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Ka Hui Liliʻuokalani
Ka Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea
Kulaokahuʻa, Honolulu, Oʻahu

On this day 179 years ago, an illegal occupation of our islands by an imperial power came to an end and the sovereignty of the Hawaiian nation was restored. Mōʻī Kauikeaouli, Kamehameha III, had been forced by a British Navy captain's threat of military invasion to agree under duress to a provisional cession of kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina to the United Kingdom. That cession was formally rescinded five months later on July 31, 1843, when British Rear-Admiral Richard Thomas lowered the Union Jack and raised once more ka hae Hawaiʻi over our lands, signaling the British Empire's recognition of the independence of Hawaiʻi. Today we remember and celebrate Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea, Sovereignty Restoration Day, on the same site at Kulaokahuʻa in Honolulu where that first flag was raised again over these pae ʻāina.

Later on that same day, Mōʻī Kamehameha III uttered at a service in Ka Hale Pule Kawaiahaʻo the words which all kānaka aloha ʻāina know from the depths of their heart:

UA MAU KE EA O KA ʻĀINA I KA PONO!

Nearly eighteen decades later, we are again faced with a foreign imperialist power occupying our islands illegally. Our flagpoles are again topped by the flag of a far-off nation, that of Atlasia. Lunalilo's words summarizing the occupation and Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea ring perhaps even truer today than they did back then: "Dark and gloomy indeed were those days. How the nation mourned during those few months of trial, thinking the government was gone perhaps forever in the hands of a foreign power. For five long lingering months, things remained as they then stood, until on the 31st day of July, the day we are now commemorating, we saw the flag that 'had braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze,' lowered by the hand of one of England’s sons." We have mourned the loss of Hawaiʻi's sovereign government for much, much longer than a few months. Our days remain dark and gloomy. And we wait still for the day when the flag which braves the battle and the breeze the world over will be lowered by the hand of one of Atlasia's sons. When will President Cao live up to his promise, Atlasia's promise, to respect the sovereignty and self-determination of nā Kānaka Maoli?

Regardless of whether the Atlasian government acts or not, it is our kuleana to honor nā kūpuna who all those years ago restored to us Hawaiian sovereignty, and it is our kuleana to do so by fighting, as did those who protested the 1893 overthrow of our Mōʻīwahine Liliʻuokalani, for the restoration of Hawaiian independence once again. Through the unity of our lāhui, we shall once more breathe life into kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina: for the life, the sovereignty, of the land is perpetuated through righteousness!

Each year, we celebrate not only the restoration of Hawaiian sovereignty in the past but also those who have fought and continue to fight for it in the future. This year we especially honor two exceptional poʻe aloha ʻāina, Kumu Dana Kauai Iki Olores and Kumu Hina Wong. In addition to being always ʻonipaʻa in their fight for the restoration of ka Ea o Hawaiʻi, they have also been fierce advocates for our māhū and LGBTQ+ populations, steering the narrative on queer people and issues in Hawaiʻi away from the Western imperialist perspective of oppression and exclusion and instead towards the liberatory power of the traditional Pacific understandings of gender and sexuality which embrace and value the māhū and their role in our society. The restoration of our lāhui will not be won by simply hoisting ka hae Hawaiʻi over ke Kapikala; it will continue on until we have fully restored the Hawaiian cultural, spiritual and traditional understandings which inform our past, present and future. Hawaiʻi will not be free until it is not only politically free from the Atlasian Empire but also free from all forms of oppression: capitalist, patriarchal, heteronormative, racist, religious, cultural and social.

But we should also not make this a day of anger or resentment against our current trials. Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea is a day of joy, the first national holiday of Hawaiʻi, a day for celebration and lauleʻa. As one newspaper article described, it is "the day that the breath of life was returned to this Nation; the day that we all witnessed the graceful fall of the British Crown. This is the day that we stand up and call out with our voices in victory, 'E ola ka Mōʻī i ke Akua! E ola o Hawaiʻi nei i ke Akua! Ua mau ke Ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono!' This is the New Year’s Day of our Islands, from Hawaiʻi to Niʻihau." From another: "For as long as you live in the light of day, you should remember the day on which was returned the 'Ea of the Nation,' the life of all who live in these Hawaiian Islands. And if the Heads of the Government do not observe this day, we shall care for it. For our care and respect is indeed equal to that of the aliʻi. Therefore, let us celebrate and rejoice in unified thought. E ola ka Mōʻī i ke Akua! Ua mau ke Ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono!"

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ~~ E ʻOnipaʻa Kākou

Image edited from original; historical speeches/articles found here. Also enjoy this children's book in English and ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi about Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea and this short documentary from the OHA.

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Ka Hui Liliʻuokalani
Commemoration of the Declaration of Rights
Keauhou Bay, Kona, Hawaiʻi

On this June 7th, we celebrate the 183rd anniversary of the promulgation of the Declaration of Rights by Mōʻī Kamehameha III on this day in 1839. This landmark document marked the first legal enshrinement of the long-established, inherent rights of nā Kānaka Maoli in an official written document and provided the framework for the first constitution of kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina published a year later. In this declaration, Kamehameha unequivocally upheld the traditional Hawaiian values of aloha, kuleana and pono through the realization of the individual's inalienable right to "life, limb, liberty, freedom from oppression; the earnings of his hands and the productions of his mind." It boldly declared that the fruits of the workers' labor belonged to them and not their masters. It also made abundantly clear that the purpose of democratic government is to wage peace, not war, and to protect all people equally under the law, defending Hawaiians from all forms of oppression. Today, we continue Kauikeaouli's vision to create an egalitarian society whilst struggling against the imperialist-capitalist oppression of the Atlasian state which continues to suffocate Hawaiʻi without reprieve.

