Il orage sur West Meadow Beach (New York)
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World Trade Center | quand le présent se heurte au passé
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New York électrique
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New York by clouds
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Le bus de la ségrégation
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Ce n’est qu’une ligne de bus dans une ville qui en compte plus de 200. Mais New York s’accommode mal de la ségrégation qu’on y pratique. Une ségrégation qui en rappelle une autre.
«Où est Rosa Parks quand on a besoin d’elle?» s’est demandée Melissa Franchy sur son compte Twitter, quelques jours après son expérience à bord d’un bus de la ligne B110, qui relie deux quartiers de Brooklyn, Williamsburg et Boro Park, et dessert principalement les juifs hassidiques qui y vivent.
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Le 12 octobre, Melissa Franchy est montée à bord d’un de ces bus à l’invitation de Sasha Chavkin, journaliste au New York World, une publication en ligne de l’école de journalisme de l’Université Columbia. Elle s’est assise sur un des sièges situés à l’avant pour voir la réaction des autres passagers. Après un certain laps de temps, plusieurs hommes coiffés avec les papillotes et le chapeau noir caractéristiques des juifs orthodoxes lui ont dit de se lever et d’aller s’asseoir à l’arrière avec les femmes. Certains ont précisé qu’elle se trouvait dans un «bus privé» ou dans un «bus juif».
Ces explications n’ayant pas satisfait la jeune femme, un des hommes a ajouté: «Quand Dieu établit une règle, on ne la remet pas en question.»
Le 18 octobre, le New York World a publié un article sur la ségrégation des sexes dans les bus de la ligne B110, incitant le New York Post et le New York Times, entre autres médias, à lui emboîter le pas dès le lendemain. Dans un de ses reportages, le Post a raconté qu’un conducteur de la ligne avait refusé de continuer sa route devant le refus de la photographe du journal d’aller s’asseoir à l’arrière d’un bus à moitié rempli.
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Cela fait pourtant partie d’une tradition qui découle d’un contrat de franchise passé en 1973 entre la ville et une société privée pour l’exploitation de cette ligne. Des directives, affichées à l’avant et à l’arrière des bus de la ligne B110, indiquent la marche à suivre pour éviter que les femmes entrent en contact avec les hommes.
«En montant dans un bus où se trouvent des passagers debout à l’avant, les femmes doivent monter par la porte arrière après avoir payé à l’avant», dit une des directives.
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adapté de l’article de Richard Hétu / cyberpresse.ca / 24 octobre 2011
lire l’article complet ici
n.b. : les photographies servant à illustrer l’article sont le choix de citizen zoo
Empire State Building
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World Trade Center workers’ health problems | update
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By Ed Henry, CNN
January 2, 2011 6:43 p.m. EST
Washington (CNN) — President Barack Obama signed the 9/11 health bill into law in Hawaii on Sunday, White House spokesman Bill Burton said.
Obama signed the bill during his Hawaiian vacation, with no signing ceremony held. In a statement issued later, the president said he was “honored” to sign the bill, which pays for health care for responders believed to have been sickened by pollution at the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York.
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“We will never forget the selfless courage demonstrated by the firefighters, police officers, and first responders who risked their lives to save others,” Obama said. “I believe this is a critical step for those who continue to bear the physical scars of those attacks.”
The bill made a long journey in order to get signed. A printed copy of the bill flew with a White House staffer from Washington to the Hawaiian island of Oahu, so Obama could sign it from his vacation rental in Kailua.
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“It came out with a member of the staff so that it could be signed in a timely fashion,” Burton said.
The legislation, officially titled the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, provides health coverage to workers who helped clear the rubble and search for human remains at the site of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history. The $4.2 billion legislation also reopens the federal Victim Compensation Fund to provide economic relief to those harmed by the attacks, which killed more than 2,700 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
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After a contentious battle in which some Republicans suggested the legislation was creating a new entitlement program, it finally passed during the lame-duck session of Congress in December. New York lawmakers hailed the bill’s signing.
