Homeless in San Diego, California - World Socialist Web Site
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/04/18/sdho-a18.html
San Diego, California, has an ever-increasing homeless population. The city ranks third in the nation for the number of homeless—estimates put the figure at around 10,000. While the recently elected mayor, Bob Filner, boasts of wanting San Diego to be the first city to end homelessness, the numbers are growing epidemically and services are being cut and dismantled.
Women’s Peace Camp from Greenham Common to Menwith Hill
In 1981 a small group of women and children marched from Cardiff to Greenham Common to protest against the siting of cruise missiles at the U.S military base in Newbury, Berkshire.
http://www.antiwarsongs.org/canzone.php?id=6925
The last missiles left the camp in 1991 but the camp remained in place until 2000 after protestors won the right to house a memorial on the site.
http://www.fas.org/irp/facility/menwith.htm
Women have been permanently camped at the Menwith Hill Women’s Peace Camp for several years to draw attention to the facility.
@NDDL #courage! Fight the winter at (greenham) Notre-Dame-Des-Landes
#luttes #nucléaire #échelon #campement #résistance #England #hiver-rigoureux #femmes
International Workers Association / Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores (#IWA-AIT): Завтра - день солидарности с рабочими «Натаис»
http://internationalworkersassociation.blogspot.fr/2012/12/blog-post_12.html
Солидарность с рабочими фабрики «Натаис» во Франции! Нет репрессиям за высказывания!
В четверг, 13 декабря 2012 года, бывшие работники фабрики по производству попкорна «Натаис» в Безериле (Bézéril), Франция, рассказавшие о своих условиях труда в интернет-блоге, предстанут перед судом якобы за «клевету» на своего экс-работодателя.
Среди проблем, с которыми сталкиваются работники, - воздействие диацетила. Это химическое вещество может вызвать облитерирующий бронхиолит, также известный как «болезнь лёгких работников попкорнового производства» (Popcorn Workers’ Lung), и другие серьезные заболевания дыхательных путей. Диацетил применяется в качестве ингредиента искусственного запаха сливочного масла, используемого при производстве микроволнового попкорна. Облитерирующий бронхиолит является необратимым и может привести к летальному исходу.
Для защиты от ядовитых паров рабочим на фабрике не выдают даже маски. Кроме того, им приходится работать в условиях экстремальных температур. Около 80% людей на фабрике заняты на непостоянной основе. Труд тяжелый, иногда люди вынуждены работать по воскресеньям, оплата плохая.
На фабрике даже произошла забастовка. Удалось выбить «13-ю зарплату» в конце года, но потом профсоюз забастовку отменил. Некоторые рабочие, однако, пытались продолжать борьбу. В отношении двоих забастовщиков, теперь уже бывших работников компании, которые попытались выступить против такого положения вещей, было возбуждено дело.
Мы призываем товарищей по всему миру поддержать протест, отправив электронное письмо в компанию:info@popcorn.fr
Пример текста: Мы требуем прекратить репрессии против рабочих «Натаис» и поддерживаем их борьбу за безопасные условия труда и гарантии занятости. (И добавить в текст всё, что вы хотели бы).
Вы также можете отправить BCC (скрытую копию письма) или непосредственно переслать копию письма по адресу местного союза #CNT-AIT в Жере: sia32@no-log.org
С листовками и более подробной информацией на разных языках можно ознакомиться здесь:►http://www.zsp.net.pl/natais
См. по теме:
Французские анархо-синдикалисты призывают к солидарности с работниками «Натаис»
►http://www.aitrus.info/node/2582
«Натаис»: пример самоорганизованной стачки
►http://www.aitrus.info/node/1420
International Workers Association / Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores (IWA-AIT): #Solidarity with the Workers of #Nataïs!
http://internationalworkersassociation.blogspot.fr/2012/12/solidarity-with-workers-of-natais.html
http://www.zsp.net.pl/files/natais.jpg
No Repression for Speaking Out!
español : http://zsp.net.pl/natais-es
pусский : ►http://www.aitrus.info/node/2582
français : http://www.zsp.net.pl/natais-fr
On Thursday, December 13, 2012, former workers from the Natais #popcorn factory in Bézéril, France will go to trial for supposed „defamation” of their ex-employer, for talking about their working conditions on a blog.
