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WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2022 Hope Gala, Oct. 20, 2022
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Oct. 20, 2022 at the District Pier at The Wharf, Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Sarah Baker/NCMEC
They are tearing down a building, quite close to my place, that was occupied by squatters for a while. Their work resulted in a pretty surreal site.
Because of the topic, I chose for hard lines in my final image. (And did my first experiments with hdr and hdr toning.)
Funny fact: while I was shooting, of course many people stared at me and then at the subject, but after that at least 4 people grabbed their phone and started taking pictures themselves. 1 guy who drove by in a car actually turned around and stopped.
I guess we don't get enough cool demolishing sites around here.
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WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2022 Hope Gala, Oct. 20, 2022
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Oct. 20, 2022 at the District Pier at The Wharf, Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Sarah Baker/NCMEC
Exploité par la CNR, le barrage de Seyssel a été mis en service en 1952.
Utilisation : contrôle des crues et production d'électricité.
Un employé de la Société d'Exploitation de Kipoï (SEK), une filiale de l'entreprise australienne Tiger Ressources, travaille à la production de cathode de cuivre pures à 99,999% dans l'usine d'extraction électrolytique par solvant à Kipoï, à 75 kilomètres à l'ouest de Lubumbashi, capitale de la province minière du Katanga, en République démocratique du Congo, le 9 mars 2015. - An employee of the Société d'Exploitation de Kipoï (SEK), a subsidiary of the Australian company Tiger Resources, is working at the electrolytic solvent extraction plant in Kipoi, about 75 kilometers west of Lubumbashi, the capital of the mining province of Katanga, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on March 9th, 2015.
U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill, the top Democrat on the Senate Aging Committee, used a hearing today to examine the financial exploitation of seniors and the difficulty of prosecuting family members who exploit and defraud their elderly family members.
Lavernock Point Nature Reserve - The Vale Of Glamorgan
• Our Seventh Contributor -
Dafydd Elis-Thomas - AM for Dwyfor Meirionnydd
@ElisThomasD in relation to the #SDBillWales or #FGBill does @WelshGovernment sit back on #ShaleGas & #Fracking?
@nspugh @AssemblyWales Environment and Sustainability Committee inquiry on energy and planning evidence www.senedd.assemblywales.org
Dear Nigel,
Dafydd Elis-Thomas AM has asked the clerking team of the Environment & Sustainability Committee to contact you regarding the Committee meeting on 7 March, which looked at shale gas and gasification. Please see below a link to the meeting agenda / minutes which allows you access Committee meeting papers and the meeting transcript.
www.senedd.assemblywales.org/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=225... – English
www.senedd.cynulliadcymru.org/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=22... - Welsh
@ElisThomasD thank you for your help! Would you leave shale gas in the ground? :)
@nspugh Yes. E&SCommittee favours low carbon energy both renewables, particulary hydro and marine, and existing nuclear sites, not gas,
@ElisThomasD why do you think the Welsh Gov has been so submissive on shale gas extraction? Imagine 300 plus wells on The Vale Of Glam.
@nspugh As to WG planning decisions, if you want a moratorium on exploration and/or exploitation then you need an Assembly motion.
@ElisThomasD how do you get a Assembly motion, proposing a moratorium on the exploration and/or exploitation of shalegas in Wales?
@nspugh approach E&SCommitte Colleagues @MickAntoniw @russ_george @LlyrGruffydd @WilliamPowellAM and you have a potential majority!
@ElisThomasD Do you mind if I quote you? Mind you they will have got it from your last Tweet. Appreciate your help thank you.
@nspugh Please do. My job is to make democracy work especially on enviromental issues. Dafydd
New survey reveals Wales says no to fracking www.foe.co.uk/cymru/english/press_releases/fracking_surve...
Friends Of The Earth Cymru "We’ve put a call for a moratorium to the Petitions Committee, that then passed it to the Environment Committee. They in turn asked the Minister (Alun Davies) who gave a very weak response. You might want to track it by searching for documents associated with ‘fracking’ on the National Assembly for Wales website. His response would be in a letter to the Chair of the Committee a month or two ago. I don’t know what the Committee’s plans are following on from the Minister’s response"
For ref:
• Motion (parliamentary procedure) - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_(parliamentary_procedure)
• Moratorium - Bulgarian Parliament to review shale gas moratorium sofiaecho.com/2012/04/02/1800346_bulgarian-parliament-to-...
