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    • Maui Causes #93 Community Meeting on Maui Lani Lots
    • Maui Causes #92 Rita Ryan
    • Maui Causes #91 Maui Hemp Institute
    • Maui Causes # 90 Bridgette Buynak – Maui’s Water
    • Maui Causes #89 Hawaii for Informed Consent
    • Maui Causes Show #88 Brian Murphy  Patients Without Time
    • Maui Causes #87 Shane Sinenci for Council
    • Maui Causes #86 Bodhi Be – Doorway Into Light
    • Maui Causes #85 Kelly King for Council
    • Maui Causes #83 Keeaumoku Kapu: Update on West Side Fires and Floods
    • Maui Causes # 82 Dick Mayer: Kula Community Assoc.
    • Maui Causes # 81 Gabe Johnson: County Council Candidate
    • Maui Causes # 80 Tommy Russo
    • Maui Causes #79 Tasha Kama
    • Maui Causes # 78 Trinette Furtado, Candidate for Maui County Council
    • Maui Causes #77 Nick Nikhilananda: Candidate for State House District 13
    • Maui Causes # 76 Hannibal Starbuck
    • Maui Causes #75 Ke’eaumoku Kapu – Candidate: Office of Hawaiian Affairs
    • Maui Causes #74 John-Bull English
    • Maui Causes #73 Terez Amato Candidate HI State Senate
    • Maui Causes #72 Michael Tegan, Candidate HI State Senate District 7
    • Maui Causes #70 Maui Hemp Institute for Research & Development
    • Maui Causes #69 Adrian Raff Corvin – Together For Maui
    • Maui Causes #68 East Maui Animal Refuge (The BooBoo Zoo)
    • Maui Causes Show #67 Gabe Johnson, County Council Candidate
    • Maui Causes Show #66 Community Support for the Houseless on Maui
    • Maui Causes Show 65: Maui Pono Network with Paul Deslauriers
    • Maui Causes Show #64: Why is there brown water at the shoreline all the time now?
    • Kimokeo Foundation #4 Michael Phillips
    • Maui Causes #60 Autumn Rae Ness
    • Maui Causes #58 Elle Cochran, Maui County Council Member
    • Maui Causes #57 Terez Amato
    • Maui Causes #54 Robert Wintner
    • Maui Causes #50 Kelly King – Maui County Council Member
    • Maui Causes #49 JADAM Ultra-low Cost, Do-It-Yourself, Korean Natural Farming
    • Maui Causes #48 BRIAN MURPHY Medical Marijuana Bill to Reinstate Caregivers as Growers
    • Maui causes #46 Jay April
    • Maui Causes #45 Jason Eno
    • Maui Causes #44 Christopher Fishkin on the CoverUp of County Abuse that Allows Developers to Avoid Enviro Studies and Shift Infrastructure Costs to The Public
    • Maui Causes Show #41 Kaniela Ing
    • Maui Causes #40 Dr. Lorrin Pang on Monsanto’s Ethics Violations on Maui
    • Maui Causes #39 Elle Cochran & Don Guzman, Maui County Council Members
    • Maui Causes 38 Nick Nikhilananda Candidate for State House District 13
    • Maui Causes 37 Gabe Johnson County Council Candidate 2016
    • Maui Causes 36 TRINETTE FURTADO
    • Maui Causes Show # 35 Keani Rawlins & Alika Atay – Candidates for Maui County Council.
    • Maui Causes #34 Trinette Furtado Candidate for Maui County Council
    • Maui Causes Interview with Shane Sinenci, candidate for Maui County Council.
    • Maui Causes Interview with Napua Greig-Nakasone
    • Maui Causes Richard Abbett Interview
    • Maui Causes #31 Gabe Johnson, Maui County Council Candidate from Lanai
    • Maui Causes #30 Mark Hyde Explains Why Maui Needs a Professional Town Manager, Not a Mayor
    • Maui Causes 28 Bruce Douglas – Community Organic Farmland Initiative
    • Maui Causes Show 24 Trinette Furtado speaks on topics like threats to our home rule, and running for Maui County Council.
    • Maui Causes 23 Steve Rose Maui Hemp Institute for Research & Innovation
    • Maui Causes 22 Autumn Ness and Richard DeLeon
    • Maui Causes 21 Bodhi Be on your rights around Death, Home Funerals and more.
    • Maui Causes 20 Dr. Pang discusses the Zika Viru, Mosquitoes, Larvacides & Birth Defects
    • Maui Causes Show #15 Home Le’amohala on Spiritual Sustainability
    • MAUI CAUSES Episode 11: Haleakala Protectors Arrested
