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NEW SHORT FILM: How did COVID-19 affect the food system in #Tanzania?
Our research teams found out, in three market centres: the coastal city of Dar es Salaam, the tourist cross-border hub of Arusha, and Mwanza on Lake Victoria. #Africanfoodsystems
Our research teams found out, in three market centres: the coastal city of Dar es Salaam, the tourist cross-border hub of Arusha, and Mwanza on Lake Victoria. #Africanfoodsystems
Here are the stories of market traders, truckers, fishers and farmers in #Tanzania. Even without restrictions under President #Magafuli, #Covid_19 had big effects on the people producing & selling food.
See our short film released today. @arusonews
See our short film released today. @arusonews
As a woman in market said "Tanzania was not in lockdown but people locked themselves inside".
Declining domestic markets combined with border closures loss of exports and rising prices of imports disrupted the country's #FoodSystems
@esulle46 @LKissoly @EMEDO19 @EsaffHQ
Declining domestic markets combined with border closures loss of exports and rising prices of imports disrupted the country's #FoodSystems
@esulle46 @LKissoly @EMEDO19 @EsaffHQ
Some farmworker movement history for #CesarChavezDay: In 1955 Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee went on strike. 8 days later, the Latino National Farmworkers Association voted to join the strike (led to UFW)
The UFW strike was broad, not simply about 1 leader 🧵
The UFW strike was broad, not simply about 1 leader 🧵
Unionists like Larry Itliong & Philip Vera Cruz were socialists. They knew in order to win the strike, they had to break the bosses’ division of workers across racial groups - unite around class. Their leadership w/Dolores Huerta & Cesar Chavez broke decades of boss tactics #UFW
The solidarity clap that many of us use in movements today was created by the farmworkers, who spoke different languages, as a signal to stop working, walk off the fields, and STRIKE. It starts slow, then gets louder, faster, like their heartbeats, into a universal rally cry #UFW
This is the #DemPartyPlatform for 2020. This section deals with Investing in the Engines of #JobCreation Only one party has a specific plan for rebuilding the great American #MiddleClass. ..the other has a loyalty pledge to a con man whose lies cost so many American lives. 1/14 
#Democrats will invest in the American heartland and rural communities. 2/14 #DemPartyPlatform #WeAreFarming #rural #DemFuture
#Democrats will make it easier for new and beginning #farmers, aquaculture farmers, ranchers, and foresters, including returning veterans, to start and grow their operations by expanding U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ownership and operating loan programs. 3/14
a/c @laloalcaraz
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And this is how @YourTaylorFarms or other AG hundred millionaires treat #farmworkers in #Salinas while @SupervisorAlejo is busy acting like Trump.
pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
And this is how @YourTaylorFarms or other AG hundred millionaires treat #farmworkers in #Salinas while @SupervisorAlejo is busy acting like Trump.
pbs.org/wgbh/frontline…
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This should surprise no one since Bruce Taylor tells @salnews how to do #journalism and @Gannett listened.
Not unlike @bradleyzeve and his trade paper the @mcweekly - an outfit I hand delivered four cover stories in the last 15 years.
(Bruce Taylor in 2012)
This should surprise no one since Bruce Taylor tells @salnews how to do #journalism and @Gannett listened.
Not unlike @bradleyzeve and his trade paper the @mcweekly - an outfit I hand delivered four cover stories in the last 15 years.
(Bruce Taylor in 2012)
.@theNASEM holds its public online "listening session" today starting at noon E.T. to discuss yesterday's draft on equitable #COVID19 #vaccines allocation.
nationalacademies.org/event/09-02-20… #FDA #CDC #NIH
Read my story free here 👇
nationalacademies.org/event/09-02-20… #FDA #CDC #NIH
Read my story free here 👇
.@VictorDzau: Initial #COVID19 #vaccines doses will be limited, at least in beginning.
Scarce vaccines will need to be allocated in ways that are thoughtful, strategic/fair.
Important we have a well-thought out framework
Objective/transparent/trusted/independent
#vaccineframework
Scarce vaccines will need to be allocated in ways that are thoughtful, strategic/fair.
Important we have a well-thought out framework
Objective/transparent/trusted/independent
#vaccineframework
WILLIAM FOEGE: This is a draft.
Meeting today because want final product to be better.
This is a fast draft!
Uncertainties we had were overwhelming.
We did the best we could.
We started w/ ethics/equity before we went to the science.
#vaccineframework #COVID19 #vaccines
Meeting today because want final product to be better.
This is a fast draft!
Uncertainties we had were overwhelming.
We did the best we could.
We started w/ ethics/equity before we went to the science.
#vaccineframework #COVID19 #vaccines
I'm a #LatinX physician, taking care of #LatinX patients with #COVID19.
I've been so surprised at how people are surprised by data showing #COVID19 is disproportionately affecting marginalized communities that till now I didn't know how to respond.
Some thoughts:
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I've been so surprised at how people are surprised by data showing #COVID19 is disproportionately affecting marginalized communities that till now I didn't know how to respond.
Some thoughts:
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2/The implications of these #disparities run far deeper than simple differences in rates of morbidity and mortality. I applaud all of those shedding light on these #inequities, but we need action, and we need it now. @valstonemd @drlouiseivers #COVID19 #SDOH
3/A majority of our #EssentialWorkers, our #FrontLineHeroes, come from minority communities; these are the individuals putting themselves at risk to do the invisible work without which our society would collapse. @JoiaMukherjee #COVID19
