The Maui Independent

16/01/2023

A beautiful swan song interview with the great Alan Clements. Worth a consciousness raising read.

"“The driving force of my performance is that we’re all in this together. The Asian spiritual version of freedom as the transcendence of self is not that relevant for me today. It’s more about the inseparable nature of our freedom rather than my freedom alone."

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03/11/2022

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03/11/2022

http://mauiindependent.org/how-to-buy-an-election-on-maui/
Almost $1 million from pro-development interests has been raised to defeat three progressive Council candidates

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18/10/2022

The fate of Maui's future hangs in the balance this November. Here are candidates fighting millions in developer and corporate donations to those who want to turn back the clock on progress and a sustainable, just future.

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15/09/2022

Aloha Maui & Maui loving friends: A dear friend and earth justice collaborator, Mark Sheehan, departed this life recently. Here is a sweet obituary tribute touching on the helpful battles that Mark fought, written by Maui Independent Editor John Woodhouse.

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13/10/2021

https://mauiindependent.org/scientists-question-safety-of-mercks-new-covid-wonder-drug/?fbclid=IwAR1x0VJsMELZZPnl_plqzCs4Ed-_KftpSB3HGPQIBGi38Fg4s-3ND_HTvNU

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02/10/2021

Profiteering & Connections Trump Health Benefits of $3,200 Per Treatment Drug Denounced by World Health Organization

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01/10/2021

https://mauiindependent.org/remdesivir-doesnt-save-lives-why-did-the-fda-approve-it-as-covid-treatment/

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11/01/2021

Former Republican California Governor compares Capitol riot to N**i violence & wishes Biden success in uniting America

08/10/2020

http://mauiindependent.org/mainland-superpacs-old-guard-sellouts-try-to-stop-important-charter-amendments/

Offshore money floods Maui to stoke fears and thwart people-powered Democracy

08/10/2020

https://mauiindependent.org/vote-yes-on-charter-revisions-passed-by-county-council/

Term limits & new Dept of Agriculture for sustainable future to transition Maui out of plantation era policies on the ballot

18/09/2020

Trump is trying to steal this election and it may get worse!

Please watch and SHARE this new video about the possibility that Trump will abuse his emergency powers to cancel mail in voting.

These are the times that challenge our democracy. Stay tuned for actions that our local governments, elections and law enforcement officials can take to mobilize to prevent this.

25/08/2020

This new article exposes the Gospel of Selfishness that is at the core of Trump's religious immorality. Trump's pastor Norman Vincent Peale was an original America Firster, anti-New Dealer and part of a group of so-called Christian Ministers, financed by America's N**i sympathizing oligarchs, to oppose US entry to WWII. Please share freely! https://www.sonomaindependent.org/trumps-attack-on-bidens-faith-echoes-norman-peales-anti-catholic-campaign-against-kenned/

Peale's gospel of selfishness, America First ideology and obsession with winning at all costs formed core Trump values

13/07/2020

Watch and SHARE this video indictment of Trump in his own wannabe dictator words.

05/12/2019

Attention Maui Residents: Earth activist Jeffrey Smith is coming to Maui to present a free talk on December 15 at 7 p.m. at the Makawao Union Church on “The New Global Threat from GMOs.”

Smith is traveling the globe to wake the world up to the dangers of this new technology whose risks are being downplayed or ignored by the profit-hungry biotech industry and colluding government agencies.
Red more below...
https://mauiindependent.org/will-unregulated-gene-editing-technology-destroy-nature/

Untested Side Effects of Fast Growing New Technology May Have Catastrophic Consequences

06/09/2019

"Felony Charges Disappeared After Political Fixers in Washington Intervened."
https://mauiindependent.org/monsanto-exposed-for-spraying-banned-pesticide-on-kihei-land-in-2014/

Monsanto Exposed for Spraying Banned Pesticide on Kihei Land in 2014. Felony Charges Disappeared After Political Fixers in Washington Intervened .

21/07/2019

"Guided by this knowledge around 1,000 “mountain protectors” journeyed close to the top of Mauna Kea this week to try and prevent the construction of a giant new Thirty Meter Telescope, 18 stories tall, encompassing an area equivalent to 4 football fields, on public land.

