From Hawai'i to Palestine, occupation is a crime w/ Mikey
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🗓️ 4 March 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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TRN Podcast co-host Jen Marley speaks to filmmaker and organizer Mikey (@karaokecomputer) on the overlapping histories of military occupation between Hawai'i and Palestine.
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to. So, Welcome back to the show comrades and relatives. My name is Jen Marley and today I am so |
| 0:38.7 | happy to be hosting a wonderful friend relative and comrade that I had the pleasure of working with briefly back in 2022. |
| 0:47.0 | Mikey Inouye, would you like to introduce yourself? |
| 0:50.0 | Aloha, yeah, hi, I'm Mikey. I'm a community organizer and filmmaker in Hawaii. |
| 0:56.0 | Thanks so much for having me Jen. It's so nice to see you. |
| 0:58.0 | Miss y'all. |
| 0:59.0 | We miss you too. |
| 1:01.0 | So we know each other because a while back, Oahu Water Protectors were so |
| 1:08.2 | gracious and kind and invited us to learn about what is happening at Red Hill and to allow us the |
| 1:16.0 | chance to organize with them for about a week and within that time we got down it, there was a lot of education going on, there was a lot of organizing, we did some media work, and we even experienced a small victory while we were there. You might remember the University of Hawaii had |
| 1:36.0 | pulled a very important study about the effects of the pollution coming from Red Hill |
| 1:41.7 | and they pulled it from the public and via our organizing and our collaboration with the organizers on that delegation, we pressured them to make it public again |
| 1:54.0 | within that week so that was one of the |
| 1:57.0 | I think it was like within that day even |
| 2:00.0 | like they're right yeah |
| 2:02.0 | Yeah, that was awesome. It was, like the true power of like a media firestorm, like, that was awesome. And so I was wondering, Mikey, if you could catch up our listeners a little bit with some new development surrounding the organizing around Red Hill, what should our listeners know and what is the status of the work right now? |
| 2:24.4 | Yeah, sure, before I get into kind of the status of Red Hill, |
| 2:28.0 | I think maybe for the viewers who are uninitiated, |
| 2:32.4 | Red Hill is referring to. viewers who are uninitiated. |
| 2:32.5 | Red Hill is referring to the Navy's Red Hill |
| 2:37.9 | bulk fuel storage facility, which was |
| 2:42.1 | constructed in the 1940s to have a kind of subterranean fuel facility during World War II to conceal the primary fuel depot from, you know, like Japanese zeros in case they tried to bomb them. |
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