Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio Instagram – My ‘ohana lives in Wahiawā. In on of the seats of American imperial power. Where at 8am — every morning and without fail— you will hear the American imperial anthem. Where at 6pm the bugle sings. And inbetween and after there are rounds of ammunition fired into our forests, shells of bombs that shake our homes foundations. Helicopters that hover hover hover until their vibration makes your stomach turn.
These days— each of these shaking sounds carried my mind to Palestine. I wonder what it means for my children to grow up with these same sounds and tremors of violence. While, in an occupation a whole world away, children rarely grow up at all. We are tragically linked— Hawaii and Palestine. Hawai’i and anywhere American backed intervention or expansion pressed through the barrel of a gun. But we are also linked by something else that is far more profound: Love.
Love for our aina. Love for each other. Love for liberation and struggle and a future (and past) only we can see. And because of that — I believe that we will win. | Posted on 27/Jun/2024 19:26:11
