"Our nations are caught in the middle,” of the massive US escalation in aggression towards China, says Kawenaʻulaokalā Kapahua. Kapahua is the Political Education Chair for Hui Aloha ʻĀina, a Hawaiian independence party originally established in 1893 to resist the US occupation of Hawai’i. To him, the US drive towards war can in fact present “a major opportunity to start building, not just with ourselves in Hawai’i, but also with our Pacific comrades, neighbors, and cousins, to start fighting back.”
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Hmm, so that makes Hawaii, New England, Texas, and California (that I know of) with “separatist” movements.
Hawai’is is the only one with any kind of broad political relevance in the territory seeking independence. Texas independence is a goofy right-wing meme, CA and NE are goofy leftish memes. The state of Hawai’i’s relationship with the rest of the US is very, very different from any other state. There’s no other state that was an annexed indigenous nation-state in its entirety. Mainland state boundaries have basically nothing to do with the territories of the native nations who were once sovereign there, the population balance is very different, the state of Hawai’i pre-annexation, geographic isolation or integration, on and on.
Didn’t the Hui Aloha ʻĀina become part of the republican party? I remember reading that that is in part why the remnants of the hawaiian royal family are involved with the republican party.
7·29 days agoAccording to Wikipedia the original one back in 1890s became the Home Rule Party in 1900, which would then merge into the Republican party in 1912
Yeah that’s basically how I remember it. I also remember a Russian revolutionary being involved at one point.
I’m not sure what happened to the historical party, but this Hui Aloha Aina is a new organization.
Figured as much. Checked their website and they do claim to be a reconstitution of the organisation as of 2016… including seemingly being monarchists? At least they make a couple of references to specifically bringing back the kingdom of hawaii
Restoring the monarchy is a crucial component of the Hawaiian independence movement because it was a key social and cultural institution that was obliterated by American colonialism. The right of national self-determination includes the right to determine your nation’s form of governance, and we really shouldn’t waste any of our breath criticizing it when our energy should go towards supporting the removal of United States from Hawaii.
