This year’s Earth Day theme “Invest in Our Planet” focuses on engaging governments, institutions, businesses, and the more than one billion citizens who participate annually in Earth Day to do their part. What campaign might your branch work on – not just on Earth Day, but all year?!  
 

Announcements & Updates: Golden Rule will be in the DC area April 2-17 – come on board!; upcoming issue committee and board meetings; national board awards 2024 Congress bid to Minnesota; first WILPF US virtual summer “gathering” 
 

The DISARM/End Wars Committee invites you to an online showing of the documentary film The Atom: A Love Affair on Wednesday, April 19. A free webinar will start at 7:45 pm EDT and the film will begin at 8 pm EDT. To receive the Zoom link, register here.

One of the highlights of this year’s CSW program was a special meet and greet organized by WILPF US on March 9th where members from Ukraine, Palestine, the United Kingdom, and the International WILPF Secretariat came together for an informal gathering to share about their respective regions work.

Carol Urner, former WILPF US Disarm Committee co-chair, passed away on January 30, 2023. Please share your memories and images of Carol with Ellen Thomas so we can honor this remarkable woman in multiple ways.

Branches/Areas – last call to be considered to host the 2024 WILPF Congress – March 15 is the deadline!

Feminist cooperators are everywhere! Register for the March 9^th ONE WILPF Call to learn about alternative banking solutions being created by women who are most affected by financial insecurity and predatory lending.

Please attend the webinar “End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing” on March 8, organized by the California Poor People’s Campaign and co-sponsored by WILPF! Women and children are 70% of the poor in the US and stats are similar around the world.

Following the first anniversary of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on February 24, we must show our congressional representatives, who keep voting to send more weapons to Ukraine, that there are peaceful alternatives to war. The DISARM/End Wars Committee offers resources and actions to stop this war that has already cost more than 200,000 lives.  
 

In Greenfield, Massachusetts, signs abound in downtown shop windows, among them PEACE, ART NOT WAR, FOOD FOR ALL NOT WAR, SOLAR NOT WAR, MAKE TEA NOT WAR. Invite your own community’s shops to display signs like this!