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Wed, 12:01: RT @keopu: @runningnekkid System is broken. I wish we'd also talk about that while we talk about the mountain. UH's poor stewardship is rip…
Wed, 12:17: RT @keopu: @runningnekkid what kills me is we're not given choice to be active participants. Get in game or get out is standard. Sad. It's …
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Wed, 15:09: RT @manamagazine: He ali‘i ka ‘āina he kauā ke kanaka. (The land is the chief, man is its servant.) Photo by… http://t.co/9WwtHYavg8 http:/…
Wed, 15:41: RT @MarsMaven: #DecolonizeSTEM we must address racism in ourselves, our institutions, our language, our processes.@IBJIYONGI @niais https:/…
Wed, 19:40: Damaged Karma: Commoditization and Exploitation of Asians in Tech by @briankung via @modelviewmedia https://t.co/SkgTSnYSMT
Wed, 20:01: HERO https://t.co/BCSiLt2KJA
Thu, 09:55: This week's new post: I Have Never Once LET Mental Illness Keep Me From Anything https://t.co/l3E9q17Q9X
Thu, 10:48: I am the junkest writer in all the land. #amwriting #amfailing #amtryinganyway #fuckit
Thu, 11:15: You cannot understand any Kanaka Maoli protest over land use in Hawaiʻi without first understanding the Great Mahele http://t.co/1rHHaizHbV

Thu, 11:19: Land ownership, LITERALLY a foreign concept, was implemented in 1848, a mere 80 years after first contact with Capt. Cook.
Thu, 11:20: Kanaka Maoli were allowed to apply for ownership of the land that they were already working, living on, called their home.
Thu, 11:21: But this required jumping through the hoops of the new Constitutional Monarchy. Were farmers aware of all the hoops? Maybe. Maybe not.
Thu, 11:22: But the foreign business folks, who had first brought the LITERALLY FOREIGN idea of land ownership, sure did.
Thu, 11:24: So, I'm working this piece of land. Maybe land my g-g-grandfather worked but never considered "ownable."
Thu, 11:24: And I don't file the necessary paperwork to claim my ownership. Or I don't have the approved witnesses to say I have been working here.
Thu, 11:26: But Foreign Businessman has paperwork. And money to buy this land. Now I am homeless and my land is suddenly a sugar plantation.
Thu, 11:27: And then homelessness is outlawed, because we are causing trouble for plantation owners who are fuelling economic boom.
Thu, 11:28: Plantation owners call us lazy because we won't work on their plantations. Why would we? We're fishermen and taro farmers.
Thu, 11:30: Meanwhile, our numbers are dwindling because of illnesses brought to us by intrepid sailors. Widespread loss and grieving.

Thu, 11:32: And we are supposed to petition the King, with his foreign advisors, for our own land.
Thu, 11:34: Unsurprisingly, most of the land is sold or leased to non-Hawaiians. We are Hawaiians, but Hawaiʻi is no longer ours.
Thu, 11:36: FFWD to today. Mauna Kea. We have ceded too much to history. We are gathering a resolve that resides in aloha for culture and our land.
Thu, 11:37: We are educated now, in the ways of the modern world. We are lawyers and doctors and scientists and scholars.
Thu, 11:38: But we are also homeless and incarcerated and impoverished. We look to the telescope on the mauna and know we can stand here, at least.
Thu, 11:40: We are tired of land trusts that do not benefit our keiki (children) or our communities. We are done with behind-the-scenes deals.
Thu, 11:41: And so, we organize. Mauna Kea is merely the protest of today. She is significant, for sure. But she is not THE protest. Not THE reason.
Thu, 11:42: We have been organizing for decades. This isn't the first time we've said NO MORE. We've been saying that for generations.
Thu, 11:45: So when you see us standing tall on OUR OWN FRICKING MOUNTAIN and you think we're protesting a telescope, you would be absolutely mistaken.
Thu, 11:50: We are protesting ANOTHER telescope and ANOTHER shady land use deal that will not benefit us, but merely use our sacred mountain.

Thu, 11:52: So, I dunno, I have no idea how to have this piece of history as my personal family history and not be moved to say We Are Mauna Kea.

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