Naomi Klein: on climate change and racism
Interview with Naomi Klein: The Struggles Against Climate Change and Racism Are Inseparable
By Natalie Hanman, The Guardian, Published September 15, 2019 in Truthout
Naomi Klein, author of the new book, On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal, talks about solutions to the climate crisis, Greta Thunberg, birth strikes and how she finds hope. “In a North American context, it’s the greatest taboo of all to actually admit that there are going to be limits… But we are going to have to contract on the endless, disposable consumption side.” more
2018 -- Fourth Warmest Year on Record
"Earth's global surface temperatures in 2018 were the fourth warmest since 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)." Source, with 1:22 min. video on warming, 1880-2018
The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is a coalition of non-governmental organizations in one hundred countries promoting adherence to and implementation of the United Nations nuclear weapon ban treaty. This landmark global agreement was adopted in New York on 7 July 2017.
A Vision for Black Lives
Who's got what in the USA?
Millions of people have watched this video on Wealth Inequality in America.
Climate Crisis News
"Project Unspeakable"
a theatrical work on the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy. more...
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
"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.
USA: The cost of war
Welcome to the Women and Life on Earth internet project
on women and peace, ecology and global justice worldwide. more
Active in Germany for a decade, we continue as part of the Traprock Center for Peace & Justice, based in Western Massachusetts.
International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons
On September 26 people took to the streets demanding an end to nuclear weapons. See events in Western Massachusetts here
What's new?
May 25, 2020
Covid-19 Commentary
See our new page on the Traprock Center for Peace & Justice, with first content here:
Traprock Center Director Pat Hynes has authors important editorials that have appeared online and in local print media in Western Massachusetts. We offer her recent work here:
May 2020
Women Have Risen to Heroic Heights During Covid-19
Yet, the global pandemic in physical and sexual violence against women continues unabated and worsened during the coronavirus pandemic.
Covid-19: The ‘Great Equalizer’?"...this statement – implying we are all at equal risk – is a blatant cover-up of inequalities baked into our society."
April 2020
Winners and losers Budgets are moral documents (or immoral, depending on priorities). So also is tax policy.
H. Patricia Hynes
H. Patricia Hynes is a retired Professor of Environmental Health from Boston University School of Public Health and current Chair of the Board of the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice. She has written and edited seven books, among them The Recurring Silent Spring. She writes and speaks on issues of war and militarism with an emphasis on women, the environment, and public health.
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