Thread by @uahikea

To celebrate Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea, I want to lift up voices of ea.

A year ago, @smwiebe & I wrote a piece on states of emergency & emergence in the struggle to protect Maunakea from @TMTHawaii. That turned into this beautiful polyphonic series with @AbolitionJ.
abolitionjournal.org/category/learn…

W/o a single cloud floating in the Maunakea sky, kiai assembled on the morning of July 17 2019 at Maunakea Access Road to stop construction of TMT. Resolve to protect Maunakea from TMT was as clear as the skies above—no telescope was necessary to see this.
abolitionjournal.org/when-a-state-o…

"[David] Ige’s words, like a broken record, continue to shatter any true practical act of ethical integrity, open practice of good governance, transparent accountability in leadership & upholding the protection of human rights." —Dr. Sue Haglund
abolitionjournal.org/ige-and-integr…

"The project of abolition must also be about the concurrent catalyzing of a future beyond the prison industrial complex, then the radical envisioning of a Hawaiʻi beyond the police, beyond the prison & beyond mass arrest must be foregrounded." —@pomaika__i
abolitionjournal.org/know-where-you…

"Ea is the breath and breadth of Hawaiian sovereignty. It did not emerge as a reaction to US occupation but rather thrives, flourishes, and creates in spite of coordinated attacks against Hawaiian forms of life." —@CameronGrimm808

abolitionjournal.org/peak-occupatio…

"By seeing Mauna Kea as an instance of ongoing accumulation by the settler state and extractive capital, we can appreciate it not as a ʻstateʻ of emergency, or even as an event—it is, merely, business as usual." —@IkaikaRamones

abolitionjournal.org/mauna-kea-as-n…

"The Land itself gives life, the Hunalepo in return protect its sovereignty. As long as we are in relations with ʻĀina there will always be EA." —Kauwila Mahi

abolitionjournal.org/emergent-seas/

"Our aloha ‘āina—an enduring aloha of ‘āina, for each other, for Maunakea and Haleakalā and Hūnānāniho and Kahuku and Hakipu‘u—is stronger than capital and its conquest. This is how we visualize victory, how we grasp it, ka lei o ka lanakila."

abolitionjournal.org/ka-lei-o-ka-la…

Mahalo nui loa to all the authors in this series, for their hana maikaʻi, ʻike papalua & hua ea.

Mahalo nui to my co-editor @smwiebe for the inspiration & energy to see this through.

And, mahalo piha to @EliMeye for the willingness & generosity to publish this with @AbolitionJ.

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