Feb
16
PARIS (Reuters) – Anti-government protests inspired by popular revolts that toppled rulers in Tunisia and Egypt are gaining pace around the Middle East and North Africa despite political and economic concessions by nervous governments.
Clashes were reported in tightly controlled oil producer Libya, sandwiched between Egypt and Tunisia, while new protests erupted in Bahrain, Yemen and Iran on Wednesday. Continued…
Feb
15
WASHINGTON – The United States stands with cyber dissidents and democracy activists from the Middle East to China and beyond, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday.
She pledged to expand the Obama administration’s efforts to foil Internet repression in autocratic states. Continued…
Feb
15
With the Internet down across Egypt, Google and Twitter have come up with a way for Egyptians to tweet using their phones. Now, Dan Lyons reports, a group of hackers is close to delivering software that could turn laptops into low-cost Internet routers—and help protesters organize. Continued…
Jan
28
One of the finest organizations in the world – uniting women in dialogues that empower and heal across divides great and small. Their Jan. 2011 newsletter is a beacon of light and inspiration:
Editor’s Note
It’s a new year, a new decade, and a new day for Peace X Peace! A lot has been cooking behind the scenes since our last issue. With this first 2011 PeaceTimes we’re serving up three fresh new initiatives: Connection Point, Take Action, and Generation Peace.
Connection Point directly addresses what our founder Patricia Smith Melton has called “the world’s wound”: the tragic misunderstanding that too often characterizes relationships between the Arab and Muslim world and the West. Both are vast, and vastly diverse, complex entities, but we’re not daunted. We believe that the best way to embrace that complexity, to get from stereotypes to shared understanding, is person by person, voice by voice, and peace by peace.
Take Action is CEO Kim Weichel’s monthly column on advocacy issues of critical concern to women and all who love peace. This month she introduces our inside role in developing the United States’ plan to implement UNSCR 1325 on Women, Peace, and Security. Future columns will address the upcoming annual meeting of the Commission on the Status Women and the International Violence against Women Act.
Generation Peace welcomes and acknowledges the peacebuilders of the future and provides a forum for their distinctive voices. This month’s column is by young staffer Abby Smith, who manages the initiative. Next month’s might be by YOU. Speak up! We’re all ears.
- Mary Liepold, Editor in Chief
Taking Action: What Would You Include in the US Action Plan for UNSCR 1325?
by Kimberly Weichel, CEO
I’m delighted to begin this monthly column highlighting the advocacy work that Peace X Peace does to advance and support women internationally. Each month I’ll focus on a different initiative or piece of legislation that is critical to women and the role we can play as individuals, as an organization, and in cooperation with other organizations. Together we are a force field for change!
Sep
15
We all know Dr. Jane Goodall as the woman who lived with chimpanzees and brought their cause to the world. She has helped us embrace them and respond to their endangered habitats. We’ve seen her on TV and have fallen in love with her primate pals. But she did not stop there, since then she has expanded her impact to all of the natural world. Continued…
Sep
9
Motivated by the unseen war in Northern Uganda, three young filmmakers took on a singular mission: To use the power of stories to change lives around the world. Continued…
Aug
9
Photographer Phil Borges kindly allowed us to publish his photographs of these brave women, and provided us with brief stories of each one, from his book, “Empowered Women”. These are women who are making monumental cultural and traditional changes in small villages around the world. Continued…
Jul
12
Everyone who goes to Hollywood is trying to make it big. Lauren Selman is no different; only she is trying to make “it” –the big screen that is –more sustainable. For this role there are no Oscars, no Palme d’or. For Selman, founder of Real Green Media, the reward is seeing business pick up and carbon emissions go down, so she says. Continued…
Jun
30
Melanie Haga wondered what would happen to old computers—now she runs a company that recycles them. In the early 1980s, personal computers cost anywhere from $1,500 to $10,000. As the marketing representative for a computer leasing company, Melanie Haga was responsible for Continued…
Jun
17
TWISP, WA – June 25-27, 2010
The healing is happening in every realm – even those you’d least expect. The FHRC is celebrating its 10th annual event this year, a gathering of people working with nature spirits to collaborate in healing the planet.
