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Women and nuclear power


Casualties, "Operation Enduring Freedom" - Afghanistan

Welcome to WLOE e.V.

"Women and Life on Earth: women in international cooperation for peace, ecology and social justice" (WLOE e.V.) is a German non-profit association. Our name goes back to the northeastern US-based Women and Life on Earth network based on ecological feminism. In 2010, on the 30th anniversary of the 1980 Women & Life on Earth conference, we opened a new office in Bonn. more

Feminist action against NATO, Nov. 2010

Making NATO Visible to Women, Making Women’s Opposition Visible to NATO
A paper prepared by Cynthia Cockburn "as the basis for discussion in our feminist antimilitarist organizations, with a view to planning women’s co-ordinated non-violent direct action to mark the NATO Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on the weekend of November 19-21, 2010." more


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Shut it down now

Around the world, people demand an end to atomic power and weapons, and a rapid shift to safe, renewable, decentralized energy sources. In the northern state of Vermont, USA, 8 women were arrested for the 9th time for demonstrating at a nuclear power plant infamous for its many leaks and other problems. Read their statement here. (2 p. pdf download)

Photo: Marcia Gagliardi. From left, inside and outside the Vermont Yankee Entergy nuclear power plant where they were arrested on Tuesday, August 10, are 'nuclear neighbors': Julia Bonafine, 41; Nina Swaim, 72; Hattie Nestel, 71; Paki Wieland, 66; Martha Hennessy, 55; Ellen Graves, 69; Frances Crowe, 91. Not shown is Marcia Gagliardi, 62, who took the photo.


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September 04, 2010

Vandana Shiva: Resisting Hegemony

Dr. Shiva talks about how current industrial agriculture is linked to colonialism and war. A video excerpt of her talk on 'food and seed sovereignty' at the International Meeting on Resisting Hegemony held 2-5 August 2010 in Penang, Malaysia. [more...]

August 23, 2010

Medea Benjamin arrested at Blackwater founder's home

"CODEPINK cofounder Medea Benjamin and other DC area activists were detained at the home of Blackwater Founder Erik Prince. The group dropped by to deliver a letter urging Prince not to flee the US to extradition-free Abu Dhabi." [more...]

August 15, 2010

From CODEPINK: Iraq Debacle petition

"CODEPINK members across the country are taking action to call for a full withdrawal from both Iraq and Afghanistan and to bring our war dollars home to rebuild America." [more...]

July 29, 2010

UN Declares Water, Sanitation as Human Rights

"Access to clean water and sanitation was declared a human right Wednesday after a vote aimed at helping the world's neediest, passed unanimously at the United Nations." [more...]

July 28, 2010

Phyllis Bennis on Wikileaks' Afghan War Diary

July 27, 2010: "... taken as a whole, the documents provide a collective arsenal of evidence of a brutal war that never did have a chance to 'succeed' - and evidence of what a government, through two administrations, was determined to keep secret from its own people and the rest of the world." [more...]

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