Offshore Corporations Want to End
Our Rights

Republican-led Constitutional Convention is a Sneak Attack
on Your Right to:

Water
Shoreline Access
Good Paying Union Jobs
Privacy

Don't be fooled by the misleading slogans.  Big money desperately wants to gut our constitution - and they can do it if we open the door to them with a Constitutional Convention (ConCon).

Water: A&B, Wailuku Water, ML&P and EMI all want you to believe that "Equal Access to Water" is a good thing.  Sounds good, doesn't it? But the Hawai'i constitution already says that the people (that's you and me) own the water and lays out the use priorities.  What so-called "equal access" will do is give the water to the big landowners and take it away from the people.

You think we have a hard time getting water now?  At least now, we can go to court and get our water back.  Once the Constitutionally guaranteed water hierarchy is gutted, we won't have a leg to stand on.  Good-bye public water, hello big-land-owner water-gouging.

Shoreline Access:  Think Hawaiian rights and entitlements are just for Hawaiians?  Think again.  Your right to visit beaches in front of hotels depends on the Constitutionally guaranteed Hawaiian rights.  Without Hawaiian rights, the hotels and shoreline estates can close off access to the beaches like they do on the mainland. 

Good Paying Jobs: Here's another deceptive slogan: "Right to Work".  What that really means is right to be exploited, right to become a low-paid worker and right to lose your benefits because Right to Work is Union-busting. Multinational corporations want to get this so-called right to work language into the constitution so they can eliminate union jobs.  Don't fall for their exploitive and deceptive words.

Privacy Rights: Our existing constitution has some of the strongest language favoring privacy rights of any state.

Nuclear Plants:  The same corporations who own most of the TV and radio stations, GE and Westinghouse, are pushing to build new nuclear plants.  Our constitution (for very good reasons) prohibits nuclear plants and allowing disposal of radioactive material. In fact, there is a hair brained idea floating around to site a nuke on Kaho'olawe. (Fortunately, not being proposed by any utility.) One spill and the beaches of Maui, Hawai'i, Moloka'i and Lana'i are contaminated. 

Hospitals: Progress on getting acute care hospitals for Kihei and Lahaina is slow. We have two groups.  One group wants private hospitals and the other wants a plan whereby Kihei and Lahaina get acute care hospitals which are tied into Maui Memorial and are public hospitals available to all.

 But those who want the private hospital are impatient with the Certificate of Need which provides an island-wide planning process for hospitals.   There is no doubt Lahaina needs an acute care facility ASAP. But using the sledge hammer of rewriting our constitution is not a safe way to accomplish this.

Whether you support the private hospital or the idea of satellite hospitals, rewriting the constitution is not necessary to accomplish either goal.  Those who (deservedly) want better care at MM and acute care in Lahaina are being used by the far right in an agenda that goes well beyond hospitals.

Delegates: Pro-ConCon forces tout this a "Democracy in Action" and talk about the "people" rewriting the constitution.  But think about it.  Do you have the time and money to take off work for days or weeks, go to 'Oahu and rewrite the constitution?

Who can take the time and not lose their job or income?  Lobbyists and Corporate representatives, that's who!  Do you trust them to rewrite our constitution for our benefit?

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