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Kanaka Maoli (he/they) Assistant Professor of Indigenous Politics @UofT_PolSci . Affiliate @IndigenousUofT . Director @ZiibiingLab . VP @RedMediaPR .
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Reports are confirming 80 dead, so far, and the
@nytimes
is reporting that a white settler couple successfully recovered a ROLEX watch from their Lāhainā home.
On Friday, Elicia Stratton searched desperately through the wreckage of her Lahaina home for the Rolex watch her parents gave her when she graduated college.
Suddenly, her fiancé pulled it from the ashes. “You found it!” she said, choking up. It was damaged but still legible.
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Reports suggest 93 people are dead, 1000 people missing still, and 2700 structures destroyed. To consider this an economic opportunity to acquire land for development & profit is beyond the pale. The colonial speculation of disaster capitalism is happening right now in Lāhainā.
Lahaina residents worry that rebuilt homes in their Maui town could slip into the hands of affluent outsiders seeking a tropical haven rather than homegrown residents who give the Hawaiian island its spirit and identity.
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Say it with me: Hawaiʻi wasn’t peacefully incorporated into the US. It was forcefully invaded 130 years ago today.
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The message from Maui community is loud and clear: cancel your vacation and travel plans. Lāhainā needs time to heal and regenerate, and Native Hawaiians and local communities must be centered in the rebuild. Not realators, developers, and tourists. Lāhainā isn’t for sale.
The devastation in Maui after shocking wildfires is clear. There are still hundreds of people missing and unaccounted for. And there are thousands of people who have lost their homes and livelihoods - and desperately in need of aid and shelter. So does it surprise you to know,…
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Roses are red
violets are blue
Hawaiians killed Cook
because he tried to kidnap Kalaniʻōpuʻu
❤️2.14.1779❤️
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As Hawaiians wake up to the news of Palestinian anticolonial resistance in Gaza to Israeli settler colonialism, remember that—from Hawaiʻi to Palestine—occupation is a crime. A lāhui that stands for decolonization and deoccupation should also stand behind freedom for Palestine.
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“In a near-unanimous vote, Hawaii's Senate on Thursday became the first state legislative body in the U.S. to endorse a permanent cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.”
“The Hawai‘i Senate, which is dominated by Democrats, voted 24–1 to approve a resolution urging U.S. President Joe Biden and members of the state's congressional delegation to publicly call for an immediate and permanent cease-fire in Gaza.”
#CeasefireNow
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Colonial greed transformed the wetlands of Lāhainā. This included water diversions for sugar plantations & land use change from agricultural production to livestock grazing. The same invasive grasses that white sugar barons planted in 19 & 20c exploded like napalm in high winds.
Fire expert Clay Trauernicht (
@claytrau
) says changes to the Hawaiian landscape, such as the "dramatic expansion" of "non-native tropical grasses," helped provide much of the fuel for the devastating wildfires on Maui that have killed dozens of people so far.
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Tips on being less racist:
Don’t write an article encouraging people to decrease racism by increasing colonization.
Don’t reference non-Hawaiian scholars as Hawaiian.
Don’t feel entitled to write about Hawaiʻi.
Perhaps just don’t move to Hawaiʻi.
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They’re indigenizing prisons...
An award-winning building shaped like a soaring eagle provides a new space for Indigenous ceremonies and promotes a holistic approach to healing at a correctional institution in
#Quebec
. Read more:
@CSC_SCC_en
#PSPCStories
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Looks like someone deleted their tweet.
Here’s a screenshot. Let’s call this a cautionary tale.
#kanakatwitter
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If you're supporting the memes going around today that celebrate Native Hawaiians killing Captain James Cook in 1779, you should be supporting Native Hawaiians of this generation who continue to scrap with white supremacy, imperialism, and settler colonialism.
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Pandemic tourism and settler colonial primitivism on full display.
Indigenous Oceanic peoples are dying from covid at disproportionate rates in occupied Hawaiʻi, while these unmasked tourists drum and dance carefree—some without clothes—at the beach in Maui.
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Tell me you’re a colonizer without telling me you’re a colonizer.
