UCLA Town hall addresses UC involvement, controversy regarding Hawaii telescope
UCLA - Activists said they think students should pressure the University of California to divest from the construction of a 30-meter telescope on a sacred Hawaiian site. The Pacific Islands’ Student Association organized a town hall and teach-in Monday where students spoke with activists about the controversy surrounding the UC’s involvement in the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii. The telescope, which would allow researchers to look into space at greater
Mauna Kea to TMT California: Stop Now
San Francisco Bay Area: As the State of Hawaii builds up for extensive arrests of Hawaiian kiaʻi, or Protectors, who are expected to oppose construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on Hawaiʻi’s tallest mountain, Mauna Kea, its defenders are bringing the mountain to TMT. Leaders of the movement to protect Mauna Kea, along with California allies, are in the Bay Area this week meeting with TMT funders, delivering letters, holding inter-indigenous events, and generally p
