He Pule ‘Āina No Maui
Adapted from Hawaiian Antiquities by David Malo and taught to me by my mother and Kumu Hula Pua Case
A humble invitation from my heart to pule together for the land and people of Maui
E ke akua he pule ‘āina
He pule ia e holoi ana i ka pō’ino o ka ‘āina a me ke pale a’e i pau ko ka‘āina haumia
He pule ia e ho’opau ana i nā hewa o ka ‘āina a pau
I pau ke a’e me ke kawaū
I pau ke kulopia a me ka peluluka
I pau ka hulialana
A laila niho peku ho‘ēmu huikala malapakai
Kāmauli hou e (i) i ke akua
E ke Akua
This is a prayer to cleanse and heal all devastation from the land
To ward off and end the contamination of the land
This is a prayer to end the mistakes done to all the land (and all the people)
So that the bitterness may be over
The ground will be covered with greenery, leaves, and vines
And we may offer again our prayers of thanks for abundance and restoration
The prayer has been lifted
To Maui Nui A Kama
🎥: @PRIMEFOOTAGE
#hawaii #maui #mauistrong #kakoomaui #kokua4maui #kokuamaui #hawaiireels #indigenousreels #alohaaina #pule #prayer
Offering pule for the land and people of Mauinuiakama
Praying for the gentle rains and gentle winds to come
Praying for the people to get the help they desperately and urgently need
Praying for the people who are missing to be found
Praying deeply for the people who lost lives
Praying for the people who lost their homes and their livelihoods
Praying for the community and all first responders
Praying for Maui
Praying for it all
A lele wale ka pule
E ola nō ea
Oli – Aia i hea ka wai a Kāne
Ea – @lanakilamangauil
🎥: @ramitsuertemichelle & @kakoo_haleakala
#hawaii #maui #kakoomaui #kokuamaui #alohaaina #mauistrong #lahainaforever
it’s not a call it what you like moment.
it’s a call what it is moment.
G E N O C I D E & M U R D E R
📸: @rosypirani
of
I N N O C E N T . P E O P L E
amplifying from @officiallahainastrong
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Time is dwindling to shape a better future for our communities. Unite with us in urging Governor Green to transform short-term rentals into lasting, dignified homes for our people. Extend the eviction and rent increase moratorium beyond January 5th, 2024.
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#LahainaStrong
#AffordableHousingMatters #ExtendTheMoratorium #DropTheHammer #HousingCrisisSolution #TogetherWeCanMakeAChange
my beloved adores twilight
she loves to see the night make way for the day
so much so that when i wake up before sunrise
all i see is Hōpoelehua in land and sky
to hold and be held by her and everything she loves
what a gift
today i poured honey on my heart
and welcomed the storms of Lono
within & without
i leaned deeply into the sweetness
of fresh rain on lehua blossoms
and sang sweet songs for a world that has become too bitter
waiho‘olu‘u(lu‘u kaumaha)
9 6 D A Y S
It has been 96 days and over 70 years of Israeli torture, torment, and absolute evil terror unto the land and people of Palestine. I have been refraining from posting in this space because instagram threatened to take my page down completely after taking away my collaborator feature because they said my posts, “go against community guidelines.”
The martyring of over 30,000 innocent civilians goes against all humanitarian guidelines and I honestly am beside myself that the FUCKING WORLD has let this go on for this fucking long. I’m so disgusted with all the ‘leaders of the free world’ that could actually do something. I’m so fucking disgusted with content creators, artists, and all the rest of the people that have huge platforms that have said ABSOLUTELY NOTHING this whole time but still post their meaningless content as if MULTIPLE GENOCIDES aren’t happening right now. It’s not just tone def, it’s inhumane and honestly so many people have not only lost my respect but my friendship and allyship.
And honestly, if you really think that Palestinian people deserve this, don’t ever speak to me again. Don’t ever ask me for help. Don’t ask me to sing and speak at your events. Don’t ask me for my solidarity. Don’t ask me for my friendship and sisterhood. If you believe in evil Israel and evil Zionists, you no longer will have a place at my table or in my life.
I stand with Palestine with everything that I am. I stand with all the innocent. I stand with the people! And if this was happening to Hawai’i, I know in my soul we would fight back. We always have, in every way. And yes, I don’t believe in violence, and yet, horrific violence is what is fucking happening right now to INNOCENT CIVILIANS so I have no judgement on how Palestinian people decide to defend themselves from this massacre. I stand with the resistance! Long live the Intifada!
