Mālama Hāloa – Protecting the Taro

Mālama Hāloa – Protecting the Taro

Taro grower and Native Hawaiian practitioner Jerry Konanui works to propagate and save from extinction the numerous varieties of kalo (taro), a staple of the Hawaiian diet. Jerry’s mission is also to protect kalo, revered as the elder sibling (Haloa) of the...
Kula Kaiapuni Rally

Kula Kaiapuni Rally

Produced by Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina https://vimeo.com/121978231 Speeches and music by Hawaiian language scholars, teachers and students at a rally to lobby for government funding for Hawaiian language immersion schools (kula kaiapuni). Attended by young children from the...
Puhipau

Puhipau

Produced by Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina Produced for Physicians for Social Responsibility/Hawai’i, this program explores, in stark and sobering detail, the medical and social effects of a theoretical nuclear attack on Hawai’i. Featuring members of the Hawai’i...
Wao Kele o Puna

Wao Kele o Puna

Produced by Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina https://vimeo.com/121975631 March and rally to protest geothermal energy development in one of the last lowland rain forests in Hawaiʻi. One of the biggest such demonstrations held on the issue, led by the Pele defense Fund and supported...
Aloha Quest

Aloha Quest

Produced by Nā Maka o ka ʻĀina On Sunday, December 19, 1999, an historic six-hour educational television presentation was broadcast throughout Hawai’i on KFVE television. The “educast” was simultaneously webcast to the world over the Internet....