The Latest: Telescope workers retreat from Hawaii mountain - The Washington Post
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A man protesting construction of a giant telescope on a Hawaii mountain says demonstrators erupted in cheers when crews advancing up #Mauna_Kea turned around and headed back down.
Hundreds of people flocked to the mountain Wednesday to keep workers from resuming construction on the Thirty Meter Telescope on land many Native Hawaiians hold sacred.
Construction has been on hold for about two months after 31 protesters were arrested on the mountain in April.
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DLNR officers, TMT workers turn around due to protesters on Maun - Hawaii News Now - KGMB and KHNL
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After a seven-hour demonstration, Hawaii DLNR (Department of Land and Natural Resources) agents just informed the hundreds of protesters on Mauna Kea that officers and TMT workers will turn around and no longer ask anyone to leave. No further arrests will be made today, they say.
Protesters began lining up early Wednesday morning to prevent construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope on the on the summit of Mauna Kea. A total of eleven people were arrested, and the TMT crew made it about 1.5 miles up the seven-mile road.
In all, more than 700 people gathered to stand in what they say is protection of a sacred Native Hawaiian space.
When it became clear that agents with the Department of Land and Natural Resources would no longer allow the protesters to assemble on the roadm they took a new tactic to block the TMT construction workers. Someone began pulling rocks down from the side of the road, further restricting access.