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
Native Hawaiians have been protesting the construction of the Thirty Meters Telescope on the summit of Mauna Kea and have shut down all observatories on the mountain