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These telescopes could operate at sea level and achieve the same purpose. Your presence makes our islands a target.
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| Speaker | Testimony Snippet | Status |
|---|---|---|
#01Lisa Galloway Kīhei Verification | The spill happened not because of a lightning strike as told to the public, but because preventative maintenance measures were not done properly. | |
#02Paul Garrett Hugel Kīhei Verification | Insufficient analysis of deep cultural and spiritual impacts. The DEIS does not meaningfully assess the significance of the summit. | |
#03Kathleen Tatum Kīhei Verification | They talked about the workplace as the Death Star and no one laughed. They wanted to propose 7 so they could negotiate down. | |
#04Kelsey Raposa Kīhei Verification | If I have to strap my babies on my back to block your trucks, we'll be there. | |
#05Lucienne Dine Kīhei Verification | We've seen all the trash. We've seen the promises to fix this that just don't seem to materialize. | |
#06Wayne Kīhei Verification | Nānai ke kumu. Look to the source. We are the reflection of everything that is happening up there. | |
#07Keani Rollins Fernandez Kīhei Verification | These telescopes could operate at sea level and achieve the same purpose. Your presence makes our islands a target. | |
#08Unnamed Testifier Kīhei Verification | The way you guys characterize what we say in your EIS is bullshit. The way you interpret our aloha for this land and twist it into — oh, we're an aggressive mob — is unreal. | |
#09Claire Apan Kīhei Verification | Please produce your annexation record so we could know that you even have any right to be here. | |
#10Autumn Ness Kīhei Verification | You cannot EIS your way into consent. I am more scared of a future where reverence and connection do not exist. | |
#11Jake Carton Kīhei Verification | This project is a communication bridge between satellites and the drones that assassinate human targets. | |
#12Richard Ho Kīhei Verification | 150 years of aloha. You guys keep taking. Zero telescopes. | |
#13Kanealiʻi Williams Kīhei Verification | You cannot come to this kind of forum and check off the box. You have to consult individually every single ohana. | |
#14ʻŌiwi Testifier #1 Pukalani Verification | When you guys are gonna break them all down and go, so generations after me no need sit here in the same space I stay. | |
#15Trinette Furtado Pukalani Verification | It has been too many decades that you hear from us, and so you will hear anger and you will hear sorrow, and I hope you don't take that personally. | |
#16Kalamaehu Takahashi Pukalani Verification | We are strongly opposed on grounds of: no clear evidence of title to the lands they occupy. | |
#17Moskwan Pukalani Verification | You did not conduct a survey of the nesting sites of the ʻUaʻu on the location of where you plan to put the telescopes. | |
#18Carol Lee Kapikona Pukalani Verification | In 1893 your government tried to overthrow our queen. Our queen was not overthrown. She yielded. | |
#19Kathy Macduff Pukalani Verification | My purpose tonight is to try to get through to the spiritual soul of the people in this room. | |
#20Kealiʻi Hananui Crabbe Pukalani Verification | Your track record is consistent. You build, and you decimate, always poison. | |
#21Dane Uluwehiokalani Maxwell Pukalani Verification | Hinalaʻanui was built with the understanding that the FAA site had been abandoned. | |
#22Kuheiaheia Akamai Lindsey Maxwell Pukalani Verification | How do you think our kupuna feel when they cannot go to their sacred place? | |
#23Kamehameha Pūlimi Pukalani Verification | I shouldn't have to fight battles that should have been resolved generations ago. | |
#24Kaleo Kalanike Kona Pukalani Verification | To you, the military, I stand here to say: aʻole. | |
#25Kalehua Nani Pomen Pukalani Verification | You have a chance now to stop the desecration before it continues. | |
#26Richard Lucas Pukalani Verification | Notre Dame Cathedral burned to the ground. It was like a gut punch to civilization. | |
#27Hina Nubo Pukalani Verification | Bombs over Hiroshima. Bombs over Kahoʻolawe. Bombs over Pōhakuloa. Bombs over Gaza. | |
#28Hina Nubo (continued) Pukalani Verification | Your top sponsor, weapons company Raytheon, pays for scientists at Wailea Beach Hotel. | |
#29Ariana Lawrence Pukalani Verification | Your EIS failed to provide title to these lands. There is no middle ground here. | |
#30Music Teacher (Haiku School) Pukalani Verification | Everybody is holding back their fire. They are containing their fire, but they will show up. | |
#31Francine Arona (Auntie Momi) Pukalani Verification | You have reached out to the community to hear the people of Maui and all of our cousins across the sea. | |
#32Kānaka ʻŌiwi Speaker Pukalani Verification | Amos Starr Cooke was a missionary who beat our chiefs into submission. You will not beat us. | |
#33Hoʻokupaʻaka Hana Maikaʻi Ikekona Pukalani Verification | Wai wai ka wai. Wai is sacred to us. Wai gives us life. And now three years later there is still yet fuel in our aquifers. | |
#34Lokahi Antonio Pukalani Verification | We put our words together, we code-switch, we talk nice English, we get our reasoning, we justify why it's wrong. We write poetry, we write songs. We do everything. | |
#35Sarah Tekula Pukalani Verification | The summit feeds the East Maui watershed, the largest water-producing watershed on this island. | |
#36Stacey Moniz Pukalani Verification | I also feel frustrated, like someone said, that you limit the time that people have to share this deep pain and anger and frustration that goes generations — that are justified and completely make sense, like it's visceral. | |
#37Summer Star Pukalani Verification | I implore you, for the safety of yourselves, your children, and your descendants, to divorce yourselves from the U.S. imperial machine. | |
#38Kiopi Raymond Pukalani Verification | What I want to testify to this evening is a Hawaiian linguistic ancestral memory. | |
#39Tiare Moana Pukalani Verification | Three years ago, I could not walk. I went to other doctors. No Western or conventional medicine would work for me. | |
#40Kamehameha Pūlimi (continued) Pukalani Verification | We will fight on because our ʻāina is sacred. We will fight on because our identity is not negotiable. | |
#41Shalei Lokomaika'iokalani Borden Pukalani Verification | It is not simply about science versus culture. This is about overuse, overreach, overstrain. | |
#42Dick Mayer Pukalani Verification | Encourage federal, state and county cooperation in the preparation of a comprehensive Haleakalā summit master plan. | |
#43Dawn Kānealoha Kimatos Pukalani Verification | Haleakalā is a place in which many of our babies' umbilical cords were buried — our piko. | |
#44Kānaka Maoli (1826 Treaty) Pukalani Verification | The United States has a treaty with us which is still standing from 1826. |
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