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Mutual Aid/Best Practices vs Local Practices

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This image reminds me of how mutual aid and communities keep each other fed, and safe, and how local practices are actually best practices. My own research， although not immediatley related to the specific public health concern of COVID, will focus on Indigenous food soverignty, particularly the right and autonomy to ferment and distribute alcohol (紅糯米酒) within the Amis community, and their current fight with the local health department on declaring whether or not their alcohol is "safe" for public consumption and distribution.

Mapping Detention and Toxicity

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The city of Adelanto is part of San Bernardino county, located in northern Inland Empire by the Mojave Desert. Adelanto holds the California’s largest detention center.

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"We help people worldwide where the need is greatest, delivering emergency medical aid to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from health care." From their website, they try to help people in medical emergencies where there isn't access to adequate healthcare.

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This article discusses emergency response in the historical incidents and described why emergency responders had difficulty rescuing victims and why there were so many fatalities. The article did not, however, discuss the details of the emergency response, it focused much more on how the situation happened and the political and social aftermath.

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This question is a little difficult to answer due to the lack of bibliography; however, one can infer that the author conducted interviews or found interviews which were conducted by third parties as a portion of his research. The author also appears to have researched laws in France and the rest of the European Union.

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UN - potentially caused the cholera outbreak, organized/managing response to the cholera outbreak without acknowledging responsibility for it

Pedro Medrano - UN coordinator for the response in Haiti

USAID - donor of approximately $1.5 billion since earthquake, uses international contractors to rebuild Haiti

Health Ministry - part of the Haitian govt. that manages country health and vaccinations

Ban Ki-moon - won't acknowledge possible UN role in creating cholera outbreak, UN Secretary-General

Haitian Government - currently undergoing disruption due to a  change in terms of its Senators and disagreements between parties

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The program began in January of 2015 and was founded to be the first-in-the-nation security college. It was formed with funding that Governor Cuomo allocated. It's founding comes during a time of growing need for homeland security professionals.