Jesse Lokahi Heiwa

6th Anniversary of U.S. Invasion Of Iraq (March 2009)

2009-03-19T07:27:00.000-07:00

Aloha/Yasou/Saluton/Hello/Hola/Bonjour All,

it's now March 19, 2009, the 6th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq
there's many activities that are happening in relation to this organized by different groups.

Saturday March 21 Washington DC (National Capital) www.PentagonMarch.org
Saturday March 21 NYC www.WarResistersLeague.org (NYC chapter)
Saturday March 21 everywhere www.TroopsOutNow.org

and

Friday April 3 March On Wall Street (Money For Jobs, Housing, HealthCare, Not Corporations & the War Machine) www.BailoutPeople.org

for news about activities worldwide, check out www.indymedia.org

good to be back after a long hiatus on blogger, you can also still check me out the myspace site
www.myspace.com/JesseLokahiHeiwa

2006-08-21T09:56:00.000-07:00

Jesse Lokahi Heiwa on myspace
www.myspace.com/JesseLokahiHeiwa

great links to bands, peoples, causes.
Ain't no power like the power of the people,
'cause the power of the people don't stop

STOP THE MERCHANTS OF DEATH http://www.warresisters.org/smod/smod_hp.shtml

2006-08-18T12:39:00.000-07:00

STOP THE MERCHANTS OF DEATH
(the military-industrial complex)
http://www.warresisters.org/smod/smod_hp.shtml

NoMoreDeaths/NoMasMuertes

2006-08-14T08:05:00.000-07:00

No More Deaths/No Mas Muertes
Humanitarian Aid Is Not A Crime

http://www.NoMoreDeaths.org/

No Human Being Is Illegal

FIST-Fight Imperialism Stand Together http://FISTyouth.blogspot.com/

2006-08-13T15:38:00.000-07:00

FIST-Fight Imperialism, Stand Together
http://FISTyouth.blogspot.com/

Thur Aug 10 7PM "Act of War: Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation"

2006-08-09T23:08:00.000-07:00

Thur Aug 10 7PM "Act of War: Overthrow of the Hawaiian Nation"
at www.Bluestockings.com (directions/location at end)

ACT OF WAR: THE OVERTHROW OF THE HAWAIIAN NATION"
See Hawaiian history through Hawaiian eyes. In 1893, armed troops from the U.S.S. Boston landed at Honolulu in support of a coup d'etat against the constitutional sovereign of the nation of Hawai'i. The event marked the culmination of a century of foreign intervention in Hawai'i. Today, after another century of dispossession, the people of Hawai'i, the Kanaka Maoli, are asserting their right to self-determination. A discussion will follow the film, lead by Jesse Lokahi Heiwa of the Hawai'i Solidarity Committee.

Bluestockings is located in the Lower East Side of Manhattan at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington - which means that we are 1 block south of Houston and 1st Avenue.By train: We are 1 block south of the F train's 2nd Avenue stop and just 5 blocks from the JMZ-line's Essex / Delancey Street stop.By car: If you take the Houston exit off of the FDR, then turn left onto Essex (aka Avenue A), then right on Rivington, and finally right on Allen, you will be very, very close.

