There’s a Wide Garcia Art Exhibit at The Sacred Garden of Maliko on Sunday, Aug. 20. Garcia has spent the last 25 of his 80 years on Maui. He’s an amateur artist and will present his vast collection of colorful, social and political artwork, all of which focuses on human rights, love, kindness and equality. […]
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The Trump Administration is doubling down on authoritarian executive orders–most recently with a blatantly unconstitutional Muslim travel ban that prompted wide-scale, spontaneous demonstrations in airports across the nation this weekend. It’s easy to lose hope in the face of such reactionary barbarism, but local Hawaii artist Napua Ahina, a member of the Hawaiian Comic Book […]
UPDATED: Trump Wins, America Loses: How the 2016 Election looks from Maui
Though more people ended up voting for Democrat Hillary Clinton, it is Republican Donald Trump who will be the next President of the United States. For those of us who believe in civil rights, the dangers of climate change and simple human decency, the night of Nov. 8 was one of the toughest of our […]
NOTW: Cinderella-obsessed people, nostalgia gone wrong and the square wheel of justice
THE SQUARE WHEEL OF JUSTICE In February, New York’s highest court finally said “enough” to the seemingly endless delays on a multimillion-dollar judgment for negligence that occurred 23 years ago. Linda Nash had sued, among others, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for injuries she suffered when trapped in an underground parking garage […]
UPDATED: U.S. Supreme Court rules that Constitution protects same-sex marriage
Same-sex marriage is legal everywhere in the U.S., now and forever. That’s according to the U.S. Supreme Court, which handed down its historic 5-4 ruling this morning in the case Obergefell v. Hodges. U.S. Senator Brian Schatz, D–Hawaii, was pleased, to say the least, in this statement emailed out by his press office early this morning: […]
Unconventional Food Prep, Silent Disco and How Dexter Nearly Killed A Woman For Real
PERSPECTIVE Jeff Mizanskey, 61, is a poster child for one well-known criticism of mandatory-minimum sentencing laws–that nonviolent marijuana users (and small-time sellers) may wind up doing decades of hard time and in fact more time than some sociopathic offenders serve for heinous offenses. Mizanskey is 20 years into a life sentence with no possibility of […]