Election Recovery & Community Rebuilding -Today

[mahina]

Aloha All,

Election Recovery & Community Rebuilding

The public is invited to a community talk story. This is a time
for gathering to talk story, to listen, then speak, for music,
& tasty Ono Pono food.  A televised open mike combines with
Hawai`i-Alaska Native speakers, election fact-seekers and
community leaders into 3- segments of dialogue, and sharing our
views through the evening. Youth and Wisdom invited. Soul-
reviving music by Makana, and Espiritu Libre with Sandy
Tsukiyama Join us at the open-mike, listen, or talk story with
ohana in the courtyard (bring your beach mat), share mana'o and
grind.

Key speakers
Peter Solomon- Gwich'in Alaskan
Food Sovereignty vs. Oil
Richard Port- Voting Reform
Rev. Kaleo Patterson- Community
Jeff Mikulina- Sierra Club

Note: Sunday, Nov 28 5:00 - 8:30 pm
Church of the Crossroads
1212 University Avenue,
behind Varsity Theater.
Carpool if you can. Park in lot or street.
FREE !

[PoiBoy]

1. I hope you'll be able...

...to post a report on what happened at the meeting today for those of us unable to attend...

This event sounds very interesting... does "televised open mike" mean that portions of the event will be seen on Olelo or Akaku anytime soon?

Mahalo! :hi:

[mahina]

2. OK here goes...

Well I went to do some healing. Some of the bright spots...

Nani Kauka gave us two beautiful opening oli.

The meeting posted on the Hawaii forum already about the organizing for clean elections legislation was discussed by a man whose name I didn't catch but who seemed right on.

Braddah from safe voting hawaii made a lot of good points about the stolen election made here by truth is all and the other dude Ignatz mouse. His point was we have the same kind of electronic voting machine here that gave * 200,000 + bogus votes in FLA so we should demand a manual recount here and work to get RID of the electronic voting machines, they are not necessary and pose too much risk.

Ernie Provencher and Espiritu Santu got us up out of our chairs and boogying to some Marvin Gaye tunes that were just right for the moment.

Jeff Mikulina from the Sierra Club said basically, we all know what's wrong, we need to know what to do about it. He said join every community organization you can and follow the action alerts, when your legislator seems like they are kind of irritated to see you again you are starting to get there.

Kat Brady from Life of the Land made a strong positive message to stay involved, reach out to others of like mind and work on the legislature...that hanging out bitching in our livingrooms is frankly not going to change anything, but if we take it outside to our neighbors and our legislature we can move mountains, and we must. She spoke of the hewa going on with all the building being done so unconciously with so much hard consequence on the native peoples. She spoke very well of how much opportunity we have before us to become energy self sufficient, and reflected on why we are so dependant on only one source of fuel, oil.

Peter Solomon of the Gwichn (?) nation spoke about the drilling in the ANWAR, where their caribou calf. I missed that part very sadly but I know we have to put real pressure on Inouye and Akaka to stop that sh*t. They support it and it is WRONG.

Another man whose name I missed and who I don't know spoke about a lot of sad things, heartbreaking things...how people have become inable to discern lies from truth, and all the sad things you already know.

In between these were mini forum discussions, one with a group of young people and one ornery confused Iraq war #I vet which touched lightly on several subjects.

Kaleo Patterson said isn't it a dark time? And Ha'aheo Guanson said we can do it, have hope, have faith, we are the light right here in this room. She was cool.

Olelo was there. This is not a complete telling, interrupted by lots of personal talk story with people from the last four sad years.
Mahalo

[KamaAina]

3. Gunfunnit! I need a little advance notice on this stuff

no computer in the house at present, so I just saw this Monday morning.

Come to think of it, it was pretty miserable around 5 yesterday, so I wouldn't have made it, anyway. Sheesh.