In recent years, the darkness of the Winter Solstice season has become a time that allows me the opportunity of deep reflection. Last night I lay in bed under the warmth of my Grandmother’s comforter while the winds howled outside my window thinking about the horrible irony that just a few days after the […]
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Joint statement from Israeli women’s groups on the violence in Gaza received via e-mail:
We women’s peace organizations from a broad spectrum of political views demand an end to the bombing and other tools of death, and call for the immediate start of deliberations to talk peace and not make war. The dance of death and […]
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As the crisis in Gaza continues, as always when it comes to discussing war and conflict, the voices most silenced are those of women. One of the wise female voices that we should be listening to in trying to forge a path of peace is Starhawk who, in the analysis below excerpted from an essay […]
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The year may be ending, but the violence that is being perpetrated on the citizens of Gaza continues unabated. For an excellent eye-witness account, click here.
Press Release:
The International Women’s Commission (IWC) for a Just and Sustainable Palestinian-Israeli Peace demands an immediate cessation of the aggression by the Israeli military forces in Gaza, which has already […]
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As we come to the final stretch of 2008, plagued as we are with the usual collection of horrors–Gaza burning, Tennessee buried in toxic ash, women and children being raped and killed in the Congo, and on and on, I’m sure y’all were just as relieved as I was to know that the FDA is […]
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When our definition of how to win a war is to put aging warlords “back in an authoritative position” by handing out Viagra in a country with one of the worst records regarding women’s rights, it is clear that our definition of winning is a loser:
The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and […]
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Received via e-mail from Code Pink and the Feminist Peace Network has signed on to be a partner in this action:
Last week, the offices of Nobel Laureate and Human Rights activist Shrin Ebadi were shut down in Tehran. The Center for Participation in Clearing Mine Areas and Defenders of Human Rights Center were shut down […]
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I’m not a Christian, and I’m not into dissing other people’s beliefs, but I have to confess that I’ve never quite bought the thing about immaculate conception. One thing I feel quite confidant about though, if there was a baby Jesus, he was probably a hungry little guy and needed to be fed.
And just a […]
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According to Human Rights Watch, there has been a HUGE increase in the number of incidences of violence against women in the United States during the last 2 years.
The statistics show a 42-percent increase in reported domestic violence and a 25-percent increase in the reported incidence of rape and sexual assault.
The National Crime Victimization Survey, […]
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As many of you know, I have been out of town due to the death of my father. He died peacefully at home, surrounded by his family. While it is a sad time and a time of transition, as a long time journalist (he wrote his last blog just a few weeks before he died!), […]
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