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Root Cause Remedies
by Root Cause Remedies
A place-based environmental justice podcast exploring our paths to liberation through grassroots revolution storytelling. Honest dialogue and genuine listening are key starting points for radical transformative change. Take a journey with us and stay rooted.
Episodes
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"The Grand Unifier: Wai" with Ulu Ching
Welcome to the last episode of Season 4! This conversation with Moana Pōmaikaʻi Kauluwehiokaʻala Ching, aka Ulu, is a beautiful reflection of our deep connectedness with and through wai. The grand unifier. Ulu is so grounded in who she is and offers us a wonderful weaving of storytelling…
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S.4 Bonus Episode-Mele of Wai for World Water Day
This episode is a little love letter to wai in commemorating World Water Day 2022, this year's theme being “Making the Invisible, Visible” with a focus on groundwater to highlight the urgent need to protect it, which comes at a time of great relevance and reverence for us here in Hawaiʻi. Almost...
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S.4-E.4--The Fight for Wai on Maui with Bianca Isaki
This episode is packed full of information on water law, historical cases, community organizing on Maui to end water diversions from private companies, and wahine, womens’ roles in the movement to restore wai. Our avid listeners may know that water is a public trust by law in Hawaiʻi, held as a...
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S.4.E.3-- Taking Back Our Waters with Eric Enos and Jonathan Scheuer
In this episode we have the esteemed pleasure to have a talk-story session with two beloved water protectors about historical and present day struggles. Both of them uplift the brilliance in water and land protection movements that continue to be a force of resilience against decades of…
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S.4.E.2- Urbanism, Militourism, and Settler Colonialism's Impact on Oʻahu with Sean Connelly
"Militarism and water do not work well together. Because fresh water is everything... to destabilize ʻāina, you destabilize water." In this episode we have the extreme pleasure of talking-story with the epic human- Sean Connelly who shares his journey from an elementary student concerned about...
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S.4, Ep.1- Noelani Puniwai- Pono Science & Storytelling of Wai
If you've been listening to the news or following social media the past month, you know water has been on everybody’s minds recently. Every day there is more happening at Kapūkaki, aka Red Hill. This episode was recorded on Dec. 7, 2021, shortly after Oʻahu's Board of Water Supply shut down the...
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Intro to Season 1- Wai with Lala Nuss
O la i ka wai. Water is life. And what a time to be talking about it. Oʻahu is experiencing a water crisis as a result of the Navy's continued negligence. Mauʻi suffers on-going stream diversion from reckless profit-seeking landowners. The climate crisis continues to threaten access to fresh…
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Season 3 Bonus Episode- Energy as Akua and Continuum
We finished up our season full of questions unpacking how our energy system works, who all the players are, and how to approach it in our daily fight for collective resistance and liberation from extraction and colonialism. One thing we do know, is that the energy system does impact every moment…
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Energy as a pathway to Sovereignty
Closing out this mini-season on a high note with the members and partners of the grassroots created Hoʻāhu Energy Cooperative Molokaʻi and Shake Energy Collaborative. We've been talking a lot about the many layered and interconnected forms of oppression inherent in our privatized, corporate...
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Kahuku Kiaʻi Part 2- "Transforming Relations to Energy"
Welcome to part two of our conversation with Kahuku on their struggle for energy justice. In the first part of this episode, gave us the rundown on the AES Na Pua Makani wind power project. They talked about the issues with the project and the many ways, over several years, that they tried to...
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Kahuku Kiaʻi Part 1: Energy (In)Justice
In the fall of 2019, nearly 200 Kiaʻi were arrested during a month of nightly blockades against the largest wind turbines in the nation from being built so close to homes and schools. This would have been the second set of large industrial wind turbines for their small rural community. This week...
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Hawaiian Electric: Profit + Power
For season 3 on Root Cause Remedies, we’re digging into Energy Justice in Hawaiʻi and asking how we can move closer towards the goal of “achieving equity in both social and economic participation in the energy system, while also remediating social, economic, and health burdens on those…
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Season 3 Teaser - Hawaiian Electric and the Overthrow
We are getting ready to launch our next season with some powerhouse energy justice advocates and community leaders from Kahuku, Molokaʻi, and Waiʻanae on their work to address the injustices of our energy system. They are the true example of resilience and solutions for a people-centered…
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Abolition isn't scary, it's essential.
We couldn't think of a better way to kick off 2021 than with a radical conversation on genuine security without policing or militarization. Many people have a skewed or narrow understanding of what abolition is, including us. That's why we decided to end this season dedicated to the connections...
