Round Table 2 on Day Two of our workshop, Friday, December 11, 2009.
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Day Two, 21st August 2009, from Evelin's camera
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Please see here the video of Day Two taped by Stephanie Heuer.

Day Two, 21st August 2009, from Linda's camera
Our 13th Annual HumanDHS conference was unique in that it took place in a "nation within" or in a nation that was incorporated into another nation against its will. We watched the deeply troubling film Nation Within on the eve of the 21st August.
The 21st of August 2009 (Day Two of our conference) marked the fiftieth anniversary of President Dwight D. Eisenhower signing the Proclamation for Hawai'i to become a State of the United States. This is a controversial anniversary, because the native Hawaiians consider the annexation an illegal overthrow of their monarchy. This is another example of anniversary celebrations being perceived as profoundly humiliating by those who were disenfranchised. Please see for more information, among others, Hawai'i Pono'ī -The People Who Love the Land. Through Kristabelle Munson, we had the unexpected privilege of witnessing the solemn chanting marking the date of this humiliation, and meeting with Yuklin Aluli, Attorney at Law, and Kau'i N. Burgess, both part of the Hawai'i Pono'ī Coalition. On their website we read: "Hawai'i Pono'ī is the title of the Hawai'i national anthem written by King Kalākauwa in 1874. Literally translated "Hawai'i's own," Hawai'i Pono'ī connects us to the history of the Islands and the heritage of its Indigenous people, a heritage that enriches us all. The Hawai'i Pono'ī Coalition was formed to educate those who live in and visit the Islands about Hawai'i's true history, the Native Hawaiian people, and the culture that makes Hawai'i a place like no other.
Kristabelle also made us aware of the Hawaiian renaissance and of singers such as Gabby Pahinui. See here the lyrics of a song that expresses feelings of sadness at modern alienation, entitled Hawai'i 78 by Israel Kamakawiwo Ole'; see also http://www.youtube.com/.

2014:
• "Most people would say that the United States of America has 50 states, and that Hawai'i is one of them. But Hawaiian academic Dr. Keanu Sai says otherwise. Sai says that Hawai'i was never legally annexed to the United States, and has been illegally occupied for the past 121 years," "Dr. Sai interviewed on The Wire in Aotearoa," Hawaiian Kingdom Independence Blog, Hawaii… an independent country under prolonged illegal occupation, 30th September, 2014.
• "Hawaiian Sovereignty & International Law by David Keanu Sai Ph.D.," published on 9 Jan 2014.
• The sovereignty of Hawai'i: A quote from senior Law Professor Chang: "The power of the United States, over the Hawaiian islands, and the jurisdiction of the United States in the State of Hawai'i, by its own admissions, by its own laws, doesn't exist. And so that means that ever since the 1898 annexation of Hawai'i, by a Joint Resolution, they say, we have been living a myth." (3:01 min/sec.)."
• Sai, David Keanu (2008). American Occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom: Beginning the Transition from Occupied to Restored State. Manoa, HI: University of Hawai`i at Manoa, Political Science, doctoral dissertation.
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Day Ten, 29th August 2009, from Linda's and Evelin's cameras
Mona Harris, Veena Cahlander, Christopher at Wyland and see many renowned artists, such as Peter Max (see also our Art page!) or Dale Evers and Peter Lik.
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August 16, 2009, with Linda and Marily Downs at Powell's City of Books, Portland, OR.
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August 8, 2009, at Linda's and Rick's HumanDHS Dialogue Home: We are celebrating the opening of our first Dialogue Home !
Please see Linda's and Rick's kind invitation!
Please admire also Linda's collection of messages and pictures in her house! See here a transcription of Bronson Alcott's Maxims on Education.
See, among others, the Cree prophecy:
“When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.”
Read about the native Americans that inhabited this the area at the Grand Ronde webite. Read also about the Chinook.
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Dear Rick Slaven celebrates his birthday in August in Portland, Oregon.
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"Creating Change Together" 2009 Hollyhock Summer Gathering, July 26 - 31, 2009, Cortes Island, B.C., Canada.
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Gabriola Island, BC, Canada, July 25, 2009, visiting Paul Grignon, togetherwith Linda and Rick, to discuss (and try to understand) Grignon's Money As Debt concept and Digital Coin proposal. "The advantage of a universal Credit Coin over conventional local currencies is that universal Credit Coin would be able to perform all the valuable functions local currencies do, funding the local economy internally and independently while at the same time being acceptable worldwide without conversion. A universal Credit Coin could be both local and global at the same time," page 15.
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Vancouver, BC, July 25, 2009, with Linda and Rick.
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28th June 2009: It was in the Waldsiedlung or "Wandlitz" in the former East Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), that the political leadership, the members of the SED Politburo, lived separated from the rest of the population of their country in relative luxury. See also the documentary "Geheimnisvolle Orte: Wandlitz - Waldsiedlung Dokumentation" by Thomas Grimm and Uta Kolano, produced in 2008 for the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) (Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting). Today, this complex is a rehabilitation clinic. It was an eerie feeling to walk around in this formerly "forbidden city."
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These are the photos from Evelin's camera. Thank you, dear Kamilla and dear sweet Syse-family children for taking all those lovely photos! Please click on the pictures above or here to see more photos.

