1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:12,127 --> 00:00:14,922 - Pack your things, you're coming over to Kauai. 4 00:00:14,922 --> 00:00:17,007 - Kauai? What on earth for? 5 00:00:17,007 --> 00:00:19,635 - How far is it to Honolulu, Waikiki? 6 00:00:19,635 --> 00:00:22,596 - About a 100 miles south-east, another island. 7 00:00:22,596 --> 00:00:25,474 - We always end up 100 miles from the main attraction. 8 00:00:25,474 --> 00:00:28,394 - There's life on Kauai too, I understand. 9 00:00:45,244 --> 00:00:47,621 -This is my childhood playground. 10 00:00:47,621 --> 00:00:49,540 That's me in the white shirt. 11 00:00:49,540 --> 00:00:52,001 We just sort of sidled our way in. 12 00:00:52,543 --> 00:00:54,503 -I was part of the movie extra, 13 00:00:54,503 --> 00:00:57,881 running around the place, just background stuff. 14 00:01:01,468 --> 00:01:05,973 - In 1933, filmmaker Lois Weber arrived on Kauai. 15 00:01:05,973 --> 00:01:08,559 When the sugar and pineapple industry ruled the island. 16 00:01:10,352 --> 00:01:13,731 Weber made Kauai's first Hollywood movie, 'White Heat'. 17 00:01:13,731 --> 00:01:15,858 also known as 'Cane Fire'. 18 00:01:15,858 --> 00:01:20,112 A melodrama about a plantation worker falling in love with the owner. 19 00:01:22,281 --> 00:01:24,158 That's my great grandfather, Alberto. 20 00:01:24,616 --> 00:01:26,660 He had just recently arrived in Kauai from 21 00:01:26,660 --> 00:01:28,829 the Philippines to work on the plantation 22 00:01:28,829 --> 00:01:31,331 where Weber was filming and was used as 23 00:01:31,331 --> 00:01:33,292 an extra in the film while on the job. 24 00:01:36,128 --> 00:01:39,214 After years of working under abusive labor conditions, 25 00:01:39,214 --> 00:01:43,427 Alberto began taking on the plantation as a union organizer. 26 00:01:44,470 --> 00:01:47,473 The company fought back against him with a vengeance. 27 00:01:47,473 --> 00:01:51,185 They demoted him from supervisor to ditch digger, forcing him 28 00:01:51,185 --> 00:01:54,605 to work side by side with his sons, including my grandfather. 29 00:01:58,942 --> 00:02:01,236 At the climax of Weber's film, 30 00:02:01,236 --> 00:02:04,239 the plantation was burned to the ground by a worker. 31 00:02:06,492 --> 00:02:10,079 There was no revolt on the plantation Alberto worked for. 32 00:02:10,079 --> 00:02:12,706 Instead it was shut down and the machinery was shipped to 33 00:02:12,706 --> 00:02:15,876 the Philippines to be reassembled with cheaper labor. 34 00:02:17,503 --> 00:02:21,006 In the late 60s, my great grandfather, Alberto followed 35 00:02:21,006 --> 00:02:23,717 the disassembled mill back to the Philippines. 36 00:02:24,426 --> 00:02:26,386 My grandfather left to join the military. 37 00:02:27,221 --> 00:02:30,390 And the rest of the family stayed behind on Kauai. 38 00:02:31,725 --> 00:02:34,603 Weber's 'Cane Fire' became lost, 39 00:02:34,603 --> 00:02:37,773 along with the only film footage of my great grandfather. 40 00:02:39,858 --> 00:02:42,486 Over the next several years, Kauai's dominant 41 00:02:42,486 --> 00:02:47,116 industry slowly turned from industrial agriculture to tourism. 42 00:02:50,536 --> 00:02:52,830 - Kauai is known as the Garden isle. 43 00:02:52,830 --> 00:02:56,625 Kauai is lush, tropical, wild and fulfills 44 00:02:56,625 --> 00:02:59,503 every imaginable image of what Hawaii would be like. 45 00:03:01,338 --> 00:03:04,550 - I first visited Kauai as an awkward only child from Seattle. 46 00:03:06,510 --> 00:03:08,053 My cousins would call me 'Haole'. 47 00:03:08,762 --> 00:03:11,890 Hawaiian slang for white boy. 48 00:03:13,016 --> 00:03:15,519 I started watching films shot on Kauai as 49 00:03:15,519 --> 00:03:17,521 a way to connect my extended family. 50 00:03:23,110 --> 00:03:26,446 My cousins are still on Kauai, which today has 51 00:03:26,446 --> 00:03:30,492 the highest cost of living in the United States. 52 00:03:30,492 --> 00:03:32,703 For those who can afford it, the island 53 00:03:32,703 --> 00:03:35,330 continues to fulfill the escapist fantasy. 54 00:03:37,416 --> 00:03:39,751 But for the working class and native resident, 55 00:03:40,669 --> 00:03:42,546 Kauai is at a breaking point. 56 00:03:58,604 --> 00:04:01,607 - In Hawaii, our children grow up with the sugar cane. 57 00:04:01,607 --> 00:04:04,151 # C&H # C&H 58 00:04:04,151 --> 00:04:07,529 # Pure cane sugar # Pure cane sugar 59 00:04:07,529 --> 00:04:10,490 # From Hawaii # From Hawaii...# 60 00:04:10,490 --> 00:04:15,037 (MUSIC) 61 00:04:15,037 --> 00:04:17,497 - No living relative has seen Kauai change 62 00:04:17,497 --> 00:04:21,835 more than my grandfather's brother, my great uncle, Henry. 63 00:04:42,356 --> 00:04:46,193 - When I visited, my cousins, his grandsons were staying 64 00:04:46,193 --> 00:04:49,029 with him and would shuffle in and out of the house. 65 00:04:53,158 --> 00:04:54,952 - Greasy I know. (LAUGHS) 66 00:04:55,827 --> 00:04:57,079 So good. 67 00:05:12,511 --> 00:05:15,347 - I took Henry up on his offer to show me around. 68 00:05:15,347 --> 00:05:17,724 We visited the abandoned sugar mills and pineapple 69 00:05:17,724 --> 00:05:21,478 canneries where he used to make his rounds as a truck driver. 70 00:06:03,312 --> 00:06:04,354 - Uncle Henry. 71 00:06:12,946 --> 00:06:14,656 - Well, I don't want to get him in trouble I just want... 72 00:06:33,008 --> 00:06:36,762 - We stopped by the Lawai Cannery where Henry was born. 73 00:06:36,762 --> 00:06:38,263 Now a storage facility. 74 00:06:39,806 --> 00:06:42,517 Here's Henry's mother, my great grandmother, 75 00:06:42,517 --> 00:06:44,519 posing in front of the cannery in her uniform. 76 00:06:45,687 --> 00:06:48,273 (MUSIC) 77 00:07:44,704 --> 00:07:48,291 - It's a story of a miracle in an arid, sun-smitten desert 78 00:07:48,291 --> 00:07:52,671 created by a handful of adroit men with indomitable courage. 79 00:07:52,671 --> 00:07:58,135 Pest-free, strong vigorous weeds, chock full of sweet sap, big business. 80 00:07:58,135 --> 00:08:00,720 - When the cane is ripe, the field is set afire. 81 00:08:00,720 --> 00:08:04,516 The tangleweeds burn but not the stalks full of sweet juice. 82 00:08:04,516 --> 00:08:09,438 - Then field workers cut the cane and haul it to the mills for crushing 83 00:08:09,438 --> 00:08:12,399 and shipping to refineries on the mainland. 84 00:08:12,399 --> 00:08:14,860 - On soil less favorable for growing cane 85 00:08:14,860 --> 00:08:17,446 they planted pineapple, big business too. 86 00:08:22,701 --> 00:08:26,329 - For over 100 years Hawaii's economy was controlled 87 00:08:26,329 --> 00:08:30,500 by five sugar and pineapple companies known as the Big Five. 88 00:08:31,710 --> 00:08:34,754 Members of four generations of my family have been 89 00:08:34,754 --> 00:08:37,883 employed by some form of Alexander and Baldwin alone. 90 00:08:40,051 --> 00:08:43,597 Though they've now diversified, the plantation industry 91 00:08:43,597 --> 00:08:46,766 still controls and profits from much of the land on Kauai. 92 00:08:50,228 --> 00:08:54,357 The plantation industry began when Captain Cook first landed in Kauai 93 00:08:54,357 --> 00:08:57,986 in 1778 and was met by Native Hawaiians, 94 00:08:58,987 --> 00:09:01,323 or “Kānaka Maoli” 95 00:09:05,035 --> 00:09:07,871 Cook ushered in families of Protestant missionaries 96 00:09:07,871 --> 00:09:11,500 that began the production of sugar as a commercial enterprise. 97 00:09:13,376 --> 00:09:15,086 There was an immediate clash between 98 00:09:15,086 --> 00:09:17,297 the missionaries and Hawaiians. 99 00:09:17,297 --> 00:09:19,966 The Hawaiian self-sufficient way of life operated 100 00:09:19,966 --> 00:09:22,552 through an intricate system of maintaining the land. 101 00:09:23,637 --> 00:09:25,680 With water flowing from the mountains 102 00:09:25,680 --> 00:09:28,308 and rerouted into tributaries and fish ponds. 103 00:09:31,186 --> 00:09:33,813 The plantations dug trenches in the mountains 104 00:09:33,813 --> 00:09:36,733 and rerouted the water to flow into their own cane fields. 105 00:09:38,985 --> 00:09:42,822 In 1893, in an effort to fully control the land, 106 00:09:42,822 --> 00:09:46,201 a group of American insurgents including the Big 5 107 00:09:46,201 --> 00:09:48,745 forcefully overthrew the Kingdom of Hawaii 108 00:09:48,745 --> 00:09:50,247 with the aid of the U.S. Navy 109 00:09:50,789 --> 00:09:52,958 and installed their own provisional government. 110 00:09:54,209 --> 00:09:56,461 Several elements of Hawaiian culture 111 00:09:56,461 --> 00:09:58,296 were further suppressed. 112 00:10:00,715 --> 00:10:03,510 In order to make this new venture profitable, 113 00:10:03,510 --> 00:10:05,971 the Big Five needed a larger workforce. 114 00:10:08,223 --> 00:10:11,184 They imported labor from all over the world. 115 00:10:11,184 --> 00:10:15,730 Wages were low and workers had no choice but to live on the plantations, 116 00:10:15,730 --> 00:10:18,275 in the ethnically segregated housing camps. 117 00:10:19,693 --> 00:10:22,070 Each time workers started to organize, 118 00:10:22,070 --> 00:10:25,532 the Big Five would pit ethnic populations against each other. 