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Mon, 05/04/2015 - 12:00am
Voices from OHA meeting, Thursday April 30 plus Mauna Kea activist
Report from KBOO reporter Paul Roland:
VOICES FROM THE MOVEMENT
As reported on Friday’s newscast, last Thursday the Office of Hawaiian Affairs Board of Trustees voted to rescind its previous support for a hotly contested new telescope project on Mauna Kea, which is of central and sacred importance to the Hawaiian people.
The Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, would be by far the largest of an already crowded 13-telescope complex near the summit of the mountain.
Native Hawaiians and environmentalists had opposed the other telescopes, but only the TMT has aroused a mobilization powerful enough to prevent construction from going forward.
An encampment on the mountain is in its fifth week.
I’ve been covering this story for the past two weeks, because it is a major people’s struggle that has captured world-wide attention and that has significant implications for the future of the Hawaiian and other indigenous peoples’ self-determination.
It also calls into question the United States’ history and legacy of colonization and imperialism.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, or OHA, was created in 1978 on a wave of Native Hawaiian activism, and has played an important role in maintaining and reviving Hawaiian culture and autonomy.
We will hear three voices from the OHA meeting on Thursday.
First is Walter Ritte, who recently turned seventy. He began his activism as one of the Kaho’olawe Nine, a group of activists who were the first to land on the island of Kaho’olawe in January 1976 in opposition to the military bombing on that island. He occupied and stayed hidden on the island for 35 days, an act which led to a brief imprisonment. The island was later returned to the State of Hawaii. As you can hear from his testimony, he has remained an activist.
Then we hear from Leanna Marie Lehado, a 16-year old high school junior, one of the new generation that is carrying the torch of Hawaiian activism
Then we hear Dan Ahuna, acting chair of the OHA Board, who was the dissenting vote in the 6-1 vote, because he wanted to go beyond rescinding their support of the TMT project, and commit OHA to active opposition.
Finally we hear a brief interview I did earlier this afternoon with Lanakila Mangauil, one of the young leaders of the encampment on Mauna Kea.
Other KBOO coverage of this issue:
http://kboo.fm/maunakeaprotestscontinue
http://kboo.fm/whythemountainastruggleforautonomydignit0,
Useful links for more info:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/393211327547061/
http://www.protectmaunakea.org/
http://www.gofundme.com/maunakeaohana
http://www.hawaiiankingdom.org
https://www.facebook.com/TheMakingOfWhyTheMountain?fref=ts
http://www.nohohewa.com/
http://whythemountain.
http://kekukuifoundation.org/
They are offering an 8-week course in Hawaiian History on Tuesdays from 7-9 p.m. starting May 5. Call or write Kepule: 503-580-6662, kepulekaneokealoha@comcast.net
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/smithsonian-institution/heart-hawaiian-people-arguments-arguments-against-telescope-mauna-kea-180955057/
Article on how people can help the cause:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/04/17/4-ways-show-your-support-mauna-kea-160020
VOICES FROM THE MOVEMENT
The Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, would be by far the largest of an already crowded 13-telescope complex near the summit of the mountain.
Native Hawaiians and environmentalists had opposed the other telescopes, but only the TMT has aroused a mobilization powerful enough to prevent construction from going forward.
An encampment on the mountain is in its fifth week.
I’ve been covering this story for the past two weeks, because it is a major people’s struggle that has captured world-wide attention and that has significant implications for the future of the Hawaiian and other indigenous peoples’ self-determination.
It also calls into question the United States’ history and legacy of colonization and imperialism.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, or OHA, was created in 1978 on a wave of Native Hawaiian activism, and has played an important role in maintaining and reviving Hawaiian culture and autonomy.
We will hear three voices from the OHA meeting on Thursday.
First is Walter Ritte, who recently turned seventy. He began his activism as one of the Kaho’olawe Nine, a group of activists who were the first to land on the island of Kaho’olawe in January 1976 in opposition to the military bombing on that island. He occupied and stayed hidden on the island for 35 days, an act which led to a brief imprisonment. The island was later returned to the State of Hawaii. As you can hear from his testimony, he has remained an activist.
Then we hear from Leanna Marie Lehado, a 16-year old high school junior, one of the new generation that is carrying the torch of Hawaiian activism
Then we hear Dan Ahuna, acting chair of the OHA Board, who was the dissenting vote in the 6-1 vote, because he wanted to go beyond rescinding their support of the TMT project, and commit OHA to active opposition.
Finally we hear a brief interview I did earlier this afternoon with Lanakila Mangauil, one of the young leaders of the encampment on Mauna Kea.
Other KBOO coverage of this issue:
http://kboo.fm/maunakeaprotestscontinue
http://kboo.fm/whythemountainastruggleforautonomydignit0,
Useful links for more info:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/393211327547061/
http://www.protectmaunakea.org/
http://www.gofundme.com/maunakeaohana
http://www.hawaiiankingdom.org
https://www.facebook.com/TheMakingOfWhyTheMountain?fref=ts
http://www.nohohewa.com/
http://whythemountain.
http://kekukuifoundation.org/
They are offering an 8-week course in Hawaiian History on Tuesdays from 7-9 p.m. starting May 5. Call or write Kepule: 503-580-6662, kepulekaneokealoha@comcast.net
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/ist/?next=/smithsonian-institution/heart-hawaiian-people-arguments-arguments-against-telescope-mauna-kea-180955057/
Article on how people can help the cause:
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/04/17/4-ways-show-your-support-mauna-kea-160020
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