{"id":126296,"date":"2019-01-21T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T12:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=126296"},"modified":"2019-01-28T10:20:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T10:20:00","slug":"126-years-of-illegal-us-occupation-of-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/01\/126-years-of-illegal-us-occupation-of-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"126 Years of Illegal US Occupation of Hawai\u2019i"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hawaii\u2019s last Queen, Lili\u2019uokalani, deposed and placed under palace arrest by invading US marine forces in a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat engendered by American businessmen. She would die from grief at the palace.<\/p><\/div>\n

On January 17, 1893 a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat<\/em><\/a> was carried out against Queen Lili\u2019uokalani<\/a> and the Hawaiian Kingdom by foreign resident business interests with the assistance of U.S. Marines from the USS Boston. An illegal U.S. occupation of Hawai\u2019i has continued ever since. Contrary to popular belief there never was a Treaty of Annexation.<\/p>\n

Today, occupied Hawai\u2019i is home to more than 100 U.S. military installations, a runaway tourist industry and settler population that has turned Hawai\u2019i into a playground for rich land speculators. Nearly 1 in every 2 households can\u2019t cover basic needs. \u00a0$92,000 is now considered low income on Oahu. Native Hawaiians (Kanaka Maoli), who make up 20% of the population, now make up the majority of homeless and 60% of the prison population in their own homeland. The sacred Kanaka Maoli temple \u2014 Mauna Kea, is being desecrated by scientific development including the 13th<\/sup> telescope \u2013 TMT. 133,000-acres at Pohakuloa continue to be desecrated, bombed and contaminated with military toxins, and 90% of food consumed in Hawai\u2019i is now imported to what was once a 100% food self sufficient society.\u00a0 Aloha \u2018Aina \u2013Mauka to Makai!\u00a0 Malama Honua!\u00a0 Save the planet!<\/p>\n

Today, a new military coup of sorts is being carried out in Hawaii. It\u2019s called \u201cSpecial Ops.\u201d Covert military water, land, and air-based trainings OUTSIDE of military bases are being planned. They will be carried out in coastal nearshore waters, shorelines, and inland locations on all islands involving Navy, Army, Marines and Air Force. This is a gross expansion, normalization, and glorification of militarism and war in our communities. It will only add to the catastrophic consequences \u2013 environmental, cultural, etc. of 126 years of illegal US military occupation of Hawaii. In short, it is military training to do to other nations what the US has already done to the Hawaiian Kingdom \u2013overthrow its government and illegally occupy it\u2019s territory. Justice demands the U.S. end it\u2019s illegal occupation and restore Hawai\u2019i as it was \u2013an independent nation of military neutrality.<\/p>\n

Stop this Military Madness! Free Hawaii Now!<\/strong><\/p>\n