The results of centuries of U.S. empire, which began with Manifest Destiny that crossed the North American continent and grew into a global empire, are coming home to roost in Puerto Rico and Hawaii.
For far too long, the rules have been written for Puerto Ricans, not by them. The island has been a colony of the US for more than 100 years and was a colony of Spain before that. It is time to decolonize.
Hawaiian Independence Movement Grows
Native Hawaiians and allies are camped at the base of Mauna Kea to protect the summit of the mountain from the construction of a proposed Thirty Meter Telescope, a massive 18-story, five-acre telescope complex being built on sacred land. Mauna Kea, measured from its base, is the tallest mountain in the world and represents the birthplace of Hawaii island and the Hawaiian people. The summit is associated with a number of important gods and goddesses and is the site of numerous burial places and altars.
To the core group "ready to die" for their convictions, a word, please; the Chinese leadership will not ultimately allow these demonstrations to go forward; President Xi Jinping is thoroughly familiar with the power of a 24/7 news cycle, and will find some way to create a "lights off, energy not there" moment, when you will be seized, killed in private, where no one will know where you are when it happens, save for your families who will be charged to pay for the bullet(s) when you are executed.