Hawaiʻi Rising

Hawaiʻi Rising - Season 2 Trailer

Announcing a new season of Hawaiʻi Rising. Coming soon to all major podcast platforms.

Listening Lounge with HPR Generation Listen

Kenji and Tsuyuno join HPR Generation Listen for a Listening Lounge, hosted by Paige Okamura. A look back at the first year of the show as we revisit clips from past episodes and reflect on the creation of Hawaiʻi Rising.

Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea event information:

Thomas Square (Honolulu): https://lahoihoiea.org/

Pokaʻi Bay (Waiʻanae): https://www.facebook.com/LaHoiWaianae

 

Featuring clips from: 

Ep 1. Hui o Kuapā

Ep 4. Na Waʻa Mauō

Ep 7. Koʻolaupoko Jr. Civic Club

Ep 12. Ka Pā o Lonopūhā

Ep 19. Kalauokekahuli

Ep 26. Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea Honolulu

 

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Talking Story with Uncle Walter Ritte

On our recent trip to Molokai, we got to talk story with Uncle Walter Ritte about the movement for Kahoʻolawe, the search for mana in Pelekunu Valley, and the restoration of Molokai's fish ponds.

Uncle Walter founded Hui o Kuapā in 1989 to restore fish ponds on Molokai. Check out episode 1 of Hawaiʻi Rising for our interview with the current leaders of Hui o Kuapā, Hanohano and Maile Naehu.

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Upcoming: Listening Lounge with HPR’s Gen Listen!

Join us July 15, 7-8pm HST for a live Listening Lounge hosted by HPR's Generation Listen. We'll listen to highlights from the first season of Hawaiʻi Rising and talk story about HPF and the making of the podcast with moderator Paige Okamura, aka DJ Mermaid (host of Hawaiʻi Kulāiwi and Bridging the Gap).

Registration link here and on the HPF website.

UAG Spotlight: Save Kōloa

In our first Urgent Action Grant Spotlight, Elizabeth Okinaka from Save Kōloa shares the latest in the struggle to protect the Kiahuna Burial Cave on Kauaʻi, where a proposed luxury condo project threatens Hawaiian burials, archaeological sites, and two endangered species.

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Savekoloa

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26. Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea Honolulu: Visions of a Sovereign Future

A conversation with ʻĪmaikalani Winchester, Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, and Mahina Kaomea from Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea Honolulu.

LHE Honoluluʻs mission is to provide safe spaces to celebrate Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea through educational, cultural, and community networking events, focusing on Hawaiian independence, social justice and open dialogue around multi-faceted practices of EA (life, breath, rising, sovereignty).

Website: lahoihoiea.org

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25. Nā Moku Aupuni o Koʻolau Hui: When the Water Came Back on Maui

An interview about the restoration of taro-feeding streams in East Maui with Jerome Kekiwi, Jr. and Amanda Martin of Nā Moku Aupuni o Koʻolau Hui.

Nā Mokuʻs mission is to perpetuate the Kanaka Maoli traditional and customary lifestyle of Keʻanae-Wailuanui. Encompassing nearly 400 acres of loʻi, it was renowned for taro farming until commercial stream diversions completely dewatered the area. In 2018, the community’s 30-year legal struggle resulted in the largest stream restoration in Hawaiʻiʻs history. This enabled families to return to farming and mālama the watershed and the network of streams, tributaries and springs that are part of a vast ʻauwai system.

Website: namoku.net

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24. Mālama Kakanilua: Protecting ʻIwi Kūpuna and the Sand Dunes of Maui

An interview about protecting burials and challenging illegal sand mining with Clare Apana, Cody Nemet Tuivaiti, and Uʻi Hotta of Mālama Kakanilua.

Mālama Kakanilua is presently engaged in direct action resistance/protection of ʻiwi kūpuna and aims to stop the Grand Wailea Resort from constructing 151 hotel units, swimming pools, new wings, and injection wells in known Kanaka Maoli burial grounds on Maui. The hui stands with other Kanaka Maoli groups pursuing this case to ensure that ʻiwi kūpuna are protected, safe, and at peace and to halt the Grand Waileaʻs hotel expansion efforts due to numerous environmental violations and dismissal of Kanaka Maoli claims to defend the ʻiwi and traditional and customary practices.

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23. Mauna Kea Education and Awareness: Standing Every Day for the Mauna

An interview about standing for the Mauna as a family featuring Pua Case, Hāwane Rios, and Kapulei Flores of Mauna Kea Education and Awareness (MKEA).

The mission of MKEA is to educate and raise the awareness of communities in Hawai’i and beyond on the spiritual, historical, cultural, environmental, and political significance of Mauna Kea and ALL sacred places, and provide cultural learning opportunities to everyone from keiki to kūpuna, residents, visitors and others concerned about indigenous rights and responsibilities in order to create a platform for protection of sacred places and for social justice and positive change.

Website: mkea.info

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22. Chuuk Language and Cultural Association: COFA and the Chuukese Community in Hawaiʻi

An interview with Setiro Paul, former member of the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia and founder of the Chuuk Language and Cultural School on Oʻahu.

The Chuuk Language and Cultural Association of Hawaiʻi, Inc.(Chuukmenessor) was founded in January 2016 by parents in the Oʻahu Chuukese community. The group sought to establish a school where their children can learn Chuukese indigenous culture and skills at the Waipahu Safe Haven Immigrant Resource Center, and built an “utteirek,” a meeting place for the community at the Hawaiʻi’s Plantation Village. Project partners help to repair the utteirek’s thatched roof, made of woven coconut leaves. Through this process, students learn how to build an utteirek and are immersed in the Chuukese language, values, and skills.

Website: chuukmenessor.com

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