Name: Mighty Be Our Powers
ISBN: 9780984295159

Perseus

Recounts the experiences of a Liberian activist as she discusses how she united Christian and Muslim women to campaign for an end to war in her nation.

How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

Mighty Be Our Powers

Dimitris Papastergiou

It was a good read. And a much more informative to the facts of the Liberian war than I expected.

Too much violence, too much fucking disgusting reporters interviewing women and if you weren't raped during the war then they weren't interesting in finding out how was your life until the war ended. Like.. really?!... 

Laymah's story is a testament to human strength and the incredible power of peace. She achieved so much and made so many believe that they can stop this war that it's just unbelievable.

One of the main shockers here was that she and other activists told women to stop having sex with their husbands as means to stop the war. It kinda worked, although many got beaten because of it, repeatedly, so I dunno if that was a good idea. 
Of course I don't live there and don't know how things were when the war wasn't ending over there, but it seems extreme to have to get beaten because you said you don't want to have sex. And that's a DUH point. Treading lightly here, but to be a woman in Lybia and to have to say no to sex as to achieve stopping the war with THAT, somehow seems... like what?! And yet, they did it, and they got beaten by their husbands, and not just a few, but most of those women. 

So... yeah... that's mainly why humans suck so much.

Despite all the violence, all the raping and war caused mainly by men over there (duh), Gbowee and other activists have shown how courageous they can be in building peace in one of the most fucking violent places in the world.

Mighty Be Our Powers How Sisterhood, Prayer, and Sex Changed a Nation at War

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