{"id":2023026,"date":"2023-09-06T04:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassroots-protest-hopes-to-launch-1000-boats-to-promote-government-transparency-in-aftermath-of-lahaina-wildfire\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T04:19:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T08:19:24","slug":"grassroots-protest-hopes-to-launch-1000-boats-to-promote-government-transparency-in-aftermath-of-lahaina-wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassroots-protest-hopes-to-launch-1000-boats-to-promote-government-transparency-in-aftermath-of-lahaina-wildfire\/","title":{"rendered":"Grassroots protest aims to launch 1,000 boats for transparent governance post-Lahaina wildfire."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrassroots-protest-hopes-to-launch-1000-boats-to-promote-government-transparency-in-aftermath-of-lahaina-wildfire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023026&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div data-post-content=\"true\" class=\"post_content\" id=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"my-5\">\n<h2>Standing for Truth in Wildfire-Ravaged Lahaina<\/h2>\n<p>Shelby Thomson\u200d believes some \u2062things are worth fighting for\u2014and the truth is the <em>aina<\/em>\u2014&#8221;ground&#8221; in the Hawaiian language\u2014on which she&#8217;s willing to make \u2064a stand in wildfire-ravaged Lahaina in west Maui.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Sept. 11, at 8:08 a.m., Ms. Thomson, 27, a Maui resident, \u2064will lead the open-ended protest of what she considers to be \u2062the government&#8217;s lack of transparency regarding the number of\u200b dead and missing in Lahaina, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-is-repeating-itself-in-russia\/\" title=\"History Is Repeating Itself in Russia\">small coastal town<\/a> of 13,200.<\/p>\n<p>The official death toll stands at 115, despite an estimated 2,000 children reported missing from Lahaina&#8217;s\u200d school enrollment by the Hawaii Department of Education.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/bright\/after-devastating-fires-maui-working-to-entice-travelers-back-5486134\">After \u200dDevastating Fires, Maui Working to Entice\u200b Travelers Back<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/4\/2023<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/article\/lahaina-residents-say-police-barricades-prevented-people-from-fleeing-raging-fires-5483563\">In Maui Fires,\u200d Defying Police Blockades Proved Life-Saving<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/4\/2023<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And other questions \u2064need answering, Ms. Thomson said.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left:0;margin-right:0;max-width:1200px\">\n<figure style=\"width:640px;margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Christy Albinson (L), \u200bwith her daughter Shelby Thomson, barely escaped with her life\u2063 during the tragic Lahaina wildfire,\u2063 on Aug. \u200d8, 2023. (Courtesy Shelby Thomson)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Why did the governor sign emergency proclamations \u200cin July that gave him power \u200bto acquire land\u200b after a\u2064 disaster?&#8221; \u2062Ms. Thomson asked in a promotional flier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Why \u2062did the \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/architect-of-north-carolinas-woke-curriculum-supports-obamas-anti-semitic-pastor\/\" title=\"Architect of North Carolina\u2019s Woke Curriculum Supports Obama\u2019s Anti-Semitic Pastor\">governor remove<\/a> the Sunshine\u2063 Law?&#8221; This is Hawaii&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grassroots-protest-hopes-to-launch-1000-boats-to-promote-government-transparency-in-aftermath-of-lahaina-wildfire\/\" title=\"Grassroots protest aims to launch 1,000 boats for transparent governance post-Lahaina wildfire.\">open meeting law allowing public discussion<\/a> on land development.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Thomson, whose mother Christy Albinson, 47, barely escaped\u200c the Lahaina fire with her life, said the lack of transparency by government officials \u200bis alarming.<\/p>\n<p>But the \u200dsuffering of her\u2064 fellow\u200c Maui residents and native Hawaiians is even more so.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They&#8217;re just going through so much trauma\u2014they&#8217;re still grieving; PTSD from what they saw and experienced\u2014losing family and \u2064homes. They&#8217;re in fight or flight [mode] right now. It&#8217;s so hard,&#8221; Ms. Thomson told The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-warns-weakling-gop-senators-i-will-never-forget-and-either-will-his-voters\/\" title=\"President Trump Warns Weakling GOP Senators: \u201cI Will NEVER FORGET! \u2014 And Either Will His Voters!\">sit back<\/a> and wait for \u200danswers, Ms. Thomson decided to take her quest for truth to the streets of Lahaina.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe [the Lahaina wildfire] \u2063is the sloppy 9\/11. It&#8217;s \u20629\/11 \u2064of children. It&#8217;s the 9\/11 of Hawaii,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>The event&#8217;s start time\u20148:08 a.m.\u2014represents \u2062the Aug. 8 fire date and the Maui area code.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Thomson said the location of \u2064the protest will\u2064 remain a secret for now, fearing police \u2063shutting down the event before it starts.<\/p>\n<p>She envisions an open-ended campout\/standout \u2062with hundreds of\u2064 protestors and a \u200bflotilla \u200dof 1,000 boats, jet skiers, paddlers, and surfers along the \u2062coastline in a \u200dshow of support \u200dfor Lahaina\u2014and Maui.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have every single \u2063right\u2063 to be standing in solidarity \u2062and demanding transparency \u200dof the Lahaina lands,&#8221;\u2062 Ms. Thomson said in the flyer.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Thomson said the protest has been spreading by \u2062word of mouth, but the\u200c support is significant as the \u2064island&#8217;s first organized public outcry against the\u200c government&#8217;s handling of the crisis.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. \u20634, Maui County\u2064 officials declared the Lahaina burn area\u2014one of three \u2063that \u2063erupted on Maui\u2014100 percent contained and searched, with 115 confirmed fatalities and 2,170 acres destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal\u2063 Emergency Management \u2062Agency (FEMA)\u2063 has placed black security fencing\u2062 around the burn area ahead of plans to spray an adhesive chemical to prevent the \u2064spread of toxic dust.<\/p>\n<p>As security around the impacted areas grows\u200b tighter, so does <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tennessee-tries-to-limit-residents-access-to-wine-from-other-states-again\/\" title=\"Tennessee Tries To Limit Residents' Access to Wine From Other States (Again)\">residents&#8217; access<\/a> to their property, said Ms. Thomson, who advocates for a peaceful \u2063protest.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2064 will take brave individuals\u2063 who understand what happened. It will double each day if we can\u2062 bring enough people at \u200bthe \u2062start. It will be like a\u200b domino effect.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re not \u2063going down without\u2062 a fight. There are so many Hawaiians grieving and suffering. We will \u2064stand for them \u2064and say, &#8216;Please join us.\u2062 This is your land.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, the\u200d American\u200c Red Cross announced it \u2064will provide\u2064 financial assistance to families of victims to h<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelby Thomson, a 27-year-old Maui resident, is determined to fight for what she believes in. In wildfire-devastated Lahaina, she will take a stand for the truth, symbolized by the Hawaiian word &#8220;aina&#8221; meaning &#8220;ground.&#8221; On September 11th, at 8:08 a.m., Thomson will lead an ongoing protest against what she perceives as government negligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":2023027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}