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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Everything old is new again: Ben Sakoguchi, "World War III Brand," from the Orange Crate series, 1974-81. Sakoguchi, now 87 years old, is a Japanese American artist who was interned with his family in Arizona during WWII. Based in Southern California, he has been steadily making work since the 1960s

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Honolulu in the streets for Venezuela.

Hand written sign “Demilitarize Deoccupy Okinawa and Hawai’i” with taped on addition “and Venezuela”

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

So proud that my work is on the wall of my favorite museum, declaring that good things happen when people act in solidarity. honolulumuseum.org/mari-matsuda...

Woman artist stands smiling before two large black and white prints of protesters and fishermen.

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Nelini Stamp 🐺 @nelini.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The Resistance Revival Chorus has a message for Home Depot: We don't want deportations at The Home Depot parking lots! #WeAintBuyingIt want to organize your own carols?!? Heres lyrics: bit.ly/holidaycarol...

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

“Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful." — Assata Shakur (July 16, 1947- September 26, 2025)

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Solidarity action for marchers in Gunsan, Korea protesting destruction of tidal flats where the Sura birds live - to build yet another US military serving airport. Birds not bombs! Sura, aka Kuaka, long distance record-holding migratory champ, beloved in Polynesia, not just Korea.

People with protest signs (“tidal flats not airports!”) in Korean and English, peace flag, woman in bird costume (me) kneels in front. Diamondhead/Leahi in background to show we are in the destroyed-for-tourism former wetlands of Waikiki.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Happy to support this project. Every kid should know Benjamin Lay.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

For Asian America the line between citizen and foreigner has never meant safety. Here is my etching from my grandmother’s painting of Heart Mountain, where she was imprisoned with her US citizen sons. My father volunteered for combat duty from behind barbed wire.

Landscape of desert with barracks and dome-shaped mountain in the distance, human figures in foreground. Fine lined copper etching, traditional style, with black tones at bottom transitioning to red at top in the wiping technique called a la poupet.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Happy May Day! To go with all of todayʻs union actions, here is when the amazing artist Favianna Rodrigues visited my drawings of 1940s-70s struggles. (Last week to see these at Native Books/Arts and Letters)

Two women artists stand smiling in front of charcoal drawings of strikers, workers, protesters.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Union power as far as you can see outside the Honolulu federal building. You will have to imagine the sound of hundreds singing Solidarity Forever to go with these pics.

Woman singing into bullhorn, street lined with picketers, old and young.

Pickets line the street, red t shirts and flags of Unite Here. Hawaiian flag also visible. Under green trees and bright blue sky.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

What was on the playlist at your university’s action today? Bet you can’t top The Times They Are A Changin followed by Kaulana Nā Pua

Two Kanaka singers with flowering Gold Tree in background.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Thanks, Mary, for pushing all of us to fight back. Humanities = human. Everything we do to survive and find love and know ourselves. Our beating hearts. Plus, once I was a debt-burdened asst prof who really needed those tiny grants.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The guy I count on for historically-informed strategy says it’s time to poke the bear. inthesetimes.com/article/trum...

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For Labor, Caution Is Fatal

The riskiest course is to stay the course.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

I take this personally. My dad volunteered while imprisoned at Heart Mountain. He believed in a united front against facism. He was the only one of his squad to survive the war. The 100th was feted in deep red Texas by survivors of the Lost Battalion rescue, a heroic story now buried as “woke DEI”

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Found myself in a red state at the doorway of a coffee shop with a sign welcoming trans people. I felt safe. Cis women are safer where trans people are safer - my body felt this before my analysis even kicked in.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Recycling signs from 2016, headed to Patsy Mink Statue.

Cardboard handwritten signs say: ready to fight back!; I took an oath to defend the constitution. We won’t go back!

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

People ask if I think stop shopping day is a good tactic. I don’t care. It’s good for the soul, and 2 actual people from radically different parts of my life asked me to join the boycott. So I’m in. Not one cent to corporate America!

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I am alive because when I got cancer the evidence-based best practice was an extremely aggressive all-day surgery + chemo. Most people die from the type of cancer I had, and the doctors needed the research to justify the risk of such an aggressive approach. Cutting off research will kill people.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

I was a lawyer for 40+ years and never saw the ABA - a conservative, traditionalist org representing all lawyers - issue a statement like this one condemning Trump lawlessness. AMA you got next! (Talk to your doctor about this)

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Viet Thanh Nguyen @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Students and faculty got arrested and put their careers on the line protesting genocide. I want to see some Democratic officials getting arrested to protect democracy.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Yesterday the egg shelf was empty at my local supermarket, while I was drawing this - that time they evicted the local farmers from Kalama Valley. From my current work in progress, 200 years of resistance in Hawai’i.