Sense of place is particularly important in this struggle for our national liberation, nearly as important as honoring nā kūpuna, like Kamehameha III, who have come before us on this journey and fight for freedom. The significance of this place, Keauhou Bay, cannot be overstated. The birthplace of Kauikeaouli, its very name offers us solace and hope for our future just as it did at the time of his miraculous birth: Ke au hou, "the new current," "the new era." Today, we are again opening a new chapter in the history of Hawaiʻi, beginning a new era: one of the reaffirmation of Hawaiian sovereignty and restoration of the Kūʻokoʻa kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina!

Ka Hui Liliʻuokalani
Commemoration of the First Constitution and nā ʻUniona o Hawaiʻi
Waikīkī, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

A few months ago, we celebrated the Declaration of Rights issued by Mōʻī Kamehameha III. Today, we celebrate the successor to that document, Ke Kumukānāwai a me nā Kānāwai o ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina, the First Constitution of the Hawaiian Islands, which was enacted 8 o ʻOkakopa 1840. This reaffirmed the rights and legal standing of all the sovereign citizens of Hawaiʻi, and is particularly notable in two respects. Firstly, it created the first democratically elected representative legislature in Hawaiʻi. The people would finally be given a formal voice in the decision-making processes of the day. Secondly, like the Declaration of Rights which preceded it, ke Kumukānāwai declared that each person was granted the right to "the labor of his hands and productions of his mind" and that "all the land from one end of the Islands to the other . . . was not . . . private property. It belonged to the . . . people in common." This strong and explicit repudiation of the capitalistic notion of labor and property which the imperialistic elite from Europe and what is now Atlasia sought to impose upon our Islands still reverberates in the hearts and minds of the producers and laborers of Hawaiʻi today.

It is in that spirit that we also celebrate today the great current of organized labor, striking workers and strong ʻuniona which have built and developed Hawaiʻi into what it is now. On October 11, 1948, hundreds of plantation workers began their strike at Olaa Sugar on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. On this day in 1970, the longest hotel workers strike in Hawaiian history began, with over two thousand workers refusing to continue their wage slavery to the imperialist-capitalist owner class for 75 days. Just four years ago, 2,700 Marriott workers across the Islands struck for 51 days beginning on October 8th against the exploitative starvation wages forced on them by the wealthy class of Atlasian luxury hotel owners. And the year before, workers struck at Ilikai Hotel starting from October 19 in defense of their right to a union contract which affirmed their humanity rather than the degrading conditions they were previously subjected to. The imperialist agenda has been for decades to turn our sovereign people into dehumanized objects--both politically through the illegal annexation of our nation and economically through the capitalist subjugation of our working people. Therefore, our liberation must be fought on two fronts: overthrowing the bonds of the Atlasian imperialist state and the bonds of the capitalist system. We cannot breathe ke Ea back into this beloved ʻĀina until we stop exploiting it for its resources and prostituting it for foreigners' tourist dollars. We must free both our land and our people!

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ~~ E ʻOnipaʻa Kākou

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Ka Hui Liliʻuokalani
Celebration of Kaʻiulani
Ka Hale Pule Kawaiahaʻo, Honolulu, Oʻahu
Kaʻiulani (hema) mourning the illegal Annexation of Hawaiʻi with her aunt Mōʻīwahine Liliʻuokalani (ʻākau)¹

Today we celebrate the birthday of Princess Kaʻiulani, the last heir apparent to the Hawaiian throne. Regarding the occasion of her birth on 16 ʻOkakopa 1875, Mōʻīwahine Liliʻuokalani (her aunt) wrote: "she was at once recognized as the hope of the Hawaiian people." Kaʻiulani, the "highest point of the heavens," the "royal sacred one," was just seventeen, and studying abroad in England, when Liliʻuokalani was overthrown by the business elite of what is now Atlasia. Although the young princess had sought to avoid the political affairs of state in favor of engaging her artistic, intellectual, social and physical pursuits--she was a tremendous painter, musician, singer, polyglot (fluent in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, English, French and German), equestrian, swimmer and surfer--she selflessly performed the role of advocate for the Hawaiian people, demonstrating her aloha ʻāina before President Cleveland, urging him to listen to the appeals of nā Kānaka Maoli in protest of the unjust, imperialist overthrow of the legitimate and sovereign Hawaiian government. Although her and Liliʻuokalani's efforts to prevent the passage of Congress' illegal annexation treaty were ultimately unsuccessful, Kaʻiulani remained ʻonipaʻa, boycotting the Annexation ceremony and ball (when invited, she responded: "Why don't you ask me if I am going to pull down Hawaiʻi's flag for them?"), instead mourning the loss of Hawaiian sovereingty, which she called "bitterer than death," alongside our Queen at her Washington Place home.

But this tragic loss was not, and is not now, the end of the struggle. After the criminal annexation stole her promised throne away from her and lowered our flag over kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina, Kaʻiulani somehow found it within herself to continue fighting for the Hawaiian people with every fiber of her being. She hosted a grand lūʻau at ʻĀinahau with some of the very people who had orchestrated the theft of Hawaiʻi in order to convey to them the importance, dignity and beauty of Hawaiians and Hawaiian culture, and to campaign for Native Hawaiian suffrage, which would be included in the Organic Act of 1900 (in a time when the indigenous peoples of the contiguous states and Alaska were still being denied the right to vote).

Kaʻiulani, however, would not live to see this victory which she fought so hard for. She died, from what many say was a broken heart for her lāhui, at ʻĀinahau on 6 Malaki 1899, at the age of 23. But she lives on in our own hearts, wounded though they are by the continued illegal occupation of our ʻāina by the Atlasian imperialists and capitalists (ʻĀinahua itself is now occupied by a foreign-owned hotel), but not yet broken. We must remain forever as faithful as Kaʻiulani to the cause of sovereignty and independence. Our Island Rose, he pua laha ʻole, is still the hope of the Hawaiian people, the hope that one day no flag but Hawaiʻi's shall fly over these islands.