My solidarity is sacred. My solidarity is true. And when I say I will stand with Palestine forever, I mean it.
This is not a war. This is genocide.
#freepalestine Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands
No ka Hale Eldahdouh
Mai ku’u ewe, ku’u piko, ku’u puao
Eia ku‘u aloha eia ku’u leo kanikau
For the House of Eldahdouh
From the depths of who I am and all I hold in my womb
I humbly offer my love and my lamentations to you
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha mānewanewa
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha maka‘ūpē
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha kani‘ūhū
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha a ka na‘au a ka pu‘uwai
There are no english words to describe
The way our language holds the feeling of grief
The way each word carry’s in each sound
A wail that only the soul can feel
E maliu mai e o’u mau akua o ke ao a me ka pō
E ho’opalekana ‘oukou iā lākou
Nā pua ho’i a Wael kau keha i ka hano
E ho‘opalekana ‘oukou iā Palesetina
Heed my call, my beloved goddess and gods of creation
Protect them all
Protect and hold the precious blossoms of Wael and his wife
I place his name in the heights, protect, protect Palestine
E lele i ka lani keha
I ka hālau lani o Allah
E lele wale i ke alo o Wākea
I ke alaula o Hōlani
Fly to the sacred beyond
In the vast embrace of Allah
Fly to the expanse of Wākea
To the glow that brings forth the heavens
Eia ku‘u aloha a mau loa aku
‘Āmama ua noa
Inshallah Ameen
No ka Hale Eldahdouh
Mai ku’u ewe, ku’u piko, ku’u puao
Eia ku‘u aloha eia ku’u leo kanikau
For the House of Eldahdouh
From the depths of who I am and all I hold in my womb
I humbly offer my love and my lamentations to you
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha mānewanewa
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha maka‘ūpē
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha kani‘ūhū
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha a ka na‘au a ka pu‘uwai
There are no english words to describe
The way our language holds the feeling of grief
The way each word carry’s in each sound
A wail that only the soul can feel
E maliu mai e o’u mau akua o ke ao a me ka pō
E ho’opalekana ‘oukou iā lākou
Nā pua ho’i a Wael kau keha i ka hano
E ho‘opalekana ‘oukou iā Palesetina
Heed my call, my beloved goddess and gods of creation
Protect them all
Protect and hold the precious blossoms of Wael and his wife
I place his name in the heights, protect, protect Palestine
E lele i ka lani keha
I ka hālau lani o Allah
E lele wale i ke alo o Wākea
I ke alaula o Hōlani
Fly to the sacred beyond
In the vast embrace of Allah
Fly to the expanse of Wākea
To the glow that brings forth the heavens
Eia ku‘u aloha a mau loa aku
‘Āmama ua noa
Inshallah Ameen
No ka Hale Eldahdouh
Mai ku’u ewe, ku’u piko, ku’u puao
Eia ku‘u aloha eia ku’u leo kanikau
For the House of Eldahdouh
From the depths of who I am and all I hold in my womb
I humbly offer my love and my lamentations to you
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha mānewanewa
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha maka‘ūpē
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha kani‘ūhū
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha a ka na‘au a ka pu‘uwai
There are no english words to describe
The way our language holds the feeling of grief
The way each word carry’s in each sound
A wail that only the soul can feel
E maliu mai e o’u mau akua o ke ao a me ka pō
E ho’opalekana ‘oukou iā lākou
Nā pua ho’i a Wael kau keha i ka hano
E ho‘opalekana ‘oukou iā Palesetina
Heed my call, my beloved goddess and gods of creation
Protect them all
Protect and hold the precious blossoms of Wael and his wife
I place his name in the heights, protect, protect Palestine
E lele i ka lani keha
I ka hālau lani o Allah
E lele wale i ke alo o Wākea
I ke alaula o Hōlani
Fly to the sacred beyond
In the vast embrace of Allah
Fly to the expanse of Wākea
To the glow that brings forth the heavens
Eia ku‘u aloha a mau loa aku
‘Āmama ua noa
Inshallah Ameen
No ka Hale Eldahdouh
Mai ku’u ewe, ku’u piko, ku’u puao
Eia ku‘u aloha eia ku’u leo kanikau
For the House of Eldahdouh
From the depths of who I am and all I hold in my womb
I humbly offer my love and my lamentations to you
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha mānewanewa