Original ref www.flickr.com/photos/65365631@N04/9402297764/in/photostream
On arrival, both locomotives will pose for photographs in a unique line up beside our own newly restored and operational 4079 “Pendennis Castle” and cosmetically restored 5051 “Drysllwyn Castle”. Following the line up, the two visiting locomotives will be turned and take coal and water before heading off back home.
2023 marks an important anniversary in the history of the Great Western Railway. 100 years ago, No. 4073 Caerphilly Castle was completed and put into service. This marked the beginning of what is considered by many as the most successful Express Passenger steam locomotives the UK ever produced - the Castle Class.
To celebrate this, Didcot Railway Centre in partnership with Vintage Trains at Tyseley, are working to bring you two very special events. We will bring together four restored Castles in one place. At Didcot we will see 4079 Pendennis Castle and 5051 Drysllwyn Castle alongside Tyseley’s 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe and 7029 Clun Castle for a few hours on Saturday 4th March. In return, Pendennis Castle will make a visit to Tyseley later in the year and be displayed on an open day. To have all four together in one place on the same day is an amazing achievement. Join us in March to help us celebrate this very rare event.
7029 – Clun Castle, is a relative newcomer to mainline steam having been built in 1950 by British Railways to the famous Great Western Railway Castle class design. She took the record for the shortest timed point to point journey from Plymouth to Bristol in 1964 from the previous record holder, City of Truro. This epic run by the last of her class in every day service ensured 7029's preservation and she came to Tyseley to begin a distinguished second career in preservation.
5043 – Earl of Mount Edgcumbe, is Vintage Trains' second member of the Castle Class, but unlike the others was built in 1936 and so is an authentic GWR locomotive, named after one of the directors of the GWR. When first withdrawn from service, she was consigned to Barry Scrapyard but found too good to destroy. Tyseley Locomotive Works rebuilt 5043 to exacting standards and she has run far and wide for Vintage Trains, including unfamiliar territory such as Stirling and Edinburgh in Scotland. 5043 is back in action after returning to Steam in the second half of 2021 after a 10 year boiler overhaul.
4079 – Pendennis Castle, was the seventh of 171 Castles built and was completed at Swindon in February 1924. On the 2nd April 2022, ‘Pendennis Castle’ was launched back into traffic following a 20+ year overhaul. Since then, she has won a number of awards for both the restoration and her service history. She will be having a couple of holidays to other Railways this year so stay tuned for her various exploits!
5051 – Drysllwyn Castle/ Earl Bathurst, was built at Swindon in May 1936. She was renamed ‘Earl Bathurst’ in August 1937 and carried that name for the rest of her GWR and BR life. Both names are regularly used on the locomotive at Didcot. She was rescued by a Society member and brought to Didcot in February 1970. She then ran many main line specials between (in the early years with Didcot's vintage train) until 1986 when the main line ticket ran out. The engine then ran at Didcot until the boiler certificate ran out in 1990. Following a second overhaul she was returned to service, and enjoyed runs out on the mainline once more, and visits to other preserved railways as well as Didcot duties. In 2008 the latest boiler certificate expired and the locomotive is now on static display until such time as a further overhaul can take place.
Exploited for human use and on display for human amusement.
Animals have the right to not be treated as property! Go vegan!
Exploitant : Transdev TVO
Réseau : R'Bus (Argenteuil)
Ligne : 34
Lieu : Pont de Bezons (Bezons, F-95)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/37730
Red Umbrella March for Sex Work Solidarity
Saturday, June 11, 2016
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Sex workers, allies, family and friends stand together
The red umbrella is the symbol of the global sex workers’ rights movement. The Red Umbrella March is part of a national day of action, with similar events taking place in cities across Canada.
In Vancouver it began at 2:30 p.m. on June 11 with a rally at the Vancouver Art Gallery (Robson Street plaza), followed by a march starting at 3 p.m. The march travelled through Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside to CRAB Park.
Protest chants included:
Freedom to associate is our right!
Get your laws off my body!
Sex workers rights are human rights!
My body, my business, my choice!
Remember Bedford!
No bad whores, only bad laws!
Sex worker rights now!
I support sex workers' rights
A Blow Job is Better than No Job.
This year’s focus was “Freedom to Associate is Our Right!”
The Freedom to Associate is a right granted to all citizens by our Charter of Rights & Freedoms. Canada’s new anti-prostitution laws violate sex workers’ freedom even to the point that standing in the street together is illegal if it encourages buying sex.
