Public schools and state agencies stop exploiting labor challenge

This was posted by a former south. Maui state rep.
My issue with this type of thinking is that it ignores the larger system which enables the tourism industry to exploit land and water resources without paying for its impacts. This is what led to the negligence which led to the devastating fire

Interesting notes on the place name of Lahaina from https://uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/%CA%BBohu%CA%BBohu-na-mauna-o-%CA%BBe%CA%BBeka-place-names-of-maui-komohana/

This is on the front page of the official County site which serves as the hub for info on wildfire relief, donation, and volunteer efforts. Make of it what you will but for the record I don't cosign

More history of Lāhainā as a lush place, which was run dry by extractive capitalism leading to the conditions in which the fire spread. We can regenerate the land by giving it back to native farmers and management, with proper funding and support from the local government

We cannot have more of the kind of colonizing land ownership that led to this tragedy in the first place

https://apnews.com/article/hawaii-maui-lahaina-housing-prices-shortage-d8902c3ea55a8ec4d9938865f3f749f7

With Larry Ellison owning 98% of the island of Lāna'i, a history of plantation ownership, and trend of billionaire land grabs, there is a real fear that Lahaina will be scooped up

https://www.mauicounty.gov/civicalerts.aspx?AID=12669 💔

when will the madness end

thinking of this no reason