    • MAUI CAUSES TV Show #1  Not-For-Profits at Earthday –  Part 1  Watch it on-line here
    • MAUI CAUSES TV SHOW #2 Dr. Lorrin Pang Describes How The EPA Misquotes the National Academy of Sciences’ Advice for Testing Combinations of Chemicals When They Testified In The Maui County Council
    • Maui Causes TV Show #3 Not-For-Profits at Earth Day on Maui 2015 Part 2
    • Maui Causes TV Show #4 Glyphosate Toxicity from Round-Up And Genetically Modified Foods: Two Leading Researchers Explain The Harm and What You Can Do to Protect Your Family
    • Maui Causes’ Exclusive Interview: Dan Marks From ArticleV.org.  On the upcoming U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
    • MAUI CAUSES’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW w/ JOHN GRAY
    • MAUI CAUSES’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH STEPHANIE SENEFF, SENIOR MIT RESEARCH SCIENTIST
    • MAUI CAUSES’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW W/ DR TYRONE HAYES
    • Jeffrey Smith interviews Joe Mashalla on the Ballot Initiative for a GMO Moratorium in Maui County
    • WHAT ARE YOU BREATHING? A Community Talk Story; Hawaiian Leaders, Doctors & Scientists Discuss Cane Burning. 6/25/15 Part One
    • 23 minute version: WHAT ARE YOU BREATHING? A Community Talk Story; Hawaiian Leaders, Doctors & Scientists Discuss Cane Burning. 6/25/15
    • Maui Causes Show #7 Hospice Maui breaks ground on new residential facility
  • DOCUMENTARIES
    • PARADISE LOST: A Feature Length Documentary (How Corrupt Land Developers Took Over Maui County, and How To Take It Back)
    • Hemp Beer: Maui Brewing & Maui Hemp Institute
    • Over 10,000 petition signatures submitted to the Maui County Clerk supporting the Maui Community Organic Farmland Initiative.
    • “OutGrow Monsanto” GMO Free Maui’s Event, Visited by Neil Young, Daryl Hannah, Lukas and Micah Nelson.  Planting and Performance of Neil’s New Song “The Monsanto Years” Ensues
    • SAVE HAWAII FROM GMO & OPEN-AIR CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS
    • 9/11 Video Never B4 seen “For The Missing” Tribute Film by Sam Small
    • The Maui County Temporary Moratorium on GMOs
    • DYING INTO LOVE: with Ram Dass, Joan Halifax, Dale Borglum, Bodhi Be
    • GRAND OPENING OF “THE DEATH STORE”
  • COMMERCIALS
    • 60 Sec TV Spot: SAVE HAWAII FROM GMO & OPEN-AIR CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS COMMERCIAL
    • 60 Sec TV Spot: THE VOTER INITIATIVE IS NOT ABOUT FARMING AND IT’S NOT A BAN
    • 60 Sec TV spot “Monsanto: Stop Using Our Local Farmers as Pawns in Your Propaganda Campaign”
  • KIMOKEO FOUNDATION
    • Kimokeo Foundation TV Show on Akaku Channel 55
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #1 Join Kimokeo and Sam Small of Maui Causes for our inaugural show
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #2 Keli’i Tau’a – Kumu Hula, Musician, Cultural Advisor
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #3 Lei of Aloha
    • Kimokeo Foundation #4 Michael Phillips
    • Kimokeo Foundation Shoe #5 Joylyn Paman
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #6 Sue Milligan, Dee Hamby
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #7 Pacific Biodiesel
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show# 08: Aha Moku of Maui
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #9 Guests: J. ALOHALANI SMITH, Aha Moku O Kaupo Representative and KANILOA KAMAUNU, Member, Aha Moku O Wailuku
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #10 Kekai Robinson: Maka’ala Project – Waiehu
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #11 – Steve Rose: Maui Hemp Institute for Research and Sustainability
  • MAUI REAL NEWS
    • Covid Alert Oct 7th 2020
    • MAUI REAL NEWS #1
    • MAUI REAL NEWS #2
    • MAUI REAL NEWS #3
    • MAUI REAL NEWS #4
      • MAUI REAL NEWS #4 SHORT VERSION – 7 MIN
    • MAUI REAL NEWS #5
    • Maui Real News #6 Corruption in Maui County Government

