Pōhakuloa, like other important places across the Asia-Pacific region, is home to a military base with live fire training.

The protest is being organized by Bernie Sanders delegates who first met at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia last month.

If progressives can push all the democratic presidential candidates to oppose the TPP, including Hillary Clinton, it could go a long way in flipping more Congressional democrats from yes to no.

For Native Hawaiians, the protection of Mauna Kea is an ancestral responsibility to responsible land stewardship and a means of ensuring Mauli Ola, or a holistic sense of health and wellbeing.