HART Rail Meeting Pushes "Concrete Cultural Paving" - Local Attendees Become Upset And Angry At HART Hoopili Meeting
by Ewa Historian John Bond
HART - Hoopili Depraved Cultural Paving
The HART Hoopili presentation slide left up during the hour long public protest was "Cultural Paving."
The HART presenters didn't understand that "Cultural Concrete" wasn't a "feel good" station feature.
They didn't think covering over Hoopili farmland was "related" to the Hoopili station. They said the reason Dan Grabascus refused to allow iwi cultural monitors for the West Oahu segment was because there was "nothing there" in burials. This according to fraudulent surveys done by the rail developers.
This was a huge lying con job that HART Rail has become well known for.
That is totally contradicted by the fact that Hoopili (a fake name) is built over Honouliuli Kalo'i gulch, ancient farmland that supported Oahu's largest native population for 1000 years. Hundreds of years of kanaka farmers and their families are buried where Hoopili station is going in. The overall widespread dishonesty and "Cultural Paving" by HART is why Rail is ever more unpopular day by day.
The community knows HART is a REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER under the big scam guise of "Transit Oriented Development" and rail stations are the EXCUSE for TOD's that are covering over valuable farmland, jacking up land prices and building an LA California sprawl in West Oahu- marketed to foreign investors. Locals will be priced OUT...
The Kapolei-Makakilo Neighborhood Board passed resolutions against the rail project and Hoopili project. The recent HART Hoopili station meeting on Tuesday was a PR disaster as the community took over the meeting and demanded REAL answers- just like what happened at last month's DPP IAL meeting. The community is fed up with rail lies, Important Ag land Lies and political corruption.
Letter to Email to Brennon Morioka After June 2, Hoopili Station Design Meeting
Deputy Director
Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit
RE: Tuesday, June 2, Hoopili Station Design Meeting
Aloha Brennon,
As a follow-up to Tuesday's Hoopili Station meeting
during which the community were asking many important questions and
refused to be feed the unusual CANNED rail Check Box presentation- I
would like to provide this attached information.
There were NO Cultural Monitors for native Hawaiian iwi burials during the first two
miles of the major rail rush job and the Dan Grabauskas letter proves
that. To provide INSURANCE that nothing would ever be seen or found - all the two miles of West Oahu work
was done AT NIGHT and the highly paid mainland workers were told "you will see NOTHING
there..."
The Tuesday HART Hoopili station presentation had up a
slide during the entire 1 hour community protest that said
"Cultural Paving and Landscape." I doubt anyone from HART even
noticed the great
insult this message had - the community being told that
all is being "mitigated" by "Cultural Concrete"
-cartoons of the native plants and owls and ancient kalo fields that are all being destroyed
for the rail project and land development scheme.
Does HART really think our community is that stupid? We
all know how crooked, deceptive and fraudulent this project has been-
the fraudulent and faked Section 4f Farmland Policy Act- brought up by
Kioni Dudley. (LINK)
FTA and HART has refused to acknowledge what a total
fraud that is.
Take a look at the debris trucked and dumped at this
Kiewit site on Aloun farms property where the dust has been blowing
onto the farmland and into Ewa Villages- and further downwind.
There has
been numerous complaints from people having respiratory
problems.
Obviously Kiewit has been told it is fine to contaminate
the area because it will all be bulldozed anyway. They also don't
care if it getting into the lungs of nearby farm workers.
Take a look at all of the large 30-40 foot high debris
piles from HART bore holes that drilled and tore up subsurface archaeological sites. There are native tools and habitation materials as well
as likely
many iwi kupuna burials ground up in these piles treated
like waste dirt.
Mike Lee and Kanehili Hui have seen many archaeological
sites in the Honouliuli area and these piles clearly represent native
archeological habitation sites, tool materials- and very likely iwi
burial sites- that have been destroyed during the nighttime WOFH construction.
This is a result of Kiewit crews told to tear up
everything and haul it away because there is "nothing there" and if
you DO see something you better keep quiet. Or maybe get a bonus check for
"seeing nothing."
Much of this rail work has been done at night anyway to
insure that "nothing" could be seen or "inadvertently
discovered" as they ground through this 1000 year old ancient Hawaiian habitation
and burial area.
This was the largest native Hawaiian Oahu community on
Oahu and the reason most people don't know much about Honouliuli
is because nearly 95% were all killed off in the early 1800's by
introduced contagious diseases. This is why this mass death site has been given
a FAKE NAME "Hoopili" -to cover up its real cultural
history.
The community all noticed how enormously SECRETIVE all
the work was on this WOFH segment. Why work in a rural farmland
area only at night? What were they hiding- now we know.
HART pretends that there is "nothing there" in
West Oahu to find but many very credible AIS documents and reports,
including those done by HART contractors, show that the Hoopili area
supported the largest pre-contact native Hawaiian population on Oahu.
Further a public statement by a former HART contractor that there
are "hundreds if not thousands" of burial sites in
the area.
Many archaeological documents support this and the large native Hawaiian community that was there farming the land. That's because it was Hawaiian farmland known as Kalo'i, Honouliuli.
Many archaeological documents support this and the large native Hawaiian community that was there farming the land. That's because it was Hawaiian farmland known as Kalo'i, Honouliuli.
Kalo'i means "kalo patch" and it was a major
food crop growing area using channelized water from Kalo'i Gulch- the central
waterway through that same area. A
great deal of Kalo'i flows subsurface. Kanehili Hui has documented a lot of this and sent it to HART and FTA for
years. Everything HART does is totally rigged, fraudulent and dismissive of
the documented truth.
HART says they have NEVER encountered subsurface water in
the area but we have clearly seen the evidence where they
have, especially by Kalo'i Gulch and Honouliuli Gulch where large numbers
of Hawaiian farmers lived. A retired USGS scientist finds it
laughable that HART could make such a "no groundwater" claim
because it is "everywhere below the surface in that area."
HART and FTA treat the Rail Programmatic Agreement with
total contempt and everyone up and down the line who has
experienced these lying and cheating goons knows what a totally
rigged and demeaning Programmatic Agreement process really is. Much
like dealing with North Korea.
Rail has totally corrupted the City and State government
and turned them all into crooks and liars. The public is now very
suspicious and rail has greatly corroded the trust and goodwill the
public once had for their government officials. This is why there was so
much disgust and angry community questions at the Tuesday Hoopili
Station meeting.
John Bond, President, kanehili Cultural Hui
