How Does APEC Benefit or Harm Hawaii and other Pacific Islands? download pamphlet The impact of the APEC forum will provide Hawaii’s business and finance community with some economic gains, but it will do so at the expense of long-term environmental consequences while furthering economic disparities. Behind the friendly appearance of its website and...
Act 55–DLNR’s Public Land Optimization Plan: PLOP, Colonialism 4.0 Sneak-Attack Today, July 1st, 2011, Act 55 goes into effect in Hawaii, an act that gives the State of Hawaii, through the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR), a new for-profit entity directed by DLNR, the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism (DBEDT),...
Research and presentation made possible through the generosity of Hawaii Council for the Humanities and the Hawaii People’s Fund. Statehood and Hawaii: Correspondences between Congress, the State Department and the United Nations As we have seen during the 50th commemoration of Hawaii statehood, the issue of statehood is both complicated and controversial, a...
Colonialism 4.0 In November 2011, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) will be holding their meeting here. On the agenda is the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). To be clear, TPP is not an APEC initiative. However, it is considered a pathfinder for the proposed Free-Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP), which...
A poem by Epeli Hau’ofa that is both pastoral and speaks to the effects of colonialism in the Pacific. Our Father Bent the Winds Only yesterday The Sands of Sopu brightened the shores of Nuku’alofa, Horse-drawn carts crawled half-awake the green roads, And we sent men and money to Missions abroad. Our fathers bent...
We are Rapanui, Rapa Nui is Moana Nui. The recent success of the Hitorangi clan in Rapa Nui over the Scheiss family and Transoceanica Holding, the corporation that recently and forcefully evicted the Hitorangi family for reoccupying their land is good news. It is just a skirmish in the big picture, however, and not...