the details were not
made public.
Although the archaeologist exposing the desecration only
revealed it as a rare find, for O'odham, these are the graves
of their ancestors which were destroyed.
Archaeologist Maren Hopkins said the village is believed to
have existed from around A.D. 700 to 1200.
"Archaeologists found: 23 pit houses, 14 possible pit houses,
97 thermal pits, a number of storage pits, five dog burials
and 69 human burials. As is customary in this region, the
human remains have been repatriated to the Tohono O'Odham
Indian Reservation," according to the Nogales International
newspaper.
In October 2007, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
pushed ahead with the fence, winning federal court approval
to waive federal laws.
In another location in May of 2007, the contractor Boeing dug
up O'odham ancestors on Tohono O'odham Nation land, southwest
of Sells, Arizona. Although the Tohono O'odham Nation did not
make the desecration public, O'odham Ofelia Rivas exposed the
destruction of O'odham graves. The ancestors were reburied at
this location.
The U.S. has not revealed the total number of Native American
graves that were dug up and destroyed while building the
US/Mexico border wall after the US waived all federal laws.
The border divides the traditional homelands of many
Indigenous Peoples, including the Kumeyaay in California, the
Cocopah and Tohono O'odham in Arizona and the Tigua at Ysleta
del Sur in El Paso, Texas. Near Brownsville, Texas, the Lipan
Apache continue to fight the seizure of lands by Homeland
Security for the border wall.

The region south of Tucson, where 69 graves were desecrated
by Homeland Security, is the same region where the Israeli
Apartheid corporation Elbit Systems was subcontracted by
Boeing for border spy technology. Elbit also performed work
on the Apartheid Wall of Israel and provided unmanned aerial
vehicles to patrol the US border in southern Arizona.

Those drones were based at Fort Huachuca, where protesters
have protested the US Army Intelligence Center's role in
torture in Iraq and Afghanistan. Army personnel responsible
for torture in Abu Ghraib were trained at Fort Huachuca.
Earlier, Fort Huachuca was the location of the publication of
the School of Americas' torture training manuals, made public
in 1996, responsible for the murder, rape and torture of
masses in Central and South American in the 1980s and 1990s.
An unknown number of Indigenous Peoples and farmers were
tortured and executed as their lands were seized for
corporations.

Read more of the Nogales International article:

http://www.nogalesinternational.com/articles/2009/01/20/news/doc4975f3044189755681215.txt
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:44:11 -1000
From: Global Media Productions <info@globalmediaproductions.com>
54. Benefit Concert-The Gyre Cleanup Project: Ocean Rescue Mission! Sat, Jan 31

The Gyre Cleanup Project: Ocean Rescue Mission!

The ocean is a gigantic whirlpool where non-biodegradable plastic debris
collects and remains forever. Plastic is unhealthy for marine animals and
toxic for the entire food chain.

The Environmental Cleanup Coalition (ECC) non-profit has been formed to
tackle this growing marine pollution disaster and revitalize the ocean.

Help kick -off The Gyre Cleanup Project at ECC's first benefit concert on
Maui featuring lively, cross genre, politically conscious musical
performances by Blane Lyon (www.blanelyon.com), Divino, Malka Melissa,
Alana Cini and George Kahumoku, Jr (www.kahumoku.com)

Saturday, Jan 31st, 2009 - 7:30 PM to 11PM - Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii

PowerPoint presentation and local art auction. All ages. Suggested
donation of $25 at the door, $20 advance.

The historic Iao Theater is located in the heart of old Wailuku town in
central Maui at 68 North Market St.

