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During this century
the generous people of Hawaii welcomed millions of
visitors to their island home, patiently forbearing
the unfair destruction of their independence and
the aggressive takeover of their lands, and
forgiving the persecution and abuses against their
beautiful culture and language.
On the north coast of
the Big Island of Hawaii an entire population was
abandoned jobless by the sudden termination of a
one crop industry which had nearly destroyed the
prolific agriculture of the Hawaiian people.
After decades of
ravaging the soil and exploiting lives for the
enrichment of a few, the sugar barons sold the land
to foreign absentee landlords.
Today the poverty of
dispossessed Hawaiians and multi-ethnic unemployed
plantation workers is concealed behind the
tinsel-glamorous facade broadcast to the world by
the travel industry.
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Aloha 'Aina --- Hawaii's love of the land ---
gardens of life and of the heart on the Big Island
of Hawaii, directly ask for help.
Mothers, fathers, sons
and daughters, friends and neighbors, entire
families are gathering together to work on a first
six-acre community victory garden, called
Na
Mahina Ai, sponsored
by United Eco-action Fund. Other community gardens
are being organized.
UEF's children's
environmental education group, the Eco-Kids, is part of the project and a
precious investment in a better future.
Big Island families
send this appeal to your goodness, ready to welcome
you in the spirit of aloha.
Heart
greetings from the children of the
rainbow,
UNITED ECO-ACTION
FUND
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the
Big
Island of
Hawaii!
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The poor in the small
community (4,500 people) of North Kohala on the Big
Island will gratefully receive any assistance
generous souls may give and will share with any who
seek refuge among us.
Urgently needed are farming tools
and equipment, seeds, fishing gear, bows and arrows
for hunting, construction tools (new or
used).
Hawaiians want to take
care of themselves and for this reason they need
resources that liberate, not hoards of processed
food and welfare.
North Kohala can
provide the example for Hawaii's return to abundant
self-sufficiency that was once a reality and is
still a rightful heritage of sovereignty, uplifting
hearts and self- sustaining security in the next
millennium.
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