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Don't Bust a Move Dayne!
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Article posted on islandbreath.org by Juan Wilson on 5 May 2008
On Wednesday, April 30th an anti-GMO meeting was held in Hanapepe at the United Church for Christ. Among the sixty or so people attending were Richard Hoeppner, of People for the Preservation of Kauai, and Dayne Aipoalani, of the Kingdom of Atooi. Dayne was with his wife Toni and twenty month old daughter Alana.
Dayne and Richard have known each other and worked together. Richard is a retired police detective and Dayne wanted to have the Kingdom of Atooi marshals get some formal police training, especially in conflict resolution, and mediation.
The two have also worked against the Superferry coming to Kauai and against Syngenta spraying herbicides next to Waimea Canyon Middle School. Dayne and Toni had become alarmed because neighborhood children had become sick and even one of their own had become ill after Syngenta spraying.
The anti-GMO meeting broke up about nine p.m. The Dayne and the family got in their truck and headed to the parking lot exit to get on the highway going west and home to Kekaha. When he got to the stop sign, at the highway, Dayne noticed a darkened police cruiser parked next to Hanapepe Park. It turned on its lights and pulled up to the stop sign opposite him.
Suspecting something, Dayne did not pull out onto the highway, but waited for the police car to move first. It didn’t. Fifteen seconds went by. Suddenly the cop car turned right onto the highway heading west. Dayne followed him.
As Dayne pulled away he noticed two vehicles emerge from the church parking lot and follow behind his truck. A SUV and a sedan. At this time Rich Hoeppner was preparing to leave the church too. Rich drove east towards Kalaheo.
As Dayne continued west there was little traffic as he came to Moi Street. But there another police cruiser was parked. It fell into line behind him and the two unmarked vehicles. In less than a minute Dayne was passing the National Guard facility on the makai side of the highway. Three police cruisers joined the parade.
The police cruisers all at once turned on their flashers and in front of Salt Pond Store pulled Dayne over and boxed him in. Police swarmed Dayne’s truck. From the unmarked SUV four SWAT police emerged in camo and vests. They carried gas canisters and other special equipment.
The police team was lead by police officers Steve Sueoka and Detective Hank Barriga. Dayne knew he was in trouble because of Sueoka’s role in the August 2007 Superferry demonstrations. In December of last year KPD Chief Darryl Perry recognized Sueoka for his exceptional assistance of the United States Coast Guard during that time.
After Dayne’s car was surrounded by the police and SWAT team there was a lot of yelling. Sueoka said; “You are under arrest!”
Dayne said; “What for? What did I do? Wait a minute.”
When asked to get out of his truck Dayne did not understand why. He got on his cell phone and called friends for advise and help.
Richard Hoeppner got a call as he was passing Kalaheo. He turned the car around and headed for Salt Pond Store.
Sueoka continued; “We have a warrant.”
Dayne answered; I’m not getting out of the car until I know what’s going on.”
Sueoka showed Dayne the warrant. As it turned out the warrant the police were carrying was for failure to show up at a plea hearing on the charge of impersonating an officer. During the August Superferry demonstrations Dayne carried a badge identifying himself as an officer of the Kingdom of Atooi. He never claimed to be a KPD policeman.
He was surprised by the police action because of a meeting he had to discuss the issue of Kingdom of Atooi marshals and their responsibilities. The meeting was in Lihue with Chief Perry on November 8th 2007, attended by KPD officer Roy Asher and others. It was understood by Dayne that a line of communication was opened with the KPD and that they would contact him if questions reg
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Ola Na Iwi o Na Hala o Naue: The Bones Live at Na Hala o Naue
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Ola Na Iwi o Na Hala O Naue: The Bones Live at Na Hala o Naue
By Hale Mawae
In caring for my ancestors, I know that it is within the bones of our people, na o‘iwi o Ko Hawai‘i Pae ‘Aina, that our ancestors live. Ku‘u ewe, ku‘u piko, ku‘u iwi, ku‘u koko. My umbilical cord, my navel, my bones, my blood. All the elements of our body that constitute us as kanaka maoli. All cherished pieces of ourselves that connect us to that iwi. Ola na iwi. The bones live.
Here within the iwi is the life of our people. Our deep spiritual resonance and connection to that source with our iwi. That which is most sacred. Our kupuna, who we serve and protect in the highest and at all cost.
That is our kuleana. The bones must live. They must be cherished and held dearly as our brothers and sisters; because as the ‘olelo no‘eau states clearly, they have life, they gave life. the bones live. Generations upon generations, surviving on ‘aina which thrived and was forever giving.
Our kupuna never imagined that our ‘aina would become such a distant place from their descendants. Their lives, which paved the way for us to stumble upon this bare Earth to seal the survival of a hundred generations to follow in our place. E ola mau e na poki‘i! The ohi‘a lehua tree falls and another bud rises in its place. A resurrection of life. Na o‘iwi o Hawai‘i!
That is our kuleana.
To live. To breathe. Ha. To give life.
Our kupuna never wished that our struggle would be so great in this corrupted time and place we struggle amongst today. Yet, we must carry on in defending these offensive and culturally insensitive tirades that come from all angles of the illegitimate, illegal, and fabricated state of Hawai‘i.
A state being manipulated by the occupying U.S. Nation and military; their accompanying, co-conspirator corporations; incorporated third and fourth parties; and those few individuals who still refuse to believe the god, honest truth.
That Ko Hawai‘i Pae ‘Aina is still an independent and lawful nation, with an enacted and lawful constitution set forth by Kauikeaouli: Kamehameha III. The truth continuing to be shadowed in blatant secrecy as the illegally acting state government has refused to recognize the error of their ways.
