hi @ChicagoDPD! question: I saw that you all had "reviewed and summarized 336 citywide and neighborhood plans from between 1970 and 2020" - and that's it available on the We Will Chicago website -- can you link me to it? I couldn't find it there. Thanks much!
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This is our aquifer. The Halawa Shaft, up until Dec. 2021, provided 20% of Honolulu’s water. The Board of Water Supply announced that due to the Navy contaminating our water with fuel from their leaking Red Hill tanks, we may never be able to draw from this shaft again. Ever.
whoa> amazing!
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Reading about... When Polaroid Workers Protested Against the Use of Photos to Strengthen the RSA Apartheid Government. This happened in Cambridge, MA. dissentmagazine.org/online_a…
As early as 1918, a bill was proposed to establish lynching as a federal crime in the US; more than 100 years later, we have not yet moved further with the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Bill. Let's make 2022 the year for this. prologue.blogs.archives.gov/…
yikes.
The FBI reported last week that over 15,000 law enforcement agencies submitted incident reports in 2020, the highest number of reported hate crime incidents since 2008. eji.org/news/fbi-reports-hat…
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Since I keep on RT these things, here is a thread of academic job ads (TT and postdoc) this year vaguely at the intersection of tech, social justice, and…related topics :)
Let me know if there’s something I’ve missed — I’ll try to keep this somewhat up to date! 🎓
sharing out the playlist I made quick last night for the art installation that D, A + J worked together on -- and to challenge people to re-examine what we mean/t by freedom.
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pulled in maskekela, woods, greentea peng, batiste, makeba, simone, belafonte, H.E.R, and others. open.spotify.com/playlist/33…
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some news: today, i’m excited to launch blackfilmarchive.com. this ever-expanding black film archive provides history and context to over 200 black films made from 1915 to 1979 currently streaming.
every description on the site is lovingly written & researched by me.
“Algorithms encode the cultural assumptions of their designers. Computer scientists tend to think of their formal models as universal, but I see those models as products of particular cultural assumptions, economic conditions, and historical contingencies." (1/2)
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"Because of a false impression of universality, the orthodox models are rarely questioned.” (2/2)
-Rodrigo Ochigame - news.mit.edu/2021/rodrigo-oc…
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Submit a proposal for a short talk or work shop at this year's Build Peace conference with @howtobuildpeace / due August 6 / Questions, just ask :) howtobuildpeace.org/attend-t…
Hi friends + fam: I'm closing up work around how we engage together to deepen and heal relationships -- and this can often be a fuzzy space. I wanted to ask for feedback from you all around how I communicate -- if you have two minutes to respond, I'd appreciate it.
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