#tmtshutdown

[kc-79]

Tumblr, Native Hawaiians need your help!

So the gist of it is the construction of the 30 meter telescope on top of Mauna Kea is starting. Its peak is 4,207.3 m above sea level, making it the highest point in the state of Hawaii. Which is why it is deemed the perfect place for the telescope. The only thing is, Mauna Kea is sacred land, our ancestors never built on top of Mauna Kea and for good reason. Sacred land is to never be messed with. It's a burial ground for native Hawaiians' most revered ancestors, and believed to be a peak created by the gods as a place from which humans can ascend to heaven. A lot has been taken away from native Hawaiians and there is already telescopes built on Mauna Kea we do not need anymore desecration of our land. Please help me and my people by signing this petition. Sharing it will help our cause a lot. Follow @protectmaunakea

[angwe-blog]

Posted @withregram • @ainamomona The recent National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Decadal Survey on Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s (Astro2020) prioritizes U.S. funding of the Thirty Meter Telescope — with its contentious preferred site on Mauna Kea — continuing America’s legacy of colonialism and oppression of indigenous kanaka maoli. #kanakamaoli #kanaka #hawaiian #indigenous #perspective #aoletmt #kukiaimauna #tmtshutdown #hawaii #hawaiianstyle #stopthethirtymetertelescope #respect #protectmaunakea (at La Grange, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/CXC5m7MMypw/?utm_medium=tumblr

[mindblowingscience]

Mauna Kea is special. On that much, every stakeholder can agree. But that’s where the agreement stops.

The dormant volcano, whose peak is the highest point in the state of Hawai'i at almost 14,000 feet above sea level, is a sacred site to indigenous Hawaiians. It’s also prime scientific real estate. Some hope it will soon be home to the world’s biggest telescope—the Thirty Meter Telescope or TMT—which could peer back more than 13 billion years in time to the universe’s beginnings.

What's happening?

All this has culminated in a historic conflict as attempts to construct the TMT get underway. A group of indigenous Hawaiians are peacefully protesting to protect their sacred site, while local authorities struggle with what action to take and the science community, including a number of indigenous Hawaiian scientists, works to figure out what to do next.

Local news source the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported that more than 200 activists who blocked the access road to the mountain on Tuesday were prepared to be arrested if necessary. But the day ended with no arrests and no agreement between the authorities—who brought in non-local police as reinforcements—and the protestors. As of Wednesday morning local time, Hawaii News Nowis reporting that arrests have begun.

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[sacredmaunakea]

Construction of Thirty Meter Telescope delayed at least 2 years

By Timothy Hurley “The UH has shown itself to be a bad manager of these important lands for over 50 years and their master plan for the future of Mauna Kea validates the fact that UH has not been listening nor do they care about the harm further development on the summits will do to the Kanaka Maoli people and to those who love and protect this mountain,” organizers said in a news release…

[politicalsci]

On Wednesday, July 17th, a heavily armed police force arrested over 20 Native Hawaiian elders who were peacefully protecting Mauna Kea from desecration.

#TMTShutdown#AoleTMT #KuKiaʻiMauna

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

Indigenous students and academics across Canada are calling on their universities to divest from a project that would see the construction of a giant telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

It's called the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).

Since July 15, hundreds of Indigenous people in Hawaii have protested against its construction on the mountain they consider sacred.

"Indigenous people across the country stand with each other no matter what side of the [Canada-U.S.] border we fall," said Tomas Jirousek, the Indigenous affairs commissioner at the Students' Society of McGill University in Montreal.

Jirousek said he's just as concerned about the telescope in Hawaii as he would be if it were built on sacred land in Canada. It's why he's condemning McGill's affiliation with the project, and hopes to coordinate a letter campaign with student societies from universities that would use the telescope.

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Tagging: @ontarionewsnow​ @abpoli​ @torontopoli​ @politicsofcanada

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

The ongoing protests against the construction of an 18-story telescope atop Mauna Kea, Hawaiʻi’s highest peak, reached a crescendo Wednesday (July 17) when police arrested elders, using wheelchairs and canes, as they blocked the mountain’s base, reports The Associated Press. There were an estimated 2,000 people speaking out against the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), which would be 12 times stronger than the Hubble Space Telescope and was scheduled for the start of construction on Monday (July 15).  