What on Earth am I talking about??? Hmmm….many people believe in Angels – in facr a majority of people have had an experience with Angels. Others believe in ghosts or have had experiences with loved ones who have passed. In a similar way, participants of the FC work “across the veil” with nature spirits. Bringing ancient traditions from their homelands around the world, Congress go-ers come together each year to share knowledge and work with allies from nature to improve life on planet Earth for all of us. Continued…
Jun
13
Cam and Kinari Webb are an impressive couple. The two live in Sukadana, a ‘village’ of 12,000 in Borneo, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, right next to Gunung Palung National Park. Cam is an ecologist with an impressive track record in tropical rainforest ecology, molecular phylogenetics, and bioinformatics, including the development of several software applications. Kinari is a physician who runs a combined health and conservation project. Continued…
May
20
Many of you are graduating soon -this graduation speech speaks to my own heart, and I hope yours…..
Paul Hawken is an entrepreneur, visionary environmental activist, and founder of Wiser Earth. In early May 2009 Paul delivered a commencement address at the University of Portland, OR. I will never forget it. This is an excerpt:
“There is invisible writing on the back of the diploma you will receive, and in case you didn’t bring lemon juice to decode it, I can tell you what it says: you are brilliant, and the earth is hiring. The earth couldn’t afford to send recruiters or limos to your school. It sent you rain, sunsets, ripe cherries, night blooming jasmine, and that unbelievably cute person you are dating. Take Continued…
May
15
In the fall of 2006, Spryte Loriano decided to raise money to feed the hungry children of America. “I thought to myself,” she says, “So what’s next?” Then I wrote “3 Million in 33 Days!” Continued…
May
10
Hello from SE Asia. I’m now well into my 20th mission here (amazing how fast time goes by) and wanted to send you a note and a link to our most recent newsletter.
It will update you on 100 Friends and all the great work your donations are making possible. You can download a pdf here. Continued…
May
2
Kirstin Elaine Myers, founder of Globond.com, a thinktank for progressive movers and shakers, is launching a bold new conference to meet this June, and again in November, called The Tectonic Leadership Summit. Her notes let us in on the radical thinking of this incredible paver of new routes to the future. Continued…
May
1
While the rest of us bust our butts trying to save the world one person at a time – Myra Murphy Jacob took it on to change the world by churning out new leaders – strong and powerful, well trained leaders in global sustainability – not your ordinary types. If that’s not the fastest way to create lasting change, then Continued…
Apr
18
If you haven’t met TED yet, open your calendar right this minute and block off an hour you can spend browsing their site. TED is extraordinary, TED is mind blowing, TED is like nothing else. Their tag line is “Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world” and so it is.
The first talk to watch is “Jill Bolte Taylor’s stroke of insight” – this will sufficiently expand your reality and introduce you to TED. From there you can’t miss – dive in and go exploring. You will never be the same.
Apr
3
If you met Cindy, you’d size her up to be like any other young mother with a household to manage, and her cheery smile would win you over right away. She home schools her posse of 5 small children each morning at her kitchen table. Continued…
Mar
9
A simple bike tour takes a left turn and becomes a mission to end poverty in Rwanda. Tom Ritchey’s plan to tour the world on his mountain bike included alot of places, but Rwanda wasn’t even on his radar. Continued…
Mar
1
Exploring the world has been a lifelong adventure for former Mountain Bike World Champion, Hans Rey. On these adventures he has gained a broader, life changing perspective on the impact a bicycle can make. Continued…
Feb
12
Kyle Rucker was just 19 when he walked into his friend’s class of music students at a Minneapolis Middle School. He just wanted to talk with the 35 students, but what happened that day turned the course of Kyle’s life. Continued…
Feb
11
This is the story of an unlikely friendship between two men on distant continents as they collaborate to lift up desperate children from extreme poverty. Continued…
Feb
1
Wangari Maathai, the founder of the Green Belt Movement, was the first to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for environmental work. But as she makes ever-so-clear, trees are not just ecological super heroes. They form a bridge to women’s rights, sustainable development, democracy, and (yes, indeed) world peace. Continued…
Jan
22
Years have passed and still thousands upon thousands of families in New Orleans, have but one dream – to go home. The need for homes is vast, but Brad Pitt and his organization Make It Right are starting by building 150 houses. From there they will keep building, keep raising money, keep calling on people to chip in, until everyone in need is cared for. Continued…
Jan
12
Patricia Smith Melton sat up, seeing the many men who seemed to be in charge of creating peace after 9-11on TV. She thought “Where are the women?” Continued…
