 March 11, 2023
The Pacific Way In the previous issue of Ke Aupuni Update (February 25) I spoke of the tragic 130-year long disconnection from the rest of the Pacific Island nations. This is particularly lamentable since Pasifika, not America, is our real, natural family. We have begun the process to be reunited with our Pacific family. Living in Hawaii, we donʻt realize how deeply colonized and enslaved we are by the American system, until we visit other Pacific Island nations. In the rest of our Pacific family, governments and the peoples are shedding the adverse aspects of colonial ways and actively engage in applying what is called the “Pacific Way” to address local, regional and even global issues. What is this Pacific Way? Itʻs doing things in ways that are mutually respectful, inclusive, consultative, consensual, flexible and allow for compromise. The Pacific Way is a set of ideas, visions and processes that are dynamic, renewing itself under new contexts while simultaneously grounded to the core values of the native culture. Simply put, its doing things island style. One of the most insidious and damaging aspects of the American occupation of Hawaii has been the ingrained belief that everything America does or has told us, is for our own good. The basic message to Hawaiians has been “Your way is OK, but our way is so much better...” This “our way is better” pertains to everything from government to land use and housing to the economic system to imported processed food to the health crisis to the contamination of our water and even to the current effort to outlaw mid-wives! This is the classic colonial method used to subjugate peoples and nations — to dismiss or denigrate or destroy the native way, and replace it with the colonizerʻs way. The nations of the Pacific were once subjugated under colonial rule. Now most of them are independent nations and have rebuilt themselves by reactivating and applying the Pacific Way. The good news is that we are now aware of the fact that Hawaiiʻs situation is not just the legal/political question, our real challenge is to renew the character, vision and life of the Lāhui... an independent nation, operating in not only the “Pacific Way”, but more importanly, “The Hawaiian Way”. --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: info@HawaiianKingdom.net • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: info@HawaiianKingdom.net "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National
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 February 25, 2023
Rejoining Our Pacific Family Beginning in the early 19th Century, the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands was formally recognized by the colonial powers of Europe as a sovereign, independent state, a subject of international law and under bi-lateral and multi-lateral equal treaties with other sovereign States, This recognition of Hawaii’s sovereignty and independence occurred at a time when most of the Pacific Island nations were being forcibly subjected to colonial rule by those same European powers. However, today in 2023, the picture is flipped. Most of the Pacific nations are free, but Hawaii is captive and occupied under the guise of a domestic “state” of the United States. The supreme irony is that the same United Nations decolonization process that assisted Pacific nations to become self-governing (autonomous or independent) was deliberately manipulated and used to hijack and falsely merge Hawaii into the United States. One of the saddest results of the 130-year U.S. occupation of our nation has been the separation from the rest of our amazing Pacific Island family. This is particularly lamentable since Pasifika, not America is our real family. Prior to being kidnapped bu the Americans, our Kings, from Kamehameha II, to Kalākaua sought to maintain relations with our Pacific family. The separation from our Pacific community has excluded Hawaii as representatives of our own interests in international matters. Instead, Hawaii is being “represented” by the U.S., the kidnapper, with its own spin, interests and agenda emanating from Washington, DC, 5,000 miles away from our shores. As we draw closer to restoring our sovereign, independent nation, it is imperative to rejoin the rest of the Pacific ʻohana to work and share together the challenges of the future of the Pacific. For the past 10 years I have attended various meetings of the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF), the Polynesian Leaders Group (PLG), the Melanesian Spearhead Group (MSG), the Pacific Islands Development Forum (PIDF) to connect and maintain contact with Presidents, Prime Ministers and government officials of those regional groups. It is amazing to see, think and do things through the islander world view. I have been in Fiji for the past week to attend a Special Leaders Retreat of the Pacific Islands Forum and to meet with various civil society and non-governing organizations that are actively working in applying what is called “the