    • Maui Real News Show #7 Maui County Injection Wells Recap

  • OUR BLOG
    • Council Testimony to Support Chris Salem for Exposing Corporation Counsel’s Illegal Coverup of Crimes against the County by Developers,  their Consultants, and Dept. Directors
    • How Maui’s Good Ol’ Boy network manipulates everything to fill their pockets.
    • Greg Brown now renting his Napili “Hotel” for up to $20,000 per night
    • Ask Mayor Bissen why he’s letting Greg Brown build on County Land with no permits or plans approved.
    • Testify to support Offer to Settle Wrongful Termination of Chris Salem Mon 5/22 1:30 PM
    • Construction of Brown’s Monster “Hotel” is nearly complete and ready to rent.
    • Bissen leaves it to Citizens to stop Brown’s Violations of Environmental Laws
    • Mayor Bissen is called upon to follow Honolulu’s lead to revoke Brown’s unlawful Monster Home permit
    • Like a Zombie Rising, Alice Lee’s Authoritarian New Rules are Back
    • Greg Brown bails out of Workforce Housing Project. Makila Farms site listed for $12,900,000  MLS 398159
    • State OIP directs Council Chair Lee to stop violating Sunshine laws
    • Alice Lee is Doing EVERYTHING She Can to Block Public Participation
    • There’s a battle raging for control of Maui County.
    • Supreme Court action will keep Alice Lee from the Wailuku Council seat for months! Can five votes approve her as an “Interim Council Member” anyway?
    • Alice Lee wants to fill her Team w Corrupt Lawyers who Bissen removed – and overpay them.
    • Alice Lee’s Power Grab to Limit Public Testimony.  Testify to Amend Reso 23-5 Monday Jan 2nd 2PM
    • County attorneys help kill investigation of Planning Director McLean’s wrongful permitting of Brown

    • Maui Real News Show #7 Maui County Injection Wells Recap

    • Maui Real News #6 Corruption in Maui County Government
    • Mayor Victorino boasts that he hired Directors because he knew they were corrupt.
    • Action Alert: Testify Tues 6/28 or send email now: SUPPORT IMPOSING EMINENT DOMAIN ON GREG BROWN
    • Maui County Clerk rejects Term-Limit & Residency Voter Challenges of Candidates Alice Lee and Riki Hokama
    • These three testimonies reveal the County Council’s reluctance to assert its true powers to hold the Administration and Department Directors responsible for their actions.
    • All’s fair in love and war: Public Works internal report leaked to Maui Causes alleges Director McLean personally gained through Permit Abuse
    • Montana Beach, Act II: Promises of change cannot be hollow
    • Stop Work Orders Shut Down Brown – Whistleblower’s wrongful termination suit against Mayor Victorino advances.
    • Director McLean is working hard to protect Greg Brown and other favored developers.
    • Official Inspection Report: Brown Violated Napili Bay District Rules  
    • ACTION ALERT: Testify to GREAT Committee Tues 9am: TEAR DOWN BROWN – BUILD A PUBLIC PARK (w/ restrooms)
    • BREAKING NEWS: Senior County Official Confirms that Whistleblower Chris Salem is Correct on Greg Brown’s Violations.
    • Accusations of Bribe-Taking in Maui’s Planning Department
    • Perpetuating loopholes facilitates fraud by developers
    • Community meeting at Greg Brown’s Monster Napili House
    • Earthday International recognizes two Maui-connected Regenerative Agriculture initiatives in its featured video, part of the 51st global Earthday celebration
    • Mandatory” 2nd test? Mike Victorino is playing yet another COVID Bait & Switch
    • Two Faces of Mike Victorino
    • Maui Tomorrow, State Rep McKelvey, former Council Member Joanne Johnson, Archie Kalepa and Keomoku Kapu file suit against Mayor Victorino and Moana Lutey for ignoring County Council’s vote.
    • Action Alert: Tues June 30 9am Proposed Charter Amendment to Allow County Council to Fire Corporation Counsel
    • WE ARE ALL ONE = Be Kind, Stay Home
    • Was Moana Lutey behind removing Kelly King as Council Chair?
    • Ram Dass, aka Richard Alpert, passed on to “Soul Land” today to rejoin “The One”.
    • Mike Victorino talks story about the Injection Well case.
    • Moana Lutey could be disbarred… Why is she risking it?
    • Mike Victorino Sued over Council Power Grab – Council Members Kama, Sugimura, Lee & Hokama sell out Citizen Representation
    • Gladys Baisa: “This is bad. Let’s fix it!”
    • New Ethics Complaint names Corporation Counsel, Dept. Director, and five Council Members
    • Moana Lutey’s Conflicted Confirmation Hearing May 28, 2019
    • Affidavit of Sam Small Oct 1, 2018
    • JoAnne Johnson Winer 2015 Affidavit: Administrative Abuse of SMA Permits & Deferral Agreements
    • The Call to Action Elle Cochran Refused to Make.
    • Maui County Data Purge: FAHRENHEIT MAUI
    • Rethinking Hawaii Tourism: Time to Shift from Marketing to Managing Tourism?

