Kanawai Mamalahoe – Law of the Splintered Paddle

Artist Dietrich Varez
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Kānāwai Māmalahoe, or Law of the Splintered Paddle (also translated Law of the Splintered Oar), is a precept in Hawaiian law, originating with King Kamehameha I in 1797. The law, “Let every elderly person, woman and child lie by the roadside in safety,” is enshrined in the state constitution, Article 9, Section 10, and has become a model for modern human rights law regarding the treatment of civilians and other non-combatants. Read more →

Nov 08, 2011- PRESS RELEASE – ACTION RALLY WAIKIKI – PROTEST

ACTION ALERT
Michael Daly
info@occupyapec.org

MEDIA RELEASE
For Immediate Release
November 08, 2011

Links
http://occupyapec.org/
http://www.savewaikikisidewalk.com/
http://www.deoccupyhonolulu.org/

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(De)Occupy Honolulu take Thomas Square – 8 arrested

HONOLULU Over 60 demonstrators assembled last night at Thomas Square park near downtown and one block from Honolulu Police Department headquarters. Eight people were arrested.

The protest encampment is the first night that Occupy Honolulu organised. The group which supports Occupy Wall Street announced the action in a Media Release just hours before. The process began at about 5 pm on the park corner bounded by Beretania Street and Ward Avenue, opposite the Honolulu Academy of Arts. Thomas Square is a most significant place of (de)occupation as many in the group understand the Hawaiian action to be. Read more →

APEC Homeless sweep: ‘Your economic plight does not match APEC’!

HONOLULU Police in Waikiki closed off a section of public sidewalk yesterday morning to the city’s homeless people. The encampment has been the home to a number of homeless individuals and families – the regular sight and situation of Honolulu.

This event is an inflamed flashpoint for Honolulu. It represents the failure of the system to accommodate people, it show the failure of shelters which are demeaning and prison-like, it shows the continuous attack on homeless people by the city which, in the past two years, has restricted them from parks, criminalized carts and tent use in parks and closed the sidewalk to occupation. Currently the city sits before one more drafted proposal which will criminalize processions on the sidewalk: Bill 54
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Police “Paid to Perform” by Waikiki Corporations

Sidewalk re-design and ‘Operation Sidewalk Sweeper’ targets street artists for APEC

A number of advocates and street artists defending free speech were in attendance at Honolulu City Council meeting October 5, for discussion on approval of a gift to the Honolulu Police Department of $75,000. Street artists were there in support of the Save Waikiki Sidewalk group which vigorously objected to the resolution.

11-247 CD1 is a part of a long-term strategic attack by corporate members of Waikiki Improvement Association and its sister, Waikiki Business District Improvement Association. It is especially targeted against sidewalk artists and free speech voices who entertain and express themselves on Kalakaua Avenue for the benefit of visitors and locals.

It also targets Honolulu’s homeless people who are, by their very condition, terribly discriminated against. It appears the city has contempt for democratic concepts and treads on basic rights protected by UN Declaration on Human Rights and national laws such as USA First Amendment rights of free speech. Read more →