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With less than a week until Election Day, we're looking back at Hawaiʻi’s political past when organizers and workers were the backbones of campaigns. As part of our ongoing project with the UH Mānoa Center for Oral History, we hear insights from two men who worked behind the scenes to support the late Gov. John A. Burns.
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Ethnic studies professor Ty Kāwika Tengan shares the stories of three Native Hawaiian leaders talking about their connection to Kahoʻolawe and aloha ʻāina: Colette Machado, Martha Evans and Jon Osorio.
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Forty years ago, ceremonies on Kahoʻolawe were revived after decades of military bombing practice. As part of our ongoing project with the Center for Oral History at UH Mānoa, two activists shared the deep spiritual reconnections that helped redefine the future of Hawaiian movements.
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Thirty-two years ago, the U.S. military stopped using the island of Kahoʻolawe for bombing exercises. As part of an ongoing project with the Center for Oral History at UH Mānoa, HPR brings you the voices of two members of the Protect Kahoʻolawe ʻOhana.
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Thirty-two years ago this month, the U.S. government stopped a practice it had been conducting since late 1941: the military bombing of Kahoʻolawe. As part of an ongoing project with the Center for Oral History at UH Mānoa, HPR brings you the voices of two Native Hawaiians who lived through that period.
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It’s been 115 years since James Dole moved his pineapple canning operations to Honolulu — and more than 30 years since it closed. But you can still hear the stories of those who worked there, thanks to the Center for Oral History at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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Before tourism, sugar and pineapple dominated Hawaiʻi’s economy, employing more than 19,000 workers. As part of a project with the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Ethnic Studies Center for Oral History, HPR is bringing you voices of Hawaiʻi's past — sharing life stories of resilience.
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Nearly 14,000 sugar workers went on strike for 128 days. But the strike was nonviolent, and there was a sense that management and the union had become partners to survive the industry. As part of a continuing partnership with the University of Hawaiʻi at Manōa Center for Oral History, HPR brings you the voice of a union worker remembering that strike.
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Labor Day is a reminder of how organized labor helped transform working conditions in Hawaiʻi. As part of a project with the UH Mānoa Ethnic Studies Center for Oral History, HPR is bringing you voices of Hawaiʻi’s past — sharing life stories of resilience.
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Journalist Gary Kubota has covered news in the islands for 40 decades.Now he has come out with a book called “Stories Of Change,” thanks to Kokua Hawaii…