Marching together shows Canadians that when sex workers’ freedom to associate is infringed upon, it is a concern for all Canadians. It forces them to work alone and unsafe, they’re alienated, their families are torn apart.
When the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act became law in 2014, purchasing sexual services became a crime for the first time in Canada. Advocates for this, the “Nordic model,” believe it is the way to keep sex workers safe from violence and exploitation.
In the eyes of anti-sex work activists, “shaming the Johns” is a legitimate way to reduce the overall amount of street prostitution (estimated to comprise not more than 15 percent of all sexual services offered in Canada). But “John shaming” impacts sex workers themselves. Making what they do illegal only forces them to do it in riskier circumstances. For instance, street-based sex workers face longer hours, thanks to a temporary decline in clients. They may be more willing to take clients they would otherwise screen out, particularly when they’re under greater pressure to avoid police detection. And clients may be less likely to seek relevant health care. The Vancouver Police Department say they don’t consider sex between consenting adults an enforcement priority, claiming to only intervene in situations where there are reports of violence, exploitation, or involvement of youth or gangs.
But there’s no real difference between banning providing sexual services and banning paying for them. As long as the act of engaging in sex for money is illegal, sex workers will not see the police as allies in the moments that they really need them.
From the early 1990s to 2002, more than 70 women disappeared from Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, most of them sex workers and all of them poor. Criminalization only served to push these women away from police and from the rest of society; it never made them safer. Robert Pickton admitted to an undercover police officer that he killed 49 women after he was arrested in 2002. He was convicted of the second-degree murders of six women and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years. Former Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu has repeatedly apologized for his force’s failure to stop Pickton’s killing spree. Lawsuits claimed police, including individual RCMP officers, and the Crown failed to warn women on the Downtown Eastside that a serial killer may have been responsible for women disappearing, and was wrong for not putting Pickton on trial for attempted murder following an attack on a sex worker in 1997.
The Red Umbrella March for Sex Work Solidarity was co-organized by: Triple-X Workers’
Solidarity Association of B.C., Downtown Eastside Sex Workers United Against Violence (SWUAV), Pivot Legal Society, PACE Society, B.C. Coalition of Experiential Communities, FIRST: Feminists Advocating for the Decriminalization of Sex Work, SWAN Society Vancouver.
A march against the exploitation of and racism toward international students in Australia that the governments (both state and federal) continue to allow to exist. International and Australian students from NSW universities (such as Newcastle, UTS, Macquarie, UNSW and Sydney University) rallied together, marching from Sydney University to UTS and on to NSW Parliament House, asking for the government to intervene and change legislation that allows international students to be taken advantage of.
Some basic rights like abolishing the 20-hour work week limit and providing student travel concessions to international students were demanded in chants and songs. At a deeper level though, the protesters are demanding an end to the systematic racism and exploitation of international students, who are increasingly treated more as a means to profit than as students to educate.
Exploitant : Keolis Aude
Réseau : Citibus
Ligne : Été 3
Lieu : Pissevache (Saint-Pierre-la-Mer, F-11)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/id/18733
Letter to the UN Human Rights &
This is a revolutionary epoch.
Across the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression and the wounds of a frail world new systems of justice and equality are being born.
The wretched of the earth rise up like never before. Those who lived in darkness have seen a great light. We, the West must support these revolutions.
It is sad to realize that due to conformism, complacency, a morbid fear of communism and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that led to the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the bastion of anti-revolutionary.
This led many to believe that Marxism has the revolutionary spirit.
Therefore, communism is a verdict against our failure to make democracy a reality and faithful follow the revolutions we initiated. Our only hope today lies in our ability to take up the revolutionary spirit and go out into a world often hostile declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, militarism.
With this strong commitment, boldly defy the status and unfair practices, and so anteciparemos the day "when every valley shall be alteado and the whole hill, down, that the plan will be rough and crooked, right."
A genuine revolution of values means in the final analysis that our loyalties must become more ecumenical. Ages must now develop a supreme loyalty to mankind as a whole, in order to preserve the best of each particular society.
This called for a universal fellowship that lifts up the fraternal respect of tribes, races, classes and nations is in reality a call for humanity to experience an all-embracing and unconditional love. This concept often misunderstood, so often misunderstood, so readily dismissed by the Nazis of the world as a weak and cowardly force, around now an absolute necessity for the survival of mankind on our planet. When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I'm not talking about a force that is just a silly sentimental.