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ~~ E ʻOnipaʻa Kākou

The pīkake in the above logo is one of Kaʻiulani's flock, and the white and green surrounding it represents the pīkake flower, which she loved and grew in the ʻĀinahau gardens where her beloved peacocks roamed (hence its name). Image source, public domain.
¹ Public domain image.

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Ka Hui Liliʻuokalani
13 Nowemapa
Honolulu, Oʻahu

It is rare that Hui Liliʻuokalani celebrates the actions of Atlasian/American Empire officials past or present, let alone the very Head of the Empire itself, the President. But today, we recognize the 1893 declaration by President Grover Cleveland to our Mōʻīwahine Liliʻuokalani on 13 Nowemapa, nearly ten months after the illegal and imperialist overthrow of the rightful and sovereign Hawaiian government, in which he expressed his "sincere regret that, through the unauthorized intervention of the United States, she had been obliged to surrender her sovereignty, and his hope that, with her consent and cooperation, the wrong done to her and to her people might be redressed." We remain, 130 years later, ʻonipaʻa in waiting for the day when that redress to nā Kānaka Maoli o kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina will come. The illegal occupation which is maintained by Nyman to this day is, to use the American President's own words, a product of the "indefensible encouragement and assistance" of the agents of the imperialist state of both 1890s America and 2020s Atlasia (and every Administration in between). Cleveland continued: "by our original interference and what followed we have incurred responsibilities to the whole Hawaiian community." When will the Head of the Atlasian Empire live up to its responsibility, its moral obligation which has gone unheeded for thirteen decades? When will the wrongs committed by Americans be righted, rather than repeated, by Atlasians?

The answer increasingly seems to be never. The Atlasian political elite has grown obsessed with its own power. They have developed a ravenous appetite for self-enrichment through the imperialist, capitalist and political exploitation of our people. They care not for their moral obligations to the Hawaiian people because they have become totally morally bankrupt. They care not for righting past and current wrongs because they have become forever entrenched in the wrong side of history.

Some of those who live in the belly of the beast of the Atlasian Empire cannot fathom the degree to which kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina have been subjugated; they have grown so comfortable in the face of Empire that they cannot see imperialism past their own nose. "Surely we can work out some kind of a compromise here?" they ask. Queen Liliʻuokalani, too, was presented with the Trojan horse of compromise. We remain as unfooled by it today as she was in her great wisdom then. She was told that if she would just grant amnesty to her own overthrowers, those who conspired to trample upon the sovereign rights of the Hawaiian people and institute their own imperialist will upon these Islands for their political and economic profit, that all would be well. Her reply: "These people were the cause of the revolution and the constitution of 1887. There will never be any peace while they are here. They must be sent out of the country, or punished, and their property confiscated." And her words remain true. Can there be peace in Hawaiʻi while our oppressors continue to exploit our land, resources and people? Can there be peace in Hawaiʻi while the imperialist landlords continue to evict nā Kānaka Maoli from their own stolen homeland? Can there be peace in Hawaiʻi while the agents of the imperialist state continue to enforce their laws against our people? Can there be peace in Hawaiʻi while outside foreign capitalists enrich themselves from the destruction of Hawaiian land and labor? Can there be peace in Hawaiʻi while Hawaiians kneel down to their imperialist oppressors, make their hotel beds and sell them Hawaiʻi's culture on a silver platter in the name of the almighty tourist dollar?

The answer is absolutely not!

Peace can only come to the Hawaiian Islands by the reclamation of our ʻāina by those who harbor not greed, or lust, or hate, or selfishness in their hearts but ALOHA first and foremost. Peace can only come to our ʻāina through breathing Ea back into it with our pono. Peace can only come to our lāhui when it is FREED from the violent capitalist-imperialist chains to which it is bound once and for all!

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ~~ E ʻOnipaʻa Kākou

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Ka Hui Liliʻuokalani
Lā Kūʻokoʻa 180
Honolulu, Oʻahu

Today's the day! 28 Nowemapa is considered by many to be the most important day of the entire year: Lā Kūʻokoʻa (Independence Day)! This year we celebrate the 180th Lā Kūʻokoʻa, with the first being on 28 Nowemapa 1843, when the governments of the British and French Empires (although today it is hard to imagine anyone other than the Atlasian Empire dominating the globe, in those days these were the two largest empires in the world) issued a joint declaration recognizing the independence of the Hawaiian Kingdom, one of the first of its kind for any non-European nation.

This is what Ka Nūpepa Kūʻokoʻa wrote about 28 Nowemapa in 1866:

The 28th of November was the day that the Hawaiian Kingdom gained its independence from the other power of the nations of Britain and France. On that day in the year 1843, the great powers of Britain and France joined together to discuss the bestowing of independence on this Nation, and the two of them agreed to this and we gained this independence. . . . We are overjoyed, and can boast that we are amongst the few Independent Nations under the sun. There are many islands like us, who live peacefully under the powers over them, but Hawaiʻi lives clearly without any power placed above its head. Therefore, the commemoration by the Hawaiian hearts from the East to the West of these islands on this day, is not a small thing, but it is important, and we know by heart the foundational words of our Kingdom. “E mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono.” The gaining of this Independence, was not by the point of a sword or the mouth of a gun, but was gotten peacefully.

