Air Date: 9–13-2023
This eye-opening episode will explore the complex web of colonialism, disaster capitalism, and climate change is ravaging Native Hawaiian communities. We explore how corporations and privatization going back to annexation have exacerbated wildfires, water scarcity and housing issues in Hawaii. We also discuss the role of tourism and its impact on local culture and resources and learn how community-led mutual aid efforts are offering a glimmer of hope for the unhoused and those struggling to reclaim their ancestral lands.
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SHOW NOTES
We speak with Hawaiian law professor Kapuaʻala Sproat about the conditions that made the fires more destructive and what’s yet to come for residents looking to rebuild their lives.
Ch. 2: Why Maui burned - Today, Explained - Air Date 8-15-23
Hawaii’s landscape has been rapidly changing for the last 200 years thanks to plantations, tourism, and climate change. A reporter and climatologist explain how those factors fueled one of the worst wildfires in US history.
Ch. 3: We are concerned for you. - Read Choi - Air Date 8-4-23
A skit imagining a discussion between an elite property owner and a Native Hawaiian
Ch. 4: Disasters at every turn - Native America Calling - Air Date 8-28-23
Officials are still sorting out the human and financial toll of the unprecedented fire on Maui. Many Native Hawaiians remain missing, hundreds more sustained serious damage to their homes and businesses.
We speak with Kaniela Ing, national director of the Green New Deal Network and seventh-generation Kanaka Maoli, Native Hawaiian, about the impact of this week’s devastating wildfires and their relationship to climate change.
In Lahaina, the area in west Maui that is of historical importance to Indigenous people, entire neighborhoods were wiped out by this week’s historic wildfires, including the Na 'Aikane o Maui Cultural Center
Janine Jackson takes a quick look back at recent press coverage of the Maui fires and the climate crisis.
Ch. 8: Wildfires - This is Democracy - Air Date 9-5-23
This week, Jeremi and Zachary are joined by guests Randy Denzer and Dr. Alison Alter to discuss the increasing incidence of wildfires in the United States and what efforts have been made to mitigate them.
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Ch. 9: Relationships, Money, and Maui Tourism - The Amanda Seales Show - Air Date 8-18-23
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Ch. 10: How Native Hawaiians have been pushed out of Hawai'i - Bianca Graulau - Air Date 2-7-23
Hawai’i was an independent nation with its own kingdom when the descendants of missionaries from the U.S. overthrew its government. Today, Native Hawaiians are struggling to afford to live on the land that was once stolen from their ancestors.
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments on the need for better systems to respond to predictable disasters
MUSIC (Blue Dot Sessions)
SHOW IMAGE
Description: Photograph taken from a hillside looking out over a dirt road, the gray charred building remains of Lahaina after the fire, and the bright blue sea dotted with large white boats in the distance.
Credit: “Maui community of Lahaina burned by wildfire” by State Farm, Flickr | License: CC BY 2.0 | Changes: Cropped
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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