Indigenous Peoples & Militarization

2006-08-07T23:42:00.000-07:00

Statement of Bobby Castillo LPDC International Spokesperson for Leonard Peltier Defense Committee,
UN COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
TWENTY THIRD SESSION
JULY 31- AUG 4, 2006
Item 4
Review of developments pertaining to the promotion and protection of human
rights and fundamental freedoms of indigenous peoples
(b) Principle theme "Utilization of Indigenous Peoples' Lands by
Non-Indigenous Authorities, Groups or Individuals for Military Purpose"
Mr. Chairperson,
The last major campaigns by the U.S. Army against Indigenous People in North
America took place in the late 1800s. But the military is still dangerous
to Indigenous Peoples in the Western hemisphere today. A recent study
contends the dramatic expansion of U.S. military bases during the 20th
century was largely concentrated in the same remote, arid places where
Indian reservations were located. That means Indigenous People's could be
disproportionately exposed to toxic chemicals and unexploded bombs, compared
to non- Indigenous People's , according to the report by Gregory Hooks of
Washington State University. Two world wars and the Cold War "pushed the
United States to produce, test and deploy weapons of unprecedented
toxicity," the study said. "Native Americans have been left exposed to the
dangers of this toxic legacy."
The Department of Defense has acknowledged the problems, quoting a 2001
department report that said Indian lands have "hazardous materials,
unexploded ordnance (UXO), abandoned equipment, unsafe buildings, and
debris." The government estimates that unexploded ordnance, which can
include mines, nerve gases and explosive shells, probably contaminates 20 to
50 million acres of land in the United States and would take centuries to
clean up at current rates.
By 1916, the U.S. Army owned about 1.5 million acres of land, and expanded
dramatically during World War I. By 1940, the Army owned about 2 million
acres of land. The huge build-up to World War II saw the Army acquire
another 8 million acres. Most of those lands were in the vicinity or
contiguous to Indian reservations. . Conventional weapons in World War II
were far more lethal than weapons from previous wars, and the United States
has led the world in the production of weapons of mass destruction,
including nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.
Today there are plans for a Pentagon-led experiment that involves detonating
700 tons of explosives at the Nevada Test Site on Western Shoshone
traditional land which is part of an effort to design a weapon that can
penetrate solid rock formations in which a country might store nuclear
weapons or other weapons of mass destruction.
The test will involve nearly 40 times the amount of commercial ammonium
nitrate and fuel oil explosive set off in the largest open-air, non-nuclear
blast at the site to date. In 2002, 18 tons of explosives were set off at
the Nevada Test Site. The Western Shoshone sovereign nation has always
condemned the use of their traditional lands for bomb testing. They consider
such practices as a violation of their treaty rights.
The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee condemns also all military test on
Indigenous lands or elsewhere which are especially being designed to kill
our brothers and sisters in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon today. Indigenous
people traditional values consider that all life is sacred so we cannot
support State governments who are using military forces to bring death and
destruction.
To conclude, we fully support Professor Alfonso Martinez words on its
working paper on "Indigenous peoples and conflict resolution", stating "
This is a major source of conflict, which often results in either the forced
eviction of indigenous peoples, or life-threatening circumstances connected
with nearby warfare. The State's power to `extinguish` aboriginal titles to
lands on the basis of national security needs is often used to give license
to armed forces to launch national defense projects on indigenous lands
including the construction of military bases, testing grounds and territory
for war games."
No indigenous land should be used for military reason because this is
against our values and traditions.
Thank you Mr. Chairperson,
Bobby Castillo LPDC International Spokesperson
Leonard Peltier Defense Committee

