Instead of committing Hawaiʻi to a future of continued mass incarceration, we can invest back into our communities and restore people who do harm to being functioning members of society. Doing so will make us all safer and healthier.

Activists have been fighting for years for a comprehensive pesticide regulation bill. Now one is heading to a final floor vote after passing through conference committee.

Under the guise of enforcing voter fraud protections—and with a gutted Voting Rights Act doing little to stop them—conservatives in power appear to be doing everything they can to suppress minority votes.

The notes were written by factory workers in Istanbul, employed by brands Zara, Mango and Next and distributed at stores around the global north.

The protest is being organized by Bernie Sanders delegates who first met at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last month.

“People Over Profits” unites broad progressive coalition; hundreds converge on Hawaiʻi’s State Capitol.

The demonstration emphasized the connection between—and convergence of—the issues of social justice, labor, indigenous rights, environmental stewardship and human rights.

The newly-formed coalition includes groups from the labor rights, environmental protection, Native Hawaiian sovereignty, food justice, and social justice movements.

While the State Senate has become more progressive, this is yet another example of the State House moving in the opposite direction.

The House labor committee's draft of the minimum wage increase bill is pitched as a compromise, but still favors small business owners over their employees.

A bill that would have given the state broader authority to preempt county ordinances it finds inconvenient, such as those restricting biotech, failed to find enough support to pass through the senate agriculture committee.

The “People Not Profits” rally brought together diverse issues, united by the message that government should serve the people, not corporations and developers.