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Two new visual resources

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Here are a couple of new resources worth noting.

“Documenting Activist: The early days of the Native Hawaiian Movement,” was aired at the recent Hawaii International Film Festival.

It consists of newly digitized archival footage, including a 1984 KITV special on the Hawaiian movement and clips from 1976-1977 Protect Kaho’olawe ‘Ohana video footage.

Veteran videographer Joan Lander, of Na Maka o ka `Aina, writes that “the good folks at ‘Ulu’ulu put this past Sunday’s ‘Documenting Activism‘ presentation up on their website.”

The link will take you to the online video.

And the Hawaii State Archives recently announced the release of its digital release of the Queen Lili?uokalani Photograph Exhibition in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of her passing.

The image files are very large, so you probably don’t want to browse the collection if you have a very slow internet connection.

Homelessness in a previous era

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I was looking through a couple of copies of my old Hawaii Monitor newsletter, and came across a book review by the late Chuck Frankel, who spend much of his career at the old Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Frankel was reviewing a history of the city published by UH Press: “The City and County of Honolulu, a Government Chronicle,” by Donald D. Johnson.

One snippet caught my eye. Time passes, it seems, but things don’t necessarily change a lot.

Frankel wrote:

The homeless, much in the news today, were called “squatters” in the 1920’s. The head of the Hawaiian Tourism Board suggested that Squatersville at Kewalo Basin be turned into a tourist attraction as a “typical Hawaiian village.”

So many city plans to eliminate slums and to beautify the island turned out to be ways to sweep aside Hawaiians and others who were poor and powerless.”

TMT column draws lots of comments

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My column for Civil Beat this week tried to wade through the Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law issued last month by retired Circuit Court Judge Riki May Amano, serving as hearing officer in the contested case hearing for the Thirty Meter Telecope’s conservation district use permit. See “Ian Lind: A Judge’s Findings Leave TMT Opponents Few Options“.

This morning, it was at the top of Civil Beat’s “Most Popular” list, and had drawn over 100 comments.

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I have to admit that I haven’t had the stomach to read through the comments. Usually when I stray over to comment on Hawaiian issues, it gets ugly. So I’m not rushing in to see what’s there. Maybe before the weekend is out I’ll have a look see.

In the meantime, I’ll focus on something more pleasant.


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