“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful." — Assata Shakur (July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)

Solidarity action for marchers in Gunsan, Korea protesting destruction of tidal flats where the Sura birds live - to build yet another US military serving airport. Birds not bombs! Sura, aka Kuaka, long distance record-holding migratory champ, beloved in Polynesia, not just Korea.

Happy to support this project. Every kid should know Benjamin Lay.

For Asian America the line between citizen and foreigner has never meant safety. Here is my etching from my grandmother’s painting of Heart Mountain, where she was imprisoned with her US citizen sons. My father volunteered for combat duty from behind barbed wire.

Happy May Day! To go with all of todayʻs union actions, here is when the amazing artist Favianna Rodrigues visited my drawings of 1940s-70s struggles. (Last week to see these at Native Books/Arts and Letters)

Union power as far as you can see outside the Honolulu federal building. You will have to imagine the sound of hundreds singing Solidarity Forever to go with these pics.

What was on the playlist at your university’s action today? Bet you can’t top The Times They Are A Changin followed by Kaulana Nā Pua

Aloha from the resistance, Honolulu.

Thanks, Mary, for pushing all of us to fight back. Humanities = human. Everything we do to survive and find love and know ourselves. Our beating hearts. Plus, once I was a debt-burdened asst prof who really needed those tiny grants.

The guy I count on for historically-informed strategy says it’s time to poke the bear. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

I take this personally. My dad volunteered while imprisoned at Heart Mountain. He believed in a united front against facism. He was the only one of his squad to survive the war. The 100th was feted in deep red Texas by survivors of the Lost Battalion rescue, a heroic story now buried as “woke DEI”

Found myself in a red state at the doorway of a coffee shop with a sign welcoming trans people. I felt safe. Cis women are safer where trans people are safer - my body felt this before my analysis even kicked in.

Recycling signs from 2016, headed to Patsy Mink Statue.

People ask if I think stop shopping day is a good tactic. I don’t care. It’s good for the soul, and 2 actual people from radically different parts of my life asked me to join the boycott. So I’m in. Not one cent to corporate America!

I am alive because when I got cancer the evidence-based best practice was an extremely aggressive all-day surgery + chemo. Most people die from the type of cancer I had, and the doctors needed the research to justify the risk of such an aggressive approach. Cutting off research will kill people.

I was a lawyer for 40+ years and never saw the ABA - a conservative, traditionalist org representing all lawyers - issue a statement like this one condemning Trump lawlessness. AMA you got next! (Talk to your doctor about this)

Students and faculty got arrested and put their careers on the line protesting genocide. I want to see some Democratic officials getting arrested to protect democracy.

Yesterday the egg shelf was empty at my local supermarket, while I was drawing this - that time they evicted the local farmers from Kalama Valley. From my current work in progress, 200 years of resistance in Hawai’i.

The Slaveship might be the most painful read of my life. Now he has written the antidote, just in time to remind us that no matter how bad it gets, there is a way forward. Thank you Dr. Rediker!

Hawaiians still here, as far as the eye can see. (Yesterday, march to the palace to show there is still no consent to occupation.)

Applies to visual artists as well. The challenge is doing this in visual language.

Best writing advice ever was Nikki Giovanni, speaking as a working mom, saying don’t wait til you have quiet or inspiration or big blocks of time. That’s an excuse. If you have 10 minutes, sit down and write. I heard her saying that in my head my whole writing life. Thank you sister Nikki!

Out in the rain this morning at the Honolulu Korean consulate. Demanding democracy from ocean to ocean, from river to sea. I was a wet dog as happy as a Gene Kelly in the rain.

We sat at tables of abundance while others stood in line for food. In the rain. And the slow build of contradiction in these, the last days of empire, told us it could not continue. Blessing to all who are setting a welcome table as we work for a righteous path beyond this cruelty.

Recipe for cranberry relish, add brown sugar, cinnamon, then pulse in cuisinart.

Oh, that guy, the one who tried to get us all killed.

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And then a little bit of water formed on the tip of a kalo leaf like a suspended diamond and it said “I dare you to draw me before I drop” So I drew it. From life, not from the photo. Then I took the pic and it dropped.

Working on a large drawing about resistance and regeneration using stochastic method. Open to what shows up saying it wants to go in the drawing. Telling my scientific materialistic brain to move over and make room for artist brain.

Working on a large drawing about resistance and regeneration using stochastic method. Open to what shows up saying it wants to go in the drawing. Telling my scientific materialistic brain to move over and make room for artist brain.

I have often said depression is contagious as a social fact, but now it might be biological fact that your social circle can transmit depression-inducing gut microbes. Seek out joyful friends and keep fighting for peace and justice!

I followed science folks to try to stay alive when I got cancer during a pandemic. Still alive and learning from them: did you know smelling lotsa stuff exercises smell-brain connection, delaying dementia? Blooming here today. Yellow one is Kula gardenia. Amazing scent.

i keep forgetting about this app. free palestine 🌺🕊️🖤🍃

Just showed up, and making new friends here. I read this and couldn’t remember saying it, what fun!

Hullo! They are putting foxes in charge of all the henhouses = the price of eggs will go up, and my chickens and I are hiding out over here with some migratory birds we followed.