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Power Generation for Public Interest Watchers 2
At the invitation of Matty, send a recommendation.
This article recommends primarily news-related authors, including but not limited to media and citizen journalists, in addition to a few other authors whose areas of interest are closely linked to the public interest.
Authors are sorted by the number of followers from smallest to largest.
Edible tip: Focus on reading and find interesting content. It is recommended to follow the author immediately or click on the article. You don't have to read all the selected articles, and then look at the next author until the end of the full text.
1. @小子
Just as the world's news pages are occupied by "protest demonstrations", "racism and police brutality", as well as "new crown epidemic" and "economic restart", a group of Chinese sailors still stranded at sea are gradually being forgotten. .....
For several months, I couldn't get off the ship, couldn't change shifts, and went home far away. These seafarers seemed to be exiled to the endless sea, suffering physical and mental torture.
2. @Kalen
Unbelievable criminal case - 01. Ganzhou Huajian Shoe Factory encountered a strange job search
On May 24, 2017, Jiangxi Ganzhou Huajian Shoes Factory.
Before that, I had applied for a job at Huajian Shoe Factory in Dongguan, Guangdong. After working for a week, I left and went to Ganzhou, Jiangxi. I learned some basic conditions of Huajian Shoe Factory in Ganzhou from my colleagues who were already in Ganzhou, and I was ready to join Ganzhou Huajian through the application. The front-line workers of Jian Shoe Factory experience the labor situation of the factory.
Nonviolent Demolition as a Governance Technique: A Late Note from Baishizhou｜Magezhuang Tianye
However, at the end of June 2019, tenants successively received notices of rent clearance and relocation, some requested to be vacated by the end of August, and some requested to close the building on September 15. The sudden rent clearance notice made everyone messed up. Tenants with children also faced the problem that their children could not go to school nearby after the relocation. It is expected that more than 4,000 children will face different schooling difficulties during the demolition. If they choose to live nearby , the financial pressure is unbearable; if you move out of the gate, your child will even have to transfer three times to go to school; studying across districts may affect the future high school and college entrance examinations; and due to the shortage of places, schools in other districts will basically no longer enroll new relocated children. .
Dusty workbook｜Through the 921 earthquake｜03
At this time, Dongshi, which has passed the emergency rescue period, looks like the situation of the archaeological team excavating. The difference is that the archaeologists use shovels, and the power of natural disasters is accompanied by strange hands, and the engineering equipment is quickly packed up. The aftermath of the raging bulls. There was nothing he could do about the deformed and distorted face of this mountain city.
The old house split by the shock wave looks like a model of a historical relic that has been torn apart. Bricks, cement, and stones are scattered all over the road and piled up on the roadside. A yellow cordon is temporarily drawn around them, as if they are afraid that the debris will continue to spread. The sense of apocalypse after the disaster still lingers, but it is no longer so panicked, the sun is still rising, and the cultural and historical wreckage accidentally exposed by the ruins of the small town, if it is normal, it must be a matter of interest, but at this time it has become surrounded by wounds. The foreign body cannot be removed and hinders the healing of the scab.
5. @Hu Qichen
Organ donation in China has a self-deceiving face
So until now, how the organs arrived at these two hospitals, who was the last recipient of the organs, and who performed the operation, remains a mystery.
The story ends here. But this matter is full of doubts and fears.
What kind of person can mobilize the manpower and resources of Anhui, Jiangsu, Tianjin, Beijing and even the capital?
It took less than 24 hours from the extraction of the body to the completion of the transplant operation. Is there a complete industrial chain behind this?
How does China's organ donation and transplantation system work? What are the existing shortcomings of these systems exposed by this incident?
6. @Zuowang
Urban sanitation workers under the pneumonia epidemic: units issued gauze masks / bought masks by themselves / washed and continued to use
"Wuhan Pneumonia" has touched the hearts of too many Chinese people. Because of the rapid escalation of the epidemic and the successive closure of Hubei Province, coupled with the approaching Spring Festival, all kinds of medical protective materials across the country are extremely scarce. Not only were the necessary medical supplies not available in the core epidemic areas and hospitals in a timely manner, but the masks and protective equipment that people needed in their daily lives were quickly sold out.
