About More Than A Telescope

A  L  O  H  A !

 Peaceful Protest

Never be afraid to raise your voice 

for honesty and truth and compassion 

against injustice and lying and greed. 

If people all over the world...would do this, 

it would change the earth.

                         William Faulkner

 "No Thirty Meter Telescope"

We must always take sides. 

Neutrality helps the oppressor, 

never the victim. Silence 

encourages the tormentor, 

never the tormented.

             Elie Wiesel

Kapu = Sacred

Aloha = Hawaiian Philosophy of Life

You never change things by 

fighting the existing reality.

To change something, 

build a new model that makes 

the existing model obsolete.

            Buckminster Fuller

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For decades

cutting edge astronomical

discoveries have been made

atop Maunakea,

the sacred mountain 

of the Hawaiian people.

As defenders of this sacred realm,

Hawaiians have decried 

construction, land use,

and water use, on

Maunakea for years.

Now a new instrument

is planned over their

objections.

But this time, the 

world is changing.

The Hawaiian people

are educated, knowledgeable

and strengthened by

their resurgent culture.

I love science! But this

is now about something

more important.

Right now,

what's happening on

this land, these islands,

our Earth,

is more important

than learning more

about space.

I believe the ancient 

Hawaiians who studied

the stars, and were 

great ocean navigators,

King Kalakaua who

invited astronomers

to his kingdom to

observe the transit

of Venus,

would all appreciate

and applaud the resurgence

of their descendants above all.

          Sincerely, cloudia