WHAT:
TWO SUPERFERRY CHRONICLES BOOK LAUNCH PARTIES
Come learn little-known facts about the Hawaii Superferry

WHERE & WHEN:
Wednesday, December 3
6:00 p.m. at the United Church of Christ, Hanapepe

Friday, December 5
6:00 p.m. at Malama Kauai

WHO:
Speakers will include:
Co-authors Koohan "Camera" Paik and Jerry Mander
Biologist Don Heacock
Fisherman Raymond Catania and others!

THE SUPERFERRY CHRONICLES:
Fifteen hundred protestors line Kauai's pier. Dozens more leap onto surfboards, boogie boards, and canoes, risking their lives to stop the oncoming colossus: the high-speed Hawaii Superferry riding in on a wave of deception and collusion. The protesters block the ship, and force it back to Honolulu. But why such outrage?... Over a ferryboat?

The Superferry Chronicles is a riveting tale of intrigue and corruption—and an inspiring popular uprising against rampant commercialization. Impeccably researched, The Chronicles exposes hidden connections to defense industries preparing for Pacific conflicts, and an ambitious governor pandering to powerful military investors.

Her administration gives the mammoth catamaran—bigger than a football field—a free pass to blaze its way at forty miles per hour through protected whale breeding grounds and transport dangerous invasive species to fragile ecosystems—despite stringent environmental laws and a unanimous Supreme Court stop-order! Central
to the story, we hear directly from Hawai'i's citizens fighting to protect their lands, and saying loud and clear, "Enough is enough."

Award-winning filmmaker Koohan Paik of Kaua'i and Jerry Mander, "the patriarch of the antiglobalization movement" (New York Times), are joined by military observers, legal experts, and environmental professionals, to tell this compelling David-and-Goliath saga of local heroism versus global powers, exposing universal crises playing out in a Pacific archipelago.

The book details the ongoing struggle of many Hawaii residents against forces which have tried to bypass well established laws that protect Hawaii"s fragile ocean and land environment.

The struggle has taken place at county council meetings, in our courts, on the docks, in the legislature, at public meetings, in the governor's office, on newspaper pages, and most famously, in the harovrs of Kauai and Maui.

" Open this book and dive into a story of almost allegoric proportions. Let it embolden you to stand up for our Earth, its beauty and its creatures, including ourselves." —Frances Moore Lappé, author Diet for a Small Planet and Hope's Edge

" The idea of boats to connect the Hawaiian Islands is so natural and lovely that it makes one doubly mad to read how in this case it's been perverted into yet one more sad scheme for our paranoid future. Good for you—people of Hawai'i—who've raised the alarm, and to these authors for pulling back the curtain." —Bill McKibben, author Deep Economy

"Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander offer the world a wide interpretation of indigenous sensibility. We in Hawai'i are grateful and stand ready for more effective collaboration. It's time to save this planet! I mua ka lahui o Hawaii-nui-akua. ('Let us all move forward, all people of the world.')" —Dr. Manulani Aluli Meyer, Hawaiian practitioner and educator

Trade Paperback Original • 328 pps • $20 • ISBN 9780977333899 • Photos & Index Published by Koa Books, Kihei, Hawai'i • www.koabooks.com • 808-875-7995

You can order this just published 328 page book from Amazon

Click here for: Superferry Chronicles