Hāwane Rios Instagram – kakahiaka nō e ka lāhui o ka honua morning greetings to the nations of the world to be banned in the shadows for standing in solidarity with palesetina has been triggering for me and many others that truly and deeply care about what is happening to real innocent people in multiple places in the world right now. meta’a has done everything it can to silence the voices of solidarity that are coming from every corner of the earth and yet, we persist, no matter how many threats of cancelation, violence, and even death that come the unhealed folks on this platform, we persist because it is simply the right thing to do. in these past 90 something days, i have lost real friends in my very life for doing what i know in my soul is right. i have seen my own community, my people, defend israhell so staunchly that my heart feels like there is nothing left to break or shatter. watching the world debate these crimes against humanity has broken something in me, probably the part that blindly and naively believed in the goodness in our kind. i don’t like being silenced. never have. never will. as a survivor of physical, sexual, emotional, mental, and spiritual abuse, i refuse to desensitize myself to the violence deliberately happening unto real people that love their ancestral homelands like i do. i’ve felt the rage. i still do. i’ve tried to call to peoples hearts through my words and mele here. i have tried to provoke critical thinking. and it has exhausted my spirit. but yet, we continue. because life is sacred and it deserves to be defended and protected. standing with palestine has never been hard or conflicting for me. like i’ve said over and over again, when we were on the frontlines standing for our mountain, palestine came and gifted us their flag, their keffiyah, their solidarity, their prayers, their love. they stood on their land too with signs with the name of our mountain raised up high. pehea ko kākou piko? who are we, hawaiians, if we do not stand with them now? how dare we call for the world to help us and then turn our backs on the world when they desperately need our offerings of solidarity, our prayers, our love, our actions? pehea kā? Puu Huluhulu