GAPIMNY donated $100 to Hawaiʻi Community Bail Fund to support the kiaʻi and when we beat the TMT, will support all our ʻohana who may need bail support. #ProtectMaunaKea needs our support as they continue to fight and are arrested for civil disobedience. We encourage the GAPIMNY community and allies to donate here: bit.ly/2JvIAt9
Hawaiian Elders Protesting Telescope Construction Are Arrested: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/science/mauna-kea-protest.html
Additional context in piece titled “Mauna Kea is only latest thing they want to take, ‘we will not give it to them'”:
“Mauna Kea, also known as Mauna a Wakea, is a 13,800 foot high mountain on Hawai‘i Island, and considered the most sacred site to Kanaka ‘Ōiwi, the Native Hawaiian people. Named after Wākea, Father Sky, it is home to a number of religious deities, and is a traditional burial ground for the most revered ali‘i (royalty) and kahuna (priests). The spiritual and cultural significance of the mauna predates the European-American colonization of the earth by millennia. Hawaiians have fought against Western astronomy on the summit since the industry got a foothold there in the late 1960s. Fifty years and 13 telescopes later, the newest addition, if the state and the TMT Corporation have their way, will be the Thirty Meter Telescope. So far Hawaiians have managed to stop all efforts to begin construction through legal challenges and civil disobedience.”
Full text of article here: https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/news/mauna-kea-is-only-latest-thing-they-want-to-take-we-will-not-give-it-to-them-S1EE6oX1Iki5QxpRZVxMiw/