i just realized it's after midnight. still uploading 714 photos from the kauai civic club convention and from various site visits. it was a long week. james and i went up on sunday and returned late saturday night. our club performed the re-enactment on sunday, oct. 19 at the kauai hilton. we had a pretty good crowd--about 100 people, most of them from the community, as not many civic club members had arrived by sunday. keanu's presentation was longer and different. he talked a lot about how to fix the problem and stressed that what he offered was a legal, as opposed to political, resolution to the illegal overthrow and so-called annexation of hawaii to the united states. ho`ike (kauai public access tv) videotaped the event.
monday we did two things: met with and videotaped a dialogue with kaiulani edens huff, a radio commentator who hosts "songs of sovereignty" on KKCR radio on kauai. it was a fabulous discussion and she shared with us some of the issues surrounding the development at naue by brescia and how absolutely essential it was to protect the iwi. she and several others had camped next to the burials for several months, hoping to convince the owner not to build there, but to no avail. next to kaiulani's house, in the area way above kapaa high school, is a goat farm. couldn't resist hanging out with the goats for a bit, even though on the other side of the fence. i had my trusty camera, so pretty much tried to get into their faces. but they were having none of it. goats are cute except, i imagine, when they're trying to bite you.
after taking goat photos, we headed into town for lunch. i have to admit, we ate a lot. even though we had rented a house, it didn't have a stove, so we didn't eat at home much, except for some microwaved coffee and cold cereal in the mornings. still, eating in town was way cheaper than eating at the hotel. in the afternoon nani rogers took us to naue to visit the grave sites and to offer hookupu. long ride to hanalei area. naue was/is beautiful! i can see why haoles want to speculate on property there. mr. brescia owns 6 other lots in the area and has developed and is selling all of them. the site being developed now is not very large. it's also surrounded by black cloth so no one can look it. concrete pilings have been put in, one set of which covers some of the iwi. in the photo above, taken from the beach side when a mysterious hole suddenly appeared, shows poles with orange netting wrapped around. the orange net or color marks the site of a grave. this is a very sad place.
something crazy is going on here. and everywhere. i thought the sky falling would wait at least 4 more years, until 2012! omigod! it's here now.
more tomorrow!