119 00:10:28,118 --> 00:10:32,205 Initially, the largest group was from China, then Japan, 120 00:10:32,205 --> 00:10:36,126 and then from the Philippines, which included my family' s arrival. 121 00:10:55,353 --> 00:10:57,856 (MUSIC) 122 00:11:03,528 --> 00:11:05,614 - My name is Michael Faye. 123 00:11:05,614 --> 00:11:07,824 I was born here in Waimea, Kauai. 124 00:11:07,824 --> 00:11:08,950 My father was the... 125 00:11:09,826 --> 00:11:12,662 manager of Waimea sugar mill company. 126 00:11:12,662 --> 00:11:16,875 We had the privilege of growing up in the plantation era, 127 00:11:16,875 --> 00:11:19,127 or the trailing end of the plantation era. 128 00:11:28,053 --> 00:11:29,262 As us kids growing up, 129 00:11:29,262 --> 00:11:34,100 none of us thought anything about race or ethnicity. 130 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:34,976 That was just... 131 00:11:34,976 --> 00:11:37,520 That's who we were, you know and... 132 00:11:37,520 --> 00:11:40,523 the manager's kids went to the worker’s houses, 133 00:11:40,523 --> 00:11:43,568 the worker’s kids all were at the manager's house 134 00:11:43,568 --> 00:11:45,779 and it was all just sort of one great big, 135 00:11:46,780 --> 00:11:48,865 kind of great big happy family. 136 00:11:48,865 --> 00:11:50,742 I know it's kind of... 137 00:11:52,327 --> 00:11:56,665 covering some of the badder parts of it, but that's how we saw it. 138 00:11:58,875 --> 00:12:01,336 (SINGING) 139 00:12:09,386 --> 00:12:15,934 From my biased point of view, I think the family treated them well. 140 00:12:17,352 --> 00:12:19,854 Or didn't treat them bad, at least. 141 00:12:22,232 --> 00:12:24,442 (MUSIC AND SINGING) 142 00:12:35,870 --> 00:12:40,709 - My father approached me if I would take over as manager. 143 00:12:40,709 --> 00:12:43,878 And of course, that was something I had always really wanted to do. 144 00:12:44,587 --> 00:12:50,844 And you know my uncle was living in the manager's house and I was 145 00:12:51,678 --> 00:12:56,766 gosh, I was only about 30 years old or 31 years old, just got married. 146 00:12:56,766 --> 00:13:00,937 I accepted the job but I did say that you know 147 00:13:00,937 --> 00:13:03,481 if I was gonna come there and be the manager 148 00:13:03,481 --> 00:13:05,525 I had to... or be the top guy. 149 00:13:05,525 --> 00:13:08,820 I had to be in the top house in the manager's house. 150 00:13:09,529 --> 00:13:14,117 So I basically, kicked my 80 year old uncle out and moved into that house. 151 00:13:19,998 --> 00:13:26,588 - My sister was the substitute for Yvette Mimieux in 'Diamond Head'. 152 00:13:26,588 --> 00:13:30,091 Riding a horse, because she was a good horse lady. 153 00:13:31,676 --> 00:13:33,428 - Well that got the kinks out. 154 00:13:34,387 --> 00:13:37,766 You know, our island’s the only place that gets bigger every time I see it. 155 00:13:39,225 --> 00:13:41,394 You suppose it's because it's ours? 156 00:13:41,394 --> 00:13:43,062 - Why else? 157 00:13:44,481 --> 00:13:48,026 - The movie 'Cane Fire' was filmed here at Waimea Sugar. 158 00:13:48,026 --> 00:13:50,612 So of course, it's going to be of interest to us. 159 00:13:51,863 --> 00:13:54,866 It'd be wonderful to find a copy of it somewhere. 160 00:13:54,866 --> 00:13:58,203 But so far it's elusive. 161 00:13:59,662 --> 00:14:02,874 - Have you ever sought out a film that you knew was shot here? 162 00:14:04,042 --> 00:14:05,710 - Oh yeah, we always do. 163 00:14:05,710 --> 00:14:07,754 Yeah, we always want to see what we look like. 164 00:14:10,465 --> 00:14:12,592 (MUSIC) 165 00:14:14,511 --> 00:14:16,095 - In the 1930s, 166 00:14:16,095 --> 00:14:18,932 news of appalling labor conditions began reaching the rest of 167 00:14:18,932 --> 00:14:23,436 the world and the reputation of the sugar industry came under attack. 168 00:14:24,604 --> 00:14:28,733 The Big Five began a PR campaign addressing their labor practices. 169 00:14:30,109 --> 00:14:33,112 And through the cooperation of major Hollywood studios 170 00:14:33,112 --> 00:14:35,573 they began to lure tourists to the island, 171 00:14:35,573 --> 00:14:38,284 bringing a fleet of cruise ships to transport them. 172 00:14:38,785 --> 00:14:42,121 - From a world that is overburdened with the sterner realities of life, 173 00:14:42,121 --> 00:14:45,667 we seek respite in the romantic isles of the South Seas, 174 00:14:45,667 --> 00:14:49,671 Where life is not so complicated and joy is unrestrained. 175 00:14:50,588 --> 00:14:54,759 - Films shot in Hawaii in this era were known as South Seas fantasies. 176 00:14:56,719 --> 00:15:01,766 Native Hawaiian and Asian immigrant residents are portrayed interchangeably. 177 00:15:04,310 --> 00:15:06,729 - Aloha, Coyama. 178 00:15:06,729 --> 00:15:08,189 At least you never change. 179 00:15:08,189 --> 00:15:10,400 - Welcome home, Mrs Sloan, you hungry? 180 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,862 - For the ceremony of the bowl, I choose my friend. 181 00:15:13,862 --> 00:15:16,489 The friend of all my friends. 182 00:15:17,365 --> 00:15:18,950 I choose the haole. 183 00:15:24,038 --> 00:15:27,250 When Lois Weber submitted 'White Heat' to the ratings board, 184 00:15:27,250 --> 00:15:30,169 she was forced to make several revisions. 185 00:15:30,169 --> 00:15:31,421 Some of these revolved around 186 00:15:31,421 --> 00:15:33,882 what was seen as sexually explicit behavior 187 00:15:33,882 --> 00:15:38,595 between the plantation owner and his lover, a quote "native girl". 188 00:15:39,971 --> 00:15:41,097 But the most significant 189 00:15:41,097 --> 00:15:44,475 required change involved the climax of the film in which 190 00:15:44,475 --> 00:15:47,353 the "native girl" spurned by the plantation owner 191 00:15:47,353 --> 00:15:50,023 deliberately starts an out of control cane fire, 192 00:15:50,023 --> 00:15:52,025 destroying the plantation. 193 00:15:53,902 --> 00:15:56,446 The ratings board cited fears that the scene 194 00:15:56,446 --> 00:15:59,699 would encourage labor revolt among the plantation workers. 195 00:16:08,166 --> 00:16:10,835 - The sugar companies were feeling threatened. 196 00:16:11,461 --> 00:16:13,463 They had just deported the founder of 197 00:16:13,463 --> 00:16:16,966 the first Filipino labor movement, Pablo Manlapit. 198 00:16:20,053 --> 00:16:22,972 Just four years before my great grandfather arrived to Kauai, 199 00:16:23,806 --> 00:16:27,560 Pablo Manlapit called upon Filipino plantation workers to strike. 200 00:16:28,811 --> 00:16:32,732 Leading to the deadliest labor revolt in Hawaii's history. 201 00:16:33,566 --> 00:16:37,111 16 workers were killed by police and were quickly buried in a 202 00:16:37,111 --> 00:16:39,822 mass grave to quell any further activism. 203 00:16:41,282 --> 00:16:45,495 This little known event occurred in the town of Hanapepe. 204 00:16:45,495 --> 00:16:47,455 Now a tourist stop. 205 00:16:54,921 --> 00:16:56,422 - Everyone's so friendly. 206 00:16:56,422 --> 00:16:57,882 - Yeah, It's an act. 207 00:16:58,675 --> 00:16:59,842 - Roger, can't you forget you’re 208 00:16:59,842 --> 00:17:02,136 an expert on territorial labor relations. 209 00:17:02,136 --> 00:17:03,721 - If this is the sloppy way that Folger 210 00:17:03,721 --> 00:17:05,431 and the other planters run their business, 211 00:17:05,431 --> 00:17:07,850 no wonder they had to call me in to straighten out their labor. 212 00:17:08,226 --> 00:17:09,978 - Alright, to get right to it. 213 00:17:09,978 --> 00:17:11,354 The company is highly aroused over 214 00:17:11,354 --> 00:17:13,731 the recent outbreak of costly accidents here. 215 00:17:13,731 --> 00:17:14,732 - Terrible. 216 00:17:14,732 --> 00:17:15,775 - What's it all about? 217 00:17:15,775 --> 00:17:16,985 - Agitation, sir. 218 00:17:16,985 --> 00:17:18,152 Labor agitation. 219 00:17:18,152 --> 00:17:20,571 - Well, I assumed that, but agitation over what exactly? 220 00:17:20,571 --> 00:17:24,492 - Oh, the usual radical demands, outrageous pay, 221 00:17:24,492 --> 00:17:26,869 impossible hours, palatial housing. 222 00:17:28,413 --> 00:17:30,581 This Filipino fellow stirs them up. 223 00:17:30,581 --> 00:17:33,876 A dedicated rascal with the heart of a born revolutionist. 224 00:17:34,836 --> 00:17:37,755 - Same kind of following that every fanatical leader has. 225 00:17:38,506 --> 00:17:42,427 - The machete-wielding madman portrayed in the film 'Jungle Heat' 226 00:17:42,427 --> 00:17:44,595 closely resembled Pablo Manlapit, 227 00:17:45,346 --> 00:17:47,932 who after being deported from Hawaii for his activism, 228 00:17:48,808 --> 00:17:51,436 was never allowed back into the islands. 229 00:17:57,066 --> 00:18:00,194 It wasn't until the 1940s that Hawaii had its first 230 00:18:00,194 --> 00:18:04,407 successful large scale unionization, led by the ILWU. 231 00:18:05,867 --> 00:18:08,953 My great grandfather Alberto would bring Henry along as a child 232 00:18:08,953 --> 00:18:10,705 to attend their rallies, 233 00:18:10,705 --> 00:18:14,125 inspiring him to be active in the union himself as an adult. 