Al-Fatiha Open Letter Concering WorldPride Jerusalem

2006-08-07T21:00:00.000-07:00

Al-Fatiha Open Letter Concerning WorldPride Jerusalem
Posted by: "Al-Fatiha - LGBTIQ Muslims" gaymuslims@yahoo.com gaymuslims
Sun Aug 6, 2006 5:04 pm (PST)
Open Letter to the LGBTIQ Community and WorldPride ParticipantsAs LGBTIQ Muslims and allies, the Al-Fatiha Foundation is torn, but united in our boycott of WorldPride in Jerusalem. As a religious organization, Al-Fatiha embraces the great symbolism that WorldPride in Jerusalem represents: the bringing together of LGBTIQ people in a city regarded as holy by Islam, Judaism and Christianity. Yet, this WorldPride will not be a bringing together of people; Palestinians and the vast majority of Muslims will continue to be denied access to the city of Jerusalem. Al-Fatiha cannot, in good faith, support participation in WorldPride held in a segregated Jerusalem, under an Israeli apartheid system.There is no pride in a system of apartheid institutionalized by the Israeli government and enforced by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) against Palestinian civilians. Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza are routinely denied freedom of movement and unrestricted access to Jerusalem. Palestinians must carry identity cards to go anywhere, and if granted, special permits to enter or exit Jerusalem. Every day, Palestinians must endure numerous checkpoints which restrict and often prohibit their travel for work, for education, and for healthcare. The escalating violence targeting civilians in Palestine/Israel precludes freedom of movement for everyone, regardless of sexuality, religion or ethnicity. There is no pride in collective punishment of millions of people, in wholesale denial of food, water, adequate shelter, right to property, freedom of movement, access to health care and hospitals, access to education, right to earn a living, right to integrity and liberty. These are basic human rights. And, these are human rights that are systematically violated by policies and practices of the Israeli government and the IDF on a daily basis throughout Palestine. The recent Israeli bombing of a water treatment plant and the sole power plant that supplies electricity to sixty-five percent of Gaza Strip's 1.4 million inhabitants is just one example of collective punishment experienced by all Palestinians--regardless of religion, political or ideological persuasion, sexual _expression or identity. To date, thousands of Palestinians are still without access to clean water and electricity during the hottest summer months. In addition, the recent systematic violence by Israel targeting civilian lives in Lebanon and the deliberate annihilation of Lebanese infrastructure of water and electric power plants, airports, seaports, highways, schools and hospitals further widens the scope of collective punishment of millions of innocent civilians.As an organization, and as a community that spans all continents of the globe, Al-Fatiha stands for justice, peace and self-determination for all people. We believe that all people have the inherent right to liberty, and to freedom of sexual and religious _expression. We equally believe that all people have inviolable human rights, regardless of ethnicity, culture, or nationality. The Al-Fatiha Foundation stands in solidarity with the many individuals and organizations, such as ASWAT and Helem, which are actively working for nonviolent, peaceful solutions to the violations of human rights in Palestine/Israel, and now Lebanon. We envision a time when all people, regardless of faith, sexuality, gender, ethnicity, culture, or nationality, may celebrate a true WorldPride in a united Jerusalem. In Struggle and Solidarity,Al-Fatiha Board of Directorshttp://www.al-fatiha.org/

Pentagon Sets Its Sights On Social Networking Websites

2006-08-05T12:22:00.000-07:00

PENTAGON SETS ITS SIGHTS ON SOCIAL NETWORKING WEBSITES
09 June 2006 NewScientist.com news service by Paul Marks

