Mauna Kea Protest Today
More than four dozen attendees, including astronomers and some of the protesters, crammed into the charter school classrooms for small group discussions over the future of Mauna Kea. Protesters on Mauna Kea dig in their heels. The New York Times: Why Are Native Hawaiians Protesting Against a Telescope?
Construction of the telescope near the summit of Mauna Kea stalled in 2019 as protests erupted on the mountain, attracting thousands of project opponents from across the state. Those protests became a powerful rallying point for Hawaiians, including some who consider the mountain to be sacred land. Opposition to the project began shortly after the announcement of Mauna Kea as the chosen site out of 5 proposals.
While opposition against the observatories on Mauna Kea has been ongoing since the first telescope, built by the University of Hawaii, this protest may be the most vocal. Despite some daunting setbacks, executives with the Thirty Meter Telescope arent giving up on their plans to build it on Mauna Kea, and are investigating the possibility the observatory could be constructed on a site where an old telescope was decommissioned and torn down. HONOLULU (KHON2) There has been a major development in the long-running battle over the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea.
A federal funding cut could mean major changes for the projects... Gov. Josh Green is pledging to help promptly establish a procedure to permit construction of a controversial telescope atop Mauna Kea on a site previously developed for observatory use.
The Maunakea Stewardship and Oversight Authority took no vote Thursday but heard hours of testimony sparked by Gov. Josh Greens recent letter outlining a path for permitting the Thirty Meter... Protesters at the Mauna Kea Access Road removed barricades for the first time since July as the demonstrators against a giant telescope project shift their focus away from the construction...
GAME of Thrones star Jason Momoa has joined Nicole Scherzinger, Zoe Kravitz, Ian Somerhalder and other stars in a new social media campaign protesting against a construction project on Hawaiis big island.
