Brother Lin and Miss Wu are often interviewed (by PTS- Our Island, PTS Talk) and work with researchers
Different documentary films and news series about the region
Visits by Diane Wilson, connections to Louisiana and Texas
Formosa Plastics: often compare dto authoritarian regimes, covering up problems, paying researchers, not compensating workers, punishing workers for speaking up.
Council members: some not focusing on the real issues; contracts with Formosa
Fishermen:
Dependency on Formosa (80-90% of the local economy) to provide basic political and social infrastructure to support community fabric (County Admin office, school, hospital without good reputation, sport’s center, cultural center, small market -- what else?)
No alternative jobs to working in the plant, young people moving away to Taipei or Kaohsiung
No awareness of the “local culture” and subjectivity outside of Formosa (according to local cultural figures)
Everybody works at formosa or has family members there -- difficult to criticize
No independent data, a lot of paid researchers competing for hegemony of research findings (e.g. marine sciences, studies of oysters and clams degradation)
System of contract workers that creates hierarchies between workers
Yunlin County Neritic Zone Aquaculture Association 雲林縣淺海養殖協會
Mai Zai Lai Independent Bookstore and Cafe, Mailiao 麥仔簝獨立書店、麥仔簝文化協會, Yanling 2016）
Qiaotou Elementary School Xucuo Branch (next to 6th Naphtha Cracking Complex) 橋頭國小許厝分校
Kongfan Temple 拱範宮
Mailiao Office of the Yunlin Environmental Protection Bureau 環保署中區環境事故專業技術小組（雲林縣環保局麥寮辦公室