Mauna Kea & the NSF, State Violence, Targeting Elders, Militarization, & Tourism Escalates COVID-19

American Indian Airwaves

Liko Martin and Laulani Teale (Hawaiian Nation). Liko Martin, Haku Mele, is one of Hawai’i’s renowned songwriters and activist; founder and co-founder of many Indigenous organizations; a farmer, fisherman, cultural practitioner, peacemaker and veteran; a Kupuna Advisor for Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Laulani Teale is a musician, artist, cultural practitioner, public health practitioner, web/social media developer, and coordinator for the Ho’opae Pono Peace Project, plus more. Liko Martin and Laulani Teale join us for this exclusive one-hour interview regarding protecting Mauna Kea, an Indigenous Hawaiian sacred site, from the $1.4 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project – twenty stories high (below and above ground). Our guests provide an update on the United States National Science Foundation’s new and committed involvement in supporting the TMT project, its implications for the Indigenous peoples of Hawaii. In addition, our guests articulate how the TMT project if developed will result in the destruction and further desecration of Mauna Kea, a sacred site, the disastrous adversities suffered by all the flora and fauna relations as well as the profound amount of water pollution resulting from TMT project. Our guests provide an update on some of the Kupuna’s court cases resulting from being arrested when defending Mauna Kea, how the Hawaiian state tourist industry is contributing to escalating COVID-19 rates, and the further usurpation, dispossession, theft, and pollution by the U.S. military in militarization Indigenous peoples’ traditional homelands. The University of California along with the California Institute of Technology (Cal-Tech), the National Institutes of Natural Sciences of Japan, the National Astronomical Observatories of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Department of Science and Technology of India, and the National Research Council (Canada); the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy are members of The TMT International Observatory LLC (TIO), the non-profit organization responsible for the TMT Project threatening Mauna Kea. American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast Thursdays from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Tuesdays, 11am-12pm); and WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH. Click here for archived American Indian Airwaves programs on the KPFK website within the past 60-days only or click on (below) after 8pm for today’s scheduled program. Soundcloud Apple Podcast Google Podcast iHeartRadio Spotify Podcast Stitcher Podcast Tunein Podcast