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A Midwestern chain told Hawaiians to stop using ‘Aloha’ with ‘Poke,’ igniting a heated debate

****UPDATE SIGN OUR PETITION**** https://www.change.org/p/levy-restaurants-aloha-poke-co-remove-aloha-and-poke-from-your-name?recruiter=8910168&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=share_petition TO OUR CHICAGO INDIGENOUS ALLIES This Chicago business has aggressively threatened Kanaka Maoli families with legal action for the use of the word "Aloha" on Fb or businesses. Friedlander currently has a gag order on a KANAKA MAOLI family and has ordered them to cease and desist from the use of a word in our language from being used. When the lawyer was asked if his client even knew what the meaning of aloha was, "he said it was irrelevant and that they owned the rights to it and they were gonna come for anyone who had the word aloha in their business name and were selling poke or any other seafood" Allies in Chicago for Indigenous families struggling to make a living, struggling to perpetrate our culture PLEASE Kako'o by going to the place of business and letting them know WE WILL NOT ACCEPT THIS.