This week, the long-awaited Earth Week is finally upon us and with that lots and lots of Earth Week-related blog posts and content on rabble.ca! Joanna Chiu and guest videographer Camila Galdino produce a series on resisting media representation as a way to prevent violence against girls and women from April 15 to 21 and Mercedes Allen produces a three-part series on LGBT-inclusive anti-bullying education, centring around the Day of Silence.
Let’s also wish a happy belated 11 birthday to rabble.ca (adolescence and then puberty — how the time flies) and a belated welcome back to our new (old) editor Derrick O’Keefe! With all the changes, rabble.ca still has one more: we are still on the hunt for interns, applications are due April 23, pass it on!
Bike rage as toxic chemicals, beauty as delusion and criminal behaviour as just, all in this week’s rabble.ca weekly blog roundup!
A discussion about Bike rage leads way to a discussion about radioactive tritium in Peterborough. John Bennet: King of Segues.
Velcrow Ripper urges everyone to allow the spirit of Occupy to grow and not divide into hypocritical and ideological factions in No need to #DefendOccupy — Let it grow!
Meghan Murphy comments on the oppression of beautiful people and those who are just jealous in Nobody hates you because you’re beautiful (they just hate you): On Samantha Brick and woman-hating. Haters gonna hate.
“Wearing a skirt, flirting, or getting drunk does not mean that a person deserves to be raped.” Joanna Chiu discusses victim-blaming and sexual assault in How does she resist? Resisting media representation to end violence against women.
Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver anounces a streamlined environmental review process with panic. But why? Karl Nerenberg streamlines the details in Hill Dispatches: Turning back the clock on environmental checks and balances.
It is Earth Week; therefore, your homework is to read this David Suzuki post Green vision offers cure for plant blindness. Go on, just read it.
Mercedes Allen gives the lowdown on the Day of Silence and how the word “homophobia” can apparently be considered as hate speech in When even silence offends: Part 1.
Whistler to get the university it deserves! No seriously. Michael Stewart suggests what better way to rid your city of its affluent and snobby reputation than creating a for-profit university that appeals to rich tourists?
Image courtesy of Velcrow Ripper.
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