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“If you are thinking of visiting my homeland, please do not. We do not want or need any more tourists, and we certainly do not like them. If you want to help our cause, pass this message on to your friends.” —Haunani-Kay Trask
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Waikīkī went off yesterday. Hawaiʻi getting loud: “In our thousands and in our millions, we are all Palestinians!”
🍉🍉🍉
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When a brave Indigenous woman w/ intl-recognized expertise on settler colonialism & decolonization speaks out against Israeli genocide of Palestinians, she’s targeted, harassed & threatened. This drivel exhibits a deep entanglement of elimination, and itself should be condemned.
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You know what’s reprehensible? The destruction of 28 hospitals in Gaza, and Canada supplying the weapons for Israel to do so.
The demonstration at Mount Sinai Hospital yesterday was reprehensible. Hospitals are places for treatment and care, not protests and intimidation.
I strongly condemn this display of antisemitism. In Toronto and across Canada, we stand with Jewish communities against this hate.
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The United States committed an act of war on Jan 17, 1893.
Supported by the Navy and Marines, an oligarchy of Euro-American businessmen, lawyers & politicians illegally overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom's government.
The US military has illegally occupied Hawaiʻi for 129 years.
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“We grant the full right to those who are occupying McGill & other campuses throughout Turtle Island to be upon the said lands, with the expressed intent of engaging their administrations to divest from the colonial genocide of israel upon the Palestinian People.”
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My students are so wise: “Hurt feelings are not equivalent to oppression.”
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roses are red
violets are blue
cook you were a colonizer
so kanaka came for you💞
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The amount of requests I get about "decolonizing science" is mind blowing. I'm not interested in decolonizing your astronomy project. I'm trying to decolonize land.
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Hawaii is shutdown to stop covid. But the Mayor of Honolulu announced construction of a huge sports complex in Waimānalo will begin today
Hawaiians oppose the development, so the Mayor is capitalizing on covid to build now
Violating Indigenous consent shouldnt be essential work
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A proud teaching moment. My students learned this week about the Hawaiian constitution, and how it was written before Canada was even a country. Not the State of Hawaii. The Hawaiian Kingdom’s constitution.
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We do not consent to TMT construction on Mauna a Wākea. We are committed to stopping TMT, a violent project of settler colonial capitalism desperately desired by the settler-state. We see their anxiety and know we are winning. We will win.
#KuKiaiMauna
#AoleTMT
#ProtectMaunaKea
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The Hawaiian Kingdom was illegally overthrown by white supremacists supported by US military 126 years ago. On January 17 1893 this coup enabled the creation of a US settler-state in Hawaiʻi. Queen Liliʻuokalani solemnly protested. The lāhui resisted. We continue to be steadfast.
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8,000 tourists flew into Hawaiʻi yesterday.
Vacations shouldn’t be more important than mitigating the pandemic.
A vacation shouldn’t be more important than protecting the health and wellbeing of local people.
Tourists shouldn’t be more important than the people of Hawaiʻi.
More than 8,000 out-of-state passengers fly into
#Hawaii
on the first day they could test out of a travel quarantine
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After police left the access road’s entrance, we celebrated the victory: no TMT construction has begun on Mauna a Wākea!!!
#AoleTMT
#KuKiaiMauna
#TMTshutdown
#ProtectMaunaKea
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HAWAIIAN KINGDOM’S GOVERNMENT WAS OVERTHROWN BY WHITE BUSINESSMEN BACKED BY US MILITARY IN 1893. HAWAII IS UNDER ILLEGAL OCCUPATION. THERES NO TREATY OF ANNEXATION. MOST WHO VOTED FOR STATEHOOD IN 1959 WERE WHITE SETTLERS NOT HAWAIIANS. THATS WHY WE DONT CELEBRATE ADMISSIONS DAY.
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Mauna Loa is erupting on Lā Kūʻokoʻa, Hawaiian Independence Day. Settler society sees her as a destructive threat for containment. This is true too for Hawaiian sovereignty. But we are irrepressible. It may be destructive, but it creates life to stand on for generations to come.
UPDATE: View from Saddle Road of lava from Mauna Loa volcano eruption as of 1:30 am — Hawaii County Civil Defense working to confirm if any lava has flowed outside the summit caldera (pics:
@KITV4
viewer AJ Taaca)
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Hawaiians: don’t come to Hawaiʻi
Tourists:
Yet another video of a tourist illegally disturbing a Hawaiian monk seal. Posted on May 28 by a Los Angeles man who admits to doing it and knowing it was wrong
#hawaii
@NOAAFisheries
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I get asked often about ethical approaches to visiting Hawaiʻi.