I'm talking about a force that all great religions have taken as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that opens the door to ultimate reality.This belief Hindu-Moslem-Christian-Jewish-Buddhist about ultimate reality is beautifully summed up in the first letter of John :-) "Let us love each other-we, for God is love. It is he who loves is born of God and known by Him.
He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is love ... If we love one another, God dwelleth in us and His love is perfected in us. "No longer will we worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-growing tide of resentment. History is cluttered with wrecks of nations and individuals who followed the path of self-destructive hatred. Love is the force that is responsible for final choice redemptive life and good against the destructive choice of death and evil. Therefore, in our list of esperença, the first must be that love has the last word.
Now let's face the fact, my brothers and sisters, that tomorrow is today.
Defrantamos us with the fierce urgency of now. In this mysterious enigma of life and history, sometimes it's too late.
Procrastination is a thief of time.
Life often paralyzes us and we were poor, naked and slaughtered before a missed opportunity. The tide in the affairs of men does not remain in the flow-it ebbs ... We may cry out desperately for time to pause to its passage, but time is adamant to every strict and keeps running. On the ruins and debris piles of numerous civilizations are the pathetic words: "Too late." There is an invisible book of life that faithfully records our vigilance or our neglect.
We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent annihilation.
We must move from indecision to action.
We must find new ways to speak for peace in the world and justice throughout the developing world, a world that does not make borders. Unless we act, we certainly dragged through the long dark and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, without morality and strength without sight.
Let's start now!
We re-dedicate the long and bitter but beautiful struggle for a New World.
This is called the sons of God and our brothers eagerly await our response. We say that the difficulties are too great? We say that the struggle is too hard? We need to explain the forces of American life as well as Europe conspire to keep our dreams come true.
The choice is ours, and though perhaps wish it were different, we must make our choice at this crucial moment in human history. Every man or nation has to decide one day. Between the false and true, if the good or evil allies.
If we make the right choice, we can transform the cries dessomantes of our world into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. If we make the right choice, we will be able to anticipate the day around the world, where justice will flow like water, and the result will be a powerful current.
So we were repeatedly confronted with the cruel irony of watching television for young blacks and whites to die side by side.
I could not mute before such cruel manipulation of the poor.
"Oh, yes, I speak with clarity!
America and Israel has never been to me, America or Israel.
The nation can not be saved while destroying the deepest hopes of men around the world.
Above the call of race, nation or creed, I recognize the fatherhood of God and brotherhood among men.
Since I believe that the Father is deeply compromised, especially with their children who suffer without help and protection, come on their behalf.
I think this is the privilege and the burden of all of us who consider ourselves bound by fidelity and loyalty which are larger and deeper than nationalism and which go beyond the objectives and positions of the self called United. We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for victims of the nation, for our brothers in the Middle East and Africar, for no document written by human hands can prevent these men are our brothers and sisters. I speak for them is to explain this lack of confidence in Western words, and especially their disbelief in the current American intentions in the Middle East and Africar. While we're on the side of wealth and security, we create hell for the poor. Perhaps only his sense of humor and irony can save them when he hears the most powerful nation in the world speaking of aggression as a spawning millions of bombs on the weak and poor nations of the Middle East and Africar. Somehow this madness must cease.It must end now.
I speak as a child of God and brothers and sisters of the poor sufferers in the world.
I speak for those whose lands are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted.
I speak for the poor of the world are paying double, with the hopes crushed in their homes and the death and corruption in the world.
I speak as a citizen of the world on behalf of the world is horrified by the way we choose. Each new day of war, hatred grows in the hearts of men on earth and in the hearts of those with humanitarian intent.
"Americans like the Europeans and Israelis are forcing even their friends become your enemies"
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make revolution inevitable viotenta. Increasingly, pro choice or chance, this was the role played by the biggest and most powerful nation in the world, the role of those who make peaceful revolution impossible by refusing to give up the privileges and pleasures that come from the immense profits of investments weapons.
I am convinced that if we are to move to the right side of the world revolution, we as a people of God, must undergo a radical revolution of values, we must begin immediately transsição a materialistic society to another humanist.
When machines, computers, profit and property rights are considered more important than people, the giants of racism, extreme materialism and militarism become invincible.
True compassion is more than toss a coin to a beggar.
