When Mark Zuckerberg decided to sue hundreds of Hawaiians with ownership rights to small parts of his Kauai estate, he ignited a firestorm of backlash.
Now the Facebook billionaire's neighbors plan to march in protest this weekend at the 6-foot wall he erected last year along Koolau Road, according to the march's organizer, Joe Hart.
"People are furious down here with him," said Hart, a hibiscus farmer who lives about a quarter-mile from one edge of Zuckerberg's roughly 700-acre property. Hart is encouraging people who attend the march to blow conch shells and bang drums in peaceful protest.
Zuckerberg filed eight lawsuits in local court on December 30 against families who collectively inherited 14 parcels of land through the Kuleana Act, a Hawaiian law established in 1850 that for the first time gave natives the right to own the land they lived on.
The 14 parcels together total eight of the roughly 700 acres Zuckerberg owns, but the law gives any direct family member of a parcel's original owner the right to enter the billionaire's otherwise private compound.
the 6-foot wall Zuckerberg built last year cut off access to an inherited parcel of land, or "kuleana," that the original owner's family members had been able to access.
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