Monday, April 21, 2008

Save the Hawai'i Constitution

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

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.

Protect Hawaii's Constitution
to Protect Your RIghts

Don't Be Fooled By Big-Money BS!

Vote NO on Con Con


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