Tag: Sovereignty
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Berlin solidarity speech for Guam and the Pacific on August 16, 2017
I gave a speech in solidarity with Guam and spoke about the militarization and occupation of U.S. territories in the Pacific at the “Berlin Stands with Charlottesville” Soli-Demo in front of the Brandenburg Gate (and U.S. Embassy). I prefaced my topic noting how that same week of #Charlottesville had just had previous breaking news headlines…
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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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My speech from the “Gala für Alle” protest against Ivanka Trump at W20
On February 17, The Coalition supported “Berlin Stands with Standing Rock” and “Wasser ist Leben Berlin” to march down Friedrichstraße and call for the divestment of BayernLB and Deutsche Bank from the Dakota Access Pipeline, which runs through Standing Rock Sioux Reservation and Treaty land in North Dakota. A few days later BayernLB announced that…
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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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Back in the 808
Right now I’m back in Hawai’i visiting, introducing myself and my proposed project to the community it concerns, and feeling the motivation and inspiration by many to ease me into this work when I return to Berlin. It’s a rainy day in Mānoa with the effects of all the hurricanes (Kilo, Ignacio, Jimena) passing by…
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From a Native Daughter: “in our way of speaking, land is inherent to the people; it is like our bodies and our parents”
“This is how private property land tenure entered Hawai’i. The common people, driven from their birthright, received less than one percent of the land. They starved, while huge haole-owned sugar plantations thrived. And what had the historians said? They had said that the Americans “liberated” the Hawaiians from an oppressive “feudal” system. By inventing a…