Well, here’s a thread illustrating a particularly unethical approach:
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Hawaiʻi is not your pandemic tourist playground. I’m from Maunawili, and the scene here is infuriating.
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29 Hawaiian graves destroyed, in celebration of American independence
call it a hate crime
call it desecration
call it profanity
this is what US settler colonial occupation looks like
Vandals damage dozens of headstones at historic Kawaiahao Church
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Reminder: “Hawaiian pizza” was invented by a white settler dude in Ontario, Canada inspired by the fetishistic imagery of Hawaiʻi marketed on a Dole can of sliced pineapple—the same Dole family that participated in illegally overthrowing the Hawaiian Kingdom’s government.
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The US military is one of the largest polluters in the world, and it’s destroying our islands in Hawaiʻi. Visiting Maunakea yesterday, I heard explosions at Pohakuloa Training Area. They likely started this fire, which burned 700+ acres last night. We need demilitarization now.
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Where is last week’s white liberal feminist rage for SCOTUS today after its decision in Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta? Ya’ll were ready to recognize Indigenous sovereignty and support Tribal jurisdiction. Right,
@LakotaMan1
?
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Queen Liliʻuokalani, on this day in 1893, surrendered her government to an invading force of white settler men under protest.
Some mistakenly believe Hawaiians acquiesced but, as head of state, Liliʻuokalani protested military intervention in Hawaiʻi and US annexation of it.
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Not only did
@CTVNewsVI
think this would be a hot take, but after some criticism deleted their post.
Bodies of the dead are washing up onshore and THIS is the story you’re working on? How Canadians with property on or travel plans to Maui are affected?
@CTVNews
this is shameful.
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Wildfires rage on, from Maui to Ontario, while lands continue to be developed for extraction. Indigenous peoples are disproportionately impacted despite overrepresentation in protecting global biodiversity. How’s your International Indigenous People’s Day taking climate action?
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The silence of progressive Canadian scholars regarding ongoing aggression against Wet’suwet’en speaks volumes. Wet’suwet’en isn’t just an example for you to publish & profit on; they’re an Indigenous people & nation under attack. What are you gonna actually do about it?
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“This is, for us, genocide.”
Keʻeaumoku Kapu headlines a rare piece in a sea of reporting about the Maui wildfires.
@McKayJacqueline
’s article in
@CBCIndigenous
examines it in relation to the erasure of Kānaka Maoli & Hawaiian land rights. A must read.
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Friendly reminder that hula hoops, Hawaiian pizza, AND rainbow-colored plastic lei all contribute to the bastardization of Native Hawaiian culture.🤙🏾
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I am happy to now share that next year I will be joining the University of Toronto's Department of Political Science as an assistant professor of Indigenous politics! Mahalo nui to all those that supported and encouraged me in this process. I mua i Tkaranto!
#tkaranto
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Just 128 years ago, today, the USS Boston deployed more than 150 marines in Hawaiʻi—violating treaties of friendship, neutrality & non-intervention—in the US military invasion of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Imperialism is an American tradition in the Pacific.
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131 years ago the Hawaiian Kingdom's government was illegally overthrown
131 years of belligerent US military occupation in the Hawaiian islands
131 years of Kanaka Maoli enduring settler colonial occupation
131 years of steadfast resistance by the Indigenous people of Hawaiʻi
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Calling it “a Native American dance” is the kind of racism folks like this teacher internalize then emulate, and claiming she was “mimicking” it is laughable.
@CNN
can you name what dance it is? That’s what I thought—no—because math teacher Karen just made it up.
A math teacher in Southern California has been placed on leave after videos posted online showed her wearing a headdress and mimicking a Native American dance during a lesson.
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This is infuriating.
Princeton frat boys are creating a “college campus” in a hotel in Hawaiʻi for 150 elite American students to work remotely on university courses.
What entitlement. What privilege. What disregard during a pandemic, all for colonial profit.
#NoUExperience
Two Princeton grads are attempting to create college campus experiences in “bubbles” in Arkansas and Hawaii for students taking classes online. One of the founders discusses with
@smerconish
.
