Sneaker wave in the RMI

Weekender #42

You’re reading The Husk's Friday Sunday edition, our Weekender, a countdown/roundup of miscellanea from Micronesia, Guam, and Earth.

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YouTube videos worth watching

• The Marshall Islands was the setting for a recent video that went viral. Huge waves smashed into a military facility in the RMI, according to reporting from ABC 13 and CNN. The Marshall Islands have quite low elevation making them extreeeeemely vulnerable to rising sea levels.

  I think most people have already seen this video, and I also think it bears revisiting, resharing, reviewing.

What remains of a U.S. military dining facility on Roi-Namur in the RMI after massive waves flooded the island. Photo courtesy of U.S. Army Garrison Kwajalein Atoll via DVIDS

• ReadsWithRosa interviewed Cathy Payne, an author from Guam. I had the absolute pleasure of working with Cathy at the Pacific Daily News and thoroughly enjoyed learning more about her from this interview. Go, Cathy!

Buy Cathy’s books:

https://uogpress.com/products/chepchop-unai

https://uogpress.com/products/i-lalai-i-bilembaotuyan

https://www.amazon.com/Mole-Celebrating-Science-Catherine-Payne/dp/1958629111

https://shorturl.at/amDFT

https://shorturl.at/wJY35

Also, Rosa has been doing this podcast for years, and I’m so impressed.

• The YouTube algorithm machine fed me this Micronesian Production video that explores the minimum wage in Chuuk.

newsletters worth a subscription for news around the Pacific

• Pacific Islands Report from the Pacific Islands Development Program

  • PIR offers a representative collection of news from around the Pacific.

    https://pireport.org/

• Pacific Winds from the Pacific Center for Island Security

  • Initially, I subscribed to Pacific Winds to keep an eye on what the Guam-based think tank PCIS was up to. Pacific Winds has quickly become one of the newsletters on my must-read list. I don’t know anyone else providing a consistent roundup of news focused on U.S.-China relations and its impact on the Pacific islands. It’s quite a handy collection of links.

group of jiujitsu athletes

• FSM BJJ traveled to Guam earlier this month to take part in the 2024 Copa de Marianas tournament, per The Guam Daily Post.

This week’s send-off song comes not from my brother but thanks to a post by Kendall T on the Mic who posted about this on Facebook. The music video for “Someone Loves You Honey” by Tenelle was filmed in Palau!

We’re building a send-off song playlist on Spotify that includes the songs mentioned in past Weekender posts. Check it out.

Hope you had a great weekend.