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directactionforhope · 4 months

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No more kids with cancer: Clean up the Santa Susana Field Lab

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Video: A Change.org-made feature video explaining the situation and the story of the organization's founder, whose daughter got cancer.

From the organizers:

"Sign to demand that California's EPA and the Dept. of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) enforce the AOC cleanup of the Santa Susana Field Lab and prevent any more children from getting cancer...

My daughter’s childhood was stolen from her, and it haunts me to know her cancer might have been avoidable.

She, like [dozens of other] children, grew up within 20 miles the Santa Susana Field Lab, land which was developed in the 1940s to conduct rocket engine tests and secret nuclear research. In 1959 an uncontained partial meltdown of a sodium reactor caused such a devastating radiation leak that many consider it to be the worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history – and it was completely covered up for years.

Our community has up to 60% higher cancer rates, 20% higher invasive breast cancer rates, and we have the reports to prove it. It is the Department of Toxic Substance Control’s job to clean up this mess. They know our children are sick and dying, but they aren’t taking any meaningful action against those who own the land – Boeing, NASA and the Department of Energy.

The Woolsey Fire, which began on Santa Susana Field Lab, may have exposed millions of people in Southern California to the chemical and radioactive waste from the site, via ash and smoke. It proved once again that we will not be safe until the site is 100% cleaned up."

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Action Type: Petition

Source organization: Parents Against Santa Susanna Field Laboratory

Where: Southern California, specifically western Los Angeles, the San Fernando Valley, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Chatsworth, and anything between those areas.

In person or virtual: Virtual. You can sign from anywhere, especially in the United States.

Time/date range: Petition started in 2017, ongoing, because Boeing is refusing to comply with the required cleanup plan they signed.

Here's the link again!

Anything else: This nuclear meltdown is the reason my grandfather died young of cancer. It's the reason 6+ members of my family are at lifelong elevated cancer risk, me included.

Everyone who has lived in this region, which includes a large area of Los Angeles, needs elevated levels of cancer screenings, especially for children, yet basically no one knows that.

(More on this here, if you're from any of the cities I listed PLEASE look into this and talk to your doctor about increased cancer screenings asap!)

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the-moogle-of-your-nightmares · 2 months

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i fucking hate 'do it scared' and every single variation of it that i've seen just gets worse. bets on how long it'll take before people go full mask off and add on 'do it in excruciating pain' lol

#moogletalks #ableism cw #disabilitag #if you try to invoke pancakes-and-waffles i am destroying you with my eyebeams #'well obviously if you're disabled/mentally ill nobody's talking to *you--'* destroying you with my eyebeams #'but it helps some people--' destroying you with my eyebeams #'well if you *are* disabled then you'll never get better if you don't--' DESTROYING YOU WITH MY EYEBEAMS #and quite fucking frankly i think it's something that is a whole lot more damaging to the people who are '''helped''' by it than you think #in a similar vein to 'cope with executive dysfunction and procrastination by intentionally inducing a stress response!!!'#AND people who do that--especially if they are in fact disabled and trying to power through it--WILL lash out at disableds sooner or later #it happens every single time!#and even if they don't do it directly they are still surrounding the disabled people around them with toxic background ableism radiation #in the same way it is damaging to be surrounded by people constantly calling themselves and their bodies disgusting for being fat #You are Not Immune to Bullshit Fake-Deep ~Inspirational~ Facebook Motivational Posters. Stop It

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knucklestheenchilada · 1 year

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Hi it’s me I’m asking abt the radiation girls bc EVERY TIME I see that wristwatch factory post I’m so confused bc I don’t know what to google to get answers pls infodump on me

Beans you have no idea how happy this has made me, cw that I'm adding pictures that may be unsettling to some viewers also this is very long, like reaaaally long

TLWR: The Radium Girls died horrific deaths due to painting watches with radium paint and the corporation responsible tried to cover it up. This tragedy helped to form OSHA

Okay so! The Radium Girls (i wrote radiation in the tag by accident whoops) where factory workers who painted clock hands and instrument dials with radium luminescent paint around 1920. 100 years ago! Neat!

So, this was back when radium and by extension radiation had just been discovered. Back then radiation was thought to be able to cure cancer, it was in make-up, toothpaste, fancy spa water, even butter. Radioactive tonics were being sold as a miracle cure snake oil. It was even called Liquid Sunshine with espresso like effects. And what can radium do my dear Beans? (besides kill you) It can glow.

