Dec 20, 2016 | Analysis, Essays, Pinyon-Juniper Forests
Recently walking up Main Street in Park City, Utah, I saw in the Visitor’s Center doorway what looked like a man holding a great-horned owl surrounded by children. As his voice carried across the street, I heard the man explain that this owl had been found with an...
Nov 23, 2016 | Analysis, Essays
The fading roar of an ATV engine leaves silence in its wake. Birds, offended by the intrusion, refuse to sing. Grasshoppers stop their dance to consider their safety. Even the reliable mountain breeze hides. And, with the tidings of violence borne by the sounds of...
Jul 31, 2016 | Analysis, Direct Action Journal, Essays
This year’s Fourth of July week grew in horror as it passed. Each day brought new nightmares that struck me at a dizzying pace. By the end of the week, after I decided I was sick of weeping, I turned off the television, shut my Facebook tab, and remembered that the...
Aug 19, 2015 | Analysis, Essays, Mauna Kea
When I am in Hawai’i, I ask everyone I meet if the United States will ever voluntarily de-occupy the Islands. No one ever says yes. Usually, before I can say anything else, people hurriedly start talking about the lack of a valid treaty or that the American occupation...
Aug 12, 2015 | Analysis, Essays, Mauna Kea
Resistance to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project on Mauna Kea has re-ignited the Hawaiian de-occupation movement. Since 1893 when John L. Stevens, other non-Hawaiian plantation owners, sons of Christian missionaries, and the US Navy forcefully overthrew the...
Jul 24, 2015 | Analysis, Essays, Mauna Kea, Unist'ot'en Camp
All nations are not created equal. Understanding this is a prerequisite to effectively stopping the colonial forces destroying the world. I’ve been thinking this for the last few days watching members of two First Nations I love – the Unist’ot’en Clan of the...