The I'm going to Don't come out of here. In the first week of August 2021,

in the first week of August 2021, so that was August 1st to the 8th. The Red Nation and Red Media

delegation organized on Oahu in the Hawaiian archipelago in the Pacific.

And those of us on this particular episode of the Red Nation podcast

where members of the delegation and there will be subsequent

podcast shows of other folks that were members of the delegation from Red Nation and

Red Media. We organized and went on this solidarity delegation for a very particular reason.

And the reason was to contribute in supporting water protectors on the ground on the island of Oahu,

where I'm from in Hawaii and to intervene in the Red Hill water crisis, but also to engage in many

other shared struggles on the ground by indigenous peoples in Hawaii that we also not just

exceptionally share with other peoples from all over the world indigenous. not just the support was was really pretty interesting because the Red Hill water crisis, which we'll talk about in this episode, didn't occur in like a political vacuum.

It occurred because of military occupation in Hawaii.

The Red Hill water crisis is a function of the U.S. military occupation in the Hawaiian islands.

And it begins in the 19th century,

and it continues to persist today.

In this case, through jet fuel, for for instance leaking into a sole source aquifer on the island of Oahu.

So we collaborated with water protectors on the ground from especially Oahu water protectors.

Shout out to Oahu water protectors in a large organizational collaboration

to support their efforts and also to be in solidarity with them.

And in that context, we are going to be talking about that work

in this particular episode.

And so I'm Oahu Kaya Maile.

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