Monday = RIMPAC exercises end and another whale strands itself on Molokai beach. Think they’re related? “Any statements implicating sonar or RIMPAC activities are premature and speculative,” said spokesman Mark Matsunaga. Star-Bulletin story: http://starbulletin.com/2008/07/30/news/story09.html “Obviously I feel that there may be a correlation because, for one thing, this type of whale stranding does occur for [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Coincidence, totally. Right.
Posted in ocean protection, tagged military, molokai, sonar, stranding, whales on July 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
self help: restoring stream flow.
Posted in activism, environmental justice, food sovereignty, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, tagged diversion, EMI, flow, restore, stream, taro, water rights on July 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
From Alan Murakami of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, on behalf of East Maui Taro farmers and Na Moku Aupuni O ko`olau Hui: Background. The law provides for various appropriate remedies for dealing with and managing serious conflicts over uses of stream water. The biggest conflicts over stream water uses have festered for years because [...]
Thar She Blows: DU on the move on the Big Island
Posted in activism, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, tagged depleted uranium, military, military toxics on July 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
“Waiki`i Ranch Dust Samples Show No Depleted Uranium” is apparently receiving a skeptical response from local and international scientific experts, according to our friends at Malu `Aina on Hawai`i Island. The report posted a “statistically insignificant” amount of depleted uranium (DU) in the community of Waiki`i, 8 – 10 miles downwind of Pohakuloa Training Area [...]
`Awa Circle + Talk Story with Kealoha Pisciotta
Posted in events, land and cultural rights, tagged activism, development, event, land and cultural rights, mauna kea on July 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We heart Kealoha Pisciotta and we’re excited to have her in town! We’ll be talking story and sharing `awa at StudioBe in Chinatown with Kealoha on July 25, 2008. She’ll be speaking and screening excerpts from Mauna Kea: Temple Under Siege, a film by Na Maka o ka `Aina. We’ll be talking with Kealoha about [...]
Oahu without Olelo?
Posted in activism, tagged 'olelo, community on July 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We shudder to think. We know that Olelo public access is an incredibly important non-commercial resource for information, discussion, expression and community connections on Oahu. Olelo was created as part of an agreement between DCCA and Oceanic cable in 1989. In return for a cable franchise on Oahu, Oceanic agreed to provided PEG (public access) [...]
Ann Vileisis talks food on KKCR today
Posted in activism, events, food sovereignty, island sustainability, land and cultural rights on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our friends at Malama Kaua`i, today on the radio: Join hosts Andrea Brower and Keone Kealoha as we discuss the sources of our food and how it gets into our kitchens with author Ann Vileisis joining us by phone. Ann has written an extraordinary book on the last 200 years of food history in the [...]
but we knew that already
Posted in ocean protection, tagged coral, human impacts, northwestern hawaiian islands, ocean, ocean protection, reefs on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Star-Bulletin headline from yesterday: “Humans pose main trouble for isles’ coral, report says.” So says the report-back from the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium. The good news is that on average Hawaiian reefs are doing better than those in other places under United States jurisdiction, despite pressures from human impacts. According to the report, the [...]
Honolulu NWHI Hearing Online
Posted in ocean protection, tagged marine protected area, marine reserve, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Video of the Honolulu hearing on the Draft Management Plan for the Papahanaumokuakea Marine Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands held in Honolulu on June 24th. The 1,200 page plan will direct the future of public trust resources in the last, large intact Hawaiian reef ecosystem in the world. At the hearing, leading local conservation [...]
Evan in Honolulu Advertiser: concerns persist over NWHI plan!
Posted in activism, ocean protection, tagged activism, coral, management plan, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, precautionary principle on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Evan is our rock star summer intern here at KAHEA, a UH Law Student, and Fellow with the Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. He has spent much of the last month combing the 1,200 page draft plan for the future of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands–some of the last intact Hawaiian coral reef on [...]
15 more days to speak up for some of Hawai`i’s last intact coral reefs!
