Happy Labor Day everyone! Art by the brilliant Ricardo Levins Morales.

Years ago a speculator tax was proposed and killed at the state leg. What we could have done if a piece of all those off-shore profits had gone to the public good…

As a consumer, I see the cost of a car has doubled while wages have not. I grew up in a country with a strong middle class. My kids did not. Big difference in how safe and good life feels. Thank you UAW for fighting back. #StandUpUAW

Cutting a block for a print honoring the people who blocked the road to stop evictions & keep Waiahole Waikane green. Playing music from that year (1977) & gotta say music does not get better than the soundtrack that fed those struggles.

“Ceasefire now!” Led by Jewish Voice for Peace hundreds of American Jews take direct action in DC against US politicians complicity in Israel’s attacks on Palestinians in Gaza,

I wish we could look at this photograph of an 11-year-old Anne Frank; see the congruence of a beach, a child, and the coming catastrophe; and make the connection to Gaza, knowing there are children there, too, just on the brink of maturity, just as lovely, facing catastrophe.

To die alone under the rubble, screaming for your mother. Do you know which child my heart breaks for? They are all our children. Dresden Hiroshima Cambodia Darfur Gaza &c. It is our job to care for the next generation. Our central human calling. Ceasefire, now, and forever.

Spotted on a parking garage steps in Kahala. Don’t think “my little action is meaningless when things are this bad.” Thank you, person who left this note, for making me feel a community of resistance.

We filled the main tourist drag in Honolulu. Many tourists clapped and flashed peace signs; very little negative response - I sense a growing consensus for a ceasefire.

Rough sketch for a print I just finished, The ILWU Fishing Committee of the Great Sugar Strike of 1946. They fed 60,000+ people for over 2 months, leading to the first victory over plantation oligarchy in Hawai`i. Exhibit of this series opens this Sunday, UH gallery, 2 pm.

Sunday: collaboration workshop. Imagine a better future, and build a community to fight for it. 1pm, UH Art gallery.

Tonight. UH Art Gallery. Art+music. 7pm. Audience is the choir. Because we sink or sing together. Feel the future!

"This movement is multiracial, multi-faith, multi-generational, and global – and it is this fierce solidarity that most threatens those whose power relies on fear and division." --Jews for Racial & Economic Justice jfrej.org/news/2024/05/j…

Of course she is not my perfect candidate, but we need a safer ground from which to push for real change and this is it, so all in. The life you save may be your own. The wheel’s still in spin: fire, flood, pandemic and worse.

At Kim Coco Iwamoto primary election watch party. After fighting vote by vote for years we are here, filled with joy. People are so sick of the billionaire boys club. Change is the word . Progressives in the lead in multiple races. #speakerslayer

The eaten without any surviving family bread The buried with a hand holding crumbs of bread

75 years ago, my mother was at Peekskill. I am giving her eulogy this week. theconversation.com/75-years-ago-t…