- Gold or Water? A Deadly Debate | YES! magazine • by John Cavanagh
- To protect their water supply, Salvadorans are trying to ban corporate gold mining—and facing threats and violence as a result.
- Becoming a sustainability consultant: why systems matter, and boundaries don’t | Dowser
- With unemployment near 10 percent and the market sagging, full-time jobs are hard to come by. Being a consultant is a way to use your skills for good and get paid while building up experience.
- Ariana Bain is an industrial and urban ecologist, and she currently works as a consultant for Except, a company dedicated to helping businesses achieve sustainability. Industrial ecology, Bain says, is the study of the flow of energy – water and materials – through systems at different time and space scales, and of the environmental and social impacts of those flows. …
- Right-wing memes ahoy – “pregnancy is not a disease” | Tiger Beatdown • by Emily Manuel
- Pregnancy is not a disease = don’t cover contraception which strips uterus bearers of autonomy. Pregnancy is a disease = you must submit yourself to hospital procedures which strip you of all autonomy. Until we center women’s autonomy — in contraceptives, in pregnancy and birth, in transitioning — we’re going to lose, because kyriarchy (commonly but not exclusively via “the Right”) will always twist the message to one that serves them.
- KBR to Jamie Leigh Jones: Your Rape Lawsuit Was Frivolous, Give Us Money | Tiger Beatdown • by s.e. smith
- KBR is taking advantage of a pet topic in the tort reform debate: Frivolous lawsuits. People taken to court for reasons of harassment, delay, and other schemes not actually related to the legal matters at hand can request compensation if the suit goes forward and they win. In a way, this is supposed to protect people like you and me
- Wednesday Geek Woman: Frances Oldham Kelsey, FDA reviewer of thalidomide | Geek Feminism Blog • by yatima
- Frances Kelsey worked for the AMA reading doctors’ testimonials for various drugs, and she and her colleagues could soon detect among them the well-paid hacks for Big Pharma. It turned out to be excellent training for her appointment in 1960 to the Food and Drug Administration as one of only seven full-time and four part-time physicians reviewing applications to approve new drugs.
- A week after she reported for work, the application for thalidomide landed on her desk. … The drug had already been approved in Canada and more than 20 countries in Europe and Africa. Another person might have rubber-stamped it. Kelsey did not.
- …for her next trick, Kelsey helped reform the FDA.
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