HAWAIIAN ACTIVIST ONE OF TEN WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE
GRAD STUDENT PROVES EFFECTIVE PROTESTOR
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Friday, December 30, 2005 - By Craig Gima
Through the end of the year, the Star-Bulletin will recognize 10 who changed Hawai`i this year....
College protests got a fresh face in 2005 when a new generation joined with older native Hawaiian and anti-war protesters whose activism dates back
to the 1960s and 1970s....
Among the protest leaders and a main spokesman for the group was Ikaika Hussey, 27, a political-science graduate student at UH-Manoa....
Hussey said he got involved with the UARC coalition through DMZ Hawai`i Aloha `Aina, which has worked for the demilitarization of Hawaii and organized protests over the U.S. military's use of Makua Valley, the Mokapu Peninsula and Waikane Valley....
"I didn't think it was enough to just observe from a distance," Hussey said of his activism.
"To hope for a better world, like Ghandi said, we have to be the change we want to see in the world."
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