The SuperFerry Chronicles

The Superferry Chronicles - Book Launch Celebrations
Tuesday, December 2
4:00 p.m. - Borders at Maui Marketplace, Kahului
7:00 p.m. - Kaunoa Senior Center in Paia
Interisland ferries, at appropriate speeds with appropriate safeguards, could be a blessing for the islands. The Hawaii Superferry has never met these criteria. Not approved by the people of Hawai'i, without an environmental impact statement, the Superferry rode in on a wave of collusion and deception. On Maui, environmental groups blocked passage in the courts, only to be overridden by special legislative session. On Kaua'i, citizens on surfboards blocked the vessel from entering the harbor. Koohan Paik and Jerry Mander tell the full story in The Superferry Chronicles.

Koohan Paik is a Kauai filmmaker, writer, and media-literacy educator. Jerry Mander founded of San Francisco's Public Media Center and International Forum on Globalization, authored the bestselling Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television and In the Absence of the Sacred, and has been called by the New York Times "the patriarch of the antiglobalization movement."

"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 the people of Hawai'i who have raised the alarm and to these authors for pulling back the curtain." --Bill McKibben, author of 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

The authors will also be speaking at Maui Community College December 1st at 6 p.m. in Science 12A, December 3-5 on Kaua'i, and in Honolulu, Hilo, and Kona in January. Visit www.superferrychronicles.com for details and a downloadable poster.

The Superferry Chronicles
Published by Koa Books, Kihei, Maui
$20 Trade Paperback Original - ISBN 978-0-9773338-8-2
Available now in Borders Kahului & Lihue, Native Books and Revolution Books in Honolulu, and from Koa Books
For more information, contact 808-875-7995, arnie@koabooks.com