CROWDS TURN OUT FOR SUPERFERRY PROTEST
The Garden Island - November 5, 2007
For the 250 demonstrators at Nawiliwili Park yesterday, it wasn’t just about the Superferry coming back to Kaua`i, it was how the Superferry bill came to be.
“The most upsetting thing to me is the process,” said demonstrator Andrea Brower of Aliomanu. “It was so undemocratic, so illegal and is undermining the most important environmental law....”
The judge’s decision was based on environmental laws that we have. Every time the Legislature doesn’t like the judge’s decision, it will be challenged as unconstitutional....
...Tim Swanson of Kapa`a feels people, including the local government, haven’t been taking care of what we have and aren’t ready for more people to come to the party.
“Our highways, our beaches and our roads, they’re not taking care of it, not putting money into it,” Swanson said. “The people of Kaua`i haven’t been taking care of Kaua`i like they should be. We don’t need people here until we can take care of Kaua`i....”
...Before supporters could take to the sea to participate in a water protest, demonstrator Auntie Louise gathered the crowd closer so she could give pule.
“We’re here to stand against the injustice of the legal process that has happened,” Auntie Louise said. “We’re here to protect the `aina (land.”)
Demonstrators then navigated their surfboards, canoes and kayaks down the jetty rocks to the water to gather in the middle of Nawiliwili Harbor in solidarity with demonstrations happening at the same time on Maui, O`ahu and the Big Island.
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