International Forgiveness Day
TRANSCEND VIDEOS, 11 Sep 2023
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service
7 Jul 2023 – Talk at the Lokahi Cultural Center in Wai`anae, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Theft of the Hawaiian Islands Kingdom by the United States of America
Pōkā Laenui is an attorney, founding member of the TRANSCEND Network, and lives in Hawai’i. He is Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Hawaiian Affairs and is regarded as the father of the modern Hawaiian Sovereignty movement having brought the issue in the Hawaii and Federal Courts since 1977 and taken that case to the UN via the Indigenous People’s hearing. He was the primary spokesperson for the World Council of Indigenous Peoples and the Pacific Asia Council of Indigenous Peoples from 1984 to 1992. He was noted as one of five pioneers of the development of Indigenous People’s Rights at the UN General Assembly. He is the latest chairperson of the Native Hawaiian Convention, an elected body of native Hawaiians to develop models of Hawaiian sovereignty to propose to the native Hawaiian constituents. This convention has been de-funded by the State of Hawaii and its domestic entity, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, while the convention was considering a proposal for a model of independence from the USA. He has been associated with Professor Emeritus Johan Galtung as a co-instructor at the University of Hawaii and has conducted extensive interviews with him on public radio, commercial radio and community television. He continues to practice law in Hawaii. His email is plaenui@hawaiianperspectives.org and website at www.hawaiianperspectives.org which contains most of his writings.
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Tags: Asia and the Pacific, Colonialism, Colonization, Hawaii, Hawaiian Culture, Hawaiian Religion, Hawaiian Sovereignty, Pacific Islands, Polynesian Culture, USA
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Poka Laenui – Inspirational as usual.
Thank you