"I AM continually shocked and appalled at the details people voluntarily post online about themselves." So says Jon Callas, chief security officer at PGP, a Silicon Valley-based maker of encryption software. He is far from alone in noticing that fast-growing social networking websites such as MySpace and Friendster are a snoop's dream.New Scientist has discovered that Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals.Enlarge imageAmericans are still reeling from last month's revelations that the NSA has been logging phone calls since the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001. The Congressional Research Service, which advises the US legislature, says phone companies that surrendered call records may have acted illegally. However, the White House insists that the terrorist threat makes existing wire-tapping legislation out of date and is urging Congress not to investigate the NSA's action.Meanwhile, the NSA is pursuing its plans to tap the web, since phone logs have limited scope. They can only be used to build a very basic picture of someone's contact network, a process sometimes called "connecting the dots". Clusters of people in highly connected groups become apparent, as do people with few connections who appear to be the intermediaries between such groups. The idea is to see by how many links or "degrees" separate people from, say, a member of a blacklisted organisation.By adding online social networking data to its phone analyses, the NSA could connect people at deeper levels, through shared activities, such as taking flying lessons. Typically, online social networking sites ask members to enter details of their immediate and extended circles of friends, whose blogs they might follow. People often list other facets of their personality including political, sexual, entertainment, media and sporting preferences too. Some go much further, and a few have lost their jobs by publicly describing drinking and drug-taking exploits. Young people have even been barred from the orthodox religious colleges that they are enrolled in for revealing online that they are gay."You should always assume anything you write online is stapled to your resumé. People don't realise you get Googled just to get a job interview these days," says Callas.Other data the NSA could combine with social networking details includes information on purchases, where we go (available from cellphone records, which cite the base station a call came from) and what major financial transactions we make, such as buying a house.Right now this is difficult to do because today's web is stuffed with data in incompatible formats. Enter the semantic web, which aims to iron out these incompatibilities over the next few years via a common data structure called the Resource Description Framework (RDF). W3C hopes that one day every website will use RDF to give each type of data a unique, predefined, unambiguous tag."RDF turns the web into a kind of universal spreadsheet that is readable by computers as well as people," says David de Roure at the University of Southampton in the UK, who is an adviser to W3C. "It means that you will be able to ask a website questions you couldn't ask before, or perform calculations on the data it contains." In a health record, for instance, a heart attack will have the same semantic tag as its more technical description, a myocardial infarction. Previously, they would have looked like separate medical conditions. Each piece of numerical data, such as the rate of inflation or the number of people killed on the roads, will also get a tag.The advantages for scientists, for instance, could be huge: they will have unprecedented access to each other's experimental datasets and will be able to perform their own analyses on them. Searching for products such as holidays will become easier as price and availability dates will have smart tags, allowing powerful searches across hundreds of sites.On the downside, this ease of use will also make prying into people's lives a breeze. No plan to mine social networks via the semantic web has been announced by the NSA, but its interest in the technology is evident in a funding footnote to a research paper delivered at the W3C's WWW2006 conference in Edinburgh, UK, in late May.That paper, entitled Semantic Analytics on Social Networks, by a research team led by Amit Sheth of the University of Georgia in Athens and Anupam Joshi of the University of Maryland in Baltimore reveals how data from online social networks and other databases can be combined to uncover facts about people. The footnote said the work was part-funded by an organisation called ARDA.What is ARDA? It stands for Advanced Research Development Activity. According to a report entitled Data Mining and Homeland Security, published by the Congressional Research Service in January, ARDA's role is to spend NSA money on research that can "solve some of the most critical problems facing the US intelligence community". Chief among ARDA's aims is to make sense of the massive amounts of data the NSA collects - some of its sources grow by around 4 million gigabytes a month.The ever-growing online social networks are part of the flood of internet information that could be mined: some of the top sites like MySpace now have more than 80 million members (see Graph).The research ARDA funded was designed to see if the semantic web could be easily used to connect people. The research team chose to address a subject close to their academic hearts: detecting conflicts of interest in scientific peer review. Friends cannot peer review each other's research papers, nor can people who have previously co-authored work together.So the team developed software that combined data from the RDF tags of online social network Friend of a Friend (www.foaf-project.org), where people simply outline who is in their circle of friends, and a semantically tagged commercial bibliographic database called DBLP, which lists the authors of computer science papers.Joshi says their system found conflicts between potential reviewers and authors pitching papers for an internet conference. "It certainly made relationship finding between people much easier," Joshi says. "It picked up softer [non-obvious] conflicts we would not have seen before."The technology will work in exactly the same way for intelligence and national security agencies and for financial dealings, such as detecting insider trading, the authors say. Linking "who knows who" with purchasing or bank records could highlight groups of terrorists, money launderers or blacklisted groups, says Sheth.The NSA recently changed ARDA's name to the Disruptive Technology Office. The DTO's interest in online social network analysis echoes the Pentagon's controversial post 9/11 Total Information Awareness (TIA) initiative. That programme, designed to collect, track and analyse online data trails, was suspended after a public furore over privacy in 2002. But elements of the TIA were incorporated into the Pentagon's classified programme in the September 2003 Defense Appropriations Act.Privacy groups worry that "automated intelligence profiling" could sully people's reputations or even lead to miscarriages of justice - especially since the data from social networking sites may often be inaccurate, untrue or incomplete, De Roure warns.But Tim Finin, a colleague of Joshi's, thinks the spread of such technology is unstoppable. "Information is getting easier to merge, fuse and draw inferences from. There is money to be made and control to be gained in doing so. And I don't see much that will stop it," he says.Callas thinks people have to wise up to how much information about themselves they should divulge on public websites. It may sound obvious, he says, but being discreet is a big part of maintaining privacy. Time, perhaps, to hit the delete button.Related Articles Software could add meaning to 'wiki' linkshttp://www.newscientisttechnology.com/article/dn929507 June 2006Interview: Six clicks of separationhttp://www.newscientisttechnology.com/article/mg19025481.70026 April 2006Weblinks Electronic Frontier Foundation campaign against wiretapshttps://secure.eff.org/site/Advocacy?alertId=212&pg=makeACall&JServSessionIdr002=dbq7ztr162.app8aDisruptive Technologies Office, Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_Technologies_OfficeMySpacehttp://www.myspace.com/

