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Today in Labor History March 1, 1954: The U.S. detonated Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb on Bikini Atoll. It caused the worst radioactive contamination ever by the U.S. However, this occurred after years of nuclear testing and contamination of the islands and waters around them. The U.S. detonated 23 nuclear devices on the islands from 1946 to 1958. They blew up the bombs on the reef, in the sea, in the air and underwater. They relocated islanders several times, each time to supposedly safe islands. But they neglected to provide sufficient food and water, causing starvation. When the islanders tried to catch fish to eat, or grow their own crops, they were so contaminated from radioactive fallout, that it poisoned all who ate it. Women started having miscarriages and giving birth to babies with abnormalities. To this day, it is still too contaminated for inhabitants and their descendants to return. A trust fund that had been set up to help support the survivors ran out of funds in the late 2010s.

Nuclear weapon test Bravo (yield 15 Mt) on Bikini Atoll. The test was part of the Operation Castle. The Bravo event was an experimental thermonuclear device surface event. By United States Department of Energy - US gov, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=446935
#workingclass#LaborHistory#bikini
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Ramesh #NotGoingBack

⬆️ Partition of #British #India saw #forcedMigration of over 15 million, but neither #India nor #Pakistan called for the #elimination of the other ➡️ mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/1

There were civil riots and plenty of deaths, but both countries largely accepted the #TwoStateSolution.

#Palestinians rejected similar solution from #UN for the 1947 partition of British #Palestine.

Instead, they let external forces fight for Palestinians #inTheirName only and gave up EVERYTHING in the process.

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Mastodonrameshgupta (@rameshgupta@mastodon.social)@CivilityFan@sfba.social @bhasic @stewartvm @Ulrich_the_Elder @rabbinathan@babka.social Post-WWII, the Indian subcontinent also saw a partition that included #India flanked by disjoint land masses given to #Pakistan. Both India and Pakistan largely accepted that #TwoStateSolution, albeit in a totally different context. As India's experience shows, the current proposal to keep #Gaza and #WestBank separate is perilous, at best ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111377891592939137 There are alternate proposals ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111359335004151162
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Abeni

This is part one of a convo I think about a lot between Matthew Charles and Daniel Drennan ElAwar on Charles's podcast "little did u know".

They discuss their personal histories (Charles is a transracial adopted person, Drennan ElAwar is a transracial intercountree adoptee) and explore where they fit within wider forces of displacement, colonization, and forced migration.

#Colonialism #Displacement #FamilySeparation #ForcedMigration #Adoption #Racism #abolition

open.spotify.com/episode/7xSmK

Spotify4. DANIEL DRENNAN ELAWAR on The Adoptee Voice (pt.1)Listen to this episode from little did u know on Spotify. little did u know is a listener supported show. If you've found our conversations meaningful please consider joining our patreon, here you can support our work for as little as $5 per month. Guest Bio: Daniel Drennan ElAwar was adopted via Lebanon to the United States at the age of two months. In 2004 he returned sight unseen, and taught graphic design and illustration at various Beirut universities. He continues to work as a special advisor to the Beirut-based children's rights organization Badael/Alternatives on issues of adoption and adoptee return. From January to June, 2016, he was a research fellow at the Asfari Institute of Civil Society and Citizenship, focusing on adoption and citizenship in terms of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. As of June 2016, he is in reunion with his family in Greater Syria. He currently works as an associate professor teaching Illustration and Printmaking at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. Resource List: Daniel's writings on Adoption and his blog: https://ecuad.academia.edu/DanielDrennanElAwar danielibnzayd.wordpress.com/ Abby you asked if I could ask Daniel about "rematriation". I do, in part 2 of this episode. Term coined by Steven Newcomb, Executive Director, Indigenous Law Institute. http://ili.nativeweb.org/perspect.html An open letter to Lebanon, and naming himself for his mother: [In Arab culture, one is known as "son of" and one's father's name; here I state I am my mother's son.] https://www.academia.edu/39679794/Daniel_Ibn_Bahija_An_Open_Letter_to_Lebanon Ideas of grounding and place: On Extirpation, Rerooting, and Creative Liberation https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40087/On-Extirpation,-Rerooting,-and-Creative-Liberation Daniel's recommended reading list Dorothy Roberts- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Dorothy Roberts- Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare Dorothy Roberts- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century Kali Akuno- Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi Lisa Marie Cacho- Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (Nation of Nations) Orlando Patterson- Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study treat the show like your Uber Driver and give us 5 stars, and leave us a review! tell us what is most meaningful to you- that helps matthew know how he is impacting you, and inspires him in this work. (as well as helps us get into algorithms) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/matthew-anthony00/message
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Netzwerk Fluchtforschung

Hi Mastodon, das Netzwerk Fluchtforschung e.V. ist auch da. Wir sind ein multidisziplinäres Netzwerk von Forschenden, die zu diversen Fragen über #Flucht und #Asyl arbeiten. Hier posten wir Updates von unseren Mitgliedern.

Hi Mastodon, the German Network for Forced Migration Studies has joined too. We are a multi-disciplinary network of academics whose research focuses on #forcedmigration and #asylum. We will post updates of our members here.

Learn more about #NWFF: fluchtforschung.net/

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