Hawai'i: An American Coup
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🗓️ 17 January 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Today marks 130 years since the United States illegally overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy. Healani Sonoda-Pale, an O’ahu-based community organizer and member of the Ka Lāhui Hawai’i political action committee, tells us what this day means to Native Hawaiians and the movement to restore Hawai’i’s sovereignty.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Tuesday, January 17th. I'm Treville Anderson. |
| 0:09.4 | And I'm Josie DeFie race. And this is What A Day. |
| 0:12.3 | The only podcast that comes pre-loaded on every Megan doll. |
| 0:15.6 | I know that this doll is now like a clear icon and whatnot, but I don't like scary movies. |
| 0:22.4 | So what am I supposed to do? |
| 0:31.2 | On today's show, Los Angeles police are under scrutiny again for the death of a teacher who is |
| 0:36.2 | Hazard multiple times. Plus, the CDC has an unusual new plan to track new COVID variants from |
| 0:42.0 | international flights. Okay, CDC, get it together. But first, today marks 130 years since the United |
| 0:49.8 | States illegally overthrew the Hawaiian monarchy. On January 16th, 1893, armed US troops landed in |
| 0:56.4 | Hawaii's capital city of Honolulu and stormed Ilani Palace, the official residence of Queen Lili |
| 1:02.4 | Uokalani, Hawaii's ruling monarch at the time. So just held her at gunpoint and gave her a choice, |
| 1:08.7 | surrendered the throne or go to war. After a day of being imprisoned in her home, the queen officially |
| 1:14.5 | surrendered on the 17th to protect her people from violence. She did so on the condition that she |
| 1:20.2 | would one day be reinstated once the US realized that it had no authority to throne her. But that day |
| 1:26.6 | never came. She was the first queen to rule the kingdom of Hawaii as well as the kingdom's last |
| 1:31.8 | reigning monarch. So, Josie, any chance you've heard about any of this before today? |
| 1:37.6 | Triebal, I'm so ashamed to say that I haven't, because it sounds like I should have, right? So, let's |
| 1:44.7 | start with the basics. Who is behind the suffer to dethrone the queen? How long was it in the works? |
| 1:49.6 | Given what you've told us already, I have some ideas, but I'd love to hear more. I mean, you know, |
| 1:54.7 | we know the American tradition. We know how this works. Yeah. So, the coup was orchestrated by a group |
| 2:01.8 | of elite businessmen, most of them Americans, who had arrived years before. Their goal was to |
| 2:07.8 | reduce the power of the Hawaiian monarchy because it stood in the way of their interests. To them, |
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