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SEND IN TESTIMONY

If you oppose creating a pathway for the TMT on Mauna Kea, submit your testimony by October 7th.

Submit testimony by email to both MKSOA and UH through puuhuluhulu.org

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Are you passionate about wai? Will you stand up for clean water and hold the navy accountable? We’re looking for new board members to represent our O‘ahu and Native Hawaiian communities. Deadline Oct 10, 2026.

https://bit.ly/apply2CRI
Or at the link in bio

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Join us for our October Meeting on the 22nd from 5-8pm regarding the opening of the Navy Aiea-Halawa Shaft.

Register at bit.ly/CRIzoom or at the link in bio

⭐️Guest Speakers: Sierra Club’s Wayne Tanaka and more to come!
⭐️CRI Roundtable Discussion and Info for Community re: water testing and critical symptoms to look out for
⭐️💯As always, we also invite public comment to share your voice!

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The written thrEAd.

Sept. 16 - went to DOH Safe Drinking Water Branch in person and followed up with my formal written request.

Sept. 18 - DOH responded.

I responded and narrowed what I was requesting after finding what was already publicly available.

Sept. 24 - DOH confirmed my request was assigned for response.

Sept. 25 - went back in person, paid the requested deposit, and again requested that they DO NOT reopen the ʻAiea-Hālawa Shaft yet.

I am asking for the records, the testing, the water-line/distribution maps, the emergency plan, AND a PUBLIC TOWN HALL BEFORE reopening.

Sept. 28 is Monday.

We deserve answers BEFORE they turn the water on. 💧🙏🏽

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What I put on the record in person today, Fri., Sept. 25, 2026, at the DOH Safe Drinking Water Branch.

I had alrEAdy followed up with my written request and written thrEAd with DOH.

Today I went back in person, paid the requested deposit for the records, and again requested:

1. DO NOT reopen the Navy ʻAiea-Hālawa Shaft yet.

2. Hold a PUBLIC TOWN HALL BEFORE reactivation, with DOH, the Navy and the appropriate technical personnel there to answer the public's questions.

3. Provide the requested information and records regarding the testing and final treatment data, the water-line/distribution maps and who may receive this water, and the emergency/contingency plan for BEFORE, DURING and AFTER an incident.

DOH personnel received my $15 deposit and signed my copy acknowledging my requests.

The planned reactivation is no earlier than Monday, Sept. 28.

Our wai deserves transparency BEFORE the water is turned on. 💧🙏🏽

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🚨Red Alert!🚨 Molokaʻi is re-opening to shipments of coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB) host material on Thursday, September 24.

The current one-year interim rule prohibiting CRB host material from being shipped to Molokaʻi expires on Wednesday, September 23.

For nearly two months if not longer, Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity (DAB) leadership in Honolulu were repeatedly urged by Molokaʻi community members to renew this rule before it expired. They did not.

Foot-dragging by DAB leadership has now all but guaranteed that Molokaʻi will have no protection against CRB host material shipments starting Thursday.

This is unacceptable.

Every day that Molokaʻi remains open to shipments of CRB host material, is a day that the agriculture, ecology, cultural practices, and local economy of the island could be impacted for decades if not indefinitely by CRB. As seen on the neighbor islands, once established, the highly invasive beetle not only decimates niu, but also threatens ʻulu, maiʻa, kalo, and endangered loulu, among many other crops and plants.

Please help to defend Molokaʻi - call the Governor and testify to the Board of Agriculture and Biosecurity to demand that DAB Plant Quarantine Branch leadership make the reinstatement of CRB protections for Molokaʻi their highest priority.

Sample script, sample testimony, and testimony instructions can be found at tinyurl.com/sch-crb.

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Thank you to all who attended the sold-out Gaslit screening at Patagonia Haleʻiwa last night!

Check out some of the evening's highlights here - and stay tuned for a full recording of the post-film panel featuring Pāhonu Coleman, Navahine climate lawsuit plaintiff; Melanie Oldham, resident of Freeport, Texas at the epicenter of the LNG boom on the continent; and Wayne Tanaka, Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi director; moderated by Kānaka ʻŌiwi organizer Kainoa Azama.

