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一 |     NEW YORK -- If people really looked for history at the New York City building where the Triangle Shirtwaist factory once existed, they could find it. There are plaques pointing out that it was the site of a horrific fire in 1911 that became a catalyst in the American labor movement's fight for workplace safety protections.But for some, a few words on a wall aren't nearly enough to honor the fire's 146 victims.So after years of effort, the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition on Wednesday is dedicating a new memorial that has no chance of being overlooked.A giant steel ribbon with the names of those who died in the disaster, predominantly women and girls, has been installed running horizontally from one corner of the building. Underneath it, a reflective panel shows the stenciled names as well as quotes from people who were there, describing the mayhem. In the coming weeks, a vertical steel column will be added to the corner to span almost the entire height of the building, a reference to how high up the victims were stuck.It’s the story of desperate immigrant women, mostly Jewish and Italian, who were trapped by a door that was locked because there were no workplace safety rules that said it couldn’t be. Some jumped to their deaths from the windows to avoid the flames.“What they will see is a memorial that tries to build into the object itself the history of the fire, a history of working women, a history of Italians and Jews, a history of tragedy, but then also a history of change,” said Mary Anne Trasciatti, a Hofstra University professor and president of the coalition.The victims were close to the end of their working day on March 25, 1911, when a fire started on the eighth floor of the clothing factory, which took up the top floors of a building now owned by New York University.Frantic workers tried to get out as the flames spread to the ninth and 10th floors, some scrambling to get into an elevator, others heading for the roof. But others who tried to get past a door to escape found it locked, trapping them inside. At a trial of the factory’s owners afterward, some said the door had been kept locked on purpose, over theft concerns.Firefighters responded quickly. But their ladders were too short to get to the topmost floors.Horrified witnesses in the crowd watched as workers leapt from the windows. Among those bystanders was the late Frances Perkins, already an anti-poverty advocate trying to change workplace conditions, and who became even more dedicated after what she saw that day.“It really started her in her push for ‘we have to treat workers better,’” said Ileen DeVault, professor of labor history at Cornell University.Some of her words recollecting the day are part of the memorial, running along the reflective panel. “Every one of them was killed, everybody who jumped was killed.”Perkins would be part of a state commission that put a series of safety rules in place in New York that were emulated elsewhere, and later became an integral part of President Franklin Roosevelt’s cabinet as his secretary of labor. She pushed for policies like minimum wage, workers compensation, and old age pensions.One of the names on the memorial will be that of Rosie Weiner, who died in the blaze, but whose sister and fellow factory worker, Katie Weiner, made it out alive.Later, Weiner would recount how she grabbed an elevator cable to make her escape. Today, her great-niece, Suzanne Pred Bass, is on the board of the Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition. Growing up, Bass knew her great-aunt had lived through the fire, but it wasn’t until years later that she heard about Rosie.Bass’ mother remembered accompanying her mother as a small child to the pier where the victims' bodies were taken after the fire.“She never forgot that, she was 4 years old and I can only imagine how how scary and awful,” Bass said.Memorial designers Richard Joon Yoo and Uri Wegman wanted to find a way for modern-day people to connect with the fire and its legacy, they said. The public was invited a few years ago to contribute pieces of fabric that were joined together in a 300-foot (91-meter) “Collective Ribbon." That ribbon’s design was then etched onto the memorial steel that rises up toward the top of the building.It was important to make that connection between past and present because issues of labor, workplace protections, and how workers are treated are still far from settled in the country and the world, Yoo and Wegman said.“Everything that it talks about with women workers, immigration, labor, it’s these touch points that just keep on flaring up over and over and over again,” Yoo said, pointing out that industrial disasters, at garment factories and elsewhere, still happen around the globe.The two came up with the design for the memorial about a decade ago. It is coming to fruition, with a capital budget of about $3 million, during a year of labor activism in some U.S. industries, with strikes by auto workers, hospital staff, film and television writers and screen actors.It just shows that the Triangle Shirtwaist fire still has lessons to impart, Bass said.“We forget a tragedy like this at our own peril,” she said. “We have the same issues, immigrant issues, safe working condition issues, abuse of women in the workplace issues. It’s not like any of these issues are all fixed."。

