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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 |     今夏以来,由市委宣传部、市教育局等部门组织开展的“启智润心”未成年人心理健康工程正式启动，通过上好道德与法治、心理、体育、研学“四堂课”，护航青少年健康成长。         　　日前，在顺城区新华一校的课堂上，道德与法治课教师刘峰以《仓颉造字》的故事为线索，带领学生“穿越时空”，“对话”仓颉，追寻造字之源。         　　新华一校道德与法治课教师刘峰说：“ 通过一段段小故事让学生们了解和感受汉字文化的魅力，培养他们的文化自信和民族自豪感。”          　　青少年阶段是树立正确世界观、人生观、价值观的关键时期，道德与法治课作为小学阶段的思政课，对于青少年的健康成长至关重要。自5月份以来，市委宣传部针对小学6个年级、12本教材的教学内容梳理出53个“故事征集标签”，征集审定773个思政故事。把思政故事融入小学“道德与法治”课堂，用小故事讲好大道理，在生动的故事情节中“滴灌”思想理论，并把思政课与学校常规工作、社会实践、研学交流等有机融合，让思政课成为学生真心喜爱、终身受益的立德树人“金课”。         　　新华一校校长马晓明说：“ 在党史故事中，有一篇《歌唱祖国：党和人民永远的大合唱》的小故事，讲述了《歌唱祖国》这首歌诞生背后的动人故事。我们利用升旗仪式时间，向学生讲述这个小故事，并一起合唱了这首歌，让爱党爱国的主旋律更加高扬。”          　　我市部分学校还将思政故事改编成情景剧、短视频，让学生拓展学习。

三 | 抚顺市实验小学开展“思政故事我来讲”故事大赛等活动，传承文化经典，弘扬民族文化；顺城区抚顺城四校学生将《小英雄雨来》的故事拍成了小短剧，在全校播放。学生在听故事、讲故事、演故事中获得思想熏陶，潜移默化中树立正确的世界观、人生观和价值观。                   责任编辑：刘春阳。