Chalee Batungbacal

☀️HI→WA ☁ she/her

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Happy Octobear! 🐻

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Turtle enjoying a nice morning stretch

[ANGRYANGRYHAWAIIAN @Kue_Kawena]

debate on whether or not Maui is “open” rn is unproductive. We’ve have been begging tourists to stop coming for years and they haven’t. If we are “inviting” haole doesn’t matter, they will come. We should be discussing how to build our economy on something not based on visitors

[ren kanoelani 🌿🍉🌊 @renmaicha]

I just want people to know - the fires on Maui are heavy on the hearts of people across all islands, this impacts the whole community. We are one community & we stand for each other.

We don’t want visitors on any island right now. We’re still trying to care for our communities.

[🎒Shailja #FreePalestine Patel @shailjapatel]

Don't be fooled by celebs and billionaires dispensing charity to survivors of #LahainaFires. From Bezos to Oprah, every one of them is also a colonialist in in Hawaii. They are all guilty of land-grabbing, beach-grabbing, labor exploitation, water theft, tax evasion...

[oli 🍉🕊️ looking for work @chiliflakess]

Maui just had hundreds of homes, local businesses, historic sites, ʻāina, & 6 lives destroyed in fires spread by hurricane winds.

THREAD of verified mutual aid you can d0nate to help supp0rt thousands of ʻohana displaced back home 🧵👇🏽 PLEASE kōkua, rt, share! (@AnuheaNihipali )

[kels @honchohooch]

These fuckin haoles crying over being 'inconvenienced' during their Hawaiian vacation because of Lāhainā's fire is a prime example of why I say fuck ALL OF EM. Tourists, transplants, every single one. Families have lost everything including each other & that's all you care about.

[Kale @kalekanaeholo]

I wonder how many ppl truly understand the significance of this destruction.

Lāhainā was Ko Hawaiʻi Pae ʻĀina’s capital from 1820 until 1845.

Waineʻe Church, now called Waiola Church, is the final resting place for some of our aliʻi.

The loss is incalculable.

[𝓀𝒶𝓁ℯ𝒾𝒶𝓁ℴ𝒽𝒶 @kaleidakanak]

everything… is just gone 😭
my kids will never get to experience front street/lahaina town like we did.
this is fucken heartbreaking 😭💔

[olivia kokualani @olive8022]

Nobody wants to hear about how u vacationed to Maui and how ur family is so thankful to experience Lāhainā before the fires.
Local families and biz have lost everything. Families can’t even find each other. Use your rich vacation money and donate.

[anna 🏹 @myelessar]

my dream job is actually just… hobbit

[Ocean Lani @LaniPasifika]

Maybe if the military stopped using our areas as a warzone and polluting our oceans and islands we would live longer, cancer-free lives

[kekonapiliahi🌙 @kekonapiliahi]

STOP I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS

[Lei @FYIBLD]

i love when it rains in hawai’i because not only does āina gets replenished but also a tourist’s day is ruined

[Chalee Batungbacal @cbatungbacal]

This is so hewa and absolutely heartbreaking 💔

[KHON2 News @KHONnews]

Malama, also known as RQ76, was found dead at ʻŌhikilolo on March 12. Her body was taken for a post-mortem investigation by NOAA, where they found blunt force trauma.
https://t.co/XIt6dFyPGi

[Chalee Batungbacal @cbatungbacal]

@alohinak Ya!! That was me 🙈