Author Archives: Theresa Wolfwood. Director, The Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation

About Theresa Wolfwood. Director, The Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation

Theresa Wolfwood is the co-founder and director of the Barnard-Boecker Center Foundation.

Dew, Charlotte Women For Peace: Banners From Greenham Common

https://www.fourcornersbooks.co.uk/I 2921 ISBN 978-1-909829-18-3 Cover photo by Homer Sykes, showing banners by Thalia Campbell Review and memory by Theresa Wolfwood “The Greenham banners reveal much about the campaign ‘s proponents, ideology and reach. They are also evidence in a number of braider histories: the story of women-led campaigning, including the suffrage and Women’s Liberation movements; the history of peace campaigning before, during and after the First and Second World wars; the history of women’s art; and the Read more [...]

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Stand On Guard For Whom? A People’s History of The Canadian Military.

Engler, Yves. WE STAND ON GUARD FOR WHOM?   A People’s History of the Canadian Military. Black Rose Books, 2021  Montreal QC  ISBN 978-1-55164-755-5  Review by Theresa Wolfwood “Is Canada a force for good in the world?” In Stand on Guard for Whom? — A People’s History of the Canadian Military, Engler answers his own question in this revealing history of why we have a military and who it serves. Not surprisingly, as thousands of Canadian men and women die, not to defend Canada Read more [...]

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BUILDIING A LIFE WORTH LIVING: a memoir

This book is a heartfelt, honest, and touching account of Marsha Linehan’s personal life, scientific research and her life-long relationship with her Catholic faith and spirituality. Linehan is a distinguished US psychologist, who has made significant contributions to the treatment of a complex psychiatric condition called ‘personality disorders’. As a psychotherapist, having worked with individuals with the diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), in 2020 I was on a search to discover more about this condition in academic Read more [...]

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PALESTINIAN POPULAR STRUGGLE

Carpenter, Michael J. PLALESTINIAN POPULAR STRUGGLE: Unarmed and Participatory. 2019. Rutledge, London UK & New York, USA. ISBN 978-1-138-54239-6
Review and photo by Theresa Wolfwood
“This is a book about Palestinian traditions of popular struggle…”
“…Palestinian traditions of participatory organization challenge modern governance norms of large-scale organization.”
Carpenter’s in depth study of popular struggle in Palestine, mainly the West bank, is based on many months of research in Palestine and led to his doctoral thesis Read more [...]

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Profit Over Peace In Western Sahara

Hagen, Erik and Mario Pfeifer, eds.,   Profit over Peace in Western Sahara: How commercial interests undermine self-determination in the last colony in Africa .  Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany. 2018. English and Arabic.  Hardcover: ISBN 978-3-95679-405-6.    The book can be ordered h from the publisherat: http://www.sternberg-press.com/index.php?pageId=1834&l=en&bookId=728&sort=year

Review by Theresa Wolfwood

“We hope most of all, that this little book will be a humble contribution to the people of Western Sahara as Read more [...]

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Reccomended Films 2018

Films/videos recommended by BBCF: Not a comprehensive list, these films have inspired & informed

AFRICA

Two films about Western Sahara giving the historic background and the present situation of refugees and occupation.   El  Problema:   https://www.filmin.es/pelicula/el-problema   mad

Life Is Waiting: Referendum and Resistance in Western Sahara: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYY2fuKMKmE

And soon to be released,  SIROCCO: Winds of Resistance. The life of Sahrawi refugees though the eyes of two woman and their grandmothers – with Read more [...]

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The Last Earth

Baroud, Ramzy. The Last Earth: A Palestrina Story. 2018. Pluto Press, UK. ISBN 978074533800 2

Review and author photo at Victoria book signing by Theresa Wolfwood

“Let me arrange my evening with that which suits my failure and her absence.”                     Mahmoud Darwish

“no east, no west, this is the uprising of the people” p.191

Baroud’s most recent book is all about Palestinians, their lives, their personal stories, told in their own voices.  Baroud, founder of www.Palestinechroncile.com   and Read more [...]

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Born to be Unstoppable

Kironyo,Wanjiku. BORN TO BE UNSTOPPABLE: My Kenyan Story, Global Journey and Life’s Legacy.
2016. Fifty-fifty Ld. Nairobi, Kenya. ISBN: 978-9966-097-28-6
Review and author photo by Theresa Wolfwood

Photo: Wanjiku on right in Muthare Valley, Nairobi

 

“It is how we embrace the uncertainty in our lives that leads to the great transformation of our souls.” Brandon A.  The opening quote in this book

 Wanjiku was born into uncertain, dark times to farmers in Kenya at the time of major resistance to Britain, the colonial power Read more [...]

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ENGLER, YVES. A Propaganda System: How Canada’s government, corporations, media and academia Sell war and exploitation.2016. Red Publishing and Fernwood Publishing. Canada

Review by Theresa Wolfwood

 

‘ “why do nine in ten Canadians think this country is a forc for good in the world even though our governments have long advanced corporate interests and sided with the British and US empires?” This book is an attempt to answer this and other related questions.’

 

Yves Engler continues in this latest book to analyze and expose to Canadians the fallacy of our belief that Canada is ‘nice guy’ and a peace loving democracy.  Instead as he shows we perpetrate and nourish a culture of Read more [...]

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Oldfield, Sybil. ‘Thinking Against the Current’: Literature and Political Resistance. 2013. Sussex Academic Press, Eastbourne, UK. ISBN: 978-1-84519-689-9

Review by Theresa Wolfwood

 

“Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.”   Virginia Woolf

 

This fascinating and informative study of independent thinkers since the 1700s makes compelling reading in a time when media and other social forces discourage and suppress expression of dissent. But it appears that mainstream society has always suppressed and often, still does, persecute those who dare to resist. Starting with the Read more [...]

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Oldfield, Sybil and Gwenyth Shaw, editors. The Old Familiar Faces 2007. Lewes, UK. ISBN 978-0-9554-114-1-0 Review and photo of Sybil Oldfield by Theresa Wolfwood

“I have had playmates, I have had companions…

All are gone, the old familiar faces…”  Charles Lamb

 

This collection of mainly English poetry reflecting inevitably on loss, the constant of old age, has many poignant poems, but also humour, a necessity of aging well,  is here also.

The editors have collected from many centuries and from the famous to the little known. They go well together; fame is not essential for enjoyment or inspiration, the experience of aging is universal.

As Frances Comford wrote:   O passer-by, Read more [...]

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Watson, Raymond THE CELLWAS MY: CANVAS.2013. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Belfast, Northern Ireland ISBN-10: 1492762113 Review and author photograph by Theresa Wolfwood

Watson’s journey, from a teenage boy’s involvement in the conflict in Northern Ireland as an IRA fighter to years in a British prison to his development into an important artist today while he holds fast to his commitment to peace and social justice, is a fascinating read. Fortunately there are photographs of Watson’s many works of art throughout the book accompanied by tales of their creation.

Not least of these is the sculpture on the book cover, “The Hands of History”. The hands are those of the signers of the Good Friday Agreement Read more [...]

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