“After a long, arduous path with several near-defeats, this bill is finally law,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York. “The heroes who rushed to Ground Zero in the hours and days after the attacks will not be forgotten. These first responders were like veterans, and this law keeps with a time-honored tradition of standing by our veterans when they get harmed answering the call. We will begin work immediately to make sure this law gets renewed for another five years.”
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“Today, nine years after the devastation of 9/11, the United States has honored its obligation to the heroes and survivors of 9/11,” Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-New York, and one of the authors of the bill, said in a statement. “With President Obama’s signing of our bill … it is clear that the government has not forgotten the thousands who have served and suffered.”
Rep. Peter King, R-New York and another bill author, said the law “is a great victory for the heroes of September 11th, the firefighters, police officers and construction workers. Justice is finally being served. A great day for America.”
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“At long last, the president’s signature has ended our nine-year struggle to address the 9/11 health crisis,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York, and another author of the bill, said in a statement. “The Zadroga law will save lives and fulfills our moral obligation to care for those who rose to the defense of America in a time of war.”
Maloney’s statement compared the law to the War Hazards Compensation Act of 1942, passed in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which provided health care and financial relief to to civilians who assisted in recovering the bodies of the dead and salvage the remnants of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement, “I am encouraged that our elected representatives in Washington came together and stood by those who were there for America in its hour of greatest need.”
Addressing the health impacts of 9/11 for responders “is a national duty” Bloomberg said.
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source: CNN
CNN’s Shawna Shepherd contributed to this report.
You can read the first post about this subject on citizen zoo here: World Trade Center workers’ health problems
Faire la queue
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Moscou, 1983. Les gens font la queue pour acheter un pain.
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New York, 2010. Les gens font la queue pour acheter un iPhone 4G.
Le World Trade Center vu par Greg Holmes
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photo: Greg Holmes
photo: Greg Holmes
photo: Greg Holmes
Central Park, New York
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Central Park (New York)
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Un nuage sur le World Trade Center
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Quand un Airbus atterrit à la surface d’une rivière…
Un récapitulatif en clips vidéos d’un des événements marquants de 2009, alors que le pilote Chesley B. ”Sully” Sullenberger (67 ans) a réussi à faire atterrir son Airbus A320 sur la rivière Hudson, en plein New York, tout juste après le décollage. Des oiseaux étant entrés en collision avec les moteurs de l’appareil ont rendu ceux-ci inopérants. Les 155 personnes à bord s’ent sont sorti indemnes:
source: YouTube
source: YouTube
source: YouTube
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source: YouTube
Brouillard sur le World Trade Center
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Le World Trade Center dans sa majesté
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September 11, 2001
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World Trade Center: un fantôme lumineux
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YouTube Symphony Orchestra en répétition
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Cette photo de l’orchestre en répétition a été prise le 15 avril dernier au Carnegie Hall, à New York, une salle de concert vieille de 118 ans.
Pilgrim State Hospital (Brentwood, New York)
photo: Tom Kirsch
photo: Tom Kirsch
photo: Tom Kirsch
photo: Tom Kirsch
In the 1920s, New York State had operated six mental hospitals to facilitate the growing need for psychiatric care, and all were extremely overcrowded. The state’s answer was to build the solution to this problem once and for all – Pilgrim State Hospital.
Originally designed to house 12,500 patients on 1,900 acres of land, Pilgrim still holds the record of being the largest psychiatric hospital in the world – its peak patient population at one time was 16,000. The original hospital constructed from 1930-1941 consisted of four large continued treatment groups, each having about six separate buildings.
The hospital also included a large medical building where patients and employees with acute diseases would be diagnosed, as well as housing laboratories, consultation rooms, a nursing school, and the pathology department. This building was flanked by two large reception buildings, where new patients would stay for an average of one month to be examined and diagnosed. Each building was separated by gender, and connecting corridors on each floor allowed patients and staff to work closely and quickly between the related services they provided.
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Il était une fois le World Trade Center
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Orage sur le World Trade Center
photo: John McIntosh