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“The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind.”
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Schedule of classes taking place today at the University of Puʻuhuluhulu. Education for ALL for FREE. This is what freedom feels like, what liberation means. It’s nation-building and sovereignty in action. Ke ea nei kākou i ke aloha o ka ʻāina! I love this lāhui.😭❤️
#KuKiaiMauna
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Maunaloa is ablaze. This photo shows the fire spreading from Pohakuloa Training Area where the US Army practices livefire training. Reports say cause is unknown. American empire is scorching our lands then using our water, which they’ve contaminated, to put out their own fires.
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Moe mālie e ka meʻe noho’i o ka lāhui Hawaiʻi. He lāhui ke uē ai nei. E holomua mākou me kāna ʻike, ʻoiaʻiʻo, a me hoʻokanaka wale nō. ʻAʻole wau e hele ai i kona papa kupaianaha akā he haumana hoʻi. Ua aʻo aku ʻoia i nā poʻe aloha ʻāina a pau. He inoa nō Haunani-Kay Trask.
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Dear
#ASA2019
Hawaiʻi is illegally occupied. Kānaka are criminalized for being Kānaka in our own homeland. Multinational cooperations, global tourism & the US military are laying waste to our islands.
Me ka haʻahaʻa, please don’t support empire & colonialism while conferencing.
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1893: Hawaiian Kingdom’s government is illegally overthrown by a group of white settler men.
1993: Haunani-Kay Trask gives this speech during the centennial commemoration of US occupation in Hawaiʻi.
2022: We are still not American.
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Ellison, Zuckerberg, Bezos, and now Oprah. The wealthy elite of private property owners in Hawaiʻi just got more diverse. But diversification in the ruling class of the islands shouldn’t be seen so simply as progress—it’s still just settler colonialism.
JUST IN | Oprah Winfrey has purchased 870 acres of land in Kula in the central part of the island of Maui, KITV4 has learned.
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i refuse to vote
the US overthrew the Hawaiian Kingdom ILLEGALLY, annexed Hawaiʻi ILLEGALLY, created the 50th state ILLEGALLY
Kānaka Maoli never consented
inclusion is our colonization
i refuse to participate in a democracy hoping to kill the Hawaiian but save the American
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I was at Nā ʻAikāne o Maui just last summer. It’s gone.
Spent time there, like so many, talking about history and politics in Lāhainā. A birth place of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
The cultural center lost an invaluable archive of papers and material culture. Please consider donating.
Nā ‘Āikane O Maui Cultural Center has burnt down. It was a gathering place for Cultural Groups & Kīpuka for our Lāhui - everyone was fed & no one was ever charged. Cultural artifacts, and a safe gathering and educational space for our people has been lost.
#LahainaFire
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New film Waikiki shows dark, colonial underbelly of Hawaii's tourism paradise
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Micronesian scientist becomes first Pacific Islander to reach ocean's deepest point
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Hands off holoholona.
They are not passive objects for you to touch and record, then profit from, for your TikTok empire.
Commodity fetish in the social media market meets pandemic tourism in Hawaiʻi and its ecological harm.
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Brilliant analysis on the land-water grab happening on Maui in the wake of decimating fires. Professor Kapuaʻala Sproat tracks through history & law to suggest this is indeed plantation disaster capitalism.
Read her new
@guardian
op-ed with
@NaomiAKlein
:
“Plantation disaster capitalism is unfortunately the perfect term for what's going on.”
Law professor Kapuaʻala Sproat explains how large landed interests “are using this time of tremendous trauma for the people of Maui to swoop in and to get past the law.”
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Hawaiʻi is not in America
Hawaiʻi is not apart of the US
Hawaiʻi is under an illegal military occupation
Hawaiʻi is under settler colonization
Hawaiʻi is a sacrifice zone in Pacific
Hawaiʻi is vulnerable if Trump launches war against North Korea
Hawaiʻi would become a deathworld
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Tourism company running snorkeling adventures off the coast of Lāhainā THE DAY AFTER a catastrophic wildfire ravaged Lāhainā and the people of Maui. Colonial capitalism is a hell of a drug.
