Red Hill DeTour with Kyle Kajihiro

Since families living in military housing first found fuel in their tap water in November, the Red Hill water crisis has mobilized a broad movement demanding the shutdown of the 80-year-old facility and the protection of Oʻahu’s water.

In today’s special episode, we join organizer and scholar Kyle Kajihiro for a DeTour, or demilitarization tour, and learn about U.S. militarism and grassroots activism in Hawaiʻi. We visit the Red Hill fuel storage facility, drive through the residential area affected by the latest spill, and pay our respects to the koʻa constructed by Hawaiian cultural practitioners outside Pacific Fleet Command.

Kyle is an organizer with Hawaiʻi Peace and Justice, the Oʻahu Water Protectors, and Mālama Mākua, and he teaches in the Ethnic Studies and Geography Departments at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Tags: Hawaiʻi, Hawai'i, Hawaii