    • PETITION: Protect Maui Taxpayers from Giveaways to Real Estate Developers

    • Maui County Council Votes 9 to 0 for Audit of Public Works. MauiCauses.org Petition for Deeper Investigation Gets 1500+ Signatures.
    • Letter to Council Member Don Guzman, Chair of Litigation Committee, Recommending Audit of SMA Permit Process 10/25/17
    • Maui Causes is Powered By Your Generosity
    • Score One For The Little Fishes! HI Supreme Court Halts Reef Fish Harvesting for Aquarium Trade
    • Maui County Leaves Piiholo Residents At Risk – Only 20 of 112 Widow-Makers Removed
    • Does The Kihei Community Plan Include a New Mega Mall? No Way, No How!
  • PETITIONS
    • Join Chris Salem’s Ethics Complaint on Maui County’s Auditor for Protecting Corrupt County Lawyers
    • Revoke Greg Brown’s Permit Exemption – Turn his Monster “Hotel” into an Assisted Living and Rehab Center for Lahaina Fire Victims
    • Request for Criminal Investigation of Corporation Counsel Moana Lutey
    • Protect Maui Taxpayers from Giveaways to Real Estate Developers.
    • Expose Maui’s Violation of Federal Shoreline Protection Laws. Close The Loopholes!
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  • HOME
    • ABOUT MAUI CAUSES
    • Join The MAUI CAUSES Email List
    • Contact Info for your Hawaii State Legislators. Call them often and tell them what you think.
  • WEEKLY TV SHOW
    • Maui Causes #93 Community Meeting on Maui Lani Lots
    • Maui Causes #92 Rita Ryan
    • Maui Causes #91 Maui Hemp Institute
    • Maui Causes # 90 Bridgette Buynak – Maui’s Water
    • Maui Causes #89 Hawaii for Informed Consent
    • Maui Causes Show #88 Brian Murphy  Patients Without Time
    • Maui Causes #87 Shane Sinenci for Council
    • Maui Causes #86 Bodhi Be – Doorway Into Light
    • Maui Causes #85 Kelly King for Council
    • Maui Causes #83 Keeaumoku Kapu: Update on West Side Fires and Floods
    • Maui Causes # 82 Dick Mayer: Kula Community Assoc.
    • Maui Causes # 81 Gabe Johnson: County Council Candidate
    • Maui Causes # 80 Tommy Russo
    • Maui Causes #79 Tasha Kama
    • Maui Causes # 78 Trinette Furtado, Candidate for Maui County Council
    • Maui Causes #77 Nick Nikhilananda: Candidate for State House District 13
    • Maui Causes # 76 Hannibal Starbuck
    • Maui Causes #75 Ke’eaumoku Kapu – Candidate: Office of Hawaiian Affairs
    • Maui Causes #74 John-Bull English
    • Maui Causes #73 Terez Amato Candidate HI State Senate
    • Maui Causes #72 Michael Tegan, Candidate HI State Senate District 7
    • Maui Causes #70 Maui Hemp Institute for Research & Development
    • Maui Causes #69 Adrian Raff Corvin – Together For Maui
    • Maui Causes #68 East Maui Animal Refuge (The BooBoo Zoo)
    • Maui Causes Show #67 Gabe Johnson, County Council Candidate
    • Maui Causes Show #66 Community Support for the Houseless on Maui
    • Maui Causes Show 65: Maui Pono Network with Paul Deslauriers
    • Maui Causes Show #64: Why is there brown water at the shoreline all the time now?
    • Kimokeo Foundation #4 Michael Phillips
    • Maui Causes #60 Autumn Rae Ness
    • Maui Causes #58 Elle Cochran, Maui County Council Member
    • Maui Causes #57 Terez Amato
    • Maui Causes #54 Robert Wintner
    • Maui Causes #50 Kelly King – Maui County Council Member
    • Maui Causes #49 JADAM Ultra-low Cost, Do-It-Yourself, Korean Natural Farming
    • Maui Causes #48 BRIAN MURPHY Medical Marijuana Bill to Reinstate Caregivers as Growers
    • Maui causes #46 Jay April
    • Maui Causes #45 Jason Eno
    • Maui Causes #44 Christopher Fishkin on the CoverUp of County Abuse that Allows Developers to Avoid Enviro Studies and Shift Infrastructure Costs to The Public
    • Maui Causes Show #41 Kaniela Ing
    • Maui Causes #40 Dr. Lorrin Pang on Monsanto’s Ethics Violations on Maui
    • Maui Causes #39 Elle Cochran & Don Guzman, Maui County Council Members
    • Maui Causes 38 Nick Nikhilananda Candidate for State House District 13
    • Maui Causes 37 Gabe Johnson County Council Candidate 2016
    • Maui Causes 36 TRINETTE FURTADO
    • Maui Causes Show # 35 Keani Rawlins & Alika Atay – Candidates for Maui County Council.
    • Maui Causes #34 Trinette Furtado Candidate for Maui County Council
    • Maui Causes Interview with Shane Sinenci, candidate for Maui County Council.
    • Maui Causes Interview with Napua Greig-Nakasone
    • Maui Causes Richard Abbett Interview
    • Maui Causes #31 Gabe Johnson, Maui County Council Candidate from Lanai
    • Maui Causes #30 Mark Hyde Explains Why Maui Needs a Professional Town Manager, Not a Mayor
