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1. Court told delay would hurt Alakai's military usefulness - comment
2. sidewalk blog (political content) - around kaneohe
3. Pioneering Welsh town begins the transition to a life without oil
4. joe's latest rant -- pretty good reading
5. WOMEN RESISTING MILITARISM AND CREATING A CULTURE OF LIFE
6. Press Release: Voices from Hawaii & Puerto Rico
7. Hawaiian Royalty to Join in Pan-Pasifik Meeting - comments
8. fantastic video for teachers and those seeking pono -- Asterisk
Productions
9. fascist business?
10. Environmental Action : Stop Mountain Top Removal Mining
11. Superferry & Navy & Stryker EISs
12. Disappeared News - 4 new articles
13. Austal gunning for high-speed vessel contract - comment
14. The Peace Center -join us
15. Hale Koa: Prayer Vigil - 9/7/07 @ 4 p.m.
16. First Friday performance
17. BBC News: Bush Arrives In Fortress Sydney - coming to you soon!
18. Hawaiian Royalty to Join in Pan-Pasifik Meeting - more comment
19. World Can't Wait on The SuperFerry
20. Bamboo Ridge's Wine & Words
21. Superferry - letter to gov.
22. Hawaiian Royalty to Join in Pan-Pasifik Meeting - and more comment
23. Superferry - non-violence workshop
24. 11th Annual Holistic Hawaii Expo - Sept 8 & 9 - Kona
25. last deeksha till november
26. Militarized Security Zone for Hawaii Superferry

1. Court told delay would hurt Alakai's military usefulness - comment
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:54:52 -1000
From: Tane . <Tane_1@msn.com>

Sean Connaughton, the administrator of the U.S. Department of
Transportation's Maritime Administration, said in a declaration in Maui
Circuit Court last week that the Alakai could be used by the military
because of its speed and cargo capacity.....

But Connaughton said the military utility of the Alakai could be
diminished if it is not used in normal commercial operations.

"Consequently, the military readiness of the nation could be diminished if
the Alakai is precluded from sustaining normal commercial operations," he
told the court......

This says it in a nutshell. The tiresome, lame reasoning that the
readiness of the nation could be diminished is laughable. Look at the map
and see how much of Hawaii affects the readiness of the continental USA.
Their empty words denote their self-aggrandizement and brattish behaviour.
The military has megabucks to buy one and keep in storage till they need
it. If a nut and bolt can cost them $1,000.00 apiece, then surely they
can afford to keep a superferry in storage or use between the islands
without any loss of money whenever they want to use it.

Tane
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2. sidewalk blog (political content) - around kaneohe
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:47:06 -1000
From: Susan Webster Schultz <schultz@HAWAII.RR.COM>

Recently, I started a "sidewalk blog." I paint signs on pieces of wood,
drill holes in them, and hang them on chain link fences with pieces of
wire. Have a look. If you click on the photos, they get bigger and a
brief narrative appears:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=6374&l=faa87&id=654553661

aloha, Susan Schultz
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3. Pioneering Welsh town begins the transition to a life without oil
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 16:33:51 -1000
From: mike reitz <mreitz@pacbell.net>

http://environment.guardian.co.uk/energy/story/0,,2051912,00.html
Pioneering Welsh town begins the transition to a life without oil
As the supply of cheap fuel dwindles, rural Lampeter embarks on 'energy
descent'
Felicity Lawrence
Saturday April 7, 2007 The Guardian

There is, as the ads say, no Plan B. The age of cheap oil is drawing to a
close, climate change already threatens, and politicians dither. But the
people of Lampeter, a small community in the middle of rural Wales,
gathered together earlier this week to mobilise for a new war effort. They
decided to plan their "energy descent".

It was in fact the biggest public meeting in Lampeter anyone could
remember. West Wales has a long tradition of alternative living, but the
scale of this was different. More than 450 people filed into the hall in a
place where the total population is just 4,000. They had come to turn
themselves into a Transition Town - one of a rapidly growing network of
places that have decided not to wait for government action, but to prepare
for life after oil on their own.

First, the coordinator of the Transition Town movement, Rob Hopkins, told
them how urgent the crisis is. Hopkins, who helped create the earliest
Transition Towns in Kinsale, Ireland, and Totnes, Cornwall, and advises
the 20 or so others that have signed up, describes himself as an early
topper.

He's one of those who think that in the next five years we will have
reached peak oil - the point at which half the world's oil reserves have
been used up. After that production goes into irreversible and rapid
decline and our main source of energy starts running out. Since we have
not so far identified another viable energy source to replace it, the only
rational response, he said, is to plan our energy descent. "Life after oil
will have to look very different."

The world, he explained, divides into early toppers and late toppers. The
early toppers, made up largely of former industry geological experts,
calculate that world oil production has already or will very soon peak.
The end of oil is nigh, in other words.

The late toppers, made up mostly of more optimistic oil companies,
governments and economists, predict we have longer, with peak oil some 20
to 30 years away. "I tend to believe the people with no vested interest,
but either way this is one of the most dramatic shifts humanity has had to
face," Hopkins warned.

By now the people of Lampeter, from ageing hippies to young activists,
were shifting in their plastic seats (made with oil) and drawing anxiously
on their water bottles (made with oil) if not reaching for their medicines
(made with oil). Hopkins told them they were likely to experience a range
of common symptoms that accompany initial peak oil awareness.

One might be an irrational grasping at infeasible solutions. At hydrogen,
for example. No good, running the UK's cars on hydrogen would need 67
Sizewell B nuclear power stations or a wind farm bigger than the
south-west region of England. Or what about biofuels? No again, it would
take over 25m hectares of arable land to run the UK's vehicles on
biodiesel, and the UK only has 5.7m hectares of arable land. We need to
eat too.

Unfortunately, British farming has evolved "into a system for turning oil
into food", reliant on the energy-intensive manufacture of synthetic
fertiliser, heavy use of oil-based plastics, and centralised just-in-time
distribution systems that also guzzle oil.

After Hopkins, Guardian columnist George Monbiot, who lives near Lampeter,
tried to cheer them up. Unlike Hopkins, he said he had been persuaded that
the end of oil was not nigh, but only nigh-ish. We may have another 10 to
30 years. And there was lots of coal for energy.

The problem was that if we switched back to sin fuels that increase our
emissions, climate change will undo us even faster than peak oil.

The drive for change in Lampeter has come in part from a group of local
farmers - both Patrick Holden, the Soil Association's director, and Peter
Segger, the businessman who was the first to supply the mass market with
organic foods through the supermarkets, have their land nearby. Both have
decided that the future lies in selling more of their produce locally
instead of having it trucked round the country.

Segger and his partner Anne Evans have already switched from supplying the
major retailers to selling half their vegetables within Wales..

Holden confessed to a touch of both survivalism and optimism. As an
organic farmer who does not use artificial fertiliser, he said he had been
feeling smug until he heard Hopkins speak a couple of months ago.

But he realised his produce was also part of the problem once it left his
farm, feeding into the system of centralised distribution. Now he is
trying to make his farm self sufficient in energy: he has already invested
in burying half a mile of pipes under a field to extract heat from the
soil that keeps his house warm.

Four hours into planning their energy descent and over bowls of local cawl
broth the crowd in Lampeter were considering what they would like to
happen - a ban on advertising that encourages consumption; turning the
local supermarket into a giant allotment - and what they could they could
actually do - install a community wind turbine; encourage low-energy
buildings using sheep's wool for insulation; swap skills.

Someone suggested that a local landowner give the town an acre for a
community vegetable garden. There was an awkward silence until someone
else remembered a playing field that would serve the purpose, if the
council agreed.

There was plenty of inspiration from pioneer towns.

Transition Totnes has introduced its own currency with notes that can only
be spent in local shops. Its businesses are being audited by an accountant
who provides a wake-up call by identifying parts of their operations that
become unprofitable as oil prices rise. The town is planting nut trees
which can provide emergency food and timber for construction while also
acting as carbon sinks.

Lampeter decided emphatically on a show of 450 hands that it would meet
again to plan its next stage. And then its people spilled out on a clear
spring night into the car park and, just this one last time, drove home.

How we use oil

· 130kg packaging made from oil-derived plastics is consumed by British
households each year. Two-thirds of it is used in food production

· 57miles is the average distance a tonne of freight now travels by road.
In 1953 it was 21 miles

· 95% of our food products require the use of oil, and the supply of food
accounts for 21% of Britain's energy use

· 3.5 litres of oil is needed to produce half a kilogram of steak
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4. joe's latest rant -- pretty good reading
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 13:38:16 -0700
From: Rebecca Cummings <beckyspi@mac.com>

A Feral Dog in Harvard Yard by Joe Bageant | Apr 15 2007 - 10:44am |
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/6782
--Hang the professors but save the eunuchs for later
By Joe Bageant

It is time to close America's universities, and perhaps prosecute the
professoriat under the RICO act as a corrupt and racketeering-influenced
organization. American universities these days have the moral character of
electronic churches, and as little educational value. They are an
embarrassment to civilization. -- Fred Reed, American expatriate writer
and "equal-opportunity irritant."

If there is one bright spot in the bleak absurdity of slogging along in
our new totalist American state, it is that ordinary working Americans are
undisciplined as hell. We are genuine moral and intellectual slobs whose
consciousness is pretty much glued onto an armature of noise, sports, sex,
sugar and saturated fats. Oh, we nod toward the government bullhorns of
ideology, even throw beer cans and cheer when told we are winning some war
or Olympic sports event. But when it comes right down to it, we could
generally give a rat's ass about government institutions and are
congenitally more skeptical of government than most nations, especially
nations that get things like good teeth and free higher education for
their tax dollars.

Surely, there are governmental facts of life no working American can
escape, like the IRS, but no ordinary person is dumb enough to actually
trust political parties, banks, the courts or the news media. Born with
the organizational instincts and global awareness of a box turtle, we take
the most torpid political path -- we call it all bullshit, pay lip
service, vote occasionally, then forget about our government altogether
until April 15th of the next year.

As inhabitants (you couldn't really call what we practice citizenship)
of a nation that is essentially one big workhouse/shopping compound,
American life is simultaneously both easy for us and rather dangerous to
the rest of the world. For instance, when the corporate state's
CBS-ABC-CBS-FOX-NBC-XYZ television bullhorns told us some warthog named
Saddam Hussein blew up the World Trade Center and probably fixed the NFL
ratings too, Tony the electrician said, "Well, OK then. Sure, go ahead and
bomb the fucker." Then he flicked to the Home and Garden Channel, where
the guy in the plaid shirt is explaining how to get a skylight installed
without leaking. Thanks to American industrial molecular science, there's
yet another new sticky stuff miracle from Dupont, a tube of which costs
about as much as the entire friggin roof. After the obligatory Dupont
public relations sponsored tour of the plant where the goo is cooked up,
plaid shirt guy gives "application instructions," meaning he tells you how
to squirt it out of the tube. And somewhere along the line, between the
plant tour and watching the goo dry, Tony gave "informed consent" to the
war in Iraq without even knowing it, or for that matter, giving a shit.

This sort of life has its advantages, such as never having to analyze the
institutions that manage us -- not that we'd know how even if we cared to.
That's what television is for. Right? Given our short attention spans,
compliments of the business state's 100-channel national nerve system
(three minutes into the show and the blonde hasn't taken her bra off or
killed anybody yet, CLICK!) diversion fills the void of understanding as a
nation of clueless mooks knocks around the new American emptiness,
wandering the mall food courts, and maybe half-heartedly looking for a
pair of size XXXL 50-inch waist long wicking NBA shorts (they actually
make'em), but generally is just bored.

