It's August Nuclear Free Future Month again. Take action for abolition of nuclear weapons. Sign the petition to Obama. Ask your Representative to co-sponsor H.R. 1650. Nurture and active Mayors for Peace community. Rigister for events on the NFF August calendar. Thanks for all you do!

The Jane Addams Peace Association and Women's International League for Peace and Freedom look forward to seeing you on October 18, 2013 for the 60th Annual Jane Addams Children's Book Awards Ceremony. Speakers include Chair of JACBA, Marianne Baker, and the winning authors and illustrators.  Enjoy a reception and an opportunity for book signing after the formal presentation of the awards.  All the awarded books will be available for purchase.

Looking to share your ideas, converse and participate in making our nation more socially just? WILPF-US is looking for members to take that next step, becoming more involved in tackling important issues that touch our hearts and our homes daily. One person can truly make a difference. That person is you!

Travel to Cuba from November 22–December 1, 2013 with WILPF's Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issue Committee and US Women and Cuba Collaboration.

WILPF was a National Sponsor of the Democracy Convention and a co-convener of the Earth Democracy Conference, one of the nine conferences that make up the convention, that took place in Madison, Wisconsin August 7-11.

Join WILPF at the Democracy Convention in Madison, Wisconsin, August 7-11 and meet up with members of the Corporations v Democracy, Earth Democracy and DISARM/End Wars Issue Committees and many WILPFers from near and far.

In this month of July, we pause to celebrate the varied work and many contributions of our WILPF Reaching Critical Will staff in Geneva and New York. We in the US work on local and national levels, while they concentrate on the internation, but our issues and challenges are intricately interconnected. In Geneva, WILPF staff participated in the first discussion of autonomous killer drones and humanitarian law held by government ambassadors meeting in the Human Rights Council.

None of us knew the other WILPF members were coming. Heidi recognized me with my END WAR t-shirt. Most of us attended the enthusiastic Women’s Assembly that opened the forum, and several of us took part in a women’s workshop sponsored by Global Grassroots Justice Alliance and the World March of Women.

In December 2012, WILPF joined in the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots. We share the growing concerns about the development of fully autonomous weapons—weapons that will completely remove any human intervention in the decision-making. 

For the first time we have a bill in Congress calling for a nuclear free future by 2020—a short time frame within most of our own lifetimes. HELP WILPF LOBBY FOR NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE BILL HR-1650:"Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act of 2013." Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton calls for nuclear weapons abolition by 2020 and for replacing nuclear power with truly green energy. Send your own Representative an email today urging co-sponsorship of HR 1650.