CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM
Hawaiian activist Walter Ritte led yesterday's protest against University of Hawaii patenting of taro varieties.
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In protest of taro patents
Demonstrators contest UH-Manoa rights to three taro varieties
A crowd of a few hundred people convened yesterday at Bachman Hall on the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus to protest UH patents on taro plants.
Hawaiian charter school students performed a hula and built a stone altar, or na mamo o haloa, during the protest. Taro, or kalo, is considered sacred by Hawaiians.
Hawaiian activist Walter Ritte led yesterday's protest.
CINDY ELLEN RUSSELL / CRUSSELL@STARBULLETIN.COM
Hawaiian charter school students performed hula and built a stone altar, or na mamo o haloa, during the protest.
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CORRECTION
Saturday, March 4, 2006
» Native Hawaiians opposed to University of Hawaii patents on taro did not present a letter to the Manoa chancellor requesting the school relinquish patents on three varieties of Hawaiian taro plants. A photo caption on Page A3 in yesterday's early edition incorrectly said the letter was presented.
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