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Peace & Freedom: Keeping the Seeds in Our Hands
The spring/summer 2018 issue of "Peace & Freedom" magazine will appear soon in your mailboxes. Watch for the print issue, and let your friends know that the magazine is available as
a PDF on the
WILPF US website.
With the excitement of WILPF's International Congress in Accra, Ghana, gathering in August, the spring/summer 2018 issue is dedicated to the women around the world who plant the seeds to rise up for freedom and justice.
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President Mary Hanson Harrison sounds an alarm about the corporate takeover of seeds, lands, and governmental bodies but sees hope in global, feminist, grassroots organizations working to "decolonize our food system."
- Nancy Price describes Ghana's role in the early Pan-African movement, and asks whether current development initiatives in Africa are true to this vision of self-determination, or do they replicate imperial structures?
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Odile Hugonot Haber reports on government and NGO financing to support climate change mitigation and adaptation, stressing the need for women to be involved in all levels of planning and implementing this work.
- Five women came together on a CSW62 panel to share their feminist perspectives on the necessity of a radical transformation of US agriculture; Mary Hanson Harrison summarizes their lively discussion.
- Valentine M. Moghadam discusses the complex history behind Yemen's humanitarian disaster, with 17 million people facing food insecurity, and 2.2 million children suffering from acute malnutrition.
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Helen Jaccard shares chilling Fukushima testimonies from her December 2017 tour in Japan during which she visited areas devastated by the nuclear disaster, interviewed four evacuees, and met with a whistle-blower doctor.
In other contributions:
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Christine Nobiss upends the myth that the Second Amendment was created to protect US citizens from invasion--rather, it was created by the Nation State to allow its citizens to invade.
- Issac S. Villegas, a Mennonite pastor, remembers a young woman killed at the border and laments the "undeclared war against migration."
- The Treasurer's Report to Members reveals fiscal year budgeting decisions that have been driven by the WILPF US Section's mission priorities.
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A summer Peace Camp in Auburn, California, is still going strong after 32 years; Marcia Bandes reports on the newly formed Gender Equity Commission in Pittsburgh; and many branches turn out to support the Poor People's Campaign.
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