This week Peace X Peace launched the We Won’t Wait for Peace Campaign with the We Won’t Wait for Peace Virtual Film Festival. It begins on Monday 9-21, the International Day of Peace, with our own Peace by Peace, Women on the Frontlines. Three more top-notch videos follow on the next three evenings. It’s free, wherever you are, on your very own screen. If you haven’t registered, do it now! You’re certain to see something that fires and inspires you to take your personal peace activism to the next level.
Women …

Females are missing persons in the developing world. Selective abortions, infanticide, and parental neglect, all aimed at girl children, are the causes. Surprisingly, economic development has brought about an increase in missing girls. The likely results of this gender imbalance in the near future include not only a sizable bachelor population with no mates and no offspring but an appreciable increase in sex crimes, sex trafficking, and even terrorism.

Lubna Hussein, a Sudanese journalist, was charged last week with indecent exposure and immodest attire. She was wearing pants.

Women rallied around her at the trial … Unfortunately, this doesn’t always happen.

. . . Am I the only one fed up with reading about makeup and celebrity gossip as if it’s real women’s news?. . . I want to know what my friends in Afghanistan think about the legitimacy of the vote-count that is still coming in from the August 20th elections. I want to know what my sisters in Taiwan think about the Dalai Lama’s decision to visit and offer a prayer service, and what this means for relations between several East Asian nations. I want to hear what the Honduran coup and resulting threats and negotiations mean for friends and contacts in that country. And I want to hear it straight from the people most affected by these stories. I want to hear from the women. . .