News Brief: A Conversation With Indigenous Media Resistance on Mauna Kea
Added 2019-11-20 17:01:59 +0000 UTCIn Ep. 90, "How Western Media's False Binary Between 'Science' & Indigenous Rights Erases Native People," we explored the ways capital-S "Science" has been wielded by those in power to erase Native people and culture around the world. Our discussion of the Thirty Meter Telescope "controversy" at Mauna Kea in Hawai'i drew much online debate, but instead of talking about the activists there, we thought we'd talk to them––specifically those running the Puʻuhonua o Puʻuhuluhulu movement media team, Nā Leo Kākoʻo, who are working 24/7 to push back against colonialist narratives and hacky, racist local reporting.
We are joined by Mikey Inouye, a filmmaker and co-chair of the Honolulu branch of Democratic Socialists of America, and Ilima Long, media coordinator for Nā Leo Kāko‘o and member of Huli, a non-violent, direct action organization that is one of the leaders on Mauna Kea.
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Show Notes
Protectors of Mauna Kea Are Fighting Colonialism, Not Science
Julianne Tveten | August 27, 2019 | FAIR
Governor Calls Situation at Maunakea “Unsafe”; Pu‘uhonua Leaders Seek “Apology”
Wendy Osher | July 20, 2019 | Maui Now
More Than a Fight for the Heavens
Colleen Flaherty | July 25, 2019 | Inside Higher Ed
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Transcript
For a transcript of this News Brief, go here.
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Comments
Telescope time matters too, there is a whole frequency spectrum to look at, it's really expensive to put satellites up, you can't easily upgrade/maintain them, and their mirrors are smaller so far. Some of the images from hubble like the deep field had very long observation time to collect enough light. The planned James Web telescope satellite is 6.5m, suppose actually looking at the the biggest telescopes, largest being 11.9m, Web is surprisingly large, i suppose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_optical_reflecting_telescopes That said, there is a lot of other options, like the Canary islands, many existing sites (many in the US) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest_astronomical_observatories tonnes of high mountains in the US https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_highest_major_summits_of_the_United_States Though you'd also want good weather, logistics. Many of them are not favored vacation sites.. But you know... maybe that's a good thing.
Jasper
2019-11-26 09:10:11 +0000 UTCDang, y'all delivered.
Patrick Link
2019-11-20 22:08:05 +0000 UTCA question I was yelling at my phone on the last episode about this, and once again when this dropped, is "Why is it necessary to build more massive terrestrial telescopes, when multiple orbital telescopes already exist, that can see more and further, by orders of magnitude, than anything on Earth, no matter how tall or remote the mountain they'd be built on?" I'm being a little bit rhetorical, but this is also a serious question, since as you can probably tell, I'm neither an astronomer, nor am I at all versed in the laws concerning orbital optical amplification devices.
Nick Thomson
2019-11-20 18:58:03 +0000 UTC
