Our recent work for ecological health and peace

Women from Planet Diversity

Women from Planet Diversity is a 45 minute documentation on food, biological and cultural diversity based on the May 2008 Planet Diversity festival and congress. It is currently availab ein English, German and Spanish subtitles versions. Available for 12€, contact pdfilm(at)wloe.org Japanese consumer and biodiversity organizations are preparing for a Planet Diversity for the next Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan in October 2010. more

Women say No to NATO

Photo: Mujeres de Negro, (Women in Black), Spain

See reports from the women's workshop in Strasbourg, France in April 2009, evaluations of the events there and information since, including reports from the October 2009 international meeting on (against) NATO in Berlin.

Groups working for climate justice

Climate Justice Now!
Climate Justice Action
Mobilization for Climate Justice

Friends of the Earth international

Social and Climate Justice Caravan

Welcome to WLOE e.V. in the new decade

"Women and Life on Earth: women in international cooperation for peace, ecology and social justice" is a German non-profit association. But our name goes back to the Women and Life on Earth movement of analysis and activism based on ecological feminism. more

Emergency & disaster relief for Haiti

Get help to Haiti now: see Madre's Appeal and CODEPINK's Sister to Sister Relief information.

Women against NATO: Women prepare blockade against UK nuclear warheads

Monday, February 15, 2010: The "Big Blockade." British Peace activists and allies plan "to impede work on the UK’s planned new warhead for the Trident nuclear missile system by closing down all seven gates of the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston simultaneously." Women's peace groups are organizing a women’s action against the ‘Home Office Gate’. See: THE BIG BLOCKADE: ALDERMASTON, 15 FEBRUARY 2010, The Women’s Gate. (2 pp. pdf format). Press release: Women say No to nuclear weapons - No to violence

Now in Italian: IL GRANDE BLOCCO: ALDERMASTON, 15 FEBBRAIO 2010
Il Cancello Delle Donne
Le donne dicono: No alle armi nucleari - No alla violenza

and in Spanish: Las mujeres dicen NO A LA OTAN
El GRAN BLOQUEO: ALDERMASTON 15 FEBRERO 2010
La Puerta de las Mujeres

More on the women's blockade and Aldermaston

Voices from and on Copenhagen: December 2009

Vandana Shiva speaks at climate summit

Hopenhagen? No, Thanks: Naomi Klein on COP15 Source, and 5 minute interview here. See Naomi Klein's reporting from Copenhagen.

Women in the forest – no fairy tale on land ownership rights and the need to encompass women’s knowledge and contexts in climate negotiations.

Background: IRIN news: Gathering Storm - the humanitarian impact of climate change.
And from UNIFEM: Facts & Figures on Gender & Climate Change

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January 24, 2010

APPEAL TO STOP NAVY BASE CONSTRUCTION ON JEJU ISLAND, SOUTH KOREA

We, the undersigned global organizations and individuals, call upon the South Korean and US governments to cancel all plans to build a Navy base on Jeju Island. [more...]

January 24, 2010

Gila Svirsky on Israel, Haiti and Gaza

"It’s hard work transforming international public opinion after the Israeli bombardment of Gaza one year ago, which played out so poorly in the Goldstone Report and European capitals. But in Israel, there’s no need to shift public opinion at all, after that very popular war. “What blockade? There’s no blockade of Gaza,” said my cousins in Jerusalem, who are as well informed as most Israelis. If... [more...]

January 15, 2010

Phyllis Bennis on Haiti, Afghanistan, Yemen, and Obama

International analyst Phyllis Bennis' latest "Talking Point" addresses key areas of foreign policy -- what's happening now and what is to be done. [more...]

January 14, 2010

Helping Haiti: 'sister to sister' relief from CODEPINK

The message from US peace activists at CODEPINK: "The worst earthquake in 200 years struck Haiti this week, flattening the capital city of Port-au-Prince and, according to early estimates, killing as many as 50,000. [more...]

December 26, 2009

For Obama, No Opportunity Is Too Big to Blow

After the Copenhagen climate cummit Naomi Klein sums up Obama's lost chances: "I understand all the arguments about not promising what he can't deliver, about the dysfunction of the U.S. Senate, about the art of the possible. But spare me the lecture about how little power poor Obama has. No President since FDR has been handed as many opportunities to transform the U.S. into something that does... [more...]

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