Aloha Newi and welcome everyone this is

Uahuakea. I previously was on the Red Nation podcast with Nick Estes talking about how Hawaiian Pizza is racist and the Imperial Project

in Hawaii by the US occupying forces.

Speaking to Nick also about the ways in which people come

to Hawaii in good ways and in bad ways and I think it's important to remind everyone that

we're in a pandemic. It's global, a global health crisis. Stay home. Don't travel to Hawaii. We don't need more tourists showing up on our shores spreading COVID.

I'm thinking about you Canadian tourists,

a few of which who recently spread COVID in Hawaii and I want to say that as someone speaking as a Kanaka Maoli speaking from Takoranto or Toronto in so-called Canada. I'm choosing to not fly home to my Kulaevi in my homeland so maybe take a hint. Don't go. Stay home. So, Oh, go go on a day. With that being said, welcome everybody. I'm super,

super excited to be hosting for the first time for the Red Nation

podcast, grateful for my comrades with the Red Nation,

Nick Estes, Melanie Yazzie, and the rest of the folks

holding it down, not just in Albuquerque, New Mexico, but all over the world.

I am delighted beyond belief to be joined by my dear Ho-Aloha, Hoapili, Shelly Munioka. Shelly is a freedom frider in her own right.

Apo Eloha Aina, Man wahine. Shelly has been behind the scenes and on the front lines of so many

land struggles in Hawaii, not just as a Kanaka Maoli, but as a researcher, as a community organizer, and as a strong and fierce voice in the nonprofit organization,

Ka'ha, a environmental Hawaiian alliance, which has also been at the forefront of many battles

specifically in current times against a 30 meter telescope project, which we'll be talking about.

But I want to intro Shelley just really quickly with a story about how we first met.

Shelly and I first met at Commehameh Schools, Kapalama campus.

In 2002, I was taking a summer school course, a writing course with Kumu Chun actually, in order to get to go to Kumihmhe actually, because my writing was very poor at the time.

And so I had to take the summer school class with a cohort. was very poor at the time.

And so I had to take the summer school class

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