By Oct 2028, Hawai’i is required to complete a comprehensive audit of the revenues generated off the Public Land Trust (Kingdom Crown Lands). Ka Waiwai Kūʻokoʻa proposes investing 50% into a Sovereign Wealth Fund to build permanent ʻŌiwi economic power. open.substack.com/pub/keonidef...

Ka Waiwai Kūʻokoʻa: an ʻŌiwi Sovereign Wealth Fund

Converting the Public Land Trust into Generational Wealth

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A video on Nation of Hawaii’s restoration at Puʻuhonua O Waimanalo, land won through occupation. This is what #LandBack looks like, we must continue to fight for more sovereign land bases across our pae ʻāina. youtu.be/24uCCr3KjCI?si

How Hawaiian Rebels are Rebuilding an Ancient Food Paradise

YouTube video by Andrew Millison

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Another jet fuel spill in Hawaii by the US Navy The 4th known serious spill of toxic chemicals into our ecosystem since ‘21 Red Hill. The US Military is the greatest threat to life in Hawaii How many more times will we allow this before the Hawaiian people expel them for good?

#landback means more food to feed our community which is exactly why we are coming for more

The US Gov is looking to slash $500M in Federal funding for Dept of Hawaiian Home Lands. They are coming for every single Native Hawaiian program. If we’re no longer benefiting from federal funding what’s preventing us from reestablishing a sovereign Hawaii & rebuilding our own national wealth?

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb.)

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and…

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Hokulea arrives in Kualoa for her 50th anniversary ceremony. When she left on her maiden sail from these shores, she was the first traditional Polynesian Voyaging Canoe built in decades Today, over a dozen sail in to greet her, a demonstration of the rebirth of waʻa traditions across Oceania. E Ola

Making ready for Hokulea 50th anniversary

hey so, um, all this is terrible, but the *1st* thing we need to halt is this: Trump's EO to clear cut 280 million acres of trees in National Forests and protected public lands. our forests are irreplaceable. we need folks on the ground to stake out, track logging companies, create roadblocks, etc.

Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber

President’s move to expand tree cutting across 280m acres evades rules to protect endangered species

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Ae. Pololei. A loaa i kela mau mokupuni apau na inoa maoli. O Papahakaumokuakea ka inoa o ka pae moku. www.papahanaumokuakea.gov

David Schneider-Joseph@thedavidsj.bsky.social · 2y ago

Did you all know that Hawaii was this long

Aloha mai kakou. No Hawaii mai au, a i imi ia no kekahi punaewele wikio na ka aole like o Twita (X). I speak Hawaiian, but can speak English also. Makemake au e olelo Hawaii, no ka mea, ke hoemi nei ka poe olelo Hawaii. Nolaila, e hoomau ai au ka olelo Hawaii, maanei ame kahi e ae.

Auwe nohoi. Kaumaha ko'u puuwai. Ua lele ka hanu o Anakala Kini, he kupuna alakai Puuhonua o Puuhuluhulu ma Mauna Kea. He kanaka kue o ia, a he alii nui pu. Eo. Ea.

Ua wehe iā Kū!♦️ We welcome in the season of Kū as Lono departs. The Makaliʻi constellation ✨ is no longer visible at night & the days elongate Akua of farming, fishing, & politics. A season of productivity, planting & action It’s the responsibility of the collective to protect each other E Ola

The season of Kū has arrived, under the Kūkahi Mahina 🌙 Ola Let us Kūkulu & continue to build community rooted power in the pursuit of ea & liberation of our national homelands from the American occupation. There has never been a more important time to be involved in community organizing. ʻOnipaʻa

Degrowth should be adopted as a core value of aloha 'āina and the sovereignty movement.

The Intercept@theintercept.com · 2y ago

Today’s economic boycott is a one-day attack on corporate interests. The degrowth movement calls for a broader societal shift.

The real travesty in the firings of *promoted* probationary federal employees is their probationary status at all. That is a topic of bargaining and sadly something that has apparently been settled for by the union and it's members. It is truly absurd.

O ka wa ma mua - an independent Hawaiian state and a pae 'āina-wide workers movement. O ka wa ma hope - an independent Hawaiian state and a mass pae 'āina-wide workers movement. No ka lāhui always.

Indo-Paccom being one of the ONLY federal departments and even military commands to not be impacted by funding cuts should tell you everything about the fact that their purpose is insidious and meant to be subversive. Their role in the new Cold War is too crucial to cut

If our Kupuna saw their food system falling into disrepair they would say “clean em up already, stop complaining no food.” We have the right to seize all state lands protecting forests of invasive trees destroying our ancient agricultural sites. Get em all back into production, da time is now.

Another successful aloha ʻāina day yesterday at Nation of Hawaiʻi We continue to build rock wall to stand for the next 800 years & 8 generations Community rooted self determination is our niho stone & foundation as we continue to strengthen our vision of a free & independent Hawai’i for all 🪨🪨🦎

The way that employers are nickel and diming workers is crazy. Working at a union I see it every day. It’s not just low wages, corporations are trying to drain and suck every dollar from workers. Was just at a hotel that CHARGES its workers for lunch every shift even if they don’t use the cafeteria

Beginning to see our native ʻOʻopu Nakea (goby fish) appear in our stream at Puʻuhonua O Waimanalo for the first time in recent memory. They’re a “species of special concern” by the American Fisheries Society (AFS) & require cleared waterways to successfully spawn. Welina mai! Welcome home! ❤️

How the Lahaina wildfire exposes structures of settler colonialism, and a legacy of Native Hawaiian water rights that have yet to be fully realized. #olaikawai #waterrights #foodsovereignty #indigenouslaw #hawaii Read the JAFSCD article from Dr Pua Brown for free: doi.org/10.5304/jafs...

On this day the Kanaka Maoli fondly commentate da killing of the historic war criminal Capt Cooke, who fucked around & found out Let that be a lesson to any white nationals getting a little too excited in this moment We will still crack u & bury u if u step out of line on our shores. Da imu is lit

If you have police officers in your family, the time is now to speak with them about disobeying orders. We don’t have to go along with this shit.

And we need to max tax all the evil billionaires who own prime real estate here.

Keoni DiFranco🔺🇳🇨🇳🇨@keoni-difranco.bsky.social · 2y ago

Hawaii is in position to call for the eviction of all US Troops unless all leases, not just those that expire in 2029, are renegotiated at a premium. As Federal programs disappear we would be well funded & positioned to reimplement our own Dept of Edu, Universal Healthcare & other social services

hell yah, hawaii, get your freedom

Keoni DiFranco🔺🇳🇨🇳🇨@keoni-difranco.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s cowardly & a disservice to our people to not implement our full sovereignty to our maximum benefit in this moment. Which, per Public Law 103-150, Native Hawiians have never relinquished. We are not DEI, the American’s visas should be revoked.

Hawaii is in position to call for the eviction of all US Troops unless all leases, not just those that expire in 2029, are renegotiated at a premium. As Federal programs disappear we would be well funded & positioned to reimplement our own Dept of Edu, Universal Healthcare & other social services

As the US Federal Gov freezes funding it’s important to remember the State of Hawaii has not been fulfilling its obligation to provide Office of Hawaiian Affairs with 20% of annual revenues generated off (stolen) Hawaiian Crown Lands/ Public Land Trust (PLT), $78.9M annually. This is $ owed to us

A manaful first 2025 Aloha ʻĀina Day at Nation of Hawaiʻi with 130+ ʻOhana on site with us. This year, our intention is to engage our community in conversations around what a modern day Puʻuhonua can function like, collectively managed under communal land tenure.