Radium luminescent paint made clocks readable in the dark, which was a big deal when digital clocks and non-toxic-glow-in-the-dark stickers didn't exist. In WW1 soldiers needed to be able to see their clocks for maneuvers that needed precise timing in the dark/in trenches without being spotted by the opposing side (at the time wrist watches were seen as a lady thing until the war)

One of the factories that made those watches opened in orange NJ in 1916 called the US Radium Corporation (USRC). They hired about 70 women, the recorded youngest 14, to paint watches for the military with the paint. It was actually considered a fancy job, as it paid three times as much as a regular factory job at the time and the women were listed as artists in their town’s directory. They soon were called radium girls and they were 5% of female workers in the US. An estimated 4000 workers were hired by corporations in the US and Canada between 1917 and 1926. Working in one of these factories was a big deal

Radium paint powder is super pretty and after work, the ladies would sprinkle it on themselves and dance in it. They would wear their favorite dresses to work so they could get some of the paint/powder on them so they could glow all the time. Because how cool is the dame that's shining like an emerald in the dancehall when no one else is? The radium dust, since its dust, was in the air itself - so these women were breathing it in constantly, sometimes they would rub it on their teeth as a joke and they would paint their nails with it so they could glow as well. They started getting called ghost girls because when they'd walk home in the dark, they'd be glowing like a ghost. When they would blow their noses the tissue would glow

How do you paint those tiny bits of watches that need to glow? With a very tiny paint brush Beans! The technique they were taught to get these teeny tiny numbers on wristwatches (which sometimes were only 3.5 centimeters wide) was called lip pointing. After painting each number the woman pit the tip of the paintbrush between their lips to make it a fine point. With every digit, the girl swallowed a little bit of radium.

The women started to experiencing side effects of unknowingly feeding themselves radium pretty quickly in the early 20’s, including: chronic exhaustion, tooth and jaw pains, and stillborn births. 22 year old Molly Magia had to quit her job at the radium factory because of the aching pain in her limbs that was so agonizing eventually she was unable to walk. She had been wrongly diagnosed with rheumatism and was prescribed just aspirin at first. Soon, she lost most of her teeth and in their place were agonizing ulcers would grow. The entirety of her lower jaw and the roof of her mouth and even some of the bones her ears were said to be one large abscess. Her entire lower jawbone had become so brittle that her doctor removed it by just lifting it out

Her jawbone was riddled with teeny holes and this is because the body treats radium as calcium substitute but instead of strengthening the bones like calcium, radium kills off the bone tissue. The women weren't yet aware of the culprit, of course, that's because the specialist who had begun to ‘help’ them was Dr. Frederick Flynn of Columbia University

After declaring there was unquestionably nothing wrong with them, he turned out not to be a licensed physician but a toxicologist working for the very radium factory that the women worked for the USRC and the man who was introduced as his colleague was actually a vice president of the Corp. The USRC also paid off local doctors and dentists to tell the women that they were sufferings from syphilis and eventually that was their cause of death, which was shameful to the family

When the girls started dying from their radium poisoning, the first was Maggie on September 12th, 1922. She was 24 (that’s my age). The cause of death was listed as syphilis. 18 year old Grace started to work as a dial painter on April 10th, 1917, just 4 days after the US joined WW1. By the time Maggie died, Grace was having trouble with her jaw and suffering pains in her feet and so were other workers

Their legs broke underneath them (literally), their spines collapsed, and soon more were dying. The USRC denied any responsibility for the deaths for almost two years but when their bottom line was threatened by the shrinking sales due to the rumors that were spreading about the dangers of radium in 1924, they commissioned an expert to look into the rumored link between the dial painting profession and the women's deaths

The independent study confirmed the link between the radium and the women's illnesses but instead of accepting the findings and making the changes that had been suggested, the USRC paid for new studies that published the opposite conclusion. They also lied to the Department of Labor which had begun investigating about the verdict of the original report. In 1925, a doctor named Harrison Martland developed tests that proved once and for all that radium had poisoned the women

Martlin discovered that when radium was used internally essentially honeycombed the woman's bones. In 1925, Grace’s spine was basically crushed and she had to wear a steel back brace. She decided to sue the USRC but she spent two years searching for a lawyer who was willing to help her. She said, ‘It is not for myself I care; I am thinking more of the hundreds of girls to whom this may serve as an example.’

Other women's legs were shortened and they spontaneously fractured, sometimes the moment a woman realized she even had radium poisoning was when she caught sight of herself in a mirror in the middle of the night. The radium had embedded itself in their bones and had caused them to glow from the inside out

By then doctor Martin had also found that the poisoning was fatal as there was no way to remove the radium from their bodies. Grace was finally able to find a lawyer named Raymond Berry who along with Grace and four fellow workers Catherine Schaub, Edna Hussman, Quinta McDonald, and Albina Latrice accepted their case in 1927. They were seeking $250,000 in damages which is about 3.4 million today.

The USRC wanted to delay the trial as much as possible with the hope that all the women in the case would die before the outcome would be reached, so they kept calling these long recesses for months and months

By the time that women finally appeared in court to testify in January of 1928, none of them were able to raise their arms to take the oath #

The case was finally settled in the woman's favor in 1928 and it became a milestone of occupational hazard law and raised the profile of rad poisoning just as Grace had wanted. By 1927, more than fifty women had died as a direct result of radium paint poisoning. Despite denials of any fault by the USRC after the lawsuit they and other factories that dealt with radium laced paint changed the working conditions. They banned the lip pointing and they gave them protection protective clothing to minimize exposure and after these simple changes were instituted (which actually had been suggested and ignored years before by that independent study)

More women rightly sued which the radium companies appealed several times but in 1939, the Supreme Court rejected the last appeal. The survivors received compensation and the death certificates of the women who’s had been put as syphilis were changed to radium poisoning

Maggie's body was disinterred. Her bones were glowing.