Pacific Way” to address regional and global issues. A few years ago I began inquiring about joining the PIF and the PLG. At the meeting this week I spoke of our intent to seek membership in the PIF and the PLG. The response has been very positive... so weʻll be moving forward. We believe as we recall and become grounded and anchored in the Pacific Way — the ways of our ancestors... mālama ʻāina, kapu aloha, kūleana — and with the significant practical experience we have as a modern economic, geo-political and cultural hub, we Hawaiians have much to contribute to advance aloha ʻāina to better the lives the people of Pacific and the Planet. --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: info@HawaiianKingdom.net • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: info@HawaiianKingdom.net "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National  February 11, 2023
Setting Priorities The prolonged occupation of our country seriously damaged the underpinnings of our society, leaving our nation impoverished, unhealthy, dependent and confused in spirit. The prospect of restoring Hawaiʻi as a sovereign, independent nation has certainly fired up hope for the future. Because we have spent decades uncovering the wrongs that were committed by the US against the Hawaiian nation, too often we think of restoring Hawaii as a sovereign nation only in legal and political terms — like ending the occupation; what kind of government; who will govern; making the rules; managing operations; monetary system; international relations; etc. But letʻs not forget that while waiting for the legal and political issues to be resolved, there are more fundamental and more important components that are essential for Hawaiʻi to be a sovereign, independent nation. The things that need to be worked on right now are... • The welfare of the people… having water, food, shelter, work, peace and safety, etc. • The welfare of the lands — farming, housing and community spaces, natural spaces and mālama the eco-system... • The welfare of the seas — improving fisheries, management of ocean resources over the entire archipelago, restoring balance... • The welfare of the economy — restructure into being kamaʻāina friendly, limiting tourism, eliminating US military and repurposing their facilities for peaceful use, international trade ... • Building families and community — teaching and learning the attitudes and values of Aloha, Kūleana, Kōkua, Lōkahi, Aloha ʻĀina, Mālama, Pono, Kapu Aloha and so forth... Thankfully, these are areas in which many visionary kanaka and others in the community have taken kuleana and are diligently working to implement. So come “the huli” (the flip, the revolution), Hawaiʻi will be well on its way to being transformed into a strong, pono, independent nation. As we work with Kapu Aloha to change the understanding and attitudes of those who are in places of authority, let’s remind ourselves, our ʻohana and our friends, that we are the legacy — the evidence and heirs — of the living Hawaiian Kingdom... Ua Ola Ke Ea! Sovereignty Lives! --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: info@HawaiianKingdom.net • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: info@HawaiianKingdom.net "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National  January 28, 2023
Swaying the State Legislature... Last year the State of Hawaii legislature took some actual steps toward correcting decades of neglect, malfeasance and abuse of the Hawaiian people. The biggest was the $600 million earmarked to boost the distribution of Hawaiian Home Lands. Another action was removing the University of Hawaii from management of Mauna Kea and appointing a new team that includes native Hawaiian protectors. Legislation was passed demanding the closure of the the U.S. Navyʻs fuel storage tanks at Kapūkakī (aka Red Hill)... reflecting the state’s new-found awareness that the U.S. military is not the benevolent friend it professes to be. Then there were actions such as recognizing Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea as a historic holiday celebrating the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign country; and changing the place-name of Captain Cook back to the original name, Kaʻawaloa. Though less dramatic, in many ways they are more significant, as they point to Hawaii as a sovereign nation. The day after the 30th ʻOnipaʻa Peace March from Maunaʻala to ʻIolani Palace, was the opening day of the 2023 legislative session of the State of Hawaii. Based on the momentum from last year, and some newly elected Hawaiian legislators and in speaking with a number of senior legislators, it looks like the prospects for passing a resolution “recognizing Hawaiian nationals are a lawful people residing in the Hawaiian Islands” are improving. With the help of friendly legislators we will be holding informational briefings with key senate and house leaders, the Hawaiian caucus members, the Hawaiian Affairs committees and legislators in general about the ongoing