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It’s time to set the record straight: the US Military is the "greatest purveyor of violence in the world today".

The @USNavy wants desperately to whitewash and co-opt Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy for their own agenda. We cannot and will not allow them to do that.
What the @USNavy, @SecDef, @SECNAV, and @USNavyCNO don’t want you to know about MLK was that in addition to being a Civil Rights leader, he was also a socialist and anti-imperialist. ImageImageImage
It is particularly egregious for the Navy to invoke Dr. King’s name on all their social media platforms whilst continuing to prioritize imperialist interests over the people of O‘ahu, whose water they contaminated with toxic fuel from their corroding fuel tanks on Red Hill. ImageImage
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The following is a message from Aedyn Rhys-King, kanaka maoli veteran and resident of Kapilina Beach Homes whose family was poisoned from bathing in and ingesting water contaminated by the Navy’s leaking Red Hill facility. #ShutDownRedHill Image
“Water is the driving force of all nature. Our water in Hawai‘i has been poisoned by the U.S. Navy’s Red Hill fuel tanks over and over again! My ‘ohana along with so many others have been poisoned by the Navy’s negligence. They are not helping us. They have lied to us.“ ImageImage
“They have left us to fend for ourselves. They have said our water is “safe and unaffected”. In the beginning, they told us our water was NOT on Navy water lines. Many of us trusted that and continued to use the water. We continued to be poisoned. We continued to get sick.⁣” ImageImageImageImage
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One of the worst actors in the Red Hill crisis has been the Hawai‘i Chamber of Commerce (@cochawaii). Over the past 172 years they have played a pivotal role in building and safeguarding the unsustainable outpost of American Empire in the illegally occupied Nation of Hawai‘i.
The following is a brief recent history of how @cochawaii used their money and influence to funnel billions in federal dollars to the very Military, defense contractors, and corporate plunderers who polluted and paved over what was once a 100% sustainable Indigenous way of life.
Every year, the Hawai‘i Chamber of Commerce’s Military Affairs Council hosts a “Partnership Conference” with Military officials to better inform how private interests can most effectively advocate for imperialist projects.
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O‘ahu Water Protectors Statement Regarding DOH Contested Case

“The Hearing Officer’s recommendations echoes the dire warnings voiced by concerned community members for decades when it comes to the U.S. Military’s toxic practices in these islands.”

#ShutDownRedHill
The Red Hill crisis presents “the greatest threat to a sustainable way of life on O‘ahu since the illegal overthrow of the sovereign nation of Hawai‘i.”

“We simply do not have time for the Navy’s games. We are not willing to sacrifice our water for war.”
Looking forward, @oahuWP maintains that the struggle to protect the health of Hawai‘i’s lands, waters, and people must also be a struggle to demilitarize Hawai‘i.”
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On Dec. 10th, we staged a Die-In & Rise-Up action to show the world and our so-called leaders what will happen if we lose our precious water due to fuel contamination from @USNavy's decrepit, leaking tanks on Red Hill. @jamaicaosorio paid tribute to our Queen through song. (1/3)
We rose to @kamanabeamer's call of “Ola i ka Wai!”

We are rising like the waters, and will fight until our last breath to protect it. #ShutDownRedHill

“We will not die; our Queen want us to live! Ua Mau ke Ea o ka 'Āina i ka Pono!” (2/3)
To learn more about the history of the US Military's toxic presence in Hawai‘i and to find out more about how you can help Shut Down Red Hill, visit: oahuwaterprotectors.carrd.co

#OlaikaWai #WaterIsLife (3/3)
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