Among those arrested this week were Maui’s Office of Hawaiian Affairs Trustee Carmen Hulu Lindsey and well known Molokai activist Walter Ritte. “We’re losing all of the things that we’re responsible for as Hawaiians,” Ritte told Hawaii News Now. “We’re responsible for our oceans, we’re responsible for our land, we’re responsible for our future generations.”
https://mauiindependent.org/opposition-to-massive-telescope-on-hawaiis-sacred-mountain-grows/

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard Slams TMT As Latest in History of Desecration and Disrespect of Hawaiians

02/07/2019

We’ve Fought GMOs And Toxic Pesticides - Now We Face A New Threat To Our Health

06/04/2019

Facing an avalanche of lawsuits alleging serious harm from the w**d killer Roundup, German pharmaceutical giant Bayer has seen its stock price plunge since last summer’s first bombshell lawsuit win for groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson, who

23/03/2019

Today Tulsi tweeted, "Victims Shouldn't Have to Go to Trial to Get the Truth." THIS is what leadership for the public interest looks like! It's time for some big changes in Washington, at the FDA, and EPA, and Dept of Agriculture.

"Victims Shouldn't Have to Go to Trial to Get the Truth"

14/03/2019

In Dr. Annis Pratt's review of the radical new Wetopian novel, America 2034: Utopia Rising, she writes: "The ecological philosophy underlying 2034 matches the Gaia hypothesis that human beings are interdependent elements within an ecological system we must sustain in order to survive."
https://mauiindependent.org/america-2034-offers-visionary-utopian-hopes-alongside-misery-of-a-trump-dystopia/

New Novel Contrasts West Coast Ecotopia With Nightmarish Kleptocracy of a Tyrant Trump as President for Life

21/02/2019

The Maui Independent cuts through the relentless media and attacks to describe the actual courageous populist positions that make Tulsi an attractive candidate for President in 2020.
http://mauiindependent.org/tulsi-gabbard-emerges-as-most-outspoken-anti-war-candidate-in-decades/

Warfare State Politicians and Media Continue Relentless Attacks

21/02/2019

The Maui Independent cuts through the media attacks and describes the actual courageous populist positions that make Tulsi an attractive candidate for President in 2020.
https://mauiindependent.org/tulsi-gabbard-emerges-as-most-outspoken-anti-war-candidate-in-decades/

Warfare State Politicians and Media Continue Relentless Attacks

17/01/2019

Hawai'i's own Tulsi Gabbard threw her hat in the presidential primary ring and unlike other Democrats, she is being attacked incessantly as not worthy of consideration. Maui Independent editor Jon Woodhouse, who just wrote this important column disgarees! Excerpt: "If beating Trump in 2020 is the primary concern of many voters, they might do well to disregard the mainstream pundits and take a second look at Gabbard’s electability. Because the very thing that scares the hell out of the Democratic establishment is the exact quality that the all important “swing” voters (who gravitate toward perceived outsiders) will like the most about Tulsi Gabbard’s: her courageous independence."
http://mauiindependent.org/the-ramped-up-smear-campaign-against-hawaiis-congresswoman-tulsi-gabbard/

Is There a Coordinated, Orchestrated Campaign to Derail Gabbard?

22/12/2018

https://mauiindependent.org/hawaii-dept-of-health-tries-to-force-hazardous-ineffective-hpv-vaccine-on-all-public-school-children/

Parents Protest After Legislature Refuses to Place Big Pharma Profits Over Public Health

08/11/2018

In the first extensive interview since her stunning upset election over old guard Maui Council Member Stacey Crivello, Keani Rawlins-Fernandez tells the Maui Independent of her enthusiasm for a new Ohana majority in the Council, led by Kelly King as Chair, to bring long-needed progressive change.
http://mauiindependent.org/maui-ohana-slate-surges-to-5-4-council-victory-with-new-activist-energy/

Keani Rawlins-Fernandez Says She Will Support Kelly King as Council Chair to Implement Progressive Solutions

08/11/2018

The biggest news from this election has been ignored by Maui's mainstream media. Mark Sheehan writes a "New Progressive Majority Defeats Old Guard That Has Controlled Maui Since Statehood"
http://mauiindependent.org/historic-maui-ohana-victory-will-bring-public-interest-government-to-county/

New Progressive Majority Defeats Old Guard That Has Controlled Maui Since Statehood

03/11/2018

http://mauiindependent.org/real-estate-money-floods-victorino-arakawa-and-lee-camapigns/
"Voters have a choice. Do they want a mayor beholden to developers (Mike Voctorino) or one who is independent of corporate/developer interests, and will serve all the people (Elle Cochran)."

