Democracy Now

Andrea Garcia 

Social Movements

4/25/2014 

M,W 3:30-4:45pm 

For this weeks assignment we had to look into two articles in Democracy Now that had to relate to the media. Two articles I found most interesting for this week was the first one called "Marshall Island Sues U.S, Other Nuclear powers for Failure to Disarm". The article started off describing the Marshall Island suing the U.S. and eight other countries, accusing them of failing to meet for nuclear disarmament. The small island accused the nine countries of flagrant violations of international law, saying they are trying to upgrade nuclear arsenals instead of trying to reduce them. The Marshall Island chain was subject of 67 nuclear tests between the 1940's and 1950's, which have left lasting health and environmental impacts on the island. Concerns like this are especially alarming because it's our environment and people we are harming, for the mere reason of testing nuclear weapons because there are no other locations available to tests these weapons. Through recent understanding of what nuclear bombs have an affect on the environment is chemicals tend to never die away and are always going to be seeping through our water, air, food, animals and all that has a last effect on humans as well because the Marshall Island is a place of residency for many people living or settling down in that island.

Another article I found interesting was called "Brown University Under Fire for Letting Accused rapist Who Strangled Victim Back on Campus". This article was interesting because the issue of sexual assault on college campuses worldwide have always been a huge issue. The university is taking heat for allowing a student who allegedly raped and strangled a classmate and is returning to campus after a one-semester suspension. The victims name was Lena Sclove, she said her assaulter was found for sexual misconduct by the university panel and be allowed back on to the campus in the fall. The victim was bedridden for two months due to trauma injuries and was forced to take medical leave and lost a semester of at the university. Now that the victim is able to return back to campus the rapist is also allowed to come back. This is not the only case were a Ivy League University is taking heat, other universities such as Columbia and Harvard have filed complaints accusing their schools of violating federal law by failing to protect their students and not punishing the perpetrators.