"We've had thirty years of people flushing human wastes down the mountain,
"Pisciotta asserts. "They flush their sewage on the bones on our ancestors, which we do not appreciate." The former observatory employee maintains,
"Employees and the public have a right to know which chemicals the observatory is using. Only then can they be adequately monitored."
"Mauna Kea is our head waters. The most sacred waters in Hawai'i come from the heavens and are healing." Pisciotta notes. While working hard to prepare the legal case before the Feb. 11 contested hearing, Pisciotta kept returning to the spiritual perspective that motivates native Hawaiians.
Pisciotta and other cultural practitioners have appeared various times before the United Nations on behalf of "unrepresented nations" to plead their case, "There are many temples around the Earth like Mauna Kea. There are other keepers of these places that are doing things similar to ours. We have to deliver our message of Aloha to the world."
"Our work on Mauna Kea is to evoke Aloha," Pisciotta contends. "We are concerned that the Air Force and the military use of the observatory is contrary to the spirit of Aloha. Since Sept.11 we have become increasingly concerned that under the guise of national security the government will federalize the mountain and shut it down to Hawaiians." Pisciotta does not want to see her people's sacred mountain lost to the military. "One of the main reasons America wanted Hawai'i in the first place," added Keomailani Von Gogh, another cultural practitioner, "was because of our strategic military location."
"Pisciotta asserts. "They flush their sewage on the bones on our ancestors, which we do not appreciate." The former observatory employee maintains,
"Employees and the public have a right to know which chemicals the observatory is using. Only then can they be adequately monitored."
"Mauna Kea is our head waters. The most sacred waters in Hawai'i come from the heavens and are healing." Pisciotta notes. While working hard to prepare the legal case before the Feb. 11 contested hearing, Pisciotta kept returning to the spiritual perspective that motivates native Hawaiians.
Pisciotta and other cultural practitioners have appeared various times before the United Nations on behalf of "unrepresented nations" to plead their case, "There are many temples around the Earth like Mauna Kea. There are other keepers of these places that are doing things similar to ours. We have to deliver our message of Aloha to the world."
"Our work on Mauna Kea is to evoke Aloha," Pisciotta contends. "We are concerned that the Air Force and the military use of the observatory is contrary to the spirit of Aloha. Since Sept.11 we have become increasingly concerned that under the guise of national security the government will federalize the mountain and shut it down to Hawaiians." Pisciotta does not want to see her people's sacred mountain lost to the military. "One of the main reasons America wanted Hawai'i in the first place," added Keomailani Von Gogh, another cultural practitioner, "was because of our strategic military location."