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With access to summit blocked, telescope operators abandon Mauna Kea summit
The directors of existing telescopes at the summit of Mauna Kea evacuated their employees Tuesday as a growing protest against the construction of TMT blocked access to the mountain.
Jessica Dempsey, the deputy director for the East Asian Observatory, said the organizations that run the observatories made a "joint decision" to withdraw all employees as a safety precaution. [...] The telescopes, Dempsey said, have millions of dollars of instrumentation that need constant maintenance. "This is a risk for us to have to step away at this point," she said. "This is not a decision we came to lightly, but want to emphasize the importance of safety for our staffs and the facilities."
Protesters at Mauna Kea welcomed the news Tuesday, with an eruption of cheers and hugs.
'Stolen lands': dozens arrested as Hawaiians protest $1.4bn telescope
Dozens of people have been arrested on Hawaii's Big Island this week after hundreds of protesters stood, lay and even chained themselves to structures in an effort to stop the construction of a billion-dollar space observatory at the summit of Hawaii's tallest mountain.
[...] [Organizer Kahoʻokahi] Kanuha and fellow protesters have vowed to continue fighting the telescope until construction is halted, and plan to continue peaceful protests. On Wednesday an estimated 1,000 demonstrators turned up at the site, with police issuing citations to 33 people.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @05:07AM (3 children)
Hawaii never had slavery.
But if there's one thing these professional agitators are consistent about, it's complete disregard for the actual history of Hawaii.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 19 2019, @06:48AM
And you know, Native Hawaiians, much like Native Americans, never made very good slaves. They would rather die than be enslaved. So like in the "new world", the whiteys had to import labor. In the (Ed) Case of Hawaii, it first was Portuguese. Then Chinese. After that, Japanese. And then Philipinos, all brought over to work sugar plantations. Now it is mostly Koreans, to run drugs, gambling dens, and prostitution. And, of course, "spiritual tourism", like Tulasi Gabbard and this "sacred mountain" nonsense.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Friday July 19 2019, @03:15PM
Huewei probably does have slavery.
The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Sunday July 21 2019, @11:33PM
Of course Hawaii had slavery. They never called it that, because slavery is almost illegal in the US, but that's exactly what it was.
As another poster has noted however, Hawaiians make poor slaves, so the Big 5 had to import their slaves.