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_{Women demonstrate for climate justice during climate negotations in Bonn, Germany.
June 5, 2010. Photo: Magdalena Black, WECF}

The Story of Bottled Water

For the millions world-wide who appreciate Annie Leonard's animated The Story of Stuff, about planned waste of resources, check out her latest, The Story of Bottled Water, released on March 22, 2010 (World Water Day). See also The Story of Cap and Trade, which brings some clarity to plans to make pollution a commodity. Bravo Annie and Co!
See The Story of Stuff international site
See Annie on Good Morning America (April 16, 2010)

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. But our name goes back to the Women and Life on Earth movement of analysis and activism based on ecological feminism. more On the 30th anniversary of the 1980 Women & Life on Earth conference we opened a new office in Bonn.

Current projects

Women and Climate Change

EcoMujer, WECF and WLOE e.V. call for women’s action for climate justice
From May 31 to June 11, 2010, a climate conference in Bonn prepared for the next big climate summit meeting in Mexico (December 2010). Given the lack of political action in Copenhagen, a Climate Wave alliance formed. Among other activities it organized a demonstration on June 5 (World Environment Day) to take a stand for climate protection and climate justice. We participated in this demonstration (see photo right) because climate/environmental issues are intrinsically related to issues of gender justice.

Women from Planet Diversity

A 45 minute documentation on food, biological and cultural diversity.

Women say No to NATO

Research and action against NATO, support for the February 2010 Women's Blockade of the Aldermaston (UK) Nuclear Weapons Factory and an English language listserve on the issues.

_{Photo: Cynthia Cockburn}

What's new?

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...]

July 27, 2010

CODE PINK: use WikiLeaks' revelations on Afghan war

Their alert: "Not since the Pentagon Papers have the inner workings of war been exposed to the public in such an explosive fashion as with the WikiLeaks' revelations on the Afghan war. Last night we talked to Daniel Ellsberg, who made public the Pentagon Papers that helped end the war in Vietnam." [more...]

July 26, 2010

Tear gas, arrests, at weekly demonstration in Bil'in

On Friday, July 23rd, the people of Bil'in were joined by about 100 international supporters, among them an Italian group including Lousia Morgantini, the former vice president of the European Parliament. [more...]

July 19, 2010

Medea Benjamin: "Afghan Envoy Holbrooke and Senate in La La Land"

“Man, those dudes are in La La Land,” a young intern said to me on the way out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Afghanistan on June 14, his eyes rolling. “You can’t win in Afghanistan. Don’t they read history?” [more...]

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