05-09-2015, 09:33 AM
PaulW,
Near as I can tell the reasons are as vast as there are differing opinions within the protestors but amongst them is a common thread. It's those common threads that are what bind them together. Above all else it's about their connection with the mountain and they feel the TMT is another desecration of the mountain itself and of their sovereignty as a people. If you listen to the protestors statements during one of the arrest videos. A few claim that the police arresting them is a "war crime". This brings us to the movement for sovereignty. So the protest is that they feel it's their land to call the shots on and they don't recognize the validity of the State. People can try to claim it's the way the overall lease has been handled and all sorts of other things but when the common binding is put forward it's a demonstration to claim their sovereignty over not only the mountain but throughout all of the islands.
Near as I can tell the reasons are as vast as there are differing opinions within the protestors but amongst them is a common thread. It's those common threads that are what bind them together. Above all else it's about their connection with the mountain and they feel the TMT is another desecration of the mountain itself and of their sovereignty as a people. If you listen to the protestors statements during one of the arrest videos. A few claim that the police arresting them is a "war crime". This brings us to the movement for sovereignty. So the protest is that they feel it's their land to call the shots on and they don't recognize the validity of the State. People can try to claim it's the way the overall lease has been handled and all sorts of other things but when the common binding is put forward it's a demonstration to claim their sovereignty over not only the mountain but throughout all of the islands.