234 00:18:46,699 --> 00:18:49,702 - One tactic to defeat the ILWU in Hawaii, 235 00:18:49,702 --> 00:18:52,580 was to label them as Communist conspirators. 236 00:18:52,580 --> 00:18:56,084 ‘Big Jim McClain’ stars John Wayne as a House of Un-American 237 00:18:56,084 --> 00:18:59,462 Activities Committee member sets investigate Hawaii. 238 00:19:00,379 --> 00:19:03,841 - Next day was launched the investigation that made headlines. 239 00:19:03,841 --> 00:19:06,010 known as, 'Operation Pineapple'. 240 00:19:06,969 --> 00:19:08,888 - The gossip in Washington is that your Committee is 241 00:19:08,888 --> 00:19:11,349 setting up an investigating team out in the islands. 242 00:19:11,849 --> 00:19:14,852 - Well we're here on a vacation, overwork and all that, you know. 243 00:19:15,686 --> 00:19:20,399 - After being a hard working dedicated Communist for almost 11 years, 244 00:19:20,399 --> 00:19:24,237 I came to my senses and recognized Communism for what it is, 245 00:19:24,904 --> 00:19:28,324 it's a vast conspiracy to enslave the common man. 246 00:19:30,076 --> 00:19:32,328 - Henry arranged for me to meet his friend and neighbor, 247 00:19:32,328 --> 00:19:36,124 Alfredo Castillo, who was the ILWU Division Director 248 00:19:36,124 --> 00:19:38,209 during Kauai sugar years, 249 00:19:38,209 --> 00:19:41,879 and was once one of the most influential people in Hawaii's labor movement. 250 00:19:52,473 --> 00:19:53,891 - This goes on your collar. 251 00:19:57,728 --> 00:19:58,604 - Yeah. 252 00:21:38,788 --> 00:21:42,333 - The plantation workers had won a battle against the Big Five sugar companies, 253 00:21:43,167 --> 00:21:45,086 but meanwhile, more powerful forces had 254 00:21:45,086 --> 00:21:46,712 been changing the island around them. 255 00:21:48,631 --> 00:21:50,800 Since the arrival of Captain Cook, 256 00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:54,470 the United States had seen Hawaii as a valuable strategic outpost. 257 00:21:54,470 --> 00:21:57,265 And in 1898 - the same year that Guam, 258 00:21:57,265 --> 00:22:00,768 Puerto Rico, and the Philippines became American Territories 259 00:22:01,310 --> 00:22:03,729 - the US forced an annexation of Hawaii 260 00:22:03,729 --> 00:22:06,148 to formalize their control over the islands. 261 00:22:07,149 --> 00:22:10,528 Many Native Hawaiians wishing to retain their land 262 00:22:10,903 --> 00:22:12,989 had to qualify under a U.S. program 263 00:22:12,989 --> 00:22:14,991 called the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act 264 00:22:15,741 --> 00:22:18,577 which had prohibitive guidelines and requirements. 265 00:22:23,124 --> 00:22:26,127 When the attack on Pearl Harbor occurred in 1941, 266 00:22:26,127 --> 00:22:27,753 it was the United States chance to make 267 00:22:27,753 --> 00:22:31,048 the case for statehood, in the name of national security. 268 00:22:38,514 --> 00:22:42,810 - The United States Congress has admitted Hawaii as the 50th state. 269 00:22:42,810 --> 00:22:45,313 The islands were discovered over 180 years ago 270 00:22:45,313 --> 00:22:47,690 by the famous British navigator, Captain Cook. 271 00:22:48,399 --> 00:22:52,069 And in this century they've become world famous as a holiday paradise. 272 00:22:52,486 --> 00:22:56,198 # I love to sing and dance for you 273 00:22:56,198 --> 00:22:59,535 # and give a flower lei too 274 00:22:59,535 --> 00:23:03,039 #and with that goes a kiss or two 275 00:23:03,039 --> 00:23:05,666 # that's the Hawaiian in me... # 276 00:23:06,250 --> 00:23:10,087 - Hawaii became a US state because of its strategic value to the military 277 00:23:10,755 --> 00:23:13,674 but they sold the idea of statehood to the American public 278 00:23:13,674 --> 00:23:16,010 through the Hawaiian Tourism Bureau, 279 00:23:16,010 --> 00:23:20,306 which carefully crafted the message and style of the subsequent films shot on the island. 280 00:23:21,766 --> 00:23:26,145 (SINGING) 281 00:24:18,823 --> 00:24:20,408 - Alright, it's a deal. 282 00:24:22,952 --> 00:24:25,454 - Cut. Very good, thank you. 283 00:24:53,482 --> 00:24:55,276 - You talk to him, dammit! 284 00:24:55,276 --> 00:24:58,821 - Yeah, Charlton Heston. (INAUDIBLE) 285 00:25:00,030 --> 00:25:01,365 Charlton Heston. 286 00:25:36,692 --> 00:25:39,778 - I feel I have a right to be here. 287 00:25:39,778 --> 00:25:41,780 This is my home ground. 288 00:26:08,933 --> 00:26:12,895 - After statehood, the Big Five could no longer rule the islands as they had. 289 00:26:17,733 --> 00:26:19,944 They started to strategize on ways to fully 290 00:26:19,944 --> 00:26:25,115 transition into the next shift in industry, tourism. 291 00:26:28,452 --> 00:26:31,372 - Maile, I've got to get a job. 292 00:26:31,372 --> 00:26:33,791 - And I gather not in your father's pineapple plant. 293 00:26:33,791 --> 00:26:36,126 - No, ma'am, Hawaii has a big future. 294 00:26:36,126 --> 00:26:38,212 I want to become a part of it. 295 00:26:38,212 --> 00:26:40,506 I'm young and healthy, I'm not too stupid. 296 00:26:40,506 --> 00:26:41,715 - Wonderful. 297 00:26:41,715 --> 00:26:43,717 - This place is growing by leaps and bounds, more 298 00:26:43,717 --> 00:26:46,136 tourists come here than any other state in the union. 299 00:26:46,762 --> 00:26:47,638 Hey, that's it. 300 00:26:48,305 --> 00:26:50,558 Well, I know every inch of these islands, I'll make a good tourist guide. 301 00:26:50,558 --> 00:26:52,142 - You'd make a great tourist guide. 302 00:26:52,142 --> 00:26:53,227 - I gotta get going. 303 00:26:53,227 --> 00:26:54,311 I gotta see your boss. 304 00:26:54,311 --> 00:26:55,646 I've wasted too much time already. 305 00:26:59,108 --> 00:27:02,111 - One of the things that my father had started was 306 00:27:02,111 --> 00:27:04,947 in about 1960 he had done a little conceptual 307 00:27:04,947 --> 00:27:10,828 master plan of transitioning from a plantation centric to a more visitor centric. 308 00:27:10,828 --> 00:27:12,997 All the plantations were doing this at the time, 309 00:27:12,997 --> 00:27:14,248 this concept of 310 00:27:14,248 --> 00:27:18,085 "Hey do something with the beachfront, jump on the tourist bandwagon." 311 00:27:18,961 --> 00:27:22,631 - Color, decor, everything tropical. 312 00:27:22,923 --> 00:27:26,302 I'll make the Paradise Carlton the greatest showplace in the world. 313 00:27:26,302 --> 00:27:28,137 (MUSIC) 314 00:27:34,810 --> 00:27:37,229 - With more and more visitors flooding to the island, 315 00:27:37,730 --> 00:27:40,566 Alexander and Baldwin absorbed Matson shipping, 316 00:27:40,566 --> 00:27:42,401 in addition to their cruise line. 317 00:27:42,901 --> 00:27:44,778 This enabled them to profit off of almost 318 00:27:44,778 --> 00:27:46,697 everything imported into the island. 319 00:27:47,531 --> 00:27:51,702 Today, 90% of Hawaii's food and goods are still imported. 320 00:27:53,245 --> 00:27:56,665 - So, one of the things to do when you get off on the islands 321 00:27:56,665 --> 00:28:00,002 is they have these free shuttles that take you to the shopping centre. 322 00:28:00,002 --> 00:28:01,962 They go to Wal-Mart, Kmart. 323 00:28:02,546 --> 00:28:03,631 I think the mall. 324 00:28:04,089 --> 00:28:07,468 So, I think we're going to head to the mall 'cause mom wants to 325 00:28:08,218 --> 00:28:12,431 shop and buy some Hawaiian stuff so... 326 00:28:12,431 --> 00:28:15,184 Oh look, the guy's giving out leis. 327 00:28:16,268 --> 00:28:17,269 Hello. 328 00:28:17,269 --> 00:28:18,687 - Aloha. 329 00:28:18,687 --> 00:28:19,688 - Thank you. 330 00:28:35,496 --> 00:28:38,957 - No visit to Kauai would be complete without a sojourn 331 00:28:38,957 --> 00:28:43,379 at the Coco Palms Hotel, which we are now approaching. 332 00:28:44,588 --> 00:28:48,008 - The most iconic destination of Hollywood's Golden Age 333 00:28:48,008 --> 00:28:49,593 was the Coco Palms Hotel, 334 00:28:50,386 --> 00:28:54,765 which was led by Grace Guslander, who's husband was a Matson executive. 335 00:28:54,765 --> 00:28:56,141 (MUSIC) 336 00:29:15,953 --> 00:29:18,288 (SINGING) 337 00:30:51,590 --> 00:30:54,718 - On August 26, 1853. 338 00:30:55,177 --> 00:30:57,888 137 years ago. 339 00:30:57,888 --> 00:31:00,682 Queen Deborah Kapule died. 340 00:31:01,016 --> 00:31:04,978 Kapule was the last queen on our island of Kauai. 341 00:31:05,646 --> 00:31:08,524 These were her royal grounds. 342 00:31:08,524 --> 00:31:13,612 Each year, in commemoration, the Queen returns. 343 00:31:14,738 --> 00:31:16,907 The King approaches. 344 00:31:25,749 --> 00:31:28,794 - That's the traditional Hawaiian way of announcing that chow's on. 345 00:31:30,170 --> 00:31:33,924 -The torch lighting ceremony was not a Native Hawaiian practice, 346 00:31:33,924 --> 00:31:37,553 but was invented by the hotel's manager Grace Guslander 347 00:31:37,553 --> 00:31:39,972 as entertainment for the guests. 348 00:31:39,972 --> 00:31:42,766 - Pretty impressive, right? - It's beautiful. 349 00:31:52,818 --> 00:31:54,736 - Meet my wife, Gloria. 