Tag: Mauna Kea
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Q&A “WHY I PROTEST” on IMPOLITIKAL from June 10, 2017
Q&A | WHY I PROTEST: KARIN LOUISE HERMES I did another Q&A for IMPOLITIKAL with Evelyn Marsters. I lost track of how many times I’ve stood in front of the Brandenburg Gate protesting with a sign (or without one), maybe it’s good I have some photographic proof and keep souvenir signs! We’re exploring the deep reasons…
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Listen to me on the radio – “Talking Feminisms” #10 ‘From Mauna Kea To Standing Rock’ on reboot.fm on December 3, 2016
Through the #NoDAPL Berlin Stands with Standing Rock group, I was more involved in local direct action and solidarity events over the past months. Aside from yesterday’s speech and the march with Wasser ist Leben Berlin in February, where I led the bilingual chants with a megaphone, I was on the radio in December, for real.…
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Making a Nation and Faking a State: Aloha ‘Aina and Sovereignty E(A)ducation in Hawai‘i
Clearly, I have been doing a really bad job at updating this blog, so it’s about time that I link the articles and talks of mine that came out over the past 15 months. This is my actual first academic publication in a journal and the original can be downloaded here or from my academia.edu.…
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A New EAducation: Interview with Ku’uipo Freitas at The Hawaii Independent from March 10, 2016
This is the interview I did with Ku’uipo Freitas about Mauna Kea and sovereignty, which I had passed along to The Hawaii Independent after the nuisance with the university student newspaper here. On the bright side, thanks to them being insistent on a full interview and that annoyance of me rescinding their ownership on the material,…
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Complicit in colonial crimes
The more I thought about it this weekend, the more it became clearer, I had just barely saved a disastrous situation that may have a had a domino effect on any of my further work. That student newspaper article I mentioned in the previous media bias post, it was a train-wreck that had my name…
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Facing Future – Reclaiming Past
“If just for a day our king and queen Would visit all these islands and saw everything How would they feel about the changes of our land Could you just imagine if they were around And saw highways on their sacred grounds How would they feel about this modern city life? Tears would come from…
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Reflections on 5 weeks in Hawai’i
And now … back in Berlin. Down to freezing point on some days this week, missing my brand-new gloves I bought in August, but with a second-hand cozy jacket bought on my first day back. Since my jet lag wasn’t over as fast as I thought it was the first 3 days, I was up…
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Critical Ethnic Studies Association Journal Blog post from August 10, 2015
The spaces between “us” (inclusive) and “them” – aloha ‛āina is a kākou thing Critical Ethnic Studies Journal launched a blog in August and the first series was on Mauna Kea. I feel honoured to be featured as the second post on the new blog. There is always the question of positioning and voice (and…
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Q&A on IMPOLITIKAL from August 3, 2015
Q&A | Karin Louise Hermes on Why Hawaiians are Protesting a 30M Telescope Finally finding the time to repost the Q&A Evelyn Marsters did with me in late July on my insider/outsider role in the #WeAreMaunaKea movement. On July 31, 7 people were arrested during an around-the-clock vigil opposing the planned Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) astronomical observatory…
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My comment to “Mauna Kea construction should not be obstructed” from Ka Leo 7/5/2015
July 5 at 8:11pm “Most people of Hawai‘i wouldn’t want that.” Who are you to speak on behalf of the people of Hawai’i, Pavel? What is the spirit of Aloha in your opinion, if the protectors are not embodying it, but the TMT is? You should recognize the difference in giving an opinion piece as…