Developer Donations to Old Guard Seek to Stop Maui Ohana Candidates from Bringing Public Interest Government to Maui

31/10/2018

https://mauiindependent.org/qa-with-maui-county-councils-people-powered-leader-alika-atay/
"With proper legislation, we can live a healthy future life without dying from chemical pesticides. Decisions made today can protect the future generation and their right to have a clean and healthy Maui. Wisdom and vision has to come into decision making. It’s about quality of life for the future."-Alika Atay

"We have the opportunity to wake everybody up and say what is important is keeping Maui Maui"

28/10/2018

https://mauiindependent.org/political-vendetta-against-alika-atay-shifts-into-overdrive-for-election/

Political Vendetta Against Alika Atay Shifts into Overdrive for Election

26/10/2018

BEFORE YOU VOTE PLEASE CHECK OUT this story about how Maui became the only jurisdiction in the United States history to have its democracy stolen by a corporation from under the noses of its voters. Read about how Alan Arakawa, Mike Victorino, Stacey Crivello, Rikki Hokama, Mike Molina and Robert Carroll enabled the betrayal of Maui's voters by helping Monsanto nullify the GMO Moratorium of 2014.
http://mauiindependent.org/betrayers-of-maui-democracy-ask-voters-to-re-elect-them-this-november/

Arakawa, Victorino, Crivello, and Hokama Enabled Monsanto’s Historic Theft of Voter-Approved GMO Moratorium

26/10/2018

http://mauiindependent.org/can-elle-cochran-win-mauis-mayoral-race-and-send-the-good-old-boys-packing/

Q&A With the Most Outspoken Populist Reformer in County History

26/10/2018

http://mauiindependent.org/will-mauis-corporate-donor-swamp-buy-this-election-for-victorino-and-the-old-guard/

Flood of Campaign Cash from Recipients of County Contracts Tries to Stop Maui Ohana Candidates from Advancing Public Interest Government.

26/10/2018

"The $44 million of Maui taxpayer funding for this unwanted overpriced parking lot will be 44 times more money than the county will allocate for affordable rental housing programs and is 22 times more money than what will be spent for first time home buyers program."
http://mauiindependent.org/hokamas-76-million-wailuku-parking-boondoggle/

For a politician supposedly serving the island of Lanai, Maui County Council Member Riki Hokama seems overly interested in the development of Wailuku. As head of the Budget and Finance Committee, Hokama yields enormous power

26/10/2018

BEFORE YOU VOTE PLEASE CHECK OUT this story about how Maui became the only jurisdiction in the United States history to have its democracy stolen by a corporation from under the noses of its voters. Read about how Alan Arakawa, Mike Victorino, Stacey Crivello, Rikki Hokama, Mike Molina and Robert Carroll enabled the betrayal of Maui's voters by helping Monsanto nullify the GMO Moratorium of 2014.
http://mauiindependent.org/betrayers-of-maui-democracy-ask-voters-to-re-elect-them-this-november/

Arakawa, Victorino, Crivello, and Hokama Enabled Monsanto’s Historic Theft of Voter-Approved GMO Moratorium

27/09/2018

Tonight!

06/08/2018

The Maui Independent shines light on Roz Baker's Orwellian deception: "Ignore Her Ads: Her Record as a Backroom Booster of Pesticide Conglomerates Has Been Disgraceful"
https://mauiindependent.org/just-say-no-to-roz-baker/https://mauiindependent.org/just-say-no-to-roz-baker/

Almost Orwellian in its doublespeak deception, Maui Senator Roz Baker’s latest campaign ad promotes her as a champion of ‘aina protection. “From protecting our reefs from harmful sunscreens to creating pesticide free zones around our