350 00:31:54,736 --> 00:31:55,737 (APPLAUSE) 351 00:31:56,488 --> 00:31:59,741 (SINGING) 352 00:32:06,582 --> 00:32:09,126 -The island's economy continued to transform 353 00:32:09,751 --> 00:32:12,713 and the sugar industry slowly declined. 354 00:32:14,006 --> 00:32:15,716 Beginning in the 1980s, 355 00:32:15,716 --> 00:32:18,635 workers were forced to give up benefits and take pay cuts. 356 00:32:19,887 --> 00:32:22,973 Despite this, the Big Five started moving operations 357 00:32:22,973 --> 00:32:25,684 overseas for cheaper land and labor. 358 00:32:26,184 --> 00:32:30,230 Blaming the unions for seeking a living wage for their employees. 359 00:32:30,814 --> 00:32:32,608 - The big boss has called everyone into these 360 00:32:32,608 --> 00:32:36,069 offices this morning to tell them the bad news. 361 00:32:36,069 --> 00:32:37,779 - When I go home tonight? 362 00:32:41,033 --> 00:32:44,536 Hard, very hard. 363 00:32:45,245 --> 00:32:46,330 Grandkids. 364 00:32:47,247 --> 00:32:49,833 "Hey, Poppa ain't working no more" 365 00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:53,795 That's it. 366 00:32:58,133 --> 00:33:01,345 - An entire workforce was left stranded on the island. 367 00:33:02,179 --> 00:33:04,556 Those that didn't leave were forced to adapt 368 00:33:04,556 --> 00:33:06,725 to the service industry which lacked 369 00:33:06,725 --> 00:33:08,644 the organized labor power that had been 370 00:33:08,644 --> 00:33:10,395 built up in the sugar plantations. 371 00:33:15,233 --> 00:33:18,153 Meanwhile, due to the rise in real estate value, 372 00:33:18,445 --> 00:33:21,573 the US government continued pushing out Native Hawaiians 373 00:33:21,573 --> 00:33:23,659 who had previously been promised land 374 00:33:23,659 --> 00:33:25,953 as part of the Hawaiian Homes Commission Act. 375 00:33:28,330 --> 00:33:32,042 - Street's our house, new house everybody, the streets. 376 00:33:32,042 --> 00:33:34,461 - We are not gonna live on the streets. 377 00:33:34,461 --> 00:33:35,921 We no more house. 378 00:33:35,921 --> 00:33:37,005 - Yes. 379 00:33:37,297 --> 00:33:40,509 - At least give us a piece of land to live on. 380 00:33:45,055 --> 00:33:47,641 - Keep Hawaiian lands in Hawaiian hands. 381 00:33:49,935 --> 00:33:52,938 - We are Hawaiian. This is our land. 382 00:33:52,938 --> 00:33:54,314 This is our way of life. 383 00:33:54,314 --> 00:33:55,565 - Aloha, sister. 384 00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,904 - This is the most recent of a series of arrests 385 00:34:00,904 --> 00:34:03,365 and evictions from the beaches of Hawaii. 386 00:34:04,908 --> 00:34:08,453 But with close to 90% of the people of Hawaii unable to 387 00:34:08,453 --> 00:34:10,414 afford their own homes, 388 00:34:10,414 --> 00:34:13,542 this incident will probably not be the last. 389 00:34:23,176 --> 00:34:25,679 - Before the 'King of Rock' arrived, 390 00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:28,265 the kings and queens of the Hawaiian Kingdom 391 00:34:28,265 --> 00:34:31,768 lived at the current Coco Palms Hotel site in the Wailua Valley, 392 00:34:32,436 --> 00:34:35,105 considered one of the most sacred places in Hawaii. 393 00:34:36,481 --> 00:34:39,109 It was the site of several Hawaiian burials 394 00:34:39,109 --> 00:34:43,155 before they were removed by Coco Palms manager, Grace Guslander, 395 00:34:43,155 --> 00:34:45,032 when the hotel was being built. 396 00:34:48,326 --> 00:34:51,705 - A huge hurricane is forcing thousands of people to evacuate, 397 00:34:51,705 --> 00:34:55,000 the eye of the storm taking aim at the tropical resort. 398 00:34:55,000 --> 00:34:58,211 It is moving rapidly and packing powerful winds. 399 00:35:00,422 --> 00:35:02,340 - Tomorrow's gonna be another day. 400 00:35:04,926 --> 00:35:06,178 - Kiss it goodbye. 401 00:35:23,361 --> 00:35:27,991 - There's no quick fix for Coco Palms Resort on Kauai. 402 00:35:27,991 --> 00:35:30,577 The hotel, which has been in disrepair 403 00:35:30,577 --> 00:35:35,499 since Hurricane Iniki devastated the Garden Island 20 years ago, 404 00:35:35,499 --> 00:35:37,167 remains in shambles. 405 00:35:45,425 --> 00:35:48,136 (Chant in Olelo Hawaiian) 406 00:35:49,888 --> 00:35:51,223 - You know that one? 407 00:36:01,399 --> 00:36:03,944 (CHANTING) 408 00:36:10,784 --> 00:36:12,619 - For more than two years, 409 00:36:12,619 --> 00:36:15,747 a group of Native Hawaiian activists have been working to restore 410 00:36:15,747 --> 00:36:20,836 the most sacred land on Kauai, the former site of the Coco Palms Resort. 411 00:36:21,336 --> 00:36:26,007 (CHANTING) 412 00:36:26,007 --> 00:36:30,762 - This property that we have been rehabilitating 413 00:36:30,762 --> 00:36:33,974 is significant for a few reasons. 414 00:36:33,974 --> 00:36:37,310 There are "loʻi", taro patches, 415 00:36:37,310 --> 00:36:39,646 "loko iʻa", fish ponds. 416 00:36:40,438 --> 00:36:43,150 "heiau", temples. 417 00:36:43,150 --> 00:36:44,985 And burial sites. 418 00:36:47,154 --> 00:36:50,115 The place has a complicated history and there 419 00:36:50,115 --> 00:36:52,659 are a lot of stories that haven't been told. 420 00:36:56,371 --> 00:37:00,876 When you walk the grounds and you sleep on the grounds, 421 00:37:00,876 --> 00:37:03,545 there's a lot deeper of history there. 422 00:37:05,088 --> 00:37:08,466 And that is why we're working to restore it. 423 00:37:12,846 --> 00:37:17,475 - This song was written by the queen. 424 00:37:17,475 --> 00:37:20,812 It happened, true story. Shipwreck in Kapaʻa Town 425 00:37:22,147 --> 00:37:25,108 Goes something like this. 426 00:37:26,776 --> 00:37:32,532 (SINGS) 427 00:37:34,409 --> 00:37:37,954 - Hello everybody out there, I'm using Keʻala's phone right now. 428 00:37:37,954 --> 00:37:40,665 (CROSSTALK) 429 00:37:40,665 --> 00:37:41,958 Uh huh, uh huh. 430 00:37:41,958 --> 00:37:47,088 We're pounding some poi today, gonna ”kau kau” a little bit. 431 00:37:54,846 --> 00:37:57,098 - I've been here from day one. 432 00:37:57,098 --> 00:37:59,559 We cleaned all this place by hand. 433 00:37:59,559 --> 00:38:00,936 No machines. 434 00:38:00,936 --> 00:38:02,646 By hands, every day. 435 00:38:04,397 --> 00:38:06,191 I grew up right across the street. 436 00:38:07,234 --> 00:38:09,361 This was my playground. 437 00:38:10,570 --> 00:38:13,031 Went in the service for Uncle Sam. 438 00:38:18,703 --> 00:38:20,205 Never went back. 439 00:38:44,354 --> 00:38:47,190 There is no clothing construct, 440 00:38:47,190 --> 00:38:51,486 it's just how you feel you need to express yourself. 441 00:38:53,196 --> 00:38:55,699 - Show you a place where we can record back here. 442 00:38:57,075 --> 00:38:58,785 Is it on? 443 00:39:01,496 --> 00:39:04,082 So, this area you are looking at 444 00:39:04,082 --> 00:39:06,042 it's gonna be another taro patch, 445 00:39:06,042 --> 00:39:10,130 and right on top here I want to build a traditional Hawaiian house. 446 00:39:12,340 --> 00:39:13,967 Elvis is dead. 447 00:39:13,967 --> 00:39:17,178 The King of Rock died many moons ago. 448 00:39:18,179 --> 00:39:21,850 The hotel died over 20 years ago. 449 00:39:21,850 --> 00:39:22,851 The past is the past. 450 00:39:22,851 --> 00:39:26,229 We can't bring it back but what we can do is the best of our 451 00:39:26,229 --> 00:39:33,194 knowledge and ability for our future by starting now, today. 452 00:39:33,194 --> 00:39:34,738 Don't wait for tomorrow. 453 00:39:34,738 --> 00:39:36,281 We need to act on it now. 454 00:39:50,378 --> 00:39:52,172 - OK, I'm Bob. 455 00:39:52,172 --> 00:39:53,006 - Hi, Bob. 456 00:39:53,465 --> 00:39:55,258 - Well, if you thought Coco Palms was closed 457 00:39:55,258 --> 00:39:57,385 and not making any money, think again. 458 00:39:57,385 --> 00:39:59,679 The caretaker of the Coco Palms property 459 00:39:59,679 --> 00:40:03,183 has started a behind the scenes tour of the site. 460 00:40:04,768 --> 00:40:09,105 - This has got to be the most famous hotel in the South Pacific. 461 00:40:09,105 --> 00:40:12,067 In fact, it's been shut down for 22 years now. 462 00:40:14,611 --> 00:40:18,948 OK. How many of you have seen 'Blue Hawaii'? 463 00:40:20,075 --> 00:40:21,993 We'll do a refresher course. 464 00:40:26,498 --> 00:40:28,792 - A way I earned my living when I first got here. 465 00:40:29,751 --> 00:40:32,587 I would go up to Wailua Falls with parrots. 466 00:40:33,421 --> 00:40:35,882 And I would take people's pictures with the parrots. 467 00:40:38,301 --> 00:40:42,055 Wailua Falls was at the beginning of every episode of ‘Fantasy Island’. 468 00:40:43,306 --> 00:40:46,684 And so, visitors up there would keep asking me about that 469 00:40:47,352 --> 00:40:49,020 and other movies done here. 470 00:40:50,355 --> 00:40:51,731 And I said, "God, you know what, 471 00:40:51,731 --> 00:40:54,275 if we had a van and put a TV and we got all these movies 472 00:40:54,275 --> 00:40:56,152 and we found all these locations, 473 00:40:56,152 --> 00:40:57,695 we just start taking people 474 00:40:57,695 --> 00:41:02,075 and when we get there we show them onscreen what's filmed there." 475 00:41:03,535 --> 00:41:05,453 We did our first tour in 1996. 