OCCUPY WITH ALOHA: Makana at the APEC Dinner, Hawaii

[nash984954]

I cannot believe there's only 475 likes and only 120 comments. This is a big deal, don't let it fall on deaf ears, please, people, tweet it, tell it, dessimate everywhere.

[darkhipster]

I just posted this on my blog! Occupy with Aloha!

[IgnacioAgramonte]

TtHANKS YOU FOR YOUR MUSIC.

[4youLola]

This is a great beginning … if someone's been alive as long as 50 years and doesn't think so … I'd say they are the sheep -- MR. OWLMON. What have you got against political protest? Do you think the bankers are so omnipotent that they script EVERYTHING? That's a bit naive … I myself, am grateful for this new beginning is how I see it … protest stopped the Vietnam War -- we got a lot to protest about, this is a good beginning.

[KeldinEtc]

This is phenomenal! Thanks, Makana, for saying it so well.

[53muse]

The New National Anthem!

[Patrizzi]

He is BRAVE. Bravo bravo

[pavlovsdoggies]

"for the times they are a changin"

[Owlmon]

Great singing mon!!  To bad the effort fueled the law allowing military to arrest US folks as terrorists....Congress got scared!!!

[Owlmon]

to bad the occupy movement was a scam set up by the bankers to provide impetus to get congress to allow military arrests of US citizenry for protesting and to keep tem housed as terrorists,,,,You can thank all those duped and led like sheep participants for that

[FractalInfinities]

@Owlmon Why do these particular protesters deserve to be called terrorists, when others aren't? Tents? The use of the word occupy?

I don't get the logic if what you say is indeed reflective of their thinking.

[Owlmon]

@FractalInfinities ask the US congress they are the ones that passed the law.....I never labeled them terrorists your government did!! They got duped as the kickoff for the worldwide event was funded by George Soros...Do your research////It was a banker led scam..Get it!! They needed the occupy movement to get the house to pass the law....Doh!

[FractalInfinities]

@Owlmon Did I say something to anger you towards me? Never implied you called them terrorists. Never suggested your theory was wrong. I simply don't understand the logic if what you say was indeed theirs.

It's not my gov't. (Though I care.)

Might indeed be a scam.

Has nothing to do with my point, which in essence was only addressed to you because you brought up their reasoning.

[Owlmon]

and it will be broadcast on the radio when?

[VERN186]

WHAT A HERO------TAKE IT AND RUN----- DONT STOP-YER FREE- WELL DOME my Friend- GOD is with you--------

[marndin]

Amazing courage... Well done!

[suedeheadize]

And he was the only bright spark in the room too, along with the camera person, the rest just dim shadows with mental problems on their plate engaged in convesation with other mental disorders.

[chucholetsm8one]

that's how it was in Nazi Germany, you couldn't say certain things around certain people.

[neko9]

We are one!

[satchfan2010]

We are the many, they are the few!

[spright2b]

hello!!

the agenda is falling apart.

the People are speaking now.

CNN is only people after all

well, corporations are not people, they are made of people tho.

maybe the 1% own them..

people work there, work it from within.

peace

[vastell]

this ♪♫

vide☼

is headlined at

davidicke . com/headlines/57047

Occupy With Aloha: Makana at the APEC Dinner, Hawaii

Brilliant

[HyperMediaNews]

A great example for everyone; great job, thank you!

[lizzabbott]

@Linn300fantastic RIGHT ON!! Yes find: "Reflections And Warnings: An Interview With Aaron Russo" here on y'tube. I watched it in late July 2007, after finding it "by chance", & it woke me the EFF UP! This interview with the late great Aaron Russo ( R.I.P.), tells of how he was given this inside info from Rockefeller ( after which, Russo figured out what the New World Order was up to, & he knew he could never join them, so he severed his friendship with Nick Rockefeller). MUST SEE!

[lizzabbott]

Mahalo, Mahalo Mahalo!!! OMGZ! This is the BEST EVER! I'm Frikken SPEECHLESS!

[2009marmom]

Finally, an Occupier with a message that I can get behind..Bravo.

[lizzabbott]

@2009marmom YES!!! DITTO exactly!!! This guy freakin GETS IT! Holy WOW!

[sixfootwhiterabbit]

Awesome

[TheSrkkl]

Sounds like he's trying to hard to be Bob Dylan. I love it.

[nmbronedad]

This guy's got some majorly huge testicles. Awesome!

[genevievevan]

I am going to download this. Bless you.

[prime3end]

the first amendment is not nullified because a politician, or anyone else, doesn't like the message, nor is it erased if there are """to many""" people, nor if the nations police force has no freaking idea what the first amendment is, how important it is to any even illusion of freedom. The supremely corrupt court are,in their membership, mostly part of the 1%

[kitties34me]

Thank you Makana!!

[genevievevan]

Great song and talented.

[WomanforPeaceSanity]

Good for you, Makana. You are a hero for speaking what needs to be said, or sung, in your case..