Our eyes are all on Wuhan, some people are cheering for Wuhan/Hubei, and some people are crowding out Wuhan/Hubei compatriots everywhere. The epidemic has touched the hearts of Chinese people, and it has also torn apart public discussions. In all discussions, whether it is the allocation of materials for aid, the closure of the city and the extension of holidays in terms of policies, the high-susceptibility groups who maintain the operation of the city have not been included in the attention. They are sanitation workers, and Takeaways, salespeople, service workers busy in the transportation industry, catering industry, etc.
There are two sides at home and abroad: their burdens are heavier, and there is no room to turn around | Depth
Sister Huan from Panyu, Guangdong felt that she was working harder than in previous years. Because her husband's income has decreased, and her two children who have just started elementary school are taking online classes at home, she undertakes all the housework by herself and can't make time to go out to work. Xiaowen, a female worker who just returned to Shenzhen from Hubei in April, fought alone for three months to store food and medicine for her family because her parents and brother in her hometown felt that pneumonia was "nothing", and was beaten and scolded by her father and brother.
8. @huiyi
Reflections on Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Movement
The first day back in Malaysia was the day when Hong Kong protesters launched "Operation Dawn" to try to hold on to CUHK. The first day back in Taiwan was the second day after the demonstrators were trapped in PolyU. Therefore, during the few days I stayed at home, the TV constantly broadcasted the news of the TV stations most frequently watched by the elders in the family, from Zhongtian and Hong Kong Traditional TV Stations. The images in these news stories are of a fierce confrontation between the police and the demonstrators - the police fired tear gas and blue water cannons to advance, while the demonstrators responded with petrol bombs and broken bricks. Finally, the original tacit agreement not to talk about "Hong Kong" with the elders in the family was broken. He said, "It's too much! Where can these thugs get into the school? The police should be like the June 4th, shooting him a few times!"
9. @RedCheng
【Let Love Generate Electricity Project】As a citizen journalist, my writing plan for the second half of 2020
1. The first year of legalization of same-sex marriage in Taiwan (series works)
The type of this article is investigative journalism. In fact, I have been conducting interviews and investigations in the last month and a half (so I haven’t updated it for a long time), and the content is about the life records and mental journeys of sexual minorities in this year.
It is not only a review of the struggles of "sexual minorities" before legalization, but also hope that in this successful legalization year, in this precipitation, we will see those social changes that have changed, and those that have not yet happened but are worthwhile. Expected changes.
Highlights of this article: In the past year, what has changed in these people, and what has changed in this society.
Interviewee: A "special" same-sex group
Estimated launch time: mid-July to the end of July (because the number of interviews in this article is very large, at least 10 people, so it will take a long time)
10. @Squatting
[Foxconn's 10th Anniversary of Serial Jumping] Who still remembers them?
In the early morning of January 23, 2010, a suicide incident occurred in the dormitory of the Foxconn South China Training Office in Longhua District, Shenzhen. The Foxconn worker who died in the incident was called Ma Xiangqian, who was only 19 years old when he died. In less than two months, another young worker at Foxconn's Longhua campus committed suicide by jumping off a building. In the same month, two other workers jumped off the building, including Tian Yu, a 17-year-old female worker who was seriously injured.
But this is only the beginning of the tragedy. According to mainstream media reports, until December of that year, a total of 14 Foxconn workers jumped off the building, of which 12 lost their lives and the remaining 2 were seriously injured. These tragedies mainly focus on Foxconn's factory in Shenzhen, but also involve other areas such as Kunshan in Jiangsu, Langfang in Hebei, etc. Throughout these tragedies, the jumping workers are migrant workers from all over the province, and they were only 17 to 25 years old when they committed suicide.
