Hawai'i Abolitionist Study Materials

Kanaka Perspectives

• Joy Enomoto, Why Black Lives Matter in the Hawaiian Kingdom

• Haunani-Kay Trask, Settlers of Color and “Immigrant” Hegemony: “Locals” in Hawaiʻi

• G. Pōmaika`i Gushiken, There is No Word for Indigiqueer

• Abolition Journal - Hawai'i: collection of essays on Maunakea, sovereignty, carceral violence, and colonialism

• Kalaniopua Young, From a Native Trans Daughter: Carceral Refusal, Settler Colonialism, Re-routing the Roots of an Indigenous Abolitionist Imaginary

Essays, Articles, & Statements

• Charles Lawrence, Local Kine Implicit Bias: Unconscious Racism Revisited (Yet Again)

• ACLU of Hawaiʻi Asks Honolulu Police Department to Implement Reform to Address Wealth and Racial Disparities

Reports

• Office of Hawaiian Affairs, The Disparate Treatment of Native Hawaiians in the Criminal Justice System

• Creating Better Outcomes, Safer Communities: Final Report of the HCR 85 Task Force on Prison Reform to the Hawaiʻi State Legislature 2019

• Summary Report: Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Final Report of the HCR 85 Task Force on Prison Reform

• The Native Hawaiian Justice Task Force Report, 2012

• Noreen Mokuau, Culturally-based solutions to preserve the health of Native Hawaiians

• Hawaiʻi State Commission on the Status of Women, Building Bridges, Not Walking on Backs: A Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19

• Lawyers for Equal Justice, Outbreak, “In the spring of 2020, prosecutors, politicians and the media inflamed public fears of crime and minimized real threats to public health, undermining an initiative to reduce the populations of Hawaiʻi correctional facilities and prevent outbreak.”

• Aaron Hunger, Reforming Honolulu Police Oversight: Evaluating the Ability of Gender and Disability-based Police Violence to Reform Oversight Mechanisms 

• ACLU Hawaiʻi, As Much Justice as You Can Afford: Hawaiʻi’s Accused Face an Unequal Bail System, 2019

Books

• Malcolm Nāea Chun, Na Nā Mamo, Traditional and Contemporary Hawaiian Beliefs and Practices 

• Haunani-Kay Trask, From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawaiʻi 

• J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Colonialism and the Politics of Sovereignty and Indigeneity 

• A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land, and Sovereignty 

• Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism 

• Asian Settler Colonialism - From Local Governance to the Habits of Everyday Life in Hawaiʻi 

• Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwoʻole Osorio, Dismembering Lāhui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887

• Stephanie Nohelani Teves, Defiant Indigeneity, The Politics of Hawaiian Performance

• Maile Arvin, Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawaiʻi and Oceania

Podcasts

• Podcast: Native Stories, Yesterday’s shared indigienous knowledge 

• Podcast: Deep Pacific Podcast, This podcast is done in service to our under-representeed voices to shed light upon long-standing social, economic, scientific, political, educational, and cultural circumstances which we grew up with and which connects us. 

  • What Does Land Back Mean? 

  • What Does Decolonization Mean to Me as a Pacific Islander? 

  • RIMPAC in the Hawaiian Kingdom

• Podcast: Root Cause Remedies, a place-based environmental justice podcast exploring our paths to liberation through grassroots revolution storytelling.

  • The Political Context of Hawaiʻi and the Aloha ʻĀina 

  • White Supremacy is Killing Us