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64 [2][3] The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) protests are a series of protests and demonstrations that began on the Island of Hawaii over the choosing of Mauna Kea for the site location of the Thirty Meter Telescope. Mauna Kea is the most sacred dormant volcano of Native Hawaiian religion and culture, and was known to natives as the home to ...
Protesters lay on the ground attached to PVC pipe and chains in an attempt to stop the construction of the telescope. Police arrested 20 people ranging in age from 19 to 60. One of those arrested was a Hawaiian Studies professor at the University of Hawaii, Maui, Kaleikoa Ka‘eo, who stated, "Fundamentally, we are asserting our human rights".
A July 2022, state law [39] responds to the protests by removing sole control over the master land lease from the University of Hawaii. After a joint transition period from 2023 to 2028, control will shift to the new Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority, which will include representatives from the University, astronomers and native ...
GEORGE F. LEE / 2021 Some 100 people marched to University of Hawaii President David Lassner’s home in Palolo in 2021 to protest the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea.
June 5, 2024 at 8:18 PM. HONOLULU (AP) — Local officials on the Hawaiian island of Maui on Wednesday voted to oppose a U.S. military proposal to build new telescopes on the summit of Haleakala ...
He’s been living in hotels and a rented condo. “We all got to stay together here on Maui," Leonard said. "We’re going to survive and it’s going to come back.”. Memories of gold. After ...
Maui [67] Small band of occupiers camped on the outskirts of the State Building in Wailuku for a weekend in October before being evicted from the site by Maui Police under threat of charges of criminal trespass. Movement (dubbed "Occupy Wall Street Maui") holds weekly meetings at a local college. [69] Idaho: Boise [70]
Native Hawaiians (also known as Indigenous Hawaiians, Kānaka Maoli, Aboriginal Hawaiians, or simply Hawaiians; Hawaiian: kānaka, kānaka ʻōiwi, Kānaka Maoli, and Hawaiʻi maoli) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii was settled at least 800 years ago by Polynesians who sailed from the Society Islands.