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War: Does it make us richer or poorer?
In February this year, The Washington Post featured an op-ed titled, “In the long run, wars make us safer and richer,” written by Stanford Professor Ian Morris. The guts of his case is that if we take the long term view there has been huge progress in life expectancy and economic and social well being…
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Perspectives on the Anzac Dawn Service: Remembering the Frontier wars
This year marked the 99th year of ANZAC remembrance. While many of us have found the “ANZACKERY[1]” of talk around this time of the year to be almost unbearable and have been inclined to hide away for the duration, it is inspiring to see that others are doing their bit to change the ANZAC conversation.…
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Making Sense of WILPF’s New Campaign: Women’s Power to Stop War
As part of our celebration of our 99th year, WILPF is rolling ourt a new global campaign under the bold banner headline Women’s Power to Stop War. If you, like me, are inclined to feel a little ambivalent about the ‘stretch ‘ of the vision behind this slogan, Cynthia Cockburn’s article, “Women’s power to stop…
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Global Day of Action on Military Spending
Today is the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) , as the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute released the numbers for the world’s military spending in 2013! The Reaching Critical Will Project plan to post an analysis on their website that talks about the general trends and makes some suggestions on what could…
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F35 damned as a boondoggle: at Defence HQ SpeakOut
The Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS) will be marked by an open mike SpeakOut outside Defence HQ 12.30 – 2.00 pm am Monday 14 April 2014 Blamey Square, Russell, ACT. GDAMS coincides with the release by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) of their annual statistics on global military spending which…
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National Women’s Alliance: Security4Women Announcement
YWCA Australia is conducting a consultation process in the lead up to the drafting of a shadow CEDAW report. A mailing list has been established for people with an interest in the CEDAW shadow report or who want to participate in the consultations. The link is here: http://eepurl.com/Prsy5. The list is being administered by Kiri Decker,…
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NO DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT DISARMAMENT
Written Statement by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom for the 58th Commission on the Status of Women (March 2014) Militarization, and cultures of militarism, are double-edged swords against peace: with one hand, they exacerbate violence; with the other, they raid the coffers of peace. The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom…
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WILPF News Update ACT Branch
Updates from WILPF International Women’s Power to Stop War Women’s Power to Stop War is a new movement created and led by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Those joining the movement, will be part of an international community of courageous activists, who believe conflicts and wars cannot be stopped without the participation…
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WORLD PEACE FOUNDATION: Annual toast to peace
Readers might be interested a speech that WILPF, US President Laura Roskos’ delivered at the World Peace Foundation at their annual ‘toast to peace’ In this speech Roskos notes that “The tagline for WILPF’s centennial is Women’s Power to Stop War. It’s a proclamation. Not a question. Women have the Power to Stop War; not just…
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