Democracy Now! 2023-08-11 Friday
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🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for August 11, 2023; “We’re Not Going to Die This Way”: Father Describes Jumping into Ocean with 5 Kids to Escape Maui Fire; “We’re Living the Climate Emergency”: Native Hawaiian Kaniela Ing on Fires, Colonialism & Banyan Tree; As Fires Destroy Native Hawaiian Archive in Maui, Mutual Aid Efforts Are Launched to Help Lahaina; “Unprecedented”: Fire Expert Says Climate & Native Vegetation Changes Fueled Explosive Maui Wildfires
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Newark, or see now. |
| 0:16.0 | What's going on in Malia's devastating? |
| 0:18.0 | There's so much tragedy, and this is trauma on top of 100 plus years of colonial trauma. |
| 0:23.0 | They're creating the conditions that allow this type of tragedy to happen. |
| 0:27.0 | We have theft of water, theft of land, and so much loss of our ecosystem that created this condition that put us in this predicament. |
| 0:37.0 | The death toll from the devastating fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui has reached 55 and is expected to rise. |
| 0:46.0 | The historic town of Lahaina has been destroyed, and what's now being described has the largest natural disaster in Hawaii's history. |
| 0:55.0 | We'll speak to two native Hawaiian activists from Maui about the fires, the legacy of colonialism, and the climate crisis. |
| 1:04.0 | The fire is a tragic symbol of this trajectory's terminal point. |
| 1:09.0 | Like where it all ends up, if you continue down this mode of extraction as a way to live. |
| 1:15.0 | But it also contains the most deep and durable relics of our history of resistance. |
| 1:23.0 | We'll also speak to a fire scientist at the University of Hawaii about how the climate emergency fueled the deadly fires all that are more coming up. |
| 1:34.0 | Welcome to Democracy Now, democracynow.org, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman. |
| 1:47.0 | 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. |
| 1:58.0 | One of the more than 1700 structures that were destroyed is that not a tiny Maui cultural center. |
| 2:06.0 | Earlier today, Hawaii Governor Josh Green described the sheer scale of the disaster. |
| 2:11.0 | What we saw was likely the largest natural disaster in Hawaii's state history. |
| 2:16.0 | We are seeing loss of life here. |
| 2:19.0 | As you know, the number has been rising and we will continue to see loss of life. |
| 2:24.0 | We also have seen many hundreds of homes destroyed and that's going to take a great deal of time to recover from. |
| 2:32.0 | But that's why we come together. |
| 2:34.0 | But we talked to an old gentleman who hadn't seen anything like this ever in his life, a wildfire that took a whole city. |
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