Aloha ʻĀina Meds

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Following the illegal occupation of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi in 1893, many Hawaiʻi people wrote songs for their love of homeland. On February 21, 1893, a song was published in the Ka Leo o ka Lāhui newspaper - a song for those who covet shiny things. The last verse of this song highlights the importance of grounding in to the vibrations of the sun, and the liberty of the soil. It focuses on the importance of standing firm in our breath, which has been an important part of my activism as a frontline water and land protector. A friend, Ikaakamai and I came together to put these 1893 words into a medley of songs that express our undying and boundless love for the liberty of our homeland. This is the song, and some visual images of myself and my family holding space in protests like the Alaska Aerospace Launchpad issue, the Kahuku/Kalaeloa Windfarm case and the Mauna Kea Thirty-Meter-Telescope bout. Depicted here is also my grandmother sharing her testimony against the telescope with the Board of Regents of the University of Hawaiʻi, a major stakeholder in the TMT issue.