The Radium Girls case was one of the first in which an employer was made responsible for the health of the company's employees and it led to regulations that saved lives and ultimately to the establishment of OSHA. Before OSHA was set up, 14,000 people died on the job every year. Today it's just over 4500 (which is still a fucking lot). The women also left a legacy for science that's been termed invaluable as it revealed the dangers of radium, so thankfully people stopped using it

Marie SkłodowskaCurie's notes from the 1890s are still considered too dangerous to handle without protection due to the high levels of radioactivity and are stored in lead line boxes. She died of aplastic anemia in 1934 resulting from long term ionizing radiation exposure

[the radium girls: the dark story of America shining women by Kate Moore was the main source for this post, some name’s may have been spelt slightly wrong and for that Bee (that’s me) is sorry]

#long post #radiation #the radium girls #fallout #kinda #im okay with this one getting rebloged gang #some of this was also from mfm #i just wrote an essay please share it and be proud of me #thanks for asking beans xx #cw mutilation #asks for bee #history #babeeeee

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rad-roche · 1 year

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was reminded of when i finally got pc mods up and running but i don't know what the hell i'm doing so it was all stuff like this

#fo4 #fallout 4 #rochequest #it was supposed to be armour. what's that protecting #nudity cw #it's how you trick the radiation! it expects you to be wearing a protective suit! it sees a nipple and get scared!

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snarp · 2 months

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Well-meaning person trying to convince me to go gluten-free for a couple months because they listened to a podcast that says it cures migraines and postviral inflammation. I'm going back inside the computer where I can filter this content without risking hurting anyone's feelings.

#i was polite about this but i mean #i really think that the problem might be the hole #the hole in my head #from which all headaches radiate #medical cw #food cw

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dichromaniac · 8 months

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#ive gone to A PLACE #Burrow's end #ok but the decon fluid sounds like what Ava was covered in #WEIRD SMELLING ROCKS are the graphite #the rain in episode 1 brought out the ground radiation which is why trees were smart and good #cw Chernobyl #i guess

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sotogalmo · 4 months

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I think this tag on my CC & Vanessa fic is concerning- but eh. Always have projected onto favs, so this ain't new

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:3 I'm silly

#time diary(?)#audrey/kellie's time diary #not tagging the fandom- eidbjdjd #crying child fnaf #vanessa shelly #vanessa afton #“personal abuse experience. from a forgetful person :3” <- radiates with silly and fucking illness #tw abuse #tw religion #cw abuse #cw religion #but srsly. i have went thru this type of stuff and such. but also serious that i did forget most of my childhood minus #vivid memories and random weird facts: e.i i got called weird (an achievement tbh) by a teacher cuz i was playing with #a frog that we were dissecting with. i made the frog dance (couldn't smell..thats why i had the courage to just be play with it #or maybe it most likely the autism. cuz i did feel its inner skin and holy fuck that shit was smooth asf. hdjsjd)

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gavinom123 · 1 year

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ayo buddy are you ok

#gav fanarts #elevator hitch #protag #hi rachel #cw blood #cw emetophobia #i just really like the radiation death ive wanted to draw it for soooo fucking long man

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revvnant · 6 months

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@slaughterlocked / cont.

He loves you and he cares about you, Michael thinks, as his throat floods with bile. He loves you and he cares about you. Look what he got you. He wants to pick it up and hurl it at William's thick fucking head. It's so cool; were it not for the here and now, he'd already be sinking his teeth into it, wanting to see what made it tick. Instead, he's sitting, legs to his chest, a look frozen on his face that's gotten lodged somewhere between a smile and a snarl. That is to say, all teeth. I'm going to rip your throat out. I'm going to funnel gasoline into your stupid mouth and make you sit in the fireplace. He can picture it vividly, the explosion of gore. That comforts him a little bit. But only a little bit.

"It's nice," he croaks. "Thank you. I love it." He doesn't touch it. If he did, he'd melt, he just knows it. Like the Wicked Witch. What a world, what a world! He is being ungrateful, isn't he? This is an amazing gift. But he chokes on any further thanks, because William is still looking at him like that. How is he supposed to enjoy anything he receives, when this is how the gift-giving goes down? He's starting to think that these are elaborate, expensive setups for an excuse to rip into him. Which is hilarious, because William will let him know exactly what he thinks of him without the gifts, but he supposes the money allows him to feel worse for himself. Poor father. Poor, unloved father. He nearly screams and just manages to abort it, and hopes it comes across as a squeak of excitement. "It's ace. Really. I'm so excited."

And then, because he's a fool and a stove-toucher to the bitter end, he adds, "I'm crushed under the fucking weight of your generosity."

#slaughterlocked #v2. all is well in the afton family!#w1. threads #|| SORRY. SORRY. IT BIT ME.#|| WHAT THRHWFUCK.#|| GAS MASKS ON.#emotional abuse cw #|| HELP. FUCKING HELP.#|| THAT TAG DOESNT EVEN REALLY APPLY. IDK WHAT TO TAG THIS AS. RADIATION.

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