A big mahalo to event sponsors @greenpeaceusa, @lahuifoundation, @350hawaii, and @sierraclubhi, as well as @patagonia_haleiwa for hosting the screening and contributing to the silent auction/raffle fundraiser to benefit Lāhui Foundation along with @ewamosc_art.

As Melanie made clear: "We've got to go to renewables. We don't need LNG or oil. We need renewables."

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We had an awesome evening at the sold-out Honolulu Museum of Art screening of GASLIT last night - a big mahalo to everyone who attended! Check out some of our video highlights here.

There is still a chance to join @GreenpeaceUSA, @lahuifoundation , @350hawaii, and @sierraclubhi for tonight’s Patagonia screening, which will also feature a silent auction to benefit Lāhui Foundation as well as a panel with Pāhonu Coleman, Navahine climate lawsuit plaintiff; Melanie Oldham, resident of Freeport, Texas at the epicenter of the LNG boom on the continent; and Wayne Tanaka, Sierra Club of Hawaiʻi director.

Reserve your spot today at tinyurl.com/gaslit-0912!

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SHARE & SUPPORT #HOWEVERCAN 🙏🏝♥️🫶💫

#OʻAHU

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MAHALO ♥️🤙🫶 for all to coconut wireless this:

If can Share and better yet, Show up to March, this is AS if not the MOST IMPORTANT issue for our islands...🙏💧🏝:

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WHAT: WALK FOR WAI 🙏🏝💧
WHEN: This SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2026 @9AM
WHERE: ALA MOANA TO KAPIʻOLANI PARK
WHY: PROTECT OUR WATER #VISIBILITYISKEY

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WATER ISSUES CONTINUING = STAY MAKAʻALA
POWER IN NUMBERS = PEOPLE POWER IS ESSENTIAL

DID YOU KNOW THAT THE NAVY STILL WANTS TO REOPEN THEIR CLOSED WELLS...😡✊️🚫? = PUT THE PRESSURE ON D.O.H. AS THEY HOLD THE DECISION-MAKING POWER.

🙏🏝💧 #WAVEOFBLUETHROUGHWAIKĪKĪ 🌊✊️💫

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DO WHAT YOU CAN TO PROTECT OUR WAI 💧🙏🏝!!!

• BE THERE & MARCH FOR OUR WAI
• SHARE THE INFORMATION
• EADUCATE INTO EVERY PERSON'S CONSCIOUS
• REMEMBER, EADVOCATE, EACT

RED HILL NAVY SPILL OF JET FUEL INTO OUR SOLE AQUIFER SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED...AND YET, IT DID.

NAVY, EPA, DOH = EVER HELD ACCOUNTABLE? NOPE.

FUEL TANKS EMPTIED, 100M GALLONS = SOLELY BY THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE UNITED #OURCOMMUNITYSHUTITDOWN

STAY MAKAʻALA = DOH MAKES THE DECISION, BTW, RE: NAVY'S REQUEST TO REOPEN CONTAMINATED WELLS...👁👁. #WATCH

THIS IS WHY WE WALKING, AGAIN, EN MASSE:
💧🙏🏝 SAT., JUNE 20, 2026

KEEP OUR EYES ON OUR WAI = UNRELENTINGLY.

WE GOTTA PROTECT OUR WAI, ALWAYS.

#FLOODWAIKĪKĪWITHAWAVEOFBLUE #OLAIKAWAI
✊️✊️✊️✊️🏝🏝🏝🏝🙏🙏🙏🙏💪💪💪💪💧💧💧💧

AWARENESS & COLLECTIVE EACTION IS KEY!!!!!

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Throwback 2 summer 2 years ago with our youth council crew 😊🌿💕 Celebrating big wins for these amazing young indigenous artists 💦 Pic was taken after supporting local ‘ōpio suing the Hawai’i Dept of Transportation for a climate issue with @youthvgov @thehycc.

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