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The negative and disturbing phrase, Rape Culture has a counterpart and it's being called The Culture of Consent. I choose to use the latter phrase to spread a message of positivity and education. The phrase Culture of Consent is being used more and more, especially the kink community and on college campuses.

However, not all violence is perpetrated against women. All genders are receivers of sexual and domestic violence.

Since May 24th, the internet has been flooded with #yesallwomen, #allmencan and #nomore testimonies, stories and ideas. Perhaps a million have spoken out via Twitter and other social networking sites about sexual assault, misogyny and objectification. The educational efforts with these (and other) online campaigns is inspirational. People are banding together with a general response against violence. They are responding with what kind of behavior and thoughts are damaging and how to rise above.

 

 

In April residents from Youngstown’s Brier Hill neighborhood joined with Frack Free Mahoning (FFM) to appeal an order made in March by Richard Simmers, the Chief of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) Division of Oil and Gas Resources Management (DOGRM) to authorize Industrial Waste Control/Ground Tech., Inc. (IWC) to operate a facility at 240 Sinter Court, Youngstown. This facility will receive potentially radioactive brine, drill cuttings, drilling mud and tank bottom sludge from shale gas fracking operations. At the location along the Mahoning River, three-fourths of a mile due west of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, the company will do tank cleaning, radioactive decontamination, radiological surveys, waste storage, waste characterization, waste treatment, waste solidification and waste preparation for shipment (i.e. down-blending of radioactive frack waste.) The ODNR received the permit application on February 7th, and the DOGRM chief ordered its approval on March 6th. Unfortunately ODNR did not release the information to the public until April 10th, after the 30-day public comment period had expired.

 

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