Mar 17 2011
March 17, 2011
“No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.” — George Sand …
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Mar 17 2011
Guardian: Revealed, US spy operation that manipulates social media
Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain
The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media using fake online personas designed to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda.
A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with the US Central Command (Centcom) to develop what is described as an “online persona management service” that will allow one serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities at once.
The contract stipulates each …
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Mar 17 2011
Huffington Post: At California Nuclear Plant, Earthquake Response Plan Not Required
As the world’s attention remains focused on the nuclear calamity unfolding in Japan, American nuclear regulators and industry lobbyists have been offering assurances that plants in the United States are designed to withstand major earthquakes.
But the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which sits less than a mile from an offshore fault line, was not required to include earthquakes in its emergency response plan as a condition of being granted its license more than a quarter of …
Mar 17 2011
Reuters: Japan Rushes Against Time to Prevent Nuclear Disaster
By Linda Sieg and Chisa Fujioka
TOKYO – Japanese military helicopters dumped water on an overheating nuclear plant on Thursday while the United States expressed growing alarm about leaking radiation and said it was sending aircraft to help Americans leave the country.
Survivors react after collecting their belongings at their destroyed house in a village hit by an earthquake and tsunami in Otsuchi, northeast Japan March 17, 2011. (Lee Jae-Won, Reuters) Engineers tried to run power …
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Mar 17 2011
NY Times: High Radiation Severely Hinders Emergency Work to Cool Japan Plant
By NORIMITSU ONISHI, DAVID E. SANGER and MATTHEW L. WALD
Published: March 17, 2011
TOKYO — Amid widening alarm in the United States and elsewhere about Japan’s nuclear crisis, military fire trucks began spraying cooling water on spent fuel rods at the country’s stricken nuclear power station late Thursday after earlier efforts to cool the rods failed, Japanese officials said.
The development came as the authorities reached for ever more desperate and unconventional methods to cool …
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Mar 16 2011
Triangle Shirt Waist Factory 1 Hour Special – a Re-Broadcast
March 25th 2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the terrible tragedy that sparked a movement: the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire in New York. The deadliest industrial accident in the history of the city resulted in the deaths of 146 young, mostly immigrant women. It marked a moment that transformed labor relations in America, and strengthened unions and labor laws. Given the recent uprisings …
Mar 16 2011
March 16, 2011
We’ll spend the hour with Dr. Mahmoud Traina, a Libyan doctor based here in the US. Dr. Traina just returned from a trip to Benghazi, the Libyan city at the heart of the rebel movement against the Gaddahfi regime. …
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Mar 16 2011
March 16th, 2011
“That’s the whole trouble of this fire. Nobody cares. Nobody. One hundred and forty-six people in a half-hour. I have always tears in my eyes when I think, it should never have happened. The executives, with a couple of steps, could have opened the door. But they thought they were better than the working people. It’s not fair because material, money, is more important here than everything.” — Rose Freedman, survivor of the Triangle Shirtwaist …
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Mar 14 2011
March 16th, 2011
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Uprising returns on Wednesday with an hour-long special in conversation with author David Von Drehle on his book, Triangle: The Fire that Changed America. …
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Mar 14 2011
Laila El-Haddad, “Gaza Mom: Palestine, Politics, Parenting, and Everything In Between”
In the fall of 2004 Laila El-Haddad, living in Boston, was sent to Palestine on a reporting assignment. Her son Yousef, then only 9 months old, was still nursing and would make the trip with her. Haddad’s husband would remain in the United States. A cousin of Haddad’s suggested she start a blog to share details of her son’s development, and of the …