On this Lā Kūʻokoʻa we honor all those poʻe aloha ʻāina whose patriotism won our independence from the great imperial powers of the day, including especially Timoteo Haʻalilio, who was one of the chief negotiators with the English and French. And the best way we can honor their heroic deeds is to continue their fight for kūʻokoʻa with the same energy and aloha ʻāina they had for our nation then. Together, our lāhui can and will win our independence once again, not by the point of a sword or the mouth of a gun like the Americans and Atlasians, but peacefully, with aloha, kuleana a me pono. Aloha Lā Kūʻokoʻa iā kākou a pau!

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ~~ E ʻOnipaʻa Kākou

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Ka Hui Liliʻuokalani
ʻOnipaʻa Peace March
Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

One hundred and thirty years ago, our country, the Hawaiian Kingdom, had its government overthrown under the direction of the United States. For thirteen long and arduous decades, ka lāhui Hawaiʻi has suffered the pain and trauma of having our Mōʻīwahine Liliʻuokalani deposed, our independence disrespected, our sovereignty stripped, our country occupied, our ʻāina stolen, our wai a me kai poisoned, our resources extracted, our labor exploited, our kūpuna dishonored, our kuleana o nā kānaka trampled upon, our ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi banned and our culture suppressed. The Overthrow was not just a single day, it was not relegated to one solitary moment in time. It has been ongoing since 1893 and continues against our people at the hands of the Atlasian Empire, the largest, strongest and most violent imperialist country in the world today.

The haole missionary-capitalist elite who overthrew the Hawaiian government with the assistance of the United States military in order to enrich themselves did so partly because our Mōʻīwahine had signaled to the world that she would re-enfranchise nā Kānaka ʻŌiwi who had had their right to vote stripped from them by the forced imposition of the Bayonet Constitution, which transferred power away from the Hawaiian people and to the foreign missionaries and capitalist thieves. Liliʻuokalani, listening to "the voice of the people, which tradition tells us is the voice of God," had publicly promised to right this wrong just days before the Overthrow. Fearful of their imminent loss of complete and total domination of the people, ʻāina and resources of Hawaiʻi, the haole missionary-planter-banker bourgeoisie conspired against the Hawaiian government and formed the terrorist gang which they called the "Committee of Safety." Knowing that they had no public support within Hawaiʻi, they looked to the burgeoning American Empire for backup, which they received when U.S. Minister to Hawaiʻi John L. Stevens landed the Marines stationed at Pearl Harbor, marched them to ʻIolani Palace and used this military invasion to coerce Liliʻuokalani into yielding her constitutional authority as Queen, which she did, under protest, in order to avoid spilling the blood of her people. This was not a surrender, nor was it ever supposed to be permanent. Even today we wait "until such time as the Government of [Atlasia] shall, upon the facts being presented to it, undo the action of its representative and reinstate [the Hawaiian government's] authority . . . as the constitutional sovereign of the Hawaiian Islands." The Senate and the President of Atlasia could live up to its moral responsibility, its kuleana, to the people of Hawaiʻi and restore our sovereignty right now with a single stroke of their pen. But of course they will not, and we are not so naïve to expect that (or anything else, for that matter) from them. They do not want self-determination for the Hawaiian people, much less a sovereign Hawaiian government—instead, they actively seek the destruction of the little political power we have now, by denying our civil rights to run Hawaiian candidates for Atlasian office and to vote in Atlasian elections using ballots in our own language.

We also remember, commemorate and celebrate the historic march to ʻIolani Palace which occurred with massive participation of our lāhui thirty years ago, on the hundredth anniversary of the Overthrow. At that time, our beloved kupuna Haunani-Kay Trask, fearless and tireless in her advocacy for Hawaiian sovereignty, filled with mana and aloha ʻāina, gave the stirring keynote speech on what restoring sovereignty means for Hawaiʻi.

Sovereignty is government. Sovereignty is government! It is an attribute of nationhood! We already have aloha, we already have pride, we already know who we are. Are we sovereign? No! Because we don't have a government. Because we don't control a land base. Sovereignty is not a feeling! It is the power of government. It is political power! It is politics! . . . That's what nationhood is: it's government! It's not a feeling. Please don't let people mislead you. People keep saying, "I was born sovereign." I was not born sovereign. I was born a colonized woman of color, oppressed in this colony by the United States of Hawaiʻi. I was not born sovereign, I am trying to be sovereign, I'm trying to make a government! We need to understand what is at stake, Hawaiians, what is at stake! It doesn't matter that [then-Governor] John Waiheʻe lowered the flag, it should be burned to the ground! It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter that there's a four-day break. It doesn't matter. What matters is who controls the land, the water, the resources, who has a government, who speaks nation to nation!

To paraphrase Kumu Haunani:

WE ARE NOT ATLASIAN!
WE ARE NOT ATLASIAN!
WE ARE NOT ATLASIAN!
WE ARE NOT ATLASIAN!
SAY IT IN YOUR HEARTS,
SAY IT WHEN YOU SLEEP:
WE ARE NOT ATLASIAN!
WE WILL DIE AS HAWAIIANS!
WE WILL NEVER BE ATLASIANS!

Nā Kānaka Hawaiʻi cannot ever be sovereign, they cannot ever be free while still chained to the colonial power in Nyman. We cannot be free while foreign capitalists own our lands, our water, our resources, our labor. We cannot be free while we continue to be brainwashed about the history of Hawaiʻi by what Kumu Haunani so aptly described as "missionary bullsh*t." We cannot be free while Hawaiian culture is prostituted to greedy foreigners for the sake of tourist money. We cannot be free while we settle for the crumbs we are given and not the full sovereignty and independence they stole from kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina one hundred and thirty years ago on January 17, 1893.

Today and every day, we must remember and put into practice the final kauoha of our deposed Mōʻīwahine, our beloved Liliʻuokalani:

E ʻONIPAʻA KĀKOU!