476 00:41:06,621 --> 00:41:07,705 And it just took off. 477 00:41:17,090 --> 00:41:21,094 - And here we are, ladies and gentlemen, at the famed Coco Palms Hotel. 478 00:41:21,094 --> 00:41:24,431 It brought Hollywood icons like Bing Crosby, 479 00:41:24,431 --> 00:41:27,767 Frank Sinatra and yes, even Elvis Presley to the resort. 480 00:41:27,767 --> 00:41:28,977 - What room did the King stay in? 481 00:41:29,686 --> 00:41:31,521 -I knew someone was going to ask that. 482 00:41:32,355 --> 00:41:34,023 OK, come on, gather round. 483 00:41:47,745 --> 00:41:50,540 - As the Native activists continued their occupation, 484 00:41:50,540 --> 00:41:53,585 it was announced that the long dormant Coco Palms Hotel 485 00:41:53,585 --> 00:41:56,838 was to be restored to its former glory by a new developer. 486 00:41:57,505 --> 00:42:00,049 - It's a day many thought would never come. 487 00:42:00,049 --> 00:42:05,096 A blessing that marked the rebirth of Coco Palms Resort on Kauai. 488 00:42:08,099 --> 00:42:10,351 - So, as everybody can see today. 489 00:42:11,144 --> 00:42:13,771 This right here is Coco Palms. 490 00:42:13,771 --> 00:42:15,565 There is a very wise woman, 491 00:42:15,565 --> 00:42:17,734 this gal by the name of Grace. 492 00:42:17,734 --> 00:42:21,654 As many of you know, that had a very significant impact 493 00:42:21,654 --> 00:42:24,407 on how Coco Palms was shaped. 494 00:42:24,407 --> 00:42:28,578 It's the spirit that gravitated and pulled inside of us 495 00:42:28,578 --> 00:42:30,205 and said, you know, we can't give up. 496 00:42:30,205 --> 00:42:31,498 We have to keep the course. 497 00:42:31,498 --> 00:42:33,541 We have to stay on this journey. 498 00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,129 #There's a full moon over Kauai... # 499 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,430 - There are so many opinions surrounding Coco Palms 500 00:42:47,430 --> 00:42:50,683 You almost have to function in all of these, like, 501 00:42:50,683 --> 00:42:53,311 random worlds simultaneously. 502 00:42:53,311 --> 00:42:56,648 You have your Kanaka, you have your tourists, 503 00:42:56,648 --> 00:43:01,569 but you also have locals who don't necessarily agree with what we're doing. 504 00:43:02,862 --> 00:43:06,241 The one argument that most locals have 505 00:43:06,699 --> 00:43:11,538 is that Coco Palms is bringing jobs to the island. 506 00:43:13,623 --> 00:43:16,459 To destroy acres of land 507 00:43:17,168 --> 00:43:19,379 and bring all the pollution that comes with that, 508 00:43:20,171 --> 00:43:22,382 when it's going to be underwater in 10 years, 509 00:43:22,882 --> 00:43:24,133 purely for profit. 510 00:43:27,554 --> 00:43:30,974 In the long run, that mentality is going to kill us. 511 00:43:42,068 --> 00:43:44,904 - Keʻala reminded me of my cousin, Sandi, 512 00:43:44,904 --> 00:43:46,489 who I've been staying with on Kauai. 513 00:43:49,367 --> 00:43:51,494 The daughter of my great uncle Henry, 514 00:43:51,494 --> 00:43:54,872 her mother and Henry's wife was full Native Hawaiian. 515 00:43:59,043 --> 00:44:03,214 Sandi practiced the traditional hula and studied the Hawaiian language. 516 00:44:04,674 --> 00:44:06,926 She was Keʻala's age during the Hawaiian renaissance 517 00:44:06,926 --> 00:44:08,428 of the 1970s, 518 00:44:08,428 --> 00:44:11,556 in which she participated as a committed activist. 519 00:44:12,599 --> 00:44:15,268 This was a social movement of Native Hawaiians 520 00:44:15,268 --> 00:44:17,895 that led to demonstrations across the islands. 521 00:44:18,563 --> 00:44:20,273 Inspired by the Black Panthers 522 00:44:20,273 --> 00:44:22,400 and the American Indian Movement, 523 00:44:22,400 --> 00:44:25,069 the groups were protesting being pushed from their homes, 524 00:44:25,069 --> 00:44:30,408 as well as the military occupation that was bombing sacred islands for artillery practice. 525 00:44:31,117 --> 00:44:32,452 In one demonstration, 526 00:44:32,452 --> 00:44:36,789 Sandi joined a group of protesters in blocking the construction of a hotel 527 00:44:36,789 --> 00:44:40,209 being developed by Alexander & Baldwin. 528 00:44:41,461 --> 00:44:45,840 Sandi declined to be in the film due to her job today as a high level manager 529 00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:47,675 at one of Kauai's largest hotels. 530 00:44:48,509 --> 00:44:51,304 A position she worked incredibly hard for. 531 00:44:51,304 --> 00:44:53,598 Beginning as a construction worker while it was being built. 532 00:44:57,727 --> 00:45:00,355 Sandi also serves as a Hawaiian priest 533 00:45:00,355 --> 00:45:03,316 who conducts blessings at the hotel. 534 00:45:05,526 --> 00:45:10,323 It's a role she's reluctant to speak about but feels a duty to fulfill. 535 00:45:58,538 --> 00:45:59,622 - We're in Kauai, 536 00:46:00,623 --> 00:46:01,624 Kauai. 537 00:46:02,667 --> 00:46:04,001 - Wow, it's bright. 538 00:46:04,001 --> 00:46:05,086 Who turned on the lights? 539 00:46:06,087 --> 00:46:07,130 Who turned the lights on? 540 00:46:07,922 --> 00:46:08,923 Wow, it's really bright. 541 00:46:10,466 --> 00:46:12,427 What's that guy doing? 542 00:46:12,427 --> 00:46:14,721 Ah, that was just for the ladies. 543 00:46:17,098 --> 00:46:18,891 Excuse me, what language are you speaking? 544 00:46:19,809 --> 00:46:21,269 What language are you speaking? 545 00:46:21,269 --> 00:46:22,395 What is it? 546 00:46:22,395 --> 00:46:25,732 Well, you know there was a girl who she was just putting her clothes back on, 547 00:46:25,732 --> 00:46:27,692 but she looked really good so I had to get her on video. 548 00:46:27,900 --> 00:46:28,818 Goodbye. 549 00:46:31,738 --> 00:46:37,243 I bid you all farewell for the day with a traditional Hawaiian song. 550 00:46:38,411 --> 00:46:39,454 (IMITATES HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE) 551 00:46:39,954 --> 00:46:41,330 (LAUGHS) Sorry. 552 00:46:41,330 --> 00:46:44,500 That's not a real song. 553 00:46:44,500 --> 00:46:46,335 Goodbye, Kauai. 554 00:46:46,335 --> 00:46:47,628 It's been nice knowing you. 555 00:46:47,628 --> 00:46:50,131 (MUSIC AND SINGING) 556 00:47:39,013 --> 00:47:40,848 - Have a good night guys and enjoy the show. 557 00:47:44,769 --> 00:47:46,646 (CROWD CHATTERS) 558 00:47:52,527 --> 00:47:53,736 - Hey, how are you? 559 00:49:10,354 --> 00:49:12,815 - So, you weren't able to... yeah. 560 00:49:29,457 --> 00:49:31,626 - Well, tourism at the center of our island economy. 561 00:49:31,626 --> 00:49:33,628 The industry is looking to get a boost, 562 00:49:33,628 --> 00:49:38,174 and looking to some of our best and brightest started on a career in tourism, 563 00:49:38,174 --> 00:49:41,969 today the Tourism Authority hosted some 800 high school students 564 00:49:41,969 --> 00:49:44,805 and about 100 college students to an expo 565 00:49:44,805 --> 00:49:49,101 to expose them to opportunities in the state's number one industry. 566 00:49:50,186 --> 00:49:53,689 Presenters also wanted the students to understand that they are 567 00:49:53,689 --> 00:49:59,195 very important to Hawaii's future and sustainability as well. 568 00:50:16,462 --> 00:50:17,922 - Most people know me by 'River'. 569 00:50:17,922 --> 00:50:19,173 or Alakai. 570 00:50:22,134 --> 00:50:25,221 I'm one hapa haole, so they call me the white Hawaiian. 571 00:50:26,639 --> 00:50:28,057 But I have Hawaiian in my blood. 572 00:50:33,229 --> 00:50:34,605 I got two brothers on Kauai. 573 00:50:36,816 --> 00:50:38,651 Micah is the oldest. 574 00:50:50,663 --> 00:50:52,206 There is a lot I can learn from Micah. 575 00:50:54,166 --> 00:50:56,585 What to do and what not to do, you know. 576 00:51:49,388 --> 00:51:51,265 - I been staying with my poppa 'cause 577 00:51:51,724 --> 00:51:55,436 he can't really do a lot of the things that he used to do like clean up 578 00:51:55,436 --> 00:51:57,897 the yard and clean the house, even. 579 00:51:58,856 --> 00:52:00,900 I'm just there helping out as much as I can 580 00:52:00,900 --> 00:52:03,527 and spend as much time as I can with my grandfather, 581 00:52:03,527 --> 00:52:06,405 get as much knowledge as possible. 582 00:52:06,405 --> 00:52:08,115 You know, you never know. 583 00:52:25,591 --> 00:52:31,263 - My name is Pamela Green and I am the Kauai Division Director. 584 00:52:31,263 --> 00:52:34,350 And I have held this position for about 585 00:52:34,350 --> 00:52:36,185 so I want to say three years now. 586 00:52:37,186 --> 00:52:38,938 It could be longer, I lose track of time. 587 00:52:40,189 --> 00:52:42,108 Well, we have different trade groups. 588 00:52:42,108 --> 00:52:43,984 We have tourism. 589 00:52:45,236 --> 00:52:48,072 We used to have pineapple and sugar. 590 00:52:51,033 --> 00:52:54,453 It's very difficult to get a lot of the younger people to 591 00:52:54,453 --> 00:52:57,581 connect the dots because they're under the assumption, 592 00:52:57,581 --> 00:53:00,501 well, I get a half hour lunch break, or, you know, 593 00:53:00,501 --> 00:53:04,630 "If I'm sick and I tell my boss I want to go home, 594 00:53:04,630 --> 00:53:06,298 he has to let me go home, right?" 