Among the problems the workers faced was exposure to #Diacetyl. This chemical can cause bronchitis obliterans, also known as „popcorn workers’ lung”, or other serious respiratory illnesses. Diacetyl is a component of the artificial butter flavor used in microwave popcorn. Bronchitis obliterans is irreversible and can lead to death.
The workers at Natais popcorn factory are not even given masks to protect themselves from the vapors. They also must work in extreme heat. Around 80% of the people at the factory are temporary workers. The work is hard, people are sometimes forced to work on Sundays, the pay is bad.
There was even a strike at the factory. A year-end bonus was won, but then the union called off the strike. Some workers however tried to keep fighting. For trying to speak out against these conditions, a case was brought against 2 of the strikers, now former workers of the company.
The #ZSP-IWA has sent the following protest to the company:
The ZSP, Union of Syndicalists, Poland, is writing concering the situation of the workers being sued for supposed defamation of your company.
We are outraged by the fact that workers who are exposed to extremely dangerous substances such as Diacetyl, without any special protection, and who have no employment stability are also being subjected to this legal repression by your company.
We demand that instead of repressing those who are trying to fight for their rights, health and decent working conditions, that you ensure their safety, provide better working conditions and apply the correct collective agreement for them.
We will follow this case and inform the public of your actions. We also will warn workers against seeking employment with your firm, and consumers against purchasing your products.
The ZSP sends its solidarity to the workers and all its moral support. We all need to fight to defend the rights of workers, especially to speak openly against their conditions, a right which is coming increasingly under attack by the bosses and their servants who administer law and injustice.
We call on comrades around the world to support this case by sending an email to the company. info@popcorn.fr
Sample text: We demand an end to the repression of Natais workers and support their struggle for safer working conditions and job security. (Add whatever you like to text.)
Below find some leaflets and material about this case! You can also support by printing these out for distribution and hanging in places where people might be interested.
http://www.zsp.net.pl/files/Natais.pdf
http://www.zsp.net.pl/files/Embauche_Natads_Peaufinee.pdf
http://www.zsp.net.pl/files/natais-en.pdf
How the #smartphone boom could damage your health and the environment - The Ecologist
http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/1596133/how_the_smartphone_boom_could_damage_your_health_and_the_environment.h
Known for their beauty, aspens have been in decline across North America, with some dramatic losses in recent years. Aware of the rapid growth of radiofrequency (RF) #radiation, particularly from mobile-phone ‘towers’, Colorado researcher Katie Haggerty had an inspiration: she planted three test plots of aspen seedlings. Carefully matched in all other respects, one plot was shielded from a nearby town’s RF radiation, one was ‘mock’ shielded, and the other was left unprotected. The difference, recorded in the International Journal of Forestry Research, was startling: the fully shielded saplings were vigorous and healthy, but both the ‘mock’ shielded and the exposed plants were small, lacked pigments, and had sickly leaves.
The Other Death Sentence (MotherJones.com)
►http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/massachusetts-elderly-prisoners-cost-compassionate-release
William “Lefty” Gilday had been in prison 40 years when the dementia began to set in. At 82, he was already suffering from advanced Parkinson’s disease and a host of other ailments, and his friends at MCI Shirley, a medium security prison in Massachusetts, tried to take care of him as best they could. Most of them were aging lifers like Lefty, facing the prospect of one day dying behind bars themselves, so they formed an ad hoc hospice team in their crowded ward. They bought special food from the commissary, heated it in an ancient microwave, and fed it to their friend. They helped him to the toilet and cleaned him up. Joe Labriola, 64, tried to see that Lefty got a little sunshine every day, wheeling his chair out into the yard and sitting with his arm around him to keep him from falling out. (...) Source: MotherJones.com
The Other Death Sentence | Mother Jones
►http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/massachusetts-elderly-prisoners-cost-compassionate-release
More than 100,000 Americans are destined to spend their final years in prison. Can we afford it?
