Month: February 2018

 

The Feminist Pro-Choice Movement

Last year’s Women’s March filling Washington D.C and many other cities with streams of pink hats and feminist placard, launched an important discussion about the place of pro-life and conservative women in the movement after multiple women’s groups opposing abortion were barred from officially participating. The issue proved sadly universal; the #MeToo movement prompted stories from “liberal” Hollywood to conservative Fox News, from “secular” Silicon Valley to Christian congregations. The shared concern over abuse at the hands of men in power, now discussed with more openness and urgency, seems to have the potential to bring women together. The prevalence of sexual misconduct and harassment has an effect on abortion as well. So often, women are coerced by unsupportive fathers of the child, family, or a lack of support by employers or school administrators, but we can unite to change that.

 

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l went to the interference archive last Saturday with Olivia, it was kinda hard to find because it’s a bit small. But when we walk in the door, there’s a long hallway lead us to a bunch of boxes which contained thousands of archives. I went through two boxes, one’s title is the protest and another is feminism.

There is one book from the box of the protest drove my attention, it is called “Every disappearance implies a search.” The book described the dark history of Chile, how they have thrown people out from helicopters into the sea, their stomachs opened beforehand to prevent them from floating. The reason they are doing this is that they added a new system of subduing the population to its methods of detention and torture, which is disappearance. And the rest of the book tells us how they traced the victim’s identity and revealed the truth. This book-fold and wave and explode outward at you with the force of the history they encapsulate, and this reminds me the importance of keeping all these archives, each piece put together makes a history that we can know from.

 

Here are the list of disadvantages of aluminum cans. First is environmental conservation issues: One-third of all aluminum manufacturing plants use coal when they produce aluminum cans. Another 10 percent rely on other fossil fuels, such as oil and natural gas. Fossil fuels, although a common energy source in the manufacturing industry, are limited. Coal, oil and natural gas form from decaying organic matter beneath the earth’s surface over millions of years. Once the earth exhausts its supply of fossil fuels, creating more isn’t an option. The second is pollution: Although aluminum cans are recyclable, the Container Recycling Institute notes that approximately half of all aluminum cans end up in incinerators or landfills resulting in the need for additional cans made from new materials. Aluminum smelting gives off sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide, which can result in both smog and acid rain. Aluminum can manufacturers must strip-mine bauxite ore to obtain enough alumina to manufacture the cans. Creating 1 ton of aluminum cans leaves behind 5 tons of liquid waste material that can pollute soil and groundwater. The last is accessibility: aluminum cans may preserve food for long periods, but without a can opener, opening some aluminum cans presents a challenge. While opening an aluminum can with a knife is possible, you risk injury when doing so. Other food packaging materials, such as cardboard and plastic, open easily preventing you from having to make an impromptu trip to the store should your can opener break while preparing a meal.

Who could possibly disagree: food waste is a global shame, especially in a world in which over a billion people are starving. And yet: everybody is waiting for somebody else to take action. Can we send our leftovers to starving children in Africa? No, that is clearly not a permanent or sustainable solution. The problem in Africa is food loss. The amount of food lost per year in sub-Saharan Africa could feed 48 million people. Due to poor harvesting facilities, storage, packaging, distribution and the lack of a stable infrastructure, good food is lost in the fields before it even has a chance to reach peoples’ bellies.In the West we waste approximately 40% of our food. This 40% happens at the end of the food value chain by retailers and consumers. The same percentage of food, 40%, is lost in developing countries, though here the food losses happen at the beginning of the value chain.  We must remember that food is the most powerful basic necessity for human beings. It is what keeps us going. It is what is keeping us alive. Food waste is a clear indication that there is something fundamentally wrong with our civilization. Look at nature: There is no food waste in nature whatsoever. Everything is used and recycled. Every resource is used intelligently. The only species on this planet unable to cut down on food waste is us humans.