In the past ten years, how many people have forgotten the tragedy of that year - in fact, Foxconn is still a world-class foundry empire, and the empire has even extended to India and Malaysia, as far as several countries in Central Europe, Brazil and Mexico in South America; In the city, we also continue to chase the iPhone that Foxconn's big boss, Apple, is proud of. But by looking back at history, or we can re-feel the weight of these tragedies under consumption, and think about the possibility of change.
11. @Qin Kuan
After the vaccine issue: I saw China's tragedy in this lawyer
On the afternoon of July 26, 2018, in a residential building in Beijing, the setting sun shines through the glass windows on the 23rd floor. In the empty house, two newborn kittens roamed the ground. Zhang Kai leaned back in his chair, worrying about the banned WeChat official account and the nearly 1.4 million yuan (RMB, the same below) that was frozen.
Zhang Kai, 39, was a lawyer at Beijing Xinqiao Law Firm. In the past ten years, he has represented many public cases including the poisoned milk powder case in 2008 and the vaccine case in Shanxi in 2010. In 2015, he was detained for seven months for participating in the rights protection campaign in the case of forced demolition of crosses in Zhejiang. He later pleaded guilty on TV and was taken back to his hometown of Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Because his lawyer's license could not pass the annual inspection, he opened the public account "Lawyer Zhang Kai" on WeChat, published current comments from time to time, and made a living by rewarding him.
12. @xiaweicong
Beijing's "Mai Refugees": Those Nights of Wandering and Loneliness
In the winter of 2016, the city was besieged by a cold wave, and the night in Beijing was like iron. In the 24-hour McDonald's in Dongzhimen COFCO Plaza, Qu Qiangdong, wearing a purple plush hat, frowned under the dim yellow light. He sat in a crowd of fallen asleep, like an eggplant standing stubbornly in a folded grass.
My colleagues and I, three young men, opened the door and broke the silence. He looked at us, grabbed the bag wrapped in the military coat, and seemed to hesitate. I greeted him and asked what he was doing here. He stared at me and said he was waiting for the train home at 7:30 tomorrow. The waiting room at the Beijing Railway Station is closed after the early hours of the morning, and the overnight fast food restaurants nearby are usually full of people who are waiting for the next day's train but don't want to pay for a hotel stay.
I was about to turn around and pull out the camera for an interview, but Qu Qiangdong thought I was leaving, so he quickly grabbed my hand. As if he had found a savior, he became anxious: "I'm looking for my son, please help me!" I was startled, and quickly gave my colleague a wink. "Show me his son's information." We thought we had a good story, but we pretended to be quiet. He hurriedly dug out two small one-inch blue background ID photos from his luggage. When I looked closely, it turned out to be Qu Jianqiang.
13. @Big Rabbit
Fame, whistleblower, silence: Three steps to destroy a female worker's website
Pepper Tribe is a website dedicated to providing up-to-date information for female workers. Some time ago, an employee named Wang Xiaohai was fired by the Jianjiao Tribe because his work ability and work attitude failed to meet the needs of the organization. Subsequently, Wang Xiaohai published a series of articles, and the Fingertip Pepper Tribe illegally dismissed him for no reason. During this process, Wang Xiaohai and his supporters repeatedly "exploded" the so-called inside information of Jianjiao. These "insider information" directly led to the police's suppression of Jianjiao. (details later)
On April 15, 2020, the police raided Jianjiao's office and took Jianjiao's colleague, Maru Zi, to the police station for nearly 24 hours and handcuffed him. The questions that the police repeatedly cross-examined at Maruzi were basically aimed at the so-called inside information disclosed by Wang Xiaohai and his supporters. After a night of tossing, Maruko finally went home freely on the afternoon of April 16.
And precisely on April 15, the labor arbitration case of Wang Xiaohai v. Jianjiao Tribe ended in Wang Xiaohai's victory. The court ordered the Jiaojiao tribe to pay compensation of 12,140 yuan, rejecting Wang Xiaohai's request for loss of unemployment insurance benefits.
