The creative fire that burns within each of us does so with a varying degree of intensity…this variability is evident in the distinct photo and editorial essays from our contributors - celebrating independence and the rebirth of Ka Lamakua.
Like the flames that once fed the fires of independence in the United States, the fires of independence blaze a trail at UH Manoa, and in Hawai‘i.
From Wagenman’s review of the arts and musical festival, “If Not Now, When”, promoting peace and justice, to Ho’s timely coverage of Governor’s Lingle’s veto of the Civil Unions bill, HB444, Ka Lamakua strives to stoke the collective creative fires that drive our community.
On this post-independence day we invoke the spirit of Malcolm X, who once said, “You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
Here’s to creative independence!
Andrea
FEATURES:
Still Present Pasts: Reclaiming an Identity by Rachel Wagenman
The “If Not Now, When” art and music festival for peace and justice was held on Saturday, June 26th, 2010 at the Bishop Museum. The festival also marked day two of the traveling “Still Present Pasts” exhibit in Hawaii. This interdisciplinary, multimedia exhibit, which serves to bring attention to Korean Americans and the “Forgotten War,” will continue to run through September 26th.Read more....
The statue of King Kamehameha I represents Hawai‘i in popular culture, at the U.S. Capitol and on the state’s quarter. The figure in the statue looks regal, magnanimous, and welcoming. What it does not appear to be is -- Hawaiian.Read more...
Freedom! by Megumi Abe
What a concept! Isn’t freedom what individuals seek to pursue happiness?
Yes! At least it is one way to be happy, especially if someone has been deprived of freedom under any form of captivity. I cannot imagine what it would be like not to be physically free, not to have the ability to act freely. I cannot also imagine a country where words and ideas are punished in many cases with prison or death.
I bet freedom, then, would be a big reason for these people to be happy.
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Thinking Outside the Fence by Doug McCulloch
But for Australian composer Jon Rose, the long stretches of these artificial boundaries crisscrossing the countryside were to him “a network of string instruments waiting to be bowed.” Experimenting since 1983, his sonic venture has finally come to the fore this past year as his music was premiered by world-renowned Kronos Quartet.
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NO to offshore drilling, YES to clean energy now!
On Saturday June 26, Hawaii residents took to the sands in silent protest to end offshore drilling and promote clean energy independence.
Watch the video....
Aloha Betrayed by Chad Shomura
Last year, more than 200 protestors gathered downstairs at the Hawai‘i Convention Center hosting the “New Horizons for the Next 50 Years” conference.
Refusing to look to the future while the past remains unaddressed, the protestors brandished a cardboard model of Uncle “Scam” and Hawaiian flags raised upside-down, and wore shirts with messages like “Grand Theft ‘Ainā” (“‘ainā” means “land” in Hawaiian) and “Made in Occupied Hawai‘i.” One protestor, Jean Stavrue, cut out the fiftieth star of the American flag before burning it.
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July 6 was an intensely emotional day at the state capitol. It was the deadline for Governor Linda Lingle to pass HB444 for civil unions with her signature, veto the bill, or let it pass without her say.
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