April 12, 2015
Kanaka Monitor Mauna Kea During Temporary Halt of Construction
KANAKA CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE SUMMIT OF MAUNA KEA. THEIR MOVEMENT HAS GALVANIZED DURING A TEMPORARY HALTING OF CONSTRUCTION
Media Contacts:
Kaiulani Milham
Kamahana Kealoha
(MAUNA KEA, Hawai'i Island, April 11, 2015) — Kanaka protectors and supporters continue to maintain their vigil at 9,000 feet above sea level to protect Mauna Kea, also known as Mauna a Wakea, on Hawaii Island amidst growing support pouring in from around the globe. The protectors insist on monitoring the summit of Mauna Kea despite Hawaii Governor Ige's announcement that the temporary halt to construction, which was set to end tomorrow, April 12, will be extended until April 20, 2015. The protectors continue their vigil, braving the frigid weather on the summit of Mauna Kea, awakening this morning to frost-covered tents.
The warrior-protectors are defending the mountain from the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), a desecration of one of the most sacred places in the Hawaiian Islands. There are also other ongoing legal and environmental issues over the proposed development. The peaceful protest has been ongoing for years, but in the past several months, it has gathered more momentum and support from Hawaiians and others around the world. The 24-hour blockade began eleven days and nights ago on April 1, 2015.
Today from Hilo, Governor Ige announced an extension to a temporary halt to construction of the TMT project, thanking the TMT "for its willingness to be respectful and sensitive to all of Hawaii–its special people, its sense of place and its unique host culture." However, protectors are resolute in their position that construction not resume, and momentum against the TMT is only getting stronger. Mauna Kea's protectors have continued to magnify their numbers exponentially with a global sign-waving and media blitz that continues to trend on different social platforms internationally, and media coverage continues to spread.
It is estimated that tens of thousands of supporters are taking part in hundreds of planned and spontaneous local and international demonstrations here in Hawaii and around the globe. Many of these world-wide protesters are displaying the distinct hand signal that has become synonymous with the Hawaiian worldview of the mountain. The diamond shape hand-signal represents the idea of "piko," a term used to refer to the umbilical cord or center of one's being. For generations, native speakers used the Hawaiian language phrase "ka piko kaulana o ka aina" (literally "the famous summit of all the land") [phonetic pronunciation: Kah pee-koh cow-lahna oh kah eye-nah] to describe the sacredness and wonders of the summit.
In addition to demonstrations from the west to the east coasts of the United States, protectors emerged from many other nations including Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, England, the Federated States of Micronesia, Italy, Germany, Hungary, Japan, Kanaky New Caledonia, the Marshall Islands, New Zealand, Norway, Okinawa, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Tahiti, Tonga, and West Papua, demonstrating how highly regarded Hawaii is in the eyes of the world. Hawaii is marketed as an idyllic tropic paradise and premier international tourist destination to the world, in part for its breathtaking natural beauty of its lands, seas, culture, and people. The world is responding to the protectors' call to support the sacred mountain and halt further desecration. The protectors continue to remind all that the 24 hour stand will continue as long as the summit is threatened by the TMT project and any desecration. Visit this link to access pictures of this international support at: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/18yf5n2cka8j33s/AADWE9a27SAuyH1jZdTbb44sa?dl=0
Spontaneous creation of poetry, dance, visual art and other mele aloha 'aina (protest songs expressing deep love for the land) are being shared on the sacred mauna and across social media. This was particularly visible last week as thousands from the global hula community were in Hilo to celebrate the internationally-recognized Merrie Monarch Hula Festival. Numerous halau and musicians went to Mauna Kea throughout the week to offer musical ho'okupu [ho-oh-coo-poo] or offerings, many dedicated to the female deities of the mountain, and to the warrior chiefess Manono who fought against colonial incursion against traditional religion and died on the battlefield of Kuamo'o [Coo-ah-mo-oh], South Kona, alongside her chiefly husband Kekuaokalani, in 1819.
