U Stone: A day of moving Ketagalan Boulevard stones.

On a scorching summer’s day, a group of people agrees to congregate at Treasure Village in Taipei Artist Village near Gongguan for the common purpose of using YouBike to move rocks back outside exit 1 of National Taiwan University Hospital MRT Station. These beautifully painted stones were originally an art installation at the indigenous land rights demonstrations on Ketagalan Boulevard, which were forcibly removed by police in May of this year. Currently, roughly 80% of the stones have been recovered and been temporarily put on display at Treasure Village, before being returned home in a statement of the expectations and hopes of tribal communities. 

Event organizer, Huang Lin-qun (黃琳群), is a Hakka woman from Chungli in Taoyuan. She hopes that using the stones, which have played a central role in this fight since the very beginning, is a healthier, more relaxed method that reduces the threshold for understanding the issue of traditional land rights. Though participants in this event are markedly different in age, occupation, and status, they all share the common determination to return the stones home come rain or shine. In fact, there has been a group of people conducting a sleep-in protest against guidelines on the delineation of traditional Indigenous territories for more than 150 days at Ketagalan Boulevard; in spite of this, many people are still unaware of the issue. This latest event hopes to bring more awareness to the issue of transitional justice, and jointly face Taiwan’s historical memory.

U Stone: A day of moving Ketagalan Boulevard stones. 

URL：https://www.peopo.org/news/342353

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U Stone 海嘯回家：搬運凱道石頭的一日

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炎炎夏日，有一群人相約前往台北市公館附近的寶藏巖，要同心協力，一起用YouBike把石頭搬回捷運台大醫院站1號出口外。這些美麗的彩繪石頭，原本是在凱道上的傳統領域抗爭的藝術結晶，在今年5月被警方強制清運。目前找回了8成左右的石頭，暫時被安放在寶藏巖展出，而它們即將要帶著部落的期盼與希望回家了。

這次活動的負責人黃琳群，是一位來自桃園中壢的客家人，他希望能透過健康、輕鬆的方式，降低參與者了解傳統領域議題的門檻。而石頭一直在這場抗爭中扮演非常關鍵的角色。這一場活動的參與者，在年齡、職業、身份認同上有很大的差異，但共同的是，他們都懷著不畏風雨、海嘯回家的決心。事實上，已經有一群人持續抗議原民會通過的傳統領域劃設辦法，夜宿凱道超過150天，然而，許多人至今仍不知道這件事情。而這一次的活動，正是希望讓更多的人，一起正視臺灣人必須共同面對的歷史記憶。