Recently added articles from Peace and Freedom:
Feminist ethics of care: WILPF in Israel/Palestine (1945-1975).
Sep 22, 2009; ... In 1915, more than eleven hundred women from two continents at war met in The Hague with the ambitious goal of stopping the conflict. They established the International Congress of Women for Permanent Peace and appointed seven envoys who traveled to belligerent governments pressing for the ...
WILPF at the U.N. Nuclear fallout and the future of disarmament.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; United Nations)
Jan 01, 2009; ... At a recent U.N. panel hosted by WILPF and Peace Boat (an NGO based in Japan), Setsuko Thurlow, an A-Bomb victim - or Hibakusha in Japanese - described the stigma endured after the U.S. bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Because of burn scars, Thurlow said, people who weren't hit ...
Human dynamos vs. Nuclear weapons: a tribute to Ava Helen Pauling and WILPF's disarmament work.(Essay)
Jan 01, 2009; ... Ava Helen Pauling (1903 -1981) had a lifelong interest in the health of the earth and its people. She joined WILPF during World War II and was a longtime member of the Palo Alto Branch. After the atomic bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, she convinced her husband, scientist Linus Pauling, ...
Healthy bodies, healthy planet.
Jan 01, 2009; ... At WILPF's 2005 National Congress in San Francisco, we celebrated the cohort of WILPF twins present and still active with WILPF on their 90th birthdays. As Mary Bricker Jenkins and Lois Fiedler playfully encouraged individuals to purchase Life Memberships, the slogan "join WILPF, live ...
The crisis in Iraqi medical care.
Jan 01, 2009; ... When he threw his shoes at President Bush, shouting, "This is the farewell kiss, you dog. This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq!" the world heard a cry of anguish coming from Muntadhar al Zaidi, the young Iraqi journalist who made headlines last December. ...