I need more news outlets to write like this, go subscribe to the Continent for great weekly African news round-ups and biting commentary like this. https://www.thecontinent.org/
JP
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Engineer working in solar, currently based in Sweden, but about to move back to my hometown of Chicago. Here for finding & discussing music, book, and food recommendations. Also, a maple syrup addict.
CBC NewsA Montreal shelter gives people a room of their own
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/old-brewery-mission-montreal-private-room-1.7370539?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Montreal @montreal-cbcnews
A Montreal shelter is giving people a room of their own: 'It's just a sense of dignity' | CBC News
The Old Brewery Mission, Montreal's largest emergency shelter, has transformed its dormitories into small rooms. One outreach worker says many would rather stay in encampments than dorms, and that the private rooms help meet a person's "basic needs."
Universities are all for free speech until they disagree with the message. "University of Chicago evicts student from dorm after protest arrest." #UniversityOfChicago #chicago
https://www.wbez.org/education/2024/10/23/uchicago-evicts-student-from-dorm-after-protest-arrest
https://www.wbez.org/education/2024/10/23/uchicago-evicts-student-from-dorm-after-protest-arrest
jd 🔆“There’s something else going on behind the scenes—silently. And it’s happening in places where people need it most.
Solar panels have, over the last months, suddenly gotten so cheap that they’re now appearing in massive numbers across much of the developing world. Without waiting for what are often moribund utilities to do the job, business and home owners are getting on with electrifying their lives, and doing it cleanly.”
#ClimateChange
https://billmckibben.substack.com/p/silent-solar?publication_id=438146&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=27ssa&utm_medium=email
Christopher MimsU.S. automakers have never in history had to test their vehicles with pedestrian crash-test dummies, one reason that vehicles continue to become bigger, heavier, higher and more lethal for pedestrians than ever.
If a new rule is enacted, that will finally change.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24241047/nhtsa-rule-pedestrian-safety-fmvss-suv-truck-design
If a new rule is enacted, that will finally change.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/10/24241047/nhtsa-rule-pedestrian-safety-fmvss-suv-truck-design
SalGalFor my fellow Chicago Peeps 😹
No ketchup!
Linnea Axelsson's piece gets straight at the heart of the issues for #Sweden.
"The grand history of nation-states is inevitably a history of lies & theft & formidable powers of imagination, as well as varying degrees of coercion & death... Sápmi has begun its reckoning, but Sweden continues to look away. Sweden does look to the past, but with a false, nostalgic gaze. Its vision of history can only lead the country into a narrow and isolated future."
https://lithub.com/an-overdue-reckoning-how-sweden-continues-to-deny-its-settler-colonial-past/
"The grand history of nation-states is inevitably a history of lies & theft & formidable powers of imagination, as well as varying degrees of coercion & death... Sápmi has begun its reckoning, but Sweden continues to look away. Sweden does look to the past, but with a false, nostalgic gaze. Its vision of history can only lead the country into a narrow and isolated future."
https://lithub.com/an-overdue-reckoning-how-sweden-continues-to-deny-its-settler-colonial-past/
Biden just needs to make a single call to end this genocide.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/21/biden-stop-gaza-bombing-genocide-israel
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/21/biden-stop-gaza-bombing-genocide-israel
And they said National Health Insurance would put the government in between patients and doctors, instead we have these private corporations making our medical decisions. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/03/opioid-treatment-prior-authorization-health-insurance-edited-
"Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves.” He championed Natives' reverence for nature, writing that "the American Indian has a unique investment in the American landscape." He shared stories told to him by his parents and grandparents. He regarded oral culture as the wellspring of language and storytelling."
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-01-29/n-scott-momaday-pulitzer-prize-winner-and-giant-of-native-american-literature-dead-at-89?src=usn_tw
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2024-01-29/n-scott-momaday-pulitzer-prize-winner-and-giant-of-native-american-literature-dead-at-89?src=usn_tw