Aloha Poke Co.
Channel: APECEpic
Date: 2018-09-05

Aloha Poke Co, Remove "Aloha" and "Poke" From Your Name
http://bit.do/NoAlohaPokeCo

cameras and videos
Darshan Mendoza
Tasha Kahele
Hannah Ii-Epstein
Anna Rose Ii-Epstein 
Elizabeth Kamakakalalauokalani Lofton
Jeannette Ludes
2018 HawaiiSlam Team
Kalama O Ka ‘Āina

"Aloha Poke Co."
2018 HawaiiSlam Team: 
Destiny Sharion, Lani Fisher, Noa Helela, Chris Emory

Tasha Kahele
https://www.facebook.com/tkahele
https://www.facebook.com/tkahele/videos/10215826695796291/

Lei's Poke Stop
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/1002041486642079/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/421579501671601/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/1417616101673750/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/1794897850617996/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/481221099019869/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/283598965562324/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/278599056264225/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/681983695495933/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/2221196134792377/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/434449493717935/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/425480274614857/
https://www.facebook.com/leispokestop/videos/425466477949570/

Say NO to Aloha Poke Co
https://www.facebook.com/NoAlohaPokeCo/

‘Aha Aloha ‘Āina 
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf1vsFxwwhthIWew62MCWIQ
https://youtu.be/yFMJ8oo4A_g

Hannah Ii-Epstein
https://www.facebook.com/hannah.iiepstein
https://www.facebook.com/hannah.iiepstein/videos/2307681815914082/
https://www.facebook.com/hannah.iiepstein/videos/2307726939242903/
https://www.facebook.com/hannah.iiepstein/videos/2301871146495149/

Jeanette Ludes
https://www.facebook.com/jeannette.soonludes
https://www.facebook.com/jeannette.soonludes/videos/2176490852421950/

Destiny Sharion
https://www.facebook.com/destiny.sharion
https://www.facebook.com/destiny.sharion/videos/2232039860171865/

Kalama O Ka ‘Āina
https://www.facebook.com/kalama.okaaina?ref=br_rs
https://www.facebook.com/kalama.okaaina/videos/10214956936069082/
https://www.facebook.com/kalama.okaaina/videos/10215012835746539/
https://www.facebook.com/kalama.okaaina/videos/10214993715268539/

Aloha Poke Co, Remove "Aloha" and "Poke" From Your Name
http://bit.do/NoAlohaPokeCo

excerpt:

Aloha Poke Co is a Midwest based restaurant that has aggressively threatened Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian) families with legal action for the use of the word “Aloha” in their business or social media. Not only are they capitalizing on an Indigenous traditional dish that they have no rights to, but they also have the gall to try and bar our own people from using a word in our language that has deep cultural meaning and symbolism. A language that up until 1987 was illegal in schools in Hawaii.

Aloha Poke Co.'s lawyers have sent cease-and-desist letters to small businesses demanding they "stop all use of Aloha and Aloha Poke in association with selling your food, products and services" as well as demanding the "removal of Aloha and Aloha Poke from any company name, domain name, Facebook page or other social media site."

Aloha Poke Co. has yet to confirm how many of these cease-and-desist actions were undertaken by their lawyers. But two small businesses, including a native Hawaiian-owned restaurant, have been forced to rebrand their entire businesses due to this legal threat so far.

We call upon Aloha Poke Company, LLC to “cease and desist” from the use of the words “Aloha”, “Aloha Poke” and “Poke" from all current and future businesses. We believe the words "Aloha" and "Poke" belong to the whole Hawaiian culture – not to a U.S. company in Chicago. We understand that this will come at some cost to you, but we think that cost to a multi-million dollar company is comparable to the cost that you have asked these small families to suffer when you have demanded they remove theirs.
 
https://chicago.eater.com/2017/8/1/16078638/aloha-poke-chicago-fairhaven-washington-name-trademark

Here is the FORMER owner's Facebook. While the company may be sold, he has simply cashed in on exploitation

https://m.facebook.com/zach.friedlander.5?ref=content_filter

Yelp pages
https://www.yelp.com/biz/aloha-poke-chicago-6
https://www.yelp.com/biz/aloha-poke-chicago-7
https://www.yelp.com/biz/aloha-poke-chicago-8
https://www.yelp.com/biz/aloha-poke-chicago-9
https://www.yelp.com/biz/aloha-poke-chicago-11
https://www.yelp.com/biz/aloha-poke-chicago-13
https://www.yelp.com/biz/aloha-poke-chicago-14
https://www.yelp.com/biz/aloha-poke-chicago-18
https://www.yelp.com/biz/aloha-poke-chicago-19

LOCATIONS
https://www.alohapokeco.com/locations/

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