    • Maui Causes 28 Bruce Douglas – Community Organic Farmland Initiative
    • Maui Causes Show 24 Trinette Furtado speaks on topics like threats to our home rule, and running for Maui County Council.
    • Maui Causes 23 Steve Rose Maui Hemp Institute for Research & Innovation
    • Maui Causes 22 Autumn Ness and Richard DeLeon
    • Maui Causes 21 Bodhi Be on your rights around Death, Home Funerals and more.
    • Maui Causes 20 Dr. Pang discusses the Zika Viru, Mosquitoes, Larvacides & Birth Defects
    • Maui Causes Show #15 Home Le’amohala on Spiritual Sustainability
    • MAUI CAUSES Episode 11: Haleakala Protectors Arrested
    • MAUI CAUSES TV Show #1  Not-For-Profits at Earthday –  Part 1  Watch it on-line here
    • MAUI CAUSES TV SHOW #2 Dr. Lorrin Pang Describes How The EPA Misquotes the National Academy of Sciences’ Advice for Testing Combinations of Chemicals When They Testified In The Maui County Council
    • Maui Causes TV Show #3 Not-For-Profits at Earth Day on Maui 2015 Part 2
    • Maui Causes TV Show #4 Glyphosate Toxicity from Round-Up And Genetically Modified Foods: Two Leading Researchers Explain The Harm and What You Can Do to Protect Your Family
    • Maui Causes’ Exclusive Interview: Dan Marks From ArticleV.org.  On the upcoming U.S. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
    • MAUI CAUSES’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW w/ JOHN GRAY
    • MAUI CAUSES’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH STEPHANIE SENEFF, SENIOR MIT RESEARCH SCIENTIST
    • MAUI CAUSES’ EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW W/ DR TYRONE HAYES
    • Jeffrey Smith interviews Joe Mashalla on the Ballot Initiative for a GMO Moratorium in Maui County
    • WHAT ARE YOU BREATHING? A Community Talk Story; Hawaiian Leaders, Doctors & Scientists Discuss Cane Burning. 6/25/15 Part One
    • 23 minute version: WHAT ARE YOU BREATHING? A Community Talk Story; Hawaiian Leaders, Doctors & Scientists Discuss Cane Burning. 6/25/15
    • Maui Causes Show #7 Hospice Maui breaks ground on new residential facility
  • DOCUMENTARIES
    • PARADISE LOST: A Feature Length Documentary (How Corrupt Land Developers Took Over Maui County, and How To Take It Back)
    • Hemp Beer: Maui Brewing & Maui Hemp Institute
    • Over 10,000 petition signatures submitted to the Maui County Clerk supporting the Maui Community Organic Farmland Initiative.
    • “OutGrow Monsanto” GMO Free Maui’s Event, Visited by Neil Young, Daryl Hannah, Lukas and Micah Nelson.  Planting and Performance of Neil’s New Song “The Monsanto Years” Ensues
    • SAVE HAWAII FROM GMO & OPEN-AIR CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS
    • 9/11 Video Never B4 seen “For The Missing” Tribute Film by Sam Small
    • The Maui County Temporary Moratorium on GMOs
    • DYING INTO LOVE: with Ram Dass, Joan Halifax, Dale Borglum, Bodhi Be
    • GRAND OPENING OF “THE DEATH STORE”
  • COMMERCIALS
    • 60 Sec TV Spot: SAVE HAWAII FROM GMO & OPEN-AIR CHEMICAL EXPERIMENTS COMMERCIAL
    • 60 Sec TV Spot: THE VOTER INITIATIVE IS NOT ABOUT FARMING AND IT’S NOT A BAN
    • 60 Sec TV spot “Monsanto: Stop Using Our Local Farmers as Pawns in Your Propaganda Campaign”
  • KIMOKEO FOUNDATION
    • Kimokeo Foundation TV Show on Akaku Channel 55
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #1 Join Kimokeo and Sam Small of Maui Causes for our inaugural show
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #2 Keli’i Tau’a – Kumu Hula, Musician, Cultural Advisor
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #3 Lei of Aloha
    • Kimokeo Foundation #4 Michael Phillips
    • Kimokeo Foundation Shoe #5 Joylyn Paman
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #6 Sue Milligan, Dee Hamby
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #7 Pacific Biodiesel
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show# 08: Aha Moku of Maui
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #9 Guests: J. ALOHALANI SMITH, Aha Moku O Kaupo Representative and KANILOA KAMAUNU, Member, Aha Moku O Wailuku
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #10 Kekai Robinson: Maka’ala Project – Waiehu
    • Kimokeo Foundation Show #11 – Steve Rose: Maui Hemp Institute for Research and Sustainability
  • MAUI REAL NEWS
    • Covid Alert Oct 7th 2020
    • MAUI REAL NEWS #1
    • MAUI REAL NEWS #2
    • MAUI REAL NEWS #3
    • MAUI REAL NEWS #4
      • MAUI REAL NEWS #4 SHORT VERSION – 7 MIN
    • MAUI REAL NEWS #5
    • Maui Real News #6 Corruption in Maui County Government

