By s.e. smith on 1 December, 2010
Happy Wednesday, y’all! I can’t believe the (Gregorian) year is almost over. Here are some things I’ve read lately and found interesting; the usual caveats re:comments sections, etc. apply! Photo of a protester at an ADAPT action taken by Flickr user sissyboystud, creative commons license. C.L. Minou on The Guardian: Comment is free: Trans people [...]
Posted in recommended reading | Tagged comedy, deinstitutionalisation, disabled actors, environmental health, health care, humour, oil spill, pollution, social attitudes, transgender, United Kingdom
By s.e. smith on 10 August, 2010
The Gulf oil spill that has been capturing the news cycle in the United States for the last few months finally appears to be under control, and now we’re faced with a common problem: We have a whole lot of waste from the spill and associated cleanup, and it needs to go somewhere. This includes [...]
Posted in events, policy, politics, poverty, race | Tagged environmental racism, oil, pollution, racism
By s.e. smith on 17 June, 2010
Starting in the 1990s, cancer rates in China began rising at an astounding rate. By 2007, cancer was accounting for one in five deaths in China. Similarly rapid increases in cancer rates are being seen in many other nations that are in the process of industrialising. Once considered a disease of the industrialised world, cancer [...]
Posted in class issues, events, global, justice, policy, politics, poverty | Tagged cancer, cancers, child labour, China, environmental issues, environmental policy, factory towns, human rights, industrial pollution, industrialisation, international trade, labour rights, occupational illnesses, pollution
By s.e. smith on 25 March, 2010
The Balkans are a hub between East and West. This diverse region of Europe has rippled with conflict for centuries and like other areas repeatedly subjected to violent conflict and military actions, a significant legacy has been left behind. Rates of disability are higher in war torn regions for all the obvious reasons, support is [...]
Posted in global, military, policy | Tagged Balkans, depleted uranium, pollution, war
By s.e. smith on 25 February, 2010
It is difficult to find demographic statistics on Iraq. The population has experienced considerable upheaval as a direct consequence of the war my government started there, and it was already tremendously unstable before the United States invaded in 2003 with the ostensible goal of “fighting terrorism.” Seven years later, we are still in Iraq, and [...]
Posted in feminism, global, politics | Tagged cancer, chemical weapons, depleted uranium, dioxins, DU, Gulf War, Iraq, Iraq war, mental health, nuclear waste, pollution
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