Public Hearing - EISs for the Proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal ...

11/3/2012
1 analogy and the best thing I could come up with is
2 that our society is kind of like one big heroin junky.
3 We're lying on the couch, looking like Keith Richards
4 on a bad day all sweaty and shaky and contemplating
5 whether to have one more fix, when we know full well
6 one more fix might kill us.
7 o-O-o
8 JANET THOMAS: Hi. Thank you for this
9 opportunity to be here. My name is Janet Thomas and
10 I'm a writer.
11 I've lived here on the Island for more than
12 20 years. One of my books is The Battle in Seattle;
13 the story behind the WTO demonstrations. And writing
14 that book exposed me to the depth of the greed of
15 corporate culture in our world, on the planet, and its
16 affect on the people.
17 And I experienced this first hand for five
18 years in the 90s. I was manager of the county parks,
19 and one day I was at a little pristine park on the
20 west side of our Island and somebody came up and asked
21 if they could launch jet ski whale watch tours. And I
22 said no.
23 Within days I had been subpoenaed by the
24 Kawasaki folks. I had a lot of experience being
25 subpoenaed during that whole time.
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