discrimination and abuse of Hawaiian nationals. In early march we will be submitting a resolution that will put an end to that discrimination. We are not asking the legislators to create a new protected group or to define what comprises a Hawaiian national, or who has legal power or jurisdiction in Hawaii. All we are asking them to do is acknowledge that Hawaiian nationals are ipso facto (by the fact itself, self-evident), that Hawaiian nationals exist and should not be treated as if we are illegal aliens. This resolution confirming the fact that Hawaiian nationals are a lawful people, will put a stop to discriminatory treatment of Hawaiian nationals living in our homeland. We will once again submit a resolution for the legislature to encourage the state Board of Education to change the name of McKinley High School back to Honolulu High School. Support for changing the name is massive, including many Hawaiian organizations, the Hawaii State Teachers Association (HSTA) and the general public. Unfortunately, its being blocked by only a handful of politically well-connected alumni from the 60s and 70s, fiercely loyal to the McKinley name, no matter what kind of an evil person he was. All around the US, edifaces with the name McKinley have been removed. In 2014 Congress renamed “Mount McKinley” the highest mountain in North America to “Denali” the traditional Alaskan native name. In 2019 the town of Arcata, California removed the McKinley statue from the city center, because of his maltreatment of Native Americans, Chinese, Hawaiians and Filipinos. The most critical stakeholder that we have not heard from in this controversy are current McKinley High School students... those whose diplomas, records and transcripts will forever show that they graduated from a school named after a despicable white supremacist, racist and father of American imperialism. If the students themselves were to speak up and demand the state Board of Education not condemn them to be stigmatized by the name McKinley, it would break the alumni block and the name would be changed immediately. As we work with Kapu Aloha to change the understanding and attitudes of those who are in places of authority, let’s remind ourselves, our ʻohana and our friends, that we are the legacy — the evidence and heirs — of the living Hawaiian Kingdom... Ua Ola Ke Ea! Sovereignty Lives! --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: info@HawaiianKingdom.net • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: info@HawaiianKingdom.net "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National  January 14, 2023
A Year of Special Anniversaries... Aloha Makahiki Hou... For some reason, we think anniversaries occuring in multiples of 5s and 10s are extra special. This year, 2023, is an unusual year of those specially numbered anniversaries — good and bad — in our beloved Hawaiian nation. It is the... • 245th Anniversary of Captain Cookʻs arrival... • 215th Birthday of Timoteo Haʻalilio • 210th Birthday of Kauikeaouli – Kamehameha III • 185th Birthday of Queen Liliʻuokalani • 180th Anniversary of Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea – Sovereignty Restoration Day • 180th Anniversary of Lā Kuʻokoʻa – Hawaiʻi Independence Day But especially, in a few days, January 17 is the... • 130th Anniversary of the ruthless hijacking of the Hawaiian Kingdom... by a gang of greedy white businessmen proclaiming themselves to be the "provisional government" of the Hawaiian Kingdom while hiding behind 162 fully armed U.S. troops, and the USS Boston, a fully armed U.S. warship in Honolulu Harbor. It is also the... • 30th anniversary of the 1993 Onipa’a march, re-enactment and rally at Iolani Palace where 15,000 Hawaiians gathered in protest of the overthrow of their nation 100 years before; and where Haunani Kay Trask infamously declared, “We are not American!... We are not American!... Say it in your heart...say it when you sleep... We are Hawaiian!... We will die as Hawaiians! ... We will never be American!” Go here for this yearʻs 2023 Onipaʻa Peace March. And itʻs the... • 30th anniversary of the United Church of Christ Apology for its complicity in the overthrow, which became the template for the... Then it's the... • 30th anniversary (November 23) of the Apology Law (USPL 103-150), the signed confession by the U.S. Congress and President William Clinton admitting the U.S. stole the Hawaiian Islands... And lets not forget, July 7 is the... • 125th Anniversary of Fake Annexation of our country by the U.S. — the international crime that provided the template for the United States’ rampage of aggression, greedy imperialism and abusive behavior that continues to plague the world to this day. As we take the time to attend and reflect on these special dates that greatly impacted our Lāhui, let’s remind ourselves, our ʻohana and our friends, that we are the legacy — the evidence and heirs — of the living Hawaiian Kingdom... Ua Ola Ke Ea! Sovereignty Lives! --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: info@HawaiianKingdom.net • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: info@HawaiianKingdom.net "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National  December 24, 2022