“Others say its because Lingle awarded high-level government jobs to "pro-growth”
people who lacked proper experience. This in reference to the fact that Peter Young, who resigned as the head of the DLNR concerning statements he made to state officials before his term was renewed, came from the real estate industry. In addition, Melanie Chinen apparently had no experience in historic preservation before Lingle tapped her to head
SHPD.” (www.honolulumagazine.com)
Chinen says she’s tired of having to defend herself. There are times when she has considered resigning from the job, she says. “Many nights, I have left this office, crying, thinking I cannot do this anymore. I am tired, I am burnt out,” she says. “My children don’t want me to be here. It hurts my whole family.”
Trying to evoke sympathy and apologetic legal explanations just doesn’t cut it. I don’t think it really gets to the root of the problem. A‘ole pono! It doesn’t even begin to scratch the surface. Sympathy doesn’t make up for buying and selling property that no one, but the remaining survivors of kanaka maoli have a clear title to. Creating fraudulent documents of title and land guarantee so we can go on digging up more iwi, throwing heiau rocks into a rock crusher, and desecrating more beloved ‘aina in the dishonorable act of “fast tracking” development projects.
How does sympathy make up for thousands of iwi kupuna being removed from those same illegal land purchases for military, commercial, and private real estate expansion?
‘A‘ole Pono! It doesn’t!
“That is absolutely untrue,” Melanie Chinen says in commenting on a H
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10 days ago
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Mauliola: The Holy Trinity of "Maoli Art"
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Mauliola: The Holy Trinity of "Maoli Art"
As seen in discussion group "Maoli Artists and Creative Masterpieces"
http://maoliworld.ning.com/group/mao...
By Hale Mawae
I first want to mahalo Ikaika, for bringing up such an intuitive topic to the table, and agree with him on his definition of what really is maoli art. I think the term "maoli art" goes far deeper and is a much broader spectrum of creative artists in our kanaka maoli community. Maoli art is something clearly defined as being kanaka maoli artists or Native Hawaiian artists taking the creative mediums that are available to them in today's society, and incorporating it into a creative art form that is definitively kanaka maoli.
Meaning, that the manner of inspiration derives from cultural and spiritual essences that divide ourselves apart from traditional Western styles of art and art forms. Then taking that cultural and spiritual inspiration to drive your creation into a style that represents your own manner of art/life as a kanaka maoli, and your own maoli passion for the type of artistic expression you create. Whether that creation is pencil sketching or a digital creation on Adobe Illustrator. An oli kahea or a slam poetry spoken word poem. A traditional style hula or modern contemporary dance. Whether it's a lauhala mat or an oil on canvas. A mo'olelo, or a dramatic stage or film presentation with a whole cast of actors.
But to define it more personally for myself in my creative process as a maoli artist, when I create a piece of maoli art, I first start with the many akua. The akua, who give me the foresight, inspiration, and vision for my work. They guide my inspiration and imagination into form and craft. They obliterate the many borders and obstacles that creativity encounters. They create a limitless canvas of immense proportion. The akua giving value to your vision. Spiritual sustenance to your craving artistic mind. Our akua carrying our thoughts and imagination into the heavens and asking it for permission before sending it colliding back down to our honua.
They take us on our spiritual journeys beyond the horizon to the many sacred places of our own vast mind. Akua are the driving force for our imagination. They drive our spirit and give it gifts for fruition in our physical creative world. They are a reminder of inspiration of our great romances through life, our art only being an imitation of that life. The creation of both light and dark. The creation of life itself. The greatest tales of love and of tragedy; of mischief and great victory. These are the lives of our many great Akua that give us guidance for our work, and we thank them gratefully. Mahalo e na akua o keia 'aina.
Second, I find inspiration from our aumakua. They open all the doors and windows to our piko and keep an open the path to our connection to our many akua. They show us the road around the obstacles. But they also show us the many riches along the path in encountering those obstacles. The kaona to what you are really seeing in your creative mind when you journey along the path of creation. Giving us clues to the hidden meaning to why the inspiration is coming to you when it does, translating the language of akua into a form that is literate and meaningful to us as kanaka. The aumakua watching your work closely with careful guidance and rich precision.
While akua give you the vision and passion to create, the aumakua is the energy moving between your artistic eye and the canvas of life The aumakua is the the dip of the brush into the amalgam of color on the pallet to each fluid stroke across the empty page. Aumakua is same kind of calming patience the Ni'ihau people use to pick and clean every kahelelani shell, which then moves on to the same patient string and needle. Mahalo e na aumakua.
I believe the third defining element of maoli art is our kupuna. Our kupuna both past and present. They are the physical aspect of our art. They are the reason
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Uwekahuna by Halau O Kekuhi
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wahine o kalua
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small kind bord!!! hahaha
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Storm
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Pa'u o ka 'ilima!
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Kaheanaoiwi...
I was inspired to do a drawing for you that incorporated a wahine character adorned with 'ilima growing along the shorelines of Homaikawa'a.
The 'ilima in my hard is in full bloom looks stunning amongst the silvery green leaves.
A hui hou. Malama pono!
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Kaulu: The Great Trickster
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Kaulu literally meaning the inspired one, was a trickster demigod born as a rope. In human form with his strong hands he created surf by breaking the waves. He made the sea salty by draining it and spitting it out.
He ka'e'a'e'a pulu 'ole no ka he'e nalu.
An expert on the surfboard who ...
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