Axel Beers
@axelbeers.bsky.social
aspiring mountain goat and centipede charmer. politics, media, critical theory. i do policy and legislative stuff for a local councilmember.
Wailuku, Maui, Hawaiian Kingdom
Wailuku, Maui, Hawaiian Kingdom
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Oh my god the White House published Shawn Fain's speech. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
September 27, 2023 at 12:02 PM
Oh my god the White House published Shawn Fain's speech. www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo...
Public schools and state agencies stop exploiting labor challenge
September 6, 2023 at 8:23 PM
Public schools and state agencies stop exploiting labor challenge
The loan repayment plan sucks. I live in the most expensive state. I am severely rent burdened and the cost of living is already too much. The repayment plan doesn't factor this in and makes me pay. All because my dumbass wanted to be a teacher! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
September 2, 2023 at 10:40 PM
The loan repayment plan sucks. I live in the most expensive state. I am severely rent burdened and the cost of living is already too much. The repayment plan doesn't factor this in and makes me pay. All because my dumbass wanted to be a teacher! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023...
States and counties need to step up to protect wetlands. Maui County created a wetlands overlay district to create it's own, more protective standards for identifying, mapping, rezoning and protecting wetlands. It's a long process with mapping still ongoing, so the time to act is now
www.npr.org/2023/08/29/1... Setting the stage for even more destruction
www.npr.org
August 30, 2023 at 11:06 PM
States and counties need to step up to protect wetlands. Maui County created a wetlands overlay district to create it's own, more protective standards for identifying, mapping, rezoning and protecting wetlands. It's a long process with mapping still ongoing, so the time to act is now
"...companies producing AI technology are also charting a new frontier in labor exploitation, researchers say."
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...
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August 28, 2023 at 10:08 PM
"...companies producing AI technology are also charting a new frontier in labor exploitation, researchers say."
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www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/0...
Environmental racism
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/lahainas-large-immigrant-community-is-facing-a-unique-struggle-in-the-fires-aftermath/
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/lahainas-large-immigrant-community-is-facing-a-unique-struggle-in-the-fires-aftermath/
Lahaina's Large Immigrant Community Is Facing A Unique Struggle In The Fire's Aftermath
Losing important documents is a real problem while fear and mistrust of government agencies has inhibited some from seeking aid, experts say.
www.civilbeat.org
August 21, 2023 at 9:38 PM
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The Pyrocene is underway. We underestimated how fuel availability increases in an intensified hydrological cycle; it dries/dies out faster than anticipated.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-08-18/lahaina-yellowknife-hurricane-hilary-climate-scientists-watch-predictions-come-true
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-08-18/lahaina-yellowknife-hurricane-hilary-climate-scientists-watch-predictions-come-true
How climate scientists feel about seeing their dire predictions come true
Wildfires in Canada and Hawaii. Hurricane Hilary set to strike California. Scientists have warned about worse storms and more frequent fires for years.
www.latimes.com
August 21, 2023 at 12:13 AM
The Pyrocene is underway. We underestimated how fuel availability increases in an intensified hydrological cycle; it dries/dies out faster than anticipated.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-08-18/lahaina-yellowknife-hurricane-hilary-climate-scientists-watch-predictions-come-true
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2023-08-18/lahaina-yellowknife-hurricane-hilary-climate-scientists-watch-predictions-come-true
Environmental racism
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/many-of-lahainas-filipinos-are-still-missing-as-the-search-for-bodies-drags-on/
https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/08/many-of-lahainas-filipinos-are-still-missing-as-the-search-for-bodies-drags-on/
Many Of Lahaina's Filipinos Are Still Missing As The Search For Bodies Drags On
The Filipino population swelled over the decades as workers arrived to take jobs in the plantations, hotels and businesses.
www.civilbeat.org
August 19, 2023 at 11:59 PM
This was posted by a former south. Maui state rep.
