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Kīpukas: Annual Report 2025
“Collapse alone doesn’t guarantee freedom; it guarantees possibility.”
– Shanelle Matthews, RadComms
[ki-pu-ka] noun Hawaiian
- An area of older land surrounded by younger lava flows. Kīpukas function as ecological refuges, protecting soil, plants, and animals, and serving as sources for the renewal of life across volcanic landscapes.
- Seedbeds of possibility. Living refuge in times of collapse.
2025 was a year shaped by fire, political, ecological, and internal. In moments when systems felt undone and uncertainty prevailed, CoFED continued to tend what endures.
This year’s Annual Report is rooted in the metaphor of kīpukas: pockets of older land that survive volcanic eruption. Surrounded by lava flows, they protect seeds, soil, and life, becoming refuges in moments of devastation and sources from which renewal can take root.
This report is an invitation to witness how CoFED, alongside our movement partners, continues to tend life in uncertain terrains and plant toward futures not yet visible. In a year marked by collapse and volatility, we were called to be living, breathing kīpukas, seedbeds of possibility and carriers of stories, memory, and culture, holding our ground where others retreat and transforming places deemed desolate.
We invite you to join us in this continued resilience to rise in the face of collapse.
We cede no terrain, because we remember how to begin again.