Château et musée de Valangin, 24th May, 2009.
On the trail of Catherine von Wattenwyl (1645-1714), who lived during her last years on the castle of Valangin. See Therese Bichsel's book.
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Château d'Oron, 23rd May, 2009.
On the trail of Catherine von Wattenwyl (1645-1714), who lived during her childhood on the castle of Oron. See also Therese Bichsel's book on Catherine von Wattenwyl, see the book cover above on the left side.
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Birthday 2009.
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Col du Marchairuz, Canton Vaud/Waadt, Switzerland, 15th March 2009.
Col du Marchairuz (el. 1447 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Jura Mountains in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It connects Le Brassus and Bière. The pass road has a maximum grade of 14 percent.
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St. Claude, Haute-Jura, commune in Jura department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France, 19th April, 2009.
For me, St. Claude is interesting in two ways, first, as to how old artisan skills transform over time (from selling artifacts made of wood or bones to pilgrims, the city became later known for their pipe production and diamond cutting, both in decline now), and, second, the role of religion, see La Cathédrale Saint-Pierre, Saint-Paul et Saint-André.
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79th International Motor Show in Geneva, Switzerland, 14th March 2009.
Since years, I am disappointed that the engineers of the world don't step up to the challenge of creating real quality. Simply catering to boys wanting to play is not enough (not with respect to the design of cars, not with respect to the design of economical instruments, and not with respect to cultural scripts in general). It is about time that engineers reach beyond old dichotomies. Top technology and beauty, for example, should not be luxury but normality - the Fisker Karma mission of connecting technolgoy, beauty, and luxury should be deconstructed and technology and beauty should become normality for everybody, including, for example, products like Tata. Technology should become more intelligent, both from the point of technological quality and aesthetic quality. I envisage a world, where neither nature nor women are exploited, degraded, insulted, and humiliated, where technologies like the hydrogen technoloy (see the pictures at the bottom) are comprehensively green, from the initial generation of energy to the end-product, and where women are not used as sex traps to sell products.
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Château et musée Morges, Canton Vaud/Waadt, Switzerland, 8th March 2009.
Since years, I try to better understand the sufferings my parents went hrough in connection with World War II. It is difficult for me to imagine what they experienced. Museums help. Chateau Morges has military collections that display military equipment I am lucky enough to be unfamiliar with.
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Hameln (German spelling) or Hamelin (English spelling), Niedersachsen/Lower Saxony, Germany, 29th January 2009. My parents live nearby.
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The Legend of the Pied Piper is intricatelly connected with the history of my family and with my motivation to do the work I do. The core of the legend is about disappearance, the disappearance of children, around the year 1284. The most plausible interpretation is that this disappearance had to do with the colonization of East Europe that started from Low Germany. The official website for the town of Hameln explains: "The 'Children of Hameln' would have been in those days citizens willing to emigrate being recruited by landowners to settle in Moravia, East Prussia, Pomerania or in the Teutonic Land."
Today, since World War II, 30 percent of Lower Saxony’s population has a refugee or expellee background, mostly from Silesia (where my family hails from), but also from East-Prussia, Pomerania, and Sudetenland (western regions of Czechoslovakia).
In other words, 800 years later, the descendants of those who once settled in the east have been expelled again. In the course of this expulsion two mutually exclusive versions of history cristallized around the very same geographical location, one of "a homeland lost," and one of "a homeland regained" (see poster further down). The trauma connected with such dynamics is unimaginable - having experienced its ravaging effects in my family gave me the motivation for my work.
This trauma is being shared by millions of people around the globe in various forms. Not least the Middle East is painfully caught in similar dynamics: what is a joyous occasion (declaration of independence) for one side, is disaster (naqba) for the other side. Also Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda tend to have two histories, as have other world regions afflicted with intractable conflict. Fortunately, in Europe, the cycle of hurt no longer drives politics of violence, and past trauma can heal without being continuously maintained and re-inflicted.