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha maka‘ūpē
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha kani‘ūhū
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha a ka na‘au a ka pu‘uwai
There are no english words to describe
The way our language holds the feeling of grief
The way each word carry’s in each sound
A wail that only the soul can feel
E maliu mai e o’u mau akua o ke ao a me ka pō
E ho’opalekana ‘oukou iā lākou
Nā pua ho’i a Wael kau keha i ka hano
E ho‘opalekana ‘oukou iā Palesetina
Heed my call, my beloved goddess and gods of creation
Protect them all
Protect and hold the precious blossoms of Wael and his wife
I place his name in the heights, protect, protect Palestine
E lele i ka lani keha
I ka hālau lani o Allah
E lele wale i ke alo o Wākea
I ke alaula o Hōlani
Fly to the sacred beyond
In the vast embrace of Allah
Fly to the expanse of Wākea
To the glow that brings forth the heavens
Eia ku‘u aloha a mau loa aku
‘Āmama ua noa
Inshallah Ameen
No ka Hale Eldahdouh
Mai ku’u ewe, ku’u piko, ku’u puao
Eia ku‘u aloha eia ku’u leo kanikau
For the House of Eldahdouh
From the depths of who I am and all I hold in my womb
I humbly offer my love and my lamentations to you
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha mānewanewa
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha maka‘ūpē
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha kani‘ūhū
Auē ka ‘eha‘eha a ka na‘au a ka pu‘uwai
There are no english words to describe
The way our language holds the feeling of grief
The way each word carry’s in each sound
A wail that only the soul can feel
E maliu mai e o’u mau akua o ke ao a me ka pō
E ho’opalekana ‘oukou iā lākou
Nā pua ho’i a Wael kau keha i ka hano
E ho‘opalekana ‘oukou iā Palesetina
Heed my call, my beloved goddess and gods of creation
Protect them all
Protect and hold the precious blossoms of Wael and his wife
I place his name in the heights, protect, protect Palestine
E lele i ka lani keha
I ka hālau lani o Allah
E lele wale i ke alo o Wākea
I ke alaula o Hōlani
Fly to the sacred beyond
In the vast embrace of Allah
Fly to the expanse of Wākea
To the glow that brings forth the heavens
Eia ku‘u aloha a mau loa aku
‘Āmama ua noa
Inshallah Ameen
everywhere i look i see
black
white
green
red
i close my eyes and see black smoke as sky
white sheets as final resting places
green eyes of genocide staring back at me
red blood soaking sovereign land
30,000 times over
in just three months time
i am not the same person i was before the bombs dropped on palestine live on social media platforms
the world debates
as real people are filmed as they are dying
what has the world come to?
a world it has been for too long.
a war of war between rich ugly old men.
i’m banned in the shadows so not sure who will see this or read it
but what i do know is that i will continue to show up in this space as best i can
follow my back up in case they delete this one
@h.a.w.a.n.e
🖤🤍♥️💚
“Former US vice president Mike Pence signs artillery shells before they are launched toward Lebanon. The imperialist violence of the Zionist occupation is made, shipped, and signed by the USA with the open blessing of highest-ranking American politicians. While US politicians claim they are unable to stop Israel‘s genocide in Gaza, they continue to endorse everything that makes this image possible. In reality, Israel gets away with mass killing and land theft because of, and not in spite of, the United States. Our role in the heart of US empire is to confront and defeat the political machinery that is making the genocide possible. Until the final hour of victory over Zionism, the struggle continues.”
– @palestinianyouthmovement
this is despicable and so amerikkkan
land of the free? home of the brave?
nothing brave about ‘Christian Leaders of the Free World’
pockets full of blood
investments full of oil
souls full of corruption
a legacy of mass murder
in the name of ‘freedom and justice for all’
the fine print in invisible ink
readS
‘at the expense of everything this world has to give and at the expense of all those we don’t deem valuable’
how can you be proud to be american?
how can you defend this?
honestly.
how tf can you stomach the massacre of whole nations?
how tf can you debate it?
how tf can you stay so fucking silent?
it’s disgusting.
it’s despicable.
it’s so damn on brand.
