01 January 1981 Factual 28 mins
This short documentary chronicles a four-month period between 1979 and 1980 when residents of Hawaii's Sand Island "squatter" community attempted to resist eviction from the Honolulu shoreline - resulting in displacement, arrests, and the destruction of a community.
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Puhipau as Narrator
Joan Lander Editor
United States 01 December 2020
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