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"Jim Albertini, a well known community organizer, who has held several local protests, writes on his blog: "I just got a report from Kona. There are about 30 private half billion dollar jets parked at the Kona airport. I'm up for a drive over to protest at Kukio and possibly other 1% gated communities just north of the airport. Any others interested in joining me? The 1% pay only a little more to park their jet as it costs us to park our cars overnight. Something is wrong wit...

2011
"north of Kailua Kona, just south of the Four Seasons/Hualalai Resort.
Kukio is a vacation subdivision of the 1%
The 1% park their multi-million dollar
private/corporate jets for cheap at the Keahole Airport. Over the...
Christmas/New Year’s holiday, dozens of private and corporate jets are
parked at Keahole and other airports throughout Hawaii.
The 1% also own multi-million dollar residences in the
Kukio/Kaupulehu development and other exclusive sites along the
Kona/South Kohala “Gold Coast”. An example: A building contractor
reported that the actual cost of a vacation house in Kukio was $169
million, but to pay lower taxes, the owner listed the house with the
county tax office as costing “only” $20-25 million. That’s tax fraud
and shorting the county on taxes over $140 million valuation on a single
residential property.
It’s time to say to the 1% — PAY YOUR SHARE! At a time when 26% of
children on this island are food insecure, and there is a growing
homeless population, this kind of extravagant wealth of the jet setters
is SHAMEFUL!
In the U.S. it is reported that 1.6 million children were homeless
last year, 42% under the age of six. Meanwhile, income inequality in
the U.S. is now greater than in the Ancient Roman Empire’s economy based
on slavery, and growing as the rich in the U.S. vastly increase their
incomes.
Local, national, and international policies must change. An
increasing number of people view government working for the corporations
and the top wealthy 1% rather than serving ordinary people, the 99%.
This corruption must end. It will be a “Happy New Year” when we put an
end to U.S. imperial wars, when justice rolls down like water, and
righteous like a mighty stream, when the super-rich 1% pay their fair
share, children have enough to eat, everyone has a roof over their
heads, and we all respect the earth. Let us commit our lives to this
common purpose for the common good. All life on this planet depends on
it.
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.001% elitists who profit from wars
2011 (not new news, but posting again.)
"In an email to supporters this week, Jim Albertini confirmed he organized a protest with "all Hawaii Island Occupy groups" this Saturday, December 31, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the road just south of the Four Seasons/Hualalai Resort.

"It’s time to say to the 1% — PAY YOUR SHARE! At a time when 26% of children on this island are food insecure, this kind of extravagant wealth of the jet setters is SHAM...EFUL! Ring in the New Year with friends who care for the people and the planet!" Albertini writes.