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Topic: Chocolate Coated Nuclear Power
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Frustrated Mess
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posted 16 May 2006 10:23 AM
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“I feel a definite vibration in this room…and I think it’s the chocolate!”These words are the first words my fellow Eye interns and I hear from our host as we sit down to learn about nuclear energy in a room full of women who have just finished eating from a fountain of chocolate. (See Gord Perks article “The power of chocolate,” May 11) Our host is actually Joanne Thomas Yaccato, the woman behind the Thomas Yaccato marketing group, a group that is responsible to Bruce Power for improving the image of nuclear energy…apparently by luring women to so-called information sessions with chocolate. It seems the reason women are less likely than men to support nuclear power is that we just don’t know enough. Women know less than men about nuclear power. Women know less than men about nuclear power. Women know less than men about nuclear power. Are you as angry as I am yet?
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From: doom without the gloom | Registered: Feb 2005
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JaneyCanuck
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posted 05 June 2006 11:48 AM
Less informed indeed!! Or maybe the nuclear industry knows its opponents. I do know that when I was part of a group protesting the construction of a nuclear plant, we were bluntly informed by someone at AECL that they researched all our letters to the editor in various newspapers (syntax and so forth). In retrospect, that person must've been new since I cannot see any PR person doing that today.The majority of anti nuke protesters and campaigners have been women. Think of Another Women for Peace - who started the campaign to save baby teeth to test for strontium 90, a program that continues to this day - and in Canada, the venerable Voice of Women to which I admit I was active in at one point. (although all the members were so much older than me but wonderful mentors!!) and Helen Caldicott's work (If You Love this Planet for example) and Rosie Bertrell - I could go on and on...... I still refuse to eat Hershey's because God knows, it could come from the plant near Three Mile Island. That happened in 1979 and I ran into a businessman that day who said to me "Now I see what you mean.". I doubt he did anything about it but he may have challenged his thought process (or I can hope!). It is even more critical now since according to the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the US is producing more nuclear weapons now than at any time in its history (yet demanding other states do not?). Anyway -- so many of the anti nuke campaigners have been women so this industry has just simply done its homework! [ 05 June 2006: Message edited by: JaneyCanuck ] [ 05 June 2006: Message edited by: JaneyCanuck ]
From: Halifax, NS | Registered: Jun 2006
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Michelle
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posted 07 June 2006 03:39 AM
This is really interesting. I haven't really been involved in groups like the ones mentioned above, so I didn't realize they were so heavily populated by women. Well, if that's the case, then I can see why corporations would try to target women specifically. I'm not sure, though, how they figure they're going to change the minds of strong feminist women who oppose nuclear arms by condescending to them in such a sexist manner. I think of someone like my mother, who doesn't wear "feminist!" on her sleeve, isn't much of a rebel outwardly, but who is very concerned about environmental issues such as this one, going to a stupid forum like the one described in the opening post, and she'd be utterly pissed off. It sure wouldn't convert her.
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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