Activists take over and disband Lahaina town's only relief hub

in Lina town now gone after a rift between the Hawaii state representative who started the distribution site and a community activist who helped lead operations both sides shared their story with kitv fors Jeremy Lee he was in lahina as truck after truck hauled off what was left of the Hub refrigerators were Next Door Frozen items were coming in daily fresh produce was coming in Daily this is the heart of L of just below this park there's nothing left of Lina so this is like the start of L town now and the subdivision that I live in right now asking you to sit down with us to discuss the concerns of k m Community I was literally given an ultimatum and said you need to leave and I'm like I'm not leaving because I kind of started this and what do you mean and basically the threat was well then we'll take it out all the way there was an ultimatum that we we gave uh Ellie and um her response was um she did not want to work with us and what was the ultimat that she step step aside um and become a resource person and let the community fully manage the place this has been destroyed the entire thing has been destroyed and how is this helping the community community wasn't in favor of some of the donors uh or the monies that was coming in by certain donors um one being um a government um donor the Tesla wall was just up and right it took weeks to to get it all built up and finalized a very tall policeman I did not get his name I said I'm a volunteer and a donor and I want to understand why are you allowing this to happen and as a result of all all of this I have filed and I have asked the Attorney General's office to do a complete investigation because in my view what was done here was criminal straightforward way to to say that they did not want the government right now because they don't trust the government we just lost a hub that was some kind of Ray of Hope some type of help that sort of gave us all a you know light at the end of the tunnel saying hey we're pulling together we're Rebuilding Together and then it got just ripped out from all of us like with in front of our eyes in a day and continues to be taken away as we stand here and speak I mean that's you know I'm distraught Jeremy Lee kitv4 Island news thank you Jeremy representative Cochran pointed to social media post used to mobilize the Takeover of the Hub one post falsely claimed she wanted the Hub dissolved herself now the organizer who led the dismantling of the kellway aoka Hub told kitv the goods were redistributed to the napili hub and other locations in West Maui

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Published: Tue Nov 07 2023