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Maintaining Kapu Aloha even in the face of violence
Posted by Hawaiian Independent: None Given on July 4th, 2015
Hawaiian Independent: “Public safety” on the Mauna Kea access road emerged, this week, as the latest hue and cry by officials against the Mauna Kea protectors. But reports of two vehicular assaults on protectors by state and Thirty-Meter Telescope (TMT) security officers casts a cynical shadow on Governor David Ige’s professed concerns for the public’s safety. The most recent vehicular assault, the hit-and-run assault of Mauna Kea protector Michael W. Kyser Jr., on Friday, June 26, is the second incident in which a protector...
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Gov. Ige: Mauna Kea road must remain open
Posted by Hawaiian Independent: None Given on June 27th, 2015
Hawaiian Independent: Governor David Ige released the following statement about recent incidents on Mauna Kea:
We are a patient people in Hawai‘i. We listen to and understand differing points of view, and we respect the many cultures of this land, especially that of the host culture. I have done my very best to follow this process in the case of Mauna Kea and set forth a way forward that I believe is reasonable.
We expected there to be a protest when construction resumed, and there was. We hoped we would not have...