Aloha kakou! In this episode we are remembering a Hawaiian leader, Dr. Noa Emmett Aluli. A family physician and servant-leader, he shares valuable lessons about how resistance bears fruit and progress can be made. Among other things, Aluli was co-founder of a movement demanding that the Navy stop using a Hawaiian island for target practice. 

Right now, Oʻahu is ramping up efforts to protect its drinking water from contamination by the Navy. (Toxic foam spill reported 12/6/22, UHWO guide ) It happens that challenging the U.S. military has been successful in Hawaiʻi. 

How did the bombing of Kahoʻolawe stop? Was it logic? Not really--- it took an amazing confluence of forces. Professor Davianna McGregor of the Protect Kahoʻolawe Ohana explains.

Also, it was a heartbreaking loss that shook Hawaiʻi, Aluli recounts as much as is known about what really happened to George Helm and Kimo Mitchell in those rough seas off Kahoʻolawe.  Importantly, Aluli and McGregor chart the spiritual and cultural foundation for Aloha ʻAina. Their colleague and friend, photographer Franco Salmoiraghi, begins the discussion with frank talk about landscape and the nautical introduction he got to Kahoʻolawe. Mahalo to Native Books/Arts and Letters and the Puʻuhonua Society for creating the occasion for this interview. Mahalo to Hawaiʻi Public Radio, where segments of this interview first aired.

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