https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu Made with Resilience in Mind en-us 2021-04-02 03:01:31 UTC 2024-02-15 23:26:14 UTC hello@padlet.com ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377391794 "Take care of the land and the land will take care of you” ( Spencer, Michael S., et al. 2020). ]]> 2021-04-02 03:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377391794 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377398111 are not exclusively the product of disproportionate impacts, but rather the product of systemic racial power leading to environmental degradation, pollution and exploitation of the natural resources of racially oppressed communities"  ( Spencer, Michael S., et al. 2020). ]]> 2021-04-02 03:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377398111 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377401192 This island was eaten away by phosphate mining.  The devastation decimated twenty-two million tons of land that were used to feed the agriculture of New Zealand and Australia (Heim 2018).

]]> 2021-04-02 03:35:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377401192 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377406338  throughout multiple sites across Oceania: 325 detonations from 1946 to 1996, of which 173 were atmospheric explosions with a combined yield of 176.9 megatons  (Heim 2018). ]]> 2021-04-02 03:39:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377406338 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377408744 the  Marshallese population endured sixty-seven test explosions. The equivalent of 1.6 Hiroshima bombs each day. These tests resulted in long-term displacement and contamination. In 2004, the US National Cancer Institute estimated that about half of the population on the  Marshall Islands were yet to experience cancers as a result of fallout  (Heim 2018). ]]> 2021-04-02 03:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377408744 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377434311 The Marshall Islands consist of two chains of 29 coral atolls. On each atoll there are a number of islands. They have been occupied by humans for thousands of years. Since the Micronesians arrived in the second millennium BCE
(https://www.atomicheritage.org/location/marshall-islands).]]> 2021-04-02 04:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377434311 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377443513 The U.S. largest nuclear detonation ever. Senator  Jeton Anjain explained the effects of Castle Bravo,  “Five hours after detonation, it began to rain radioactive fallout at Rongelap. The atoll was covered with a fine, white, powder- like substance. No one knew it was radioactive fallout. The children played in the ‘snow.’ They ate it.”  (https://www.atomicheritage.org/location/marshall-islands). ]]> 2021-04-02 04:12:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377443513 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377462484 2021-04-02 04:29:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377462484 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377549113 The oldest colony in the Pacific has been in U.S possession for the last 120 years. As such, its political status and economic development continue to be determined by military priorities.]]> 2021-04-02 05:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377549113 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377563947 Continues to occupy a third of the island and to support an economy that keeps Guåhan dependent. 90% of food is imported and energy is derived from petroleum products that are shipped in by tanker. A quarter of its population, approximately 167,000 people live in poverty (Heim 2018).]]> 2021-04-02 05:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377563947 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377578804 2021-04-02 05:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377578804 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377582674 Argued that it was “inconceivable that less than 500 Ocean Island born natives can be allowed to prevent the mining and export of a product of such immense value to all the rest of mankind” This was said after noting the resistance of Banaban landowners to the alienation of their land for the extraction of phosphate (Heim 2018). ]]> 2021-04-02 05:56:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377582674 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377603356 2021-04-02 06:13:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377603356 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377608911 promises “to protect and defend the beliefs, culture, language, air, water, and the land of the Chamoru”
(Heim 2018)]]> 2021-04-02 06:17:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377608911 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377612316 2021-04-02 06:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377612316 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377614792 Power dynamics that view certain lives as disposable. Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) communities pay the brunt of the burden for others, namely white folks, to thrive. This is a pattern that is on clear display in the Pacific Islands. From the time that Europeans first set foot in the Pacific, it has been evident that Pacific lives are deemed expendable and insignificant ( Spencer, Michael S., et al. 2020). ]]> 2021-04-02 06:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377614792 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377618907 has led to the injury of relationships between land and its people through the extraction and resulting importation of its resources to outside countries. Mineral extraction has devastated the small island communities of Nauru and Banaba. Contamination has polluted land masses and surrounding waters with, heavy metals, uranium and lead (Spencer, Michael S., et al. 2020). ]]> 2021-04-02 06:27:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377618907 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377629067 2021-04-02 06:37:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377629067 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377631635 2021-04-02 06:40:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377631635 ktrujilloadvs https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377634733 2021-04-02 06:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ktrujilloadvs/nd5p1kinhhltq8lu/wish/1377634733