Lastly, in further response to Governor Ige's statement regarding the TMT project, that prior decisions have been made and should be honored, Kamahana Kealoha, an advocate for the Sacred Mauna Kea Hui, respectfully released the following response:
"Although State entities have made decisions in the past to allow the TMT to pass through the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Conservation District Use Application process, the flagrant industrialization of an endangered species district reasonably warrants that entities involved seriously consider the legal ramifications of denying kanaka, and all Hawaii citizens, the basic humanity and protections securing the absolute safety of Hawaii Island's main freshwater aquifer, a resource essential to all life.
The Sacred Mauna Kea Hui also asserts that respect, in keeping with the Hawaiian customs associated with any remains interred, be afforded to iwi, or Hawaiian burials, and that these sacred remains should never be, for any reason, desecrated by disturbing them in any way.
The Sacred Mauna Kea Hui maintains that an endangered species, protected environment, should never be industrialized so blatantly a stone's throw away from Hawaii island's main water aquifer which is also home to countless sacred, unidentified, traditionally interred graves."
Kamahana Kealoha
(Sacred Mauna Kea Hui Facilitator)
Sacred Mauna Kea is receiving donations from Native American tribes and others for the purpose of supporting all efforts to protect Mauna Kea, including future bail for kupuna. Kupuna, up to 75 years of age, were among the first protectors taken away during the arrest of more than 30 protectors on Thursday, April 2.
Supporters bailed out all of the detainees within hours of their arrests. Funds such as Sacred Mauna Kea continue to welcome donations to assist with any future bail. The group also is continuing to request donations for flights to and from Hawaii between the other Hawaiian islands as well as much-needed accommodations, including food, ground transportation and other essentials. Visit www.gofundme.com/sacredmaunakea.
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Kamahana Kealoha
Head facilitator of the Sacred Mauna Kea Hui
email: sacredmaunakea@gmail.com
phone: 808-853-8062
April 11, 2015
April 10, 2015
United Nations to hold COINTELPRO review in May under Human Rights Treaty
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| Black Panther Party, American Indian Movement and Vietnam War Protesters were all targets of the US government's COINTELPRO |
United Nations to hold COINTELPRO review in May under Human Rights Treaty
The United Nations will review the United States government's COINTELPRO program that targeted the Black Panthers, American Indian Movement, Martin Luther King, Jr., and all protesters of the Vietnam War.
Among those voices against the Vietnam War was Buffy Sainte Marie. Buffy said she was blacklisted out of the music industry in the US because of her song, "Universal Soldier," and her stance against the Vietnam War.
In a long-censored interview at Dine' College on the Navajo Nation, Buffy said that President Johnson played a key role in forcing radio stations to stop playing her songs. She said entire shipments of her records simply disappeared.
Operation Chaos also targeted AIM
Operation Chaos also targeted AIM
COINTELPRO was not the only US operation that targeted the American Indian Movement.
Censored News discovered that in 1967 President Johnson created Operation Chaos to spy on the American Indian Movement, Black Panthers, student movements and anti-war movements.
The CIA operation gathered documents on 7,200 US citizens, tracking their contacts with so-called 'dissidents' in other countries.
Operation Chaos was a highly classified, secret intelligence project of the CIA, which targeted the American Indian Movement after the Occupation of Wounded Knee.
The CIA operation gathered documents on 7,200 US citizens, tracking their contacts with so-called 'dissidents' in other countries.
Operation Chaos was a highly classified, secret intelligence project of the CIA, which targeted the American Indian Movement after the Occupation of Wounded Knee.
American Indians involved in the anti-war movement were targeted.
US cables reveal that the State Department was focused on spying on Russell Means.
The US State Department took notice and sent out a cable when Russell Means, Lakota, said a delegation to Eastern Europe planned to "ram the human rights issue down President Carter's throat." https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1977STATE226024_c.html
Means promised to expose the genocide of American Indians in Europe and seek support for the ongoing "foreign occupation" in the US. The US was also concerned that the delegation to Europe in 1977 would use "Iroquois passports," according to the US spy cable.