Posted in ocean protection, tagged activism, coral, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection on July 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thanks to your strong requests for additional time, government managers have granted an extra 15-days for public comment–moving the final deadline for comments to July 23. It ain’t much, but it is something. If you’re a member of the KAHEA Action Alert Network, you’ve been seeing alerts on protecting the future of the pristine coral [...]
Hawaii County Council Passes Reso on DU: Clean ‘em up first!
Posted in land and cultural rights, military toxics, tagged big island, depleted uranium, militarization, military toxics, pohakuloa on July 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mahalo to friends/activists on the Big Island! Ho‘omaika‘i ia! And thanks to everyone who submitted testimony and responded to action alerts–the resolution on depleted uranium passed without bad amendments–you helped make it happen! From West Hawaii Today: The council approved a resolution from Puna Councilwoman Emily Naeole that requests the U.S. Army to halt B-2 [...]
NWHI Marine Monument Hearings on Oahu TV
Posted in ocean protection, tagged marine protected area, marine reserve, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection on July 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From our buddy Oren, who helped us get this public hearing documented and on air: The video taping of the Honolulu hearing on the Draft Management Plan for The Papahanaumokuakea Marine Monument in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands held in Honolulu on June 24th will be aired on ‘Olelo Community Television on ch. 52 as well [...]
WANTED: Critical Habitat for Monk Seal
Posted in ocean protection, tagged critical habitat, endangered species, endangered species act, monk seals, ocean, oceans on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
KAHEA, along with the Center for Biological Diversity and the Ocean Conservancy, filed a formal petition yesterday, seeking to have beaches and surrounding waters on the main Hawaiian islands designated as critical habitat for Hawaiian monk seals under the Endangered Species Act. Under the Endangered Species Act, critical habitat identifies geographic areas that contain features [...]
Say NY Times and Star Bulletin: Navy should comply with Environmental Laws
Posted in ocean protection, tagged marine mammals, militarization, military, ocean, oceans, sonar, whales on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
(graphic from abcnews.com) The Supreme Court has taken up the question of whether the Bush Administration can exempt the Navy from laws protecting marine mammals from sonar, and media is chiming in. Both the New York Times and Star Bulletin have come out recently in favor of upholding environmental law when it comes to Navy [...]
Bombs Away! RIMPAC’s Back
Posted in environmental justice, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged military, navy, NWHI, oceans, rimpac, sonar on July 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »
From Marti: RIMPAC officially started on Sunday, meaning you can expect beach closures, random explosions, mass strandings, and displays of excessive military force throughout the month of July in Hawaii. Remember, RIMPAC is the bi-annual demonstration of U.S.-occupation that brought us the “Hanalei Bay Incident” in 2004, when 150 melonhead whales attempted to strand themselves [...]
Hawaii County Council to Consider DU Cleanup Reso
Posted in activism, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, military toxics, tagged depleted uranium, military, military toxics on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The military finally admitted in 2006 that depleted uranium (DU) spotting rounds for the Davy Crockett nuclear weapon system have been used at Schofield Barracks, the Pohakuloa Training Area, and possibly Makua Valley between 1962 and 1968. The Army long denied ever using DU in Hawai‘i; reassuring residents in countless public hearings and environmental impact [...]
Where’s the public in this “public process”?
Posted in ocean protection, tagged coral, hearing, management plan, marine protected area, marine reserve, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, process, public on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
From Evan, law school student and Legal Fellow from the Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law working on staff with KAHEA this summer: Was thrown into the deep waters of the 1,200 page Papahanaumokuakea Draft Monument Management Plan for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands this summer. It’s given me a unique opportunity to observe the [...]
enforcement means everybody, folks.
Posted in ocean protection, tagged coral, coral disease, enforcement, NWHI, ocean on July 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
From Miwa: On June 13, the Hawai`i Board of Land and Natural Resources quietly denied the permit of HIMB disease researcher Greta Aeby, in the closing chapter of a historic enforcement action for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Aeby was reported in 2006 by fellow researchers to be transporting potentially diseased coral shipboard in an open-flow [...]
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