{"id":174594,"date":"2020-12-14T12:01:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T12:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=174594"},"modified":"2020-12-09T05:10:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T05:10:45","slug":"u-s-national-lawyers-guild-condemns-u-s-illegal-occupation-of-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/12\/u-s-national-lawyers-guild-condemns-u-s-illegal-occupation-of-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. National Lawyers Guild Condemns U.S. Illegal Occupation of Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/flag-hawaii.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-174595\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/flag-hawaii-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/flag-hawaii-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/flag-hawaii-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/flag-hawaii.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/queen-liliuokalani-hawaii.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-105050\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/queen-liliuokalani-hawaii-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/queen-liliuokalani-hawaii-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/queen-liliuokalani-hawaii.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><em>Hawaiian Flag (top); Queen Liliuokalani, last Monarch of Hawaii (bottom) &#8211; On 17 Jan 1893, Hawaii\u2019s monarchy was overthrown when a group of businessmen and sugar planters aided by US Marines forced Queen Liliuokalani to abdicate.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">***************<\/p>\n<p>On 28 Nov 1843, the United Kingdom and France jointly recognized the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/national-holiday-independence-day-november-28\/\" >Hawaiian Kingdom<\/a> as a sovereign and independent State, which was followed by formal recognition by the United States on 6 Jul 1844. By 1893, when it was overthrown, the Hawaiian Kingdom <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/hawaiian-legations-and-consulates-in-1893\/\" >maintained<\/a> over 90 legations (embassies) and consulates throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The U.S. National Lawyers Guild (NLG), with 70 chapters and over 6,000 members, calls upon the United States of America, State of Hawaii and counties in Hawaii immediately to begin to comply with international humanitarian law in its prolonged and illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>NLG strongly condemns the prolonged and illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Islands.<\/li>\n<li>NLG also condemns the unlawful presence and maintenance of the United States Indo-Pacific Command with its 118 military sites throughout the Hawaiian Islands, which has caused the islands to be targeted for nuclear strike by North Korea, China and Russia.<\/li>\n<li>NLG calls for the United States to immediately comply with international humanitarian law and begin to administer the laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom as the occupied State.<\/li>\n<li>NLG calls on the legal and human rights community to view the United States presence in the Hawaiian Islands through the prism of international law and to roundly condemn it as an illegal occupation under international law.<\/li>\n<li>NLG supports the Hawaiian Council of Regency, who represented the Hawaiian Kingdom at the Permanent Court of Arbitration, in its efforts to seek resolution in accordance with international law as well as its strategy to have the State of Hawai\u2018i and its Counties comply with international humanitarian law as the administration of the Occupying State.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See Nov. 10, 2020 NLG letter to Hawaii Gov. Ige <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/malu-aina.org\/?p=7062\" >https:\/\/malu-aina.org\/?p=7062<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the complete NLG statement see <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/nlg-calls-upon-us-to-immediately-comply-with-international-humanitarian-law-in-its-illegal-occupation-of-the-hawaiian-islands\/\" >https:\/\/www.nlg.org\/nlg-calls-upon-us-to-immediately-comply-with-international-humanitarian-law-in-its-illegal-occupation-of-the-hawaiian-islands\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Remember Hawaii Independence Day! \u00a0Momentous day in Hawaiian history!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>L\u0101 K\u016b Oko\u2019a!\u00a0 28 Nov 1843<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Live Aloha!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Mourn all victims of violence<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Reject war as a solution<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Defend civil liberties.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Ground the Drones!\u00a0 Say No to War!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Oppose all discrimination, anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, anti-Hawaiian, etc.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Seek peace by peaceful means through justice in Hawai\u2019i and around the world.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>18 Dec 2020 Hilo Peace Vigil leaflet \u2013 week 1003 \u2013 Fridays 3:30-5PM downtown Post Office<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>___________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/jim-albertini-james-e1554387634304.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-54387 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/jim-albertini-james-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>James Albertini is a member of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment<\/a>, and director of\u00a0<\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.malu-aina.org\/\" >Malu &#8216;Aina Center for Non-violent Education &amp; Action<\/a><em> &#8211; P.O. Box 489 Ola\u2019a (Kurtistown), Hawai&#8217;i 96760. Phone (+ 808) 966-7622 Email: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"mailto:ja@malu-aina.org\">ja@malu-aina.org &#8211; <\/a>website: <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/malu-aina.org\" >malu-aina.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 28 Nov 1843, the United Kingdom and France jointly recognized the Hawaiian Kingdom as a sovereign and independent State, which was followed by formal recognition by the United States on 6 Jul 1844. By 1893, when it was overthrown, the Hawaiian Kingdom maintained over 90 legations (embassies) and consulates throughout the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":85720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[229,867,1149,120,393,101,290,276,331,100,401,267,1312,1313,1395,260,487,866,504,950,651,444,86,109,1914,1190,380,99,292,95,70,126],"class_list":["post-174594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-activism","tag-anglo-america","tag-asia-and-the-pacific","tag-conflict","tag-coup","tag-cultural-violence","tag-culture","tag-democracy","tag-development","tag-direct-violence","tag-environment","tag-geopolitics","tag-hawaiian-culture","tag-hawaiian-religion","tag-hawaiian-sovereignty","tag-history","tag-human-rights","tag-indigenous-rights","tag-international-relations","tag-invasion","tag-justice","tag-nonviolence","tag-occupation","tag-politics","tag-polynesian-culture","tag-regime-change","tag-solutions","tag-structural-violence","tag-un","tag-us-military","tag-usa","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}