full stop no more war
full stop no more genocide
i stand with Palestine
#freepalestine
message 🖤🤍💚♥️
“And if you tell me you’re scared to speak out, then you have zero control of your life.”- @thatlawyermomlife
#ceasefirenow #gaza #palestine #westbank #palestinewillbefree #gazaunderattack #idf #israel #2024 #palestineunderattack
i’ve taken space from this space
to pour directly into sustaining my ‘ohana
saturating in therapy
steady in prayer
ever since instagram decided to give me a virtual
slap on the wrist and punished me with threats of
deleting my page
i have not wanted to be here
just like when someone treats you like shit for speaking your truth, this social media platform has gaslit and censored this entire community
i want another online space already
why even have freedoms of speech if we are going to be reprimanded every time we decide to show up and speak up for
H U M A N I T Y
i’ve always spoken my truth here
i’ve always been me
myself
here in this space
instagram and meta putting people who are posting on
virtual ‘timeouts’ isn’t cute and also is very on brand
someone told me they couldn’t even find my page last week
instagram told me that i’m not going to show up on the for you page any more
i’m still going to be here
i am still here
but not the same
i don’t like or accept being given a scolding by the powers that be
so i spend less and less time on this app
because if instagram and meta were actual people
we wouldn’t be sitting together at the same table
it’s still from the river to the sea palestine will be free for me
it’s still community led organizing for me
it’s still prayerful action for me
social media is one way to activate and it’s not the only way
@hopoelehua & i have been working on something and will be announcing it soon. looking forward to sharing with you on some other pathways that we are creating to stay connected and stay empowered.
i really love you all
& i really love this planet
ceasefire now
sovereignty for all
now
amplifying from @mayarhamdan
The topics of erasure of culture & Indigeneity are as crucial as ever to understand why Palestinians are willing to die for their land and hold on to their traditions for dear life. Many (in my comments section especially) argue that the indigenous Canaanites are totally unrelated to Palestinians.
Bypassing DNA tests (because they are illegal in the eyes of colonizing governments attempting to establish an Ethnostate on the land of other people), cultural preservation emerges as a crucial indicator of Indigeneity. For thousands of years, Palestinians have continued Canaanite traditions like tatreez, dabke, wedding chants, and land-rooted agriculture.
Embroidery was a significant aspect of Canaanite culture. They were known for their intricate and colorful embroidery. This craft played a role in both everyday life and special occasions, including weddings. Canaanite embroidery featured geometric shapes, floral motifs, and intricate designs.
Notably the “eight-pointed star of Canaan,” a crucial symbol found in Canaan embroidery and artifacts also continues to be central in Palestinian tatreez. The ancient Egyptians even depicted Canaanite women wearing tatreez with the same patterns that can be found on a traditional Palestinian thobe today.
Indigenous people protect their land, their ancient buildings, their traditions, and their culture. Settlers do not.
#Canaan #Embroidery #History #Artifacts #Fashion #🍉 #tatreez #PalestinianEmbroidery
amplifying from jenan matari
‘In written form for your inner monologue to recite in its own voice.’
#freepalestine
amplifying from jenan matari
‘In written form for your inner monologue to recite in its own voice.’
#freepalestine
amplifying from jenan matari
‘In written form for your inner monologue to recite in its own voice.’
#freepalestine
amplifying from jenan matari
‘In written form for your inner monologue to recite in its own voice.’
#freepalestine
amplifying from jenan matari
‘In written form for your inner monologue to recite in its own voice.’
#freepalestine
amplifying from jenan matari
‘In written form for your inner monologue to recite in its own voice.’
#freepalestine
amplifying from jenan matari
‘In written form for your inner monologue to recite in its own voice.’
#freepalestine
NO MORE WAR
offering of song and love for Palestine
from @kaiboymusic, @thesteppasofficial, & me
OUT TODAY ON ALL MUSIC PLATFORMS
all proceeds will be donated
🖤🤍💚♥️
with this song we declare our solidarity with poetry and chant. we harmonized our voices in prayer for peace and harmony to be lived and known by the people of palestine and all oppressed peoples of this earth. we unite with a powerful message that demands a permanent cease fire and return of sovereignty to Palestine and her beloved people.
i offer my voice in song and chant from the depths of my womb to the expanse of my heart to the heart of Palesetina. i wrote this chant to call upon all kia’i mauna and kia’i aloha ‘āina, all protectors of the mountains we love to the seas we cherish, to stand united in our plea for the end of all genocide unto all people.
i know i could’ve just continued to scream into the wind. this time i chant. and this time, it will be heard.
Kū nā kia‘i Mauna a Wākea
Kū nā kia‘i Paleketina ē!
@ku.kiai.palesetina
and true to form, meta, has taken away the collaborator feature from my instagram because i posted a video on my story of the evil atrocities carried out by Israel. the shadow banning of people who are doing their best to stand in solidarity and action through these online social media platforms is just another example of the world we live in and the world we are doing every thing we can to change.
pls post, download, and share.
From the river to the sea
palestine shall be free!