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- The American Recovery Act & Move the Money: A Rare Window of OpportunityImage by pasja1000 from Pixabay.By Marybeth GardamONE WILPF Call TeamApril 2021The next ONE WILPF call on Thursday, April 8 (4 pm PST / 7 pm EST) will have two wonderful speakers offering insight and action plans to redirect short term and longer term public funding towards the public good. We have … Updates
- Apply Now to be Part of a Nationwide WILPF Study & Discussion Group to Uproot Racism!Photo & design by Eileen Kurkoski.ByEileen Kurkoski, Coordinator of the Anti-Racism TeamJoan Goddard & Janice Hawkins, Anti-Racism Team members April 2021Starting Saturday, May 1 at 12 noon ET, 9 am PT, WILPF is offering a 7-week study and discussion group about personal and systemic racism based… Updates
- Triangle WILPF Holds Virtual RetreatFrom left, WILPF members Lori Hoyt, Lorna Chafe, Lucy Lewis, and Miriam Thompson at a Fight For $15 rally at the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh in 2019.By Lorna Chafe Triangle (NC) BranchApril 2021Triangle WILPF in NC held a virtual retreat on February 27, 2021, over a three-hour period wit… Updates
- Branch Happenings: Maine and PittsburghThe #NuclearBan Banner recently visited Suzanne Hedrick (top image), 38 years after she crisscrossed Maine with a mock missile to protest their proposed testing in Maine. Christine DeTroy (bottom image) launched the #NuclearBan Banner Campaign in January to celebrate the Treaty on the Prohibition of… Updates
- Webinar on March 14 Will Celebrate the Advancement of Cuban Women!Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, MPH, left, and Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera, right, will speak at a March 14 webinar celebrating Cuban women.By the Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issue CommitteeMarch 2021“Feminist Solidarity! Celebrating International Women’s Day and the Advancement of Cuban Women”: Web… Updates
- Join March 17 Zoominar: “The Space Force: Who Cares About an Arms Race in Space?”A banner celebrating the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was placed in front of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Maine.By Martha SpiessMaine WILPFMarch 2021Maine’s sole nuclear power plant, “Maine Yankee,” operated from 1972-1996. It was shut down du… Updates
- This Year’s CSW Forum Panels Are Virtual; Attend Our March 18 Panel on the International Peace TrainIn 1995, WILPF sponsored a “Peace Train” that brought 230 women and 10 men from 42 countries to the Fourth UN Conference on Women in Beijing. During the three-week trek from Helsinki, Finland, to Beijing the activists met with women’s groups and political leaders. Credit: WILPF archive. (Prizes for … Updates
- World Water Day and Earth Day Programs: Save the Dates for Two Free WebinarsBy Marguerite AdelmanEarth Democracy Committee and Burlington WILPFMarch 2021Is your branch looking for safe ways to learn about and acknowledge World Water Day on March 22 and Earth Day on April 22? WILPF US’s Earth Democracy Committee and WILPF Burlington are offering webinars for each of these im… Updates
- Upcoming March 26 Webinar “Honoring African Women Who Strive for Justice!”The WILPF Africa Facebook page, used with permission.By the DISARM/End Wars Issue CommitteeMarch 2021On Friday, March 26, the DISARM Committee will host a webinar “Honoring African Women who Strive for Justice,” at 11:30 am PT, 2:30 pm ET, 8:30 pm (Nigeria time)Please click here to register in advan… Updates
- Overcoming Despair and Finding Hope in Difficult TimesBy Dorothy Van SoestWILPF Liaison to the Poor People’s Campaign and WILPF Women, Money & Democracy Committee memberMarch 2021Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to m… Updates
- Lebanon, the Forgotten CountryRiad El Soleh-Beirut, Lebanon - October 19, 2019: Lebanese protesters against the current government, and against corruptions in the country. Photo credit: Hiba Al Kallas / Shutterstock.com.By Nada FarhatMEPAJC member, WILPF US Jane Adams Branch, and WILPF Lebanon Executive MemberMarch 2021Lebanon’s… Updates
- Are You Ready to MOVE THAT MONEY?!What could we do with $74B taken from the Pentagon’s budget? Photo used with permission from the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.By Cherrill Spencer, Coordinator of Resource Preparation Team for the Call for Peace Campaign Nancy Price, Team MemberMarch 2021WILPF US is… Updates
- It’s All Here for You! Where to Find WILPF Webinars, eNews, and eAlertsBy Darien De LuWILPF US PresidentMarch 2021As you struggle with some unfamiliar computer program or app on your phone, breathe for a moment and remember: There is a good side to these electronics! Here at WILPF US we not only are creating more and more informative contentbut we’re also making it eas… Updates
- Committee Updates: Calling All Members to Anti-Racism Awareness; Webinar on International COVID Collaboration; Help WILPF Advance Human RightsWILPF member, Cherrill Spencer, with others at BLM rally, June 6, Palo Alto. Photo by Ruth Robertson, used with permission.February 2021WILPF Calls All Members to Anti-Racism Awareness Work Now is the time for all at-large and branch members to seek out deeper understandings and analysis of structur… Updates
- WILPFers All Over the US Celebrate Nuclear Treaty’s Entry into ForceThe Golden Rule showing a banner announcing the EIF of the TPNW sails past Oahu, Hawai’I between Kaneohe Bay and Honolulu, on January 22, 2021. WILPFer Helen Jaccard on left, Connie Durant on right. Photo by Captain Kiko, used with his permission.By Cherrill SpencerCoordinator of Resource Preparatio… Updates
- Plan of Action in the House for the TPNW and the Green New Deal: “Proposition One”Members of Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND), Nuclear Watch South (Glenn Carroll, far right), and WILPF US (Ellen Thomas, flashing a peace sign), met with then-Representative John Lewis (center) during Alliance for Nuclear Accountability DC Days in 2015, at which time Mr. Lewis agreed… Updates
- Lebanon WILPF Speaks: Join the February 9 Webinar!Women inside an abandoned construction site occupied by Syrian refugees in Saida, Lebanon in October 2015. Photo credit: Richard Juilliart / Shutterstock.com.By Nada Farhat, Tura Campanella Cook, Theresa El-Amin, and George Friday Middle East Peace & Justice Action Committee February 2021“Lebanon WI… Updates
- Webinar Thursday, February 18: Jane Addams, Two Chicagos, and the U.S. Rich-Poor Divide TodayJane Addams with children at Hull-House. Photo courtesy of the Swarthmore Peace Collection.By Darien De Lu WILPF US President, with Gloria McMillanFebruary 2021Many of us are aware of the "global" Jane Addams, but what do we know of the "local" Addams, who lived in the two worlds of Chicago at the t… Updates
- Time to Organize for World Water Day!By Nancy PriceCo-chair, Earth Democracy CommitteeFebruary 2021Time to organize for World Water Day March 22 on the theme “valuing water,” focused on pricing and also on the social, environmental, and cultural “value” of water. Join the global conversation about what water means to you.Join the Conve… Updates
- East Bay Branch’s Counter-Recruiting Project Featured on February 11 ONE WILPF CallEffie Dilworth, left, and Sandy Thacker, right, tabling at a local high school with a poster titled “Ten Points to Consider Before You Sign a Military Enlistment Agreement.” On the table is a wheel for the kids to spin with possible non-military careers to consider.By the ONE WILPF Call TeamFebruary… Updates
