Aloha e KAKOU,
Mahalo piha for your support and advocacy in February! Last month brought out the best in defenders of Hawai‘i’s natural and cultural public trust resources – your advocacy helped unanimously move the PLDC repeal bills out of both the House and Senate. You also helped stage a poignant rally and packed the room for the final arguments in the Thirty-Meter Telescope contested case (click here for a recap by KAHEA Board Member Bianca Kai Isaki).
While your grassroots advocacy is working, we still need your help!
To ensure a clean repeal of the PLDC, the legislature needs to hear from you no later than this Monday 3/18!
HB 1133 is the cleanest repeal bill – no strings attached, complete repeal – we need the Senate to pass HB 1133, without amendments. If the bill passes with amendments, it will go to conference committee, and there is no guarantee the bill will come out of that committee as a total PLDC repeal.
How can we accomplish this?
Let the Senate Committee on Water and Land know that you strongly support HB 1133, without amendments at the hearing this Tuesday, March 19, 2013, at 1:20 pm, Room 225, in any one or all of these ways:
(1) Go to http://www.capitol.hawaii.gov/submittestimony.aspx, enter HB 1133, fill in the form and mark support; you can also add a few personal sentences about why you support repeal, or attach a longer written testimony if you like, and/or
(2) Email written testimony to the committee members: sensolomon@capitol.hawaii.gov; senshimabukuro@capitol.hawaii.gov; sendelacruz@capitol.hawaii.gov;senihara@capitol.hawaii.gov; senruderman@capitol.hawaii.gov; senthielen@capitol.hawaii.gov; senslom@capitol.hawaii.gov (include your name, organization and position if applicable, committee name, date and time of the hearing; and bill number), and/or
(3) Testify in person on Tuesday at 1:20 pm (Room 225)
Written testimony is due Monday, February 18, by 1:20 pm. The earlier the better!
Don’t have time to write extensive testimony? No worries! Simply saying that you support HB 1133 without amendments is enough; no extensive testimony needed. It only takes a minute to submit testimony though the website.
If you have time to add a personal sentence about why you want repeal, even better, but it’s not necessary.
Click here to see KAHEA's sample testimony.
How can you help ensure the thirty-meter telescope – the largest yet – is not constructed on our sacred Mauna Kea? Right now, the biggest need is funding for legal defense. If you can make a monetary donation, no matter how big or small, it will go a long way toward protecting Mauna Kea. You can make that gift by clicking here, or send us a check at the address below.
Mahalo nui for your continued support and advocacy!
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