The US military is poisoning the water in O'ahu
b'As Director for the Sierra Club of Hawai\\u2019i Wayne Tanaka recently wrote in The Guardian, the US Navy\\u2019s Red Hill Fuel Storage Facility is \\u201ca massive underground \\u2018farm\\u2019 of 18 million-liter fuel tanks and pipes just 100 feet above metropolitan O\\u2019ahu. Its construction began before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Since then, it has leaked over 180,000 gallons of petroleum into the groundwater aquifer that provides drinking water for over 400,000 residents and visitors from H\\u0101lawa to Hawai\\u02bbi Kai.\\u201d
Regardless of the major threat the facility poses to the local water system and demands from Native Hawaiians and supporters to address the crisis and hold the US military accountable, it wasn\\u2019t until hundreds of military families living near Pearl Harbor reported symptoms of petroleum poisoning that Red Hill\\u2019s operations were paused in late November. But the root causes of the environmental and public health crisis remain untouched, and the fight to shut down Red Hill is still very much ongoing.
In this segment of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks about that fight with Mikey Inouye, an independent filmmaker born and raised in Hawai\\u2018i, community organizer, and member of O\\u2018ahu Water Protectors. The O\\u2018ahu Water Protectors is an organization that formed out of a coalition of K\\u0101naka Maoli organizers, Sierra Club members and supporters, Hawai\\u2018i Peace and Justice, and other groups working toward sovereignty, decolonization, and demilitarization.
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