I want to offer two resources for folks to take a little deeper dive into the issue of fed rec. To say it doesn't matter because #nojurisdiction, or to only oppose it based on that, is intellectually and politically lazy, even if we hold no jurisdiction as a truth. 🧵 And yet, "no jurisdiction get outta my face" was the primary oppositional message in the 2014 DOI hearings. I loved it. But folks who came into movement then or by way of one of the Mauna standoffs or something else may not have been exposed to the opposition prior to 2014.

#MayDay is International Workers Day in Hawai'i! In honor of May Day we are lifting up our Kanaka labor history as we are largely written out of the Hawai'i labor history literature. Harry Lehua Kamoku was born in 1905 in Hilo. He was Hawaiian and Chinese and began working on ships and docks as a teen. He was disturbed by the working conditions of dockworkers and got involved in labor organizing.

Doing a deep dive into the 1890 Hawaiian Kingdom elections. All the Hawaiians I read about seemed somewhat compromised through their alliance w white working men who also had it out for the Bayonette. Perhaps the nature of coalition. 1/ But one man was uncompromising in his politics, some at least. And remained the biggest threat to the anti-Hawaiian sugar barons who ruled government. He was the most unapologetically pro-Hawaiian (people and sovereignty), he fought and strategized like hell. Wilikoki 👊🏼. 2/