But hold yer drawers there, hoss, because we nevertheless do possess a
seed of existential angst, however tiny, this despite the liberal
intellectual managing class' and leftist profs' claims to the contrary.
And that makes us potentially unmanageable politically speaking,
potentially dangerous even (it's the length of the fuse that is
deceiving.) We may be being lead around by our stomachs and our dicks with
our eyes taped shut, but we're not total ideological slaves yet. Because
even the worst ideology requires at least a modicum of thought, and as a
people with no authentic intellectual culture, we haven't enough
collective intellect or education these days to pull it off.

Meanwhile, when it come to pulling off, that small American class in
charge of all things intellectual are doing just that, jerking off a whole
nation. Admittedly, it's an unenviable job, but there are people selfless
enough to do it. These poor intellectual bastards constitute the most
servile class in America -- the Empire's house niggers. It is their job to
maintain the semblance of ideological control over the pizza gobbling herd
(America eats 126 acres of pizza a day!) for the Corporate States of
America, which entertains no breach of official ideology, that collection
of clichés and things that sound as if they ought to be true, according to
our mercantile mythology and conditioning. So it is the American
intellectual's gig to weave some philosophical and ideological basket of
American Truth out of mercantile folklore and smoke in such a way as to
appear to hold water when viewed at great distance by the squinting
millions out there in the burboclaves, office campuses, construction sites
and fried chicken joints. If the result were not so abysmally eye glazing,
tedious and predictable, it would be an act of pure alchemy, truly
spinning gold from chaff, turning mud bricks into bullion. Like we said,
somebody's gotta do it, but the question remains as to why anyone would
choose to. Answer: It beats working.

"Blessed are the thinking classes, for theirs is the kingdom of tenure."
-- Jesus to the Boston University Political Science Department,

Though they never admit it, and especially to each other, these
professors, book editors, intellectual critics, and social and economic
"theorists" are very class conscious, privileged and understand that they
occupy their desk chairs at the pleasure of The Corporation. You don't
have to stand back very far to see they have been the spin masters of the
business class from the outset, and have either held America together, or
kept the fuck job going from the beginning, depending upon the class from
which you are viewing American history.

Of course they are only human. Like any group of people with a class
advantage, they prefer to keep on drinking cognac and pissing it out
upstream from the rest of the Pepsi swilling herd destined for bladder
cancer. So this class sticks together, despite its prissy intellectual
disputes in journals and critical publications. They produce "criticism"
for the for the New York Times Book Review, or The National Review, etc.,
which, though it may even be lively at times, and often full of that
vacuous wit that garden variety liberals so love because it revolves
around a few threadbare names and dead ideas they learned during their
college days or masters degree indoctrination.

But the thinking classes' main job is to serve as intellectual hit men for
the ruling elites, the business class, which doesn't come all that hard
for them, having been all stamped out of the same dough on the Corporate
system's university conveyor belt. Most are utterly convinced they are
original and thinking for themselves, which in the university scheme of
things means absorbing vast amounts of text, fermenting it in some sort of
a second stomach and regurgitating it as a concentrated cud, supposedly
unique because they alone coughed it up. The few who understand that this
in no way resembles original thought usually keep mum, and keep their jobs
in publishing or academia. Or flee screaming in despair once they figure
out what is going on.

Then too, there is a huge number for whom America's university system is a
sheltered workshop; people who simply could not survive in the real
working world, which, miserable as it may be, nevertheless demands a
modicum of practicality and some scant ability to socialize. I once dated
a university professor with a doctorate in linguistics who, honest to god,
let her Irish wolfhound shit all over the house and completely destroy
every piece of furniture in her place until she was forced to sleep in the
attic crawlspace in a sleeping bag, and actually did not understand why
nobody ever accepted her dinner party invitations. She was not, by the
way, brilliant or eccentric. Just completely helpless and out of it in her
own little corner of academic goo-goo-land. Yet out there on the plains of
Washington State University hers was a reasonably respected intellect.

Now you can skin the cat (or that goddamned wolfhound) any way you choose,
but if you want to be a really respected intellectual, you must serve
business and power. You must serve the only apparatus capable of allowing
you exposure enough to make a lunge at respect, which after all, merely
amounts to being allowed to create something scientifically useful to the
Empire's goals, or in other cases, achieve that weird localized hothouse
plant celebrity as an intellectual one finds on every campus. Either way,
you'll never make as much money as say, Ann Coulter, who is infinitely
more useful to the Empire and the business class that runs it than any
intellectual can ever hope to be.

Pistol whipped with the "business end" of a good education

The United States has the most obsessive business class in the world.
This would be no big deal if it did not direct the minds of the nation's
population thorough its public relations indoctrination industry. This is
a matter of life and death for the financial pickle vendors, sub-prime
mortgage shysters and CitiBank, Morgan Stanley and other high financiers
who have come to actually own this country. There is only one threat to
their empire of debt: people acting in the interests of ordinary society
-- which in the rest of the world is known as socialism. Consequently, we
have no socialist politicians and no socialist journalists in our entire
press and media, which is simply unimaginable in most civilized places
like Europe. It is important that the working class thinks it has the
self-determination they learned about in high school civics classes
designed in the universities, that they feel any kind of individual power
at all, which basically comes down the tepid power of consumer choice,
which makes them malleable, and intolerant of any voice that suggests
otherwise. But if even one iota of class awareness were allowed to
flourish here, well, much of the American business class and the entire
Yale University faculty would be hiding out in Argentina.

Without class interests and class awareness there can be no genuine
politics or political parties. So, to the everlasting relief of the
business classes, and with thanks to our university system's poli-sci,
history and social science departments, we have neither. Despite all the
media's political white noise, we have a depoliticized society. It may be
that the Internet is changing things. It surely is the most refreshing
opportunity to come along maybe in all of modern American history, and it
does put heat on some political campaigns. No arguing that it influences
certain influencers in society, to the degree that anything besides
advertising influences anybody in the consumer republic. Problem is
though, how do you create critical political mass in a depoliticized
society? Most people don't vote and when it comes to actual participation
in politics, opportunity is zilch. If you are not from the relatively
privileged political and business segments, what the hell access is there
for the individual to participate, except in one of the two business based
and supported parties offered? Even at the local level. Anyone who has
tried to affect one of these parties locally knows you either play
entirely by the party line or stand isolated, over in the corner of the
Holiday Inn meeting room with your paper plate of stale salami and
Triscuits and keep your mouth shut and let the Rotary Club's big dogs
bark. "Save the class dissidence bullshit for your next Al-Qaeda cell
meeting, buddy!"

It is 1958 and I am twelve years old, living on the edge of "niggertown"
in Winchester, Virginia and hiding out in the Handley Public Library from
the redneck bully kids. I am reading a somewhat pompous but erudite
biography of a Harvard dean and wondering how such a mythical magical
being could possibly exist in the same country and on the same planet as
me. A place where my dad came home from the gas station every night, skin
penetrated by and forever smelling of motor oil and cigarettes. Yet this
man in this book, this Harvard dean who apparently ate fish eggs called
caviar (I looked it up in the dictionary,) was a bulwark against something
called McCarthyism, hated some people called communists and was friends
with a fellow named John Kennedy. His name was McGeorge Bundy, which meant
absolutely nothing to me, neither at the time, nor even later when he
became one of the Kennedy administration's gurus who launched the Bay of
Pigs and the cranked up Vietnam War. Still, reading about him beat the
hell out of being bloodied by the red-faced inbred yokels who plagued the
10-block walk home from school. That same year I read Allen Ginsberg's
"Howl," a copy of which was given me by am older kid, a fellow habitué of
the decaying old Southern library, the queer son of the local insurance
agent. It changed my life forever:

"America when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?
When will you look at yourself through the grave?"

Learning is a fickle thing. You never know which parts of it will turn out
to be important and you don't really need any credential or even much
literacy to begin the journey. After reading Howl I was pretty sure I was
a class dissident, even though the word was not even in use yet. Before a
word is born, there is a mumbling in the heart that cries for a name.

All these years later I find great comfort in that there are any number of
genuine class dissidents and original thinkers still nested within the
university system, nursing happy-hour pitchers, writing poetry,
formulating perfectly rational antidotes to our national delusions, even
though they serve now as mere manikin proof of the great academy's
tolerance for diverse ideas. They have been rendered eunuchs, but at least
they are dissident eunuchs with health insurance. But I have always
enjoyed living in or visiting major university communities. Just last week
I had one of the most meaningful evenings in ages with the dissident crowd
at the University of Pennsylvania in Philly. Thankfully, such dissidents
prefer to congregate there instead of, say, Bob Jones Cult College or
wearing the secret Mormon underwear of Brigham Young University. It felt
like old times. It felt free. Sort of. Still though, there was a nagging
feeling that these people were an endangered species. And also that they
were actually philosophers and bards and artists, noble pursuits once
esteemed by universities and the intellectual class, but somehow now fall
under the category of dissents -- which in America is code for terrorist
sympathizing malcontents.

From the viewpoint of university administrators, my puny philosophy
department, and even the entire humanities division, looks rather like
some vestigial organ^Å The business school is the heart, the natural
sciences are the brain, and we, who read Plato and Descartes, Homer and
Montaigne, are the appendix, just waiting to be excised once and for all.
-- Justin E. H. Smith, Concordia University philosophy professor.

Meanwhile, until appendectomy happens, there are the nation^Òs
intellectual hall monitors to deal with. Most of America's intellectual
class, like any privileged one that expects to maintain privilege, the
intellectual class must be self-policing. So real dissidents and original
thinkers are ignored and we watch B. F. Skinner's extinction behavior
practice put into action. Smile and ignore the dissident to death
professionally. Sometimes though, in spite of the best pest eradication
efforts in the garden of academe, there sprouts a weed so completely
antithetical to the great lie that he or she cannot be ignored. And if the
offending party is particularly unlucky, he or she may be discovered by
one of the political hacks sponsored to "elected office" by the
Corporation, usually a Republican congressman looking for threats from
within this very republic of eagles under god. Then all hell breaks loose.
First the dissident is publicly discredited and demonized by an organized
media lie campaign. After that, an appointed academic committee somehow
discovers that his or her credentials, even after 25 years in the
university system, are fraudulent and that there are some serious
questions about his or her sexual appetites, not to mention his or her
whereabouts on September 11.

I once thought I understood the ways in which America removes those who
would point to the essential global criminality by which all Americans
draw their ration of bread. But as I watched this process be conducted on
my friend Ward Churchill, I realized how the extraction of these people
from society has become an exquisitely brutal form of public surgery,
certainly chilling on the face of it, but even more horrifying for the
entertainment value it provided for the cheap seats in the Coliseum. I've
known Church for over 30 years and though I've never completely agreed
with what I considered his somewhat violent take on things, I agree with
him now. Not simply because the system took out another of my dissenting
friends, but because for the first time I could see how the dismemberment
of a thinking citizen's identity and life is conducted, tissue by tissue,
through carefully sharpened lies and fraudulent moral and intellectual
charges. In his starkest truth telling about the genocide perpetrated upon
indigenous peoples, and in his now infamous description of the Empire's
"little Eichmanns" occupying the World Trade Center towers, Church came
too close to the truth about the kind of psychic violence that underpins
The American Way, the unacknowledged kind that is executed by America's
most servile class, the bureaucratic, managerial and intellectual classes
that maintain a system which could never survive the light of truth or
anything resembling real justice.

