The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section is opposed to the United States government sending military aid to the Ukraine. The situation is changing daily on the ground and poses the danger of a wider war, even of a nuclear war. 

Join WILPF and other peace groups March 4-6 to protest drone warfare at Creech Air Force Base near Las Vegas in a mass mobilization to stop drone wars and directly confront US militarism.  We are expecting hundreds of people at this non-violent direct action.

WILPF US President Mary Hanson Harrison told a rally outside the Monsanto shareholders’ meeting January 30 about growing up on an Iowa dairy farm where her parents, brother and sister were victims of diseases associated with DDT.

In honor of the lifelong contributions of Lucinda Tate, her WILPF sisters announce plans for the establishment of the Lucinda L. Tate Human Rights Education Fund. Memorial services will take place in Portland, Oregon February 28.

Films and discussions – plus Isadora Duncan stories in a living history dance performance – will kick off the Sacramento-Sierra Foothills Branch’s 100th birthday plans. The events begin in Women’s History Month and continue through the year.

The Cuba and Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee celebrates our peoples’ victory and commends President Barack Obama in reestablishing diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba governments and the release of the remaining members of the Cuban Five, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labanino and Gerardo Hernandez.

 “Hope is something you do, not something you have.” Joanna Macy. Randa Solick’s inspiring report on the 2014 Women’s Congress for Future Generations and Hattie Nestel’s video interviews of people organizing against the gas pipeline exemplify hope turned to action.

During 2015 our WILPF Disarm/End Wars members will be watching closely the actions of NATO, which is rapidly expanding into an aggressive global military alliance. NATO can lead us into a new Cold War -- or plunge us into Hot Wars, or into nuclear holocaust either by accident or design.

Use your January renewed energy to prepare and to take action locally as part of the national campaign, “Intercept Human Trafficking” around football’s Super Bowl! Demonstrating, leafleting, writing letters to the editor will all help get the word out.

In Mexico to follow up on the WILPF US agreement at our Congress in Detroit to support a binational collaboration between our Section and LIMPAL Mexico, Melissa Torres was on hand for the uprising in support of the missing 43 students of Ayotzinapa.