—By James Ridgeway
Learnable Programming
http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming
A programming system has two parts. The programming “environment” is the part that’s installed on the computer. The programming “language” is the part that’s installed in the programmer’s head.
This essay presents a set of design principles for an environment and language suitable for learning [to program].
https://s3.amazonaws.com/worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/Movies/Vocab13.mp4
#programmation #enseignement #interfaces #langages_de_programmation
@seenthis affiche-moi cette <video> stp
Bizarre qu’il n’y ait aucune référence à #scratch http://scratch.mit.edu dans l’article, alors que cet environnement apporte justement des solutions à plusieurs des problèmes soulignés.
Actu santé : #ALZHEIMER : Le #diacétyle, l’arôme alimentaire qui accélère la maladie
http://www.santelog.com/news/neurologie-psychologie/alzheimer-le-diacetyle-l-arome-alimentaire-qui-accelere-la-maladie_8786_li
Une étude qui soulève des préoccupations concernant l’exposition chronique de travailleurs de l’industrie à un arôme alimentaire qui reproduit la saveur du beurre dans des produits alimentaires tels que le popcorn, les margarines, les grignotines, certains bonbons et produits de boulangerie, des aliments pour animaux …. Cet ingrédient, le diacétyle (DA), déjà connu pour certains de ses effets néfastes, intensifie aussi les effets toxiques de la protéine bêta-amyloïde sur les cellules nerveuses dans la maladie d’Alzheimer. Ces conclusions sont publiées dans la revue Chemical Research in Toxicology.
Les auteurs, Robert Vince, Swati More and Ashish Vartak rappellent que l’ingrédient diacétyle a été l’objet de nombreuses recherches, ces dernières années, en raison de ses effets délétères sur le système respiratoire.
· L’équipe a identifié une structure du DA similaire à une substance qui la permet à protéine bêta-amyloïde de s’agglutiner pour former des plaques dans le cerveau, un processus caractéristique de la maladie d’Alzheimer.
· Les chercheurs montrent que le DA entraîne le même effet de regroupement des protéines bêta-amyloïdes.
· Sur la base de niveaux similaires à l’exposition professionnelle, DA renforce les effets toxiques de bêta-amyloïde sur des lignées de neurones cultivées en laboratoire.
· D’autres expériences de laboratoire montrent que DA traverse facilement la « barrière hémato-encéphalique », qui empêche de nombreuses substances nocives de pénétrer dans le cerveau.
· DA inhibe aussi une protéine protectrice des neurones, la glyoxalase I.
L’étude soulève ainsi la question de la toxicité neurologique d’une exposition professionnelle à l’arôme diacétyle de long terme.
Source : Chemical Research in Toxicology via eurekalert (AAAS) Artificial butter flavoring ingredient linked to key Alzheimer’s disease process (Visuel © paleka - Fotolia.com)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-08/acs-abf080112.php
http://sia32.lautre.net/Diac%E9tylNePasInhaler.gif
#pop-corn
The Truman Show ce soir me fait penser à l’étude #Elfe, ce petit jeu de l’#INSERM http://elfe-france.fr qui va étudier des enfants de la naissance à l’age adulte !
Evaluating the harm from closed source
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4371
When asking the question “When is it wrong (or right) to use closed-source software?”, we should treat it the same way we treat every other ethical question. First, by being very clear about what harmful consequences we wish to avoid; second, by reasoning from the avoidance of harm to a rule that is minimal and restricts peoples’ choices as little as possible.
Electromagnetic weapons: Frying tonight | The Economist
http://www.economist.com/node/21532245
The wars of the 21st will be dominated by ray guns. That, at least, is the vision of a band of military technologists who are building weapons that work by zapping the enemy’s electronics, rather than blowing him to bits.
6 Creepy New Weapons the Police and Military Use To Subdue Unarmed People (AlterNet)
►http://www.alternet.org/story/151864/6_creepy_new_weapons_the_police_and_military_use_to_subdue_unarmed_people?
From microwave energy blasters and blinding laser beams to chemical agents and deafening sonic blasters, these weapons are at the cutting edge of crowd control. (...)