HOW WAR ERODES AND DESTROYS DEMOCRACIES

The East Bay and San Francisco branches of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) present author Susan Griffin in this second of four Peace Talks presented by WILPF. She will talk on “How War Erodes and Destroys Democracies” and what concerned citizens in this country can do to turn the tide toward peace and justice. Griffin will be in conversation with Kate Raphael, author and producer of KPFA’s Women’s Magazine. All are welcome, wheelchair accessible, refreshments.

Susan Griffin is a celebrated author and Pulitzer Prize finalist, a poet and an Emmy award-winning playwright. Whether pairing ecology and gender in her foundational work Woman and Nature, or the private life with the targeting of civilians in A Chorus of Stones, she sheds a new light on many contemporary issues, including climate change, war, colonialism, the body, democracy, and terrorism. She has recently completed a novel about global warming and the creative process, called The Ice Dancer’s Tale, and is concluding a long poem about the Mississippi River.

See her web page at www.susangriffin.com

In the coming months, the WILPF Peace Talk series will feature other local women authors talking about their lives, their writing and their activism.

ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ, author and revolutionary historian, will speak Sunday, July 16th from 3-5pm at Eric Quesada Center for Culture and Politics, 518 Valencia St., San Francisco (16th St./Mission BART station)

MAXINE HONG KINGSTON, author and Professor emerita will speak Sunday, September 17th from 3-5pm at the Ed Roberts Campus, 3075 Adeline St., Berkeley (Ashby BART Station)

The Peace Talk series is presented by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, East Bay and San Francisco branches.