My issue with this type of thinking is that it ignores the larger system which enables the tourism industry to exploit land and water resources without paying for its impacts. This is what led to the negligence which led to the devastating fire
My issue with this type of thinking is that it ignores the larger system which enables the tourism industry to exploit land and water resources without paying for its impacts. This is what led to the negligence which led to the devastating fire
August 17, 2023 at 8:10 PM
This was posted by a former south. Maui state rep.
My issue with this type of thinking is that it ignores the larger system which enables the tourism industry to exploit land and water resources without paying for its impacts. This is what led to the negligence which led to the devastating fire
My issue with this type of thinking is that it ignores the larger system which enables the tourism industry to exploit land and water resources without paying for its impacts. This is what led to the negligence which led to the devastating fire
Palette cleanser. The 150-year old historic banyan tree gets treated. While it was scorched in the fire, arborists say there is living tissue under every trunk. It is low on sap and in a coma-like state, but there's hope! Aeration, watering, and compost tea treatments 😊🌱
https://vimeo.com/855181680
https://vimeo.com/855181680
Lahaina Fire-Banyan Tree Aeration, August 16, 2023
This is "Lahaina Fire-Banyan Tree Aeration, August 16, 2023" by Hawaii DLNR on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.
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August 17, 2023 at 1:54 AM
Palette cleanser. The 150-year old historic banyan tree gets treated. While it was scorched in the fire, arborists say there is living tissue under every trunk. It is low on sap and in a coma-like state, but there's hope! Aeration, watering, and compost tea treatments 😊🌱
https://vimeo.com/855181680
https://vimeo.com/855181680
Interesting notes on the place name of Lahaina from https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/%CA%BBohu%CA%BBohu-na-mauna-o-%CA%BBe%CA%BBeka-place-names-of-maui-komohana/
August 16, 2023 at 8:25 PM
Interesting notes on the place name of Lahaina from https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/%CA%BBohu%CA%BBohu-na-mauna-o-%CA%BBe%CA%BBeka-place-names-of-maui-komohana/
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Absolutely based AF that my state did this
August 16, 2023 at 12:20 AM
Absolutely based AF that my state did this
This is on the front page of the official County site which serves as the hub for info on wildfire relief, donation, and volunteer efforts. Make of it what you will but for the record I don't cosign
August 15, 2023 at 10:19 PM
This is on the front page of the official County site which serves as the hub for info on wildfire relief, donation, and volunteer efforts. Make of it what you will but for the record I don't cosign
I am cynical because after COVID I saw a lot of promises but the truth is after the crisis we saw: Median homes >$1M, skyrocketing rents, increases in poverty, billionaire land grabs, net population out migration, more displacement of locals and native Hawaiians, a return in unsustainable tourism...
August 15, 2023 at 10:09 PM
I am cynical because after COVID I saw a lot of promises but the truth is after the crisis we saw: Median homes >$1M, skyrocketing rents, increases in poverty, billionaire land grabs, net population out migration, more displacement of locals and native Hawaiians, a return in unsustainable tourism...
Simply pointing out that damage from the Lāhainā fire was estimated at $5.5B by FEMA. And Bezos, who pandemic-purchased a $78M waterfront property in South Maui, makes that amount in a month.
August 15, 2023 at 8:02 PM
Simply pointing out that damage from the Lāhainā fire was estimated at $5.5B by FEMA. And Bezos, who pandemic-purchased a $78M waterfront property in South Maui, makes that amount in a month.
More history of Lāhainā as a lush place, which was run dry by extractive capitalism leading to the conditions in which the fire spread. We can regenerate the land by giving it back to native farmers and management, with proper funding and support from the local government
August 14, 2023 at 11:42 PM
More history of Lāhainā as a lush place, which was run dry by extractive capitalism leading to the conditions in which the fire spread. We can regenerate the land by giving it back to native farmers and management, with proper funding and support from the local government
County should fill the gaps and fund rental assistance and food/utility vouchers for the impacted and those caring for the impacted. Raise taxes on luxury non owner occupied homes, hotels and short term rentals
Natural disasters really highlight our huge housing issues - including the fact that renters often get little to no support or consideration when they lose their homes to fire, as opposed to homeowners.