    • Maui Real News Show #7 Maui County Injection Wells Recap

  • OUR BLOG
    • Council Testimony to Support Chris Salem for Exposing Corporation Counsel’s Illegal Coverup of Crimes against the County by Developers,  their Consultants, and Dept. Directors
    • How Maui’s Good Ol’ Boy network manipulates everything to fill their pockets.
    • Greg Brown now renting his Napili “Hotel” for up to $20,000 per night
    • Ask Mayor Bissen why he’s letting Greg Brown build on County Land with no permits or plans approved.
    • Testify to support Offer to Settle Wrongful Termination of Chris Salem Mon 5/22 1:30 PM
    • Construction of Brown’s Monster “Hotel” is nearly complete and ready to rent.
    • Bissen leaves it to Citizens to stop Brown’s Violations of Environmental Laws
    • Mayor Bissen is called upon to follow Honolulu’s lead to revoke Brown’s unlawful Monster Home permit
    • Like a Zombie Rising, Alice Lee’s Authoritarian New Rules are Back
    • Greg Brown bails out of Workforce Housing Project. Makila Farms site listed for $12,900,000  MLS 398159
    • State OIP directs Council Chair Lee to stop violating Sunshine laws
    • Alice Lee is Doing EVERYTHING She Can to Block Public Participation
    • There’s a battle raging for control of Maui County.
    • Supreme Court action will keep Alice Lee from the Wailuku Council seat for months! Can five votes approve her as an “Interim Council Member” anyway?
    • Alice Lee wants to fill her Team w Corrupt Lawyers who Bissen removed – and overpay them.
    • Alice Lee’s Power Grab to Limit Public Testimony.  Testify to Amend Reso 23-5 Monday Jan 2nd 2PM
    • County attorneys help kill investigation of Planning Director McLean’s wrongful permitting of Brown

