Sam Hugo Peralta

  We need more open and vulnerable communication within the family. In Hawai’i we are made up of many immigrant families who have integrated within our society here. The sugar cane plantations were melting pots for diverse cultures we have coming together as one. They came together though the struggle and progression in the midst of complex political Hawai’i issues. These issues directly impacted families due to the harsh environment and social changes that scar Hawai’i today. Many of the issues were not talked about. And today we are suffering deep emotional and mental health trauma. As a Filipino-American with Hawaiian roots I myself am conflicted with the tremendous amounts shame, guilt, and apathy that comes from American colonization in the form of immigration. Furthermore, the deeper issues of how many Hawaiian lands were stolen, then privatized for profit grips my conscious. Simply, I feel responsible to expose these issues because our families who grew up in Hawai’i are n...

 Today in Hawai’i we are standing to protect our freedoms, culture, and spirit of Aloha. On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 K ī lauea volcano erupted within Halema’uma’u crater. Hawaiian mythology shares how Pele first arrived on Kaua’i and thrusted her o’o stick into the ground to create space for her home. But her elder sister Namakaokaha’i would flood the pits all throughout Pele’s journey. Pele kept on moving down the islands in their geographical location and then finally resided on the Big Island. Just as Namakaokaha’i tormented Pele, today we are tormenting one another. Today Native Hawaiians are one of the most incarcerated, low income, and houseless majority of the demographic population. Why? Just as Namakaokaha’i would not forgive Pele for the trauma she was responsible for, we are not forgiving one another. This un-forgiveness is causing us to go extinct. Our values, tradition, and rituals are being replaced by clichés, platitudes, and bureaucratic jargon. We don’t ha...

Because of the conditions set by urban high dense populations that created a materialistic/ capitalist societies, environmental concerns have become less of a priority. The humanistic secular view has filtered our way of perceiving the world. Mainly due to popular views on human evolution and secularism. Infections and parasites that reflect the state of the environment become a voice to allow a population think about environmental problems and issues. Western medicine ironically does a quite a bit of selecting itself. It isolates living organisms apart from the whole to address perceived issues. The problem is, that that organism is taken a part from the whole. And there is no scientific method or way to construct the organisms natural conditions. From microbes to the celestial seasons, everything is connected. In the United States, we live in one of the most obese countries in the world with may heart related issues. We use the environment to create produce that is unnatural to t...