Professor Mark Clatterbuck Travels to Hawaii to Document Native Hawaiian Resistance to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT)

马克·克拉特巴克教授于2019年8月在夏威夷大岛的普乌霍努瓦普乌胡卢hulu营地度过了一个星期。 夏威夷原住民正在那里领导一场运动，阻止在莫纳克亚山顶建造拟议中的30米望远镜（TMT）。莫纳克亚山是世界上从海底到山顶最高的山峰。

Mauna Kea is among the most sacred sites in Hawaiian religion, which is why so many Native Hawaiians and their allies are fiercely determined to protect it from the desecration of installing an eighteen-story telescope on its peak. Since the day when thirty elders were arrested in a peaceful blockade of construction activity in July, a large-scale encampment has occupied the access road to Mauna Kea’s summit, marked by daily prayers, chants, dances, and sacred ceremonies of protocol.

Despite threats from law enforcement, state officials, and the National Guard, the blockade has been successful in halting all TMT construction to date. In addition to the religious dimension of the struggle, the anti-TMT effort is also motivated by grave environmental concerns and a swelling Native Hawaiian sovereignty movement. Dr. Clatterbuck visited the site for his book project on the current rise of religiously motivated environmental activism in the United States.