HAPA’s Accomplishments!
2023 -
Check out our 2023 accomplishments - here
Milestone Meeting: 2019 Pesticide (RUP) Report Findings Shared In Whitmore, Oʻahu
Fern Holland HAPA’s community organizer & environmental scientist pictured above. read more here
2022 -
Cohort 1 Alumnus,
Daniel Anthony— pounded poi & paʻiʻai at Onipaʻa. His organization & farm in Kahaluʻu, Oʻahu is Hui Aloha ʻĀina Momona. Daniel is an organizer, activist and regenerative farming educator.
Read more about our 2022 Work here - Mid Year Report!
2021 -
To learn about our 2021 work, go to our 2021 accomplishments
2020 -
To learn about our 2020 work, go to our 2020 accomplishments
2019 -
Lee Johnson (right) looks on as Mackenzie Feldman holds the issue of the Star-Advertiser announcing a ban on herbicides on all public school campuses in Hawaii.
Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) bans the use of herbicides on school campuses—
after the Protect Our Keiki Coalition hosts a state-wide speaking tour with Dewayne “Lee” Johnson to discuss glyphosate-based herbicides' health and environmental impacts and offer non-toxic alternatives.
Lee Johnson, a former groundskeeper, is the first plaintiff to successfully sue Bayer/Monsanto for causing his non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
HAPA hosts the second Hawaii People’s Congress exploring Hawaii’s homegrown solutions to address interconnected climate and inequality crises.
HAPA hosts the fourth Kuleana Academy with 16 participants from across the Hawaiian islands.
HAPA links arms with streamflow advocates across Hawaii to help defeat a “water theft bill.”
Protect Our Keiki Coalition successfully advocates for legislation to audit the State Agribusiness Development Corporation (ADC), a quasi-public agency that leases a majority of their land to the agrochemical industry.
Protect Our Keiki Coalition successfully advocates for farmworker housing resolution and pollinator protections resolution.
2018 -
Children play in once-dry Kahoma Stream. HAPA organizer Tiare Lawrence helped spearhead efforts to reconnect stream flow from mauka to makai. Photo: Maui News.
HAPA’s former Community Organizer Tiare Lawrence helps to coordinate first kalo harvest in Kahoma Valley in over 130 years.
Act 45, Hawaii’s ban on chlorpyrifos, also includes several other provisions that frontline communities have been advocating for over a decade, such as mandatory disclosure of restricted-use-pesticides (RUP) and buffer zones. Unfortunately, the buffer zone provision is only a 100’ foot RUPbuffer zone around schools during school hours. The coalition commits to continuing to advocate for increased buffer zones.
Hawaii becomes the first state in the nation to ban chlorpyrifos! HAPA works closely with the Protect Our Keiki Coalition on this landmark piece of legislation which paves the way for California and New York to enact similar bans.
Five of HAPA’s Kuleana Academy graduates are elected to office.
HAPA’s Community Organizer, Tiare Lawrence, raises awareness about the impacts of coastal hardening on coastal erosion and the impact on reefs and fisheries.
2017-
Hokule'a stops at Olowalu Reef, announced as a "Mission Blue Hope Spot”
HAPA’s former Community Organizer, Tiare Lawrence works to help get Olowalu reef on Maui designated as Hawaii’s first Mission Blue Hope Spot.
HAPA hosts two full Kuleana Academy programs providing political leadership training for 12 community leaders from across Hawaii.
HAPA hosts a Kauaʻi ʻAha Aloha ʻĀina with over 25 participants to explore ʻāina, wai, and kai issues across the island.
HAPA’s former Community Organizer, Tiare Lawrence, helps to lead efforts to restore lo’i kalo in Kahoma Valley in West Maui. Tiare helps advocate for streamflow restoration in instream flow standards and organizes community work days with lineal descendants of Kahoma.
2016 -
HAPA partners with over a dozen organizations to host the first Hawaii People’s Congress. The event hosted on Oahu over two days explores a broad multi-issue progressive agenda and intersectional movement building.
HAPA hosts inaugural Kuleana Academy program as a means to build political leadership and power for the food justice movement and for other community leaders and movement seeking to address other social, economic and environmental injustices.
HAPA partners with Pesticide Action Network (PAN) to host a Hawaii-wide Food Justice Summit which brings together movement leaders from frontline communities impacted by the agrochemical industry. Activists from Mexico, Malaysia, Senegal? and Switzerland to discuss the interconnected global impacts of the agrochemical industry and efforts in each of their home communities to the hold the industry accountable.
HAPA and PAN hosted a Food Justice Summit in 2016 which convened frontline food-movement leaders from Mexico, Hawaii, Nigeria and Switzerland.
2015 -
Lorilani Keohokalole-Torio and her kids rally in support of a local ordinance to regulate pesticides on Kauai.
HAPA engages in community education efforts to raise awareness about the impact of the agrochemical industry in Hawaii.
HAPA engages in planning for a Food Justice Summit, and the inaugural Kuleana Academy to be launched in 2016. Opens applications for the first Kuleana Academy.
HAPA builds founding board and drafts its first strategic plan.
2014 -
Gary Hooser and Elif Beall founded HAPA to build capacity for long-term food justice campaigns and organizing to advance increased pesticide regulations.
Prior to the founding of HAPA, Kauai County passed Bill 2491 The bill was introduced by current HAPA Board President and founder Gary Hooser who was serving on the Kauai County Council at the time. Current HAPA Community Organizer Fern Anuenue Holland helps to lead community organizing efforts to support frontline community demands for greater accountability and protection from the agrochemical industry's use of pesticides on GE crops. HAPA founding Executive Director Elif Beall helps with campaign strategy and organizing efforts. Several current and former HAPA board members are leaders in the Hawaii-wide movement to regulate pesticides and GMO’s.