Copious coconuts and a canoe campaign
Weekender #54
You’re reading The Husk's Weekender, a brief countdown/roundup of miscellanea from Micronesia, Guam, and Earth.
orgs that want your Pacific stories
The Pacific Media Institute is looking for submissions for its My Pacific Story Short Film Competition 2025. Deadline is May 3. Details available here: https://www.facebook.com/100093981384572/videos/854037073518685/
Visions & Voices is also looking for submissions of essays, articles, commentary, and concise pieces that pertain to the Pacific Islands region. https://pireport.org/submissions/
Ahead of Pride Month, Equality Guam is encouraging folks to share stories and photos celebrating Guam’s LGBTQ+ love, icons, and history. https://forms.gle/HJBSxLtcQ7528FA36
recent articles highlighting how Pacific islands continue to live with the consequences of a war not of their making
From Tahiti Infos, an article headlined “The fallout from the Centaure test in Tahiti,” states an assessment of radiological fallout of the 1974 Centaure test found children were more affected than adults. (Hat tip Pacific Islands Report.)
Earlier this month, the Marshall Islands Journal reported the Marshall Islands signed the Treaty of Rarotonga, which makes the South Pacific a nuclear-weapon-free zone. RMI, being in the North Pacific, would extend that commitment. As RNZ reported, the Marshall Islands is still very much dealing with devastating impacts from the nuclear testing America conducted.
In the latest Visions & Voices, Cathy Hite Sakumalefo writes about unexploded ordnance that remain in areas of the Solomon Islands.
excellent pieces out of the Marianas Press
Yapese navigator’s mission
Cassie Ordonio’s article for Hawai’i Public Radio follows Thomas Raffipiy’s efforts to build a Satawal-style canoe.
A few more links I think are worth sharing:
The latest One Micronesia show episode features host Victorious Falan’s coverage of the 55th Yap Day celebrations in Yap.
This piece from friend of the newsletter Jerick Sablan out of the Pacific Daily News is so encouraging. Guam students, working as guardians of the water, made microbial mud balls and deployed them in places that needed it.
OK, also, this Grist piece by Anita Hofschneider and Jake Bittle, headlined “How the Klamath Dams Came Down” is so well designed and so well done you MUST read.
Aaaand, if you’re still up for reading, I just read this report about an experimental city in India that’s being intentionally built in a really cool way. Reporting by The Washington Post’s Allyson Chiu (who is from Guam!).
Every week (that the Weekender comes out), we’ll leave you with a send-off song (not necessarily from a Micronesian artist) curated by my brother, Henry, whose musical tastes have left a lifelong impression on me and, now hopefully, you.
This week’s send-off song is “Waigho” feat. Lona, by Bibao.
We’re building a send-off song playlist on Spotify that includes the songs mentioned in past Weekender posts. Check it out.
Thank you for reading! Have a great weekend,
Jasmine