    • Maui Real News Show #7 Maui County Injection Wells Recap

    • Maui Real News #6 Corruption in Maui County Government
    • Mayor Victorino boasts that he hired Directors because he knew they were corrupt.
    • Action Alert: Testify Tues 6/28 or send email now: SUPPORT IMPOSING EMINENT DOMAIN ON GREG BROWN
    • Maui County Clerk rejects Term-Limit & Residency Voter Challenges of Candidates Alice Lee and Riki Hokama
    • These three testimonies reveal the County Council’s reluctance to assert its true powers to hold the Administration and Department Directors responsible for their actions.
    • All’s fair in love and war: Public Works internal report leaked to Maui Causes alleges Director McLean personally gained through Permit Abuse
    • Montana Beach, Act II: Promises of change cannot be hollow
    • Stop Work Orders Shut Down Brown – Whistleblower’s wrongful termination suit against Mayor Victorino advances.
    • Director McLean is working hard to protect Greg Brown and other favored developers.
    • Official Inspection Report: Brown Violated Napili Bay District Rules  
    • ACTION ALERT: Testify to GREAT Committee Tues 9am: TEAR DOWN BROWN – BUILD A PUBLIC PARK (w/ restrooms)
    • BREAKING NEWS: Senior County Official Confirms that Whistleblower Chris Salem is Correct on Greg Brown’s Violations.
    • Accusations of Bribe-Taking in Maui’s Planning Department
    • Perpetuating loopholes facilitates fraud by developers
    • Community meeting at Greg Brown’s Monster Napili House
    • Earthday International recognizes two Maui-connected Regenerative Agriculture initiatives in its featured video, part of the 51st global Earthday celebration
    • Mandatory” 2nd test? Mike Victorino is playing yet another COVID Bait & Switch
    • Two Faces of Mike Victorino
    • Maui Tomorrow, State Rep McKelvey, former Council Member Joanne Johnson, Archie Kalepa and Keomoku Kapu file suit against Mayor Victorino and Moana Lutey for ignoring County Council’s vote.
    • Action Alert: Tues June 30 9am Proposed Charter Amendment to Allow County Council to Fire Corporation Counsel
    • WE ARE ALL ONE = Be Kind, Stay Home
    • Was Moana Lutey behind removing Kelly King as Council Chair?
    • Ram Dass, aka Richard Alpert, passed on to “Soul Land” today to rejoin “The One”.
    • Mike Victorino talks story about the Injection Well case.
    • Moana Lutey could be disbarred… Why is she risking it?
    • Mike Victorino Sued over Council Power Grab – Council Members Kama, Sugimura, Lee & Hokama sell out Citizen Representation
    • Gladys Baisa: “This is bad. Let’s fix it!”
    • New Ethics Complaint names Corporation Counsel, Dept. Director, and five Council Members
    • Moana Lutey’s Conflicted Confirmation Hearing May 28, 2019
    • Affidavit of Sam Small Oct 1, 2018
    • JoAnne Johnson Winer 2015 Affidavit: Administrative Abuse of SMA Permits & Deferral Agreements
    • The Call to Action Elle Cochran Refused to Make.
    • Maui County Data Purge: FAHRENHEIT MAUI
    • Rethinking Hawaii Tourism: Time to Shift from Marketing to Managing Tourism?

