Tag: progress
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Facing Future – Reclaiming Past
“If just for a day our king and queen Would visit all these islands and saw everything How would they feel about the changes of our land Could you just imagine if they were around And saw highways on their sacred grounds How would they feel about this modern city life? Tears would come from…
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Q&A on IMPOLITIKAL from August 3, 2015
Q&A | Karin Louise Hermes on Why Hawaiians are Protesting a 30M Telescope Finally finding the time to repost the Q&A Evelyn Marsters did with me in late July on my insider/outsider role in the #WeAreMaunaKea movement. On July 31, 7 people were arrested during an around-the-clock vigil opposing the planned Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) astronomical observatory…
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From within the astronomy/STEM community: Thoughts on racism towards Mauna Kea protecters and #decolonizeSTEM
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein has been the leading anti-TMT ally within the astronomy community. She and other scientists have spoken out against racist statements made about the protectors and the systemic racism towards indigenous and people of color in the sciences. #decolonizeSTEM