
HONOLULU (AP) – Eight people were arrested early Thursday during a criticism opposite a Maui solar telescope, including a personality in a bid to stop a hulk telescope on a Big Island.
Protesters collected Wednesday night to try to stop a procession delivering materials to Haleakala, where a Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope is being built. Protest leaders contend they’re desirous by a identical bid to stop construction of a Thirty Meter Telescope on a Big Island’s Mauna Kea.
The object rises over a DKIST site a morning of Dec 3, 2014. ![]()
Joshua Lanakila Mangauil, a personality of a Mauna Kea effort, was among those arrested for restraint a highway heading adult to Haleakala. He was expelled on $100 bail though couldn’t immediately be reached for comment.
“It’s a same issue, only on a opposite island on a opposite mountain,” pronounced Kahookahi Kanuha, another Mauna Kea criticism personality who attended a Maui protest. “If we’re going to mount for Mauna Kea, we have to mount for Haleakala.”
Protesters on both islands bring virtue of a land as a pushing force behind their antithesis to a telescopes.
About 150 protesters were during a bottom yard where a procession departed, military said. The procession was means to leave a bottom yard though encountered some-more protesters during Haleakala Crater Road, where there were “trees, rocks and potion on a road,” military pronounced in a statement.
The 7 organisation and one lady who refused to pierce off a highway while attempting to a retard a procession were arrested, military said.
Police in demonstration rigging carried protesters into vans, pronounced Kahele Dukelow of a criticism organisation Kakoo Haleakala.
A military orator didn’t immediately respond to questions about demonstration rigging from The Associated Press.
“It was really militarized,” Kanuha said. “Our side, we had decoration … their side they had guns, peppers spray. They had demonstration gear.”
Twenty protesters were arrested during final month’s bid to stop a convoy, that was also means to strech Haleakala’s summit.