Police have evicted activists from Wailoa Park where they had planted a Hawaiian garden. They planted taro and other Hawaiian crops to protest the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom.
Eleven people were arrested and charged with illegal camping. Neither the police nor the DLNR cared to talk, but the arrests happened just before the Merrie Monarch parade.
The activists who include Abel Lui and Gene Tamashiro say that the DLNR has no jurisdiction over the park since it was crown land.
Source: http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/sections/news/local-news/police-evict-activists-park.html
The reaction to this article is mixed. Some commenters say that the activists have no right to plant a garden at Wailoa because the land is now owned by the state, so the state can dictate what can be done on the land, while others say that Hawaii becoming a state in 1959 was a fraud where 63% of eligible voters didn’t get to vote, so that the land rightfully belongs to the heirs of the Ali’i.
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