Our Planet, Ourselves

Our Planet, Ourselves

Our Planet, Ourselves explores the growing body of knowledge that links environmental degredation to women's health issues. This zine also promotes collaboration between the reproductive rights, women's health, and environmental... [more]

Our Planet, Ourselves explores the growing body of knowledge that links environmental degredation to women's health issues. This zine also promotes collaboration between the reproductive rights, women's health, and environmental movements. Through collaboration, we can work towards our goal of a healthy and just world for all.

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So, what exactly does the current price jump in commodities have to do with women and the environment?  It's a complex and somewhat subtle link, not as in-your-face as direct pollution or chemical exposure. The environmental link is perhaps the easiest to see.  To reduce a complicated chain of events to its most basic: global warming and ensuing droughts in big agricultural production nations like Australia have caused a shortage in available grains.  Add to that changes in the economies of net food importers like China, whose population increasingly has the means to buy more food (including grain-intensive red meat, which costs 3 times ... Read Full Story
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I was listening to the podcast on the environment and reproductive health again the other day and I was struck by the effects of carrying water on girls physical development. In the podcast the representative from One By One, one of the campaigns associated with Green-Pink, discussed how repeated collection of water changes a young girl's body. We first have to take a step back and look at the reasons why it is women and girls who collect the water in the first place. This is seriously hard work, but it is relegated to "household" chores, which fall to women and girls. In addition, ... Read Full Story
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Planned Parenthood, the Sierra Club, and One by One have teamed up to raise awareness of the linkages between reproductive health, the environment, and women's health in the developing world. You can read more about the Green Pink campaign on the Sierra Club's website: http://www.sierraclub.org/population/greenpink/ . One by One, an international campaign to end obstetric fistula, describes the links in these movements as follows: The Green-Pink Project One By One has joined together with the Sierra Club, the nation’s oldest and largest environmental organization, to protect women and the environment, worldwide. One By One and the Sierra Club recognize that women’s voices and access ... Read Full Story
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(this was written for another class and posted on my personal blog) Reducing maternal mortality will require tackling the politics of reproductive health Promoting women's health holds the key to development. Two years ago, Kofi Annan, then Secretary General of the United Nations, stated: “The Millennium Development Goals, particularly the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger, cannot be achieved if questions of population and reproductive health are not squarely addressed. And this means stronger efforts to promote women's rights and greater investment in education and health, including reproductive health and family planning.” Millennium Development Goal #5, reducing maternal mortality by three-quarters by 2015, has ... Read Full Story
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Earth Day is tomorrow, and I've been thinking a lot about what an amazing makeover the environmental movement has had over the past few years.  My background is in marketing for non-profits.  How do you make a movement or a mission appealing to masses of people?  How do you garner the most support from the most diverse base of people?  Now, with its newfound eco-chic and mainstream appeal, will environmentalism really want to be public bedfellows with the reproductive rights movement? Over the next few posts, I'll be exploring the issue of how environmentalism went mainstream while the reproductive rights movement has seen its support ebb and flow, and ... Read Full Story
New UNFPA Report Goes Green to Promote "Reproductive Rights" by Piero A. Tozzi, J. D. NEW YORK - C-FAM - The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released its annual State of the World Population Report yesterday, linking efforts to promote "sustainable development" and affect "climate change" to its "reproductive rights" agenda. Critics see the report as a thinly-veiled attempt to harness popular environmental concerns in service of...  
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The Reproductive Health Bill pending in Congress and the Reproductive Health Ordinance of Davao City pending at the City Council are not tantamount to legalizing abortion. In a privilege speech in yesterday’s regular City Council session, councilor Angela Trinidad-Librado, RH Bill supporter and RH Ordinance proponent, said there is no provision in House Bill 5043 or [...]  
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As part of a new online and television campaign, the Center for Reproductive Rights will air a newly created ad, on cable stations, sharing the truth about health care reform and abortion coverage - essentially, the Stupak Amendment bans insurance coverage of abortion for all women - and what you can do to fight this in the Senate moving forward.  
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The Philippine Congress is considering legislation called the Reproductive Health and Population Development Act that would require governments at all levels to provide no- or low-cost reproductive health services, such as condoms, birth control pills, tubal ligations and vasectomies, the New York Times reports.  
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Obama shows here how he is able to twist words to make them sound less offensive. But, since he is undeniably pro-choice, even if he uses the words "reproductive health," we know it at least includes the definition of reproductive choice. He also states that all insurance companies must abide by the rules of the public plan. This means that as those rules change based on votes (aka mob rule), doctors and ins companies will have to deny their...  
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U.S. Grants Uganda $246M In Aid To Improve Agricultural, Health Systems The U.S. Embassy in Uganda announced a grant of $246 million in new aid for improving the Uganda's agricultural and health systems, Reuters reports.  
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Linked with PPNYC Panel With Three Feminists and with Community Feministing.com. Get more in-depth information about current reproductive health and rights issues and see where Planned Parenthood stands. Planned Parenthood, the world’s oldest and largest not-for-profit reproductive health care organization, is dedicated to the principle that every individual has a fundamental right to decide when and [...]  
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If you have been even halfway plugged to the health care debate this week, chances are you have caught wind that many women and their allies are not happy about the recent bill. H.R. 3962, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, passed with a vote of 220-215 this past Saturday night.  
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Governor Signs Protections for Reproductive Health Care ActWNEDBUFFALO (wned) - Governor Paterson has signed into law The Protections for Reproductive Health Care Act, legislation sponsored by State Assemblyman Sam Hoyt ...For Lynne Slepian, tougher law 'extremely important'Buffalo NewsGovernor Signs Reproductive Health Clinic Protection BillWBFOWidow of NY abortion provider praises tougher lawThe Associated Pressall 188 news articles »  
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Parliamentarians from some 115 countries pledged to promote sexual and reproductive health as well as women’s rights to decide how and when they give birth, at a United Nations-backed gathering which wrapped up today.  
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