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Akina again filed suit to stop the election because funding of the project comes from a grant from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and citing a United States Supreme Court case prohibiting the states from conducting race-based elections. [19] In October 2015, a federal judge declined to stop the process from proceeding.
99-0354937 [2]: Legal status: 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization Services: Multifaceted efforts to shed light on government operations and spending; public education regarding the movement to create a sovereign Hawaiian nation and/or other governmental entity; research into the effect of the 1920 Jones Act on the state of Hawaii.
Coinciding with other 1960s and 1970s indigenous activist movements, the Hawaiian sovereignty movement was spearheaded by Native Hawaiian activist organizations and individuals who were critical of issues affecting modern Hawaii, including the islands' urbanization and commercial development, corruption in the Hawaiian Homelands program, and appropriation of native burial grounds and other ...
Hawaii voters approve major constitutional amendments, and see new leadership emerge in local races, including the Big Island mayor.
Civil Beat has a board of directors that has included publisher Pierre Omidyar. [12]Civil Beat gets revenue from subscriptions along with funding from Omidyar. Other sponsorships have come from local businesses and nonprofits, such as the law firm of Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, Appleseed Center and Honolulu Museum of Art which together provided underwriting for a reporting project in Micronesia ...
Joseph Apukai Akina (June 15, 1856 – March 16, 1920) was a lawyer, politician and minister of the Kingdom of Hawaii and later Territory of Hawaii. He served as a statesman during the reign of Queen LiliÊ»uokalani and later became the first Speaker of the House of Representatives in the Hawaii Territorial Legislature .
Honolulu police arrested 33-year-old Leroy Charles Kelii Rodrigues at 99-0627 Kaulainahee Place in Aiea at 2 :17 p.m. Wednesday. He was booked on suspicion of murder in the second degree and three ...
A resolution calling for a voter-approved charter amendment to cap the annual pay of the Honolulu City Council has advanced. The Council voted unanimously Wednesday to adopt Resolution 105, which ...