About

Hawaiʻi and Borikén are connected in struggle. They have been for some time. So I wanted to take a moment with my sisters across the world, to share and to hold space on issues that only we understand fully. It is a rare moment in American Society when you can look someone in the eye and they understand the type of oppression you have been subjected to, the type where demanding freedom is labeled "radical." Spiritually, physically and mentally we have been affected by the policies of ownership of indigenous lands and bodies that Congress continues to normalize and even congratulate themselves on. They imposed a fiscal control board over Puerto Rico (translated to Rich port) because we are commodities to the United States of America.And this must change. The US cannot continue to dictate the terms of our enslavement. You do not tell those that you oppress, how you will stop oppressing them. THEY tell YOU.In this episode I sit down with two inspiring women, MYKIE & IHILANI, to talk about history and to talk about what real freedom would look like. More importantly, to say aloud to each other and to all of you that we must fight for a future where are free. Books: A Nation Rising by Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, From A Native Daughter by Haunani-Kay Trask, Fighting the Battle of Double Colonization by Haunani-Kay Trask,  'Native Hawaiian Law: A Treatise' edited by University of Hawaiʻi law professors Melody MacKenzie, Susan Serrano, and Kapua Sproat, Islanders in the Empire: Filipino and Puerto Rican Laborers in Hawaiʻi’ by JoAnna Poblete Instagram accounts to follow: @Kanaeokana @Puuhuluhulu @ProtectMaunakea Bios: Ihilani Lasconia is a Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) poet, student, and organizer from Waimānalo Oʻahu. ʻIhilani is currently a senior at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa majoring in Ethnic Studies. She is also a first-year master's candidate in Education Administration. ʻIhilani is a part of  Kia'i Ke Kahaukani which is a student group that advocates for the protection of Maunakea. ʻIhilani is a strong supporter of Native Hawaiian self-determination and the deoccupation of Hawaiʻi. She believes that political education is essential to liberation and that all struggles are interconnected.Mykie Ozoa-Aglugub is a Filipina-Boricua anti-imperialist feminist organizer in the illegally occupied Kingdom of Hawai‘i. She is a founding member of AF3IRM Hawai‘i, the local chapter of a transnational feminist organization, with 10 chapters across the US and in Hawai‘i and Borikén. Mykie is an expert in anti-gender violence advocacy and training and she holds a law degree from the UH Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law.