14. @Tan Huiyun
Use someone else's ten years in exchange for your own ten years
PolyU has been besieging the city for more than ten days, and thousands of people have been trapped. By chance, I met a girl who was once trapped in PolyU. She detailed her escape experience. She failed to escape three times within 12 hours, and finally managed to leave with a rope. Looking back now, she was very lucky, but left behind. Full of guilt. She described that thousands of people were trapped and had thousands of emotions, and she could only describe what she saw and felt.
15. @来福
Ports, urban villages and Shenzhen-Hong Kong relations
Author press:
This article was written in July 2018 at the request of the Shenzhen Urban Design Promotion Center. It was originally a chapter in the upcoming book "Village in the City". "Urban villages" used to be an urgent "problem" in the eyes of Shenzhen city managers, but in the past 10 years, due to the joint efforts of local scholars, architects, artists and writers, the official discourse on "urban villages" has also loosened. , began to acknowledge its "contribution" to Shenzhen.
In 2017, the Shenzhen -Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture was organized by the Shenzhen Municipal Government, with the theme of "Urban Symbiosis", and the main exhibition venue was rarely set up in the ancient city of Nantou, an urban village. In the winter of the same year, Beijing was eliminating the "low-end population" and Shenzhen was talking about "urban symbiosis". The north-south contrast gave Shenzhen a huge moral advantage (I must repeat, Shenzhen did not eliminate the low-end population, but did more. Concealment, use the power of capital to sweep the poor out).
This is also the background for the publication of the book "Village in the City" by an agency under the Shenzhen government. But the article, which revolves around the sex industry, smuggling, and discusses how urban villages make Shenzhen possible, was removed during the review process. Shenzhen is still fascinated by the discourse that "a great man draws a circle and a small fishing village becomes a metropolis", and is still not ready to face its own history. The article is placed in the Matters archive, hoping that the blockchain can remember something for us.
16. @Ji Yuzhou
Police, Demonstrators, Citizens, Regime: Observations on the Anti-Amendment Movement from June 9 to August 3
I am a journalist working in Hong Kong. Since June 9, I have been on the scene of almost all major street incidents caused by opposition to the amendment of the extradition law. When July was about to end, I began to feel uneasy as never before, because I suddenly found myself at a loss for words in the face of the ever-expanding territory and direction of demonstrations, and even uncontrollably stripped from the accelerating flow of movement, like driftwood in a flood.
A lot of people are asking, is it okay to do this, what will happen in the future, and I occasionally get this question in private messages from people I know or don’t know, and I can’t actually answer it because I can’t even properly answer “What did we do?” "this problem.
But I can't just walk into August like this, and I can't continue to walk into the scene like this.
17. @黄雪琴
China's #MeToo wins its first case, how far are we from a real victory?
On July 11, there was good news that a female employee won the first instance of a sexual harassment case against Liu Meng, a "big guy" in the Chengdu social work sector . This is the first successful case in the #MeToo wave last year, and it is also the first case in China to be accepted and won on the grounds of "sexual harassment" after the "dispute over liability for sexual harassment damage" was written into a civil case at the end of last year. This gave a tinge of momentum to the sluggish #MeToo movement.
The first successful #MeToo case is certainly inspiring, especially at a time when the #MeToo movement was at a low ebb under censorship and suppression, and many victims were accused of "reputation infringement" after being exposed. This victory is not only for the victims The encouragement of the players to break the silence will also stimulate the morale of the movement and bring vitality . Moreover, the court decision made a more specific definition of "sexual harassment" - sexual harassment refers to the implementation of sexually suggestive verbal actions against the will of the other party, causing physical and mental harm to the other party, and also having consequences for future judicial trials. guidance and reference.
18. @张杰平
History is happening to us: Diaries of civilians in a plague
This road is not easy. The so-called "writing is the freedom of the smallest unit". When I proposed this slogan for Matters half a year ago, I have not yet understood the meaning of "freedom" like this moment - when the triviality, heaviness and pain of life are reflected in the mirror of writing, Only then do they acquire meaning beyond the event itself and become truly part of the human experience. And when you take the initiative to take on the history that happened to you with the self-consciousness of the witness, history will really happen to you.
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