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H. Patricia Hynes

H. Patricia Hynes

H. Patricia Hynes is a retired Professor of Environmental Health from Boston University School of Public Health and current Chair of the Board of the Traprock Center for Peace and Justice. She has written and edited seven books, among them "The Recurring Silent Spring." She writes and speaks on issues of war and militarism with an emphasis on women, the environment, and public health.

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Stop the Wars. Save the Planet

If humanity and much of life on Earth is to survive, we desperately need a climate revolution and a peace revolution.

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Abortion: What a Complex Web They Weave

Misogyny and injustice fuel the control of women's bodies.

H. Patricia Hynes ·

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How the US Government Segregated America

All of these racist government housing policies and neglect underlie the extreme wealth gap between black and white Americans.

H. Patricia Hynes ·

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Honor Armistice Day on November 11th as a Day of Peace

The erasure of Armistice Day tragically matched our country’s history of militarism and aggression.

H. Patricia Hynes ·

Protesters rally outside the home of Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide on April 12, 2021 ahead of the government's announced decision to dump 1.25 million tonnes of radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into the Pacific Ocean. (Photo: Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images)

Fukushima: A Lasting Tragedy

Tens years on, the United States, the largest owner of nuclear power plants, still promotes nuclear power as "safe and clean energy."

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57 cents of each dollar we paid in our discretionary taxes went to support the military, our wars, weapons, and bases, including 800 military bases abroad and military operations in an estimated 150 countries. (Photo: Staff/AFP via Getty Images)

Prelude to Tax Day

The biggest Tax Day elephant in the room resides in the 5-sided military mansion, the Pentagon, with its criminally large budget—nearly a trillion dollars each year siphoned from our tax dollars.

H. Patricia Hynes ·

On January 22, 2021, the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will become international law. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/30835738@N03/34921916204/in/album-72157683139988823/">Ralf Schlesener/ICAN</a>)</p>

The David and Goliath in Our Time

We have never been so close to nuclear annihilation, in the opinion of many nuclear weapons experts, as today.

H. Patricia Hynes ·

"In every region of the world, battery and sexual assault of women and girls isolated at home increased with the spread of the coronavirus," writes Hynes. (Photo: Genebel/Twenty20)

A Pandemic Within the Pandemic

The spread of coronavirus has created a "perfect storm" for violence against women behind closed doors.

H. Patricia Hynes ·

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