[CPEO-MEF] Kaho'olawe - looking back after 30 years

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The fight for Kaho'olawe

By Gordon Y.K. Pang
Honolulu Advertiser
January 30, 2006	

Thirty years ago this month, nine people hopped onto the sand edging 
Kaho'olawe in an effort to stop the military bombing of the "Target Island."

The bombing continued for 14 years. The boldness of the protest, though, 
immediately helped set off what is now known as the Native Hawaiian 
movement. And today, care of the 45-square-mile island, once known as 
Kanaloa, is in the hands of a state agency chaired by one of the 
so-called "Kaho'olawe Nine."

The Hawaiian movement, up until that first activist landing, had been an 
offshoot of social change and civil rights activism of the 1960s, said 
historian and author Tom Coffman.


http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jan/30/ln/FP601300338.html

--
Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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