Charcoal drawing of resisters on the roof of an old plantation style, single-wall construction cottage, pulling up the ladder they used to climb up, while cops look on. Mountains in background, on left soulless highrises with cranes show encroaching development. Hand-painted signs indicate multiple struggles from early ‘70s “yankee go home” “our history our way” “huli” “kokua hawaii” “liberated zone”

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

The Slaveship might be the most painful read of my life. Now he has written the antidote, just in time to remind us that no matter how bad it gets, there is a way forward. Thank you Dr. Rediker!

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Hawaiians still here, as far as the eye can see. (Yesterday, march to the palace to show there is still no consent to occupation.)

Marchers, many youthful and strong in physique, with Hawaiian flags, in a long line that disappears over the horizon. Trees and high rises in the background.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Applies to visual artists as well. The challenge is doing this in visual language.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Best writing advice ever was Nikki Giovanni, speaking as a working mom, saying don’t wait til you have quiet or inspiration or big blocks of time. That’s an excuse. If you have 10 minutes, sit down and write. I heard her saying that in my head my whole writing life. Thank you sister Nikki!

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Out in the rain this morning at the Honolulu Korean consulate. Demanding democracy from ocean to ocean, from river to sea. I was a wet dog as happy as a Gene Kelly in the rain.

Protestors, many races and ages, with signs demanding end to Yoon presidency. Smiles, raised fists, drum, keffiyeh in view. Wet ground, green mountains in background. Korean Consulate sign on fence.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

We sat at tables of abundance while others stood in line for food. In the rain. And the slow build of contradiction in these, the last days of empire, told us it could not continue. Blessing to all who are setting a welcome table as we work for a righteous path beyond this cruelty.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Recipe for cranberry relish, add brown sugar, cinnamon, then pulse in cuisinart.

One sliced orange, fresh cranberries rinsed in colander, bag of walnut pieces, sitting on a cutting board waiting to become something.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Oh, that guy, the one who tried to get us all killed.

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Marcus Rediker @marcusrediker.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

For anyone looking for a graphic novel to assign in a course, you may request an examination copy of *Revolution by Fire: New York's Afro-Irish Uprising of 1741*, by David Lester, Paul Buhle, and myself, through the link below. penguinrandomhousehighereducation.com/book/?isbn=9...

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Revolution by Fire | Penguin Random House Higher Education

Based on the little known real life "Slave Insurrection" of 1741, this book imagines outlaw fugitive John Gwin and an eclectic crew of renegades as they attempt to disrupt and overthrow the colonial s...

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

And then a little bit of water formed on the tip of a kalo leaf like a suspended diamond and it said “I dare you to draw me before I drop” So I drew it. From life, not from the photo. Then I took the pic and it dropped.

A pointed green leaf with a tiny bulb of water clinging to the tip of the point about to drop off.

A charcoal drawing of the same leaf with an attempt at drawing the drop of water at the tip.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Working on a large drawing about resistance and regeneration using stochastic method. Open to what shows up saying it wants to go in the drawing. Telling my scientific materialistic brain to move over and make room for artist brain.

Picture of a jumble of green, growing kalo leaves in front of a large paper with those leaves drawn in the corner in unfinished charcoal strokes. Above that fish are swimming upward.

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I have often said depression is contagious as a social fact, but now it might be biological fact that your social circle can transmit depression-inducing gut microbes. Seek out joyful friends and keep fighting for peace and justice!

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

I followed science folks to try to stay alive when I got cancer during a pandemic. Still alive and learning from them: did you know smelling lotsa stuff exercises smell-brain connection, delaying dementia? Blooming here today. Yellow one is Kula gardenia. Amazing scent.

Peach pink roses in small jar on vintage luster ware saucer.

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

i keep forgetting about this app. free palestine 🌺🕊️🖤🍃

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Just showed up, and making new friends here. I read this and couldn’t remember saying it, what fun!

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marimatsuda.bsky.social @marimatsuda.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hullo! They are putting foxes in charge of all the henhouses = the price of eggs will go up, and my chickens and I are hiding out over here with some migratory birds we followed.

hand holding blue egg on linen pillow case with bluebird embroidery

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