"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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I remember being on the North side of O’ahu island and seeing trucks on the highway flying the Kanaka Maoli flag, circa 2015. I wish them luck
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.
Wait I thought there were several small goofy rightwing secession movements in CA. Are you all saying that there’s actual liberal left groups wanting the state of California to be independent?
There’s a few different proposals for splitting California into multiple states to increase the overall Senatorial representation for CA. The specific proposals are all different means of gerrymandering those hypothetical states to one party or the other. So you might have right-wingers saying they want to take some conservative chunk of the state and make it a new one, giving the Republicans two new senators. Or you’ll have a lib proposal to split it into five states, three or four of which would elect Democrats.
Hawaii is the only one with any legal standing. Due to its annexation being so late in the imperialist world domination game.
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.
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.
7·7 months 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.