August 14, 2023 at 2:38 AM
County should fill the gaps and fund rental assistance and food/utility vouchers for the impacted and those caring for the impacted. Raise taxes on luxury non owner occupied homes, hotels and short term rentals
The Lāhainā injection wells US Supreme Court suit centered on the ecological damage of the County disposing wastewater into groundwater
Imaging if rather than litigating this issue to justify ecological harm, the County invested in wastewater reuse to reforest and grow native greenbelts/firebreaks
Imaging if rather than litigating this issue to justify ecological harm, the County invested in wastewater reuse to reforest and grow native greenbelts/firebreaks
August 14, 2023 at 2:35 AM
The Lāhainā injection wells US Supreme Court suit centered on the ecological damage of the County disposing wastewater into groundwater
Imaging if rather than litigating this issue to justify ecological harm, the County invested in wastewater reuse to reforest and grow native greenbelts/firebreaks
Imaging if rather than litigating this issue to justify ecological harm, the County invested in wastewater reuse to reforest and grow native greenbelts/firebreaks
Before the fire, >half of Maui renters were rent burdened. Maui has the highest percentage of severely rent burdened in the entire state. Our housing affordability index is 38, meaning the median household income is only 38% of what's needed to qualify for the median home.
It's crisis on crisis...
It's crisis on crisis...
I really worry for all the renters in Hawaii; after the fires started around here a few years ago, we lost rental units so the prices soared and it contributed hugely to increased homelessness
Natural disasters really highlight our huge housing issues - including the fact that renters often get little to no support or consideration when they lose their homes to fire, as opposed to homeowners.
August 14, 2023 at 2:32 AM
Before the fire, >half of Maui renters were rent burdened. Maui has the highest percentage of severely rent burdened in the entire state. Our housing affordability index is 38, meaning the median household income is only 38% of what's needed to qualify for the median home.
It's crisis on crisis...
It's crisis on crisis...
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Professor Ty Kawika Tengan providing a Kanaka ʻŌiwi perspective on the importance of Lahaina & movements for Indigenous rights & environmental justice
How the history of Lahaina compounds the tragedy of the Maui fire devastation
The devastating fires on the Hawaiian island of Maui are a shocking tragedy on their own, but the cultural and historical significance of the town of Lahaina to native Hawaiians makes what has been lo...
www.msnbc.com
August 11, 2023 at 10:11 PM
Professor Ty Kawika Tengan providing a Kanaka ʻŌiwi perspective on the importance of Lahaina & movements for Indigenous rights & environmental justice
We cannot have more of the kind of colonizing land ownership that led to this tragedy in the first place
https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-maui-lahaina-housing-prices-shortage-d8902c3ea55a8ec4d9938865f3f749f7
https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-maui-lahaina-housing-prices-shortage-d8902c3ea55a8ec4d9938865f3f749f7
August 13, 2023 at 11:56 PM
We cannot have more of the kind of colonizing land ownership that led to this tragedy in the first place
https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-maui-lahaina-housing-prices-shortage-d8902c3ea55a8ec4d9938865f3f749f7
https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-maui-lahaina-housing-prices-shortage-d8902c3ea55a8ec4d9938865f3f749f7
With Larry Ellison owning 98% of the island of Lāna'i, a history of plantation ownership, and trend of billionaire land grabs, there is a real fear that Lahaina will be scooped up
August 13, 2023 at 9:42 AM
With Larry Ellison owning 98% of the island of Lāna'i, a history of plantation ownership, and trend of billionaire land grabs, there is a real fear that Lahaina will be scooped up
