Updates February, 2004:
Unfortunately my government is currently still occupying Iraq, and G.W. Bush & Co. are unlikely to stop there, if they have the power to continue their insane "war on terror" (ie, quest for global domination). So this section of the website has remained up for about a year now. That's unfortunate, to say the least, but look around and maybe you will find something useful on these pages.
On March 20th, 2004 there will be a large anti-war march and other events as part of a global anti-war mobilization.
Fund Medicare Not Warfare: A protest picture from January, 2002 when I was using a rented wheelchair to be able to stay in front of the White House for hours (you're not allowed to sit there, and I can't stand for long).
The other most recently added pages were in spring, 2003, below:
: A few reasons to oppose this war, for people who are on the fence. Not comprehensive, but includes some some links on Gulf War Syndrome. This was written specifically for the people coming here who do not already oppose this war or for those dealing with such people. It is very middle-of-the-road and mainstream on purpose.
What the People Did a little essay on how antiwar protesters in the U.S. have expressed our dissent and worked to protest this war, written in response to some of the attacks on antiwar protesters and the massive amount of prowar propaganda in this country right now
in honor of september 11th a rambling rant written on 9/11/02 which i never thought was worth putting here, as it is not exactly my best writing but some people reading this site may agree with some of the points in it
For information specifically put together for people with disabilities coming to events in Washington DC:
information for people with disabilities on affordable, accessible transportation options and disability accomodation issues
This website has long been a work in intermittent progress. Being disabled by chronic illnesses, I have never been able to do as much with it as I planned, however, no web site on women's issues, women's studies, or feminism would be complete, in my opinion, without a section on women's anti-war activism.
Women have fought for peace for centuries, have protested and have ended wars. Women's voices, poetry, lyrics, books, banners, buttons, chants, marches, silent vigils, dancing, voting, coalitions, non-profit organizations, grass roots collectives, art, petitions, letters, pacifism, anger, anarchism, folk songs, prayer, radical cheerleading (you rock), web sites, humor, street theater, journalism, progressive magazines, and the simple knowledge the violence does not stop violence have all been important aspects of anti-war movements.
Globally, most of the people in poverty are women and children. Violence against women in all forms is obviously a vital issue to recognize (and much of this web site is about that issue), and during times of war, violence against women is committed, heinously, by military regimes, including the United States military, far too often. Women in times of war are raped, have their homes, their bodies, and their lives destroyed by male military violence, are left widowed when their husbands are killed, are left as single mothers when the fathers of their children are killed, are left childless when their children are killed, are left voiceless when the propaganda of male-dominated military force takes over all forms of media, are left as refugees, amputees, and corpses.
For these, and other reasons that may be too complex to go into here, but are probably obvious to most people reading this page, women have good reason to oppose wars and militarism.
This section of this web site will have links applicable to anyone interested in anti-war activism, because as the un-elected and self-appointed president of my country prepares to increase (not start, since, the first one never actually ended), war against Iraq, I want to put as many resources here as possible. But this section would have been created anyway, in order to give some recognition to all of the work women have done to promote peace and protest war. Because of limitations, most of the groups listed here will be groups that exist in the United States, sorry about that. Although as my country causes most of the problems said organizations address, maybe it should be that way.
