Archive for August, 2011
Afghan Women’s Visions for Peace
We had the opportunity to host and share dialogue with 19 young women from Afghanistan on August 19, 2011. They presented their visions for the future of Afghanistan and we shared a lengthy discussion about war, peace and activism at home and abroad. Check out the videos below of the women presenting their visions for [...]
North Anna Nuclear Reactors Only Designed to Withstand 5.9 – 6.1 Magnitude Earthquake
POGO Project on Government Oversight By BRYAN RAHIJA Bob Alvarez, a Senior Scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) who with support from POGO authored a recent report on the dangers associated with how the majority of nuclear spent fuel is stored in the U.S., just sent the following in an email regarding this [...]
Bob Farquhar: Importing Disaster
Sunday’s Macon Telegraph article about security at the Port of Savannah caught my attention with its mention of radiation detectors used to “sniff out nuclear bombs.” The only problem with that assertion is that a nuclear bomb inside a shipping container filled with kitty litter would not be detected. Kitty litter has trace amounts of [...]
Save the Date – October 3 – Dr. Helen Caldicott is coming to Atlanta!
Monday evening, October 3, 2011 An evening with Helen Caldicott, founder of WAND (Women’s Action for Nuclear Disarmament) Helen Caldicott, MD is coming to visit us in Atlanta this fall! Mark your calendars now for Monday evening, October 3, 6:30 pm, 7 Stages, 1105 Euclid Avenue NE. We don’t want you to miss hearing this [...]
Amazing Opportunity TONIGHT, Friday August 19: Dialoge with Afghan women leaders
We have just confirmed that have an amazing opportunity to host and share dialogue with 19 young women from Afghanistan. The group of Afghan women leaders have been chosen for an intensive, 5-week program, sponsored by the Department of State and centered around women’s empowerment and leadership. After three weeks at the University of Arkansas, where [...]
We Count! Redistricting Breakfast Workshop Recap
About 35 people attended the We Count! Breakfast Workshop on Redistricting Wednesday including several women legislators. Among them were Sen. Nan Orrock, Rep. Kathy Ashe, Rep. Margaret Kaiser, Rep. Elly Dobbs, Rep. Stephanie Stucky Benfield, Rep. Pat Gardner, and Rep. Simone Bell. After a brief video on redistricting, panelists Larry Pellegrini, Georgia Rural Urban Summit, [...]
Now’s the Time to Take Action on CTBT!
On Thursday, August 18th at 1:00 p.m., Georgia WAND’s Executive Director Bobbie Paul will lead a conference call to inform and organize the public around The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT), a global ban on all nuclear weapons explosions on the earth’s surface, underwater and underground. Banning these test explosions drastically reduces any chances [...]
Join Georgia WAND for a Breakfast Workhop on Redistricting
Do you feel like you don’t know enough about the redistricting process? Want to know how it effects you? Want to learn more in general? Georgia WAND’s We Count! campaign can help! Join us for a non-partisan, informative look at redistricting. We have teamed up with ACLU, NAACP, League of Women Voters and Georgia Rural [...]
Georgia WAND in VOX Teen Newspaper – ‘Teens and War: First-Hand Accounts of the Hiroshima Bombing’
Vox Teen Newspaper; 5, August 2011 By Eliana Gilbert, VOX Contributor Can you imagine what it would be like to live in Japan and the next thing you know, the world explodes around you? Actually, many teenagers suffered through this experience when the atomic bomb hit Hiroshima, Japan to end World War II. Many families [...]
Dianne Valentin: We Vote, We Count!
We as Americans do tend to ‘sleep’ on a lot of things. Many things do get by us; like allowing our free press to be jeopardized by letting people and groups take control of it with an agenda other than free press and journalistic integrity. My thoughts drift to Rupert Murdock, (I wonder if he [...]
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