Cost of U.S. Wars Since 2001
from the National Priorities Project

Casualties, "Operation Enduring Freedom" - Afghanistan

"Women and Life on Earth: women in international cooperation for peace, ecology and social justice" (WLOE e.V.) is a German non-profit association. Our name goes back to the northeastern US-based Women and Life on Earth network based on ecological feminism. In 2010, on the 30th anniversary of the 1980 Women & Life on Earth conference, we opened a new office in Bonn. more

Making NATO Visible to Women, Making Women’s Opposition Visible to NATO
A paper prepared by Cynthia Cockburn "as the basis for discussion in our feminist antimilitarist organizations, with a view to planning women’s co-ordinated non-violent direct action to mark the NATO Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, on the weekend of November 19-21, 2010." more

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Around the world, people demand an end to atomic power and weapons, and a rapid shift to safe, renewable, decentralized energy sources. In the northern state of Vermont, USA, 8 women were arrested for the 9th time for demonstrating at a nuclear power plant infamous for its many leaks and other problems. Read their statement here. <sub>(2 p. pdf download)

Photo: Marcia Gagliardi. From left, inside and outside the Vermont Yankee Entergy nuclear power plant where they were arrested on Tuesday, August 10, are 'nuclear neighbors': Julia Bonafine, 41; Nina Swaim, 72; Hattie Nestel, 71; Paki Wieland, 66; Martha Hennessy, 55; Ellen Graves, 69; Frances Crowe, 91. Not shown is Marcia Gagliardi, 62, who took the photo.</sub>