Stark warning in critical nuclear scholarship on how this all plays out.

Jessica Hurley’s "Nuclear Settler Colonialism at Sea" traces how US nuclear programmes used settler-colonial legal doctrines of property and appropriation to previously “unclaimed” ocean spaces: muse.jhu.edu/article/871662

Ngā mihi nui.

Ref:
Perspectives on the Rights of the Moon from Oceania, Whaanga-Schollum et al., 2024 iac2024-iaf.ipostersessions.com/default.aspx...
AELA Declaration, 2021 www.earthlaws.org.au/moon-declara...
The Past Before Us, Wilson-Hokowhitu (Ed.), 2019 uhpress.hawaii.edu/title/the-pa...
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We're grateful the work began in such generous company, & with a special film screening of Vā Hina by Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu et al., Desna Whaanga-Schollum’s SentientPlace; an extract from Cosmographies by Juan Francisco Salazar & Victoria Hunt, and Seachange, a visual poem by Kate Genevieve. 11/12

In November, the group joined Desna Whaanga-Schollum in Māhia, Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu, Kate Genevieve & Tim Corballis at Space Place, and a community online.
Te Wānanga o Hina is conceived as a larger hybrid wānanga, planned for June 2026, a special time in Aotearoa between Puanga & Matariki.10/12

These precedents in NZ and in relation to the deep ecological and cultural knowledge across the Pacific, point to potential legal frameworks and protocols for the moon that may evolve and offer models for power-sharing and ecological care.

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The wānanga centres Te Tiriti o Waitangi(Treaty) & He Whakaputanga, & precedents that recognise Taranaki Maunga & watershed Te Awa Tupua as living entities, restoring Te Mana o te Whenua & reinstating kaitiakitanga by tangata whenua.
For context see CJWinter www.researchgate.net/publication/... 8/12

Te Wānanga o Hina supports a network of learning and creativity guided by understandings from Moana-nui-a-Kiwa / Moananuiākea and their application to lunar futures through the ethic of kaitiakitanga (guardianship) and mālama (protection and care) for Mahina, the Moon.

hinawananga.nz
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Activism and campaigns for lunar rights & protections are gaining momentum as it becomes essential to represent perspectives for the moon, beyond viewing Earth’s natural satellite as a domain only for Industry, or as a stepping stone for further exploration.

6/12

The idea of space "for the benefit of all peoples" masks power asymmetries. Lunar access concentrates among states & private actors: China’s Chang’e missions return lunar samples from the far-side, private companies mount lunar missions, & ArtemisII launches 2026 - plus.nasa.gov/video/moonbo... 5/12

Rocket Lab's aerospace activities are expanding in Aotearoa’s Māhia Peninsula, as lunar missions accelerate in earnest worldwide. & though Outer space may still be framed as a global commons under the Outer Space Treaty (1967), how long will such agreements stand?
www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourw...
4/12

Thanks to @mishmal.bsky.social & @drspacejunk.bsky.social (Australia), co-authors on the AELA's Declaration for the Rights of the Moon 2021 www.earthlaws.org.au/moon-declara... for joining Dr Nālani Wilson-Hokowhitu (Kanaka ʻŌiwi) & Desna Whaanga-Schollum (Rongomaiwahine, Kahungunu, Ngāi Tahu). 3/12

Can understandings from Oceania - Moana-nui-a-Kiwa / Moananuiākea - guide planetary and lunar futures?

Can we root lunar kaupapa in tikanga Māori and Pacific protocols, constitutional transformation and Aotearoa New Zealand’s legal recognition that natural entities already hold legal mana?

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3/4. En esta imagen se muestra el mismo campo estelar del Cometa C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) sin limpiar.

En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).

Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.

Up on the Sunshine Coast tomorrow there's a great example of creative approaches to whale communication. A deep listening journey with Kabi Kabi artist Lyndon Davis, live streaming Humpback Whale song from underwater hydrophones for ANAT SPECTRA::Reciprocity at UniSC: www.anat.org.au/reciprocity-...