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  • The Plight of Poultry Workers

    I’m revolted by certain working conditions, by what people have to do to earn a living and be able to survive. I’ve written about farm laborers and Amazon employees, now I find that poultry workers work in what an Oxfam recent report calls grim conditions. The machines are faster than they were years ago, they…

  • Cyber-Exploitation

    https://oag.ca.gov/cyberexploitation That’s the URL for a website giving victims of cyber-exploitation—otherwise known as porn revenge—resources, including help with how to have images, videos, and sometimes damaging statements, removed from social media. I do feel that it’s particularly important to give it because several stories I read from mainstream media spoke about such things as how…

  • Mental Health in Africa–New Hope

    I first learned how the mentally ill were treated in Africa from a cousin, a gynecologist practicing in Paris, who had done a residency in Senegal. She was so shocked by what she observed, people, including women in labor, chained, that later it became one of the reasons she became a psychiatrist. Part of her…

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