It is because of guys like Church that the American intellectual
establishment must conduct the self-policing of their own class. So a
carefully nurtured and sustained system of intellectual critics finds
faults, finds problems in the basic thesis or critical thinking or premise
of any writer or thinker whose observations do not match the national
hallucination being sold by the system's elites (to whom they must cater
without appearing to cater.) Even the supposed intellectual left does
this. In fact, probably does it best of all through its staunch assertions
of the evils of free market capitalism, even though free market capitalism
does not even exist and has never been practiced (more on that later).
Most born into the establishment's intellectual class are born blind,
rather like kangaroos or possums inside safe dark middle or upper middle
class marsupial pouches where they experience nothing except what feels
good as defined by the moist darkness of their nurture. And when they
emerge they feel entitled to be where they are and honestly cannot see the
system itself, never giving it a thought until they go off to college and,
between spring breaks and beer parties, learn to experience and define
reality through texts.

Those who do see the system for what it is are either worn down by the
sheer mass of our institutions, or construct elaborate mental architecture
to bridge over and avoid the truth. While their efforts are often
applauded taken up by fellow intellectuals -- post modernism has been the
latest of these, and like all such constructions, contains a maybe one or
two fly-shit sized specks of truth -- they are utterly lost in the
national machinery of fabrication. Text is not reality. Hell, reality
isn't even reality in this country.

It is not too hard to grasp why unlettered but intuitive -- and not a
little bit vengeful -- Chinese peasants in their revolution killed,
humiliated and imprisoned the intellectuals. If Mao got one thing right it
was that those intellectuals who pretend to ignore the existence of class,
or refuse to live at the level of the most common class, are actually
class exploiters, and entertain the pretense at their own eventual peril.
No amount of text, no amount of ideology or pretense can ultimately
protect us from reality, something which Americans are about to learn the
hardest way possible.

When it comes to the state sanctioned American intellectual
establishment's support of charade and pretense, the biggest fraud of all
has been the notion of capitalism and free markets. There never was a free
market, and, as Howard Zinn has so often demonstrated, every single
industrialized nation was built on protectionism from the beginning. Even
a cursory study of economic history shows that not a single developed
nation in the world has ever followed the rules of free market capitalism.
Not one. Early America built its textile industry on protectionism from
the British. A hundred years later our steel industry came about the same
way.

That is not to say the rules of free market capitalism are never observed.
The rules of free market economics are for ramming down the throats of
Third World or otherwise uncooperative peoples. Especially those tracking
crude oil through the marketplace on the soles of their sandals. Yet there
is scarcely a college or university, or business or school of that mumbo
jumbo ritual called "economics" in this nation that does not teach "free
market history" and free market "solutions" to such problems as the
devastating eco collapse in progress, or that millions of babies shit
themselves to death from dysentery or die for lack of a plain old drink of
clean water.

Watching doomsday on HBO

Free market capitalism may have been a fraud from the git-go, but at least
there was once a version which accepted the notion that any market needed
customers. Once upon a time business in the industrialized world needed
its citizen laborers as customers, as consumers, which implied they be
paid at least enough to buy the products of the businesses and
corporations that beat their asses into submission along America's
assembly lines and hog slaughtering plants. That was called American
opportunity and prosperity and it looked pretty damned good to millions of
war ravaged Urpeen furiners trying to decide whether to eat a wharf rat or
the neighbor's cat for dinner. As for the Third World, they could eat dirt
and do native dances for what few tourists existed then (otherwise called
the rich), but mainly they should stay out of the way of "our" natural
resources in their countries.

At any rate, when the citizen labor force, by their sheer numbers, held
most of the dough in their calloused mitts, there was no avoiding them by
the business classes. But now that so much of not just this nation's, but
the world's wealth, has become concentrated in the hands of so few, that
is no longer a problem for the rich. People are cheaper than ever and
getting more plentiful by the minute. So work'em to death, kill'em, eat'em
if you want to. Who the fuck cares? The international rich, the managers
and controllers of the new financial globalism and the world's resources
and the planet's labor forces, whether they be Asian "Confucian
capitalists," masters of Colombian Narco state fortunes or Chinese Tongs,
New York or London brokerage and media barons, or Russian oligarchs, hold
increasing and previously unimaginable concentrated wealth. They look to
be a replacement for the mass market, indeed even a better one with fewer
mass distribution problems, higher grade demand and at top prices.

Until then however, the real dough is still in the energy game, the big
suckdown of hydrocarbons, that plus convincing Americans to burn up their
own seed corn. Academics, economists and scientists offer "free market
solutions," such as ethyl alcohol from corn -- which most readers here
know requires more petroleum to grow than energy it produces, and will
deprive the rest of the world of much needed food -- just so Americans may
continue motoring the suburban savannah lands, grazing on Subway Cold Cut
Combos and Outback's Kookaburra Chicken Wings.

But even when the last Toyota Prius is forever moldering in the globally
warmed deserts of Minneapolis, we proles will not be totally unprofitable
creatures. Yesterday I read a gem of an economic paper asserting that in
the emerging information, amusement, service, and "experience and
attention economy," it is vital that ^Óprivate business capture ownership
and control of the public's knowledge and its attending rent streams."
Apparently it's not bad enough that we become a third rate gulag of
impoverished nitwits. They are going to charge us for the privilege.

Oh, dammit to hell anyway. Like a lady in Philly told me last week, "Joe,
you're always so grim about these things." She's right. It's not the end
of the world. Just the opening act. There is still quite a bit of this
ugly little drama to be played out. But I can say one thing with
certainty: This may be, as the economic intellectuals assert, the new
American "attention economy," but I sure as hell ain't gonna to pay to
watch.
_______

About author Joe Bageant is the author of a forthcoming book, Deer
Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America^Òs Class War, from Random
House Crown about working class America, scheduled for spring 2007
release. A complete archive of his online work, along with the thoughts
of many working Americans on the subject of class may be found at:
http://www.joebageant.com. Feel free to contact him at:
joebageant@joebageant.com. Copyright © 2006 by Joe Bageant.
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5. WOMEN RESISTING MILITARISM AND CREATING A CULTURE OF LIFE
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:23:56 -1000
From: viviane lerner <vivlerner@gmail.com>

friends from hawaii will be reading on sep. 12 at la pena in berkeley.
they're poets and will be bringing a chapbook they've put together with
them. go if you're in town! g

http://www.genuinesecurity.org/meeting1.html
WOMEN RESISTING MILITARISM AND CREATING A CULTURE OF LIFE
6TH INTERNATIONAL MEETING
Sponsored by Women for Genuine Security and PANA Institute Civil
Liberty and Faith Project.
COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS: Sept. 11-14, 6.30-9.00pm
Donations requested

Internationally recognized women activists will share their experiences,
strategies and projects to transform local communities and cultures
affected by U.S. militarism. Local groups will talk about organizing
across borders to transform U.S. policy and create a culture of justice
and peace.

Tuesday Sept. 11
VOICES FROM THE PHILIPPINES
Filipino Community Center, 35 San Juan Ave, San Francisco
(buses 14, 49; Balboa BART)
hosted by babae, FACES, Gabnet.

Wednesday Sept. 12
VOICES FROM PUERTO RICO & HAWAII
La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley (Ashby BART)
hosted by Bay Area Boricuas and others

Thursday Sept. 13
VOICES FROM SOUTH KOREA
Pacific School For Religion Chapel, 1798 Scenic Ave. Berkeley
(Berkeley BART)
hosted by KAWAN, KAUP and PANA Institute

Friday Sept. 14
VOICES FROM OKINAWA & GUAM
American Friends Service Committee, 65-9th St, San Francisco (Civic
Center BART)
hosted by Famoksaiyan, Friends of Okinawa

September 15, 7pm
WITH THESE VOICES: ART & EXPRESSION OF WOMEN IN RESISTANCE
Join women from Guam, Hawaii, Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, Puerto
Rico, South Korea and the Bay Area in an evening of art and celebration.
San Francisco Women^Òs Building, 3543 18th Street (Mission/16th St. BART)

THE OPPOSITE OF WAR IS CREATIVITY!

These events are part of the 6th international gathering of a Network that
brings together women from Guam, Hawaii, Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines,
Puerto Rico, South Korea, and the U.S. to build and sustain a women^Òs
network to promote, model and protect genuine security in the face of
militarism.

For more information contact Women for Genuine Security,
info@genuinesecurity.org, 510 849-8260
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6. Press Release: Voices from Hawaii & Puerto Rico
> From: Ellen-Rae Cachola <ellenraec@yahoo.com>
> Date: September 3, 2007 6:41:52 PM HST
>
> ** Please forward to your contacts, we apologize for repeat emails.
> Attached you will find a pdf version of this general press release and
> bios about organizations that will are sending delegates from their
> countries. Thank you for your support, we hope to see you there!
>
> Press Release Text Below:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> WOMEN RESISTING MILITARISM AND CREATING A CULTURE OF LIFE
> WOMEN FOR GENUINE SECURITY |

WWW.GENUINESECURITY.ORG

|
> INFO@GENUINESECURITY.ORG
> FOR IMMEDIATE
> RELEASE CONTACT:
> info@genuinesecurity.org
>
> (Berkeley, Sept. 1, 2007) On September 12, front line activists from
> Hawai'i, Puerto Rico, and diasporas from both countries based in the Bay
> Area gather together for "Women Resisting Militarism and Creating a
> Culture of Life: Voices from Puerto Rico & Hawai'i" event hosted by
> Women for Genuine Security and Bay Area Boricuas.
>
> They will talk about their work dealing with the historical and present
> day impacts of US imperialism & militarism on their land and lives.
> Issues will range from the diseases & deformation linked to decades of
> US bombing practice on Vieques, and the growing concern of domestic
> violence in Puerto Rico, to military buildup in Hawaii, including the
> permanent stationing of the Stryker Brigade and the rising influence of
> military recruitment in schools.
>
> Reports will be made from the following organizations: Viequense Women's
> Alliance, Vieques, Puerto Rico; Center for Woman and the New Family,
> Puerto Rico; Ilé: Organizers for Consciousness-in- Action, Caguas,
> Puerto Rico; Caribbean Project for Justice and Peace; and Bay Area
> Boricuas, California, USA. Representing Hawai'i delegates will be DMZ
> Hawai'i Aloha 'Aina, whose initiatives are supported by the Hawai'i
> Okinawa Alliance, and people from Guam, Puerto Rico, South Korea, the
> Philippines and Australia.
>
> This event provides an opportunity for women from Puerto Rico, Hawaii,
> and those who live away from their homelands to learn from each other,
> educate others around the world about their issues and to explore mutual
> strategies of support no matter where they may reside.
>
> "Voices from Puerto Rico & Hawai'i" is part of a week long series of
> events, "Women Resisting Militarism and Creating a Culture of Life", San
> Francisco, September 10-16, 2007. By bringing together women activists
> from South Korea, Japan, Okinawa, the Philippines, Guam, Hawai'i, Puerto
> Rico, and the mainland US, the meeting aims to build intercultural
> dialogue around the impacts of militarism on women, children, and
> communities.