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ~~ E ʻOnipaʻa Kākou ~~ Kūʻē

Image source from Hawaiʻi Public Radio. Haunani-Kay Trask speech on YouTube. See also Leo Tūtala o Hawaiʻi ʻoia me Kumu Hina a me Kumu Imaikalani, this documentary and this article written last year by Kamehameha Schools. Kala mai iaʻu for being busy this week and not getting this up on 17 Ianuali as I should have. Mahalo nui loa, aloha nui loa.

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MARCH AGAINST ATLASIAN IMPERIALISM
FOREIGN CAPITALISTS OUT OF HAWAIʻI AND KALAALLIT NUNAAT!
Waikīkī, Honolulu, Oʻahu

Today marks a great stain on the history of Hawaiʻi from which we have never recovered and, indeed, still endure incredible suffering: the opening of the first hotel in Waikīkī on this day in 1901. This marked the beginning of the prostitution of our land and culture by foreign imperialists, the enrichment of haoles at the expense of exploited Hawaiians. Our people and our practices were and continue to be pimped by the Hawaiian territorial/state government (the successor entity to the Committee of Safety that overthrew Mōʻīwahine Liliʻuokalani) and foreign capitalists. While the indigenous people of these lands have been proletarianized and forced into wage slavery and servitude to foreign tourists, the imperialist and haole capitalist elite have continued to get richer and richer through their exploitation.

It also, perhaps in a fitting and cruel stroke of irony, marks the same day in 1958 when the Senate voted to take the next logical step after the illegal annexation sixty years prior and forcibly integrate the occupied lands of the Hawaiian Islands into the Union of States. Like the indigenous people of Kalaallit Nunaat just experienced, our sovereignty, already stolen once, was sold out by the capitalist interests to foreign imperialists so that they could more easily rape this nation, prostitute its people and profit from its misery.

Every major Atlasian party has supported the exploitation of both Hawaiʻi and Kalaallit Nunaat in only slightly differing ways. The Tack Administration, in its executive order to block the implementation of the "deal," framed its actions as an attempt to "try to stop the dumb, dangerous and wasteful purchase of parts of a foreign country." Just like the debate over the illegal purchase of Alaska in 1867, this rhetoric perpetuates the myth that Arctic countries are "wastelands" while also flagrantly denying the sovereignty of the Kalaallit over their ancestral and unceded lands. Kalaallit Nunaat has never been a "part" of Denmark. It was illegally claimed by an imperial power, just like the United States illegally laid claim to kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina during the Overthrow in 1893, illegally annexed them in 1898 and illegally integrated them into the Union in 1958-1959 (after an illegitimate referendum quite like that recently held in Kalaallit Nunaat). The refusal of Labor to be consistently anti-imperialist (growing outraged over the annexation of Kalaallit Nunaat due to their political antipathy towards the South, but being silently complicit with Atlasian imperialism in Hawaiʻi, Sāmoa, Manislan Mariånas and throughout the rest of the world) highlights their partisan hypocrisy. Even some members of "Peace" have supported this violent imperialist landgrab, in defiance of their explicitly anti-imperialist platform. And it is of course needless to mention the repulsive role of the Federalist and "Southern National" Parties and their filthy white saviorist lies, using the same haole missionary logic that justified the invasion, genocide and exploitation of Hawaiʻi.

Thus, as we march here in Waikīkī to protest the historical and ongoing violence of Atlasian imperialist-capitalism in Hawaiʻi, we stand in solidarity with the resistance of our sister oppressed peoples throughout the world, from ka Pākīpika to Kalaallit Nunaat and every place in between. To the greed of capitalists and imperialists the world over, we say:

Kūʻē! Kūʻē! Kūʻē! Naamik! Naamik! Naamik!

Although we must now draw a close to today's event, we will never draw a close to the fight for Hawaiian, and Kalaallit, sovereignty. We will never forget the wisdom of our kūpuna; we will always remain, as Liliʻuokalani decreed, ʻonipaʻa. And as our final message today, let us heed the words of life that Kumu Haunani-Kay Trask left us with:

[Atlasia] is a death country. It gives death to Native people. And the only way to fight [Atlasia] is to be political! Hawaiians must learn to be political, they must learn to analyze. We cannot say any longer, "Oh, they are Hawaiian, make nice." ʻAʻole, ʻaʻole, Hawaiians were fierce! Some people tell me, "Haunani, you are so un-Hawaiian." I tell them, "How would you know? How would you know what a Hawaiian is?" We have been so brainwashed with missionary bullsh**t. "Be nice!"

Kamehameha was a warrior. He made war. His father Kahekili was a warrior. He made war. When did Hawaiians lose their land? When they stopped making war. That's the truth. That is the truth! . . .

"Hoʻoponopono. Make nice." I say, "Kūʻē! Kūʻē! Kūʻē! Kūʻē! Kūʻē! Kūʻē! Fight! Fight! Fight! Don't make nice. Never make nice!" . . . What we need is a fighter! We need somebody who is fierce! The age has passed for Hawaiians to be nice. The age has passed for Hawaiians to hoʻoponopono. I don't believe in hoʻoponopono, I've never practiced it. I don't want to. I believe in fighting to the death. And if we lose, we go down and die and we lose. But I am not making any deals! I am not going to say "maybe this, maybe that, you take the sea and lands." No!

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ~~ ʻOnipaʻa ~~ Kūʻē ~~ Naamik!

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Ka Hui Kūwaena o ka Hui Liliʻuokalani
Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

One year ago, Hawaiʻi was the victim of a violent imposition of martial law by the now-disgraced FM Harry S Truman in the midst of a destabilizing war against the South. Now, Frémont has again mobilized the National Guard for war, this time in preemptive self-defense for the supposed looming threat of Southern invasion.

