Articles by Poka Laenui
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International Forgiveness Day
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
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
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Continuity of the Hawai’ian National Consciousness
Pōkā Laenui (Hayden F. Burgess) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
21 Aug 2023 – A nation never dies until its national consciousness dies. It dies not by a conquest by another, by a loss of territory, by a takeover of a foreign power, by an overthrow of the government, by a change of its economic system, or by the colonization of a foreign people. It dies when its people have lost consciousness of themselves.
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Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
The Theft of the Hawaiian Islands Kingdom by the United States of America
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Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Apr 2021
Aloha is a cultural foundation of Hawaii, an expression of kindness, inclusiveness, comforting attitude, and loving relationship. Let us step away from that old paradigm of national security being big guns, large number of soldiers, huge ships, and ABC weapons (Atomic, Biological and Chemical). Let us keep an open mind and drop the stumbling blocks of false loyalties to a rogue state which is in constant violation of international law.
→ read full articleOn the History of US Military Presence in Hawaii
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard Environmental Impact Statement – I submit these areas of concern which should be part of the EIS in this matter.
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A Call for Review of the Historical Facts Surrounding the UNGA Resolution of 1959 That Recognized Attainment of Self-Government for Hawaii
Pōkā Laenui, Kioni Dudley, Leon Kaulahao Siu and Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Apr 2020
April 2020 – In 1959, the territory and the people of the formerly independent nation/state of Hawaii was declared a State of the U.S. union and Hawaii was removed by the UN General Assembly as one of those places subject to further reporting by the United States in the progress toward Hawaii’s self-governance under Article 73 of the U.N. Charter. This document calls upon the UN General Assembly to review its actions taken in 1959.
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Unsettling Truths about the 1959 U.S. Statehood Vote in Hawai’i
Poka Laenui, Kioni Dudley and Leon Siu– TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
August 16, 2019, marks the 60th Anniversary of U.S. Statehood for Hawai’i. It will go little noticed. This article offers new information on illegalities and fraudulence regarding the statehood vote, and why it should not have been accepted by the United Nations.
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A Call for Review of the Historical Facts Surrounding UNGA Resolution That Recognized Self-Government for Hawaii
Pōkā Laenui, Kioni Dudley, Leon Kaulahao Siu and Alfred de Zayas – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Dec 2018
A careful review of the case will reveal that the General Assembly adopted Resolution 1469 under false premises, on the basis of false and incomplete information provided by the United States of America, relying on representations that were tainted by grave material and procedural irregularities surrounding the fraudulent referendum on Hawaii’s entry into the United States as a State, which amounted to an act of annexation. Because the referendum was fundamentally flawed, the resolution based thereon must be deemed null and void.
→ read full articleHawaii National Transitional Authority: Reclaiming Hawaiian Sovereignty from Colonial USA
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2017
The HNTA shall be an unincorporated-freely associated entity with the aim of assisting in the transition of Hawaii from its current state or condition under the rule of the USA (including its subsidiary creation of the State of Hawaii, its various county governments, its agencies and administrative/executive bodies) to its liberation as an independent nation-state.
→ read full articleThe Traveller’s Guide to Hawai’i – 2035 Edition
Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
We begin our visit with this part of O’ahu as a “hologram” introduction to the Hawaiian nation. Travellers who last visited these jewels in the expanse of the Pacific while they were still US colonies will notice the small and large changes that have since occurred. Enjoy your visit to the newly independent Hawai’i.
→ read full articleEdited Text of Mr. Obama’s Speech to the UN Turning Him from an American Cheerleader into a World Peace Statesman
Poka Laenui - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
President Obama: “Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: We come together at a crossroads between war and peace; between disorder and integration; between fear and hope.”
→ read full articleFrom the Culture of Aloha, a Path Out of Gun Violence
Poka Laenui – YES! Magazine,
11 Feb 2013
U.S. society tends to deal with violence by treating it as an individual occurrence—focusing on the “perpetrator” and how he is different from us. The more people killed or maimed, the more horrendous the event, the more we separate the actor and event from ourselves—the good people—and individualize responsibility to the “gun-toter.” It is a domination, individualism, and exclusion—or DIE—deep culture that is the essence of modern U.S. society.
→ read full articleON THE AMERICAN INVASION, COLONIZATION AND EVENTUAL ANNEXATION OF THE ANCIENT KINGDOM OF HAWAI’I
Poka Laenui,
28 Aug 2009
Aloha, Bob. You wrote: "I support self-governance for the indigenous Hawaiian people. This position is the result of my respect for the Hawaiian culture, my disrespect for how the lands of Hawaii have been raped since I came here in 1965, and because it’s the right thing to do. . . . I believe […]
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Poka Laenui,
24 Aug 2009
1959 “Statehood” was a time of excitement in Hawai`i over the notion of this territory and the people within it becoming “Equal American Citizens” with all others. Bon fires lit the night along with firecrackers, blaring music, and all forms of celebration. 20 years and a new generation later, the conversation began to change, asking, […]
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