{"id":2748,"date":"2014-12-07T19:14:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T19:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/?p=2748"},"modified":"2014-12-07T19:14:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T19:14:35","slug":"big-island-video-news-students-take-down-american-flags-at-the-university-of-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/big-island-video-news-students-take-down-american-flags-at-the-university-of-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Island Video News: Students Take Down American Flags at the University of Hawai\u2018i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OyUZq6HDAKI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;start=374&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bigislandvideonews.com\/2014\/12\/04\/video-american-flags-taken-hawaiian-kingdom-advocates\/\">Big Island Video News<\/a> reported: On Monday, a group of students and activists took down the American flag flying at main entrance of the University of Hawai\u2018i at Hilo, instead raising the Hawaiian flag that was beneath it. The action was related to what they say is the continued illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom by the United States. The American flag that was taken down was folded and handed over to university administrators. The group then went over to do the same thing at the flag pole of Hawai\u2018i Community College in Hilo. While there, they encountered security.<\/p>\n<p>This video was shot by David Lakota. He and fellow participant Gene Tamashiro spoke on camera afterwards. UH student La\u2018akea Caravalho explained more.<\/p>\n<p>Big Island Video News asked the university for an official response to what occurred. We have yet to receive a statement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong> \u2013 The reasoning behind the action is evident in a letter written by students of the University of Hawai\u2018i to faculty and administrators, which began by saying the students have found the university has committed <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/star-advertiser-front-page-memo-implies-nation-effort-leads-to-war-crimes\/\">war crimes<\/a> under the illegal occupation, specifically \u201cpillaging\u201d and \u201cAmericanization.\u201d The letter relies on evidence presented in the recent \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/pdf\/Memo_Ka_Pouhana_5_27_14.pdf\">Memorandum for Ka Pouhana, CEO of the Office of Hawaiian Affairs regarding Hawai\u2018i as an independent State and the Impact it has on the Office of Hawaiian Affairs<\/a>\u201d by Dr. Keanu Sai.<\/p>\n<p>After detailing the background of the war crime accusations, students wrote:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn closing if you are able to refute the evidence in the Memo then assuredly the felonies\u2014war crimes\u2014have not been committed. But if you are not able to refute the evidence, then beginning on November 28, 2014, Hawaiian Independence Day, La Ku\u2018oko\u2018a, which has been celebrated since 1843, the United States Flag will no longer be raised over the Hawaiian flag from that day forth. We demand that the Hawaiian flag shall be raised first and be last taken down each day. The occupying United States flag shall be on a separate flag pole of exact same height with the flag flown as well at the same height. If no flag pole is provided for the U.S. flag it shall not be raised until one is provided by the University of Hawai\u2018i at Hilo and Hawai\u2018i Community College at no cost to the students. The none refute of evidence means that all State of Hawai\u2018i officials and employees, as well as We\/Students are compelled to comply with Hawaii Kingdom Law and the law of occupation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Island Video News reported: On Monday, a group of students and activists took down the American flag flying at main entrance of the University of Hawai\u2018i at Hilo, instead raising the Hawaiian flag that was beneath it. The action &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/big-island-video-news-students-take-down-american-flags-at-the-university-of-hawaii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-war-crimes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31YBQ-Ik","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2748"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2748\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hawaiiankingdom.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}