Reminded today of Alistair Hulett's compelling song 'Blue Murder', about blue asbestos mining in West Australia. It's so powerful in its anger and so powerless against the scale of industrial negligence. 🧵/1

Blue Murder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNBbTGGn5CM&t=50s

CW for thread: Racism against Indigenous Australians; asbestos-related diseases

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Finding Lisette: Jean Bernard Cerin traces the history of the Haitian Creole song “Lisette quitté la plaine” and explores how its meaning is transformed by different musical communities as it travels around the globe, becoming a lens through which we can explore the dynamic, fraught history of Haiti and its occupiers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ee8pL_yQWJ0&t=2088s

See also https://www.lisetteproject.org/

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