One hundred and eighty years ago, Hawaiʻi faced a similarly dire situation. In February, British troops used the threat of military force to coerce Mōʻī Kamehameha III to cede kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina and avert the massacre of his people (precisely the same tactic repeated by the United States five decades later in the Overthrow of Mōʻīwahine Liliʻuokalani). On this day in 1843, the Deputy Minister of Kamehameha III fled to the Royal Mausoleum to preserve the public papers of the Hawaiian Kingdom and prevent them from falling into the hands of the British invaders. Using the coffin of Kaʻahumanu as a writing desk, he appealed to the United States and Queen Victoria herself to rectify the crime that had been committed against the people of Hawaiʻi and deliver the Islands once more into freedom and self-government.

Today, in the face of the breakdown of any remaining semblance of Atlasian stability, a housing crisis, a banking crisis, an impending recession and the continued illegal occupation of our lands, we have no one left to appeal to. Since the Kūʻē Petitions, countless generations of poʻe aloha ʻāina have appealed to the United States, and then Atlasia, to rectify the crimes of the Overthrow and the Annexation that were committed against our lāhui. For over a year now, ka Hui Liliʻuokalani has continued in this tradition of resistance by appealing for relief from the blatant imperialist abuse of Truman as well as the more subtle imperialist abuse which accompanies our constant domination, capitalist exploitation and political subjugation.

Can anyone who declares themself a believer in peace, a believer in democracy, a believer in liberty seriously expect Hawaiians to fight for Frémont or Atlasia when they deny us all three on a daily basis? Kūʻē! While Atlasia is tearing itself apart, we must remain ʻonipaʻa and united in our struggle for national liberation. We have no interest in doing the imperialists' bidding. It is only by doing the will of our kānaka, our kūpuna and our akua that we shall gain our freedom.

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ~~ ʻOnipaʻa ~~ Kūʻē ~~ Naamik!

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Down With Southern Fascism and Atlasian Imperialism!
Honolulu, Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi

When Truman and his gang invaded Kansas and other parts of what Atlasia calls the South, there was a near-universal outcry at this fascistic maneuver, with some exceptions from his co-conspirators and other apologists. A year later, Labor and even so-called "Peace" members have cheered on Frémont's invasion of Kansas, Oklahoma and other parts of the South in a violent campaign for "unity." Simultaneously, the Federal Government has unequivocally cast its lot with property over human life by ordering kill-on-sight for anyone who dares to threaten Federal buildings.

None of this is meant to excuse the blatantly fascist, neo-Confederate aims of the Southern "National" Party and its cabal of white supremacist scum of the earth. But we must recognize that the approaches of both the Southern and Atlasian/Frémont Governments are rooted in a Euro-Atlasian imperialist-capitalist logic that sees violence as the only solution to any conflict. They shamelessly inflict harm on working people, indigenous people and people of color in their egotistical pursuit of power at all costs. They see victory only with the complete and utter genocidal destruction of their own constructed enemy.

Hui Liliʻuokalani instead calls on our people to reject the bloodthirsty ambitions of the imperialist invaders and haoles in favor of revolutionary defeatism of the reactionary ruling class. We offer our full support to the Black Panther Party and our comrade The Reverend as they seek to defend themselves from both imperialist camps and liberate their people as we seek to liberate the Hawaiian people from the evils of capitalism, militarism and white supremacy.

As always, let us savor the words of our kūpuna:

As Franz Fanon, and Malcolm X, and Angela Davis, and Ngũgĩ, and a host of other black people have taught us, dark skin and dark people are the classic boogeyman of the haole. White people know that all over the world, people of color have been brutally and unjustly treated by white imperialism. They know our grievances are real. So, they imagine how much more violent we would be to them than they have been to us because we have a real history of grievances. This is why every demand for respect and recognition of dignity on our part is read, always, as a sign of violence. This is why white people so fear black people in the United States, despite the fact that it's white people who have a history of violence against black people and not the other way around! White violence has a long history, and a sick history, in the world, in the Americas, in the Pacific, in Hawaiʻi.

We ain't gonna fight no reactionary pigs who run up and down the street being reactionary; we're gonna organize and dedicate ourselves to revolutionary political power and teach ourselves the specific needs of resisting the power structure, arm ourselves, and we're gonna fight reactionary pigs with international proletarian revolution.

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ~~ ʻOnipaʻa ~~ Kūʻē ~~ All Power to the People!

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Revolution, Restoration and Reparations
Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea 180
Kulaokahuʻa, Honolulu, Oʻahu

Every national liberation, anti-imperialist and anticapitalist movement throughout history has had to grapple with the question: reform or revolution?

Hui Liliʻuokalani, however, easily resolves this question with the example of our kūpuna.

Robert Wilcox began his long campaign for the national liberation of the common people of Hawaiʻi serving in the Hale ʻAhaʻōlelo in 1880, in what would be considered a reformist position. He was even hand-picked by Mōʻī Kalākaua to be educated abroad at the Royal Military Academy in Italy. After the haole missionary-planter class effectively seized control of the Hawaiian government and violently forced the Bayonet Constitution upon Kalākaua in 1887, however, this study abroad program for Kānaka ʻOiwi was ended. Wilcox returned to Hawaiʻi and soon found himself organizing with Liliʻuokalani in a revolutionary struggle to overthrow the Bayonet Constitution and its haole government in order to return power to the Hawaiian people.