Books To Change The World www.LeftBooks.com (that's the point!)

2006-07-29T22:21:00.000-07:00

Books To Change The World!
www.LeftBooks.com
that's the point!

great, upcoming politically conscience band, check out their website www.Outernational.net

2006-07-29T21:43:00.000-07:00

great, upcoming band, check out their website

http://www.Outernational.net

Free online Hawaiian Language lessons

2006-07-29T13:58:00.000-07:00

Free online Hawaiian Language lessons

http://ksdl.ksbe.edu/kulaiwi/

Esperanto, a second (or/& auxilliary) language for everyone on earth

2006-07-28T13:30:00.000-07:00

www.Esperanto.net
Esperanto, is an international auxilliary language that is meant to be a means for peoples all around the globe to communicate directly with each other, while retaining/strengthening their own indigenous/national/regional language(s). It's simple to learn (total regular rules, no exceptions, yet flexible), neutral (not a language of any particularly country or group, and with a proven track-record (millions around the globe, over 100 years). For more information in multiple languages, go to
www.Esperanto.net

Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships

2006-07-26T12:25:00.000-07:00

www.BeyondMarriage.org
Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision For All Our Families and Relationships

The time has come to reframe the narrow terms of the marriage debate in the United States. Conservatives are seeking to enshrine discrimination in the U.S. Constitution through the Federal Marriage Amendment. But their opposition to same-sex marriage is only one part of a broader pro-marriage, “family values” agenda that includes abstinence-only sex education, stringent divorce laws, coercive marriage promotion policies directed toward women on welfare, and attacks on reproductive freedom. Moreover, a thirty-year political assault on the social safety net has left households with more burdens and constraints and fewer resources.
Meanwhile, the LGBT movement has recently focused on marriage equality as a stand-alone issue. While this strategy may secure rights and benefits for some LGBT families, it has left us isolated and vulnerable to a virulent backlash. We must respond to the full scope of the conservative marriage agenda by building alliances across issues and constituencies. Our strategies must be visionary, creative, and practical to counter the right's powerful and effective use of marriage as a “wedge” issue that pits one group against another. The struggle for marriage rights should be part of a larger effort to strengthen the stability and security of diverse households and families. To that end, we advocate:
Ø Legal recognition for a wide range of relationships, households and families – regardless of kinship or conjugal status.
Ø Access for all, regardless of marital or citizenship status, to vital government support programs including but not limited to health care, housing, Social Security and pension plans, disaster recovery assistance, unemployment insurance and welfare assistance.
Ø Separation of church and state in all matters, including regulation and recognition of relationships, households and families.
Ø Freedom from state regulation of our sexual lives and gender choices, identities and expression.
Marriage is not the only worthy form of family or relationship, and it should not be legally and economically privileged above all others. A majority of people – whatever their sexual and gender identities – do not live in traditional nuclear families. They stand to gain from alternative forms of household recognition beyond one-size-fits-all marriage. For example:
· Single parent households
· Senior citizens living together and serving as each other’s caregivers (think Golden Girls)
· Blended and extended families
· Children being raised in multiple households or by unmarried parents
· Adult children living with and caring for their parents
· Senior citizens who are the primary caregivers to their grandchildren or other relatives
· Close friends or siblings living in non-conjugal relationships and serving as each other’s primary support and caregivers
· Households in which there is more than one conjugal partner
· Care-giving relationships that provide support to those living with extended illness such as HIV/AIDS.
The current debate over marriage, same-sex and otherwise, ignores the needs and desires of so many in a nation where household diversity is the demographic norm. We seek to reframe this debate. Our call speaks to the widespread hunger for authentic and just community in ways that are both pragmatic and visionary. It follows in the best tradition of the progressive LGBT movement, which invented alternative legal statuses such as domestic partnership and reciprocal beneficiary. We seek to build on these historic accomplishments by continuing to diversify and democratize partnership and household recognition. We advocate the expansion of existing legal statuses, social services and benefits to support the needs of all our households.
We call on colleagues working in various social justice movements and campaigns to read the full-text of our statement “Beyond Same-Sex Marriage: A New Strategic Vision,” and to join us in our call for government support of all our households.
www.BeyondMarriage.org

