ABSTRACT
As women of color live and struggle, people increasingly realize that it is time for them to speak for earth and its future. People have heard the voices of white men who speak for earth and its future. When they look at the hunger, despair, and killings around them, they see what white men who speak for earth have done. Peace activists also fail to see people of color as initiators and creators and make assumptions about our limited abilities to work for peace and fundamental social change. Those opposed to nuclear weaponry and stockpiling project an equally disturbing politic and vision, which excludes people of color. Women of color are survivors of and remain casualties of holocausts, and they are direct victims of war—that is, of open armed conflict between countries or between factions within the same country. People of color were and are victims of holocausts—that is, of great and widespread destruction, usually by fire.
