In June 2022, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of the brand new book Hope but Demand Justice
with the author Patricia Hynes as part of a small group WBW book club
limited to 18 participants.
Pat will send each participant a
signed paperback or an eBook. We'll let you know which parts of the book
will be discussed each week along with the Zoom details to access the
discussions.
Sign up here to reserve your spot and get your copy of the book to start reading.
When: For one hour on four Mondays, June 6, 13, 20,
and 27, 2022. The time is 15:00 UTC (similar to GMT), 8 a.m. in
Berkeley, 10 a.m. in Little Rock and Winnipeg, 11 a.m. in Toronto and
New York, noon in Halifax, 4 p.m. in London, 5 p.m. in Stockholm and
Rome, 7:30 p.m. in Tehran, and 1 a.m. the next day in Sydney, 3 a.m. in
Auckland.
Where: Zoom (details to be shared upon registration)
This is a small group series with limited space of up to 18 people.
Sign up to reserve your spot and allow for enough time to receive the book. We look forward to reading and discussing this important book with you!
About the Book:
This collection of
articles published between 2010-2021 charts a quest for peace and
justice for all on our planet—humans and the web of life, some 3 ½
billion years old, in which we live. These pieces were conceived in a
time of deepened social and economic inequalities, expanding weapons
budgets, and the Earth reaching tipping points—points of no return—from
existential climate crisis and species extinction.
Many of our
crucial local, national, and international issues are included here.
Among these are nuclear power and weapons; the climate and biodiversity
crises; the Covid-19 pandemic; militarism and war; veterans; the
possibilities of peace; international collaborations; and the pursuit of
sexual, racial, and economic justice.
Though chapters are
separated by topic, they are not conceived in silos. Rather they reside
in the web of interrelated politics, the environment, economics, and all
manifestations of political and social justice and injustice—the
dimensioned world in which we live our lives.
I keep these words
of Vaclav Havel, playwright, dissident, and first president of the Czech
Republic, nearby as a realistic beacon for living with hope in the
midst of the assaults on peace, on justice for all, on democracy, and on
the planet that sustains our life.
“The more unpromising the
situation in which we demonstrate hope, the deeper that hope is. Hope…is
not the same as joy that things are going well…or…headed for early
success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is
good.”
Those who work for good—to save public forests; to save
the lives of Covid patients; who speak out against the futility of war,
those who strive to create a future of human rights and the fullest
justice for girls and women and people of color, and who labor to
eliminate nuclear weapons—are a lifeline through this collection,
culminating in the final piece, Hope.
This book is brand new in 2022. Here's an early review:
"Pat
Hynes inspires each of us to act. Woven throughout brilliantly
illustrated facts showing the damage we have inflicted on each other and
our Earth, is the voice of an activist. She shows, by example, that
actions to reverse inequality, to curtail climate change, to end war,
can imbue us with hope -- hope which leads us to even greater commitment
to create a just society." --Dr. Evelyn Murphy, former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts; Founder and Director, The Wage Project
Here's an excerpt from the foreword:
"Pat Hynes' understanding of the wide range of issues
covered in the following chapters is not only guided by her scientific
expertise and training as a researcher but also, and very importantly,
by compassionate intelligence. Her empathic intelligence shines through
whether the subject she wrote about concerns the plight of violence-and
poverty-battered families fleeing across national borders (including
ours), or the U.S. government’s unbelievably wasteful and extravagant
use of its citizens’ tax dollars for weapons and war, or the plight of
fire-ravaged forests and communities due to runaway global warming, or
the deep physical and psychological/moral scars suffered by U.S. and
other countries’ military veterans, or the fate of women and girls
everywhere who, she makes clear, always bear the heaviest brunt of
poverty, violence, food scarcity, and sexual exploitation.
"But, lest you think you’ll come away from reading these essays
feeling numb, hopeless, and depressed, please don’t worry: despite the
gravity of the problems she analyzes, there is a clear stream of
hopefulness that runs through all of her essays, based on her
descriptions of positive, real-time actions, initiatives, and actual
accomplishments on the part of ordinary citizens and a few (though still
too few!) enlightened elected leaders worldwide. Be sure to read her
spirit-uplifting essay, 'Hope.'" -- Randy Kehler, Executive Director of
the National Nuclear Weapons Freeze Camapign; Conscientious Objector, Vietnam War; Founder, Traprock Center for Peace and Justice.
About the Author:
H.
Patricia (Pat) Hynes is a retired environmental engineer who worked as a
Superfund engineer for EPA New England and Professor of Environmental
Health on multi-racial and low-income issues of the urban environment
(including lead poisoning, asthma and the indoor environment in public
housing, community gardens and urban agriculture); environmental
justice; and feminism at Boston University School of Public Health. For
her Superfund work and her writing, teaching, and applied research at
Boston University, she has won numerous awards both locally, regionally
and nationally from the US EPA, the American Public Health Association,
Boston University School of Public Health, the Massachusetts Commission
of Conservation Commissions, Boston Natural Areas Network, and her alma
maters Chestnut Hill College and the University of Massachusetts
Amherst. She is the author and editor of seven books, including The Recurring Silent Spring, which was nominated for the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award and the 1996 National Arbor Day Foundation Book Award for A Patch of Eden, her book on community gardens in inner cities. Her forthcoming (2022) book of collected writings, Hope but Demand Justice, will be published by Haley’s Publishing.
Pat writes and speaks on the health effects of war and militarism
on society and on women, in particular, as well as climate justice,
renewable energy, and the hazards of nuclear weapons. As former director
(2010-2020) and now board member of the Traprock Center for Peace and
Justice in western Massachusetts, she is committed to building in
collaboration with other organizations the Traprock Center as an
educational and project-based center in peacemaking and peace and
justice leadership for activists, educators, and students. She has had
numerous articles on nuclear power and nuclear weapons, climate change,
war and militarism, peace and the effects of war on women and the
environment published in journals, books, newspapers and online
nationally and internationally.
On behalf of the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice, she
conducted an investigation in 2014 of the ongoing legacy of Agent Orange
in Vietnam and created the Vietnam Peace Village Project to support
scholarships for 3rd and 4th generation Agent
Orange victims and also “10,000 Trees for Vietnam: an Environmental
Justice Collaboration” to support tree planting in areas de-forested by
Agent Orange. She has committed to raising awareness of the plight of
Syrian women and children refugees from the disastrous war in Syria and
raising funds for refugee children’s education, grounded in her
interviews with Syrian women refugees in Lebanon in 2017. Since 2018 she
has sustained a partnership with the Women’s International League for
Peace and Freedom (WILPF) Sierra Leone branch that includes providing
children’s books on peace, social justice and environment for their use
in schools and computer supplies for WILPF Sierra Leone’s new office to
help launch their countrywide work; a Sports for Peace initiative with
youth; a Covid education effort; and the Respect for Girls program. This
partnership arose from WILPF’s 2018 African Women’s Feminist Peace
Conference within the WILPF Triennial Congress in which she participated
as a WILPF member-at-large. With WILPF US, she is co-developing a
framework for Feminist Foreign Policy.
Pat Hynes is also currently speaking on the plight of migrants
from Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala fleeing violence, poverty and
climate crisis in their countries to the US border with Mexico and
collaborating with immigrant justice groups in Western Massachusetts.
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