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Short Read of the Week for April 22, 2021

Our first choice in this morning's Short Read of the Week meeting was appropriate for Earth Day, although we didn’t choose if for that reason. This review of a documentary about the long term effects of Agent Orange connects that environmental disaster with present-day issues and people on the Oregon Coast:

Chemical Carnage: From Vietnam to Oregon …. the destructive legacy of Agent Orange
https://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/magazine/entry/chemical-carnage
[our copy here]

And our second choice was a very helpful report on the corporations that have honored (or in some cases, dishonored) their pledge not to donate to seditionists:

What we learned from the first major FEC deadline after the insurrection
https://popular.info/p/what-we-learned-from-the-first-major
[our copy here]

Please be on the lookout for next week’s Short Read of the Week, post your suggestions at https://tinyurl.com/TillcoDems-short-reads, and join us next Thursday!


Direct link to item: https://tillcodems.org/whats-on-your-mind/2021/4/22/short-read-of-the-week-for-april-22-2021.