Tuesday, June 05, 2012
Senator Espero at the (De)Occupy Honolulu Public Forum
By H. Doug Matsuoka
Mahalo to Larry Geller for inviting me to contribute to Disappeared News, Hawaiiʻs major source of the news you wonʻt see covered in the mainstream media. Iʻve been covering much of the continuing story of (De)Occupy Honolulu, particularly the 24 raids on the camp conducted by the police and the Cityʻs Department of Facilities Maintenance. At 212 days, (De)Occupy Honolulu is the longest running encampment in the entire Occupy Movement worldwide.
(De)Occupy Honolulu is in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and the worldwide Occupy Movement which asserts that a democratic government derives its just power from the people, but corporations do not seek consent to extract wealth from the people and the Earth; and that no true democracy is attainable when the process is determined by economic power. We urge people to exercise the right to peaceably assemble, occupy public space, create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.
Mahalo to Larry Geller for inviting me to contribute to Disappeared News, Hawaiiʻs major source of the news you wonʻt see covered in the mainstream media. Iʻve been covering much of the continuing story of (De)Occupy Honolulu, particularly the 24 raids on the camp conducted by the police and the Cityʻs Department of Facilities Maintenance. At 212 days, (De)Occupy Honolulu is the longest running encampment in the entire Occupy Movement worldwide.
One of its goals is to establish a 24/7 public forum. A public forum is a traditional use of public space, and is one of the identifying features of a real democracy. When
Senator Will Espero dropped by this past Sunday (after getting a lot of
feedback from his Facebook photo of the encampment) he became the first elected
official to participate in the encampmentʻs Public Forum.
He spoke of various things, including food security and
future legislation which I post here:
Stay tuned for more reporting from and about (De)Occupy
Honolulu.
For some previous coverage, see my blog, the DougNote.
H. Doug Matsuoka
05 June 2012
Makiki, Honolulu
Labels: GMO, Occupy Honolulu, Will Espero
Comments:
Welcome to Disappeared News! And thanks for a great post (including the closed captions!).
Also, I'm impressed that Sen. Espero came by to attend a public forum. Need more legislators to follow his example.
And I didn't know that (de) Occupy Honolulu was the longest running encampment! Awesome. What Honolulu lacks in numbers perhaps, it more than makes up in tenacity.
Who cares if he sits down to talk if heʻs talking more of the same crap?
What he is doing, basically, is introducing a new fear tactic to get people to accept GMOs.
How about a discussion about getting the toxic GMO farming off Hawaiian lands? To let the people grow their own food? You wonʻt hear it.
But, ironically, it may too late for that because GMOs have destroyed the soil.
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Welcome to Disappeared News! And thanks for a great post (including the closed captions!).
Also, I'm impressed that Sen. Espero came by to attend a public forum. Need more legislators to follow his example.
And I didn't know that (de) Occupy Honolulu was the longest running encampment! Awesome. What Honolulu lacks in numbers perhaps, it more than makes up in tenacity.
Who cares if he sits down to talk if heʻs talking more of the same crap?
What he is doing, basically, is introducing a new fear tactic to get people to accept GMOs.
How about a discussion about getting the toxic GMO farming off Hawaiian lands? To let the people grow their own food? You wonʻt hear it.
But, ironically, it may too late for that because GMOs have destroyed the soil.
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