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Te Hui Oranga 2024 revives Pacific solidarity against threats to moana

https://www.teaonews.co.nz/2024/10/30/te-hui-oranga-2024-revives-pacific-solidarity-against-threats-to-moana/

The Whāingaroa Declaration

From October 21 -27, 2024, Te Hui Oranga o te Moana nui a Kiwa brought ten representatives from across the Pacific to Aotearoa to discuss issues affecting our shared ocean. […]

ʻĀina Back: Military Leases & Demilitarizing Hawaiʻi panel discussion

Kehau Abad , moderated a panel discussion with Kyle Kajihiro, Camille Kalama, Shelley Muneoka and Andre Perez as part of the environmental justice panel series during the Council for Native […]

OPPOSING RIMPAC

US war games in Pacific seek global participation in imperialist maneuvers Hawaiian activists call on nations who condemn the genocide in Gaza to withdraw from Rim of the Pacific War […]

PROTECTING OCEANIA CANCEL RIMPAC STATEMENT

As the members of Protecting Oceania, representing the peoples of Hawaiʻi, Aotearoa, West Papua, Papua New Guinea, Kanaky, Vanuatu, Fiji, Rotuma, Solomon Islands, First Nation peoples of Australia and the […]

Saving Paradise: The Fight to End Militarization in Hawai‘i

HPJ Youth Organizers were featured in the Nation! Read the article here https://www.thenation.com/…/military-recruiting-hawaii…/

Demilitarizing Hawaii and the Pacific for Planetary Survival

Demilitarizing Hawaii and the Pacific for Planetary Survival, features scholar-activists discussing the intersection of the climate crisis, environmental justice, and dangerous militarization amidst rising geopolitical tensions in the Pacific and […]

Youth Liberation Camp 2024

On March 22-23, 2024, HPJ hosted its 2nd annual Youth Liberation Camp. Youth engaged in discussions on climate justice, the impacts of the military on our ʻāina, media literacy, gender […]

UPCOMING HPJ EVENTS

REGISTER FOR PROTECTING OCEANIA (AS PARTICIPANT) WANT TO WORK AT THE SUMMIT? (PLEASE READ CALL FOR SUMMIT WORKERS FOR FULL DESCRIPTION) REGISTER TO BE A SUMMIT WORKER YOU […]

Demand for an end to the violence in Gaza and the West Bank

Demand for an End to the Violence and Apartheid in Gaza and West Bank As an organization committed to demilitarization, de-occupation, and decolonization, Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice calls […]

HPJ hosts peer exchange with D.A.Y.U.M.

During the week of Sept 4 – 9,2023, HPJ hosted a peer exchange with the Detroit Area Youth Uniting Michigan (DAYUM) to learn more about the shared and unique challenges […]

Youth Liberation Camp Information Video

Nā ʻŌpio Aloha ʻĀina learn the history of Mākua Valley

HPJ and Hui Aloha ʻĀina o Honolulu brought youth organizers from Waianae, Makaha, Kaneohe, Kailua and Honolulu to Mākua Valley to learn the about the cultural and political history of […]

Youth Liberation Camp 2023

Between March 16 -18, 2023, youth from across Oʻahu participated in HPJʻs Youth Liberation Camp where they received political education on the history of Hawaii, environmental racism and climate justice […]

HPJ joins the 2023 FRI Grant Cohort

We are very excited to announce that we are joining the 2023 grantee cohort of the frontline resource institute, a comprehensive capacity-building organization and resource hub supporting frontline communities working […]

Youth Liberation Camp is coming!

Youth ʻĀina Days at Kaʻala Farms

HPJ would like to say mahalo nui loa to Kaukaohu Wahilani , Gina Peterson, Makaio Villanueva, and Uncle Butch Detroye for inviting us to be a part of the 306th […]

ONIPA’A 2023

HPJ got the opportunity to engage the låhui at the annual Onipa’a event held at ‘Iolani Palace on January 17th, 2023 to remember the illegal overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom […]

OLA I KA WAI Cartoon by Mylo Choy

Walk for Wai

HPJ joined community water protectors and local social justice organizations for the Walk for Wai on December 10, 2022, after the Navyʻs most recent spill of AFFF, a fire retardant […]

One spill too many…It’s time the US Navy left Hawaiʻi

There was another spill at the US Navy’s Red Hill storage facility. This time its 1300 gallons of aqueous film fighting foam (AFFF), designed as a retardant for fuel fires. […]

Lā Kūokoʻa at Salt Kakaʻako

HPJ and Hui Aloha ʻĀina o Honolulu joined forces to facilitate interactive Hoʻea Hawaiʻi interactive workshops on the history and impact of militarism in Hawaiʻi and how it relates to […]

“Meet the New HPJ!” community event

On Saturday, November 19th, HPJ held a community event to celebrate and share its new programs and alliances, staff and new look. The end of 2021 – 2022 have been […]

We have a new student intern!

Meet our new student intern! Kaiya Laguardia-Yonamine is a junior at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa studying Journalism and Ethnic Studies. Born and raised on the lands of the […]

A Call to Cancel RIMPAC in Hawaiʻi

Read Kim Compoc and Joy Enomoto’s article in Foreign Policy in Focus calling for an end to RIMPAC: https://fpif.org/a-call-to-cancel-rimpac-in-hawai%CA%BBi/

US military activity in Hawai’i harms the environment and erodes Native sovereignty

Check out the interview by Prism Reports’ Ray Levy Uyeda with Hawaiʻi Peace & Justice organizer, Joy Enomoto. https://prismreports.org/2022/07/26/us-military-activity-hawaii-envrionment-native-sovereignty/

HPJ Koa Futures and Hui Aloha ʻĀina o Honolulu workshops at Anahulu at the Koʻa

Between July 1 – July 10,HPJ’s Koa Futures organizers and Hui Aloha ʻĀina o Honolulu joined the Anahulu at the Koʻa occupation opposing RIMPAC and the continued lack of urgency […]

Stand for our ‘āina, Moana, our wai and our Ola

Stand for our ‘āina, moana, our wai and our ola Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice stands with Kaʻohewai as they make the kāhea to stand against the desecration of the koʻa […]

The Feminist Response To RIMPAC and the U.S. War Against China

The Feminist Response to RIMPAC and the U.S. War Against China

The Greatest threat to Oʻahu

Watch Kanaeokanaʻs video on Kāpukaki (Red Hill) Storage facility and learn more about the threat to our water sources and community being posed by the US Navy. Although the Navy […]

HPJ board member Tina Grandinetti speaking at an Oʻahu Water Protectors “die-in” action

Kaʻohewai, a Kanaka Maoli coalition, demands the shut down of Red Hill

Watch Kanaeokana’s video on the building of the ko’a by Kanaka Maoli cultural practitioners calling for the closure of the Kapūkaki (Red Hill) Storage Facility.

Red Hill Protest

For nearly 80 years, the U.S. Navy has stored well over 100 million gallons of fuel in 20, 20-story massive underground storage tanks in Kapūkakī, also known as Red Hill, […]

Native Hawaiians Fight US Navy for Polluting Island’s Water

On Dec 30, 2021, Hawaiian practioners with Kaʻohewai arrived before dawn at the gates of the US Navy Command to build koʻa (shrine) and hold ceremony to call for the […]

Military Land Use Plan Reveals Challenges and Opportunities

Shut Down Red Hill

Hawai’i Peace and Justice demands that the U.S. Navy empty and shut down twenty giant 79-year-old leaking jet fuel tanks that are embedded in Red Hill above Pearl Harbor Naval […]

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