A true revolution of values will soon look embarrassed for the stark contrast between poverty and affluence. With righteous indignation contemplate beyond the seas and see individualistic capitalist investing large sums of money in Asia, Africa and South America only to obtain profits without any concern with the improvement of social conditions of those continents, and say, "That's not fair "
The Western arrogance of feeling that everything has to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not fair.
A true revolution of values will take the reins of orgem world about the war and say: This way of establishing a difference is not fair.
This practice of burning human rights of injecting the poison of hatred in the veins of ordinary human beings, sending the dark and bloody battlefields back home physically and mentally unbalanced can not concilar with wisdom, justice and love.
All nations year after year spends more money on military defense than social programs goes toward death.
I mean that in all our actions, we must remain united. Unity is the great need of this hour.
If we are united, we will reach a lot of what not only want, but they justly deserve.We, the disinherited of this land, oppressed us for so long, we are tired of going through the long nights in captivity. And now we want to reach the dawn of freedom, justice and equality. Love is one of the pillars of faith, but there is another side called justice. It's justice is in fact the weight of love. Justice is correct with what you love rebels against love.
God is one, is not a God who remains motionless. He is also the God who stands before the nation and says: Be still and acknowledge that I am God, who does not obey me, I will break the backbone of your power and I will pluck them out of the orbit of their relations and national international.
Beside the love is always justice, and we're just using the tools of justice. Do not just use the tools of persuasion, but we realize that we need to use the tools of coercion. This is not just an educational process, but a process of spiritual liberation. There are a people, a people black ... A people who had the moral courage to fight for their rights. And therefore, injected new meaning into the veins of history and civilization.
And we'll do that God allows us to do it sooner rather than later. It would be fatal for the world to ignore the urgency of the moment.
The storms of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of the earth, until the bright morning flower of Justice.
But there's something I tell my people, we can not condemn criminal acts.
We must not quench our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
We must always conduct our struggle on the highest level of dignity and discipline.
We can not allow our protest to degenerate into physical violence. Must rise to the majestic heights to confront physical force with soul force. Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts. Sooner or later all the peoples of the world will discover the path to peaceful coexistence. For this achievement to happen, humanity will be developed for all human conflict, a methadone to repudiate revenge, aggression and retaliation. The basis of methadone is love. I refuse to accept the idea that man is a mere bundle of spoil dumped in the river of life unable to influence the events surrounding it. I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality. I refuse to accept the cynical notion that, one after another, the nations should solar below by a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear annihilation.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.
That is why good, temporarialmente defeated, is stronger than evil triunfonte.
I really believe that even amid the explosions of cannon and the humming of bullets today, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow.
I believe that justice battered and prostrate on the bloody streets of our nations, can get up this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men. I dare to hope that people, everywhere, can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.
I believe that what self-centered destroyed, philanthropists can reergue.
I also believe that one day mankind is to bow before the altars of God and be crowned with triumph over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent goodwill and redemptive, proclaim His power on earth. The lion and the lamb shall be laid side by side and each man to sit in the shade of his or heck Figueira and no longer afraid.
I also believe that triumph.
This faith will give us the courage to face the uncertainties of the future. Give renewed strength to our weary feet as we follow in our journey to the city of Liberty.
When our days become dark with threatening clouds and the nights become darker than a thousand nights, we know that we are in the midst of a fertile maelstrom of authenticating civilization struggling to be born.
Today, as a renewed dedication to humanity that inspires me. Yet when years have passed and when the blazing light of truth focus this was wonderful that we live, men and women will know and be taught to children who have a more beautiful land, a people more worthy, more noble civilization, because humbleGod's children sacrificed in the name of virtue. While men are not in search of its essence and not comprenderem what you came to this world, nothing will change, because it is more comfortable to stay as it is. Violence breeds more violence.And a power can only be overturned by a higher power. But if this new power and strong enough to wipe out the old, what guarantee is there that it is not as bad as the other, just changing the direction of aggression.!?
Walk humbly with God, but with certain joie de vivre and that justice will come from the Father.
