2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 1 Feb 2006 21:34:10 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Kaho'olawe - looking back after 30 years
 
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


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