1. Songs as artifacts,
2. Faith in God enables their forgiveness: how does the belief in God and in Amis ancestor co-exist? (阿美人有祖靈概念嗎?)
3. 遷徙的過程: 從美山，新莊到新竹，從打漁到打零工，這一路轉換對阿嬤個人，她的家庭以及部落代表著什麼?以及這段小歷史如何被鑲嵌在大歷史的脈絡中?
Rick Mullin (Feb 9, 2023) reports about a railcar accident in Ohio in which several cars carrying vinyl chloride had to be released and burned. Mullin highlights that the event is one in a series of recent rail accidents in Ohio, calling into questions the safety of the railway infrastructure. He also mentions that, based on data from the Chlorine Institute 20,000 rail shipments of vinyl chloride in North America in 2021.
The Ohio train derailment underscores the dangers of the plastics boom: https://grist.org/transportation/ohio-train-derailment-east-palestine-p…
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/FalconryFinance/status/1624051231554510848
“This is a book about work. Really hard work. I’m always glad when people raise a fist against the injustices of systems, including pollution and its sciences. But I’d much prefer people pick up a shovel—or a microscope—with the other hand and get to work. Pollution Is Colonialism is designed to show how scientists and others are already working in an anticolonial way. We always already are in L/land relations, and they come out in our methods. Time to start.”
Excerpt From: Max Liboiron. “Pollution Is Colonialism.” (ebook, p. 67).