2016-04-21 Leeward Exh C (SMA 16-063)

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LOPRINZI: Aloha kākou. ‘O Clare Loprinzi Koenoa. I live Honokōhau Mauka. I’m a cultural practitioner. I help the next generations and the next generations in the last 40 years of babies come in; I help a lot of Hawaiian babies. I hear them. I’m connected to them. I’m connected to what’s out in the water. I speak for that. What’s on the earth. I can tell you that we will not allow this to happen. We cannot. You ask us to put our hands up like this. Where is your hands? How come you did not recluse \[sic\] yourself? Your decision. How do you, the rest of you, what do you swear by? That’s what I ask you, because what we have to do is kuleana and accountability. I cannot be a cultural practitioner, if I do not have kuleana and accountability. And if you go back down to the area, you will know you’ve got Lono and you’ve got Kū, and you’ve got them right there. I live my life to that. My bloodline does not come from here, but comes from another island on the other side of the world where we too are military, have military occupation, where we too are fighting for our seas; I come from Sicilia, we are the Sicels that came from Northern Africa. We will not give up. We cannot. It’s kuleana and accountability. I would have to let go of the work I do, and I cannot. Please put that down and please quit putting that up, because I have respect for you, and that does not show respect for me or anybody else that’s here, to keep waiving the sign \[for remaining testimony time\]. And that’s what we need is respect. We are now in Kū, who is not just war; it’s sustainability. So that we can move right here, \[inaudible\] make a decision. But whatever decision you make, do know that we will put our thousands of bodies down there. It is our kuleana. So don’t have us do that. Quit having us go to contested court cases, all of these things, because if that’s what we have to do, we will have to do them. But we will rather pay for people to have food. The healthcare on this island, the amount of women, I work with also senators over there; they say, Clare, work harder on giving prenatal care, safe birth for women. High drug rates, high alcohol rates. You cannot keep taking away their land, their seas. What you do to the, those iwi have a direct effect on those babies coming into this world. That’s why we won’t stop. We will not and we cannot. And you should all recluse yourself, if you cannot do your job, have the respect for the ‘āina, for the koholā. They come here, they’ve been here way longer than us human beings. So it’s not, again, it’s not even an issue whether this is going to happen. So if you cannot recluse yourself, if you cannot vote to stop this, then get out of those jobs. That’s — UNGER: Thank you. LOPRINZI: — what we’re going to ask you. No, I’m not quite through yet. I’m almost through. Because our, I would not go seven years; I go seven generations. Because that’s what we need to do for our children. And to survive as a planner, if you swim in the water, which I know this sister does, if you cannot hear those koholā and those manō, and if you cannot hear what they are saying to us, wake up. If you have not gone down to this area and sat there, and connected to Lono and the Kū, then why are you up there? UNGER: Thank you. Thank you for your — LOPRINZI: Have you? UNGER: — mana‘o. 16 EXHIBIT C