“Future Without War” Author Discusses Women Nobel Laureates (tags)
Of the 789 people who have won the Nobel Prize, just 35 of them have been women. But among them are individuals with truly remarkable stories, Dr. Judith Hand told the Humanist Fellowship of San Diego at a program September 20 at the San Diego Public Library. They range from pioneering scientists Marie Curie and Barbara McClintock to writers Pearl S. Buck, Nadine Gordimer, Toni Morrison and Doris Lessing and peace activists Betty Williams, Mairead Corrigan, Aung San Suu Kyi, Rigoberta Menchú, Jody Williams, Shirin Ebadi and Wangari Matthai. Dr. Hand shared some of these women's stories in the context of her own belief that more involvement of women in the public affairs of the world can lead to a future without war.
2006 Student/Farmworker Alliance Encuentro; Immokalee, Fl; Sep 21-24 (tags)
Student/Famworker Alliance is a national network of youth and students organizing in solidarity with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields. We work in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a membership-led organization of mostly Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian low-wage immigrant workers in Southwest Florida. Together we won the Taco Bell Boycott in 2005. For more information, visit http://www.sfalliance.org
The US has been training terrorists at a camp in Georgia for years - and it's still at it
Meanwhile... in Guatemala (tags)
Demonstrators with skull masks protest in downtown Guatemala City Thursday Aug. 14, 2003. Hundreds of people opposed to the presidential candidacy of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt staged a march through the streets of Guatemalas capital Thursday. Over 200,000 people died under the terror reign of General Montt... most of them Mayan Indian civilians. (Ap Photo/ Rodrigo Abd)