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   • SFPublicPress

   “Between 1946 and 1963, lab scientists knowingly exposed at least 1,073 servicemen, dockworkers, lab employees and others to potentially harmful radiation through war games, decontamination tests and medical studies,” @SFPublicPress says. Their investigations center on the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory at San Francisco’s Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, but the lab was one of many across the country doing similar research. That makes it a demonstration of “the ways that people have been seen as disposable, to science or to the military,” said Lindsey Dillon, a University of California assistant professor.

   https://www.sfpublicpress.org/exposed-part-1-how-a-san-francisco-navy-lab-became-a-hub-for-human-radiation-experiments/

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   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 03:26:18 JST Flipboard

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     • The Continent

     “Meetings of the United Nations’ Conference of the Parties (COP) have become little more than talk shops where world leaders and climate activists fiddle while the globe burns,” writes Patrick Gathara. For @thecontinent, he looks back at COP15 in Copenhagen in 2009, where expectations for a political deal that would protect the Global South were sky high, yet the outcome was what Sudanese delegate Lumumba Di-Aping described as an “incineration pact.”

     https://continent.substack.com/p/another-cop-another-incineration

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   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 03:26:18 JST Flipboard

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     • BoltsMag.org

     People in jails are largely cut off from voter information and seldom exercise the right to vote because it’s extremely difficult, if not impossible.@bolts’s Alex Burness visited Genesee County jail in Flint, Michigan to see how activities and authorities there are encouraging election participation, but simultaneously providing inadequate living conditions and food, and blocking visits from families.

     https://boltsmag.org/flint-michigan-jail-candidate-forums/

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   • Flipboard (flipboard@flipboard.social)'s status on Saturday, 30-Nov-2024 03:26:55 JST Flipboard

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     • Texas Observer

     The Taiwanese language doesn’t sound like Mandarin Chinese. “[It] originates deep from the belly, creating rumbling sonorous tones that remind me of my dad’s laughter or my mom calling me for dinner, ‘ki jia buan!’” writes Josephine Lee for @TexasObserver. She explains the wave of migration from Taiwan to Houston, Texas, in the 1970s and ‘80s, why it’s difficult to quantify how many Taiwanese people are in America, and how organizations are supporting Taiwan’s independence.

     https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-hotbed-taiwanese-nationalism/

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