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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