Shut Down Red Hill! Naval Pollution Disaster w/ Mikey from O'ahu Water Protectors: Dispatch

Guerrilla History

Henry

History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2022

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In this Dispatch, we talk to Mikey from O'ahu Water Protectors about the both ongoing and impending disaster at the Red Hill facility, where the US Navy's fuel continues to leak into the largest aquifer on the island of O'ahu. We discuss the history of this fuel facility, and the activism taking place to shut it down!

You can find Mikey on various social media platforms, including Twitter, @karaokecomputer. You can find more information about O'ahu Water Protectors and the efforts to shut down Red Hill at oahuwaterprotectors.org.

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0:00.0	You remember Den Bamboo?
0:09.0	No!
0:10.0	The same thing happened in Algeria, in Africa.
0:15.0	They didn't have anything but a rank.
0:17.0	The prince had all these highly mechanized instruments of warfare, but they put some guerrilla action on.
0:28.5	Hello and welcome to guerrilla history, the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global proletarian history and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
0:39.1	I'm your host, Henry Huckamacki, joined by only one of my regular co-hosts,
0:44.0	Professor Adnan Hussein, historian and director of the School of Religion at Queen's University
0:48.4	in Ontario, Canada. Hello, Adnan. How are you doing today?
0:52.1	I'm doing great, Henry. It's really good to be with you.
0:55.0	Yeah, it's great to see you too. Longtime NoC, which is a joke between you and me because listeners, we recorded something else yesterday. So it really hasn't been that long. Unfortunately, we're not joined by our other usual co-host, Brett O'Shea, host of Revolutionary Left Radio and co-host of the Red Menace podcast,
1:11.7	as he had something come up at the last minute and was unfortunately not able to join us today.
1:16.0	This is a guerrilla history and dispatch.
1:19.1	Dispatches are our episodes that are based more in contemporary events,
1:22.9	using historical context to understand what is going on in the present and hopefully
1:28.0	aiming to use that knowledge to organize for the future.
1:31.9	We have a great guest today and on a fascinating topic that is not getting nearly the media
1:36.6	attention that it should be, we have Mikey, who is an organizer with the Oahu water
1:41.9	protectors.
1:42.6	Hello, Mikey.
1:43.2	How are you doing today?
1:45.9	Aloha. Thanks for having me. Big fan of the show. Glad to be on. Well, we're a big fan of the work that you've been doing. So,
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