> DETAILS:
>
> Women Resisting Militarism and Creating a Culture of Life: Voices from
> Hawaii and Puerto Rico When: September 12, 2007, 6:30 p.m. ^Ö 9 p.m.
> Where: La Peña Cultural Center, 3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley (Ashby BART)
> Hosted by: Women for Genuine Security and Bay Area Boricuas Free & Open
> To the Public; Donations Welcome
>
> For more information or to schedule an interview contact Deborah Lee:
> Email: dlee@psr.edu Or Call (510) 849-8260 or (415) 297-8222
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7. Hawaiian Royalty to Join in Pan-Pasifik Meeting - comment
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 19:31:32 -1000
From: Tane . <Tane_1@msn.com>

I wholeheartedly agree. It's not enough to have genealogy but action and
conduct; parentage. Many Hawaiians today have kinship to one ali'i or
another, or several. There are many variables that are taken into
account. Having monetary wealth and foreign parentage; and doing nothing
doesn't cut it.

Tane
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From: "Kehau Watson" <kehau@nativehawaii.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 14:37:12 -1000

Aloha kakou,

I have to agree. I have a big problem with this. My
instinct is that they are going to invite Abby. And she^Òs
not my ali`i. I am guessing her because at the Cook Exhibit
opening, a similar group of ^Óroyals^Ô were present and she
was the Hawai`i representative. I think a letter should be
written to King Tuheitia explaining the problem.

Let us also remember that mana is acquired through both blood
and work. It^Òs not just about genealogy.

Me ka ha`aha`a,

kehau
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Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:37:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: bchingkahoola@pol.net

Aloha kakou,

The ali`i used to know what their obligations are. Lili`u knew that her
job was to protect the people and the lahui. She lost throne and country
fighting for the wishes of the people and the people loved and supported
her.

They had a track record of responsibility to the maka`ainana; the
Kamehamehas gave us Kamehameha schools, the Queen's Hospital. Lunalilo
gave us Lunalilo home. The Kalakauas gave us Kapi`olani Hospital, Queen
Lili`uokalani the Children's & Orphan's center, Kapi`olani Park.

They were at the front of the fight to preserve the nation.

The subsequent descendants may have the lineal rights but they seem to
have lost this sense of responsibility.

The situation then in Scotland was similar to Hawai`i today. The Scottish
royals were bribed by the Brits with lands and titles in Britain and held
more allegiance to the Brits then to Scotland and the people.

My position would be somewhat like that of William Wallace speaking to one
of the the Scottish royal contenders; lead the people to freedom and I
will follow you.

Am waiting to see who of these ali`i are going to take the lead and fight
for the maka`ainana and the lahui.

Malama pono,

Kaho`ola
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8. fantastic video for teachers and those seeking pono -- Asterisk
Productions
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:29:01 -1000
From: 'imiola young <imiola@hawaii.rr.com>

Recent Work
The Shipsinkers

A one hour television documentary about the creation of artificial reefs
from old ships ^Ö and the people whose passion this is. (With Sea of Steel
Productions and Dan Mauro, National Geographic International, OLN, ABC
Australia, Knowledge Network and SCN)

Fatherhood: Indignenous Men^Òs Journeys

A 34 min. DVD for community and educational use; short profiles of six
First Nations fathers. Produced with Dr. Jessica Ball of the University of
Victoria as an adjunct to the FIRA (Father Involvement Research Alliance)
study on fatherhood. Distribution enquires through Dr. Ball.

Water Detectives

A short (11 min.) film for children and grown-ups about the innovative
^Ówater detectives^Ô project in Matamoros, Mexico which is designed to
engage children as water activists to help their homes and neighbourhoods
conserve water and in the process to create a new ^Óculture of water^Ô
which values this precious resource. Produced by the NFB^Òs Pacific
Region.

IdeaLogs

A series of short (1-3 min.) concise expositions of ideas about the world
we live in and how it could be made to work better. They are presented by
some of the leading thinkers of today: Jane Jacobs, Matthew Fox, Wayne
Roberts, Stewart Brand, David Korten, Amory and Hunter Lovins. Designed
primarily for both formal and informal educational settings, they are
provocative, tasty morsels of thought for educators and their students who
are hungry for discussion catalysts. 24 Logs are packaged on one dvd and
fall into the subject areas of economics, ethics, philosophy and
sociology.

Vacations from the Heart

1 hour documentary exploring volunteer tourism in Costa Rica, Belize, and
Peru. For Global Television, with Insight Documentaries, Vancouver

Rainwolves

The coastal wolves of British Columbia, in the Great Bear Rainforest for
Rainshadow Productions and Discovery Canada. Three Leo nominations

Cooking Fun for Families

Produced for the Coastal Health Authority, Vancouver about a cooking and
nutrition project in Vancouver^Òs inner city schools.

Imagine... A World Without Birds

Two short videos produced for the North American Bird Conservation
Initiative, Montreal.

Living Things We Love to Hate -
Why Certain Creatures Make Us Squirm and Shudder

Spider A one-hour program based on the book by B.C. author Des Kennedy;
for the Discovery Channel Canada.

If things are to change, even at this late hour, we will
begin with a wholesale change in attitude towards all living
things, indeed towards life itself. Our task is one of
reconnection with the natural world, including those parts of
it that we have learned to fear and despise.

- Des Kennedy, from "Living Things We Love to Hate"

We are repulsed by the sight of a slug oozing its way across a garden
path. We recoil at the sensuous movement of a snake. We shudder at even
the sound - let alone sight - of a bat. We fear the seemingly impenetrable
darkness of a forest at night. Why? Is it true we fear what we don^Òt
understand?

Where do these responses come from? Is it from some deep, dark place in
our individual psyches, or out of our collective unconscious? What do our
attitudes about some of the natural world^Òs creatures tell us about
ourselves and our relationship to nature - and - our desire to control,
plunder, and pillage? If we viewed the natural world with the respect we
offer to technology, would we then treat it accordingly?

In his book, ^ÓLiving Things We Love to Hate^Ô, Des Kennedy says that if
we knew why we recoiled at the sight - never mind touch - of a slug and
other garden creatures, we might open up a whole new world of
understanding on much larger issues. This program looks at these creatures
in squirmy closeups, learning about them - and our relationship with them
- through the ages. We do so by focussing our cameras and our attention on
one small part of the earth: a ten-acre homestead on Denman Island, on
Canada^Òs west coast. This is the home of acclaimed author and gardener
Des Kennedy, the home he shares with the creatures he writes about.

Narrator Kennedy explains the wonders of his corner of the planet on
Denman Island, and offers his thoughts on why we react the way we do -
with repulsion - to some of the creatures with which we coexist.

(Be forewarned: much of the program is shot in extreme closeup, for
maximum ickiness.)

Biomimicry

Two one-hour programs for "The Nature of Things" based on the book,
"Biomimicry" by Janine Benyus.

Nature has ingenious ways of overcoming obstacles of every imaginable
sort. What can we humans learn from nature in tackling the problems we've
created on this earth - and do so in such a way so as not to create even
more environmental problems?

Biomimicry is a revolutionary new science that analyzes nature's best
ideas - spider silk and eyes, seashells and brain cells, photosynthesis
and DNA - and adapts them for human use. Janine Benyus takes us into the
lab and out in the field with the maverick researchers who are discovering
nature's ingenious solutions to the problem of human survival. The answers
are there for the finding, poetic in their elegance and economy.

Co-produced and co-directed by David Springbett and Paul Lang

Awards: "Science in Society" Award / Science Writers of Canada

Finding the Future

13 x ½ hours. Leading edge thinkers explore how we might get there from
here. For Vision TV and SCN

ReInventing the World

a series of five one-hour documentaries about some of the major issues
facing us as a society: food, work and time, sustainable cities,
economics. This series hosted by writer Des Kennedy, features some of the
major thinkers and writers of today who offer insightful ways of
approaching problems in order to live more sustainable lives. (Vision TV,
SCN, 2001) More info...

(^ÓThis is thoughtful television, full of talking heads...
the heads talk well and the series is important.^Ô Silver
Donald Cameron, Halifax Herald, April 8/01)

The Man We Called Juan Carlos

A one-hour film that explores the filmmakers^Ò 25-year relationship with a
Guatemalan campesino leader, the life choices we make, and the price we
pay when we commit to political and spiritual ideals. (Vision TV,
Knowledge Network, SCN, 2001) More info...

(^ÓThis sophisticated, troubling film raises important
questions about human rights, the personal price of refusing
to assent to evil and the responsibility of the ^Ñobjective^Ò
journalist who bears witness at somebody else^Òs cost...I was
surprised and then enthralled by this powerful documentary.^Ô
Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun, March 17/01)

GoodWood

1 hour documentary for the CBC^Òs Nature of Things asks ^ÓCan we have jobs
and trees ?^Ô using various examples of sustainable forestry in Honduras,
Mexico, British Columbia, and the United States. More info...

(^Ó...how a community can reverse its fortunes, and protect
its environment, if willing to discover more value in the
surrounding landscape.^Ô David Leach, Monday Magazine, Nov.
25, 1998.)

("It's an inspiring, heart lifting film about the
possibilities that await those who learn to see old things in
new ways." Vancouver Sun)

Awards: Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Vermont
International Film Festival, Equinox Environmental Film Festival

[monarch.jpg] The Monarch:
A Butterfly Beyond Borders

1 hour for Discovery Canada exploring the natural history of this
astonishing insect, and the threats to its annual migration. Filmed in
Canada, Mexico and the U.S. More info...

("This video, superbly done, tells it all in a way that fans
the flames of interest and wonder over this marvellous
migratory insect, and its plight and the implications of that
plight for man." The Toledo Blade)

Awards: International Wildlife Film Festival, Gemini nomination, Hazel
Wolf Environmental Film Festival, Bronze Apple, National Educational Media
Network, Columbus International Film & Video Festival , others

Ways We Live: Exploring Community

10 x 1/2 hour television series and companion book (New Society
Publishers, 1997), that explore the meaning and expression of community in
our lives.

(^ÓIt is precisely because ^ÓWays We Live^Ô is politically
astute without being partisan that it is so compelling. This
is the kind of television that asks the viewer to go on a
personal voyage of discovery over several weeks, without
making any snap judgments or belabouring a single point of
view.^Ô Alex Strachan, Vancouver Sun, March 3, 1997)

Program One Community Animals What's happened to our sense of community?
In the first of ten programs, some of oday's leading thinkers explore
fundamental questions of work, time, values, change and how we will live
together in the next millennium.

Program Two Virtually Intentional Is community a place or a state of mind?
An 800 year old order of cloistered nuns, an urban commune and
cyberspace...It's surprising how much they have in common.

Program Three Community by Design From hometown to the 'burbs - and back
again. It's not just the design of our houses and neighbourhoods that has
changed over the years. Our ways of living in our communities have changed
too - but who gets to make the decisions?

Program Four Making Shelter - My Home With Others A roof overhead isn't
always enough to keep you warm...This program looks at how both the poor
and the middle class have found the shelter of community by changing the
ways they think about housing.

Program Five Reclaiming Community Two compelling stories of urban
community renewal - a park in downtown Toronto and a community garden in
Oakland, California, illustrate how communities can take back public space
and forge new bonds of trust, safety and togetherness.

Program Six Ageing with Community Where do we find community and retain
our independence as we grow old? Two very different options are profiled:
a gated community for the newly retired and an Abbeyfield home for older
but still independent people seeking a family community.

Program Seven The Boundaries of Change How do communities cope with
change? Richmond, B.C. is a city on fast-forward whose changing
demographics have radically altered its community over the years. How can
people balance the need to accept change, while respecting each others'
personal boundaries for community?

