Even though I completely agree, it is really hard to read an article and take it totally serious when it is written with so many conspiracy theory words :"socio-political-economic oppression " - "neocolonial indentured servants" and more.
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Well, Maybe... Just Maybe
The first thing we can focus on is getting the ever illegal gambling rooms out of Waianae that keep sucking the financial resources out of the oppressed ?  Ask just about any of the people trying to "keep their roots anchored"  and they can give you the list of those illegal gambling rooms that they enjoy frequenting. Last count, I heard of about 7.
As a neighborhood board member, I would assume this would be your first focus since these places serve nothing more than to extract all of the financial assets from people and transfer those assets to someone else.  Get a small win and then sink 4 times more back into the machines trying to win again. 
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Creating an addiction for people to feed is its own form of Gentrification.