20 homeless camps return 24 hours after sweep; some UH employees nervous

2012 The Awakening

Note: The media could’ve covered this story from an angle of compassion, instead the emphasis from  the beginning imprints “fear” toward people who have been dispossessed by society. The illegal occupation and overthrow of the Kanaka Maoli (Hawaiian culture) led a once wealthy kingdom and it’s peoples down a path toward poverty, illiteracy, pestilence and ultimately virtual genocide. Now those who fall between the cracks are being marginalized by society and criminalized by the system.

Sadly, a once thriving culture has been virtually decimated by Western values and greed, it’s time for a change (an overhaul) in our collective thinking in order to preserve the beauty, wisdom, spirituality and sound cultural traditions embodied by the Polynesian tribes and their cultural counterparts around the globe.Aloha, ~A~}

Posted: Jul 02, 2014

By Keoki Kerr

 

Homeless camp in Kakaako

KAKAAKO, OAHU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Less than 24 hours after Honolulu police swept…

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Getting out alive

Reblogged this. Excellent perspective.

Finite Attention Span

One Friday in May of 2011, I locked up my shared office, went to the pub with some colleagues and students, and said goodbye to my job as a senior lecturer in psychology.

On the following Tuesday (it was a bank holiday weekend) I started a three-month stint as an intern at a then-mid-sized software company. They were pretty clear that there wouldn’t be more work at the end of it; all I had going for me was that they were paying me — a lot less than my academic job paid, but hey, it was money. (Let’s not even start on the ridiculous exploitation of young people by companies looking for free labour, or how unpaid internships exclude those who can’t afford to work for free.)

Anyway, so … lunacy, right?

Maybe. But maybe it saved my life.

I cannot possibly supply a complete list of the things that drove…

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