Moanikeà â Ë ala Akaka, Maxine Kahaulelio, Terrilee Kekoà â Ë olani-Raymond

Nā Wāhine Koa

Hawaiian Women for Sovereignty and Demilitarization
Herausgeber: Goodyear-Ka'&

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Produktbeschreibung

Documents the political lives of four wahine koa (courageous women): Moanikeà  ala Akaka, Maxine Kahaulelio, Terrilee Kekoà  olani-Raymond, and Loretta Ritte. They narrate the ways they came into activism and talk about what enabled them to sustain their involvement for more than four decades.

Produktdetails

• Hawaiâ inuiakea
• Verlag: University of Hawai'i Press
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 175mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780824878245
• ISBN-10: 0824878248
• Artikelnr.: 52906591

Autorenporträt

Moanike'ala Akaka (Author) Moanike'ala Akaka was a founding member of Kōkua Hawai'i, the Protect Kaho'olawe 'Ohana, and Ka Lāhui Hawai'i. She served for twelve years as an Office of Hawaiian Affairs trustee, from 1984 to 1996, and remained a staunch advocate for Hawaiian sovereignty.Maxine Kahaulelio (Author) Maxine Kahaulelio has been a community organizer and aloha 'āina advocate since the late 1970s. On O'ahu, she organized for welfare rights and supported communities against evictions in Chinatown and Waiāhole. In her demilitarization work she has fought to protect Kaho'olawe, Pōhakuloa, and other sacred places.Terrilee Keko'olani-Raymond (Author) Terrilee Keko'olani-Raymond has long combined her activism for demilitarization and Hawaiian sovereignty, doing this work through organizations like Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific; Hawai'i Peace and Justice; and Womens' Voices, Women Speak.Loretta Ritte (Author) Loretta Ritte has protected and nurtured numerous sacred places across the Hawaiian Islands. An early warrior of the Hui Alaloa and the Protect Kaho'olawe 'Ohana, she has continued her aloha 'āina activism particularly defending lands and the unique way of life on her home island of Moloka'i.Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua (Editor) Noelani Goodyear-Ka'ōpua is associate professor of political science at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, where she teaches Hawaiian and Indigenous politics.