[Images description: a Twitter thread by Alisa Lynn Valdés, M.S., @ AlisaValdesRod1. It goes as follows:
“This quote, from the @ nytimes review of the Oppenheimer film: (quote) “He served as director of a clandestine weapons lab built in a near-desolate stretch of Los Alamos, in New Mexico” (end quote)… It was inhabited by Hispanos. They were given less than 24 hr to leave. Their farms bulldozed. 1.
Many of those families had been on the same land for centuries. The Oppenheimer’s crew literally shot all of their livestock through the head and bulldozed them. People fled on foot with nowhere to go. Land rich, money poor. Their land seized by the government. 2.
All of the Hispano NM men who were displaced by the labs later were hired to work with beryllium by Oppenheimer. The white men got protective gear. The Hispano men did not. 3.
The Hispano men all died of berylliosis. These were US citizens, folks. Their land taken, animals killed, farms bulldozed, forced to work for the people who took everything from them, and killed by those people. 4.
For 20 years I have been trying to sell a film based on the story of Loyda Martinez, a remarkable whistleblower whose family’s land was seized for the labs. Her dad was one of the men who died from beryllium exposure at the labs. She later went to work there too. 5.
She is a computer whiz who rose to the top of her department at Los Alamos. Then she started digging for info on the Hispano men the labs killed, like her father. She filed a class action lawsuit, and won. 6.
The first Hispano governor of NM, Bill Richardson, appointed Loyda to run the state’s human rights commission. She then filed a second class-action against Los Alamos, on behalf of women scientists not paid fairly. 7.
But, no. We want more films about the “complex and troubled” “heroic” white men, who conducted their GENIUS in a “virtually unpopulated” place. These are ALL lies. This is mythology in service to white supremacy and the military industrial complex, masquerading as “nuanced.” 8.
Because of what the labs did to the local Hispano people in northern NM, our communities now have the highest rates of heroin overdose deaths in the nation. The generational trauma and forced poverty is outrageous. We need the real stories of Oppenheimer to be told. End.”
BEAUTIFUL HEART SHAPED ROCKS I WANT TO PUT THEM ALL IN MY POCKETS AND RUN AWAY AND THROW THEM IN THE SEA TO BE FOUND BY CURIOUS LITTLE GIRLS EVERYWHERE
my brother started calling our cat “doobie brother” which he then lengthened to “dubious brother” and has since morphed into “brother dubious” like he’s some sort of fucked up little monk
I wanted this but the original poster is transphobic
It’s the Analog “Hole”. It’s exploitable. Only issue is losing some quality, but if your equipment is good, you can get pretty decent quality.
There’s actually an even simpler version that significantly reduces the quality loss! Double ended audiocable
simply plug on end into the speaker port and tell the computer it’s headphones, plug the other end into the mic port and tell the computer it’s a microphone, and then hit play on your media and Audacity! No digital/analogue translation required.
Right now the thing you can do the most is to vocally support the strike.
And spread the link to the Entertainment Community Fund, which supports people in the Arts whose income has gone away – not just the strikers but all the people who cannot work because nothing is being shot or made.
ALT
