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The Hawaiʻi State Senate has become the first state legislative body in the country to adopt a resolution calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
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This week marks two years since the start of the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The Conversation spoke with a local group about why Hawaiʻi residents should pay attention.
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The Conversation talked with Maya Soetoro from the University of Hawaiʻi's Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution and the nonprofit Ceeds of Peace, as well as Punihei Lipe with the UH Native Hawaiian Place of Learning Advancement Office about ways to navigate these emotionally charged times.
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Vaimoana Niumeitolu is a former Hawaiʻi resident who lives in New York. She studied painting at Yale University and has murals in the U.S. and around the world. Murals have historically functioned as artwork that reflects the lives and dreams of ordinary people, which is why the 13 murals she painted in the West Bank and Jordan are particularly relevant today.
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HPR’s Catherine Cluett Pactol checks in with the survivors of the Maui fires who continue to look for housing; a University of Hawaiʻi hydrologist discusses an ongoing program that offers free water testing five months after the Maui fires; a Jewish community on Kauaʻi makes and delivers jewelry to Israeli refugees impacted by the Israel-Hamas conflict.
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The Kauai Jewish Center recently sent a care package of Hawaiian-themed jewelry to refugees taking shelter in Jerusalem's Olive Tree Hotel. The Conversation talked to Rabbi Michoel Goldman about the symbolic gift and his thoughts on the conflict.
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The tension over the Israel-Hamas war ripples across the world. The Conversation checked in on its impact on classrooms at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa by speaking with Peter Hoffenberg, a history professor and an advisor for Hillel.
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Concern for people in the West Bank continues to grow. Mariah Abdelfattah is working on her master’s degree in Korean language at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her Palestinian father is from the West Bank. The Conversation talked to Abdelfattah about her family’s life there, her safety concerns, and what it means to be Palestinian during this time.
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The Health Ministry in Gaza reports that at least 11,000 Palestinians have been killed since the war began. Over the weekend, citizens protested around the globe including on Oʻahu.
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Protest to end bombing in Gaza; Red Cross volunteer on Maui wildfires; SAG-AFTRA strike settlement and local productions; Author Innocenta Sound-Kikku on her Chuukese children's book and poetry collection illustrated by Lissette Yamase