*This poster addressed the populations of Lower Silesia and the Southern regions of Brandenburg in 1945. It illustrates the perspective of "a homeland regained." Its English translation reads as follows:
To the population of Lower Silesia and the Southern regions of Brandenburg! The primordially Slavic territories that have been torn away from Poland by the imperialistic Germanic urge, are now won back for our homeland thanks to the victorious advance by the allied Red Army and the heroic Polish Army. On the grounds of a decision by the Ministerial Council of the Republic of Poland, I assume the administration of the state on these re-conquered purely Slavic territories. I request from the population loyal and total obedience to all decrees by the Polish administration and strict compliance and implementation of all orders. All active or passive resistance are broken by the use of violence and the guilty are punished according to military law. The Slavic population that has been Germanized with violence and insidiousness, is cared for by me and is given the opportunity to return to Polishness, for which the best daughters and sons of these primordially Slavic territories have been bleeding. Signed: Stanislaw Piaskowski, April 1945.

27th-28th January 2009, with Color Line (MS Color Magic) from Norway (Oslo) to Continental Europe (Kiel, Germany), a journey of 20 hours. The journey begins with waiting (before driving onboard), then the ship leaves the harbour, and arrival is next morning, when everybody drives off the ship again.
Two Color Line ships (MS Color Fantasy and MS Color Magic) serve the Oslo-Kiel route since a few years. They are veritable cruise ships, in contrast to earlier years, when their predecessors had more of a ferry character. I am used to taking the predecessor ship of MS Color Fantasy, namely, MS Prinsesse Ragnhild, since about 1994, at least once a year. MS Prinsesse Ragnhild was a much more modest ship, where I always got an inexpensive cabin under the car deck and shared it (first with several people, in later years with only one person). Through sharing a cabin I met many very interesting people on these ship journeys, and I regret that this option is no longer available on MS Color Fantasy and MS Color Magic (which replaced MS Kronprins Harald).
Please see some pictures of Oscarsborg fortress, which became famous during World War II for the 9th April 1940 sinking of the German heavy cruiser (schwerer Kreuzer, krysser) Blücher (see also the picture of German cruiser Blücher sinking in Drøbakksundet 9th April 1940).
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I have a beer no more than once or twice a year, and it is a kind of ritual for me to do that when leaving either Kiel or Oslo with Color Line. This time I asked bypassers to take some pictures of this little ritual!

Pamela Hiley is the founder, managing director, and head teacher of Norsk Taiji Senter in Oslo, Norway. On 26th January 2009, she organised a commemoration of Arne Næss and a celebration of the new Chinese year. Many dear friends participated.
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Lasse Moer, Chief Engineer, audiovisual technology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Oslo, 26th January 2009. He is the director of the film Somalia - A Case-Study, 2000, and the Welcome video of 2008.
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To our deep sorrow, Arne Næss passed away on 12th January 2009. These pictures were taken in Ris kirke, Oslo, 20th January 2009, Oslo, Norway, where he was lovingly remembered by family and friends, among them the Prime Minister of Norway, Jens Stoltenberg. The ceremony was broadcast live on the first Norwegian TV channel NRK1.
The last pictures with dear Pamela Hiley were taken in Kunstnernes hus, where Arne was further remembered in the afternoon of the same day.
We will never forget how he, together with his dear wife Kit-fai, participated in our 2003 conference in Paris, and how this became a very special event through his wonderful contributions!
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Engineers Egil Bergh-Telle and Øivind Magnus Hoff at the University of Oslo, Norway, were so kind as to invest a full week into installing the new mobile headquarters of our HumanDHS network. These pictures were taken on 19th January 2009. Twenty three dear HumanDHS members and supporters have collected the necessary funds for this new computer. The entire HumanDHS network is immensely grateful, both to the incredible IT engineers of the Department of Psychology at the University in Oslo and to the 23 generous donors!
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First you see my journey to the Department of Psychology in the early morning of the 19th January (you understand why I take the tramway and no car!), then you see the old and new computer, you see also how hopelessly worn down the old laptop was after many years of fidelity, and, most importantly, you meet dear IT engineers Egil Bergh-Telle, Øivind Hoff, and Carolin Aulie of the Department of Psychology at the University in Oslo.

Oslo, Norway, 19th January 2009: This is the new Opera building in Oslo.
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