Kaua'i protest ends peacefully
FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
Contact:
‘Ehu
Cardwell
(619)
885-4848 Nationwide Cell
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KAUA`I PROTEST ENDS
PEACEFULLY
“We’re Leaving On
Our Own Terms” Say
Protesters
Naue, Kaua`i
– The protest at the residential property of Joseph Brescia stopping
luxury home construction over an ancient Hawaiian cemetery on Kaua`i’s
North Shore has ended peacefully late this
afternoon.
“Were leaving on our own terms,”
remarked protestor Andre Perez of Pohaku O Kane. “Should Governor Lingle
fail to intervene and construction start up again, we will be back in
force.”
Over thirty protestors and cultural
practitioners from O`ahu, Maui, Molokai and Hawai`i Island had arrived this
morning and secured themselves to each other and the property by means of a
popular activist lock-down device that results in law enforcement authorities
spending several hours in an attempt to remove
them.
The
property, formerly owned by actor Sylvester Stallone, and purchased by
California luxury homebuilder Joseph Brescia seven years ago, is considered
culturally sacred and contains at least thirty ancient burials as well as
numerous artifacts.
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Posted: Thu - August 7, 2008 at 07:04 PM