{"id":242379,"date":"2023-09-11T12:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=242379"},"modified":"2023-09-11T12:58:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T11:58:39","slug":"international-forgiveness-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/09\/international-forgiveness-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Forgiveness Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>7 Jul 2023 &#8211; <em>Talk at the Lokahi Cultural Center in Wai`anae, Honolulu, Hawaii<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>The Theft of the Hawaiian Islands Kingdom by the United States of America<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/08\/international-forgiveness-day-7-july-2023\/\" >Read Full Text Here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hawai\u2019i: Forgiveness and Sovereignty\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/852230645?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"283\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>P\u014dk\u0101 Laenui<\/em>\u00a0<em>is an attorney, founding member of the\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TRANSCEND Network<\/a>,<em>\u00a0and lives in Hawai\u2019i.\u00a0He is <\/em><em>Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Hawaiian Affairs and <\/em><em>is regarded as the father of the modern Hawaiian Sovereignty movement having brought the issue in the Hawaii and Federal Courts since 1977 and taken that case to the UN via the Indigenous People\u2019s hearing.\u00a0 He was the primary spokesperson for the World Council of Indigenous Peoples and the Pacific Asia Council of Indigenous Peoples from 1984 to 1992.\u00a0 He was noted as one of five pioneers of the development of Indigenous People\u2019s Rights at the UN General Assembly.\u00a0 He is the latest chairperson of the Native Hawaiian Convention, an elected body of native Hawaiians to develop models of Hawaiian sovereignty to propose to the native Hawaiian constituents.\u00a0 This convention has been de-funded by the State of Hawaii and its domestic entity, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, while the convention was considering a proposal for a model of independence from the USA.\u00a0 He has been associated with Professor Emeritus Johan Galtung as a co-instructor at the University of Hawaii and has conducted extensive interviews with him on public radio, commercial radio and community television.\u00a0 He continues to practice law in Hawaii.\u00a0 His email is <\/em><a href=\"mailto:plaenui@hawaiianperspectives.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>plaenui@hawaiianperspectives.org<\/em><\/a><em> and website at <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaiianperspectives.org\/\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>www.hawaiianperspectives.org<\/em><\/a><em> which contains most of his writings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>TRANSCEND VIDEOS REMAIN POSTED FOR 2 WEEKS<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 Jul 2023 &#8211; 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