From New York, this is Newark, or see now.

With William, I'm always devastating.

There's so much tragedy, and this is trauma on top of 100 plus years of colonial trauma.

They're created the conditions that allow this type of tragedy to happen.

We have south of water, south of land, and so much loss of our ecosystem that created

this condition that put us in this predicament.

The death toll from the devastating fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui has reached 55

and is expected to rise.

The historic town of Lahaina has been destroyed, and what's now being described has the largest

natural disaster in Hawaii's history.

We'll speak to two native Hawaiian activists from Maui about the fires, the legacy of colonialism

and the climate crisis.

The fire is a tragic symbol of this trajectory's terminal point.

Like where it all ends up, if you continue down this mode of extraction as a way to live.

But it also contains the most deep and durable relics of our history of resistance.

We'll also speak to a fire scientist at the University of Hawaii about how the climate

emergency fueled the deadly fires all by tomorrow coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

In Hawaii, the death toll from the historic Maui wildfires has reached at least 55 people

and decimated the town of Lahaina once the epicenter of the kingdom of Hawaii.

One of the more than 1700 structures that were destroyed is that not a kind of Maui cultural

center.

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