Down the Green Feminist Road
Interesting analysis https://www.wilpf.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/WILPF_Environmental-Zine_EN-Web-spreads.pdf
COVID-19: Militarise or Organise?
By Ray Acheson, from Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Proposed by Fotini Sianou In the last week as cities around the world have entered into lockdown, and as fear of the many uncertainties associated with our latest global crisis mount, some people have turned to what they have been told by their leaders …
Rachel Corrie Remembered
16/3/2020 Sent by Alexia Tsoyni On 16 March 2003, 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie was killed by an Israeli bulldozer that was preparing to demolish a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip. Corrie has since become an icon of global solidarity with the people of Palestine.
Yvette Lundy: French Resistance member who survived Nazi camps dies at 103
BBC news 3 nov.2019 Yvette Lundy, a well-known member of the French Resistance and a Nazi concentration camp survivor, has died at the age of 103. Authorities said she died on Sunday in the northern French town of Epernay. Ms Lundy supplied fake papers to Jewish families, men fleeing forced labour, and escaped prisoners of …
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Cynthia Cockburn obituary
Academic, feminist and peace activist who explored the themes of masculinity and war, and gender and technology Cynthia Cockburn’s argument that gender-as-we-know-it plays an important part in perpetuating war has practical implications for movements for demilitarisation Known for her research and activism in the field of gender, war and peace-making, Cynthia Cockburn, who has died …