In light of Bush's bullshit ploy to distract us from everything else that is jacked right now by creating a potential nuclear crisis with Iran, women from both Iran and the US have come together to launch a campaign for peace.

Ebadi was reborn as a human rights activist, published 14 books and founded three nonprofit organizations. In 2003, she won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now she and other women Nobel laureates are launching a campaign to promote a peaceful solution to U.S.-Iran tensions. Jody Williams, an American who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997 for her work to outlaw the use of land mines, has teamed with Ebadi to spearhead the initiative.

"Shirin and I feel a particular responsibility to let the world know that the people of Iran and the United States do not support violent resolution of this crisis," Williams said.

"No more military attacks. No more war," they said in a written statement. "We demand a nonviolent world where human security is the basis of our common global security. We pledge to create such a world ... "

What is this madness they speak of? Puh-eace?

via Mercury News.