If the Moon tell all that ... Watch the moon moon friend who goes to heaven always tells me the moon ... how we should act to transform the hard hearts of men ... Moon sovereign creation of the Father, send a message by your moonlight, mess with my water, that you move with the tides, moon ... We are nothing, we are insignificant in the face of great work of God, Oh moon ... why is there so much ignorance? Why so much fighting vain if everything is reduced to dust! I know I must fulfill my destiny ... Moon, something tells me that I was not born to be one more, my heart can not tolerate an unjust world ... I must do something ... something different ... moon moon, the moon that kind of fight I Emprender. Tell the moon? (In Love)
Authors ;-) Maria Leticia Oliveira de Almeida Or Leka040484 & Samuel Levi Seales
(Selah)
Exploitant : Transdev Ecquevilly
Réseau : Bus O'Mureaux
Ligne : N1
Lieu : Médiathèque (Les Mureaux, F-78)
Aujourd'hui, on extrait différentes choses : de l'étain, de l'argent …, mais l'exploitation n'est plus rentable, les prix de vente ont chutés.
L'état s'est pratiquement retiré, laissant le soin aux mineurs de s'auto exploiter. Comme ils n'ont pas le choix, c'est ce qu'ils font en s'organisant en coopératives. A leur tête, on retrouve un mineur plus riche ou plus malin qui arrive encore à faire quelques bénéfices sur le dos d'une bande de pauvres bougres.
Bref, ainsi va la vie, l'exploitation de l'homme par l'homme, toujours la même histoire sous toutes les latitudes et de tous les temps.
Nous sommes descendus dans ces mines. La montagne est un véritable gruyère avec des galeries qui s'étirent dans tous les sens, jusqu'à 200 m de profondeur.
Avant de descendre, nous sommes passés au marché des mineurs pour acheter de la dynamite, des mèches, des détonateurs, des feuilles de coca, et de l'alcool à 98°. Histoire de ne pas arriver les mains vides. Drôle de marché, ça change des carottes et des poireaux …
Les feuilles de coca seront mâchées tout au long de la journée avec un peu d'une pâte, genre chaux éteinte qui démultiplie les effets de la coca, le tout accompagné d'alcool à 98°. Et non, ce n'était pas pour désinfecter les plaies…
Avec cela, les mineurs ne sentiront ni la fatigue, ni la faim (pas plus que la fin, d'ailleurs …).
Et toute la journée, ils font des trous avec leur barre à mines et leur masse pour pouvoir y placer un bâton de dynamite.
Alors là, grand moment d'émotion, ils manipulent leur explosif sans aucune précaution, en tenant le détonateur dans leur bouche, en utilisant des demi-mèches pour économiser, et comme ça nous fait peur, ça les fait rire…
L'explosion secoue toute la montagne et vous résonne au creux du ventre puis elle provoque des émanations de gaz toxiques en tous genres. Quand les vapeurs se sont un peu dissipées, ils creusent puis ramassent leur précieux fardeau qu'ils remonteront à la surface sur leur dos ou dans des brouettes, ou quelques fois par des puits à l'aide de poulies.
Plus on s'enfonce dans les entrailles de la terre, plus il fait chaud, moins les gaz s'évacuent. Et plus les années passent, et plus il faut descendre…
Leur salaire est ridicule, leur espérance de vie est de 45 ans.
L'an dernier, dans la dernière exploitation d'état, pour la première fois de l'histoire de la mine l'un d'entre eux a atteint l'age de la retraire…
Et pourtant chaque jour, ils sont 8 000 à 10 000 à descendre dès l'age de 12 ans.
On peut relire Germinal, c'est à peu près cela…
Les différences ? La coca et le tio. Le tio ? C'est le protecteur de la mine. Plus diable que dieu, il trône dans une des galeries. Chaque mine en possède plusieurs. Il a une tête de diablotin et un gros pénis en érection permanente pour ne jamais décevoir sa maîtresse la Pachamama ( la terre nourricière, pour ceux qui n'ont pas suivi l'épisode précédent). Ainsi la terre reste féconde.
En descendant au travail, tous les hommes passent lui rendre hommage en lui offrant quelques feuilles de coca ou une cigarette qu'ils allument et qu'ils lui placent dans la bouche en lui adressant une petite prière.
FBI Southeast Georgia Child Exploitation Task Force (ICAC) Patch. Colors have been altered to prevent reproduction.
"Gene regulation ontology: design and exploitation for information extraction" (Jung-Jae Kim, EBI, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK)
www.ebi.ac.uk/Rebholz-srv/SESL/sesl.html
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WASHINGTON, DC: National Center for Missing & Exploited (NCMEC) 2022 Hope Gala, Oct. 20, 2022
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children’s (NCMEC) Hope Gala held on Oct. 20, 2022 at the District Pier at The Wharf, Washington, D.C. The event is a celebration of the inspiring work being done globally to protect children. We recognized leaders in child safety, honor survivors, and remember the families and victims who are still seeking justice and safety. Sarah Baker/NCMEC
United Nations peacekeepers, police, and civilians work hard to provide security, sanctuary, and peace for the vulnerable people of war-torn South Sudan.
