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It’s Monday, November 12, Veterans’ Day holiday – From HPR2, it’s The Conversation. 

The wrong and the short of it: a precincts tale on Maui.

Lance Collins is an attorney in private practice on Maui. He also has Ph.D in Political Science and advises civil society groups and political parties on international issues related to democracy, good government and the rule of law.

Honoring a freedom fighter with wheels

Burl Burlingame is a historian with the Pacific Aviation Museum, which will dedicate its latest vintage aircraft: a Northrop F-5A Freedom Fighter, today at a 4 pm ceremony.

Ninjas for turtles: environmentalists with a lawsuit.

Teri Shore is Program Director at Turtle Island Restoration Network in California. She directs conservation, policy, and advocacy campaigns for sea turtles, sustainable fisheries and oceans. Recently, she helped win additional protections for sea turtles from capture and death in the Hawaii longline fishery. On Wednesday, Hawaii Longline Association President Sean Martin will be here with their member's perspective.

A visit with a  Garbage Patch kid

Zora McGinnis is a graduate student at Hawai‘i Pacific University who has just returned from “Plastics at SEA: North Pacific Expedition 2012,” a month-long scientific research expedition conducted by the Sea Education Association.

Plus what's brewin' in the backyard, a Monday reality check and today's global news from Al Jazeera…first the morning headlines from NPR.