Program Eight Finding Us and Them Who is "us" and who is "them"? This
program asks some difficult questions about how we, as a society, treat
those who don't seem to fit...And it shows us unconditional love in action
as street people, the mentally ill and physically challenged find places
to belong.

Program Nine On the Road There's more to the RV life than spending your
children's inheritance...Anthropologists David and Dorothy Counts take us
on the road to New Mexico and Texas to explore a fascinating world of
adventure and strong community ties.

Program Ten Maps with Teeth Just where is "here"? Mapping is an ingenious
way to communicate visually a sense of place - be it rural or urban - by
the people who live in and care for that place. The process of creating
bioregional maps creates the potential for change and a sustainable
future.

Produced with the participation of Telefilm Canada. Produced in
association with Vision TV and British Columbia Film and with the
participation of The Cable Production Fund, The Canadian Independent Film
and Video Fund and Saskatchewan Communications Network.

Changing Places

Produced for the United Nations Population Fund, this documentary explores
urbanization population, and the role of women buy focussing on three
exceptional housing projects in Vancouver, Bangkok, and Mexico City.

The Open Door

A video about a Victoria drop-in centre that offers a safe haven and a
sense of family.

How Much Is Enough ? (in the series "How To Save The Earth" with
Jonathon Porrit) Director / Producer.

Population growth in the South, and over-consumption in the North are the
two biggest environmental problems facing the world. Co-Production with
Channel 4, NRK, TVO, Access, SCN, Knowledge Network and North-South
Productions, England. 1993 Award: North American Environmental Film
Festival

The Best We Have to Give? (1989)

a 26 min. documentary about the impact international debt has on the basic
needs of children in one African country: Ghana. Part of the "Stolen
Childhood" series. Co-produced with North-South Prod., London, CIDA and TV
Ontario.

Awards: Blue Ribbon, American Film & Video Festival, Columbus Film
Festival; Certificate of Merit, Chicago International Film Festival

That^Òs Right! (1989)

for UNICEF Canada: a 15 min. documentary profile of four children (two
Canadian, two Ghanaian) for Canadian children on the rights of children
and the work of UNICEF. Produced for UNICEF Canada

Awards: Golden Apple, National Educational Film & Video Festival;
Honourable Mention, Columbus Film Festival

Nature Walk Creative Consultant (program format and structure, host
casting); Director, 4 episodes.

Nature Walk is a half-hour program for Life: The Network, produced by Soma
Television, Vancouver. (1994)

The Heart Challenge Director,

documentary segments. 1 hour special for CTV (1994)

Greening Business (The Nature of Things with David Suzuki)
Producer/Director -

a look at how business and the environment can both be restored. CBC,
January 1994, October 1995.

Awards: Vermont International Film Festival; Bronze, American Film & Video
Festival.

Earth Journal with Dr. Richard Leaky Environmental magazine program,
segment producer.

Produced by RHI Entertainment.

No Spare Parts (Co-production with "The Nature of Things with David
Suziki") Director / Producer.

Appropriate Technology in Ghana. 1990, repeated 1993.

Awards: Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival; Columbus Film Festival

The Best We Have to Give ? (In the series "Stolen Childhood")
Director/Producer.

How international debt affects the basic needs of children in Ghana.
Co-production with Channel 4, NRK, TVO, Access, etc. 1989

Awards: Blue Ribbon, American Film & Video Festival, Columbus, Chicago

Willing to Learn Participatory Drama. Producer, co-director.

A collaboration between Canadian film-makers and literacy learners in St.
Vincent.

Award: Tam Tam Film & Video Festival, Rome. 1989

© Asterisk Productions
http://asterisk.bc.ca/
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9. fascist business?
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:56:25 -1000
From: "Cory (Martha) Harden" <mh@interpac.net>

from one Superferry watcher...

Many of the environmentalists say they aren't against the ferry, that they
just want to make sure it's done right. Well I am totally against it and I
hope it never comes about, EIS or not, because it will just be another
burden for taxpayers as I have outlined below in my letter. It was this
money issue which turned me against the ferry many years ago before I knew
of any of its other drawbacks. I do not want something else I have to pay
taxes for. Businesses that cannot make a legitimate profit without having
to rely on money stolen from others (taxes) are not serving people and
should fold.

A couple years ago I had a letter printed in the MN in which I said that
the ferry's was basically a fascist economic business model, a private
company in league with the state. We saw the ugly side of this arrangement
when the military--the Coast Guard--was out there leading the charge at
Kauai harbor with machine guns mounted at the bow. This was the face of
fascism, a private corporation's vessel barging in where it wasn't wanted
in defiance of the law with the military leading the way. Very sickening.
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10. Environmental Action : Stop Mountain Top Removal Mining
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:05:05 -0500
From: "Dan Stafford, Environmental Action Organizer"
<DanS@environmental-action.org>

Kayford Mountain, WV

I'm so outraged I can barely type. Mountaintop removal mining. And I tell
you, it's even worse than it sounds. The coal industry goes to a mountain,
clear cut the forests on top, blows its top off, and then moves all the
sludge into giant waste pools that pollute streams and water sources.

It's as destructive a practice to the environment as anybody has ever
thought of - and it's happening all over the Appalachian Mountains as you
read this. To make matters worse, the Bush Administration has recently
proposed a rule that would allow the coal industry to be their own
environmental police - deciding when, where, and how to pollute.

This rule is up for public review - and it's got to be stopped. Over the
next 57 days, we need to collect 20,000 comments against this proposal,
starting with yours. To send your comment, click the link below, or paste
it into your browser:
http://www.environmental-action.org/enviroaction.asp?id=2435&id4=ES

How bad is this problem? In West Virginia alone, 500 square miles of
mountains, and 1000 miles of streams have been destroyed by mountain top
removal mining. Now imagine if they found coal under the mountains where
you take your family hiking, or near the aquafir that provides your
drinking water.

Mountain top removal needs to be stopped, not strengthened. Take a minute
right now, and submit your comment:
http://www.environmental-action.org/enviroaction.asp?id=2435&id4=ES

If we're going to collect 20,000 comments in 57 days, we're all going to
have to chip in. Please forward this message to everyone you know, post it
on your website, blog about it, send out a myspace bulletin, do whatever
it takes to get people involved.

Sincerely,

Dan Stafford
Environmental Action Organizer
DanS@environmental-action.org
http://www.environmental-action.org

P.S. Thanks again for your support. Please feel free to share this e-mail
with your family and friends.
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10. Superferry & Navy & Stryker EISs
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 22:45:16 -1000
From: "Cory (Martha) Harden" <mh@interpac.net>

We need to demand full disclosure of planned military use and
environmental impacts of Superferry in the currrent Navy and Stryker
EISs...

since Superferry's next move may be to go bankrupt, blame
environmentalists and obstructionists, then sell to the military and
declare them saviors of the taxpayers.
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12. Disappeared News - 4 new articles
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:56:17 -0400
From: FeedBlitz <feedblitz@mail.feedblitz.com>

"DISAPPEARED NEWS" - 4 NEW ARTICLES

1. Hawaii Civil Defense--still a do it yourself project?
2.Getting down to basics on the Superferry fiasco -- and more on Framing
and what to do with the Superferry
3.Enforcement cabal sets sights on public schools to stage their next
war on drugs
4.Tying up a loose end: Crimes against visitors down
5.More Recent Articles
6.Search Disappeared News

Hawaii Civil Defense--still a do it yourself project?

I'm tired of being informed how many gallons of water I need to store in
the event a storm is coming. I want to know not what I have to do for
myself (I've got that info, thanks) but what the state is doing to
ensure my safety and that of my family and neighbors. I'm not sure what
FEMA requires for the average citizen, but at least for persons with
disabilities (which includes many elderly),.....

go to www.disappearednews.com

Getting down to basics on the Superferry fiasco -- and more on Framing
and what to do with the Superferry

by Larry Geller The dailies are still running Superferry letters, although
it looks like actual "new" news is tapering off. I've been wondering how
many letters the papers actually are receiving on this subject and how
they are sorting out which ones get printed. If you'd rather read
something more substantial, click on over to this post on Ian Lind's blog:
Sundayâ^À¦Still mostly Superferry. I...

Enforcement cabal sets sights on public schools to stage their next war
on drugs

by Larry Geller The "drug war" in Hawaii, as elsewhere, depends on
keeping the populace in a state of fear. In order to do their work, drug
warriors have to convince us (and the Legislature) that Hawaii is in the
grips of a crime wave, or a drug epidemic, or that our children are about
to be turned into addicts who stash illicit drugs or alcohol in their
school lockers or in their backpacks.

Tying up a loose end: Crimes against visitors down

by Larry Geller Well, credit it to poor timing if you like, in addition to
poor judgement. No sooner does the Honolulu Weekly devote a cover to a
sensational crime statistic revelation than the Advertiser prints a
front-page story, Crimes targeting Oahu visitors drop by 40%. If correct,
crime against visitors are certainly reduced at present (I'm not sure what
I think of using cameras all over...

More Recent Articles

* Linking New Orleans, Virginia Tech, and Hawaii--why do we ignore the
wakeup calls?
* The "train wreck" method of running a government, and what the
Superferry might do next
* Hear more about the bus alternative - Town Square, Thurs 8/30, 5-6
p.m. 89.3 FM
* Superferry or Stupidferry?
* The Honolulu Weekly strikes a blow against tourism--again
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13. Austal gunning for high-speed vessel contract - comment
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:06:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Laweleka <laweleka@yahoo.com>

Wasn't it not too many months ago that Lingle herself made such statements
in the newspapers that our coral reefs were being diminished etc.? I
believe she emphasized then that it was the local fishermen, swimmers etc.
What was that all about ? So has her priorities changed I wonder ? What
does Lingle think the Alakai is going to do ? As I said not too long ago
the military presence here has put us in harms way. They have set us up as
a target in their theater. Face it we are targets and this Alakai seems to
be their answer to getting people out or shall I say off the island ASAP
and pretty much do to us what they did in Diego Garcia. Of course they are
not going to admit it now or even mention it but it'll be their quick fix
when we would have no choice but to leave because of radioactive waste
once things start happening here. Their weapons and unexploded ordinance
is destroying our aina and our surrounding waters. Thats only the
beginning. We ain't seen nothing yet and while we can we best get them the
hell out of here. These people have done nothing to further the interest
of the people whose countries they occupy. The only thing thats happened
throughout the world is people have lost their lands, their way of life,
their homes all of which gives this military empirical monster more
momentum. They keep using the fact that they need to become the worlds
police and because they continue to say of their self manufactured war on
terrorist, war on drugs (whom Sr. Bush of all people was one of the most
involved), and last but not least the US continues to claim they are
protecting Americas interest. My question is,what exactly is Americas
interest? I just hope we are not part of that equation because we have not
signed off any of our sovereign rights they have so needed to fulfill
their claim to becoming the mastahs of desastahs !!! Lingle, Bush,
including the Alakai along with their contract and the rest of their
empirical military monstahs can catch a flying FIG !!!

Lawe

"Tane ." <Tane_1@msn.com> wrote:
ARE YOU CONNECTING THE DOTS, YET??????

----------------- Bulletin Message -----------------
From: Pono
Date: Sep 3, 2007 10:37 AM

ANOTHER PAGE UNFOLDZ
TOURIST with GUNZ & TANKZ "OH MY"

This is the "smoking gun" article - please note how strange it is - the
way that the Superferry is repeatedly inserted into what would be just an
article about giant military contracts.