595 00:53:06,298 --> 00:53:07,800 Or, "Where's my break?" 596 00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:10,344 You know, "I'm entitled to a break. That's a law, right?" 597 00:53:10,344 --> 00:53:12,054 Well, it's not a law. 598 00:53:12,054 --> 00:53:18,144 It's a collective bargaining benefit that somebody has fought for 599 00:53:18,144 --> 00:53:22,064 and struggled and gone up against the company to get for you. 600 00:53:22,648 --> 00:53:24,859 And you could lose it, just like that. 601 00:53:26,068 --> 00:53:28,779 We don't have affordable housing here. 602 00:53:30,739 --> 00:53:35,953 Families that want to have the ability to buy a home. 603 00:53:35,953 --> 00:53:39,790 It's almost a dream that's not within their reach. 604 00:53:42,918 --> 00:53:47,840 The union's philosophy has always been that you should provide 605 00:53:47,840 --> 00:53:53,929 the worker with a wage that enables them to maintain a cost of living, 606 00:53:53,929 --> 00:53:55,764 within the cost of living. 607 00:53:55,764 --> 00:54:00,227 And I think, I don't know how to how to fix that. 608 00:54:00,853 --> 00:54:04,315 I mean it's the deeper you dig the more depressing it gets. 609 00:54:12,698 --> 00:54:14,241 -Yeah. (LAUGHS) 610 00:54:21,165 --> 00:54:23,334 - You think the workers are afraid of the management again? 611 00:54:38,349 --> 00:54:41,602 - You may not know there's an affordable housing crisis here on Kauai. 612 00:54:42,269 --> 00:54:44,355 Leading the charge is Habitat for Humanity. 613 00:54:44,355 --> 00:54:48,275 They're helping a few lucky locals make their dreams come true. 614 00:54:50,027 --> 00:54:53,155 - Habitat for Humanity is a program where lower income 615 00:54:53,155 --> 00:54:55,950 families receive resources to build homes, 616 00:54:55,950 --> 00:54:59,662 provided they work 30 to 40 hours a week on the construction 617 00:54:59,662 --> 00:55:02,039 on top of their already full time employment. 618 00:55:03,165 --> 00:55:05,709 The land being leased for this housing project is 619 00:55:05,709 --> 00:55:08,587 owned by the sugar company Alexander and Baldwin. 620 00:55:12,091 --> 00:55:14,635 - We have near 2,000 people that have 621 00:55:14,635 --> 00:55:17,096 expressed interest on building with Kauai 622 00:55:17,096 --> 00:55:20,891 Habitat saying that they're in desperate need of affordable housing. 623 00:55:20,891 --> 00:55:25,437 Out of that, had about almost 250 turn in applications. 624 00:55:25,437 --> 00:55:30,150 Out of that group, we've got an initial 12 loan qualified homeowners. 625 00:55:38,367 --> 00:55:42,121 Just the case in Hawaii is there's just not much available land at all. 626 00:55:42,121 --> 00:55:44,957 So, we've got to really strategize on that 627 00:55:44,957 --> 00:55:47,293 and work and see what our options are. 628 00:55:49,086 --> 00:55:51,964 The first two bedroom house back here. 629 00:55:52,673 --> 00:55:55,050 She's waitstaff at the Hyatt. 630 00:55:55,050 --> 00:55:56,635 This guy here is waitstaff 631 00:55:56,635 --> 00:55:59,388 I believe at Keoki's over in Poipu. 632 00:55:59,388 --> 00:56:03,559 Back over here, another gentleman that's on the wait staff 633 00:56:03,559 --> 00:56:06,854 at the Hyatt as well with banquets. 634 00:56:06,854 --> 00:56:12,735 One gal on the house over she is a receptionist over at a boat company. 635 00:56:20,367 --> 00:56:22,077 - Can I get you folks another round of drinks? 636 00:56:22,077 --> 00:56:23,287 - Yes. Two more. 637 00:56:29,835 --> 00:56:31,003 - Mr. Martin. 638 00:56:31,003 --> 00:56:33,380 There's a telephone call from Miss Munroe. 639 00:56:33,380 --> 00:56:34,131 - I'll take it. 640 00:56:35,341 --> 00:56:36,842 - Hi, guys. 641 00:56:36,842 --> 00:56:38,844 Hi, what are you doing? 642 00:56:38,844 --> 00:56:40,846 - The babysitter fell asleep. 643 00:56:40,846 --> 00:56:42,431 - Oh great. 644 00:56:42,431 --> 00:56:44,516 I mean, come on, it's like a Hawaiian 'Rosa" huh? 645 00:56:44,516 --> 00:56:45,517 - Oh my... 646 00:56:45,976 --> 00:56:47,227 - Oh my god. 647 00:56:47,227 --> 00:56:48,604 - Yeah, that's just like... 648 00:56:55,110 --> 00:56:59,239 - Did you ever seek out any of the films that were shot on Kauai? 649 00:57:03,035 --> 00:57:04,953 - No, no, just in general like movies that were... 650 00:57:07,081 --> 00:57:07,790 - What, really? 651 00:57:07,790 --> 00:57:08,791 - Yeah. 652 00:58:28,162 --> 00:58:30,539 - The battle between a group of Native Hawaiians 653 00:58:30,539 --> 00:58:34,209 and developers came to a head today here at Coco Palms. 654 00:58:34,209 --> 00:58:37,880 The group took up residence there almost two years ago. 655 00:58:38,714 --> 00:58:44,470 - Aloha mai kākou, it's Keʻala, I'm in my hale right now. 656 00:58:44,470 --> 00:58:48,682 Got to take everything out and leave what I can't carry in my own car. 657 00:58:48,682 --> 00:58:53,937 They're pushing us out to leave even though they don't have an official ejectment. 658 00:58:53,937 --> 00:58:55,063 Which is really fucked up. 659 00:58:55,063 --> 00:58:58,108 They sent people over to hurry me along to 660 00:58:58,108 --> 00:59:00,235 make sure I can get all my stuff quickly and 661 00:59:00,235 --> 00:59:01,445 I told them straight, 662 00:59:01,445 --> 00:59:02,779 I need to get all my shit out. 663 00:59:10,370 --> 00:59:12,998 - Today, they threw a curve ball at us. 664 00:59:14,041 --> 00:59:15,709 First, actually they kicked all of us out. 665 00:59:15,709 --> 00:59:20,589 Then they say we could go in two at a time to take our personal belongings. 666 00:59:20,589 --> 00:59:22,216 And there's families in here. 667 00:59:22,216 --> 00:59:24,468 So, each family has to rotate two at a time 668 00:59:24,468 --> 00:59:26,094 to go in to take out their belongings. 669 00:59:33,769 --> 00:59:38,065 My car's weighed down right now with all of my belongings 670 00:59:38,065 --> 00:59:42,986 and the belongings of, you know, common items that we had shared 671 00:59:42,986 --> 00:59:47,908 in our communal kitchen and tools and everything. 672 00:59:47,908 --> 00:59:51,578 We had no idea that the US Marshals 673 00:59:51,578 --> 00:59:55,165 would possibly be coming for us. 674 00:59:55,165 --> 00:59:59,753 As far as I'm concerned everything they did today here was illegal. 675 01:00:01,004 --> 01:00:04,800 - The developer, Tyler Greene, also called in a private security force. 676 01:00:05,801 --> 01:00:09,471 But they declined to help the police in removing the activists. 677 01:01:08,864 --> 01:01:13,660 - I was just sworn in as the president of Kauai Board of Realtors 678 01:01:13,660 --> 01:01:15,162 just a couple of days ago. 679 01:01:15,162 --> 01:01:20,083 So, I will be the 2015 President of the Kauai Board of Realtors. 680 01:01:20,083 --> 01:01:24,171 And not only do I find it to be an extreme honor 681 01:01:24,171 --> 01:01:26,340 to be thought of so highly 682 01:01:26,340 --> 01:01:29,092 as to be able to represent the people of Kauai, 683 01:01:29,092 --> 01:01:34,806 but I look forward to improving the image of realtors throughout the islands 684 01:01:34,806 --> 01:01:37,559 and also to serving better, 685 01:01:37,559 --> 01:01:40,395 able to serve the people of our island. 686 01:01:42,314 --> 01:01:46,234 I'm the broker in charge of Kauai Tropical Properties. 687 01:01:47,736 --> 01:01:50,280 Based out of Hanalei on the north shore of Kauai. 688 01:01:53,575 --> 01:01:57,079 We specialize basically in giving our clients 689 01:01:57,079 --> 01:02:03,293 a one on one feeling that they have someone they can actually trust. 690 01:02:03,877 --> 01:02:08,924 And who's not just trying to get trying to make the next dollar 691 01:02:08,924 --> 01:02:12,427 but that they're more concerned with their clients. 692 01:02:12,969 --> 01:02:16,223 Rather than making a living. 693 01:02:16,723 --> 01:02:20,644 (LAUGHS) 694 01:02:27,275 --> 01:02:29,111 We moved here, my wife and I at the time 695 01:02:29,111 --> 01:02:31,488 and had never been to Kauai but we moved here. 696 01:02:32,155 --> 01:02:33,573 And we looked at each other with two kids 697 01:02:33,573 --> 01:02:35,158 in tow you know we looked at each other 698 01:02:35,158 --> 01:02:36,827 we both had tears in our eyes when we 699 01:02:36,827 --> 01:02:38,495 turned back and we said, "My God, we're home." 700 01:02:42,207 --> 01:02:45,293 There's always more property becoming available, 701 01:02:45,293 --> 01:02:48,547 there is always new developers coming in to do things. 702 01:02:53,719 --> 01:02:55,846 - Oh, this is perfect, a massage table, 703 01:02:55,846 --> 01:02:58,056 I wonder if this comes with it. 704 01:02:58,515 --> 01:03:00,308 No it’s absolutely gorgeous. 705 01:03:01,685 --> 01:03:03,228 - Do you two live on the island, or...? 706 01:03:03,228 --> 01:03:04,688 - Well, we're residents. 707 01:03:04,688 --> 01:03:07,274 But we haven't bought anything yet. 708 01:03:07,274 --> 01:03:08,608 - How long you've been residents? 