This blog is about Hawaii's status as an independent country under prolonged illegal occupation by the United States, and the history, culture, law & politics of the islands.
By Scott Crawford, Hana, Maui
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014
From Annexation to Statehood
7 p.m., Kapolei High School Cafeteria
A monthly series of public forums in 2014 is meant to build public awareness and create a better understanding among both Hawaiians and non-Hawaiians about what the sovereignty movement means for all the people of Hawaii.
Hawaiian sovereignty will affect everybody in the state. This monthly series of forums comes before the Native Hawaiian convention which will organize a modern Hawaiian government.
Forum #2 still showing on ‘Ōlelo:
- 3/22/2014, 6:00 PM, ‘Ōlelo Channel 53
- 3/29/2014, 8:00 AM, ‘Ōlelo Channel 53
thesovereigntyconversation.org
Lots of sources for this, but here’s one:
Russian President Vladimir Putin, defying Ukrainian protests and Western sanctions, signed a treaty on Tuesday making Crimea part of Russia…
The referendum leading up to it may have been a sham, like the one here in 1959. But Russia knows it still must ratify an actual treaty to give any pretense of legality to the annexation. Notice they didn’t just pass a internal resolution and pretend that annexation can be done unilaterally without even faux consent of the annexed territory using a bilateral instrument. Unlike the U.S. in Hawai’i…
Must-read response from Umi Perkins in the Hawaii Independent to Ian Lind’s followup in Honolulu Civil Beat as their debate continues, primarily regarding the validity or lack thereof of Hawaii’s purported annexation via joint resolution. The good thing about columns like Ian’s, as much as they may be misinformed from my perspective, is that they stimulate responses like Umi’s, to address common questions and delve more deeply and research more thoroughly into the issues, which brings light to the whole understanding. I’ve always believed that the more the true information about Hawaii’s history gets out there and the more it’s discussed, the better, so everyone can be informed and then make up their own minds.
Also, check out this TEDxManoa talk by Umi in which he goes into some of the same points of law and history and also touches in a couple other aspects.
Very interesting article connecting history of Hawai’i with current affairs in Crimea…. The Hawaiian Kingdom was involved with the development of international neutrality agreements back in 1854 during and following the Crimean War, and was itself declared and recognized as a neutral country. That neutrality has been violated by the US for over 121 years.
Here’s the video from the second forum of The Sovereignty Conversation series…
A Fresh Look at Hawaiian History from Kamehameha to 1900
Tuesday, February 25, 7:00pm-8:30pm
Olelo Community Media studio
1122 Mapunapuna St.
From the Winter 2014 edition of the Harvard International Review, “Hawai‘i: An Occupied Country” by Noelani Goodyear-Kaopua, here’s the PDF of the article to download, very worth reading:
Goodyear-Kaopua, Hawaii Occupied Country 2014
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