Jeff
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14. The Peace Center -join us.doc
Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 21:49:00 -1000
From: MarshaRose <mrjoy@hawaii.rr.com>

Join Us!
At

The Justice and Reconciliation Center
19 N. Pauahi Street
Honolulu's Chinatown 96817

September 2007 Events

Friday, September 7 - First Friday 5-9p.m.

Stephen Hass

Wednesday, September 12 - Meditation Wednesday noon
Molly - reconnect, renew, revitalize

Thursday, September 13 - Rosh Hashanah

The Jewish Holiday of Rosh Hashanah is
celebrated as the New Years Day of the Jewish calendar, but actually Rosh
Hashanah has a fourfold meaning - It is the Jewish New Year, the Day of
Judgment, the Day of Remembrance, and the Day of Shofar Blowing.

Friday, September 14

Taste of the Arts 6-p.m -10p.m.
Nuuanu & Pauahi Streets

Saturday, September 15 - Peace for Sale Entry Deadline

Thursday, September 20 Third Thursday Pau Hana Film 6:00p.m.

Honolulu's Chinatown
The Story of the Chinese immigration into Hawaii

Friday, September 21

Peace Day -see page 2

Saturday, September 22 Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the most sacred of the
Jewish holidays, the "Sabbath of Sabbaths."

Friday, September 28

Kava Ceremony 5:30pm
Dr. Michael Kelly
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The House of Representatives
STATE OF HAWAII
News Release Contact: Rep. Jon Riki Karamatsu

For immediate release - July 30, 2007 T. 808-586-8490
Media Contact: Georgette Deemer Dr. Jeannie Lum
T. 808-586-6133; C. 808-341-5043 Matsunaga Institute
for Peace
808-956-4244

In honor of Hawaii's first celebration of Peace Day
Public Invited to Share Their Artistic "Expressions of Peace"

Honolulu. Hawaii will become the first state in the nation to annually
celebrate its own Peace Day on September 21, 2007. In honor of that day,
which is celebrated throughout the world as the United Nations
International Day of Peace, people of all ages from around the state are
invited to submit an artistic expression of what "peace" means to them.
The art work will be displayed at the State Capitol and award winners will
be announced at a special ceremony on the 21st.

"I introduced the Peace Day bill on behalf of youth members of the Hawaii
Buddhist Association," said Rep. Jon Riki Karamatsu, Vice Speaker of the
House of Representatives. "I was impressed that these young people cared
enough about peace in the world to stick with it through the legislative
process. We all need to start thinking more about how we, as individuals,
can create peace. They say that life imitates art, and if that's the
case, let's begin with our personal expressions of peace through art."

The Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace, an academic program at the
University of Hawaii at Manoa, is a key partner in coordinating the events
and planning for the inaugural Peace Day. It was named in honor of the
late U.S. Senator Spark M. Matsunaga whose wish was for Hawaii to become
"a sanctuary for seekers of peaceful ways and traditions." The Institute
is dedicated to carrying forward his legacy by providing education,
research, and training in studies and practices in peace and peacemaking.

Peace Day is established through House Bill 345, introduced by Rep. Jon
Riki Karamatsu, signed into law as Act 23 by Governor Lingle. Several
events are being planned for September 21st, including a "peace tree"
planting, a candlelight ceremony, a statewide moment of prayer for peace,
and the unveiling of artwork expressing peace by the people of Hawaii.

How to Submit Expressions of Peace

Format: For this first year, art work format will be limited to:

* 2-dimensional art such as paintings, drawings, prints or posters, or
* Literary submissions 500 words or less, such as stories, essays and
poetry

Eligibility: Everyone! People of all ages are encouraged to participate.

Send pieces by mail to:

Dr. Jeannie Lum
Matsunaga Institute for Peace
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Saunders Hall #723
2424 Maile Way
Honolulu, Hawaii 96822

Drop off pieces in person to:
Office of Rep. Jon Riki Karamatsu
State Capitol, Room 427
Honolulu, HI 96813

Information required about the artist: For each submission, please
include your name, age, mailing address and telephone number. If desired,
you may also include a brief bio and explanation of the piece submitted.

Deadline: Please submit your expression of peace by September 1, 2007.

Property and Copyright: All submissions will become the property of the
Peace Day committee and will not be returned. The committee reserves the
right to use the work in order to promote Peace Day in the future, but
will give credit to the artist or writer.

Display: Art work will be displayed at the State Capitol on September 21,
2007.

Let there be peace in the world, and let it begin with me.
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15. Hale Koa: Prayer Vigil - 9/7/07 @ 4 p.m.
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:09:31 -0400
From: Kyle Kajihiro <kkajihiro@afsc.org>

Come out to support the Hale Koa workers! The Hale Koa is a military
hotel.

-----Original Message-----
From: Cade Watanabe [mailto:cwatanabe@unitehere5.org]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 11:16 AM

Please join us.

HELP STOP SEXUAL HARASSMENT
AT HALE KOA HOTEL

PRAYER VIGIL

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2007
4:00-5:15P.M.

Join Hale Koa Hotel Workers and Honolulu's faith community in calling on
Hale Koa management to take a responsible and proactive stand against
sexual harassment.

We will meet at the bus stop in front of the parking garage at Hale Koa
Hotel at 4:00 P.M.

If you have any questions please call me at 941-2141

Thanks,

Cade

Cade M. Watanabe
UNITE HERE! Local 5
1050 Queen St. STE 100
Honolulu, HI 96814
(808) 941-2141 x 211
(808) 941-2166 (fax)
www.unitehere5.org
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16. First Friday performance
From: "HPR Newsletter" <newsletter@hawaiipublicradio.org>
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 08:52:15 -1000

The Jeff Said No! blues/rock band makes its return to the Honolulu club
scene with a performance on: Friday, September 7th, at Amy^Òs Place, 49 N.
Hotel Street (corner of Smith & Hotel) 7:30 p.m. to whenever (no cover)
Band: Chad Blair on guitar/vocals, Mark Tanouye on drums, Jason
Taglianetti on bass, Gene Evans on guitar/vocals

Influences: Coltrane, Stones, Homer Simpson, Neil
Young, The Funk Brothers, Bootsie Collins, Edmund Burke
and Lara Croft 2.0.

inquiries: Chad Blair, cblair@hcc.hawaii.edu, 394-7164; Gene
Evans, evansg007@hawaii.rr.com, 371-8273
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17. BBC News: Bush Arrives In Fortress Sydney - coming to you soon!
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:36:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Terri Kekoolani <napua4u@yahoo.com>

Bush arrives in fortress Sydney
President Bush in Sydney, 04/09/07 Mr Bush arrived at Sydney airport on
Tuesday evening

US President George W Bush has arrived in Sydney amid the tightest
security Australia's biggest city has ever seen. Air Force One touched
down late on Tuesday evening, following Mr Bush's surprise detour to Iraq.
Sydney residents had been told to steer clear of the city centre and main
roads were shut for Mr Bush's motorcade. The city is in virtual lock-down
as world leaders gather for the high-profile Asia-Pacific Economic
Co-operation forum (Apec) this week.

A 5km (three mile) barrier has been erected across the city's central
business district to protect the 21 leaders attending the summit, and more
than 5,000 police and troops are patrolling the streets. Police have been
seeking court action to prevent a major protest due to take place on
Saturday.

Mr Bush is one of the first leaders to arrive in Australia for the forum.
Apec leaders are due to gather formally on Saturday. Over the coming days,
Mr Bush is expected to hold a series of bilateral meetings with
Asia-Pacific leaders, including Australia's John Howard and China's Hu
Jintao.

Climate change, trade and regional security are believed to be high on the
agenda, analysts say.

President Hu arrived in Australia on Monday, beginning his visit with a
tour of the state of Western Australia, which is a major exporter of
commodities to China. Mr Hu is due to fly to the capital Canberra before
moving on to Sydney later in the week.

Members of the spiritual movement Falun Gong, which is banned in China,
are planning to hold vigils during Mr Hu's tour to highlight alleged human
rights abuses back home.

Protests planned Australia's security forces are braced for possibly
violent protests over the coming days, having launched the largest
security operation the country has ever seen. Parts of Sydney's rail
network will be closed, along with many roads, for much of the week.
The fence, through the city's central business district, is aimed at
keeping protesters well away from Apec venues, including the Sydney Opera
House, where the summit will take place.

The first Apec protest was held on Tuesday evening, hours before President
Bush landed. Some 150 people gathered in Sydney's Railway Square, shouting
opposition to the US president and the war in Iraq. The police have gone
to court over a major rally planned for Saturday, which organisers of the
so-called Stop Bush Coalition say could attract some 5,000 people. The
authorities have objected to the planned route, but the case has been
adjourned to Wednesday to give the protesters more time to prepare their
case. map
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18. Hawaiian Royalty to Join in Pan-Pasifik Meeting - more comment
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:53:03 -1000
From: Tane . <Tane_1@msn.com>

As a point of reference, one has the R.O.O.K., there are Sons
and Daughters of Hawaii, etc. The only one I can think of
that is a direct descendant of one of the children from the
Royal School was either from Maheha or Jane Loeau, and that
was Theresa Malani who has two sons living today and their
families. But since the oki, it also opens up to the
collateral relations. There is no senior line approved by
the House of Nobles; what we have left is the Junior lines of
which there are hundreds akin. The question is how do you
recognize them? By what criteria will be used? Does
bloodline become important or does money make the person
royal? Do we follow Hawaiian custom and the Kingdom laws or
leave it for anyone with the koko to establish themselves and
conduct themselves as obligated and demanded of their
station? Remember Umi and Hakau. It doesn't always work out
as some people think. We HAVE those with ALI'I blood; but
there is no ROYAL, as the hereditary sovereign. .... and
that's the rub!

Tane

From: Imakakoloaihenenui <imakakoloaihenenui2000@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 15:03:15 -0700 (PDT)

Ku: I was just going to reply to this. Who is the
Royalty in Hawai`i that will represent Hawai`i?
As far as I know there is no one on this list who
recognize anyone as being of Royalty.
Imakakoloaihenenui Nauha
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19. World Can't Wait on The SuperFerry
From: worldcantwaithawaii@yahoo.com [mailto:worldcantwaithawaii@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 3:11 PM

World Can't Wait Friends and Supporters: Last week protesters (400 on
land, and more than 60 in the water) prevented the Superferry from docking
at Nawiliwili Harbor on Kauai. They were confronted by Homeland Security,
black-clad swat teams, and every form of law enforcement. World Can't Wait
put out a call to people to go to the Pier 19 to join a DMZ-Hawai`i
sponsored picket in support of the Kauai protesters. We received a lot of
harsh criticism for putting out this call.

The World Can't Wait planning committee held an emergency meeting to
discuss the SuperFerry and unanimously concluded to support the protests
against the SuperFerry. Furthermore, we felt the criticisms we received
revealed an enormous lack of knowledge about the SuperFerry, and also
concluded that we needed to do a lot more education. Consequently, we are
putting together a brochure about the Superferry. Following is a draft of
the contents. We encourage you to read it, investigate the sites we refer
to, discuss it, and send us your comments.

STOP THE HAWAI`I SUPERFERRY!

Some Superferry facts:
* Carries up to 250 vehicles and 900 passengers.
* Travels at speeds in excess of 40 miles/hour
* Current Superferry scheduled make a round trip between O`ahu and Kauai
each morning; between O`ahu and Maui each afternoon, 6 days a week. A 2nd
Superferry scheduled to begin daily trips between O`ahu/Hawai`i in late
2008 or early 2009.

