R.I.P. SB 502

Posted by Miwa at Mar 09, 2009 09:10 PM | Permalink

Filed under: activism, alpine, conservation, cultural rights, land and cultural rights, mauna kea, sacred, summit

3 down, 1 to go! Thanks to the public’s vigilant support and participation SB 502 is officially dead!! Yay!

SB 502 was one of four bills proposing to transfer management of one of the Pacific’s most unique and sacred summits, Mauna Kea, over to its primary developer–the University of Hawaii. The University has facilitated forty years of bulldozing for unlimited telescope development on the summit, which has destroyed ecologically unique habitat and desecrated sacred cultural sites.

Just one more bill remains: HB 1741. With your help, we can stop it. Express your opposition to this and the whole suite of bad Mauna Kea bills for which UH is lobbyingby submitting your online testimony. Support Hawaii’s legislators in seeking accountable, transparent, fair and representative management of Mauna Kea’s sacred summit by submitting your testimony: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2699/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26592

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