Global Trade of Electronic Waste by Gary M. Kroll and Richard H. Robbins (pg. 247-255)
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Electronic waste contains toxic materials harm contact with them and people impacted by
the pollution of air, land, and water result landfills
A study “estimated 50 million metric tons of e-waste replete with toxic materials
consumer replace use electronic computer and mobile phones with latest models”
Globalization breathes new life discarded electronic devices- brought- sold at market
“Exporting Harm” damage caused by electronic waste in China
500 companies “Exploiting low wage countries dumping ground is winning the day”
Houghton calls “materials brokers” and “chop shops”- if company doesn’t buy electronic
scrap or untested equipment,” rather than charging the service
U.S. Stymied as Guns Flow to Mexican Cartels by James C. Mckinley. JR. (pg. 256-257)
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In Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, dealers can sell an unlimited number of rifles to
anyone with a driver’s license and a clean criminal record without reporting the sale to
the government…. Firearms are lightly regulated , gun smugglers can evade detection for
months or years
Sending straw buyers into American stores, cartels have stocked up on semi-automatic
AK-47 and AR-15 rifles, converting machines guns, investigators in both countries say
and .50 caliber rifles capable of stopping a car –Belgian pistols able to fire rifle rounds
penetrate body armor
Federal agents say about 90% of the 12,000 pistols and rifles the Mexican authorities
recovered from drug dealers last year and traced came from dealers in U.S, Texas and
Arizona
Diseases Travel fast, but so do tools to fight them by Kevin Sullivan and Mary Jordan
(pg. 258-261)
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Threats to health are resisted by globalized disease fighters- spread of diseasesstockpile vaccines- provide information through global networks
There are good and bad effects of globalization regarding the infectious disease and
what is known about the virus effects people.
Reclaiming the Commons by Naomi Klein (pg. 328-334)
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Describes what anti-globalization movement mean? the meaning and origins of the
term anti-globalization movement is disputed amongst various socialists and economists
The movement name: anti corporate, anti capitalist, anti free trade, anti imperialist
Seattle unaware fact the AGM has 3 waves
1st waves- back 1970, when oil prices skyrocketed due to economic downturn, which lead to
strikes, protests, and demonstrations
2nd waves- erupted with end of the cold war, during early 1990s
3rd waves- democracy spread like wild fire and most important wave were during 50th
anniversary of Bretton woods when the WTO emerged from the GATT. It’s lead to many activist
groups to rise and overlapping emphasis on various issue like anti- capitalist groups, women’s
rights groups, global inequality group and many other
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One individual cannot tackle an entire organizations