As some of you know, we have a page on our site entitled, What People Are Saying About FPN. I want to share with you the latest endorsement that has been added to that page, from Martha Allen of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press:
“Feminist Peace Network always has the insightful response […]
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I really though I was hallucinating on this one, but as we were checking out at the grocery store this morning, a regular occurrence when you have teenagers, I glanced across at a promo display and they were selling, are you ready for this? Gaia fountains. My son assures me that is what the sign […]
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Researcher Debra McNutt has written a very provocative piece outlining the role prostitution plays in the war in Iraq. As she notes, most of the evidence is anecdotal, this is not an easy subject to research. Her work dovetails with a report that we highlighted on this blog several weeks ago about women […]
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So here it is, miscellaneous quotes, resources and pictures from last week’s conference, in no particular order:
There were many excellent and inspiring organizations represented at the conference. Here are links to some of those sites:
The 13 Indigenous Grandmothers are traveling the world sharing native wisdom and “cultivating their unified prayer for peace”.
The 13 Indigenous Grandmothers […]
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The following is an urgent call for assistance, see contact info below if you can help:
Subject: [NowPresidents] HELP needed in Birmingham!!!
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:09:21 -0500
Dear Friends:
I am at home (with access to email) just for the afternoon & night, and then back to B’ham tomorrow to face the nonsensical rhetoric of OSA: “At what age […]
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Thanks to Toby, one of our readers, who passed along this link to The Elders site. As the site shows, there are more women involved in this effort than the original story that I posted yesterday indicates. But clearly women are still in the minority. One wonders why women like Nobel winner Rigoberta Menchu Tum […]
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A new report by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research
“examines the issue of women’s increased vulnerability during times of
natural disaster and explores how the experiences of women impacted by Katrina
align with international norms associated with gender and disaster. It also provides
an overarching race/class/gendered analysis of the post-Katrina experiences of
women, with a special emphasis on what […]
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Darned good idea, only one extremely fatal flaw–There is only one woman on this panel!!! Earth to self-appointed elders, if you do not include the wisdom of women, do not waste your time, this ain’t gonna work.
“JOHANNESBURG — The Elders, a new alliance made up of an elite group of senior statesmen dedicated to […]
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Photo: Col. Ann Wright and Nobel Peace prize winner Jody Williams
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I am still in the process of posting all the info/thoughts about last week’s International Women’s Peace Conference. Don’t know why it is that some weeks are so slow and then there is an avalanche, but this week is an avalanche and it is […]
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The 4th part of Judith Siers-Poisson’s excellent series about the HPV vaccine is now available. You can find it here. For those of you who live in communities considering making this vaccine mandatory, I urge you to make sure your legislators see this very comprehensive article.
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