The restitution program this monstrous cabal has cancelled is a result of Catherine Coleman Flowers’ work. For shame.
#sanitation #sanitationjustice #publichealth
https://www.catherinecolemanflowers.com/
And, by the way, why can't I embed these links in my toot? Admin?
Today in Labor History March 28, 1977: AFSCME Local 1644 struck in Atlanta, Georgia, for a pay raise. This local of mostly African American sanitation workers saw labor and civil rights as part of the same struggle. They saw their fight as a continuation of the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike. For several years, they organized to get black civil rights leaders elected to public office. They succeeded in getting their man, Maynard Jackson, elected mayor of Atlanta. After all, as vice mayor, Jackson had supported their 1970 strike. Yet, in his first three years as mayor, he refused to give them a single raise. Consequently, their wages dropped below the poverty line for a family of four. Jackson accused AFSCME of attacking Black Power by challenging his authority. He fired over 900 workers by April 1 and crushed the strike by the end of April. Many believe this set the precedent for Reagan’s mass firing of 11,000 air traffic controllers during the PATCO strike, in 1981.
Map Portland's Restrooms!
So someone who needs to go can find one!
Sign up to fill the map --
#sanitation #publichealth #PDX #ExplorePDX #publicrestrooms
#urbanism
Op-ed for #WorldWaterDay2025. Follow Keynes’ advice from 1941- wealth tax on the super-rich can help fund social spending & defense. There’s no need for shameful cuts that will increase poverty & insecurities for the world’s most marginalised people. #USAID #water #Sanitation #WorldWaterDay2025 #UKAid How Aid Cuts Will Shatter Global Water and Sanitation Progress https://www.ipsnews.net/2025/03/aid-cuts-will-shatter-global-water-sanitation-progress
@asakiyume @Zumbador
Prepping means you can share. By sharing, you connect. You build.
By preparing for disaster, you feed souls, not just stomachs.
I believe this, and I practice this.
#CERT
#disasterprep
#sanitation
Lagos State Government and WaterAid Collaborate to Construct 350 Public Toilets Across the State https://www.rainsmediaradio.com/2025/03/lagos-state-government-and-wateraid.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon Follow, Like & Share #LagosState #PublicHealth #Sanitation #WaterAid #Hygiene
I was interviewed about the public toilet situation in Portland.
Let's convene designers and communities -- again -- to pull together the best ideas in public restroom design, and put them to work.
20 years ago, PHLUSH was born in the collective effort that created the Portland Loo, now installed all over the world.
Post-pandemic -- post public trust -- are there better models?
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/03/12/health-advocates-say-portland-needs-more-public-toilets/
#dysentery
#sanitation
#publicrestrooms
#sanitationjustice
#portlandoregon
#urban
@opb
"The next question was how much soybean paste to flush. In other words, how much does a person usually poop?"
Anna Gibbs for Slate: https://longreads.com/2025/02/25/flushed-away/
12 #waterless #toilets have been built in the natural #park Franconian Switzerland in #Bavaria, #Germany, in the last two years.
By the way, they are part of a project from the #Bavarian #Ministry for #Environment to test different #solutions for modern non-sewered #sanitation. You can find two ABEREUS toilets in the #project.
ABEREUS - A Better Resource Use
#FFF #FastFactFriday #FastFact
Musk called #USAID evil but frankly Musk is evil.
Why else would he celebrate #USAIDFreeze? As noted in this op-ed by Peter Taylor the closure has far-reaching implications for human health & wellbeing, including the spread of HIV & Mpox, women's health & #water #sanitation projects in some of the poorest & most vulnerable areas of the world.
https://www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/the-turbulence-and-the-toll-of-the-usaid-freeze/
Heroes do not always wear capes.
Some heroes build #latrines instead!
(Capes are rather unpractical when you do this kind of work.
)
My good friend Raymond, who I have followed and supported during six years now, is in need of some more funding for his latest project.
I am out of money, but maybe some others have some extra?
He has #PayPal , so it is an easy transfer.
#Kenya
#Permaculture
#Sanitation
#AskingForDonations