For more info about the benefit concert or the Environmental Cleanup
Coalition's Gyre Cleanup Project visit http://www.gyrecleanup.org or call
808-563-9963, email info@gyrecleanup.org

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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:09:26 -1000
From: Richard Salvador <richardnsalvador@gmail.com>
55. Memorial Gathering for Epeli Hau`ofa

Aloha all:

Fyi. It would be great to have Hawaiians, Palauans, and others come and
join in the gathering.

mahalo,
richard salvador

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Letitia Hickson <ctisha@hawaii.edu>
Date: Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:27 PM

MEMORIAL GATHERING FOR EPELI HAU'OFA

Friends, Colleagues, Students & Pacific Islanders, Renowned and
influential Pacific Islander leader, author, mentor, poet, storyteller,
scholar and friend to many of us, Epeli Hauofa, passed away on January 11,
2009. The Center for Pacific Islands Studies (CPIS) at the UH in
collaboration with the Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP) at the
East-West Center is organizing a memorial gathering of friends,
colleagues, students and others who have been touched by Epeli's work.
This is to give people the opportunity to reflect on, and celebrate
Epeli's life and work. We invite you to join us at the Hale Halawai (at
the East-West Center) this Friday, January 23 from 4:00pm to 6:00pm. Come
with stories about your interactions with Epeli, and favorite excepts of
his work to read and share with others. This will be an informal gathering
and you are welcome to sing if you wish, or simply "tok stori" about a who
has single-handedly changed the course of Pacific Studies. Please, bring
some pupu/snack and drinks. Kava will be provided.

Date: Friday, January 23.
Venue: Hale Halawai, EWC
Time: 4:00 - 6:00pm
For enquiries, contact Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka: (808) 956-2659,
e-mail: tkabutau@hawaii.edu
--

Letitia Hickson
Outreach Coordinator
Center for Pacific Islands Studies
University of Hawai`i at Manoa
1890 East-West Road, Moore 215
Honolulu, Hawai`i 96822
Tel: 808-956-2652
Fax: 808-956-7053
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:52:37 -1000
From: Lc <palolo@hawaii.rr.com>
56. Airdates - Rich Indian Racism

good stuff...
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Rich Indian Racism

Jeff Corntassel PhD. discusses how new stereotypes of indigenous people
damage their struggles for self determination. Jeff is an associate
professor with Indigenous Governance, University of Victoria.

This will be aired on Olelo Community Television, NATV Channel 53. This is
also live streamed on www.olelo.org. You can also view it on Olelonet On
Demand after February 19th.

2/19/09 Thu 4:00 pm
2/20/09 Fri 10:30 pm
2/26/09 Thu 10:00 pm
2/27/09 Fri 3:00 pm
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Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 21:26:13 -1000
From: Dedibble DeKepalo <dekepalo@gmail.com>
57. Sovereingn Sunday 2009

Aloha Kakou, A friend sent this to me and he was at the Palace grounds. He
said that he thought it went well. To bad the bruddah lost 3 tents, would
have been 4 but that bruddah took his back to his car. That bruddah was
smart to get out of the way. One bruddah almost knock the other in the
head! How come like that. Oh the kepane folks wen try to get the tent back
but they was told to give reciepts. Good food, good talk story and
ceremoy. Words from a friend....

While at the legislature try ask Hanabusa why her buddies make thousands
of dollars on hawaiian land and we get no report of revenue, This we get
from Hawaiians doing cultural work in her district. For me the legislature
has the "stench of colonization" and is sickening to me. I do respect the
work you do there.

I do not think we failed. There are other forces at work here. If what you
say is so we should have left after Kahumoku's tents was confiscated but
we stayed and celebrated. The Queen's story has a lot to say as to what is
important. Alway good to see you. dekepalo
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:42:55 -0500
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>
58. Disappeared News - No response from Governor Lingle on Superferry
quarterly reports

"DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 1 NEW ARTICLE

1. No response from Governor Lingle on Superferry quarterly reports
2. More Recent Articles
3. Search Disappeared News

No response from Governor Lingle on Superferry quarterly reports

by Larry Geller The state subsidizes the Superferry, a private company.
But how much is it costing us, really? A tough legislative session lies
ahead of us. The budget pie has shrunk, and every piece of it will have
to be defended. Itâ^À^Ùs going to be social services and health care vs.
tax giveaways to business. Even Mufiâ^À^Ùs train tax is being eyed for
diversion to help bailout the state budget. Act....