2015 WILPF US/Disarm/End Wars Calendar

Contact Carol Urner at carol.disarm@gmail.com with comments and additions

Please correct items on this calendar and add important new ones. We want to publish a more complete and useful calendar in February.

January 2015
All month: Follow-up on Vienna conference. Share Marshall Islands suit and petition with your friends. Learn about the proposed Ban Treaty from WILPF Reaching Critical Will. And investigate Don’t Bank on the Bomb co-written by former WILPF Secretary General Susi Snyder.)
January 6: 114th  Session of Congress convenes. Join us in keeping our Eye on Congress re nuclear weapons abolition and ending wars.
January 9: Last day to book February Cuba trip with Code Pink!
January 19: Martin Luther King Day. Participate in local events and speak out his words on ending war.
January 20: State of the Union address delivered to Congress by President Obama
January 24-25: Shut down Diablo, one of only two nuclear power plants remaining in west coast states. Two days of strategy planning meeting in San Luis Obispo. Home hospitality from Mothers for Peace.

February 2015
February 3: Approximate date for submitting White House 2016 Budget to Congress
February 10: Launch Speaker Program on Nuclear Abolition and Ending Wars
February 8-15: Code Pink organized trip to Cuba! http://www.codepink.org/cuba
February 18: Anniversary of Sentencing of Transform Plowshares activists Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed. All are now WILPF members and need our support and abolition work. (Can we appeal for a pardon for those now imprisoned for seeking to abolish nuclear bombs? Who are the criminals and who is defying our own Constitution and breaking international laws?)
February 28-March1: Symposium: The Dynamics of Possible Human Extinction. Sponsored by Helen Caldecott Foundation at the New York Academy of Medicine, New York, NY. Will also be online.

March 2015
March 1: 60th anniversary of US hydrogen nuclear bomb test on Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.  Support Marshall Islands suit
March 4-6: WILPF co-sponsors shut down of Creech AFB Nevada drone attacks
March 8: International Women's Day. Resources and speakers on ending wars
March 11: Fourth anniversary of the continuing Fukushima Disaster

April 2015
April 14: Global Day of Action on Military Spending. Day coincides with release of military expenditure statistics by SIPRI.
April 15: US Income Tax Day traditionally marked by creative WILPF demonstrations against wasting tax dollars on militarism. 
April 22: Earth Day. Draw attention to US military environmental destruction and the need to stop war and heal the earth.
April 22-25: Peace Palace in The Hague: WILPF Centennial Congress
April 27-28: WILPF Conference at the World Forum in The Hague where we invite others from around the world to join us in stopping war. The time is now.
April 25-26: March, festival and one day conference on nuclear weapons abolition in New York City.
April 27-May 29: Nuclear Weapons Review Conference in New York City

May 2015
April 27-May 29: Register through Reaching Critical Will. 2015 Nuclear Weapons Review Conference  in New York City
May 17-20: ANA D.C. Days
May 21- 22: ANA spring retreat in D.C. Check info on ANA members (WILPF is last with a video on You Get What You Pay For.)