After a 2021 leak at the U.S. military’s Red Hill fuel storage facility poisoned thousands, activists, Native Hawaiians, and affected military families have become unlikely allies in the fight for accountability.
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Coronacare is a mutual aid network organizing to address the unmet needs of their community, whose conditions have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their efforts this past year have focused on delivering food and household supplies to thousands of community members. These include expecting mothers, elders, immuno-compromised people, and other working families across the entire island of O‘ahu who have been negatively impacted by the disastrous local and national government response to the pandemic.
As Mikey Inouye, a co-founder of Coronacare, told
Liberation News:
“In March of 2020, several core members of what would become Coronacare looked at what was happening in China, anticipating the various failures of the American capitalist settler-state response to the COVID crisis; failures that have subsequently led to the deaths of more than half a million Americans. Although Hawai’i is home to many nonprofits and volunteer organizations doing