Maui Snorkeling Lani Kai running tours for the tourist off Lahaina coast where dead bodies are still in the water, homes & buildings are burnt to the grown, people burned alive & you have companies like this still making money & entertaining tourist next to a tragedy how gross
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It hurts to hear Kānaka Maoli encourage others in our community to “overcome being an angry Native.” Living under colonial conditions of occupation, apartheid & genocide is unrelenting frustration. It’s the angry Natives fighting to free those content with their own assimilation.
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Reviewing a Kanaka Maoli student’s application to my department’s PhD program. This is a first in my career. I’m not crying you are.🥲
He aupuni palapala koʻu.✊🏾
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Chantel Moore was shot by a cop doing a wellness check. She was murdered on the anniversary of the National Inquiry on Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls.
Indigenous people’s month is meaningless until Canada stops killing Indigenous women.
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Tourists in Hawaiʻi are getting covid vaccines before my family is.
Hawaii residents question why mainland visitors are getting vaccinated in the islands
#HNN
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I’ve not been to Palestine, but Palestine has come to me, transforming me forever. Let Gaza change you.
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Hawaii’s legislature is the first to pass a resolution for the immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
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“Don’t let the media get it twisted. This isn’t about encampments. It’s about stopping a genocide.”
@nickwestes
Native scholar
@nickwestes
who teaches at the University of Minnesota joins student protests for Gaza at Coffman Union, where the new encampment is located.
"We're experiencing a scholasticide"
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Hauʻoli Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea! Happy Hawaiian Sovereignty Restoration Day!
On July 31, 1843 Kauikeaouli proclaimed “ua mau ke ea o ka ʻāina i ka pono” to mark the end to British occupation and restoration of the Hawaiian Kingdom’s sovereignty. We celebrate this national holiday!❤️🔥
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Irish dig deep to support virus-hit native Americans, repaying 150-year-old debt
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#MarkZuckerberg
is continuing a colonial legacy of dispossessing Kānaka Maoli of land in Hawaiʻi. To fortify his settlement on Kauaʻi, he is using his massive wealth to forcibly purchase the Rapozo ʻohana’s kuleana land. Support the Rapozo ʻohana against this settler capitalist!
The Rapozo family is battling
#CarlosAndrade
and
#MarkZuckerberg
over cultural land in Hawaii. We own it and have been stewards for over 100 years. Carlos and Zuckerberg want to force us to sell for their own ends. We are tackling the abuse head on. Join us.
#Savetheland
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Teaching an undergrad/graduate seminar on land and Indigenous politics this term. We’ll be digging into these fabulous books, as well as some fantastic articles. Very excited to highlight and discuss these brilliant scholars and their work!
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In 130 days, 36,671 people have been killed in the Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. After 130 days, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are now calling for a ceasefire. Only now. After 130 days and 36,671 lives lost.
Today, I released a statement with Prime Minister
@AlboMP
and Prime Minister
@ChrisLuxonMP
on reports of Israel’s planned military operation in Rafah.
Read it here:
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Settler state efforts to combat climate change and mitigate compounding disasters due to it—like the Maui fires—are becoming weaponized to steal water from Indigenous people. Climate change is real, and so are the colonial actions employed to address it.
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Noelani Ahia on
@democracynow
talking about the impact of the Maui wildfire in Lāhainā: “That building [Nā ʻAikāne o Maui] also housed a collection of artifacts, as well as historical documents, old maps, just priceless things that are all lost in the blink of an eye.”
Noelani Ahia, a Kānaka Maoli activist and a longtime organizer in Lahaina, talks about the loss of the Na ‘Aikane o Maui Cultural Center on Maui that contained many priceless artifacts. "In the blink of an eye, it was burned to the ground and all of those things were lost."
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🚨BREAKING:
@UN
to evaluate petition concerning Canadian violations of Indigenous rights in Hawaiʻi🚨
@Canada
government, corporations & astronomical entities are under new international scrutiny for involvement in
@TMTHawaii
at Mauna Kea.
#KuKiaiMauna
#ProtectMaunaKea
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Covid spike reignites sovereignty debate among Native Hawaiians
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“Anyone in power who denies climate change, to me, are the arsonists here, and we’re living the climate emergency.”
