“decision to override the constitutional protections for native Hawaiian practitioners exercising their customary and traditional religious practices on land never ceded to the state ... is a failure of the rule of law.”http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2018/10/30/state-supreme-court-rules-favor-thirty-meter-telescopes-construction/ …
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The DSRL has been used in conversations around the world about decolonization, from American territories to South Africa to the UK. But it begins with Hawaii. It begins with a land claim. And I want to be clear that it can never be divorced from that story.
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I understand that while some people are celebrating today that others are grieving. I learned so much from Kanaka Maoli during the fight, including about seeing the land as a family member. People are grieving family today. Respect that, please.
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I also know that as they experience grief they are not necessarily giving up, so please listen when they call for the world to watch what is happening.
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A cheap version of identity-based analysis suggests that I shouldn't have any thoughts about this, but in fact, it's important to have a political analysis. While what happens to that land should not be my choice, I can choose to support people who want autonomy. And I do.
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I tweeted this earlier and let me apply it to this situation: I believe colonialism fundamentally lacks integrity.https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/1057353964293890048 …
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Someone beat me to the next part I wanted to get to which is that the sense of urgency we have about building this telescope is not real. The sky will be there in 30 years. (Although I guess we might not be???) https://twitter.com/AschConformity_/status/1057458307701596160 …
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I'm a junior faculty member so I don't say this to downplay the need to cultivate a continuous and developing community of astronomers, but there are many different pathways to cultivating that community and a TMT isn't required to keep our professional community alive.
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Part of the colonial process here is a fake urgency. What if we took the time to have a conversation? To create space for indigenous consensus? To ask and wait for permission?
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I love beautiful images of the night sky. I feel lucky to work in cosmology and particle physics. But I love human rights more. That doesn't make me less of a scientist. That makes me a human being who puts people first.
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The protectors on Maunakea changed my life forever by creating an environment where I had to think carefully about why I do science, what science is for, and how science should work. I am thankful to the protectors for the hard lessons I learned.
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Conversations and essays like this one by Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada changed me, completely.https://hehiale.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/we-live-in-the-future-come-join-us/ …
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The protectors also helped draw out people who engage in poisonous behavior in our community and helped me avoid them. I'm sure those people are still behind closed doors, trying to do damage to my career. But <shrug> I am glad I know who they are.
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And I am reminded of the collaborations and solidarity that grew out of that moment, like this piece by Bryan that I helped publish in The Offing when I was EIC. A dirge for
#BlackLivesMatter
-- an expression of love and solidarity in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi.https://theoffingmag.com/here-you-are/mele-kanikau-no-ke-kini-ka%CA%BBili-lima-koko-%CA%BBia/ …Prikaži ovu nit -
And of course, there really ARE other places the TMT could be located, and I hope the TMT corporation will think about simply changing locales https://twitter.com/vrooje/status/1057460596516548609 …
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My inclination will always be to comfort those who are feeling grief, so if you're celebrating today, just try to respect that others are in pain.
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I think I will retire this as a pinned tweet now, so that I can use the one embedded in this thread. https://twitter.com/IBJIYONGI/status/773976570566291456 …
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If it were not for the protectors, I never would have started filling in my knowledge about feminist studies, never would have started to become an expert on science, technology and society studies, and as uncomfortable as I have always been with it, I benefited from their work.
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So one reason I am taking the time to write this thread is the least I can do is support the goals they had, which was not to promote my intellectual experience, but to protect their family. It's not the only way I give back, but it is one way.
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It is because of the protectors that I came to write and deliver this speech to the Inclusive Astronomy conference, connecting Black feminism to postcolonial struggles in science:https://medium.com/@chanda/intersectionality-as-a-blueprint-for-postcolonial-scientific-community-building-7e795d09225a …
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Learn more. Joseph Salazar wrote a whole dissertation on the history of astronomy on Maunakea from the point of view of a Kanaka Maoli: "Multicultural settler colonialism and indigenous struggle in Hawaiʻi : the politics of astronomy on Mauna a Wākea" https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/101135 …
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Here is a piece by
@KeoluFox that navigates some of the complexity of being a Kanaka Maoli scientist in the midst of this conversationhttps://web.archive.org/web/20150429181703/http://mixedracepolitics.com/2015/04/16/protecting-mauna-a-wakea-the-space-between-science-spirituality/ …Prikaži ovu nit -
Books of interest include: Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism by Noenoe K. Silva
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A Nation Rising: Hawaiian Movements for Life, Land and Sovereignty, Noelani Goodyear-Ka’opua, Ikaika Hussey, and Erin Kahunawaika’ala Wright, editors
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voices of fire: reweaving the literary lei of pele and hi’iaka by ku’ualohoa ho’omanawanui
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During one of the marches, a protector carried the following sign: "PONO SCIENCE IS POSSIBLE" I believe.
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Here is testimony that is circulating widely today on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Kanaeokana/videos/2154243948144206/UzpfSTcxMTc3NDE0OToxMDE1NTk2MjY0MjI3NDE1MA/ …
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To think out loud more about this: what do telescopes need and why do they so often clash with Native spaces? Well they need good clear skies without a lot of artificial light or atmospheric interference. These places are often lands that Indigenous peoples have fought to keep.
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Indigenous people protect the land with the kind of conditions that are attractive to astronomers: the environment hasn’t been massively disrupted by what is often termed “development” but is counterproductive for astronomy.
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Then astronomers survey what lands are available and notice the land without noticing the people of it — and because it’s not “developed,” they treat it as available to astronomy development. And then one observatory becomes a flag and then more gets built.
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In effect, astronomers colonize land that Native people have protected from colonization because that colonization and associated technological development is often antithetical to good conditions for doing astronomy.
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