Beans of life. H. Campino

Special coverage - #Occupy

Follow Occupy news at http://occupywallst.org/ and at Common Dreams above.

Nuclear power: 26 years after Chernobyl disaster

"Why Fukushima Is a Greater Disaster than Chernobyl and a Warning Sign for the US", by Robert Alvarez
Obama's Atomic Solyndra? by Harvey Wasserman

"Rio+20 and the Green Economy:

Technocrats, Meta-industrials, WSF and Occupy" A new paper by scholar-activist Ariel Salleh asks: "Whereas the official pitch for Rio Earth Summit 1992 was 'our common future', the Rio+20 meeting in Brazil this June speaks to a negotiating text called The Future We Want. The question of course, is who is this 'we'?" more

News from Africa

Through the voices of the peoples of Africa and the global South, Pambazuka Press and Pambazuka News disseminate analysis and debate on the struggle for freedom and justice.


Dust from our Eyes:
An Unblinkered Look at Africa
By Joan Baxter. She discusses book here

New report from ETC Group



"Money or Life: What makes us really rich"

Now in English! Free download (39 pages pdf) of a German essay by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen on our relationship with the money economy -- and alternatives.

International Blogs

See Virtual Vita Nuova bý Jasmina Tešanović,  Serbian author, political activist (Women in Black, Code Pink), translator, and filmmaker.

Welcome to the Women and Life on Earth internet project

"Women and Life on Earth: women in international cooperation for peace, ecology and social justice" (WLOE e.V.) is a German non-profit association that does international work with friends and partners around the world. Our name goes back to the northeastern US-based Women and Life on Earth network based on ecological feminism. more The website offers news, background information and links on women's action for peace and ecological health in English, German and Spanish. Our most recent other project was providing German subtitles for the film The Economics of Happiness.

International Day for Biological Diversity – May 22



SI alla PACE NO alla NATO: Women in Black demonstrate in Verona, Italy

More information on opposition to NATO including many links about actions in Chicago
Women in Black say No to Nato

What's new?

May 21, 2012

Mobilizing Military Moms Against NATO

"The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are marked by widespread mental health problems among US service members, with nearly one in five Iraq and Afghanistan veterans reporting symptoms of PTSD or severe depression." [more...]

May 19, 2012

The Sorrow of the Nakba

Joan Nestle blogs: "This is not an ethnic cleansing from the far distant past, this is not a forced expulsion from two centuries ago, the Nakba is lived everyday and we all lose our human way when we do not say its name, when we do nothing to bring the Palestinian people home." [more...]

May 13, 2012

Mother's Day Proclamation - 1870

"From the bosom of a devastated Earth a voice goes up with
Our own. It says: "Disarm! Disarm!" [more...]

May 13, 2012

Huge Spike in Cancers, Fertility Problems Linked to Chemicals in Household Items

"Chemicals which disrupt the hormone system – also known as 'endocrine disrupting chemicals' (EDCs) – may be a contributing factor behind the significant increases in cancers, diabetes and obesity, falling fertility, and an increased number of neurological development problems in both humans and animals, according to a review of recent scientific literature commissioned by the European Environm... [more...]

May 09, 2012

More power for women means less climate pollution, study suggests

Grist reports: "According to a new study in Social Science Research, 'controlling for other factors, in nations where women’s status is higher, CO2 emissions are lower.' ” Hmmmm... [more...]

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