From Shelley: This weekend we hosted our fourth Environmental Justice Bus Tour–this time with an added stop at the Farmer’s Market. Mahalo to everyone who came out to learn more about Wai`anae! We had a great mix of people hailing from far and wide. Groups represented were Nakem Youth (from Kalihi), CEJE, Hawai`i Farm Union, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cultural rights’
Spreading the Word
Posted in environmental justice, food sovereignty, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, tagged activism, cultural rights, environmental justice, Waianae, landfills on July 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We should take pride in our fishponds
Posted in 1, Aquaculture, conservation, fisheries, food sovereignty, island sustainability, tagged cultural practice, cultural rights, culture, fisheries on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: Too often loko i’a are talked about as things of the past, and somewhat obsolete. They are spoken of like memorials of a time past, a time when Hawaiians could essentially farm huge amounts of fish without even needing to feed them. But those days are over, right? No, they don’t have to [...]
“Offshore Aquaculture is not Fishing Act of 2009″
Posted in Aquaculture, activism, conservation, fisheries, legislature, ocean protection, tagged activism, conservation, cultural rights, fisheries, legislature, ocean protection on August 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: As a result of many letters being sent to state representatives, Rep. Mazie Hirono has decided to co-sponsor the “Offshore Aquaculture is not Fishing Act of 2009″. The bill asserts that under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, the Secretary of Commerce, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and regional fishery [...]
Hawaii’s aqua culture
Posted in Aquaculture, activism, conservation, fisheries, food sovereignty, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged activism, conservation, cultural rights, endangered species, fisheries, hawaii, island sustainability, sustainability on August 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
From Alana: From “Hawai’i has a lot to gain from open ocean aquaculture” in today’s Honolulu Advertiser: Just as we need to be off imported oil, we need to be off imported seafood. This opportunity can be an economic engine for Hawai’i, and hundreds of millions of dollars are at stake.Let’s not stand in our [...]
Cultural Practioners Respond to TMT
Posted in conservation, land and cultural rights, tagged conservation, cultural practice, cultural rights, mauna kea on July 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Kealoha Pisciotta, President of Mauna Kea Anaina Hou and one of KAHEA’s Board of Directors: As a former telescope system specialist on Mauna Kea, I value both Polynesian and modern astronomy. Unfortunately, the West Hawaii Today editorial endorsing the Thirty Meter Telescope Board’s selection of Mauna Kea over Chile contained several inaccuracies—and one insult [...]
KAHEA Lawsuit Makes Headlines
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, conservation, fisheries, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged activism, beaches, conservation, cultural rights, culture, fisheries, land and cultural rights, marine protected area, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection on July 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
HONOLULU ADVERTISER, ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS WIRE REPORT ON CONTROVERSY by Stewart: KAHEA’s complaint asking a Hawaii court to require the state Department of Land and Natural Resources to follow state law concerning permits for the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands National Marine Monument has made news, as Hawaii’s largest newspaper and a national environmental wire service both published [...]
Mauna Kea Site Chosen for TMT
Posted in 1, conservation, mauna kea, telescopes, tagged cultural practice, cultural rights, mauna kea, sacred summit on July 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From Alana: This week Mauna Kea was chosen as the site for the Thirty Meter Telescope. It was chosen over a location in the Chilean Atacama Desert. In the weeks prior to the decision, some people thought that Mauna Kea might not be chosen because of its significantly higher cost, but was anyone actually surprised [...]
Draft Science Plan Public Hearing: Grandfathering-in Permitted Activities
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, conservation, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, other, tagged activism, beaches, conservation, coral, cultural rights, endangered species, environmental justice, hawaii, hearing, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, malama, management, marine protected area, monk seals, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, shoreline, superferry, sustainability, whales on July 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From: Andrea Last night at the public hearing on the Draft Science Plan for Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument, held at the monument office in Hawaii Kai, a troubling consequence of the lack of environmental review was elucidated. One of the Science Plan authors stated that research activities that have already been permitted are assumed to [...]
KAHEA SUES STATE TO PROTECT NWHI
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, conservation, fisheries, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged activism, coral, cultural rights, culture, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, marine protected area, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, shoreline on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“This is not the wild west; there are laws here. Laws that are meant to protect our natural resources and the best interests of Hawaii’s people. DLNR must follow these laws.” — Kumu Hula Vicky Holt-Takamine, KAHEA’s Board President.
