This is my response to Kuhio Vogeler’s recent posting “Two Questions that Lead to Action,” in which he lays out a frame into which we can begin to build a strategy to end occupation in Hawaii.
Although there are conflicting viewpoints as to which strategy may be more effective, we seem to be at a place [...]

With the many year-end reviews and perspectives on the closing of the decade that I feel inundated with, I’ve tried to play catch-up with the 21st-century and realize that it’s a little like chasing the tide; futile, and at the end of the day, unrewarding.
Tonight, as many of us prepare to celebrate the new year, [...]

Video of the August 21st Statehood Commemoration protest outside the Hawaii Convention center featuring commentary by Lynette Cruz and Poka Laenui

More information of that historical event can be found here.

From Variety Magazine Nov. 17, 2009, go to original

By Richard Kuipers
A U. of Hawaii at Manoa presentation of an Academy for Creative Media production. (International sales: U. of Hawaii, Honolulu.) Produced by Anne Misawa. Executive producers, Tom Brislin, Chris Lee. Directed by Anne Misawa.
With: Ah Quon McElrath, Cobey Black, Daniel Inouye, Jonathan Osorio, Kekuni [...]

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Here’s the new press release for the upcoming Ike: Historical Transformations presentation coming up on Saturday, October 24th. You can go to the imipono.org website and download a pdf.
This event also officially launches ‘Imi Pono Projects, a new site with a somewhat related but new emphasis which will fold over from Statehood Hawaii.
Statehood Hawaii [...]

Continuing the race-based assault on native Hawaiian advancement and entitlements, an article by the Southern Poverty Law Center “Prejudice in Paradise,” has been fueling a discussion on anti-white racism in Hawaii.
One perspective that continues to be left out of this incendiary dialogue is the story of “the melting pot.” In the 1950s, during the national [...]

Eight years ago, Ruth Chon started on a documentary on the landmark twin oil tanks that were being imploded in Brooklyn, in Greenpoint.  Two month’s later 9/11.  Organizing every friend she had with a video camera or super 8, her intent was to produce a short doc on the subject.
As a tribute to the 9/11 [...]

STATE of ALOHA trailer:
HIFF SHOWTIMES
Sunday, October 18, 2:45 pm Dole Cannery A
Thursday, October 22, 2:00 pm Dole Cannery D
The exciting news is that this film has been nominated for best documentary in the Documentary Feature Category, to possibly receive the Halekulani Golden Orchid Award!
PBS PREMIERE- AUGUST 28th
Tonight was the premiere of “State [...]

August 21, 2009. Hawaii’s 50th anniversary of statehood commemoration was an event that changed the way that we think about statehood. The events inside and outside the convention center brought disparate viewpoints together in a manner where voices and histories could exist side-by-side, speaking with each other not through words, but by presence. If this [...]