WLOE
e-news: the Gulf Coast disaster; mobilizing for Washington DC actions; women
and the bomb; on global debt
12
September 2005
This summer’s events have proven the urgent need to change priorities: from military spending and destructive illegal wars to fulfilling people’s most basic needs without destroying planet earth. It’s the only one we have. We not only believe that women can – and must – play a crucial role in the changes needed, they are!
We feature women’s voices
on the disaster that did not have to happen:
http://www.womenandlife.org/WLOE-en/information/peace/usanation.html
and a listing of ways to
help victims – and support local community groups:
The people of New Orleans need our help
http://www.womenandlife.org/WLOE-en/action/alertskatrina.html
Finally,
we urge support for the major peace actions to stop the war on Iraq:
See
Cindy Sheehan: taking a stand:
http://www.womenandlife.org/WLOE-en/information/peace/cindysheehan.html
Thousands came to take a stand with Cindy Sheehan at Camp Casey near Bush's
ranch. The peace camp closed on August 31, now she and others are organizing
for the September 24-26 March on Washington, DC: see
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/article.php?list=type&type=91
Also on the international
front, see our most
recent items on global debt at:
“Africa is not poor, it was made poor.”
http://www.womenandlife.org/WLOE-en/information/globalization/globaldebt.html
See also 2004 Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai: "Africans Can Do it for Ourselves"
http://www.womenandlife.org/WLOE-en/information/ecology/wmaathaidec04.html