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Amelia Pang's book Made in China explores the rise of the forced labor camps that play a distressingly large role in the fashion industry.

February 12, 2021 After a year of protests, blatant racial injustice, and disproportionate deaths from COVID-19, there is a renewed energy powering the celebration and recognition of Black History Month. For many, this time of celebration comes with fresh urgency and many firsts. Our nation saw its first Black, South Asian, and woman vice president sworn into office on Jan. 20. The Senate confirmed Lloyd Austin, a retired four-star Army general, to serve as the first Black defense secretary. And the Biden administration has made racial equity a key hallmark of how it will re-shape investment...

Bay Area political events: Fighting disinformation, headwaters forest health Chronicle staff report FacebookTwitterEmail Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. Events take place online unless otherwise noted: WEDNESDAY Faces of resistance: A discussion of members of the Black community in San Francisco who have resisted discrimination from Sutro Baths to the Presidio. Hosted by the San Francisco Public Library and Golden Gate National Recreation Area. Noon. More information is here. ‘The Purpose of Power’ book club: Akonadi Foundation president and civil rights advocate Lateefah Simon...

Five chapters into Made in China, Amelia Pang’s investigation of forced labour practices in China, her main subject — a Falun Gong practitioner named Sun Yi — is tasked with making decorative paper mushrooms for export, it is rumoured, to Europe. It is early during his stay in a forced labour camp called Masanjia, and the assignment is supposed to be a cushy one. How difficult can it be to make paper mushrooms? Sun, however, soon scrapes his fingers rubbing the paper together to get the desired fake-mushroom feel. His cuts grow infected, but he keeps working, trying to fill an impossi...

Editor's Сhoice NY Times’ Pseudo-Expert Accusing China of Genocide Worked for Far-Right Cult Falun Gong’s Publicity Arm The New York Times recycled flimsy claims by a right-wing apocalyptic extremist to accuse China of “genocide,” in an op-ed by an American with 1/8th Uighur heritage who worked for Epoch Times, a far-right, pro-Trump outlet backed by cult Falun Gong. By Ben NORTON The New York Times published a factually challenged op-ed accusing China of committing “genocide” against its Uighur minority. The article sourced its spurious accusations to a right-wing op...