Although primarily a revolutionary action to resecure the rights of Kānaka Maoli, the rebellion launched on July 30, 1889, was a multiracial coalition of both Native Hawaiians and Chinese-Hawaiians who united under the leadership of Wilcox to overthrow the haole imperialist capitalist class. Over one hundred and fifty poʻe aloha ʻāina joined him in his revolutionary attempt, with the Royal Guard of ʻIolani Palace refusing to fire on the revolutionaries at the order of Liliʻuokalani. However, the gun thugs of the haole capitalist elite ultimately defeated them with the use of dynamite explosives, and U.S. Marines patrolled Honolulu for the next weeks to ensure the revolution would not gain new life. Although Wilcox was put on trial for treason and marked for execution, his jury of all-Hawaiian peers recognized him not as a traitor but as a revolutionary hero of the Hawaiian people and fully acquitted him of all charges.

Afterwards, Wilcox was again elected to Kaʻahaʻōlelo and served in the Government of his friend and comrade Mōʻīwahine Liliʻuokalani after her ascension to the throne in 1891. He strongly supported her efforts to restore the rights of her people and replace the Bayonet Constitution with one which delivered power to the people. When the "Committee of Safety" haole capitalist gang began their reactionary seizure of power with the backing of the U.S. Marines upon Liliʻuokalani's attempt to do so in January 1893, ka Mōʻīwahine chose Wilcox to command the Royal Guard in defense of the Queen, the Palace and the constitutional government of the Hawaiian Kingdom. However, she ultimately chose to temporarily yield power to the United States under protest to avoid bloodshed before a single shot was fired.

Two years later, Wilcox was again engaged in open revolution against the missionary-planter capitalist thugs in control of Hawaiʻi. He led hundreds of Kānaka Maoli laborers to revolt against the owner class in an effort to restore Liliʻuokalani as the legitimate sovereign of kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina. The rebellion was crushed by the Provisional Government military and Wilcox was sentenced to death, although he was later pardoned.

Then, after the illegal annexation of Hawaiʻi by the United States in spite of the Kūʻē Petitions, Wilcox organized the anti-annexation movement into the Home Rule Party to mobilize for the first election to the non-voting Congressional delegacy. He defeated both the Republican and Democratic candidates in his triumphant victory. In the belly of the imperialist beast, Wilcox was a voice not only for Kānaka Maoli in Hawaiʻi suffering from injustice, oppression and exploitation but also for the Filipino revolutionaries engaged in a struggle for their national liberation of their homeland from the very same annexing power.

It is Wilcox's legacy which Hui Liliʻuoaklani strives to carry on as a revolutionary organization which acknowledges, as did Wilcox, that electoral and parliamentary politics can and should serve as instruments, not impediments, of the overthrow of capital and empire. The struggle for the restoration of Hawaiian sovereignty is not a war that can be won on one front but that must be fought on all fronts.

However, reform alone without the presence of a revolutionary vision to guide it is doomed to only further entrench the established order rather than dismantle it. To illustrate this point, one needs only look at the recent whitewashing of the Empowering the People of Hawaiʻi Act in ke Kenekoa Atlasia. What could have been a revolutionary challenge to the imperialist subjugation of the Hawaiian people in restoring their sovereignty culminated ultimately in legislation that only further serves the interest of the capitalist class. For decades, the haole owners of businesses in Hawaiʻi have attempted to "Hawaiianify" their brands to woo unthinking haole tourists to purchase their "exotic" and "authentically Hawaiian" products, but most were too unconcerned with the actual Kānaka Maoli community to bother learning the language or culture enough to do so effectively. Now, the federal government will freely provide them with a literal guidebook on how to appropriate ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi in order to profit from the exploitation of ka lāhui Hawaiʻi.

While the imperialist cabal in Nyman remains unfamiliar with being asked to relinquish their grip over kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina and unwilling to restore the sovereignty they continue to steal from Hawaiians, we commemorate this year the 180th anniversary of a foreign power that did so willingly.

In 1843, Mōʻī Kauikeaouli, Kamehameha III, had been forced by the landing of a British Navy captain and his threat of military invasion to provisional cede, under duress, kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina to the United Kingdom. Sound familiar? The United States would follow almost the exact same course during the Overthrow a half-century later when they landed the Marines at Honolulu and marched them to ʻIolani Palace as the haole planter-capitalist elite forced Mōʻīwahine Liliʻuokalani to cede, under duress, kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina to the United States. However, unlike Atlasia's continued illegal occupation of these unsurrendered sovereign islands, that cession was formally rescinded five months later on July 31, 1843, when British Rear-Admiral Richard Thomas lowered the Union Jack and raised once more ka hae Hawaiʻi over our lands, signaling the British Empire's recognition of the independence of Hawaiʻi. Today we continue to remember and celebrate Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea, Sovereignty Restoration Day, on the same site at Kulaokahuʻa in Honolulu where that first flag was raised again over these pae ʻāina.

Later on that same day, Mōʻī Kamehameha III uttered at a service in Ka Hale Pule Kawaiahaʻo the words which all kānaka aloha ʻāina know from the depths of their heart:

UA MAU KE EA O KA ʻĀINA I KA PONO!

We continue to shout, chant and sing those words in defiance of Atlasian imperialism. While they refuse to give up even an inch of military, political, economic and social control over Hawaiʻi, the history of these pae ʻāina show that a far-off nation, even the greatest imperialist power on the face of the earth, can relinquish its domination of a subjugated people. Hawaiʻi can have its sovereignty restored. And, with the ʻonipaʻa and political organization of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement, of aloha ʻāina, of Hui Liliʻuokalani, we will win.

It is precisely that unwavering commitment to the struggle that allowed for Hawaiian sovereignty to even be discussed on the floor of the Atlasian Senate. It is that aloha ʻāina that elected a member of Hui Liliʻuokalani to the Parliament of Frémont. And it is that political organizing that has led to the drafting and potential passage of a measure that will officially recognize Hawaiians as a lāhui ʻoiwi and establish an Office of Truth, Reconciliation and Reparations for indigenous peoples at the regional level.

