Empowering Pacific Islander Communities; one tweet at a time! #ElevateYourVoice
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NHPI leaders have championed data equity for decades, ensuring SEAA & NHPI voices are heard. Accurate data is crucial to recognizing our unique strengths, assets, & needs. Thank you @empoweredpi for partnership in the latest illustrations from Natalie Bui!
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Fair wages and decent working conditions are vital for NHPI women to support themselves and their families.
#NHPIWomensEqualPayDay
#NHPI #Pasifika #EqualPayDay
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Health disparities impact NHPI communities throughout the U.S. and result in shorter lifespans and affect our overall quality of life. Improved access to health care is essential.
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The NHPI community is often overlooked and under served as a result of a lack of high quality, disaggregated data for different subgroups acknowledging the rich diversity of the NHPI population in America.
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Healthcare is a basic human right and should be accessible and affordable for all, including all Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders.
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9 Jul 2024
Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) is the world's largest military exercise that takes place in the waters around the Hawaiian Islands. Almost 30 different countries participate in this exercise which is hosted by the Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet.
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We oppose the biennial desecration of our sacred oceanic spaces by the 29 countries who will be playing war games during RIMPAC
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Keep your community safe during RIMPAC
Access Toolkit Here: waterprotectorlegal.org/rimp…
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5 Jul 2024
Kanak are fighting for independence from France. Like many of our Pacific Islader people, autonomy over the land and resources is vital to their existence.
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Since May 2024, ongoing rebellion for Kanak independence has led to at least nine deaths.
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Kanaks, like all Indigenous people, have a right to autonomy and self-determination
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24 Jun 2024
To understand gender identity and diversity is to understand our Pasifika people.
Māhū and non-binary identities have always been a part of our Pasifika culture. American and Christian culture have influenced how our people perceive gender and sexual identities.
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Part of our fight for social justice means abolishing the systems and ideologies that dismantled our traditional ways of being and reclaim our true culture.
Happy Pride Month!🏳️🌈⚧️
Video Credit: Hawaii Cares 988- “Kumu Hina and Kamaka Pili and the meaning of māhū.” May 23, 2023.
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Our moana nui has more than 10,000 islands, each with unique customs, creation stories, and culture. As NHPI communities in diaspora, we must stay connected to the waters that bind us.
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“We must tell our young people…they are not descendants of small islands. They are descendants of great voyagers, navigators, mathematicians…those who dared to journey beyond where the rest of the world did not dare to do so.”
- Jope Koroisavou
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To learn more about our Pacific Islander people and ways to support, visit our website - empoweredpi.org
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