Nonviolent protesters occupy Univ. of Hawaii administration building

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From Kyle:
Aloha Kakou

Around 50-60 people invaded the offices at 10 am. The students and
faculty were successful in taking over the President's office. President McClain said that he hadn't made up his mind yet but that he would wait until he got a report back from the Chancellor. We told him that we would remain until he cancelled the UARC. He left for another meeting and told us that we could stay "as long as we wanted."

At one point, the group was able to get into the inner sanctum of his
office. Now fifty students and faculty were occupying the entire
office. His staff nervously shuffled sensitive documents out of the
room and tried to keep us out of his chair.

At 2:30 pm the UH Manoa chancellor's office did a press conference, and a group of activists showed up with signs.

Around 4:45 pm it was getting more tense as security started massing.
The building closes at 5 pm. Two plain clothes police showed up. There was a SWAT team outside. They got the order to back off since we had permission to be there. Then Administration gave the word that we could stay. So we started busting out sleeping bags and ordered out for pizza.

We hoisted the Hawaiian flag up on the flag pole. Now we're setting up tents on the lawn.

We'll be here for the night.

That's all for now. Check out the website for more info:
www.stopuarc.info

Kyle