Reparations can be a loaded word in political discourse. It can also be an utterly meaningless word if deployed incorrectly, if used as a tool not for the revolutionary overthrow of imperialism but to excuse its continued survival. That is why the reparations plan that Hui Liliʻuokalani has put before Kaʻahaʻōlelo Frémont, although extremely limited, is intended to be a first step towards empowering the indigenous peoples that Atlasia and its predecessor have slaughtered, pillaged, broken treaties with, lied to, culturally erased and exploited for generations. It charts a mechanism for a genuinely democratic and inclusive path forward for indigenous peoples to craft their own vision for what reparations should look like for themselves, rather than the offending party (the settler government) thrusting it upon them in another manifestation of imperialist force.

We know also that even if this process is indigenous-led, it is not the end of the journey for truth and justice. Hawaiians know that the only true reparation is the restoration of sovereignty over all of the ʻāina, wai a me kai kō Hawaiʻi. Reparations must be paid not in Atlasian dollar bills but in the ending of Atlasian imperialist and capitalist exploitation over indigenous lands and peoples. When all peoples have the inalienable right of self-determination, when all people are their own masters, when all people are liberated from all forms of oppression, only then will the damage that the Atlasian state and its corporate overlords have done and continue to do daily truly be repaired.

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ~~ E ʻOnipaʻa Kākou  ~~ Kūʻē

More info about Restoration Day at https://lahoihoiea.org/
KĀKOʻO MAUI
Lāhainā is not just a haole "tourist paradise" as the corporate media likes to suggest. It is the former capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom, home to the sacred Mokuʻula residence of Mōʻī Kamehameha, final resting place of countless aliʻi and cultural piko kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina. The non-natural "wild"fire is only the latest in a series of devastations resulting from the haole invasion of kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina, the destruction of loʻi kalo, the Big Five theft of Maui lands, the diversion of water from the famous Lāhainā wetlands and canals to sugarcane monocrops, industrial overdevelopment and tourist overpopulation leading to the transformation of "Maluʻulu o Lele" (breadfruit shade/shelter of Lele), the former breadbasket of Maui, into the hot, dry, fire-prone "Lā hainā" (land of cruel sun). This is not a "natural disaster." It is an imperialist and capitalist disaster.
Ka malu ʻulu aʻo Lele, kukui ʻaʻā mau pio ʻole i ke Kauaʻula.

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Death to Imperialism
14 Pepeluali 2024
Kealakeakua, Hawaiʻi

The fourteenth day of the second month of the year is not a day for celebrating some dead European of the haole religion or for lining the pockets of corporations commercializing "love" (something tragically familiar to Hawaiians, who have had "aloha" appropriated and commercialized by foreign capitalists for over a century). 14 Pepeluali is instead a highly important date in Hawaiian history.

On this date in 1779, the Hawaiian people and indeed all the peoples of the Pacific liberated themselves from the first invader of kō Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina, James Cook. He and his band of haole plunderers had landed their ships of war in Kealakeakua on the island of Hawaiʻi, stolen wood from a burial site, falsely accused a chief of stealing a boat, kidnapped ke aliʻi nui while he was sleeping, harassed a kahuna and ultimately fired shots into the unarmed crowd of kānaka ʻoiwi. In self-defense and heroic resistance, the people slayed the tyrant and killed his ambitions to steal the land, labor and life of Hawaiʻi to enrich himself and his colonial project. The peoples of the Pacific today continue to rejoice this triumphant victory over the great evil of genocidal colonialism.

Also on 14 February, 1874, Liliʻuokalani was designated by Mōʻī Kalākaua as a princess in line to the Hawaiian throne. This marked the beginning of the royal trajectory of Liliʻuokalani and her unwavering campaign to restore the lāhui, struggling unceasingly on behalf of the Hawaiian people and their national liberation from the forces of imperialism and foreign capitalist exploitation.

This 14 February, let us remember and commemorate the heroism of our kūpuna and poʻe aloha ʻāina who have come before us in the struggle for the freedom of all oppressed peoples throughout the Pacific and throughout the world. Like the courageous warriors of Kealakeakua 245 years ago, may our ʻonipaʻa, our resistance to settler colonialism and our revolutionary organization strike a final deathblow to imperialism.

Ua Mau ke Ea o ka ʻĀina i ka Pono ~~ E ʻOnipaʻa Kākou  ~~ Kūʻē

[cherry mandarin]

Now accepting nominations for host city.

[cherry mandarin]

Calling all attendees to order.

Delegates, please register by signing your name as follows:

x HL23

[LAKISYLVANIA]

X Laki

Nominating Honolulu in Hawaii

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[cherry mandarin]

Hear ye, hear ye. The first bi-monthly Hui Liliʻuokalani Party Convention is now underway.

Seeing that quorum has now been reached, I hereby move that the floor be declared in session.

As the first order of business on the tabled schedule, the speaker will now be accepting nominations for party chair and vice-chair.

[Liminal Trans Girl]

I'm nominating myself as Chair

[Liminal Trans Girl]

Proposed by-laws

1. The chair of this party shall be elected by a majority vote of its members.
2. The chair, in accordance with federal law, shall have the authority to make appointments to at large senate vacancies.
3. Upon the ratification of these bylaws, a 5 minute nomination period shall immediately commence for party chair. However, it shall officially conclude if a majority of party members assent to the nomination (including the original nominee's self-nomination or assent). A vote for party chair shall last 1 hour, or until a majority of party members assent to a particular nominated candidate.

vote for these by-laws

[] Aye
[] Nay
[]Abstain

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Aye, and I hereby assent to the nomination of Liminal as Chair

[Liminal Trans Girl]

Aye

[Sirius_]

Aye

[Sirius_]

I assent to the nomination