The Superferry and the Military

The majority stockholder in the Superferry is J.F. Lehman & Company. It's
chair, John F. Lehman, is the Chair of Hawai`i Superferry. John Lehman is
the former Secretary of the Navy (Reagan administration), a signatory to
the Project for a New American Century, a member of The Heritage
Foundation, and a Commissioner on Bush's National Commission on Terrorist
Attacks. He's an outspoken neocon and military hawk. For info on John
Lehman: J. F. Lehman.

J.F. Lehman & Company "is a private equity investment firm that focuses
exclusively on acquiring middle market companies in the defense, aerospace
and maritime industries..." Their focus is military. Their Board of
Directors reads like a military who's who (including General Fogleman,
former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force; and General Kelley, former
Commandant of the U.S. Marines; both members of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff). Six of the Hawai`i Superferry's 11 member board are Lehman Company
executives. See: Lehman Company.

The March 28, 2005 issue of Pacific Business News reported that J.F.
Lehman & Company had invested $58 million in the Superferry, acquiring its
controlling interest, and said:

"With Lehman's expertise, the Superferry plans to operate a Westpac
Express, essentially to carry military equipment and ferry vehicles from
Oahu to the Big Island on a daily basis. At present, the military has to
make shipment plans six months in advance to put them on a barge, said Tim
Dick, president and chairman of Hawaii Superferry. The ferry will save the
military dollars and take 25 percent of the time," Dick said. [Lehman
said:] "This logistical plan will make it easier for soldiers to train
when the Stryker Brigade comes to Hawaii. The brigade will be stationed on
Oahu and conduct training exercises on the Big Island...The Superferry is
strong enough to take Stryker vehicles," "Hawaii Superferry provided the
Army with a cost analysis and expects to negotiate a long-term contract,
Dick said." See PBN: pbn

The "Westpac Express" refers to the first Superferry built by Austral, the
builder of Hawai`i Superferry. Westpac Express is operated by a
subcontractor for the Third Marine Expeditionary Force in Okinawa, Japan
and is used to transport military cargo and personnel. It was chosen for
use in Okinawa to mask U.S. military presence on an island where the
majority of the people oppose them. It is virtually identical to the
SuperFerry. See: Austral.

Last week it was revealed that the State of Hawai`i entered into an
agreement with the investors (J. F. Lehman and the U.S. Dept of
Transportation) to exempt the Superferry from an EIS. Exemption was a
pre-condition to investment. The Executive Director of the U.S.
Transportation Dept's Maritime Commission testified to the Maui Circuit
Court that the SuperFerry would be useful for the military's transport of
cargo between the islands, and that the Maritime Commission had therefore
provided $140 million in loan guarantees. He further testified that the
Superferry has ALREADY been "approved for inclusion in the Voluntary
Intermodal Sealift Agreement program, which provides the military access
to commercial sealift capacity in times of war" (and we are currently at
war!).

The Hawai`i Superferry is fundamentally a military operation - a
"joint-use" operation deceitfully sold to the people as a strictly
civilian ferry that will better people's lives.

Environmental Concerns:

One of the major concerns Superferry opponents have raised is
environmental, and they are demanding an Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS). Environmental concerns are serious and demands for the EIS must be
complied with. However, regardless of whether or not an EIS is granted, we
oppose the Superferry because it is one more military operation that is
being foisted on Hawai`i. It's a stealth military operation. It's mission
is to strengthen Empire. And we know that ultimately military concerns
will over-ride environmental concerns - just as they have with the
Stryker, Makua, Pohakuloa, Pearl Harbor, Waimanalo, etc. Here are some of
the many environmental concerns that have to be considered.

Fuel Consumption:

The Superferry burns 5,600 gallons of fuel to travel 110 miles between
Oahu and Kauai. This is more than 3 times the fuel used per air passenger.
There are more fuel efficient ferries but they could not carry Strykers
and other heavy military equipment. For example, a new hybrid solar/wind
ferry will be used in New York Harbor that carries 600 passengers
(www.solarsailer.com). Emissions that pollute the air and water are
minimal. The redesigning of such an energy-efficient ferry for ocean use
was not considered.

Danger to Whales and other marine animals:

The Superferry is huge, and it is fast. It cannot divert course quickly
enough to avoid marine mammals. Nor can whales swim fast enough to avoid
the hulls reaching 14 feet into the ocean which act like razors at high
speeds. Dolphins, Hawaiian monk seals, smaller whales species, and sea
turtles are also put at great risk. Whale deaths went from 1-2 every two
years to 7 each year in the Canary Islands when high-speed ferries started
operating. The Oahu/Maui route goes directly through the whale sanctuary.

Transport of invasive species and toxins:

Introducing 250 vehicles/day into the fragile neighbor island environments
poses huge risks of transporting invasive species. This has been minimized
by people comparing the Superferry to a Matson Liner, or a Young Brothers
Ferry, or even the airlines. Each of these means of transport increases
the risk of bringing invasive species to the islands, and environmental
regulations and laws have to be strengthened to mitigate those risks.
However, that's no excuse for introducing more risks! Bringing in 250-500
vehicles each day, many of which will be used off-road to reach isolated
fishing and hiking locations, will greatly heighten the risk of spreading
invasive species such as miconia. The State sponsors TV ads telling people
to wipe off their boots after hiking in one area and before entering
another, but then subsidizes the spread by unwashed vehicles being
transported on the Superferry.

The use of the Superferry by the military, in particular, will also expose
people to potentially higher levels of toxins - including depleted uranium
(now confirmed at Schofield and Pohakaloa, where Stryker training is being
conducted), arsenic, lead, RDX, TNT, HMX and other toxins.

Disregard for The Voices of the People of the Neighbor Islands

The people of the Neighbor Islands have consistently opposed the
Superferry. Their reasons are many, including their "way of life," which
has been ridiculed by some to be a crass "not in my back yard" attitude.
But why should the neighbor islands become mirror images of O`ahu with
traffic congested highways and traffic jams? Why should the people there
suffer from increased asthma and respiratory diseases from the pollution
that fills the skies? Why should the fish population be depleted by
weekend fishermen who will load up their SUV's and head for isolated
shorelands? Yes, everyone wants to enjoy the beauty of the neighbor
islands. We want to camp, fish, hunt and hike. But this should not be at
the expense of the land or the people of those islands. Being forced to
take the plane and rent a car to do this is a drag and all of us wish for
inexpensive and convenient means of travel between the islands. But the
Superferry is not the answer.

O`ahu Centrism

Decisions effecting the neighbor islands are being made on O`ahu with no
respect for the wishes of the people living on the neighbor islands, or
concern for the unique environment of each island.

From the beginning, neighbor island legislators have opposed the
Superferry and have demanded an EIS. They have been consistently
over-ruled by the far more numerous O`ahu legislators, whose major concern
has been making the State "business friendly."

The people on the neighbor islands have attended hearings, have
distributed petitions, and have written letters to the editors. Neighbor
Island newspapers have opposed the Superferry but their articles were
never seen on O`ahu. Instead the Ferry/Military friendly O`ahu media has
ridiculed their opposition. Is it any wonder that the people of the
neighbor islands are outraged? They are, in effect, being told that they
don't matter! Business marches on - and they portrayed as obstructionists
and "unwilling to change."

STOP THE SUPERFERRY

The people of Kauai came together in unprecedented ways to Stop the
Superferry. People of different ethnicities and concerns came together
with one voice. The protests were from the heart. They are just and must
be supported. Were some protesters rude? Yes. Were some drivers rude and
try to run them over? Yes. But what did the media choose to focus on? The
few who targeted riders and not the ferry. The protesters who pounded on a
car, but not the car that tried to run them over. Focus on what is
principal, not the isolated incidents that are being used to discredit the
hundreds of protesters who actually stopped the SuperFerry.

Everything about the State's actions with regard to the Superferry has
been unjust (and even illegal!). They granted a huge project, of
unprecedented proportions, an EIS exemption. They refused to disclose any
SuperFerry/military contracts, even though we know such contracts were on
the table. They are unwilling to address environmental concerns. And then
they have the audacity to allow the SuperFerry to sail before schedule,
and in violation of the spirit of the Supreme Court's ruling that an
Environmental Assessment must be performed. It is the State and the
SuperFerry that should be on trial - not the protesters who put their
lives at risk to stop it. But what happened? Federal, State and local law
enforcement (led by Homeland Security/Coast Guard) called out Swat Teams,
aimed Coast Guard high caliber weaponry at surfers, and threatened people
with being charged as terrorists if they continued to protest. And now the
Federal, State and local law enforcement is implementing even harsher
means to prevent protests and protect the SuperFerry. Even if people
support the SuperFerry, they should be alarmed by this militaristic attack
on dissent. What happened is the rising face of fascism and needs to be
called out for what it is.

We call on everyone to: (1) get educated about the Superferry; (2) look
beyond your narrow interest of getting to the neighbor islands quickly,
and ask yourself whether you're going to be part of the increasing
militarization of the islands, the degradation of its unique environment,
and the well-being of its people; and (3) do everything you can to support
the protests against the SuperFerry.

For more info:
http://homepage.mac.com/juanwilson/islandbreath/
http://www.superferryimpact.com
http://www.boycottsuperferry.org/action.htm
http://www.hui-r.info/
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20. Bamboo Ridge's Wine & Words
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 05:35:47 +0000
From: Poetry Hawaii <poetryhawaii@hotmail.com>

FYI!

*****

Wine & Words: A Taste of New Work from Bamboo Ridge
Featuring An Offering of Rice, stories by Mavis Hara

THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 2007
Tamarind Room, `Ohelo Building, free parking
Kapi^Òolani Community College
4:30 Wine & pupu reception, Premium rice tasting
Book Signing with Mavis Hara and Hara and cover artist, Noe Tanigawa
5:00 Guitarist Lori Kidani
5:15 Reading by Mavis Hara
Tickets for Wine & Words are available at www.bambooridge.com or call
626-1481.
$10 donation per ticket.

BONUS: Each ticket worth a $5 discount at the Ka Ikena Dining Room on 9/13
or 9/14 ONLY. Reservations recommended. Call 734-9499 for dining
reservations.

Mavis Hara is a reading instructor at Kapi`olani Community College in
Honolulu. She has published numerous stories and poems, notably her
award-winning story ^ÓCarnival Queen,^Ô and has been anthologized in Asian
American fiction and poetry collections such as Growing Up Asian American.
She is sansei with roots in Hawai`i plantations, a breast cancer survivor,
adoptive mother, and military wife, and she claims her stories are all
fiction.

^ÓThis long awaited book of stories from Mavis Hara is everything we hoped
for -- and more. This is no mere nostalgic feel-good journey to the
plantation past. . . ^Ó - Sylvia Watanabe

^ÓAn Offering of Rice is written with a careful narrative restraint that
results in a striking honesty, short stories and poems that are rich in
visual clarity and deeply moving in their treatment of the subjects of
bi-cultural life, family, illness, and individual identity. . . .^Ô - Ian
MacMillan
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21. Superferry - letter to gov.
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:21:30 -1000
From: "Cory (Martha) Harden" <mh@interpac.net>

Dear Governor Lingle,

I an horrified that Nawiliwili harbor will be shut down for everyone
except Superferry. This is way too close to martial law....and all to
benefit a corporate interest that tried to dodge environmental review.
Please reconsider.

mahalo, Cory Harden, Hilo
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22. Hawaiian Royalty to Join in Pan-Pasifik Meeting - and more comment
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 03:46:32 -0400
From: kahiwal@cs.com

Kalafi Moala <kalafi.moala@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Why associate himself with these royal idiots! Sorry for the negative
vibes, but I can't help thinking that here is a dying breed trying to make
>something out of nothing.

