Aug 19, 2015 | Analysis, Essays, Mauna Kea
When I am in Hawai’i, I ask everyone I meet if the United States will ever voluntarily de-occupy the Islands. No one ever says yes. Usually, before I can say anything else, people hurriedly start talking about the lack of a valid treaty or that the American occupation...
Aug 12, 2015 | Analysis, Essays, Mauna Kea
Resistance to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project on Mauna Kea has re-ignited the Hawaiian de-occupation movement. Since 1893 when John L. Stevens, other non-Hawaiian plantation owners, sons of Christian missionaries, and the US Navy forcefully overthrew the...
Jul 24, 2015 | Analysis, Essays, Mauna Kea, Unist'ot'en Camp
All nations are not created equal. Understanding this is a prerequisite to effectively stopping the colonial forces destroying the world. I’ve been thinking this for the last few days watching members of two First Nations I love – the Unist’ot’en Clan of the...
Jul 21, 2015 | Analysis, Essays, Mauna Kea
Many view the debate surrounding the Thirty Meter Telescope’s proposed construction on Mauna Kea and Kanaka Maolis’ opposition to it as fundamentally a question of science versus culture. On the benign end, the word “science” has come to connote something close to...
Jun 29, 2015 | Essays, Mauna Kea
The pohaku stopped the Thirty Meter Telescope construction last Wednesday. They began appearing on the Mauna Kea Access Road like raindrops. First, they were sprinkled lightly underfoot. A small rock here. A larger one there. The cops cussed and swore as they tried to...