[jueckert]

All Americans must be brave like Makana! Thank you,

Makana!

[Oblentehands]

Makana, you are a true hero and inspiration, thank you so much! Best wishes from Denmark. Aloha!

[3ohs0unds]

I think we might have found the next Pete Seeger. :)

[moosemps]

BRAVE.

[truthphotos2011]

LOVE IT! So beautiful!. Mahalo!

[unit45x]

Aloha nui

[munner2010]

What a great song!! Can it be downloaded anywhere??

[PiPhD]

@munner2010 yes, go to his website in the description.

[susanghappymom]

Beautiful! Powerful!  So inspiring!

[beatlestoneful]

i call it bravery makana....you did right bro!!!

[JoyJohnson222]

Amazing Makana!! Mahalo nui for standing up for us. Sing it loundly and sing it proudly. Aloha YES!!

[martijnlafeber]

Brilliant. It's not just the lyrics that are very good, it's actually a very catchy song!

[toto20091]

Yes! this should be a hymn of 99%.

[Marronisince1990]

Wonderful! :)

[AnonymousPhantom1]

Makana is the next Pete Seeger-- the next Bob Dylan! The song is as hot as "Blowin' in the Wind." Keep on singing it. It will bring the Wallstreet tyrants down just like other songs stopped a major war. Only this time, they will fall harder and permanently.

[3DogSound]

Incredible! The bidding of the many not the few. Keep singing my friend, the country needs you.

[makanakahn]

Makana.........we of Kaua'i cannot express how your COURAGE, to acknowledge your own fear & it be recognized as a dangerous sign, has inspired us all. WE ARE THE MANY will support us as we march with our brothers & sisters, in fear or not, taking back the streets of America. Mahalo.

Ckahn@hawaiian.net

[rladeveze]

who the fuck would dislike a video like this smh...RON PAUL 2012

And please watch FREEDOM TO FASCISM by ARRON RUSSO just type it in youtube and check it....please and thank you for your own future and the future of us me and u...this next election is so important..

[50simona]

Please make a translation into spanish!!!!

[idealist707]

Words can not do justice to his courage, vision and song.

Few moments are so hope inspiring.

We have to seize this moment, before they have undermined us completely.

Allons-y, as they said during the French revolution in 1789, inspired by ours.

Who shall lead. The people shall lead, in spite of FBI infiltration.

[TheElainetravelgirl]

Millions will march and protest with OCCUPY movements. Makana had the opportunity to voice ONE for the Many of us.... ONE voice for ALL of us....to the world leaders at APEC Hawaii this weekend. Courage to Express! Be a messenger always and in all ways......with ALOHA. Your Presence creates Resonance...and the message will be heard. We all matter ... and we can speak for the Truth with Love, with Aloha! 

[thebassiskickin22]

props to your brother. you got balls. im happy you took the chance you had to directly get your message out.

[nlbengey3]

one gutsy guy 

[Samuella133]

haha i love it how when Makana started singing, the dude at the table goes " WTF?" well done! love it!

[theCONtraildotcom]

Delicious

Arohanui from your SOuth Pacific Cousins - New Zealand

[changodelachanga]

Bravo Makana! Tienes cojones y mi admiracion y respeto. you sing beautiful and brought me to tears to hear your lyrics.

[surfjerr]

ty youngin for being the voice of the billion voices that wont be heard by the leaders of this kabal

[talkin2ya]

u r amazing brotha, maori of aotearoa nz are with u all.

[KaohiWaianae]

Gaffaw, gaffaw, gaffaw Makana, Mahalo for many years to come for daring to do the right thing for the future generation here in Hawaii. Our ancestors did the right thing for me and I want to return to them their love of aina for the rest of my life. And I thank you from the bottom of my heart for singing the words that I truly feel. It's a blessing to have such a beautiful singer express what we all have be trying to say to these APEC'ies. So, I thank you once more may the good fairy drop in.

[silva09chiva]

Maybe you can be the occupy leader now! Since you're the closest any of the occupiers have been to government officials or leaders:) good for you for singing out loud

[jewelspalace]

Love love love it!!!



[dieKalthaushummel]

next time, you should sing this out loud and free - without fear - for all of them to hear ! ... this world is a dangerous place, so we have to work together for change and for protecting artists like you who dare to voice our feelings.

[mmdurango]

Makana, my hero!

Adding to the long tradition of protest songs........maybe all the Occupiers have a song now.........

[randyldna1]

MAKANA YOU ARE THE MAN. HAWAI`I DOES HAVE A VOICE AND IT IS NOT OBAMA.

[cadekraski]

love it!!



[kauaiphil]

Right On! From an old UT, Austin, Texas, radical (1969-71). Back on Kauai for 10 years. WORKERS OF THE WORLD, UNITE! KICK THE ASS, OF THE RULING CLASS! A hard rain is going to fall, soon. A total paradigm change is needed. If not, unfortunately, there will be chaos and blood. I hope OWS is the beginning of a new zeitgeist. Aloha and Peace.

