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08
2011
Thursday, August 11 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
The Venue
1146 Bethel Street, Honolulu, HI
Following the quiet retirement of Professor Haunani-Kay Trask last year, many of us would like an opportunity to publicly acknowledge and honor this woman who inspired and shaped so many of us and in some cases gave birth to our Hawaiian political consciousness. Please join us for an evening of poetry, spoken word and mele to honor this beautiful and powerful woman.
Folks will have an opportunity to take the mic for the maximum of three minutes to express, in whatever way they’d like, their gratitude and love for Kumu Haunani-Kay. There will be a sign-up list at the event on a first come first serve basis. However, if you’d like to lock in your time early we are taking pre submissions. If interested please send an email to manamovement@gmail.com. Include your name and phone number and a brief explanation as to how HKT influenced your piece. If you’d like to volunteer in other ways, please shoot an email as well!
If you are outside of Hawai’i and cannot make it, you can offer up a video message that may be included in the event’s presentation and that will be included in the video compilation that will be gifted to her following the event. Email manamovement@gmail.com for more info.
We will also be circulating a book to write messages to Kumu Haunani-Kay and this will be presented to her following the event.
Although The Venue is a bar (that will be in full operation that night!), the event is all ages.
Sponsored by the MANA Student Hui, MANA Wahine and Na Wahine Oiwi.
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20
01
2010
Aloha aina kakou:
MANA: Movement for Aloha No ka Aina is meeting on February 6, 2010, at Leeward Community College in Wai‘awa.
The purpose of the meeting is to set a strategic plan for 2010, establish a governance and decision-making structure, and to review our platform.
MANA is a grassroots party dedicated to building power for independence and social change. MANA’s platform supports independence, malama ‘aina, demilitarization, health, culture, popular education, economic independence, diversity, and inclusion.
New members are welcome.
What: Meeting
When: Feb. 6 2010
Where: Leeward Community College Cafeteria
Time: 9 am to 4 pm
Other: Food will be provided.
Please RSVP to rsvp@manainfo.com to establish a headcount.
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07
2008
East Maui taro farmers have faced longstanding difficulties due to abuses from East Maui Irrigation, a subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin. Last year, after decades in court, farmers won a small victory. The Board of Land and Natural Resources agreed to monitor the in-stream water flow, to make sure that kalo production had sufficient water. However, after more than 12 months, the state BLNR has yet to appoint a person to do this job. In the meantime, farmers are struggling and the lo’i are still dry.
MANA is calling on Laura Thielen, the chair of the BLNR to allow the water to flow in East Maui, and to hire a stream monitor for East Maui to make sure that there is sufficient water for kalo production.
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13
04
2008
[published in The Nation, April 28, 2008 issue]
An open letter to the US left from the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
The confluence of two forces–a massive military expansion in Hawai’i and Congressional legislation that will stymie the Kanaka Maoli [Native Hawaiian] sovereignty movement–will expand and consolidate the use of Hawai’i for US empire. We are calling on the US left to join our movement opposing these threats and to add our quest for independence as a plank of the broad US left strategy for a nonimperialist America. If you support peace and justice for the United States and the world, please support demilitarization and independence for Hawai’i. Read the rest of this entry »
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02
2008
Welcome to MANA’s website and blog.
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