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Leila Tufekci

@leilaleila.bsky.social

PhD student at SUNY Buffalo researching the legacies of lead industries and soil pollution.

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Leila Tufekci@leilaleila.bsky.social · yesterday

Reading this important report as I get ready for my job sampling yards in Buffalo for lead. Interesting points here about different sampling protocols and how to engage residents.

Charles Ornstein@charlesornstein.bsky.social · yesterday

@flatwaterfreep.bsky.social and @propublica.org independently tested hundreds of homes in eastern Omaha, Nebraska, and found toxic levels of lead in soil throughout — including in yards that the EPA remediated years ago. Here’s how we did it.

Leila Tufekci@leilaleila.bsky.social · 3w ago

Also did door-to-door community lead testing, seized a mobile x-ray unit and held a sit-in at the Dept of Health to demand testing kits. Badass

Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 3w ago

56 years ago today, the Young Lords took over Lincoln Hospital, demanding better care for their Black and Latino neighbors. It's important to read this alongside patients rights movements and wages for housework because there were *many* such takeovers of clinics and hospitals in this period.

History and Heritage Yorkshire@handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The decline of lead mining in the Yorkshire Dales also pushed skilled mining families into the collieries. Entire households frequently relocated together, with men, women and children contributing to pit work until reforms in 1842 restricted female and child labour underground. These diverse

Children hauling coal through underground mine workings, depicted in the 1843 government report The Physical and Moral Conditions of the Children and Young Persons Employed in Mines and Manufactures. Credit: Wellcome Collection (CC BY).The names of Ann Ambler and William Dyson, (below) hurriers at Messrs Ditchforth and Clays colliery at Elland, live on some 180 years after the publication of the Children's Employment Commission (Mines) 1842 report. I find that both amazing and humbling.