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- New Series of Ray Acheson Articles on “Abolishing Structures of Violence”ICAN campaigner Ray Acheson of WILPF speaks at a September 2016 protest against the main US military base in Australia, Pine Gap, which is involved in nuclear targeting. Credit: Tim Wright. By Odile Hugonot Haber July 2020 Ray Acheson recently made available to us the beginning of a series of articl… Updates
- Cuba Contains COVID-19 Here’s How It’s Done A Maternity Home in Santiago de Cuba. All photos by Yoamaris Neptuno Dominguez, used with permission. By Leni Villagomez Reeves Co-chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Committee July 2020 Some COVID-19 Facts Between May 15, 2020, and June 21, 2020, known COVID-19 cases in the United States went… Updates
- The Restoration of Memory Credit: MeganBrady/Shutterstock.com. By Darien De Lu WILPF US President July 2020 WILPF has a long and honorable history, and WILPF US has been part of that history since the beginning. Now WILPF US is looking for ways to revive among our members the knowledge of that history. If you’re interested … Updates
- Remembering Vivian Schatz of the Greater Philadelphia BranchFrom May 27, 2017: Vivian Schatz, seated, with Sylvia Metzler, Greater Philadelphia Branch co-chair, Marlena Santoya, and Linda Schatz, one of Vivan’s daughters. Photo courtesy Tina Shelton. July 2020 The Greater Philadelphia Branch was recently notified by Vivian Schatz’s daughter Linda Schatz t… Updates
- Poem for Sadako Sasaki by Alycia DavisHiroshima, Japan, April 2017: Children's Peace Monument, This monument for peace commemorates Sadako Sasaki and the children victims of the atomic bombing. Credit: Shutterstock.com. By Alycia Davis Cape Cod Branch July 2020 A Thousand Cranes (for Sadako Sasaki, Hiroshima A-Bomb victim) It is said… Updates
- Committee Updates and Action Items: June 2nd Program Call, Disarm Webinar Series Issue Committee action plans will be discussed on the June 2nd Program Call. All are welcome! June 2020 June 2 Program Call for All Members! By Joan Goddard Program Committee Chair All WILPF US Members: Please join the June 2nd Program Call at 5 pm PDT / 8 pm EDT. We will all discuss the issue com… Updates
- PPC Mass Gathering on June 20 Confronts Racial and Economic Inequities By Dorothy Van Soest Women, Money & Democracy Issue Committee June 2020 As new COVID-19 cases and deaths keep climbing each day in the U.S., reaching staggering numbers that represent unfathomable suffering, the pandemic is revealing that our systems and structures desperately need to be reimagined… Updates
- Cape Cod Branch Creates Clothesline Displays at Home Mary Zepernick examines the Sexual Assault Awareness Month display in South Yarmouth, MA. The Clothesline Project originated in her living room in 1990. By Elenita Muniz Cape Cod WILPF June 2020 The Cape Cod Branch of WILPF has finally reached the stage we’ve witnessed in other branches but never t… Updates
- New WILPF Films and Recordings in Swarthmore Peace Collection… Updates
- Syria Faces a Calamitous Situation The city of Homs in Syria. Credit: Shutterstock.com. By Odile Hugonot Haber and Regina Birchem Middle East Committee June 2020 The war in Syria, ongoing for nine years, leaves the country with a shattered infrastructure, more than 400 medical facilities damaged or completely destroyed, and schools,… Updates
- Petition Calls for Nobel Peace Prize to Go to Cuban Medical Teams At Delmas 33, a camp for displaced Haitians in Port-au-Prince, a woman grimaces as a Cuban doctor administers a vaccination provided by the World Health Organization (WHO) on February 16, 2010. UN Photo/Sophia Paris By Cindy Domingo and Leni Reeves Co-chairs, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance June 2… Updates
- Vote Earth Campaign Addresses Urgent Issues June 2020 There are two Earth Days this year – April 22 and November 4, Election Day. For the 50th year anniversary, the Earth Day International Network launched the global Earth Day 2020 "Vote Earth" Campaign. Now, we are facing the COVID-19 election emergency. The organizers of Vote Earth state: … Updates
- Nuclear Ban Petition Stats and Treaty Ratification UpdateStudents sign a petition to move the money from nuclear weapons to clean energy and other human needs in Lafayette Park, north of the White House. Photo by Ellen Thomas.June 2020By Ellen Thomas Disarm/End WarsAt the WILPF US Triennial Congress in Minneapolis in August 2017, a petition to United Sta… Updates
- Mother’s Day Call for Healthcare for All and PeaceOn Sunday we honor mothers. In this pandemic period, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom US honors all mothers and women nationwide who have lost their lives to COVID-19, including 88 (mostly female) nurses, as of this writing. Two women who had cared for both Civil War soldiers a… Updates
- Committee Updates and Action Items May 2020 Program Committee Join Next Open Program Committee Meeting on June 2 By Joan Goddard The national Program Committee meeting on Tuesday, June 2 at 5/6/7/8 pm will follow up on the nifty open-to-all-members meeting we had in April, with annual program planning breakout rooms for branch and a… Updates
- COVID-19 Toll in the Middle East Is High Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, has infected thousands of people in the Middle East. Map from middleeasteye.net, used with permission. By Ellen Rosser, Middle East Committee memberBarbara Taft, Middle East Committee Co-Chair May 2020 COVID-19 is infecting the Middle East. Iran is the worst hit… Updates
- Help Us Prepare for 75th Anniversary Activities Thousands of paper cranes were donated to WILPF US last summer by Japanese atomic bomb survivors and peace activists. Photo by Jan Corderman. By Ellen Thomas, Cherrill Spencer, and Robin Lloyd Disarm/End Wars Issue Committee May 2020 Plans are underway to mark two important 75th anniversaries, and … Updates
- Happy 105th Birthday WILPF! Photo by Cherill Spencer. By Judy AdamsPeninsula/Palo Alto Branch, WILPF International May 2020 On April 28, 1915, during World War I, a unique group of 1,136 women from warring and neutral nations gathered in The Hague to discuss how to end the war and ensure permanent peace. The meeting ended wit… Updates
- Fresno Branch Loses Two “Driving Forces” Ellie Bluestein and Nora DeWitt Ellie Bluestein, left and Nora DeWitt, right, both longtime activists in the Fresno Branch. By Leni Villagomez Reeves and Darien De Lu May 2020 Fresno, California WILPF recently lost two of its longtime activist members, Nora DeWitt and Ellie Bluestein–both driving forces in making Fresno WILPF the… Updates
- Baltimore and Tucson Branches Remember Pat BirniePat Birnie, longtime WILPF activist. By Marliese Diaz Former Chair, Baltimore Branch May 2020 Baltimore and Arizona lost another extraordinary WILPF member on April 15, 2020, Pat Birnie. Pat turned 90 last September 2. Through the 1980s and until she moved first to Florida and then to Arizona in 199… Updates