Good question! These guys forget that their usefulness have long since
passed. If they can't care for the people - then what good are they?

ku
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23. Superferry - non-violence workshop
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:44:41 -1000
From: Jim Albertini <ja@interpac.net>

Cory, Paul Normann and I are going to Kauai on Thursday 9/6 to do a
non-violence workshop there at the invitation of the Superferry opposition
people. Jim
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24. 11th Annual Holistic Hawaii Expo - Sept 8 & 9 - Kona
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:38:11 -1000
From: Global Media Productions <info@globalmediaproductions.com>

Holistic Hawaii Expo Highlights

Welcome to the 11th Annual
HOLISTIC HAWAII EXPO
September 8 & 9, 2007
10AM - 6PM both days
Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort
Kailua-Kona, Hawaii Island

Explore and experience the very best in alternative therapies, wellness
options, personal growth and positive living. The expo will feature
exhibits, speakers, classes, lectures, workshops and alternative healing
traditions, products and services from around the globe. Wellness
professionals and holistic businesses will be on hand to answer questions
and to offer mini sessions and product demonstrations.

ADMISSION is FREE to exhibit hall, lectures & movement classes.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: $25 include: noted author Hank Wessleman and Jill
Kykendall offering The Soul Cluster and the Mystical Nature of the Self,
co-authors Doug Hackett and Trish Regan offering Sacred Partnership &
Planetary Acceleration and author Veena of 'The Belly Twins' offering
Secrets in Staying Young The Belly Dancing Way!

WORKSHOPS: $40 The Secrets of Shamanic Healing with Hank Wessleman and
Jill Kykendall, SEX, LOVE AND HEALING with Theresa J. Knight and L.
Chalice Jensen, "Sacred La'a Kea (Light) & Healing of the Kahuna & Kupuna"
with Lynn Kealohaleimakamae, The Yoga of Life, Death and Immortality with
Phillip Jones, MA, LMHC, Bellydance: Arabic Rhythms, Combinations &
Choreography with Veena of "Neena & Veena, The BellyTwins," Sacred
Relationships Healers, Lovers & Friends "How to Create Your Ideal Sacred
Relationships" with Kahu Kahealani.

FREE SPEAKERS: Self Healing Through Forgiveness with Mary Jo Frey,
"Integrative Harmonic Health" with Linda Miki Dohemann & Iyvie Soli
Cooper, "Miracles and the Wisdom of Oneness Medicine" with Linda Nadia
Hole MD, "Ka La Kahiko: Cleansing, Clearing & Balancing Healing from
Kaua'i" with Lynn Kealohaleimakamae MA, "Introduction to Palmistry" with
Angela Wade, "The Science on Glyconutrients-the "Sugars that Heal" with
Joe Woolsey "Powerful Prosperity, Love & Success with Feng Shui" with
Marta Barreras, "Holistic Denistry: How Dental Health May Be Impacting
Your Health" with David Doi DDS, "Tour Our New Cosmology" with Hugh
Matlock & Saleena Ki, "Soliton Lasers" with Paul and Lillie Weisbart,
Aloha ia o'koa pa'ulo "When we meet in love, we shall be whole" with Kahu
Kahealani, "Miracle Cleanse And Health Tips That Can Change Your Life"
with Cindy Sellers, PSYCH-KT Wisdom's Doorway with Marya Mann, Ph.D.,
Return of the Goddess with L. Chalice Jensen, "STARSHIFT Rejuvenation,
Manifestaion and Abundance Seminar" with Paul & Lillie Weisbart and Are
You A Cultural Creative? with Michael Kramer M.Ed., AIF®. FREE MOVEMENT
CLASSES: "QiGong" With Linda "Nadia" Hole MD AND Therapeutic Play and
Humor for the Inner Child With Allou Guthmiller

The Expo is highlighted by a very special "Starry Starry Night Gala
Celebration Party!" A musical celebration with a lavish whole foods
buffet, salsa dance lessons, entertainment and dancing under the stars.
Everyone is invited to celebrate with us! Saturday 6 - 9 at Kalani Kai
Oceanside Grill. Tickets $65 in advance $75 at the door (if available.)
Exhibitors, Speakers and Presenter tickets $55 by calling 808.447.9228.

For last minute Exhibitor opportunities or to join our Volunteer Team,
please visit our website www.HolisticHawaii-Expo.com, email us at
info@holistichawaii-expo. com or call 808.447.9228. Stay with us at the
Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort! Special Rates include +Deluxe Ocean View
Rooms +One Free Breakfast Buffet (per day) +Free Local Phone Calls and
+Free Parking! Participants Must Request the "Holistic Hawaii Wellness
Expo Special" Call and reserve your room today! 877. 532.8468 toll free -
808.322.2515 local

Sponsored by: Maui Vision Magazine, Inspiration Journal,
Holistic-Hawaii.com, HawaiiGreenPages.com, HawaiiWellnessDirectory,
SuperFoodSnacks.com, StarDoves MarketingWithTheStars.com, Body Mind Spirit
Expo, Outrigger Hotels & Resorts and HawaiiHealthGuide.com. View our
beautiful Virtual Program & Resource Guide

Need help? Please call us at 808.447.9228 for assistance. Warmest Aloha
and Billions of Blessings,
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25. last deeksha till november
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:12:23 -1000
From: Oahu Deeksha <ohm.oahu@gmail.com>

This Friday, Sept 6th will be our last deeksha evening until we return
from India in November.

We invite you to join us for deeksha and a good-bye party. Pupus welcome.

You are also welcome to bring pictures or prayers for people you would
like to have prayers for while we are there.

1802 Keeaumoku St Suite 4 (up the outside stairs to the end of the hall).
Association of American University Women 7 pm Hope to see you there! Also,
drop us a line and let us know what day of the week you would prefer to
have a deeksha night. When we return, we may look at a different night if
it meets more people's needs. -- Many Blessings; the Oahu Oneness Blessing
facilitators www.oahudeeksha.com Rev. Sue 808-221-6782 Heddy King
808-223-7177 Burdae Irwin 808-286-3808
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26. Militarized Security Zone for Hawaii Superferry
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 23:15:24 -1000
From: Kyle Kajihiro <keboi@aol.com>

Posted on: Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Hawaii Superferry security widened
By Joan Conrow
Special to The Advertiser

LIHU'E Kaua'i ^× The Coast Guard said yesterday that the security zone
around Nawiliwili Harbor will be expanded by hundreds of yards to ensure
safety with the operation of the Hawaii Superferry.

Federal, state and local officials met with community leaders yesterday to
discuss safety measures needed in the event of the resumption of service
by the Superferry.

After the meeting, Coast Guard Rear Adm. Sally Brice-O'Hara said a new
security zone will be enforced around the entrance to the harbor, where
protesters stopped the Superferry from docking last week.

The new zone is to extend for hundreds of yards around the entrance to
Nawiliwili Harbor, Brice-O'Hara said. It will allow safe passage for the
vessel Alakai and protect the public, she said.

Rich Hoeppner, of People for the Preservation of Kaua'i, said Coast Guard
officials told the group they would be bringing in additional personnel
and equipment to keep the harbor open.

Hoeppner said canoe clubs, which practice in the area, and the Nawiliwili
Yacht Club, which conducts sailboat races there, objected to the
exclusionary zone, "but there was no room for negotiation."

"It's basically going to become a military zone," he said.

During the presentation, Mike Formby, deputy director of the state
Department of Transportation Harbors Division, said an environmental
assessment will be conducted that encompasses all Hawai'i harbors where
the Superferry is planning to provide service, including Nawiliwili.

Formby said it will be up to Circuit Judge Joseph E. Cardoza of Maui to
determine whether the Superferry can operate while the assessment is
performed.

Service to Kaua'i and Maui remains on hold, with tomorrow the soonest it
could resume, a company spokeswoman said.

"Like our Web site says," said Superferry's Lori Abe, "not until Sept. 5
at the earliest for Kaua'i and Sept. 11 for Maui."

Attorneys for People for the Preservation of Kaua'i plan to seek a
temporary restraining order in Kaua'i Circuit Court today to halt the
ferry. Last week, a Maui judge issued a restraining order against the
ferry and set hearings beginning Thursday.

The meeting was organized by Mayor Bryan Baptiste and County Council
Chairman Bill "Kaipo" Asing.

"The Coast Guard is tasked with facilitating maritime commerce and now has
a plan to do that should the Superferry return," Baptiste said. "It'll
take everyone's cooperation to ensure that peaceful protests can occur
without jeopardizing the safety of others."

Asing agreed with Baptiste and at the same time expressed support for
citizens to protest in a legal manner.

"It is so important that the citizens' right to express their opinions on
this issue be preserved, while at the same time assuring this is done in a
way that provides for the safety of everyone involved," Asing said.

Representatives of Hui-R, Kaiola Canoe Club, Kaua'i Chapter of the Sierra
Club, Kaua'i Marriott Resort and Beach Club, Nawiliwili Yacht Club,
Niumalu Canoe Club, People for the Preservation of Kaua'i and 1000 Friends
of Kaua'i were among those invited to the meeting to hear presentations
made by representatives of the Coast Guard and state DOT Harbors Division.

Staff writer Will Hoover and The Associated Press contributed to this
report.
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Updated at 1:10 p.m., Tuesday, September 4, 2007
Superferry 'demonstration area' planned on Kauai
Advertiser Staff

The Coast Guard is planning for the next voyage of the Hawaii Superferry
to Kaua'i, on a still undetermined date, by assembling Coast Guard assets
to enforce security zones in Nawiliwili Harbor.

Along with plans for the security zones, the Coast Guard Sector Honolulu,
working with various federal, state and local officials, is planning to
designate a "demonstration area" during the Superferry's next Kaua'i
voyage.

This demonstration area ^× roughly between Kalapaki Beach and Kuki'i
Point ^× is intended to allow people who choose to demonstrate to do so
safely, peacefully and legally while allowing the Superferry to safely
use the port.

The fixed security zones will be established in Nawiliwili Harbor before
and during the Superferry's arrival.

Details on the security zones and the safe demonstration area will be
distributed after the Superferry's next voyage to Kaua'i is announced,
according to a news release issued today by Coast Guard officials.
Protesters who fail to comply with orders pertaining to the security
zones, purposely injure or threaten to injure an enforcement officer or
attempt to destruct or interfere with vessels may be punished by
imprisonment for up to 10 years, and may be fined up to $25,000.

Any vessel used to violate a security zone, including surfboards, kayaks
and canoes, may be immediately confiscated and forfeited.

"The Coast Guard, local, state and other federal authorities share a
common goal of ensuring the safety and security of our ports, the vessels
that call, and all the people who use them," Cpt. Vince Atkins, commander
of Coast Guard Sector Honolulu, said in the news release.

"We support the rights of citizens to conduct safe, peaceful and legal
protests, and the Coast Guard is working with our partners throughout
Hawai'i to address security issues related to the Superferry's next
voyage here," Atkins said. 
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Gabrielle Welford, Ph.D.
freelance writer, editor, teacher
welford@hawaii.edu

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