The elders, known as kūpuna, volunteered to be the first arrested; they formed a line blocking the road, Dan Dennison, a spokesperson for Hawaiʻi’s Department of Land and Natural Resources, told The AP. Kealoha Pisciotta, a protest leader, said that dozens of elders were ready to make the sacrifice to save Mauna Kea, which is sacred to native Hawaiians.

“This mountain represents more than just their building that they want to build,” longtime activist Walter Ritte said in a video interview livestreamed by Hawaii News Now, via Twitter on Monday. “This mountain represents the last thing they want to take that we will not give them.” Ritte was one of eight people who chained themselves to a grate in the access road at the mountain’s base to block construction.

[pololiau]

AʻOLE TMT

In honor of all those protesting and demonstrating for Mauna a Wākea — I wanna say how upset I am everyday about how all these intellectuals, politicians, “law-makers” and money-takers don’t give a single shit about the Hawaiian people, our interests, our beliefs, or our feelings. From the bombing of Kahoʻolawe to the stealing and diversion of our water, and all the other countless things that have been done to our islands and our people— I’m sick of it but not surprised at all. The constant disrespect and disregard for us is the only thing I can find predictable in these times. I can go on and on with how I’m feeling and what I think should be done. But unfortunately—Native people and the land itself are hardly respected and it feels sadly hopeless when those with the power and the money control everything.

[mauloabook]

My turn to stand in solidarity with the protectors of Mauna Kea. Much aloha all the way from Spain! 💚❤️💛🗻✊🏼 ►►►@ntvsclothing T-shirts restocked! #MaunaKea #WeAreMaunakea #DefendTheSacred #TMTshutdown #ProtectMaunaKea #AlohaAina #KuKiaiMauna #KapuAloha #TheNTVS #NTVS #Hawaii #MauLoaBook #GraphicDesign #LetsLoseSomeFollowers https://www.instagram.com/p/B1l69TfIuxu/?igshid=7izagzrmzeg2

[bemorechillifries]

alright i'm posting this because i am pissed the hell off.

so here's the situation. there's a plan to build a thirty meter telescope at the top of mauna kea on hawai’i island. great, you say, we'll be able to learn more about space! sen, why is this a bad thing?

learning more about space is great! i'm all for that, but can we do it some place that isn't sacred to hawaiian culture and doesn't already have thirteen fucking observatories on it?

do you want to know what these "terrorists" are doing? they're exercising their rights to peaceful protest, doing hula, chanting, singing, waving signs, and generally being unthreatenting. yes, they're blocking traffic. they're also directing it around them. they're not violent or dangerous. they're not even slinging hate around. in fact, all they're doing is loving. yes, they're angry. of course they are. but they're just throwing around love, for the mauna, for our people and our culture, even for the people who have wronged them.

do you want to know what the state is doing? they send heavily armed forces to arrest and scare us. the governor declares a state of emergency, vows that the public will be protected, no matter their beliefs. then he starts spewing lies about the protesters and what's really going on up there. no one is drinking. there are no drugs. no infighting. people who are confused on why they're there are being educated. nobody is violent, nobody is dangerous.

i want someone to explain to me why the FUCK my people, my kupuna, are being arrested for trying to protect a sacred place from further desecration. i don't care if they're being released almost immediately when they're back down the mountain, i want to know why the hell it's okay to send such heavily armed forces to a group of peaceful protesters. i want to know who made it okay to traumatize a group of people like that.

i want to know why it is that when brown people decide to stick up for themselves peacefully, we're called terrorists. i want to know why there is no place for my culture in the future.

more importantly, someone tell me where that aggression is for the people camping outside of planned parenthoods and other abortion clinics who make women feel so threatened that it's not safe for them unless they are completely covered and escorted into the facility. i want to know where that aggression is towards the people who shoot up schools and clubs and music festivals. i want to know where that aggression is for the goddamn concentration camps currently plaguing the usa. i want to know where the fuck this aggression is towards the actual terrorists. and i want to know why we haven't fixed our massive homelessness problem if we have the resources to spare on sending armed forces to arrest peaceful protesters, governor ige? why the hell aren't you protecting my people when that's your job?

how dare you call us terrorists for protecting what we love when there is much worse going on in the world right now. how dare you tell us that our beliefs have no place in the future.