Aloha Kalikimaka... In 1843, Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day) and Lā Kuʻokoʻa (Independence Day) were proclaimed National Holidays of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Although Christmas Day was celebrated in Hawaii by sailors, traders, settlers and other foreigners; and although the Hawaiian Kingdom, by the 1840s, had experienced two decades of mass conversion to Christianity and gained recognition as a sovereign Christian nation by the sovereign powers of the world, it was not until 1862 that “Christmas Day” joined Lā Hoʻihoʻi and Lā Kuʻokoʻa as an official national holiday of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Not only was the Hawaiian Kingdom a Christian nation, the Hawaiian Kingdom was a profoundly Christain nation, unlike their European/American counterparts that professed to be Christian yet practiced evil colonial prejudices of racial superiority, imperialism and greed. Compare the founding documents of America and Hawaii. The American Declaration of Independence says “All Men are created equal... that they are endowed by the Creator with certain inalienable rights...”, a great and often quoted ideal of legal rights ostensibly based on Bibical principle. But looking back at the history of the United Statesʻ treatment of native Americans — genocide, theft and pillaging of their lands; the scourge of humdreds of years of slavery and continuing racial discrimination against Latinos, Asians and other minorities — it is obvious the American founding fathers and their descendants did not really mean “all men should be treated equally.” On the other hand, the 1839 Hawaiian Kingdom Declaration of Rights issued by King Kamehameha III says, “God hath made all men of one blood...” This indicates we are not simply equal, we are all related! That we have the same “rights” because we share the same blood. It does not simply mean we are human beings, but because we are related, we are family... we are ʻohana! This means we take care of each other and treat each other... with aloha. This is the fundamental difference between the Hawaiian world view and the American/ Colonizer world view. Following the Hawaiian Declaration of Rights, King Kamehameha III enacted a Constitution for the Hawaiian Islands, balancing Biblical truths and democratic principles of liberty, along with Hawaiian values of aloha ʻāina, mālama pono and such, as the basis for the governance of the Hawaiian Islands. As such, the return of the Hawaiian Kingdom would mean the return of a nation that operates with aloha for all. --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: info@HawaiianKingdom.net • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: info@HawaiianKingdom.net "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National  December 8, 2022
An Existential Crisis… Yesterday, December 7, was the 81st anniversary of the devastating Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. This brazen act of war catapulted America into World War II and caused the US to not only greatly multiply its military operations in our islands, but to dig its claws deeper into Hawai’i. On the same day it attacked Pearl Harbor, Japan also attacked several American bases such as those in the Philippines, which was also a “US territory.” But only the attack on Pearl Harbor was referred to as an attack on American soil… portrayed as an attack on America itself… to infuriate and stampede the American public, by selling them the idea that Hawaii was part of America… and to make Hawaiians think that they were Americans. The musician, Makana Cameron wrote a very insightful piece a while back on the scheme of conflating Hawaiʻi with America. December 7th provided the US the opportunity to exponentially expand and dig the claws of their armed forces into Hawaiʻi, figuratively and literally. Rallying, fighting, sacrificing and dying in service to America made many Hawaiians profoundly patriotic Americans. It is no wonder that generation voted for statehood in 1959. The formidable American war machine had saved the world and Hawaiians were proud to be part of the winning side. With the Cold War and the hot ones in Korea and Vietnam, the US military operations went viral in Hawaiʻi. Rude Awakening Hawaiʻi’s cultural revival of the 60s gave rise to serious questions in the 70s concerning the military’s presence in Hawaiʻi: Why is it that so much of our ancestral lands are controlled by the US military, and off-limits to Hawaiians? Why are they conducting live-fire training on our ʻāina? Why are they assaulting Kahoʻolawe with bombs and naval shelling? Why is the US military allowed to destroy, contaminate and poison our land and water, stockpile vast amounts of weapons of mass destruction and occupy some of our best lands, with impunity? Because they