Climate change news

International campaign grows with June 2013 meeting in Istanbul.

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And Sing for the Climate! All over the world 

Transition Times Blog

We are in a time of transition -- which way will it go? Follow this excellent blog from Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez: latest entry

The Economics of Happiness On Demand

ISEC is pleased to announce that The Economics of Happiness is now available for online viewing on demand. For a fee of US$5, the film can be streamed as often as you like over a one week period. Subtitled international versions may be offered soon. Watch here.

Who's got what in the USA?

Millions of people have watched this video on Wealth Inequality in America.

World Social Forum report

Logo links to report by Andrea Germanos of Common Dreams.
WSF website here.

Artists Against Fracking

See Yoko and Sean Lennon and others in this excellent 7 minute video against hydraulic fracturing for gas. more

CODEPINK e-alerts

"The only recognizable feature of hope is action." -- Grace Paley
See CODEPINK e-alerts 

Living Downstream

"Living Downstream" new edition book and film

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

Support the People's Action against War and for the Realization of Peace's Declaration on the 60th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice on July 27.

on women and peace, ecology and global justice. We remember the 1979-82 network Women and Life on Earth in the northeastern USA, based on ecological feminism. more  Since 2002 we've been based in Germany, with contacts worldwide.

 

 

 

 

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June 05, 2013

"A Scientist Raises Her Voice": interview with Sandra Steingraber

"Sandra Steingraber is a mother, a poet, a cancer survivor, ecologist and environmental activist living in Ithaca, New York. She was arrested on Earth Day, and spent 15 days in jail, for protesting against hydraulic fracturing (fracking)." [more...]

June 04, 2013

Phyllis Bennis: "Syrian War Moving Outward, Obama Looks Inward"

For understanding events in the Middle East, expert Phyllis Bennis of the Washington, DC-based Institute for Policy Studies is an expert we value and turn to. [more...]

May 20, 2013

Rebecca Solnit: What Comes After Hope

Solnit on change: "If you take the long view, you’ll see how startlingly, how unexpectedly but regularly things change. Not by magic, but by the incremental effect of countless acts of courage, love, and commitment, the small drops that wear away stones and carve new landscapes, and sometimes by torrents of popular will that change the world suddenly." [more...]

May 17, 2013

"How the US Turned Three Pacifists into Violent Terrorists"

An 82 year old nun and two other peace activists were able to enter and demonstrate against one of the key atomic weapons facilities in the US. Now they are the 'criminals'! [more...]

May 13, 2013

Women’s rights and the right to food

"The various forms of discrimination discussed in this report are interrelated. Disempowerment of women results in women facing discrimination as economic agents.This in turn means women are less economically independent, are exposed to violence and have a weaker bargaining position within the household and the
community. As a result, they continue to assume a highly unequal share of tasks and... [more...]

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