[pleasestandstrong]

So NOT inappropriate! Please more music for our revolution!! This gave me chills it was so right on! Thank you Makana!

[csufly]

MAKANA< you are my HERO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DadlaniBerlin]

so so so so cool !! Thank you thank you - please people lets make this a world hit !!

[christopherthorpe]

Mahalo bra! Aloha~

[mrwizardweb]

Absolutely Awesome! You are a hero! You are a voice of the 99%!

[GizmoMofo7]

a hero for the people, need more people like him

[OutereefET]

Occupy EVERYTHING with A L O H A ! Go Makana!

[saezsarah]

So Much Light and Love!!! Thank you Makana. 

[MrMacdaddyryan]

Good for you Makana. It was inappropriate? Let's see, it's ok to send young men and women to die for our country to uphold our freedoms of which one is the freedom of speech. Frankly, this was one young man's cry for the freedoms we are losing simply because "it was inappropriate." Who decides what is inappropriate?

[gerardo523]

@MrMacdaddyryan Thing is when was the last time we sent them off to die and "uphold our freedoms"? Certainly everyone knows that where they are now and what they are dying for is not our freedom(s). Just another money-making scheme in the guise of bringing "democracy" to people who probably can't even appreciate it.

[adambombmoney]

Bless u makana Much Aloha !!!!!!!!

[mackentube]

Great song, that says it all. Thank you Makana

[goesbetween]

A song to RALLY around...The clips are great, especially of the "Bonus Army"

Look it up....History repeats itself...til now....we are the final wave to redemption one love peace be with you Jack

[manfromsnowy]

Thank Budgie you also make a ggod cameraman, it is a wonder homeland security did not give you a full body scan. Thanks Makana you are a beautiful man.

[colefam206]

Also.......If only more people would WAKE UP! and see what is really going on, and their plans for the 99% of us (the people who are doing this to the world are most likely only 1%...........) So many people are asleep. The world is a very SMALL place. The Power of the people could be BIG.....if only....Nothing will ever change until more people get the message and WAKE UP!

[colefam206]

Awesome way to get the message out!!! you are very courageous........and so absolutely true, NO ONE should be AFRAID to say what they want! I do think it might be too late though, WE DO HAVE MAJOR PROBLEMS!!! I fear for the freedom of our children.

[ChicoMaui]

It is true throughout history that the poets and bards are the prophets of that which is yet to come. Keia ka wa i ka huliau.

[dancingbrook]

Hey welcome to the other side, the side with the Dixie Chicks, the side that has been thrown in jail for making waves, the side that has been killed, that side that says what needs to be said, and lives (or dies) with the consequences.

[canadianfae]

FANTASTIC! Small Victories!!!!!

[thebigdr]

Everyone I know that lives in Hawaii are 1%ers. I know I can't afford to live there and I'm a 45%er.

[librarising777]

This song is this generation's "The Times They Are A-Changin".

[hyourinmaruookami]

@librarising777 That's exactly what I thought when I first heard it!!! It kinda has the same atmosphere to it, too, you know?

[razst]

You are my idea of a true American

[bilguana11]

Makana No Ka Oi! Many blessings.

[soulatomickim]

He has the Presidents eyes. Too bad they don't see the same thing. Our President did back in 2008 but Washington has unfortunately compromised him.

[BladeUtah]

I gotta buy this guy's CD. What an amazing act of courage.

[Kezmarquez]

This is the Occupy song....delivered to a few!

[KaosReigns10]

Omg its so beautiful. Mahalo Makana!!!

[1fallang]

Mahalo nui e Makana for singing such a song to the people that needed to hear it. I hope they were listening. Change must come!

[1fallang]

Mahalo nui e akana for singing such a song to the people that needed to hear it. I hope they were listening. Change must come!

[TheMandoguitar]

You sang for all of us, the 99%

[estavir]

Thank You MAKANA

[marknclaire]

Google tells me "Makana" means gift. You are indeed a gift, thanks for giving of yourself so generously!

[marballisa]

Makana for PRESIDENT :)

[wendyblan]

You ROCK Makana! This is amazing!

[punky215]

Terrific! Thank you for carrying on the great tradition of American protest music. I will be sharing this with everyone!

[kellihatley]

Occupy Aloha. That is sooooooooooooooo awesome. Thanks darlin' You ROCK!

[snarkishone]

Great song! and even if you were "just singing" it still took courage and integrity.

Thanks.

[ondix]

YOU ARE LOVELY!!!!!! thank you for your courage to stand solo with your heart, Woody Gutherie would be proud!

[str8coke]

excellent stuff much love from australia

[robbierayjazz]

Thank You MAKANA

[neillleroux]

Courageous with a beautiful voice...

Thank you Makana for reminding them that we are the many...

[pineapplekookie]

What you did was very courageous....The nation has a lot to learn about Hawaii.......Imua

[cactuskiwi]

Love it!!!!