could. Very few had questioned or opposed the US military presence. This allowed America to do what it wants to do, regardless of the harm it could cause to the Hawaiian people. Their public “briefings” and “community input” and “consultations” are a travesty. Today we are faced with serious threats to our very lives because of the US military reckless presence in our islands. The most immediate threat is the contamination of Oʻahuʻs drinking water by leaks from the US Navy giant fuel storage tanks in Kapukaki (Red Hill). The Navy admits fault and responsibility to fix it. Hawaiians, the general population, the “state” leaders, even the US Congress has demanded the giant tanks be immediately emptied and decommissioned. All we get from the navy is bureaucratic run-around from their ‘flacks” (public relations people), saying they’re taking care of it. The other serious threat to our lives, especially the nearly one million people on Oʻahu, is the strong probability of being annihilated (“collateral damage”) by a nuclear missile attack on the US military bases, installations and command centers on the island. The utter destruction of a nuclear attack will make the December 7th Pearl Harbor attack look like a picnic on the beach. The really scary thing is that time and again, the US has demonstrated that Hawaiian lives are very low priority to America’s agenda and national interests. Their track record shows they donʻt care if we live or die as long as America can have it’s way. However, all is not lost. Over the past fifty years, kūʻē actions by Hawaiians and others to stop the desecration and damaging of our lands and sacred places have succeeded. The most promintent and inspirational aloha ʻāina kūʻē being Protect Kahoʻolawe. And the many, many small, but significant victories, add to growing the resolve and confidence of the Lāhui to protect our ʻāina with Kapu Aloha. This led to Kū Kiaʻi Mauna... the game changer! How do we Free Hawii of the military occupation of our homelands? By carrying on the brave and steadfast kūʻē of generations of Kiaʻi guided by nā Kūpuna and ke Akua in asserting our kūleana to aloha ʻāina. Eō! --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: info@HawaiianKingdom.net • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: info@HawaiianKingdom.net "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National  Giving Thanks for Lā Kuʻokoʻa… This year, 2022, is the 179th anniversary of an historic moment… November 28, 1843 was the day the United Kingdom (Great Britain) and the Kingdom of France jointly proclaimed their recognition of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign nation -- equal in status with the major powers of the world. In 1843 King Kamehameha III declared November 28 as Lā Kuʻokoʻa, Hawaiʻi Independence Day, a national holiday to be celebrated throughout the Hawaiian Kingdom. For 50 years, Lā Kuʻokoʻa and Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea (Sovereignty Restoration Day) were enthusiasticaly celebrated as the prime national holidays. But in 1894, the self-proclaimed “Republic of Hawaii” adopted the American “Thanksgiving Day” to be celebrated instead of Lā Kuʻokoʻa as part of a deliberate, denationalizing program to erase any celebration of Hawaiʻi as a sovereign, independent country. It almost worked. But about 30 years ago, Uncle Kekuni Blaisdell and a few Hawaiʻi kiaʻi began to remind us and rekindle awareness of our great legacy as an enlightened, independent Hawaiian nation. Today, Lā Kuʻokoʻa and Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea are proudly celebrated throughout Ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina... and in other places around the world where Hawaiians live. You can help to educate others about Lā Kuʻokoʻa. As you gather with ‘ohana and friends for Thanksgiving this year, remember to give thanks for Lā Kuʻokoʻa! Share with your ʻohana this amazing historic achievement of King Kamehameha III and the emissaries he sent on this mission to the opposite side of the globe... Eō! The Story of Lā Kuʻokoʻa Approaching the mid-Nineteenth Century, European countries were continuing their centuries-long habit of colonizing lands of native peoples. Pacific Island nations were being swallowed whole by European colonial powers. King Kamehameha III, seeing this trend sought to prevent this from happening to his island Kingdom. Having declared his Kingdom as a Christian nation in the early days of his reign; with the vast majority of his people embracing Christianity, the King, in 1839, issued a Hawaiian Declaration of Rights; and in 1840, enacted a Constitution for the Hawaiian Islands, balancing Biblical truths and democratic principles of liberty, along with Hawaiian values of aloha ʻāina and mālama pono, as the basis for the governance of the Hawaiian Islands. Thus, Hawaiʻi could not be regared as a heathen nation and was, therefore, immune to colonization under the so-called “Doctrine of Discovery”. To ensure against colonial ambitions