[Environmental and Social Issues Essay Contest] The prize is Radiohead concert tickets, submit by Monday noon!
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"I think friends who often read NewsMarket reports should have a very good chance of getting tickets, heh heh… I really love reading it…"—quoted from Deserts Xuan
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Deserts Xuan, who cares about social issues, wants to make more people care about environmental and social issues by giving away radiohead concert tickets (worth 4,000 yuan, so they should be good seats). Note that submissions are due by Monday noon!
1. Essay theme—environmental issues
1. Central Taiwan Science Park water grabbing and Taiwan livestock farming, the production of the agricultural environment and the abuses of land development.
2. Clarifying nuclear waste disposal and the anti-nuclear issue.
3. The environmental impact assessment issue of Beautiful Bay, and clarification of BOT and the law.
4. live house legislation, and clarification of the law and practices.
2. Essay selection criteria
Either the ability to propose practices, or the ability to describe in detail the core information of the issue, or the ability to discuss the deeper changes and impacts that public attention will bring.
Be able to write what Deserts Xuan and her friends find most accurate, most deeply conveying the relevant information and the context of conflicts of interest, or propose approaches they want to discuss with the public.
3. Prize: a 4,000 yuan ticket to radiohead's 7/25 show in Taipei
4. Submission method: [email protected]
5. Deadline: 7/16 (Mon) noon.
6. Announcement date: The first-place essay will be announced on Friday, and the ticket will be sent out on Saturday.
7. Anti-Beautiful Bay issue There are recent on-site events too!
July 28, 16:00 Music evening.
Panai, Nabu, Dakanow, Tribal Handsome Guys, Xiao Lukai, Aliyaw Lawa and friends, Skinny Monkey, Kou Chou Ching, Wu Chih-ning, Ilid Kaolo, He Xin-sui + Qige, Relax One -- still growing!
7/28~29 Taipei-Taitung bus ride-sharing information https://e-info.neticrm.tw/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=72
July 23, 10:00 Document exhibition opening
July 21~July 29 Beach cleanup, beach camping, building bamboo shore installations, listening to the waves at night forums, traditional Amis life experience: including bamboo raft instruction, Fasiyaw kite and pakpak bird scarer making, etc. Please bring your own tent and cooking utensils.
8. live house issue
"Regulations among government departments are as numerous as ox hairs, overlapping and piled up layer upon layer, and outdated business, building, and fire safety rules are tangled in a root system, tightly binding live house spaces like a tightening spell. A single official document or a single inspection from any agency, interpreted at will, can at any time sentence these spaces to death!"—Underworld spokesperson: He Donghong
9. Anti-nuclear
"Anchor bolts are supposed to be designed to 'last as long as the reactor,' and until decommissioning, they should not have problems for 40 years. Now, however, they are only guaranteed for 18 months, and everyone is expected to agree. This is absurd!" Green Citizens' Action Alliance deputy secretary-general Hong Shen-han harshly criticized that the anchor bolt fracture accident at the Second Nuclear Power Plant is an unprecedented major nuclear safety accident in global history, but Taipower continuously concealed the truth during the investigation. Even Atomic Energy Council chairman Tsai Chuen-hong recently shed tears, saying that if problems arise 18 months after the Second Nuclear Power Plant resumes operation, he would be willing to step down and take responsibility. But nuclear safety concerns everyone's lives, "so what if he steps down and takes responsibility?" —No one / no report
10. Sources:
Deserts Xuan Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/algae.deserts/posts/10151023131379824?notif_t=feed_comment_reply
The original Facebook text by Deserts Xuan
"At our performance today, my good friend Wenshuo was also there.
He gave me something that was only mentioned casually at the time,
but unexpectedly he actually bought it sincerely:
a 4,000 yuan ticket to radiohead's 7/25 show in Taipei.
I was truly moved… thank you, Wenshuo.
And that day I have to fly to Xiamen to perform.
On the way home I thought for a long time,
and I decided to turn Wenshuo's blessing into a real blessing.
So! I am going to give away the ticket.
Submissions are due by Monday noon, and the themes to choose from are as follows.
1. Central Taiwan Science Park water grabbing and Taiwan livestock farming, the production of the agricultural environment and the abuses of land development.
2. Clarifying nuclear waste disposal and the anti-nuclear issue.
3. The environmental impact assessment issue of Beautiful Bay, and clarification of BOT and the law.
4. live house legislation, and clarification of the law and practices.
(Sorry that I do not know enough,
for this essay contest and ticket giveaway I will start with these issues that I understand most deeply, thank you!)
Reflections or emotional pieces are declined. The selection criteria for the essays are,
either the ability to propose practices,
or the ability to describe in detail the core information of the issue,
or the ability to discuss the deeper changes and impacts that public attention will bring.
Please send letters to [email protected]
On Friday I will announce the first-place essay that deeply moved me and my friends,
and on Saturday I will send out the ticket.
In this way, I exchange with friends from all sectors who are willing to explore and pass on information in depth.
Please do not be shy, please come and take part,
the ticket is a small blessing and thank-you,
please share if you know a lot, you know what more people need to know.
OK, GO!
Respectfully, Deserts Xuan"
He Donghong Facebook — Musicians roar in anger to save "Underworld" live house and other music performance spaces [press conference news release]
http://www.facebook.com/notes/%E4%BD%95%E6%9D%B1%E6%B4%AA/%E6%98%8E%E5%A4%A9%E6%98%9F%E6%9C%9F%E4%B8%80%E7%AB%8B%E6%B3%95%E9%99%A2%E8%A8%98%E8%80%85%E6%9C%83%E6%96%B0%E8%81%9E%E7%A8%BF/327653430656847
Facebook event launched by East Coast Event Log: http://www.facebook.com/events/386401051424951/
Public Television News Issue Center, "No One Opposes Nuclear Power": http://pnn.pts.org.tw/main/?p=42345