The ultra-right and the government are behind a narrative that implies that Indigenous sovereignty and water rights are to blame for the delay in dousing the Maui wildfires. Indigenous Hawaiians are resisting this campaign and have put forward a charter of demands

According to Hawaiian governor David Ige, protesters who have been blockading the construction of the TMT observatory have until December 26 to abandon the site

These protests are against the construction of a large astronomical observatory project that was proposed at the summit of Mauna Kea

Indigenous activists continue to occupy the main access road and have received massive support from within and outside Hawaii, despite aggressive responses by the government

The subpoena came from the State Attorney’s Office on the same day that it took over the case against 28 protesters, arrested in July for blocking the construction of the Thirty Meters Telescope on Mauna Kea