“Defend our Public Rights to our National waters and MA waterways: “U.S. and MA Public petition opposing privatization of Boston’s ‘Head of the Harbor, Pier 5’” For over a quarter of a century, when the U.S. Navy transferred the Boston Navy Yard to the City of Boston, we have been fighting to preserve the designated Public Rights to Access to waterways from being blocked by privatized development. These rights are stipulated by both U.S. Navy Transfer documents and the centuries old common law based MA Chapter 91 Law: “’the sea and with it the shore of the sea’ are the common property of all people”.”