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Profits Over People
Trump’s made a habit of bending the truth, disregarding science, and fabricating outright lies to feed his own interests and disempower an increasingly dissatisfied public. We see it every day with his handling of coronavirus, and we see it with his denial and disregard for climate change. This...
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Commodifying Health
There is so much being thrown around about healthcare lately. Last we heard, Trump is on the move to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. Guess his big pharma and insurance industry friends had enough of actually providing services and coverage to people. But even before Trump, our healthcare…
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Who Benefits from Reopening Tourism?
Environmental justice principle #8-affirms the right of all workers to a safe and healthy work environment without being forced to choose between an unsafe livelihood and unemployment. UNITE HERE Local 5 union organizer, Lisa Grandinetti shares the worker's perspective of how the government and...
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"There's no workers at the table"
Today tourism "re-opens" and our first episode of season 2 will be with labor organizer, Lisa Grandinetti. She works for UNITE HERE Local 5- representing around 11,000 hospitality and service industry workers across the state. Listen to her share the critical element missing for our people in…
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Indigenous People's Day Clip - Environmental Violence + What's at Stake
Today we honor the struggle of Kanaka Maoli and all indigenous people's around the world fighting corporate capitalism and colonialism. Here is a clip from Kanaka Maoli Wahine Jamaica Osorio answering the question "what does the political context of Hawaiʻi have to do with EJ today?" Listen to…
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Season 2 Teaser - Triple Threat - Covid, Climate, and Capitalism
Our next season is a work in progress. Like many of you, we are trying to make sense of how deeply intertwined the pandemic, climate change, and extreme wealth inequality are and of course are rooted in colonization and white supremacy. For this teaser, we are reflecting on how connected our...
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Wrapping Up Season One
We learned so much in our first three episodes! Host Tina G. gives a recap of the major lessons and transformative shifts that took place in our understanding of what environmental justice is and means for Hawaiʻi. Because as she puts it, "we ain't messing around with no watered down version of...
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"They blew out our marshlands"
What does the military, corporations, and climate change have in common? Take a listen to find out. Then check out Joy's full interview drawing the connection between militarism, forced annexation, displacement, Black Lives Matter, and capitalism have done to the people of Hawaiʻi.
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White Supremacy Is Killing Us
For our final interview of season one, Tina talks story with activist and scholar Joy Enomoto. Join Joy and Tina as they discuss police violence, military occupation, Black Lives Matter, and environmental racism. Learn how Black liberation and the fight against white supremacy connect to Hawaiian...
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The Political Context of Hawaiʻi and Aloha ʻĀina Resistance
Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine poet , activist , and scholar "born and raised on "music, mo‘olelo and ‘ōlelo Hawai‘i." In this episode she dives deep into the political history of violence to the ʻāina and people of Hawaiʻi and what that means to the struggle against...
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The EJ Landscape in Hawaiʻi
Tune in to the very first conversation of our podcast! We are so honored to have longtime environmental justice activist, community leader, and scholar Kyle Kajihiro. Listen as he shares his wealth of manaʻo on the history of environmental justice and political players in Hawaiʻi. He also lays…
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Quick History Lesson on Hawaiʻi's Political Status
We have launched our podcast to honor the resistance to imperialism and statehood! Listen to scholar and activist Jamaica how colonialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy have impacted our beloved Hawaiʻi and its people.
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Season 1 Teaser - More from Kyle Kajihiro!
As the launch date draws near, here's another nugget of wisdom from Kyle. Stay tuned for the rest coming Aug. 21st in honor of the resistance against "statehood" day! #stayrooted
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Season 1 Teaser
In our very first episode we attempt to understand the environment justice landscape in Hawaiʻi. Our first guest, Kyle Kajihiro is an encyclopedia on this struggle and we are fortunate to have him kick off our journey! In this episode Kyle shares that one of the commonalities in environmental and...
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Welcome to Root Cause Remedies!
Here is a preview of our new podcast where we believe that conversation is a catalyst for radical change. Through our conversations we hope to shed light on intersecting injustices in Hawaiʻi and humanize those resisting and fighting back. The path towards healing our land and people begins with…
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What is Root Cause Remedies?
Listen as our host gives a quick breakdown to how explore roots, causes, and remedies and what to expect in our first season!
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A place-based environmental justice podcast exploring our paths to liberation through grassroots revolution storytelling. Honest dialogue and genuine listening are key starting points for radical transformative change. Take a journey with us and stay rooted.
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A place-based environmental justice podcast exploring our paths to liberation through grassroots revolution storytelling. Honest dialogue and genuine listening are key starting points for radical transformative change. Take a journey with us and stay rooted.
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