Campus Journalism With Calamities: The Killing Cleaners

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Campus Journalism With Calamities: The Killing Cleaners

Campus journalism can really help in diasaster preparedness. For if a fact, news or even just a feature or literary article can of course provide much information in everything about disaster preparedness.

      Disaster preparedness with campus journalism comes in many ways it can be literary, feature, news or editorial of course it isn’t sports though. Here are some examples:

Features:

   Title: What to Philippines: Information, education enhance disaster preparedness in schools, says OCD

• Date:2 Aug 2010
• Source(s):Philippine Information Agency (PIA)

When you talk of disaster preparedness and risk reduction in schools, you are actually talking about timely and consistent information, education campaigns being undertaken.

Civil Defense 6 Director Rosario Cabrera told the more than 300 campus paper writers in Western Visayas that they are information channels to reduce disaster risks in schools and to help their fellow students in learning more about disaster management.

Cabrera said the schools can no longer disregard disaster preparedness because these institutions are vulnerable to adverse impacts of disasters, like typhoons, earthquakes, landslides, and flooding, as well as El Nino.

She said the government is encouraging earthquake drills, disaster preparedness planning and trainings so that the community, including schools and institutions are well informed and are asked to become active participants in disaster risk reduction program.

Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) is included as an input in the modules of the Campus Journalism Seminar-Workshop conducted by the Philippine Information Agency 6, as part of the Aquino administration's directive for relentless and vigorous pursuit of civil defense and disaster duties.

PIA Director Janet Mesa said the campus paper writers are also government partners in the promotion and implementation of DRR.

News:

Title:Bhopal disaster

From Wikipedia(View original Wikipedia Article) Last modified on 10 November 2010, at 00:59 

From Wikipedia

Bhopal memorial for those killed and disabled by the 1984 toxic gas release

The Bhopal disaster (also referred to as the Bhopal gas tragedy) is the world's worst industrial catastrophe. It occurred on the night of December 2–3, 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. A leak of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas and other chemicals from the plant resulted in the exposure of several thousands of people. Estimates vary on the death toll. The official immediate death toll was 2,259 and the government of Madhya Pradesh has confirmed a total of 3,787 deaths related to the gas release.^[1] Other government agencies estimate 15,000 deaths.^[2] Others estimate that 3,000 died within weeks and that another 8,000 have since died from gas-related diseases.^[3][4]

A government affidavit in 2006 stated the leak caused 558,125 injuries including 38,478 temporary partial and approximately 3,900 severely and permanently disabling injuries.^[5]UCIL was the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide Corporation (UCC). Indian Government controlled banks and the Indian public held 49.1 percent ownership share. In 1994, the Supreme Court of India allowed UCC to sell its 50.9 percent share. The Bhopal plant was sold to McLeod Russel (India) Ltd. UCC was purchased by Dow Chemical Company in 2001.
Civil and criminal cases are pending in the United States District Court, Manhattan and the District Court of Bhopal, India, involving UCC, UCIL employees, and Warren Anderson, UCC CEO at the time of the disaster.^[6][7] In June 2010, seven ex-employees, including the former UCIL chairman, were convicted in Bhopal of causing death by negligence and sentenced to two years imprisonment and a fine of about $2,000 each, the maximum punishment allowed by law. An eighth former employee was also convicted but died before judgment was passed.^[8]

Literary:

Title: Feeling Sorry for Myself While Standing Before the
Stegosaurus at the Natural History Museum in London

Oh yes my friend, I've been there: the insects battering at
the armored lids of your yellowish eyes

the moment you pecked your way out of that rotten shell
and dug out from your sandpit nest ...

And I've experienced the thud thud thud of your days,
the indigestible monotony

Of everything's spiny orangy-green husk. How the sun
gets daily whiter and hotter and just

A little bit closer. The week spent gobbling down your

Own weight's worth of whatever. One stumpy
footprint after another, tracking the trackless, squelching

Across last night's marsh into a volcano-spattered today
hip-deep in ash and yawning

A muzzleful of sulfur. Swishing through stiff fronds,

we drag an unbearable load of tombstones on our back
and a fat lugubrious tail, shit-smutched and spiked.

The flattening of the razor grass. The forgotten
clutch of eggs. Our shrill yaps

And groans. That tiny gray walnut
for a brain and the fat black tongue tough as a bootsole ...

They've explained us away a dozen times: some passing
meteorite or another, the rat-like mammals

Eating our pitiful young, all kinds
of new weather. Issueless, but far too stupid to be forlorn,

We trundle along the pink quartz shore
to sip at the lukewarm edge of yet another evaporating sea.