The relationship between the two groups should be one of mutual trust and confidence but, at times, it breaks down when the power imbalance results in local people being subjected to sexual exploitation and abuse by UN personnel.
Appointed by the UN Secretary-General, Jane Connors is the UN’s first Victims’ Rights Advocate (VRA). This puts her at the forefront of efforts to prevent, respond to, and ultimately eliminate sexual exploitation and abuse. Her role ensures that victims are at the center of the UN’s approach.
The Victims’ Rights Advocate is visiting South Sudan to promote the importance of the “no excuses, zero tolerance” approach to UN personnel, whether they are peacekeepers or humanitarian workers. She has also met with victims and local authorities and spent time listening to the concerns of internally displaced people in protection of civilians’ sites.
Globally there were 103 allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse reported against UN peacekeepers last year with four in South Sudan. While the numbers seem low, explained the VRA, this may be because the stigma attached to this kind of behavior makes victims reluctant to report it. That is why it is vital to encouraging reporting so that perpetrators are held accountable.
Jane Connors’ visit to South Sudan’s follows the launch of a new campaign by the UN Mission to build on the “zero tolerance” and “no excuses” stance taken by the Secretary-General. At the recent launch of a new pocket-sized card designed to remind all UN personnel of their responsibility to prevent sexual exploitation and abuse, the Head of the Mission in South Sudan, David Shearer, said there would be “no second chance” for any offenders in the country.
While some "good" things may come from cow's milk: (pleasure, nutrients, convenience...), the bad outweighs the good: violence, slavery, exploitation, and killing. We can get pleasure and nutrition from non-violent sources. We can thrive as vegans. So why not be vegan? To harm animals, not because we have to, but because we enjoy it or are used to doing it is wrong. Most people would agree that unnecessary harm to sentient beings is wrong and yet, at the same time, participate in the very thing they are against, by consuming animal products.
Think clearly! Go Vegan!
Région de derak, kurdistan syrien. Depuis le début de la guerre, la majorité des puits de pétroles sont à l'arrêt. Mais depuis sa création, le gouvernement régional proche du PYD a relancé une production réduite pour subvenir aux besoins en carburant de la région. Cette centrale pétrolière produit environ 400 barils (contre 1500 dans le passé). Mais tout est prêt pour augmenter la production et l'exporter quand les conditions seront plus favorables.
ALEXANDRIA, VA: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), Sept. 16, 2021
Cyclist from the “The Ride of Hope” arrives at NCMEC to commemorate the 26th anniversary of the inaugural ‘Ride’ to Washington, D.C. Our group of dedicated bicyclists' road an average of 80 miles per day (480 total) travelling through four states to raise awareness of missing children. Sarah Baker/NCMEC
Hasselblad 500C/M
I remember that around the second half of the years 90’s, I considered to buy a Hasselblad camera. I gave up because I had no more access to a darkroom and I found too complicated to recreate one or to delegate the processing to a service lab. Afterward, some years later, I started digital photography that distracted me to operate again with films. It is only when I could manage in 2022 a reliable and quality way to exploit my negatives in a reasonable time, that I really could enjoy again of analog photography.
On July 17, 2024, I decided to buy "my" Hasselblad in a very traditional way, almost as I could in the 90’s, in a local real photographic store, Lyon, France. The store « Carré Couleur » of Jacques Larger, rue Servient, Lyon, France, is a long-time specialist of professional medium-format camera’s including Hasselblad ones. They had on display several revised and 6-month guaranteed camera’s and a large choice of lenses and accessories.`
I choose a 500 C/M year 1978 and a Carl Zeiss lens Planar T* 1:2.8 f=80mm of the CF series year 1986, plus a small set of little Hasselblad goodies. The 500 C/M is totally mechanical without any electrical nor electronic circuitry. The 500 C/M's were produced in Göteborg, Sweden, from year 1970 to 1994. They followed the production of the 500C camera’s (1957-1970). The latest V-series camera (503 CX, CW, CWI etc) ceased in 2006 and Hasselblad then produced only digital camera’s but also digital camera backs that could fit to the V-series includingbthis 500 C/M (www.hasselbladhistorical.eu/HS/HSTable.aspx)
This CF lens series has central shutter Prontor (Synchro-Compur for the earlier Zeiss series). They are more cylindrical than earlier series and equipped of the proprietary bayonet filter mount B60. The delayed shutter realease was also abandoned. The focusing screen is the « Bright » series with the Dodin stigmometer in the screen centrer and the squared cross-ruling lines. Later 501 and 503 were basically equipped with an even more brighter screen called « Acute-mat ». The camera back could dated from year 1977 is an « A-12 » back « A » standing for « Automatic ». The film advance automatically stops at view 1 with view counter on the right camera side.