Jesse Lokahi Heiwa

2006-07-26T01:12:00.000-07:00

Jesse Lokahi Heiwa here/Jesse Lokahi Heiwa tie
Jesse Lokahi Heiwa aqui/Jesse Lokahi Heiwa ma 'ane'i

blogspot will be in english (north america/south asian/pilipino/african), esperanto: the international auxillary language www.esperanto.net,
spanish (latin american/caribbean/equitorial guinea(africa), hawaiian (and other pacific island and indigenous languages),
french(quebecois/louisiane/acadian/afrique/guyana frances/et.)
we encourage multi-lingualism
while we also ask that translations be available in other languages
and/or the international auxilliary language esperanto. For more information about Esperanto, go to www.Esperanto.net is in many languages.

And yes, I have a "MySpace" www.MySpace.com/JesseLokahiHeiwa , it's useful for networking, but a reminder that in a capitalist society, everything is sold and gets sold, it's now owned by the Fox network, yes, that Fox network, but yahoo was once "grassroots" too, and I use it for free e-mail and ignore the ads and because I've had it for so long(reminder though: yahoo can suddenly cut off your account, always have a backup)
monacong@yahoo.com

a grassroots, and explicitly non-commercial, movement resource (but support them with something in lieu of ads, everything has a cost and if we want them to continue, we have to be the ones to offer support) is
http://www.riseup.net/

Of the approximately 6.3 billion people in the world:
About half of humanity (three billion people) are malnourished.
Many more are “food insecure,” not knowing where their next meal is coming from. The UN estimates that “only” 840 million (including ten million in the wealthy core industrialized countries) are undernourished, but this is greatly below most other estimates.
One billion live in slums (about one-third of the approximately three billion people living in cities).
About half of humanity lives on less than what two dollars a day can purchase in the United States.
One billion have no access to clean water.
Two billion have no electricity.

Two and a half billion have no sanitary facilities.

One billion children, half of the world’s total, suffer extreme deprivation because of poverty, war, and disease (including AIDS).

Even in wealthy core capitalist countries, a significant portion of the population lives insecure lives. For example, in the United States twelve million families are considered food insecure and in four million families (with nine million people) someone regularly skips a meal so there will be enough food for other family members.

thus,

I'm a socialista (which means I support utilizing resources and labor in a way that creates prosperity for ALL to benefit, allowing for the full flow of creativity that makes this possible) while doing so in a way that is sustainable for the Earth.) To be done in a way where people; whether through their workplace, community, or global basis would be the decision-makers.) I'm also influenced by ecological, indigenous, and spiritual perspectives.) With global warming, impoverishment, military interventions, illiteracy, homelessness, hunger, addiction, abuse, bigotry and the myriad of challenges that face us; we will need to move from this stage of history to a new era where we can take action to heal from them.
"Socialism is humanity reconciling with itself."--Jesse Lokahi Heiwa