Michael Derrick Hudson

EDITORIAL: Natural Disaster Preparedness: How You Can Be Ready

Kathleen Walsh Spencer MSN, MA, RN, CS, CPSN	Plastic Surgical Nursing October/December 2005  Volume 25 Number 4 Pages 163 - 164

As we met for our 2005 convention, images of Hurricane Katrina and her aftermath were fresh in our minds. This past year started out with similar images, from the tsunami in Asia. Soon thereafter, our own member Diane Hart, was temporarily buried alive in a mudslide.

Part of the horror and empathy we feel for disaster victims is our thought, "that could have been me." It could have been. At our convention, Diane spoke bravely and honestly about her experience. She said that even before her trauma, she used to think about what she would do in a variety of situations so that she would survive. Preparedness played a part in Diane's survival. The American Red Cross asks us to think about preparedness, which I am pleading with you to do.

Not long after September 11, 2001, my sister recommended that I refer to the Red Cross Web site to find out how to prepare for a disaster. She had formulated a Family Communications Plan and she wanted me to do the same. This involved gathering all of the pertinent phone numbers, cell numbers, and e-mail addresses for the whole family and deciding who would be the out-of-town contact person in case there was a disaster at home. I encourage you to consult the American Red Cross Web site: "Family Disaster Planning: Preparing for a Disaster" (http://www.redcross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_601_,00.html ) and develop a communications plan. In the aftermath of Katrina, thousands of people could not contact family members. Having an out-of-town contact person whom they could contact would have helped family members to contact each other. The Red Cross also encourages people to e-mail or use text messages on their cell phones, because these messages can often get through when phone calls cannot. My daughter has a laminated card in her backpack with all of the emergency contact numbers. All of us should carry such a card.

Not only do I encourage each of our readers to refer to the American Red Cross Web site, I ask you to print it out. Keep a copy in your Disaster Kit (described below). Share copies with your families and your patients. As nurses, we are responsible to be leaders in keeping members of our community safe.

The Web site describes how to prepare a "Disaster Supplies Kit." Obtain a transportable container to store all of your emergency supplies. First, I got a large plastic bin (for storing artificial Christmas trees!!), but after I had loaded it with the required items, I couldn't move it!! A rolling bin or a covered rolling trash can will do the job. Make sure everyone in the family knows where the emergency bin is.

The Red Cross makes specific suggestions for a three-day supply of nonperishable foods to include. It is important that the foods are compact and lightweight; require little or no preparation, no refrigeration, and little or no water. The Red Cross suggests that we include some familiar and "comfort" food since they can help boost morale. A schedule for replacing the foods is included on the Web site.

There is an itemized list for a First Aid Kit. This part should be a cinch for us, but there were items on the list I might not have thought of. Don't forget to include a CPR breathing barrier face shield. It is also essential to include prescription and nonprescription drugs for all family members. Some of the items on the nonprescription list surprised me, such as activated charcoal and syrup of ipecac. In an emergency, the Red Cross will make announcements of which medications should be taken depending on the type of emergency that has occurred.

There is a list of tools and supplies to pack. Not being a handyman, this section was essential for me. Some of the items to include are pliers, compass, shut-off wrench, plastic sheeting, whistle, can-opener, cash or traveler's checks, change, tube tent, aluminum foil, flares, paper and pencil, etc. The sanitation supplies list includes a plastic bucket with tight lid, chlorine bleach, and other items. There are a variety of clothing and bedding supplies needed, as well as a list of important items for your pets.

It is recommended that one gallon of water per person per day be stored in your kit and at least a two-week supply of water for each family member stored in your home. I learned a lot about what to do when you don't have adequate water or when food supplies are low. There is information about what to do in the event of a chemical or radiation release.

The Web site includes important tips on which important documents you should keep in your kit, in waterproof packages.

At first, my immediate family thought I was an alarmist as I gathered up all of the items for the kits (sturdy shoes, extra eyeglasses, can openers, copies of Social Security cards, passports, driver's licenses, etc). I made a kit for my mother too. Everyone in the family knew where the kit was stored. It is important to update the kit every six months, as the Red Cross suggests. I have to update it more often at my house, since some of the things "disappear," such as the extra flashlights, batteries, and the battery-operated radio.

The Web site also includes how to prepare for disaster in the workplace, as well as how to prepare an emergency kit in case you are caught in an emergency while commuting. It is recommended that we all carry an emergency kit in our cars. Information on all of these subjects are on their Web site.

We have had to access the emergency kit twice since I made it, both times for power outages. It was handy to have everything together. Someday, it might be more than handy, it could be lifesaving.

Please, make your kit. Have it completed before the next issue of Plastic Surgical Nursing lands in your mailbox.

REFERENCE

American Red Cross. Disaster supplies kit. Retrieved October 14, 2005, from http://www.red cross.org/services/disaster/0,1082,0_3_,00.html .

There are a lot more examples of different articles about disaster preparedness. If I would display the all it would take millions of years to accomplish. For writers like us our constant in making articles for everyone the pile of articles goes higher every month, every day, every hour and every minute let’s not count just make pile go up Everest or even higher.

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