{"id":203143,"date":"2022-01-24T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T12:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=203143"},"modified":"2022-01-17T06:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T06:01:56","slug":"hawaiis-red-hill-disaster-the-latest-episode-in-200-years-of-colonialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2022\/01\/hawaiis-red-hill-disaster-the-latest-episode-in-200-years-of-colonialism\/","title":{"rendered":"Hawaii&#8217;s Red Hill Disaster: The Latest Episode in 200 Years of Colonialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>7 Jan 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">In November, a huge underground US Navy fuel storage facility at Red Hill near Honolulu burst, leaking 14,000 gallons of jet fuel, contaminating the water supply, poisoning scores of people and driving thousands of Hawaiian families from their homes. The state\u2019s attorney general, David Day, remarked that the state had a \u201cticking time bomb\u201d on its hands, and that further contamination of its precious water supply was all but inevitable. The tanks sit just feet above the island\u2019s largest aquifer. This incident is merely the latest in a long list showing the American empire\u2019s callous disregard for the civilian population of Hawaii, as it puts military needs before the people or the environment. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Joining Lowkey today are two Hawaiian activists, Ihilani Lasconia and Daniel Kauwila Mahi. <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Ihilani is an artist, singer and organizer from Waim\u0101nalo. <\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Daniel is a musician, rapper and student from Honolulu.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oWL51rqAgWE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 Jan 2022 &#8211; In November, a huge underground US Navy fuel storage facility at Red Hill near Honolulu burst, leaking 14,000 gallons of jet fuel, contaminating the water supply, poisoning scores of people and driving thousands of Hawaiian families from their homes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[532,401,1098,1309,710,894,1102,2533],"class_list":["post-203143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-colonialism","tag-environment","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-hawaii","tag-health","tag-pollution","tag-public-health","tag-us-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}