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Air traffic. hazards (include lead)

Kim Fortun

Gardening labor is especially socially vulnerable

Kim Fortun

Pesticide hazards in gardening labor

Kim Fortun
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MPNA-GREEN's Community Research Board is conducting community interviews and learned that there are professional gardeners in many households, which likely comes with significant exposre to pesticides, likely brining them home to their families. See, for example, this recent study: https://www.ehn.org/glyphosate-childrens-health-2659484037.html, and there is always worries about endocrine disrupting chemicals in ag work. 

cuts, proposals and the need to democratize university decision-making in the United States

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Roddy Reid shared these links on May 5: - Bryan Alexander on the first wave of cuts to universities: https://bryanalexander.org/higher-education/the-first-wave-of-pandemic-cuts-to-colleges-and-universities/?fbclid=IwAR0hjYH_X9H9MfAT-sOnVgPH0Op9tCKf2K4EzOzFvJNdrMWQfosYFvJuzfc- SF Art Institute to stay open:https://www.artforum.com/news/san-francisco-art-institute-to-stay-open-with-limited-academic-offerings-82913?fbclid=IwAR0s9j17a7nWDVTF7mR4acdiJ26hJK8PLsF5GjrLInmAXUxEY1cD9BdHA5c- free access to special issue of Academe by the (American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in the context of attacks on higher education: “The Politics of Knowledge”, including Judith Butler’s dissenting view on the AAUP’s "Statement of Knowledge" and Chris Newfield on the need to democratize university decision-making- Adjunct lecturers' low pay (report):https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2020/04/20/new-report-says-many-adjuncts-make-less-3500-course-and-25000-year?fbclid=IwAR1b-vyB-Ab2gQM6MuomOuJAgdEAngvVWhoUiqsa-_A_5mTVQi47T6xZ5fU- The American Prospect on student debt and the Federal Reserve: https://prospect.org/blogs/tap/student-debt-and-the-fed/?fbclid=IwAR3IPC-KdvSYdM6DHl2Si9vX4eLnWSpFgTSOIXoupPPk4bW8Y-KIm4hz5W0- Change.org petition on reinvesting in higher education nationally: https://www.change.org/p/elected-officials-immediately-protect-and-strengthen-higher-education-for-the-post-covid-world?fbclid=IwAR0Gy_fEn7pKUNaN3Z4oeYlnyy_4FGSt8fwTYZVFnODIh36zoy6mnIQ0v-A