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Today’s Honolulu Star Bulletin reported:   “The Alakai went home yesterday looking for work.” Maybe it was a slip, but it was accurate.  The Superferry’s home is, and always has been somewhere else.  It was never a homegrown interisland transportation system to ship pineapples or allow grandma on Maui to visit her grandkids on O’ahu.  … Read more »

Peace for Life Second People’s Forum BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA • 20-23 MARCH 2009 Organized in partnership with Colombian NGOs led by Proyecto Justicia y Vida BOGOTÁ DECLARATION 2009 Faith and Resistance for Peace and Life in the Age of U.S./Global Empire With the powers of dance, music, testimonies and prayers, and enriched by multiple analyses, we… Read more »

Conspiracy ferry Did we get taken for a ride by Hawai‘i Superferry? Christopher Pala Mar 25, 2009 Hawai‘i’s Superferry ended its choppy ride last week, leaving tantalizing clues, but no proof, that the whole venture was about more than providing “reliable commercial service in these islands,” as CEO Thomas B. Fargo insisted at his dawn… Read more »

This blog post about the Superferry debacle by Jan TenBruggencate aptly applies a popular military aphorism: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 Source: http://raisingislands.blogspot.com/2009/03/admiral-farraguts-torpedoes-and-hawaii.html Admiral Farragut’s torpedoes and the Hawai’i Superferry There is a point at which a commander throws caution to the winds and orders, in the words of Admiral Farragut, “Damn the torpedoes. Full speed… Read more »

Hawaii Court Backs Protestors vs. Superferry (But the Saga Continues) By Jerry Mander & Koohan Paik March 24, 2009 In the latest turn of events in Hawaii’s impressive grassroots uprising against a huge corporate-military boondoggle, the state’s Supreme Court has ruled unanimously (5-0) that the Hawaii Superferry has no legal authority to continue its operations… Read more »

This press release from Congressman Jose Serrano states that the Navy has no intention of resuming training in Vieques. Congressman José E. Serrano Representing the Sixteenth District of New York PRESS RELEASE -4361 Serrano Announces Navy Has No Intention of Reopening Training Range On Vieques March 20, 2009 – Washington, DC – This afternoon, Congressman… Read more »

Recent news reports that the military was considering returning to Vieques to conduct training has sparked renewed anger  in Puerto Rico.   Puerto Rico’s delegate to Congress, Pedro Pierluisi, has even come out against renewed military activity in Vieques, a 180 degree reversal of an earlier statement welcoming new military activity.  Here’s an article from the… Read more »

The authors of the Superferry Chronicles wrote this excellent analysis for the Hawaii Independent on the demise of the Hawai’i Superferry.  Their conclusion:  in the end, the Superferry won.  If we assume that the Superferry was meant to primarily be a proof of concept, then it accomplished its purpose.   Their venture was underwritten by Hawai’i… Read more »

As the Hawaii Superferry sails off into the sunset for good, it seems that the military connections to the Superferry that activists railed against are finally coming to fruition, and getting the attention it deserves by major news outlets such as this article in the New York Times. Thomas Fargo, HSF CEO and former Commander… Read more »