*[Enwl-eng] Book Club: Hope but Demand Justice with Pat Hynes

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                        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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