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Athens’ air-raid shelters 1936-40

I.Metaxa’s government, the “4th August” regime which came to power in 1936, considered conflict in Europe to be a real possibility. Moreover they realized that the airplane was going to dominate the fields of battle and as a consequence urban bombardments (provoking mass casualties) were more than probable (Εθνική Ένωσις Αεροχημικής Προστασίας/ National Association for Aero-chemical Protection 1936). This scenario drove Metaxa’s regime to conceive and implement a vast project of Civil Protection (Βλάσσης 2013) , focusing on the construction of numerous air–raid shelters. Noteworthy are the diversities in the type and size of the shelters that ranged from narrow underground galleries or small chambers, to organized shelters of hundreds of square meters including hygiene infrastructure, water tanks, numerous chambers and auxiliary rooms (Κυρίμης 2017).

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#blockchain and VR are Coming After the Real Estate Industry
▻https://hackernoon.com/blockchain-and-vr-are-coming-after-the-real-estate-industry-d2aab0c62036

This Paid Story is brought to you by Deedcoin.Disruptive tech is changing industries ranging from taxicabs to healthcare. Can it improve the homebuying experience too?The U.S. real estate landscape has long been dominated by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), an influential industry group that’s gotten in hot water before for their attempts to squelch disruptive technology (see their 2008 consent decree from the U.S. Department of Justice, which forbid them from discriminating against online brokerages). But better tech and a better experience for home buyers are coming to the real estate world, whether NAR is prepared for it or not.Blockchain and Virtual Reality (VR) are two of the most talked-about technologies in Silicon Valley — and with good reason. Blockchain’s immutable (...)

#blockchain-startup #real-estate #virtual-reality #paid-story

LBJ and Marshall: Film biographies deal with mid-20th century US struggle for racial equality - World Socialist Web Site
▻https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/11/25/mars-n25.html

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LBJ and Marshall: Film biographies deal with mid-20th century US struggle for racial equality
By Fred Mazelis
25 November 2017

LBJ, directed by Rob Reiner, written by Joey Hartstone; Marshall, directed by Reginald Hudlin, written by Jacob Koskoff, Michael Koskoff

Two new biopics—LBJ and Marshall—dealing with figures who played a major role in American politics in the mid-20th century have been released in movie theaters over the last two months.

Lyndon Baines Johnson, taking office as President after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November 1963, went on to sign the major civil rights legislation of 1964 and 1965 into law. Thurgood Marshall, the longtime chief legal counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense and Educational Fund, was appointed by Johnson to become the first African-American Justice of the US Supreme Court in 1967.

#cinéma #états-unis

How Protest Works - The New York Times
▻https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/opinion/sunday/how-protest-works.html

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When social scientists do uncover evidence of a movement’s influence, we have tended to focus on three main pathways by which movements gain power: cultural, disruptive and organizational. On its own, each pathway turns out to be limited in its effect. But movements that have managed to combine all three, such as the civil rights movement in the 1950s and ’60s, have had lasting impact.

How does a movement manage to combine cultural, disruptive and organizational power? In some cases, this is accomplished through a division of labor. For example, in the civil rights movement, prominent leaders linked the language of rights, the symbols and rituals of the black church, and the Gandhian approach to civil disobedience; student activists fueled disruption through direct-action protests; and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, with hundreds of local organizations and leaders across the country, challenged the powers supporting the status quo in their communities and through the courts.

#Mouvements_sociaux #Organisation #Activisme

#Boeing, manufacturers run ads congratulating #Trump on first 100 days

Boeing and the National Association of Manufacturers on Saturday ran ads in major U.S. newspapers congratulating President Trump on his first 100 days in office.

▻http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/331249-boeing-manufacturers-run-ads-congratulating-trump-on-first-100
#business #USA #Etats-Unis

The Golden Generation
Why China’s super-rich send their children abroad.
▻http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/22/chinas-rich-kids-head-west

A study by the Bank of China and the Hurun Report found that sixty per cent of the country’s rich people were either in the process of moving abroad or considering doing so. (“Rich” was defined as being worth more than ten million yuan—around $1.5 million, a considerable fortune in China, though not stratospheric.) The Chinese are currently transferring money out of the country at a rate of around four hundred and fifty billion dollars a year. Most of that money has gone into real estate. According to the National Association of Realtors, Chinese buyers have become the largest source of foreign cash in the U.S. residential real-estate market.

Moneyed people leave China for various reasons. Some are worried about #pollution. Others want to secure a good education for their children. Zhou Xueguang, a sociology professor at Stanford who received his bachelor’s degree in China, told me, “The competition in the Chinese school system is known to be brutal.” He went on, “There are only so many slots in good schools, and, at a certain level, it doesn’t matter how much money you have—you won’t be able to get in.” But, for affluent Chinese, the most basic reason to move abroad is that fortunes in China are precarious. The concerns go deeper than anxiety about the country’s slowing growth and turbulent stock market; it is very difficult to progress above a certain level in business without cultivating, and sometimes buying, the support of government officials, who are often ousted in anti-#corruption sweeps instigated by rivals.

#Chine #Riches #occident

L’histoire oubliée d’un lynchage de masse dans l’Arkansas | Slate.fr

▻http://www.slate.fr/story/98081/237-afro-americains-morts-lynchage-arkansas-1919

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En 1919, lors d’un lynchage de masse, 237 Afro-Américains sont morts dans l’Arkansas, dans le comté de Phillips, rappelle The Daily Beast à la suite d’un rapport de l’Equal Justice Initiative. Jusqu’ici les chiffres estimés par la National Association for the Advancement of Colored People et le Bureau of Investigation donnaient un chiffre trois à près de dix fois moindre : entre 25 et 80 morts.

The Daily Beast raconte qu’excédés par l’exploitation dont ils étaient victimes, les métayers afro-américains avaient décidé de former un syndicat en Arkansas, le Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. Une résistance à laquelle s’étaient opposés les propriétaires terriens blancs qui n’entendaient pas renoncer à exploiter les métayers et agriculteurs noirs. « Ils pensaient que leur prospérité en dépendait », raconte The Daily Beast.

#racisme #états-unis #lynchage

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