Welcome to the video gallery. Here you will find all the video conversations from Journey to Justice
In this interview, the former Warden Patterson discusses his youth, education, and career path to becoming the head of a women's correctional facility.
In part 2, former Warden Mark Kawika Patterson speaks about the women's creative writing project called the Prison Monologues, where incarcerated women write honestly about their past experiences.
Ernie discusses different circumstances that changed the direction of his life for the better.
Kat Brady is the Coordinator of the Community Alliance on Prisons (CAP), an organization that educates the people and lawmakers of Hawai'i about justice issues.
In Part 2, Kat Brady, Coordinator of the Community Alliance on Prisons (CAP), further explains how the community can create a more effective and cost-efficient criminal justice system through Smart Justice policies.
Toni Bissen is Executive Director of the Pu'a Foundation, a charitable organization that was established in 1996 as a result of the apology, redress, and reconciliation between the Native Hawaiian people and the United Church of Christ (UCC) for the Church's complicity involved with the 1893 overthrow of the Hawaiian Constitutional Monarchy.
In Part 2 of this two-part interview, Toni further discusses the Pu'a Foundation's work at the Women's Community Correctional Center (WCCC), including sponsoring the Prison Monologues, live performances based on the writings of incarcerated women.
In this interview, RaeDeen reflects upon the experiences that influenced her political consciousness, her research on Chief Kamanawa (her article is in the below attachment), her work on the Native Hawaiian Justice Task Force (as reflected in the attached report), and her commitment to higher education.
In this Part I of the interview, Lynette discusses her teaching philosophy and practices.
In Part 2, we begin with a five-minute clip of Dr. Lynette Cruz discussing the pedagogical value of student field trips, a teaching method raised in Part 1.
In this interview, Keeaumoku discusses how the United States violated its own, as well as international, laws, when it asserted Hawaii to be a U.S. Territory rather than an occupied nation.
In this interview, Noelani discusses how her familial experiences and the islands political history have grounded and shaped her work as a scholar and teacher.
Community leader Walter Ritte, who lives off the land as a homesteader and deer hunter on the island of Moloka'i, is a longtime advocate for protecting the land and for Hawaiian rights.
In Part 1 of this two-part interview, Kamahele shares with us reflections on her youth (growing up in a Hawaiian family within a colonial context), the dominance of the Hawaiian culture in her life, and how she came to political consciousness.
In Part 2, Momiala Kamahele discusses hula, organizing against the racist State of Hawaii legislative bill (Senate Bill 8), her perspective on education, and other struggles against U.S. colonialism.
The Journey to Justice interview took place at Kawainui Marsh, near Kailua town on the island of Oahu. Meyer is an active participant in the restoration of the marsh.
In part 1, Dr. Blaisdell reflects on his life, his research on the health conditions of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), and his advocacy for an independent Hawaiian nation.
In Part 2, Dr. Kekuni Blaisdell discusses the events that led up to the Ka Ho’okolokolonui Kanaka Maoli: 1993 The Peoples’ International Tribunal Hawai’i (often referred to as the Kanaka Maoli Tribunal) and reflects upon the political movement to restore the Hawaiian nation.
A former elementary school and college teacher, Patrick Uchigakiuchi has worked as a volunteer helping families address their relationship problems through conflict resolution and assisting with AIDS hospice care (during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic), and worked as a clinical psychologist, conducting researching and developing substance abuse prevention programs in community settings.
In Part I, Lam discusses growing up in Vietnam and Thailand, the early Hawaiian sovereignty movement, attending law school, and the United Nations.
In Part 2, Lam clarifies the use and function of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), the second decolonization moment, the Akaka Bill, and the meaning and use of “free, prior and informed consent.”
Aguon’s recent legal scholarship analyzes how indigenous peoples can most effectively tap into international law’s normative power to advance their rights claims in complex arenas such as U.S. federal courts.
In this interview, Estrella discusses her 3 arrests: protesting against the University of California, Berkeley’s policy to invest in apartheid South Africa (1974), protesting the U.S. military testing of missiles (Star Wars) on sacred Hawaiian lands on Kauai (1993), and demonstrating against the City of Honolulu’s decision to close Ala Moana Park to the homeless (2006).
In this interview, Khan discusses his life, his people (the Pashtuns), the Afghanistan-Pakistan border which separates his people into two different countries, Islam, the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban, and the current relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan.
In this interview filmed on Hanakehau Farm, Perez reflects on his life growing up on Kauai learning Hawaiian cultural practices, working on the Kahoolawe Island Clean-up, and being politically influenced by many including Kaleikoa Kaeo and Steve Tayama.
Koa Luke, a Hawaiian activist born in the islands but raised in the Hawaiian diaspora on the U.S. East Coast, discusses his political journey that led him back to this ancestral homeland
In this interview, Tayama reflects on his life (his parents, racism against Japanese after WWII, etc.) and the socio-economic conditions that developed his political consciousness.
Journey to Justice turns the table on Kealoha and interviews him on his life and his views. Kealoha reflects on his upbringing, his children’s school experience that lead to his involvement in the Hawaiian independence movement, and his critique on the New World Order.
Haunani-Kay Trask is one of the most important and influential Hawaiian nationalist leaders of our times.