Natural Rights: Not Ours, But Nature’s
Posted in Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, climate change, conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legislature, ocean protection, other, tagged activism, conservation, corporations as persons, cultural rights, endangered species, environmental justice, ethics, extinction, hawaii, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, legal rights, legislature, monk seals, natural rights, nature, ocean protection, sustainability on July 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
From: Andrea Most people are familiar with our inalienable natural rights, as John Locke summed up as life, liberty, and property. But what about nature’s right to exist, flourish, and naturally evolve? These are the inalienable legal rights that the town of Shapleigh, Maine, voted to grant to nature last February. Now, in the town [...]
Got Input for the Army on its Environmental Investigations? Apply by August 14!
Posted in activism, conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, military toxics, other, tagged activism, conservation, cultural rights, development, environmental justice, island sustainability, malama, militarization, military, military toxics, sustainability on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From: Andrea U.S. Army Garrison-Hawaii is soliciting community interest in creating a Restoration Advisory Board as part of the Military Munitions Response Program for two sites near the U.S. Army’s Pohakuloa Training Area. The motivation for the Restoration Advisory Board is to enable community participation in environmental issues on previously used military training sites. Currently, [...]
32 Tons of Marine Litter Removed: Sadly, the Tip of the Iceberg
Posted in Hawaiian Monk Seal, Northwest Hawaiian Islands, activism, conservation, environmental justice, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged access, activism, beach access, beaches, conservation, cultural rights, development, environmental justice, hawaii, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, marine protected area, marine reserve, monk seals, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean, ocean protection, oceans, shoreline, sustainability on July 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From: Andrea The U.S. Coast Guard removed 32 tons of debris from the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands over the Fourth of July weekend. Much thanks to the Coast Guard for ameliorating the health of our oceans! See the Honolulu Advertiser article: http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090713/BREAKING01/307130004/U.S.%20Coast%20Guard%20removes%2032%20tons%20of%20debris%20from%20Northwestern%20Hawaiian%20Islands?GID=e/Si+j1sOYkNlMXAMxQScaqw1wgB5/Nurtn+5iNvNh8%3D While I am glad that efforts to clean up marine litter are taking place, [...]
Arguments supporting telescope are fallacies
Posted in Haleakala, land and cultural rights, telescopes, tagged cultural practice, cultural rights, Haleakala, land and cultural rights, sacred summit, telescope on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: The following letter to the editor, published in The Maui News newspaper, plainly shows that the logic UH uses to defend its proposed telescope is very flawed. A fallacious argument is made that because Hawaiians revered astronomy, then anything done in the 21st century with respect to astronomy is automatically consistent with Hawaiian spirituality. [...]
Fishing in NWHI?
Posted in 1, land and cultural rights, ocean protection, tagged cultural rights, fisheries, land and cultural rights, management plan, marine protected area, northwestern hawaiian islands, NWHI, ocean protection on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
From Alana: On June 15, the third anniversary of the designation of the Northwest Hawaiian Islands as a national monument, a boat that was caught fishing multiple times in a highly protected area of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument. The bottom-fishing boat was in a very restricted area of the monument, which extends 50 miles [...]
The Going Rate
Posted in land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged cultural rights, mauna kea on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UH lobbyists like to say that “viewing time” on Mauna Kea isn’t a cash transaction and development of Mauna Kea isn’t about about money… but Yale is paying $12 million for 15 nights/year of viewing time on one Mauna Kea telescope for the next ten years. That’s $12 million for 150 nights = $80,000 per [...]
R.I.P. SB 502
Posted in activism, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, tagged alpine, conservation, cultural rights, mauna kea, sacred, summit on March 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
3 down, 1 to go! Thanks to the public’s vigilant support and participation SB 502 is officially dead!! Yay! SB 502 was one of four bills proposing to transfer management of one of the Pacific’s most unique and sacred summits, Mauna Kea, over to its primary developer–the University of Hawaii. The University has facilitated forty [...]
playing games with graves
Posted in activism, land and cultural rights, tagged cultural rights, culture, iwi, kauai, land and cultural rights, naue on August 4, 2008 | 5 Comments »
From Evan: Playing Games With Graves: This is what we appears to be happening at every turn here in Hawai`i. Burials are sacred and honoring our Kupuna is our responsibility. By honoring the past, we are connecting to those that have come before, acted as stewards and literally given their life to the land. Yet, [...]
mahalo pumehana.
Posted in activism, island sustainability, land and cultural rights, tagged activism, beach access, cultural rights, mahalo, malama, shoreline on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
So, the day is done. What an inspiring 24 hours! The view from the trolley was amazing, as we went from rally to rally on Oahu’s south shore and met and saw dedicated individuals–many out in the rain–waving signs, calling to cars and passers-by. MAHAHLO PIHA! Hawaii’s Beach Access Day (Groundhog Day!) happened because individuals [...]
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