709 01:03:09,568 --> 01:03:12,946 - Well, we've come every year for a month or two, every year we're here. 710 01:03:12,946 --> 01:03:14,656 Yeah, I love it. 711 01:03:18,076 --> 01:03:20,579 - I was quite surprised by the fact 712 01:03:20,579 --> 01:03:25,709 that 50% of the homes on Kauai are owned by non-permanent residents, 713 01:03:25,709 --> 01:03:28,920 either second homes or investment properties. 714 01:03:28,920 --> 01:03:30,255 - Ciao, baby. 715 01:03:31,339 --> 01:03:35,469 - I'm just assisting other people, you know. 716 01:03:35,469 --> 01:03:36,553 I'm not making the laws, 717 01:03:36,553 --> 01:03:37,804 I'm not making the rules. 718 01:03:37,804 --> 01:03:38,972 I'm just helping. 719 01:03:40,515 --> 01:03:45,395 - I see in a lot of advertisements, 'plantation-style homes'. 720 01:03:45,395 --> 01:03:46,938 Like, what does that mean? 721 01:03:48,607 --> 01:03:49,858 Like, a New York brownstone? 722 01:03:50,484 --> 01:03:53,570 - (LAUGHS) "The plantation-style home". 723 01:03:57,449 --> 01:04:00,160 - There are only a few of the original residents living in 724 01:04:00,160 --> 01:04:03,538 the Alexander and Baldwin plantation housing. 725 01:04:03,538 --> 01:04:07,167 They're protected by a hard fought ILWU contract that allows 726 01:04:07,167 --> 01:04:09,961 them to remain on the property with rent control. 727 01:04:27,312 --> 01:04:28,104 - Hi. 728 01:04:54,881 --> 01:04:55,924 - Come on. 729 01:05:02,597 --> 01:05:05,767 - I have a daughter and son living here temporarily 730 01:05:06,935 --> 01:05:10,939 but they're always off working so basically I'm home alone. 731 01:05:10,939 --> 01:05:14,442 They're just waiting for us to die out one by one, 732 01:05:14,985 --> 01:05:17,737 unless we make trouble, then they to get to boot us out. 733 01:05:18,238 --> 01:05:23,076 But old ladies don't make trouble yeah? (LAUGHS) 734 01:05:23,076 --> 01:05:25,704 We snitch on other guys. (LAUGHTER) 735 01:05:27,789 --> 01:05:33,169 But just thank God our rent is small that we can survive here. 736 01:05:34,421 --> 01:05:37,257 I couldn't pay rent outside, I would probably go homeless. 737 01:05:39,509 --> 01:05:44,931 Sleep in my truck with my dogs. (LAUGHS) 738 01:05:46,808 --> 01:05:50,228 Haven't you looked around at the prices? 739 01:05:52,188 --> 01:05:55,108 Sale on the houses? The land? 740 01:05:56,026 --> 01:05:57,652 It's a dream. 741 01:05:59,779 --> 01:06:02,949 Every time I see dream mansions that I tell my daughter, 742 01:06:02,949 --> 01:06:05,744 "Oh, can I have one of those, please?" 743 01:06:06,661 --> 01:06:08,163 I can dream, can't I? 744 01:06:11,666 --> 01:06:15,921 - Bali Hai. What's that mean? 745 01:06:17,297 --> 01:06:21,801 - Bali Hai mean 'I am your special island'. 746 01:06:22,928 --> 01:06:26,598 Mean, 'here I am'. 747 01:06:26,598 --> 01:06:30,268 You listen you hear island call to you. 748 01:06:30,268 --> 01:06:31,645 Listen... 749 01:06:33,897 --> 01:06:37,984 - Coldwell Banker's latest home listing report shows Hawaii is 750 01:06:37,984 --> 01:06:42,530 the most expensive state for residential real estate in the country. 751 01:06:43,949 --> 01:06:46,326 As tourism raised land values, 752 01:06:46,326 --> 01:06:49,704 Kauai's tropical paradise became more than a place to visit, 753 01:06:49,704 --> 01:06:51,665 but a place that the wealthy can invest in. 754 01:06:54,417 --> 01:06:59,005 The overt agenda of Hollywood slowly receded into the background 755 01:06:59,005 --> 01:07:01,967 and the wealthy residents picked right up where Hollywood left off. 756 01:07:19,109 --> 01:07:21,611 - A body temple of light and radiance. 757 01:07:23,029 --> 01:07:26,616 - It was a group of us that came together to help people 758 01:07:26,616 --> 01:07:28,660 find their authentic self. 759 01:07:28,660 --> 01:07:29,369 And we thought, 760 01:07:29,369 --> 01:07:32,414 "Wow wouldn't it be really nice to put clay all over our bodies?" 761 01:07:32,414 --> 01:07:35,458 And we mentioned how this used to be done as children. 762 01:07:35,458 --> 01:07:39,796 We basically started what is now known as Tribal Kauai. 763 01:07:40,588 --> 01:07:43,008 - Why do I like coming to Kauai? 764 01:07:43,008 --> 01:07:44,759 This island... 765 01:07:44,759 --> 01:07:47,721 this home that my family and I have found here. 766 01:07:47,721 --> 01:07:51,474 It's not for everyone, it certainly is a beauty. 767 01:07:51,474 --> 01:07:53,810 It's a paradise but that's somewhat an illusion. 768 01:07:55,145 --> 01:07:56,688 Because it's... 769 01:07:56,688 --> 01:07:59,524 You have to work hard to be here. 770 01:07:59,524 --> 01:08:03,028 - CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent some 66 million bucks, 771 01:08:03,028 --> 01:08:06,990 On a 357 acre beachfront plantation on Kauai. 772 01:08:09,993 --> 01:08:11,453 - Welcome to Kukuiula, 773 01:08:11,453 --> 01:08:14,122 the world's most talked about new club and community. 774 01:08:16,041 --> 01:08:20,336 Kukuiula is 1,000 acres of pure joy. 775 01:08:20,336 --> 01:08:25,467 It's the most significant new private club and community in decades. 776 01:08:29,345 --> 01:08:32,807 Kukuiula is the Kauai you fell in love with. 777 01:08:32,807 --> 01:08:36,269 It's a down to earth paradise with an old Hawaiian soul. 778 01:08:39,064 --> 01:08:42,400 Kukuiula is Hawaii as it once was. 779 01:08:42,400 --> 01:08:43,902 Hawaii forever. 780 01:08:45,487 --> 01:08:48,031 Come, make it your own. 781 01:09:01,669 --> 01:09:05,381 - Kukuiula is being developed by A&B properties the real estate 782 01:09:05,381 --> 01:09:08,426 division of the sugar company Alexander and Baldwin. 783 01:09:10,386 --> 01:09:12,388 - For A&B, our partner, 784 01:09:12,889 --> 01:09:16,309 the blessing today for Kukuiula is really the culmination 785 01:09:16,309 --> 01:09:18,228 of a 30-year journey. 786 01:09:19,437 --> 01:09:22,273 This project has been made possible because of 787 01:09:22,273 --> 01:09:26,903 an incredible collaboration between the people of Kauai and our 788 01:09:26,903 --> 01:09:32,033 efforts to envision what was the right thing for this beautiful land. 789 01:09:34,702 --> 01:09:39,415 - For 16 years I worked with A&B particularly 790 01:09:40,041 --> 01:09:46,172 to help to foster the process of approvals. 791 01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:51,469 All along, you know there are people always that are 792 01:09:51,469 --> 01:09:54,681 naysayers you know and today to walk up to 793 01:09:54,681 --> 01:09:57,642 this building and see that yes it is a 794 01:09:57,642 --> 01:10:02,897 plantation styled building although it's plantation elegance. 795 01:10:03,857 --> 01:10:09,112 It just takes money and there will be jobs continuing for our people 796 01:10:09,112 --> 01:10:13,199 and our people will be appreciated 797 01:10:13,199 --> 01:10:15,952 and their Aloha will be felt. 798 01:10:22,333 --> 01:10:24,502 - My cousin Dylan is employed as a groundskeeper 799 01:10:24,502 --> 01:10:26,963 at the private club Kukuiula. 800 01:10:26,963 --> 01:10:30,675 It's non-union and he is constantly working. 801 01:10:30,675 --> 01:10:33,094 It was difficult to find a free moment with him 802 01:10:33,094 --> 01:10:35,054 that wasn't driving to and from work. 803 01:10:40,768 --> 01:10:43,021 - Ketchup on it? - No. 804 01:10:43,021 --> 01:10:45,190 - Are you sure? - No. 805 01:10:45,190 --> 01:10:47,942 - He shares a basement studio with his wife and their daughter, 806 01:10:47,942 --> 01:10:50,653 with another baby on the way. 807 01:10:50,653 --> 01:10:54,365 They rotate work shifts between each other while taking care of Maeva. 808 01:11:03,875 --> 01:11:06,377 - I kind of have like this, this year plan 809 01:11:06,377 --> 01:11:09,631 just to get all my finances straight, like pay off my school loan. 810 01:11:09,631 --> 01:11:12,759 Which I've been on top, I paid off medical bills within the last year. 811 01:11:14,010 --> 01:11:17,555 Hopefully, by the end of the year I'll have some money put aside, 812 01:11:17,555 --> 01:11:24,229 you know, just to kind of help pump me up to save more money. 813 01:11:24,229 --> 01:11:27,148 - So you want to buy a house? 814 01:11:27,148 --> 01:11:30,443 - Yeah. I mean, I really do want to buy a house, 815 01:11:30,443 --> 01:11:34,864 but I don't know how the market is gonna be when I do have the money. 816 01:11:35,448 --> 01:11:36,658 So... 817 01:11:37,450 --> 01:11:40,161 The real estate is going up. 818 01:11:42,622 --> 01:11:43,706 This is like home to me. 819 01:11:43,706 --> 01:11:46,960 So, I'll put in the work for it. 820 01:11:50,505 --> 01:11:52,298 - What are you going to do when you grow up, 821 01:11:52,882 --> 01:11:54,425 and you get older, what you want to do? 822 01:12:24,747 --> 01:12:26,124 - This is the boneyard. 823 01:12:27,750 --> 01:12:29,627 This is one of the few skate parks on the island. 824 01:12:41,806 --> 01:12:45,601 I had to cut my hair because I need to get a job. 825 01:12:47,228 --> 01:12:49,981 It was my grandpa's idea. 826 01:12:49,981 --> 01:12:51,274 Hey it was a good idea though. 