by European powers, King Kamehameha III sent three trusted envoys, Timoteo Haʻalilio, William Richards (Hawaiian subjects) and Sir George Simpson (a British subject) on a mission to America and Europe for the purpose of securing recognition of Hawaii’s sovereignty by the three most powerful nations on Earth, Great Britain, France and the United States. Led by Haʻalilio, the envoys succeeded! In a formal proclamation issued on November 28, 1843 at the Court of London, representatives of the crowns of the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of France signed a joint proclamation recognizing the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign nation. The United States followed suit several months later. These acts of recognition meant the Hawaiian Kingdom was accepted, and would be henceforth regarded as, an equal sovereign by the three most prominent members of the exclusive club of sovereign nations, known as “the family of nations.” The Hawaiian Kingdom was able to pry open the door to “the family of nations,” not only for the Hawaiian Kingdom to enter, but for others to follow a century later. The good news is that We, the people — the aloha ʻāina — by remembering this day, are the living proof that the sovereign Hawaiian Kingdom that was recognized 179 years ago still exists! And as the lāhui stands up (Kūʻe) here on our ʻāina, proclaiming we still exist, we are blazing a way for liberation of other nations in captivity. --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: info@HawaiianKingdom.net • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: info@HawaiianKingdom.net "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National  November 12, 2022
International wrongful act by the UN… In 1946, the newly formed United Nations decided to identify peoples and nations that had not yet “attained a full measure of self-government” and to assist them in attaining self-government — in other words, to undergo decolonization. UN Members identified and submitted their colonies, possessions, and occupied territories — about 100 of them — to the UN list of Non-Self-Governing Territories (NSGT). The United States put Alaska, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Hawaii on the list. But Hawaii didn’t belong there. By 1946, the Hawaiian Kingdom had already “attained a full measure of self-government” over 100 years before! The Hawaiian Kingdom was a formally recognized self-governing sovereign State, a subject of international law under bi-lateral and multi-lateral treaties with dozens of sovereign States, including five treaties with the United States. The Hawaiian Kingdom was a member of the Universal Postal Union; and had 137 embassies and consulates in 26 countries around the world! The Hawaiian Kingdom was undeniably a country that had already “attained a full measure of self-government” and had done so over 100 years prior to the birth of the United Nations itself. The Hawaiian Islands did not belong on the decolonization list. The United States never lawfully acquired or extinguished the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Therefore, the US submission of Hawaii to the UN decolonization list was an act of fraud. And, inscribing Hawaii to the NSGT list in contradiction to Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter defining a Non-Self-Governing Territory, and against General Assembly Resolution 66, constitutes an international wrongful act by the United Nations. That means the UN is complicit in the ongoing suppression of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign State; the destruction of Hawaiian nationality; the forced imposition of U.S. citizenship; the displacement and impoverishment of the Hawaiian people; the pillaging of lands and resources; the infliction of foreign economic, social and cultural systems; and turning a peaceful, neutral country into a menacing U.S. war machine, placing the people of Hawaii in imminent danger of annihilation by enemies of the U.S. The Hawaiian Kingdom calls upon the United Nations, its member States, and the international community to stop supporting the United States’ illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands and to assist in the reinstatement of the Hawaiian Islands as a sovereign, independent, peaceful, neutral State, so we can normalize and resume proper international relations among the nations. --------- Ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono. The sovereignty (life) of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. ------ For the latest news and developments about our progress at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, tune in to Free Hawaii News at 6 PM, the first Friday of each month on ʻŌlelo Television, Channel 53. ----- SIGN THIS PETITION! Rename McKinley High School and remove the McKinley statue! McKinley was the president who turned Hawaii from a peaceful, neutral country into a major cog in America’s war machine. Sign this online petition NOW! Tell everyone you