*originally published on The Elders website to coincide with a blog post by Mary Robinson, former Ireland president and climate activist, for International Women’s Day. Here in the Marshall Islands, International Women’s Day immediately follows a national holiday. On March 1, Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day commemorates the legacy of US nuclear testing on our islands. As these two events collide, I find… Read More
Shadows of Our Past: 2016 Nuclear Day in the Marshalls
*Originally published on Ke Kaupu Hehi Ale blog site On Tuesday it was Nuclear Victims Remembrance Day. On this day we commemorate the legacy of US nuclear testing on our islands. It’s the year 2016 – which means it’s been 70 years since islanders from Bikini atoll have been exiled from their homeland, forced to live on Kili island, an… Read More
On Marshallese Youth and COP21
If we, as a rimajel youth, were able to hold the world accountable, why can’t we hold our leaders in our country, our local council, our community members, even ourselves accountable as well? Why can’t we demand change, demand justice, or even just demand more – from everyone?
A Moment of Clarity – Why I’m going to Paris COP21
If you’ve been following this blog you might have seen my past posts struggling with this new role I inherited as a “climate change poet” since my performance at the United Nations Climate Summit last September. All last year I fought with myself as I considered what this role, what these responsibilities, would now mean. I’ve always embraced my role… Read More
Luerkoklik and the Role of the Land in the Climate Movement
Just last week I published a blog post to the site hehiale.wordpress.com – this is a blog site of an amazing collective of Pacific writers sharing stories, poetry, and songs on struggle and activism. The blog I posted about is the role of the land in the climate movement. I had just been visited by a CNN reporter who asked… Read More
Poem: 2 Degrees
Last month CNN reporter John Sutter came down asking me to write a piece about the importance of the 2 degree number to climate change, as a part of his series on 2 degrees: http://edition.cnn.com/specials/opinions/two-degrees I agreed to do it – with a little spin of my own, by challenging the 2 degrees estimate, which actually places more islands under… Read More
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