827 01:12:53,026 --> 01:12:56,029 I just got hired at the Brennecke's Deli, 828 01:12:56,029 --> 01:12:58,656 so I'm pretty stoked about that job. 829 01:12:58,656 --> 01:13:02,035 Honestly, I'm grateful very blessed to have that job, 830 01:13:03,119 --> 01:13:05,121 so we are gonna see how it goes. 831 01:13:06,497 --> 01:13:08,499 Kind of work that they have here on this island 832 01:13:08,499 --> 01:13:09,500 is mostly service jobs, 833 01:13:09,500 --> 01:13:11,544 where you have to serve other people, 834 01:13:11,544 --> 01:13:15,340 which is hey, you know, it's good and all, but what about us? 835 01:13:16,841 --> 01:13:20,094 Even if you're having a bad day you have to put on a smile. 836 01:13:20,094 --> 01:13:22,555 You have to be nice, even when they're treating you rude, 837 01:13:22,555 --> 01:13:24,932 you know, you have to be nice, smile. 838 01:13:24,932 --> 01:13:27,101 That's what they tell you, smile just smile, 839 01:13:27,101 --> 01:13:29,270 and it’s just like, OK, you know 840 01:13:29,270 --> 01:13:32,106 they want us working here and they want us serving them. 841 01:13:34,275 --> 01:13:35,276 Meth. 842 01:13:35,985 --> 01:13:38,446 People do it because it's hard. 843 01:13:38,446 --> 01:13:43,368 The lifestyle over here in Hawaii where it's work, work, work, and then you play. 844 01:13:43,368 --> 01:13:45,244 But it's mostly work, you know. 845 01:13:46,537 --> 01:13:48,498 I didn't know about any of that dude, until like, 846 01:13:49,207 --> 01:13:53,294 I mean I kind of knew about it, like, a little bit but I didn't like ever see it. 847 01:13:54,504 --> 01:13:57,131 but everyone fucking does it. 848 01:13:57,131 --> 01:14:01,844 I hate to say it, but a lot of people do it. 849 01:14:01,844 --> 01:14:03,221 A lot of people do it. 850 01:14:11,979 --> 01:14:13,356 - Late at night, 851 01:14:13,356 --> 01:14:16,192 I received a call from Mike Wong in a distraught state. 852 01:14:17,902 --> 01:14:20,988 He had been recently fired from Smith's Tropical Paradise 853 01:14:20,988 --> 01:14:23,116 for having an argument with the owner. 854 01:16:36,415 --> 01:16:38,918 - Bob continued his Coco Palms Hotel tours 855 01:16:39,418 --> 01:16:42,296 as the Hawaiian activists moved further into the property 856 01:16:42,296 --> 01:16:45,299 after being removed from the original camp location. 857 01:16:46,050 --> 01:16:48,553 They were determined to continue to restore the site, 858 01:16:48,553 --> 01:16:50,304 but as soon as they got settled, 859 01:16:50,304 --> 01:16:54,267 the hotel developer Tyler Greene once again called for their removal. 860 01:16:59,272 --> 01:17:00,731 - We are here at Wailua. 861 01:17:00,731 --> 01:17:03,192 This morning, 7:00, the family got waked up. 862 01:17:04,443 --> 01:17:07,780 You're telling me that DLNR and KPD gotta come with this much muscle 863 01:17:07,780 --> 01:17:12,785 and guns against civilians that has no weapons and no guns. 864 01:17:12,785 --> 01:17:15,371 They pull this shit on us every fucking time. 865 01:17:15,371 --> 01:17:17,540 Excuse my language, but right now, 866 01:17:17,540 --> 01:17:19,584 the stakes are higher. 867 01:17:22,420 --> 01:17:25,756 Us at Wailua, The Garden Island of Kauai 868 01:17:25,756 --> 01:17:27,717 We're real pissed off an upset already. 869 01:17:27,717 --> 01:17:29,218 Enough is enough. 870 01:17:32,638 --> 01:17:36,017 - There are forces out there that don't want us to survive, 871 01:17:36,017 --> 01:17:42,106 because our existence threatens directly their existence. 872 01:17:42,106 --> 01:17:44,275 The fact that the Kingdom exists 873 01:17:45,151 --> 01:17:49,947 takes away from the legitimacy of the corporation 874 01:17:49,947 --> 01:17:52,617 that stole these lands. 875 01:18:00,207 --> 01:18:04,420 - I was hoping that through my research I would find Lois Weber's 'Cane Fire'. 876 01:18:06,505 --> 01:18:09,925 I was searching for a possible glimpse of my great grandfather. 877 01:18:11,093 --> 01:18:15,473 He was just an extra, but outside the frame he was taking on the plantation. 878 01:18:18,351 --> 01:18:20,895 I'll never see the climax of Weber's film 879 01:18:20,895 --> 01:18:24,982 in which a plantation worker deliberately starts an out-of-control cane fire. 880 01:18:27,276 --> 01:18:32,615 But after seeing Kauai today I began to imagine an island-wide revolt. 881 01:18:36,494 --> 01:18:38,204 - Conversation really sparkles tonight dear. 882 01:18:40,081 --> 01:18:41,624 - I find little to sparkle about. 883 01:18:42,500 --> 01:18:45,753 - Anxious for bright lights, social life? 884 01:18:45,753 --> 01:18:49,423 This is the best that Kauai has. 885 01:18:50,091 --> 01:18:51,342 - Very lovely. 886 01:18:51,342 --> 01:18:52,635 - Something wrong, Captain? 887 01:18:52,635 --> 01:18:53,803 - Sounds pretty close. 888 01:18:54,595 --> 01:18:55,596 - Might be a cane fire. 889 01:18:55,596 --> 01:18:56,722 - A cane fire? 890 01:19:00,017 --> 01:19:02,812 - Alright, gather around, gather around, thank you. 891 01:19:02,812 --> 01:19:05,731 - But is that the Elvis room you told us about over there? 892 01:19:06,941 --> 01:19:09,193 - No, it's not, the one you're looking for is over there. 893 01:19:09,193 --> 01:19:10,277 The last one to the right. 894 01:19:11,904 --> 01:19:12,697 - Bob, let's go check it out. 895 01:19:27,169 --> 01:19:29,463 (MUSIC) 896 01:19:42,643 --> 01:19:44,478 - Aloha, you mothers. 897 01:19:53,112 --> 01:19:55,114 (MUSIC) 898 01:20:02,788 --> 01:20:04,415 - No sense of moderation. 899 01:20:31,901 --> 01:20:33,027 - Okay, Henry. 900 01:21:22,743 --> 01:21:25,162 - When I first spent time with Henry for this film, 901 01:21:25,162 --> 01:21:29,250 he drove me to his favorite lookout spot in the Waimea Canyon 902 01:21:29,250 --> 01:21:32,711 he would often visit here with his wife, Cleo, before she died. 903 01:21:38,926 --> 01:21:41,053 It was in this peaceful untouched place 904 01:21:41,512 --> 01:21:43,097 that the family spread his ashes. 905 01:22:32,730 --> 01:22:35,900 - All unions are on attack, politically. 906 01:22:35,900 --> 01:22:40,279 And I don't think we have ever been attacked in this way before. 907 01:22:41,488 --> 01:22:43,782 We'll probably end up going full circle 908 01:22:43,782 --> 01:22:46,452 again and it won't be in my lifetime. 909 01:22:47,328 --> 01:22:51,415 I mean I'll probably be dead and gone before that uprising starts again, 910 01:22:51,415 --> 01:22:54,251 but it will start again. 911 01:23:05,930 --> 01:23:08,182 - Has things really changed? 912 01:23:11,101 --> 01:23:15,481 Largely no, they still control all this land. 913 01:23:16,106 --> 01:23:19,693 An individual or a small group of individuals 914 01:23:19,693 --> 01:23:22,446 own these humungous chunks of land. 915 01:23:23,989 --> 01:23:25,783 (MUSIC) 916 01:23:29,536 --> 01:23:31,664 - I'm very interested in film. 917 01:23:35,709 --> 01:23:39,505 I think that what we create and put out into the universe 918 01:23:39,505 --> 01:23:41,507 is very telling of who we are. 919 01:23:47,221 --> 01:23:51,892 I don't think we should limit ourselves to Hollywood. 920 01:23:51,892 --> 01:23:55,062 Elvis Presley like coming in on a canoe, 921 01:23:55,062 --> 01:23:56,563 that's not real. 922 01:24:26,135 --> 01:24:29,513 - The Native Hawaiian activists occupying Coco Palms 923 01:24:29,513 --> 01:24:31,181 took their case to state court. 924 01:24:32,599 --> 01:24:35,394 Knowing they stood no chance of winning within a legal system 925 01:24:35,394 --> 01:24:37,688 that refused to acknowledge their rights to the land. 926 01:24:38,397 --> 01:24:41,525 They chose to defend themselves without lawyers. 927 01:24:41,525 --> 01:24:43,902 This at least gave them the chance to speak for themselves. 928 01:24:44,486 --> 01:24:47,114 And to confront the developer, Tyler Greene, face to face. 929 01:26:17,287 --> 01:26:21,583 - I'm here to assist everyone on this island in 930 01:26:21,583 --> 01:26:23,919 protecting the island. 931 01:26:23,919 --> 01:26:25,504 It's why I came here. 932 01:26:25,504 --> 01:26:26,588 It's why I love Kauai. 933 01:26:26,588 --> 01:26:28,590 It's why I love the spirit of aloha. 934 01:26:29,925 --> 01:26:32,928 I'd like to touch on that actually, the spirit of aloha. 935 01:26:34,555 --> 01:26:37,599 Met a very local Hawaiian family 936 01:26:38,267 --> 01:26:40,602 and I remember getting in conversation. 937 01:26:40,602 --> 01:26:42,229 With the woman. 938 01:26:42,229 --> 01:26:45,023 And she said, "oh you're visiting our island?" 939 01:26:45,691 --> 01:26:52,614 and I sheepishly said, "well, we actually, we moved here 940 01:26:52,614 --> 01:26:55,117 and we're buying some land." 941 01:26:55,117 --> 01:26:59,413 To my amazement this woman threw open her arms and said, 942 01:26:59,413 --> 01:27:03,250 "oh you Kamaʻāina...welcome, welcome." 943 01:27:03,250 --> 01:27:06,795 She put her arms around us, gave us a big warm hug, 944 01:27:06,795 --> 01:27:10,132 and I said, "We are home." 945 01:27:10,132 --> 01:27:13,302 This to me was true Aloha. 946 01:27:14,636 --> 01:27:15,971 And I'll never forget it. 947 01:27:18,348 --> 01:27:20,058 It's Kauai. 948 01:27:28,483 --> 01:27:30,736 (MUSIC)