[freehawaii]

WORLDWIDE SUPPORT FOR MAUNA KEA KEEPS GROWING

[mindblowingscience]

Kānaka ʻŌiwi, or Native Hawaiians, have long gazed into the sky to develop sophisticated knowledge systems about the stars, and have even welcomed non-Hawaiian communities to join in doing so. In 1874, King Kalākaua invited British astronomers to observe the transit of Venus; he dreamed of building an observatory on the Big Island, perhaps at a school.

Nearly a century and a half later, the island of Hawai’i is getting a world-class observatory, but not at the invitation of Native Hawaiians, and not at a place of their collective choosing. A consortium of several international universities backed by six countries wants to build a $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Mauna a Wākea, a dormant volcano in Hawaiʻi that, measured from its base, is the tallest mountain in the world. This observatory will allow scientists to peer deep into the far reaches of space and time, perhaps to see galaxy formation as it was just getting underway. But it will also disturb hallowed ground, a spot of deep cultural-spiritual resonance as well as ecological sensitivity for Kānaka ʻŌiwi. Since construction was slated to begin last week, hundreds of Kānaka ʻŌiwi activists known as kia’i (protectors) have assembled at the site, wrapping themselves in blankets and chaining themselves to cattle guards to prevent the National Guard from escorting telescope-building materials up the Mauna Kea access road.

Mauna a Wākea has long been a site of sacred cultural activity for Kānaka ʻŌiwi, at times serving as a burial ground. The sacredness of the Mauna is embedded in its Kānaka ʻŌiwi name, which reflects its connection to the sky: Wākea is the sky father in Kānaka ʻŌiwi cosmology. Despite this history, scientists from the United States, Europe, and Asia have been digging up the land since the 1960s to build 13 astronomical observatories—a desecration, in the eyes of many Kānaka ʻŌiwi, of a sacred site by people who are also violating indigenous sovereignty. With the TMT, which will extend 18 stories and be accompanied by a second 21,000-square-foot building, Indigenous Hawaiians have determined they will not back down, even in the face of arrests, even as the governor has issued an emergency proclamation.

“We are taking a stand not only to protect our mauna and aina, our land, who we have a genealogical connection to…,” protector Kaho’okahi Kanuha told CNN. “We are fighting to protect it because we know if we cannot stop this, there is not very much we can fight for or protect.… This is our last stand.”

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[sacredmaunakea]

“And the Mauna is safe one more day...” If you cannot be at the Mauna to help block the reality that is the TMT pioneering-mentality era atrocity, exploiting and circumventing laws to protect the well being of our sacred living necessities of water and food production and maintaining insidious and grotesque violations of the DLNR’s mandates to protect Hawaii’s natural resources for the renewable sustainability of all Hawaii, then you can send your prayers and spirit and make efforts from where you are. Whether that is across the sea in foreign places, within the law making and enforcing entities of the entities that allow this perversion of law through bureaucratic and other means that can be fixed- maybe you are part of a private entity or corporation that can influence the moral good, a parent able to network other parents who have taken on the greatest job of all, raising the next generation, or a single person with the time to raise awareness and secure positive support for what is right... Stand where you are. As tall and big as the Mauna is wide, standing where you are, kiai, is a kuleana and responsibility profound. Remember the Supreme Court once upheld for many generations subjugating ideals that women were second class citizens and that slavery and sub-human bondage itself were legal. So it takes you to do the right thing and not stop until the righteous right to human life and the ability to sustain human life is secured beyond reproach. All life and its renewable sustainability is sacred. #sacredmaunakeahui #sacredmaunakeahuithankyous #aoletmt #tmtshutdown #kukiaimauna #protectmaunakea #maunakeaobservatory #wearemaunakea #maunakeasummit #maunakeasummitadventures #maunakeaprotectors #kūkiaimauna #seeyouonthemauna (at Mauna Kea Summit) https://www.instagram.com/p/B0BmBTGhN0A/?igshid=doryqjwl3nqe

[hellish-dreamers]

Kū kia’i Mauna

Disappointed that more of you aren’t talking about Mauna Kea here on Tumblr.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

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