Kahoolawe

... of the installation of fences during World War II martial law in the 1940s that controls people's everyday life and their relationships and the environment in order to establish a militarized order that requires some sort of affiliation with a militarized capitalist economy.

economy.And so before I go into the next question, you did talk about, oh, previously about Kahoolawe

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Kahoolawe.

I guess I'm wondering if this next question about major turning point in Hawaiian anti-militaries or militarization organizing

Kahoolawe and Makua have very similar histories.

They were both seized for military training purposes during World War II martial law in the early 1940s, and they were both brutally destroyed by the US military.

And she changed enough votes to get the bill through Congress.

In 1990, Psyche urged President Bush to stop the Navy's military testing on Kaho'olawe.

And when the president came to her and said, Pat, what's one thing I can do for you and the people of Hawaii? She said, the bombing is allowed on Kaho'olawe by an executive order of the president, and you can rescind that executive order right away.

And he did that, and the bombing stopped at long last because Pat Psyche asked for it.

Keoke Kerr also worked with Psyche in Washington, D.C.

And this is where that kind of 70s moment an 80s and 90s moment of political and cultural resurgence is really successful.

And so this is how we get to Kaho'olawe and thinking about folks like George Helm, who I don't believe was a part of the Hawaiian language revitalization effort.

as a leader specifically, but he was a musician and he was a hula dancer and he educated across the islands in a public popular educational campaign to talk about the militarization of Hawaii, to talk about the bombing of unrelenting and unapologetic by the U.S. government of a sacred island that no one inhabited and that was reserved primarily for practicing war and for destroying culturally relevant and in some cases sacred sites on the island.

He was somebody that was vehemently considerate of the ways in which song and politics could help to re-educate people.

And so this is something that is on the chopping block right now for the US military, because there are a number of lands in Hawaii that the four branches of the US military are for that are expiring in 2029.

We wanted to go back a little bit to talk about the impacts of militarization.

And a significant case was for decades, the US Navy used Kaho'olawe as a bombing range.

And in 1976, native Hawaiian activists landed on the island to protest its militarization and desecration.

First, there's the Big Island, called Hawaii.

Then there's Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Lanai, Molokai, Niihau, and Kahoolawe.

But if you count every little island and reef poking out of the water, there are actually 137 of them.

137? That's more islands than I have socks, and that's saying a lot because I lose a lot of socks.

Oh, I should also mention there's a Gail warning for, um, waters around, you know, the Hawaiian, deep Hawaiian waters.

There's a flood watch for Maui, Lana'i, Molokai, the Big Island, and Kaho'olawe from Wednesday afternoon through Saturday afternoon.

So...

Yeah, this is what they say.

The department says the drones' cameras don't have facial recognition and won't be used for any kind of spy surveillance.

Three young ae'o, or Hawaiian stilt birds, were discovered on Kaho'olawe, suggesting the wetland habitat is recovering.

Researchers visited the island after the Konalo storms in March and say two birds appear to be nesting.

And then in July, they counted a total of five, two adult birds and three fledglings.

The Kaho'olawe Island Reserve Commission plans to continue to monitor the native water birds and how they use the island's wetland.

On Oahu, cars lined up at the Waianae Boat Harbor today to receive bags of groceries.

Elepaio Social Services distributed more than 40,000 pounds of food, including eggs, fruits, canned goods, and vegetables to more than 500 families today.