With the recent eruptions on Moku o Keawe, we asked Dr. Pualani Kanaka‘ole Kanahele to share some mana‘o with the lāhui about how we might connect to and reflect upon the activities on Maunaloa and Kīlauea. Her lifetime of contemplating and becoming one with these elements and energies created a flow of messages that blew us away. Her words continue to reverberate in our thoughts and settle deeply in our naʻau. Watch the full interview here.

No keiki should be sent to the back of the line to receive less support than others. Charter schools have had to seek additional funds to ensure their students are well supported. If charter schools were equitably funded by the State, they could fully focus on the high quality education they offer to the 12,000 students they serve each year. Submit testimony in support of charter schools.

No keiki should be sent to the back of the line to receive less support than others. Charter schools have had to seek additional funds to ensure their students are well supported. If charter schools were equitably funded by the State, they could fully focus on the high quality education they offer to the 12,000 students they serve each year. Submit testimony in support of charter schools.

See how Hawaii’s public charter schools are doing amazing things in spite of a lack of state funding.

When we mālama ʻāina and aloha ʻāina, we must always first huli ka lima i lalo, and it is now becoming clear that neighborhood boards are another tool in our aloha ʻāina arsenal. Interested? Sign up to become a candidate today. Registration runs from now until February 17, 2023.

Free resources to help folx on their Hawaiian language journey. E ‘ōlelo kākou!

February is Mahina ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian Language Month). Check out or submit events happening all month long!

The Navy & EPA negotiated a consent order without the consent of the Board of Water Supply or the affected communities on O‘ahu. For suggested talking points for written testimony, visit sierraclubhawaii.org. The deadline to submit written comments is February 6, 2023.

Learn more about makahiki season and what it means from the awesome folx at Ka‘iwakīloumoku.

WATCH: Paʻa Ke Aupuni is a unique 60-minute hand-drawn, animated film that gets straight to the point. It zooms in on key facts explaining how the Hawaiian Kingdom came to be, how it evolved to stand firmly on the international world stage of sovereign nations, and how the United States came to claim Hawai‘i.

A fun activity kit for ‘ohana and haumāna to explore.

Follow a raindrop through the water cycle in Hawaiʻi with this Pidgin-Hawaiian poem.

This page features links to our Kapūkaki youtube playlist, our Advocacy kit, and the Water Education Resources collection.

Read the Civil Beat article how a monitoring agreement signed in 2015 failed to prevent a catastrophe six years later.

Congressmen Kahele, Case, and U.S. Senator Brian Schatz have introduced legislation to discontinue, defuel, and decommission Red Hill.

Help raise awareness of the issue. Download, print, and put up 11×17 Red Hill posters.

If the Red Hill crisis crags on, Hawai‘i may not renew military base leases.

Hawai‘i State Senators urge the Navy to rescind its legal challenge to the Hawai‘i Department of Health’s Emergency Order

The fight to protect Kapūkaki, our water, and life on O‘ahu. See what’s happening and how you can help.

Get your ‘ōlelo on with other folx in the community!

The fight to protect Maunakea from the mismanagement of UH and the state, and the international interests of the TMT corporation continues. What’s happened so far?

On the American holiday that celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Navy chaplains in Hawai‘i repeatedly invoked his name and talked about “honoring his legacy.”

WATCH: The Subcommittee on Readiness Hearing on the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility — The Current Crisis, the Response, and the Way Forward

WATCH: Inspections, repairs, and maintenance did not prevent a leak in 2014. Operator error only exacerbated the problem of the corroding tanks and the outer concrete shell that the Navy admits is “impossible to maintain.”

WATCH: A 6-minute video. The security of O‘ahu’s collective future is at stake. What’s happening?

Progressive International: Statement on the crimes of the US Navy in Hawai’i

The Washington Post talked to families who were drinking the tainted tap water.

KITV reports on the testimony given by Dr. Norfleet on December 20, 2021 at a Department of Health hearing.

Civil Beat provides their summary of the 13-hour Department of Health hearing where Navy officials did their best to fend off criticism about their lack of action since 2015’s order to do something about the aging tanks.

A collective of women in Hawaiʻi who address local and international issues relating to demilitarization, peace, and non-violence.

Kaʻohewai—a coalition of Hawaiian organizations rising in defense of Kapūkaki, and dedicated to nurturing and sustaining the well-being of our water, land, and the life they support—is calling for the immediate removal of the 20 Kapūkaki Navy fuel tanks.