    • PETITION: Protect Maui Taxpayers from Giveaways to Real Estate Developers

    • Maui County Council Votes 9 to 0 for Audit of Public Works. MauiCauses.org Petition for Deeper Investigation Gets 1500+ Signatures.
    • Letter to Council Member Don Guzman, Chair of Litigation Committee, Recommending Audit of SMA Permit Process 10/25/17
    • Maui Causes is Powered By Your Generosity
    • Score One For The Little Fishes! HI Supreme Court Halts Reef Fish Harvesting for Aquarium Trade
    • Maui County Leaves Piiholo Residents At Risk – Only 20 of 112 Widow-Makers Removed
    • Does The Kihei Community Plan Include a New Mega Mall? No Way, No How!
  • PETITIONS
    • Join Chris Salem’s Ethics Complaint on Maui County’s Auditor for Protecting Corrupt County Lawyers
    • Revoke Greg Brown’s Permit Exemption – Turn his Monster “Hotel” into an Assisted Living and Rehab Center for Lahaina Fire Victims
    • Request for Criminal Investigation of Corporation Counsel Moana Lutey
    • Protect Maui Taxpayers from Giveaways to Real Estate Developers.
    • Expose Maui’s Violation of Federal Shoreline Protection Laws. Close The Loopholes!

Maui Causes # 90 Bridgette Buynak – Maui’s Water

Bridget Buynak of Water Resolutions, LLC, an independent consultant on water policy & law, offers new approaches to Maui’s considerably complex and controversial water issues.

https://www.facebook.com/Water-Resolutions-LLC-734106476936952/

Seeking UNDERWRITERS for MAUI CAUSES' NEW WEEKLY TV SHOW Airing On Akaku Channel 55. Contact Sam Small (973) 271 0788 info@mauicauses.org A Great Opportunity for Community Exposure and to Support Maui's Not-For-Profits, Environmental and Progressive Causes.

Aloha and greetings from Sam Small,
Executive Director of the new MAUI CAUSES. I had the privilege recently of serving as the Media Director for the SHAKA Movement and Vote Yes Maui, working to craft the advertising campaign that helped bring Maui's historic GMO Moratorium electoral victory. Our targeted and simple but well-produced print, radio and television ads helped beat the Agro-Chemical giants Monsanto and Dow in spite of their $7 million dollar advertising budget that outspent us almost 100-to-1.


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A big part of our success was the participation of a coalition of small local not-for-profit groups that focus on a variety of progressive and transformational issues facing Maui’s community: land use, water rights, cultural practices, clean air, clean water, agricultural practices, and many more. The participation of all these groups made the difference. They deserve our praise and our support. And that’s what MAUI CAUSES is designed to do. With your support, MAUI CAUSES can, in turn, support these groups by creating media that amplifies their individual agendas.

With your ongoing support, MAUI CAUSES can sustain our mission to create media for Maui’s important initiatives.

Our island is locked in a hundreds year old stranglehold by plantation powers that never did and still don’t serve the greater good. Only the people, standing up for what is right, on issue after issue, against the powers that be, just as we stood up against Monsanto and Dow, can bring the kind of change that Maui needs and deserves.

The light shining on Maui as a result of our extraordinary win against Big Ag provides us a platform from which to promote alternative agendas that serve the real people of Maui, not the plantation families, not the politicians and not the corporations.

With your support, MAUI CAUSES can do a lot. As a multi-media production team MAUI CAUSES can cost effectively produce and distribute relevant informational content on these and many of the issues facing Maui today. Social media marketing is a convenient and cost effective way to get the message out, and so is Akaku TV. Many of you saw some of the 14 weekly TV shows I hosted on Akaku TV for SHAKA that addressed issues around the GMO Initiative. We’re planning now to revive that weekly show under the MAUI CAUSES banner. Each show will profile another local not-for-profit initiative.

I’ve been a hands-on media producer since 1979, wearing all the hats; writer, producer, director, cameraman and editor. With the addition of modern web marketing, TV and graphics production is the only work I’ve even done. I ran my boutique media production company, Small Wonder Video Services, in NYC for 20 years before I was asked to build and operate an in-house broadcast and commercial production facility for Prudential Financial. They knew my hands-on style of production would save them millions so they literally fired their advertising agency and made me a Vice President. For eight years I produced, directed and edited over 250 national TV spots in the US, Mexico and Japan.

Maui provides, they say, and it sure provided me with worthy adversaries in Monsanto and Dow. We all got to see just how corrupt our local government really is and it brought to light the wide range of public issues that deserve to be addressed. Modern mass media is a tremendously powerful tool for raising awareness for not-for-profit initiatives but it requires specialized skills and equipment that are beyond the scope and capabilities of most small organizations. With your support MAUI CAUSES can do it.

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