WLOE e-news: women on the move: for peace and a better future; celebrating Dr. King's birthday

16 January 2006

Women Say NO to WAR: http://www.womensaynotowar.org

• Women's Call for Peace: An Urgent Appeal This international appeal and internet-based petition drive launched by the US women's peace group CodePink gives women around the world chance to say "NO" in great numbers to the senseless, costly war in Iraq. Signatures will be presented to US embassies on International Women's Day, March 8. Men in solidarity are invited to sign the call and participate in March 8 events. We support this action on our other language sections, see for instance our report in Spanish.
  http://www.womenandlife.org/WLOE-en/action/notowar.html (English)
  http://www.womenandlife.org/WLOE-sp/acción/noalaguerra.html (Spanish)
  
  
• The Impeachment of George W. Bush by Elizabeth Holtzman
  http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/holtzman
  Elizabeth Holtzman knows about presidential impeachment, as she was on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment of Richard Nixon. In this article on The Nation magazine's website the former Democratic Congresswoman explains why this president should be impeached and what US citizens need to do to make it happen.
  
  
• The first two items concern what we don't want: war, illegal governmental action. A declaration FOR a better future is presented in this statement that came together at the International Workshop on Self-Organizing and Common Self-Reliance, Cologne, Germany, October 20-22, 2005. The work of Grace Lee Boggs, Maria Mies and others:
  ANOTHER WORLD IS NECESSARY- ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE - ANOTHER WORLD HAS ALREADY STARTED
  http://www.boggscenter.org/ideas/fresh-ideas/fi-12-03-05.shtml
  
  
• And on this US national holiday Grace Lee Boggs asks: How shall we celebrate King’s birthday? Conversations with Vincent Harding
  ..."A lot of our discussion centered around how in the last three years of his life King called for a revolution in values against the triple threats of Racism, Materialism and Militarism. Why do most King celebrations back away from or ignore this message? Is it because he was going where most Americans don’t want to go – so that there was almost a sigh of relief when he was assassinated?..."
  http://www.womenandlife.org/WLOE-en/resources/wwaa/womenwriters/grace%20lee%
  

• Alito: A Defeat for Working Women By Martha Burk, Ms. Magazine.
  http://www.alternet.org/rights/30645/
  Posted January 11, 2006.
  Alito's confirmation, if it happens, could also have profound implications for working women, only from the opposite point of view. Like the other seven men on the Court, he's never experienced sex discrimination firsthand, so he doesn't see it as a problem. His record is clear -- big business rules.

• Women Living Under Muslim Laws announce their newly designed website.They also have an good page of
  links to interesting websites dealing with similar issues
  

Women's action for peace is alive: "1000 PeaceWomen Across the Globe" The book of the 1000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005 Project This book introduces 1000 women who represent millions doing similar work around the world. Biographies and photos give insight into their life and work. US$ 45.00. Ordering information: http://www.scalo.com/1000peacewomen/ 98 mujeres españolas y latinoamericanas entre las 1000 Mujeres para el Premio Nobel de la Paz (on our Spanish section)

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