Sheroes in the Peace Movement

Was cleaning through my inbox and came across this link that someone had sent me about the Peace Encampment Herstory Project. How very inspiring! Another fine site that documents the history of women in the peace movement is the Danish Peace Academy’s documentation of the Greenham Common Peace Camp Songbooks.

Statement by the Fiji Women’s Crisis Center

 
Ok, it’s just a little fantasy, but what if women in every nation issued such a statement:
From: FWCC
To: Pacific Womens’ Information Network
Sent: Monday, November 27, 2006 4:34 PM
Subject: [pacwin] Stop the War of Words
27 November 2006
Press Release
The Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre has called for an end to the War of Words
that is currently taking place [...]

Report on 1000 Grandmothers Action at SOA

Many thanks to Cathy Webster for this wonderful report on the 1000 Grandmothers action at the School of the Americas protest. Please be sure to check out the link to their site below to see the beautiful, inspiring poster that is now on their homepage.
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Hello Grannies and those with grannie hearts!
Many of you have [...]

Take Back the Tech

Brava to the women at the Association for Progressive Communications, Women’s Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) for their Take Back the Tech Campaign which runs Nov. 25 through Dec. 10. The campaign is designed to raise awareness between technology and violence against women. Their website has some excellent material on the relationship [...]

Ercilia Sandoval’s Fight for Health Care

Ercilia Sandoval is fighting for a right that no woman should every be denied. An immigrant from El Salvador, she works as a janitor in Houston. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer, she could not find a hospital that would treat her because she didn’t have health insurance.

Janis Karpinski–Proof that Rumsfeld committed war crimes

Breaking story:  Former U.S. Army Brigadier General Janis Karpinski told a Spanish newspaper that she has evidence that Donald Rumsfeld specifically approved the torture techniques used at Abu Ghraib.  Karpinski also said that Rumsfeld further violated the Geneva Conventions by not registering all prisoners.  She said last week that she is prepared to testify against [...]

The Women of Oaxaca

“On Thursday night (Nov. 19), a 48 year old Oaxacan women called into the APPO university radio and testified that the Federal Prevetive Police occuping the zocalo had sexualy assaulted and harrassed her. Sinse (sic) then, many stories have emerged of sexual assault on part of the Federal Preventive Police. In response, hundreds of women [...]

Who’s Your Mama–Lactivists Hold Nationwide Nurse-Ins

Several weeks ago Emily Gillette was kicked off a Freedom Airlines flight for refusing to cover herself with a blanket while she discreetly breastfed her baby.  The flight attendant in  question has since been disciplined for violating Ms. Gillette (not to mention her baby)’s human rights but today nursing moms, calling themselves lactivists, held protests [...]

Beyond Pelosi–Waters, Lee and Woolsey

Poor Nancy Pelosi, her first few days as Speaker are beginning to sound like a bad remake of Commander-In-Chief. No matter what she says, does or looks like, she’s got 360 degrees worth of critics.
But it is seriously discouraging when the first things we hear from her are that gay rights and impeachment are [...]

Holtzman and Sheehan: The Courage to Use the “I” Word

The Courage to Use the “I” Word by Lucinda Marshall
What is the deal with Nancy Pelosi and John Conyers’ impeachment paranoia? We [...]