After a complete demo by Jacques Larger, I studied the camera manipulation at home with the user manual in hand (an original edition of 1980) before doing the decisive « film d’essai » (test film) on a sunny morning of July 20, 2024. I choose the closest outdoor quiet place at Parc de la Tête d’Or, Lyon, France and the magics of the botany garden and the tropical green houses. It is familiar to me place ideal for testing a camera without external stress.
For the test, I loaded an Ilford PanF+ 50 ISO that I exposed for the nominal sensitivity using my trusted Minolta Autometer III either in the incident light mode or the selective rejected light using a 10° viewer. The lens has an Hasselblad B60 UV-SKY 1A multi-coated filter but no shade hood since they were out-of-stock in the store.
View Nr. 4 : 1/125s f/9
Serre Hollandaise, July 20, 2024
Jardin Botanique de Lyon
Parc de la Tête d’Or
69006 Lyon
France
After the view #12 exposed, the film was fully rolled to the taking spool and was developed in a Paterson tank with a spiral adapted to the 70mm large film. 500 mL of Adox Adonal (Agfa Rodinal) developer were prepared at the dilution 1+50 and the film processed for 11min30 at 20°C.
Digitizing was made using a Sony A7 camera (ILCE-7, 24MP) held on a Minolta vertical macro stative device and adapted to a Minolta MD Macro lens 1:3.5 f=50mm. The light source was a LED panel (approx. 4x5') CineStill Cine-lite fitted with film holder "Lobster" to maintain flat the 70mm films.
The RAW files obtained were inverted within LR and edited to the final jpeg pictures without intermediate file. They are presented either as printed files with frame or the full size JPEG together with some documentary smartphone color pictures.
The results show very high-quality, highly-contrasted negative views, perfectly exposed and spaced proving the good technical state of the camera, film magazine, and the lens/shutter.
July 20, 2016--New York City-- Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the Task Force to Combat Worker Exploitation has directed 1,547 businesses to pay nearly $4 million in back wages and damages to more than 7,500 workers since its inception in July 2015. The Governor also announced several initiatives to improve worker health and safety, including a multi-agency investigation into the exploitation of dry cleaning workers and a coordinated effort to ban harmful chemicals, such as perchlorethylene (PERC), that are commonly used in the industry. Additionally, the state will launch a new $5 million grant program and RFP for non-profit organizations to expand services to help exploited workers. (Don Pollard/Office of the Governor)
Public reenactment of a speech originally given by Stokely Carmichael, the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in front of the UN Building in New York City on April 15, 1967. Carmichael argues that the civil rights movement must oppose the war in Vietnam, discusses the central role of genocide in American History, and issues a forceful call to organize against war, exploitation and racism. Ato Essandoh, a New York City-based actor delivered the speech on location on September 7, 2008.
Quotes:
"We black people have struggled against white supremacy here at home. We therefore understand the struggle of the Vietnamese against white supremacy abroad. We black people have struggled against U.S. aggression in the ghettos of the North and South. We therefore understand the struggle of the Vietnamese people against U.S. aggression abroad. This is why there can be no question of whether a civil rights organization should involve itself with foreign issues. It must do so, if it claims to have any relevance to black people and their day-to-day needs in the United States of America. It must do so, if it lays any claim to that humanism which declares: no man is an island."
"We have not only a right to speak out -- we have an obligation. We must be involved, we must fight racism in all its manifestations. We must also look truthfully at this land of the free and home of the brave, and remember that there is another side to that land -- a side better known to the rest of the world than to most Americans. There is another America, and it is an ugly one. It is an America whose basic policy at home and abroad can only be called genocide."
Exploitant : Transdev TVO
Réseau : R'Bus (Argenteuil)
Ligne : 1
Lieu : Masures (Sartrouville, F-78)
Lien TC Infos : tc-infos.fr/vehicule/35126