05-12-2015, 03:31 AM
is there anything that can be built anywhere without protests about "desecration"?
There were similar protests 10 or 15 years ago over a large telescope built on Maui. Many of the same arguments that the Maui activists used, are being used by the Mauna Kea protestors:
Native Hawaiian activists plan to protest the decision, charging the telescope would defile a mountain they consider sacred.
Charles Kauluwehi Maxwell Sr. said the telescope was unnecessary, ugly and extremely disrespectful to Hawaiian culture. He called on Native Hawaiians to lay down in front of construction equipment with him to prevent the telescope from being built.
"There's enough junk up there already to completely annihilate the spirituality of Haleakala," Maxwell said.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/general-new...scope-site
PAUKUKALO – Hawaiian voices were unanimous Monday night in opposing the National Science Foundation's plan for an enormous telescope atop Haleakala, but it turns out that even the most united effort might not be able to stop the project.
Just minutes earlier, the audience at the Paukukalo Community Center had learned that all its testimony protesting the proposed 14-story-tall telescope at the summit of the mountain might not make a difference in the end. National Science Foundation attorney Charisse Carney-Nunes acknowledged that while "consultation" with Native Hawaiians was required by federal law, "concurrence" – agreement – was not.
Maxwell said he remains opposed to the telescope, but he's unsuccessfully tried to halt the construction of two earlier telescopes.
"If they're going to build it, give us something in return," said Maxwell, who suggested that developers build a traditional Hawaiian navigation and astronomy center for the community should the telescope be funded.
http://www.moolelo.com/haleakala-protest-solar.html
There were similar protests 10 or 15 years ago over a large telescope built on Maui. Many of the same arguments that the Maui activists used, are being used by the Mauna Kea protestors:
Native Hawaiian activists plan to protest the decision, charging the telescope would defile a mountain they consider sacred.
Charles Kauluwehi Maxwell Sr. said the telescope was unnecessary, ugly and extremely disrespectful to Hawaiian culture. He called on Native Hawaiians to lay down in front of construction equipment with him to prevent the telescope from being built.
"There's enough junk up there already to completely annihilate the spirituality of Haleakala," Maxwell said.
http://www.dailybulletin.com/general-new...scope-site
PAUKUKALO – Hawaiian voices were unanimous Monday night in opposing the National Science Foundation's plan for an enormous telescope atop Haleakala, but it turns out that even the most united effort might not be able to stop the project.
Just minutes earlier, the audience at the Paukukalo Community Center had learned that all its testimony protesting the proposed 14-story-tall telescope at the summit of the mountain might not make a difference in the end. National Science Foundation attorney Charisse Carney-Nunes acknowledged that while "consultation" with Native Hawaiians was required by federal law, "concurrence" – agreement – was not.
Maxwell said he remains opposed to the telescope, but he's unsuccessfully tried to halt the construction of two earlier telescopes.
"If they're going to build it, give us something in return," said Maxwell, who suggested that developers build a traditional Hawaiian navigation and astronomy center for the community should the telescope be funded.
http://www.moolelo.com/haleakala-protest-solar.html
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