@KanielaIng
"Anyone in power who denies climate change, to me, are the arsonists here," says
@KanielaIng
of
@gnd_network
, speaking from Maui where wildfires have scorched much of the Hawaiian island. "We're living the climate emergency."
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“For many Native Hawaiians, the ruins of Lahaina are a harbinger of what’s to come if Hawaiʻi continues to follow the capitalist system under US occupation.”
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Queen Liliʻuokalani wasn't American. She was Mōʻī of the Hawaiian Kingdom. As Haunani-Kay Trask proclaimed 25 years ago, "We are not American. We will die as Hawaiians. We will never be American." 125 years of dispossession, occupation & denationalization won't change this.
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Hawaiian pizza is product of imperialism & settler colonialism. White settler invented it in Canada. Put pineapple on ham pizza. Named it bc fruit came from can of Dole Hawaiian pineapple. Sanford Dole, cuz of corp’s founder, aided in illegal overthrow of Hawaiian Kingdom’s govt.
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“The hardest part of proving genocide has been proven for us with these very open statements of genocidal intent by Israeli officials including the prime minister, president, senior cabinet ministers, and military officials.”
@CraigMokhiber
Until recently,
@CraigMokhiber
was a top U.N. official working on human rights. He just left his post with a scathing resignation letter blasting U.N. and Western complicity in Israeli abuses.
Mokhiber joins Democracy Now! to talk about the current war in Gaza and more.
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I just signed a
@HawaiiAction
petition: Stop Land Grabs in Lāhainā and Commit to A Just Recovery. Sign here:
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Profs next to me discussing
@theAAG
2024 in Honolulu. “I’ve always wanted to go to Hawaii.” There’s a colonial desire in conferencing in HI. Academic conventions aren’t inherently “ethical tourism.” How do you ethically conference on an island being destroyed by the US military?
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A motion to reduce Toronto police budget by 10% was withdrawn in City Council. In the same meeting, discussion turned to modernizing police & increasing the budget by $50mil over 10yrs for things like body cams.
The demand to defund police is being manipulated to fund them more.
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Almost 1,000 Indigenous people and organizations, from all over the world, have signed the Indigenous letter in solidarity with Palestinians.
“Stop the genocide. End the siege. End the occupation. Dismantle apartheid. Decolonize Palestine.”
⬇️sign here⬇️
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Settler colonialism can’t stop capitalism from killing us.
In Don’t Look Up, the Subaru Telescope detects a planet-destroying comet. The film doesn’t just erase Indigenous presence, it conceals the fact that the telescope was built on stolen Hawaiian land at Mauna Kea.
The only mention of Indigenous presence in Don't Look Up are in montages, a nod to Baraka (1992). "The absolute erasure of Indigenous people, despite their continuing presence among us, is always a stunning feat to witness." (Shorter 20) But McKay shows how capitalism kills us.
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An important day to remind the lāhui kanaka that Hawaiian Independence Day is in November.
For more info:
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And don’t forget Mahi Pono, who purchased 41,000 acres of A&B plantation land, is owned by the Canadian Public Sector Pension Plan, with beneficiaries like the Canadian military and RCMP.
How is Canada invested in colonial greed on Maui? Read more here:
What to ensure we don’t let East Maui Irrigation (EMI), owned by Alexander & Baldwin and Mahi Pono, off the hook here.
EMI diverts more than 40M gallons of water a day along 33,000 acres of East Maui watershed that have directly led to the droughts West Maui & Lāhainā face…
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My dissertation is published and public now! I already found typos🤦🏽♂️. It isn’t perfect. But I worked really really hard on it. If you’re interested, here it is:
Gifts of Sovereignty: Settler Colonial Capitalism and the Kanaka ʻŌiwi Politics of Ea
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Rest in power e ke kumu.
Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask (October 3, 1949–July 3, 2021)
@KaLahuiHawaii
#LahuiHawaii
#HaunaniKayTrask
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Can you imagine being detained, tortured & interrogated over an article you published? Serious question. If you can’t, what does that say about your privilege, or specifically your relationship to power? Solidarity with Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian. This is
#scholasticide
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Dr. Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian's family and colleagues would like it shared widely that while detained, Israeli police subjected her to torture and interrogated her. They spent an hour asking about an article she wrote in 2020. They shackled her feet and hands, put her in
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