二 |     当地时间8月21日，曝光美国林肯号航母上恶劣环境的美国《星条旗报》总编辑斯拉文因“抗命”被解职。

三 | 一同被解职的还有《星条旗报》的长期出版人莱德勒和中东事务记者拉拉科尔特。        解职的理由是“ 三人公然抗命，拒不服从管理”。但明眼人都知道，这三人是美军衰败的吹哨人，只不过讲了真话而已。    林肯号航母于2025年11月21日从加州圣迭戈母港出发，原本计划前往太平洋并在2026年5月回家。然而，美伊冲突骤然升级，这艘航母被紧急改道，原定5月结束的部署被一延再延。    其结果就是这艘航母连续250天未靠港，刷新现代航母部署纪录。舰上约5000名水兵士气低落，加上物资短缺、生活条件恶劣，已有多人精神崩溃，试图跳海。    美国众议员迈克·莱文亲口在媒体上证实，舰上淋浴间发霉、厕所损坏、洗衣设备停用数周，长时间没有热水、粮食短缺，没有肥皂、除臭剂或牙膏，一顿饭只有半杯米饭和两张玉米饼。        【林肯号航母上的伙食】    《星条旗报》随后进行了跟踪报道，将整个事件公之于众。

四 |     《星条旗报》可不是一份普通的报纸，这家创刊于二战时期的媒体，是正儿八经的美军喉舌，专属服务全球数百万美军官兵，是美军对外发声、对内通报的核心权威阵地，是根正苗红的“自己人”。    自己人怎么能曝光自家的丑闻呢？还有没有一点觉悟？于是，一纸解职令于同一天落到了三个人头上。我打不了伊朗，还打不了你吗？        总编辑埃里克·斯拉文被解职的理由是"不服从命令"，他在声明中称，若对军人进行新闻审查将触及他个人关于办报理念的红线。    发行人莱德勒自2007年起担任发行人，已长达19年，不久前还通过电子邮件宣布自己将于今年9月30日退休，没想到连退休前的体面都没保住，直接被扫地出门。    记者拉拉科尔特则在社交媒体上直言解雇是“一种耻辱”。    更讽刺的是，《星条旗报》的新闻发出后，立即受到了CNN的抨击，称这是“编造的假新闻”。一个被美帝亲口认证的“假新闻之王”，居然指责别人编造假新闻？    面对《星条旗报》的报道，美国没有选择改善舰员待遇，而是选择解决提出问题的人。    赫排长公开露面，称关于"林肯"号恶劣条件的报道"完全失实"和"被完全歪曲"，并称"林肯"号在所有美军航母中一直保持着"最高的人员续约率之一（84.4%）"        这个84.4%的续约率，恰恰是美军"自愿续约"制度的产物。在美军全志愿兵役制下，水兵如果不续约就面临退伍后缺乏社会保障的困境，高续约率恰恰反映了没有选择的选择，而非士气高昂。    事实上，早在去年五角大楼就盯上了《星条旗报》。去年1月，五角大楼发言人肖恩·帕内尔公开宣称：    "《星条旗报》将根据我们作战人员的需求量身定制。它将聚焦于战争、武器系统、杀伤力、生存能力以及一切军事事务，不再刊登花边新闻，也不再转载美联社的报道。"    翻译成大白话就是： 军方媒体只能歌颂战争，不能报道战争的代价。    随后五角大楼解雇了该报监察专员杰奎琳·史密斯，理由是“监管不力”。说明至少在去年甚至前年，《星条旗报》就“不受控制”了，新闻报道上开始“随心所欲”了。

五 |         斯拉文等三人的结局肯定是悲惨的。业内皆知，美国的舆论管制从来不止解雇这么简单，开除仅仅是第一步。等待他们的，还有隐形打压、行业封杀、舆论抹黑，甚至背后中数枪自尽也不稀奇。    解决不了问题，就解决提出问题的人。

六 |     所谓的言论自由就是个笑话，但凡触及真相、暴露短板、揭露狼狈的真话，统统属于违规、必须被清除。真正是对外标榜透明公正，对内严控舆论一手遮天。返回，查看更多。

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