know to sign it too! – And remember, for the latest updates and information about the Hawaiian Kingdom check out the twice a month Ke Aupuni Updates published online on Facebook and other social media. ------- PLEASE KŌKUA… Your kōkua, large or small, is vital to this effort... To contribute, go to: • GoFundMe – CAMPAIGN TO FREE HAWAII • PayPal – Go to PayPal and send $ to: info@HawaiianKingdom.net • Other – To contribute in other ways (airline miles, travel vouchers, volunteer services, etc...) email us at: info@HawaiianKingdom.net "FREE HAWAII" T-SHIRTS - etc. Check out the great FREE HAWAII products you can purchase at... http://www.robkajiwara.com/store/c28/Hawaii All proceeds are used to help advance the cause. MAHALO! Malama Pono, Leon Siu Hawaiian National  PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 3 November 2022 from H.E. Leon Kaulahao Siu Hawaiian Kingdom info@HawaiianKingdom.net Prof.Dr. (h.c) Mehmet Şükrü Güzel Center for Peace and Reconciliation Studies centerprs@gmail.com An international wrongful act of the United Nations against Hawaii Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter defines a Non-Self-Governing Trerritory as a Territory “whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government.” In 1946, several United Nations Member States identified Territories under their administration that were notself-governing and placed them on a United Nationslist under General Assembly Resolution 66 for the purpose of decolonization. The United States added “Hawaii” (The Hawaiian Islands) to the UN list as a Non-Self-Governing Territory. This was done despite the fact that “Hawaii” was not a U.S. territory, but an existing sovereign state under usurpation and occupation by the United States. By 1946, “Hawaii” (The Hawaiian Islands) had already existed as a self-governing sovereign State for over 100 years. The Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands was formally recognized (by the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of France in 1843, and by the United States in 1844) as a sovereign State; a subject of international law under bi-lateral and multi-lateral treaties with other sovereign States, including five treaties with the United States. The Hawaiian Kingdom was a member of the Universal Postal Union; and had 137 embassies and consulates in 26 countries around the world. The Hawaiian Kingdom was undeniably a country that had already “attained a full measure of self-government.” The United States never lawfully acquired the Hawaiian Islands. Beginning in 1893, without provocation or warning or justification, the U.S. warship Boston, landed a company of fully armed Marines in Honolulu to back a coup d’etat by a cabal of 13 white-supremacists to forcibly depose the Hawaiian Kingdom’s Head of State, Queen Liliuokalani and seize control of the government... to the 1898 staging of a sham “annexation” of the Hawaiian Islands without a treaty... to the 1946 listing of Hawaii as a non-self-governing territory to be decolonized... to the 1959 staging of a sham statehood plebiscite, manipulating the UN decolonization process to effect the capture of the Hawaiian Islands — the United States never acquired nor extinguished the sovereignty of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Since the United Nations Charter defines a Non-Self-Governing Territory as a territory that has never been a subject of international law (not a sovereign State), to categorize Hawaii as a Non-Self-Governing Territory was, in fact, an international wrongful act as it contradicted Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter defining what constitutes a Non-Self-Governing Territory. For this reason, the 1946 placement of Hawaii on the list of territories to be decolonized according to United Nations General Assembly Resolution 66, should be regarded as an international wrongful act of the United Nations. This international wrongful act contributes to the ongoing suppression of the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign State; the destruction of Hawaiian nationality; the forced imposition of U.S. citizenship; the displacement and impoverishment of the Hawaiian people; the pillaging of lands and resources of the Hawaiian people; the affliction of foreign economic, social and cultural systems; and turning a peaceful, neutral country into a principal component of the menacing U.S. war machine, placing the people of Hawaii in imminent danger of annihilation by enemies of the U.S. The Hawaiian Kingdom and the Center for Peace and Reconciliation call upon the United Nations, its member States, and the international community to cease supporting the United States’ illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands and to assist in the reinstatement of the Hawaiian Islands as a sovereign, independent, peaceful, neutral State, and to normalize andresume proper international relations with the Hawaiian Islands. ### PDF version: 
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