- Commentary by Mary Liston Liepold
Peace X Peace Editor in Chief
The first time I made love and really loved it, I remember lying in the afterglow wondering how anyone could feel like this and then get up and cheat somebody, or shout at their children, or vote for a politician who sent boys to kill and die. I just couldn’t reconcile this experience that most human adults have shared with the kind of unloving behavior I saw and heard about every day.
Make love, not war!, we shouted in the 1960s. …

Marie Chantal Nimugire
Rwanda
When I read the PeaceTimes article about the Korean women I was touched, especially because it reminded me of my own painful experience during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. I know we have to end the violence. I wrote a poem about this worst behavior of our brothers, and now I have translated it from Kinyarwanda into English.I ask each woman member of Peace X Peace to give this message to a minimum of seven brothers. We need their contribution to end violence against women and girls. …

Guest commentary by Debbie Hines, Esq.
 
Many US women, like Jody Neal-Post in today’s news, have survived domestic violence only to be denied health coverage because of it. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi             says this won’t happen if the Obama Administration gets the reform it aims for, but some Democrats are being as intransigent as the majority of Republicans, and special interests have already eaten into the plan’s original intentions.
 
Women make up a disproportionate number of those who are without health care insurance. Many are the primary breadwinner or sole …

Level: Community   —   Pillar: Women’s Health and Well-being
This week’s featured story came in from Washington, DC :
During a recent weekend visit to my childhood home I took some time to sort through a box of old books and diaries. In the process, I stumbled across the loose-leaf notebook that was my diary when I was 15 years old. Pages upon pages were filled with the highlights of summer adventures, rants about my teenage sense of injustice, and most of all, lengthy descriptions of my first boyfriend and our relationship. Fifteen …