One document in Wikileaks shows that after Wounded Knee, the American Indian Movement was planning an Indian Treaty Convention near Mobridge, South Dakota, in 1974. The US was concerned that Bolivia and Mexico would attend. "The USG (United States government) would regard official participation in this event by any foreign government as inappropriate." The US continued to try and find out who was coming. Read more at Censored News: http://indigenousresistancejuly2014.blogspot.com/2014/08/operation-chaos-targeted-american.html
Indian news website receives US spy contract
Now, even the American Indian media ownership is involved in spying for the United States. Recently, Ho-Chunk, Inc, in Nebraska, owners of the Indian news website www.indianz.com received a multi-million dollar spy contract for domestic and international spying, with an office at the Pentagon. Ho-Chunk Inc. already had separate contracts for services in Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
Black Panthers begin focus at United Nations
In the upcoming review of COINTELPRO in Geneva by the United Nations, which begins in early May, two of Amnesty International's Prisoners of Conscience, Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa aka David Rice, are among those summoning justice. They were imprisoned because of convictions related to the Black Panther Party in Omaha, Nebraska.
The Examiner reports, "The United States Human Rights Network has announced that the United States will undergo a five-year Universal Periodic Review on May 11 of its compliance with human rights treaties to which the United States is a signatory. The issue of political prisoners from the COINTELPRO era has been put before the treaty review team.
Operation COINTELPRO was a clandestine and illegal counterintelligence program directed against political activists from 1956 to 1971, under J. Edgar Hoover’s close supervision. The 'Black Nationalist-Hate Groups' was the most vicious and lethal counterintelligence effort of the Federal Bureau of Investigation during that era."
Read the article in the Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/article/united-nations-to-hold-cointelpro-review-may-under-human-rights-treaty
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| Amnesty International: Prisoners of Conscience Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa aka David Rice Black Panther Party Omaha, Nebraska |
United Nations racism treaty forces Obama to explain COINTELPRO black political prisoners
By Mo Barns, Rolling Out
A United Nations treaty on racism, which the United States is a signatory, is being enforced against the Obama administration. The enforcement of the treaty deals with the details of black prisoners, especially in the 1960s. Under the FBI program COINTELPRO dozens of black political prisoners were incarcerated during the Civil Rights Era. In some cases, these prisoners were deliberately targeted by the FBI under instruction from Director J. Edgar Hoover. The UN report states “The Committee requests the State party to provide its next periodic report, detailed information on … The current status of political activists from the Civil Right Era who reportedly continue to be incarcerated.” The complaint was filed by an organization known as Jericho Movement, the organization has said that 19 Black Panthers remained in prison after unfair trials. An additional report to the UN committee from the Malcolm X Center for Self-Determination, indicated some prisoners whose situation needed urgent attention. The prisoners known included the Omaha Two, these prisoners are Edward Poindexter and Mondo we Langa aka David Rice.
Read the article in Rollingout: http://rollingout.com/politics/united-nations-racism-treaty-forces-obama-explain-black-political-prisoners/
Also see the Blacklisting of Buffy Sainte Marie by Brenda Norrell, Censored News:
The censoring of Buffy Sainte Marie by Indian Country Today played a pivotal role in the creation of Censored News nine years ago. Buffy was among the many activists censored by the editors of Indian Country Today while I was a staff writer there, which was the majority of the years between 1995 and 2006. After being censored repeatedly, then terminated by Indian Country Today, I created Censored News.
In her interview at Dine' College on the Navajo Nation, which was censored at the time by Indian Country Today, Buffy said that because of her song, 'Universal Soldier,' and her voice against the war in Vietnam, she was blacklisted out of the music industry in the US. She later learned that President Johnson played a key role in pressuring radio stations not to play her songs, and entire shipments of her records simply disappeared.
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2013/07/the-blacklisting-of-buffy-sainte-marie.htmlUS Sterilization of Native American women:
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US government's sterilization of American Indian women: Jean Whitehorse, Dineh (Navajo) tells what happened to her. Video by Brenda Norrell, Censored News, at American Indian Movement's AIM West in San Francisco.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26-QlIGhXcE
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