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- Accelerating Change in Iowa and NC: Fighting Factory Farms and Getting the “Scoop on the Poop”by Jan Cordeman, Lib Hutchby, and Nancy PriceEarth Democracy CommitteeFebruary 2023WILPFers in Iowa and North Carolina are showing us how to “accelerate change” on the local level, working with allies toward a moratorium on factory farms and exposing the environmental racism of CAFOs.For decades, sm… Updates
- WILPF Board Budget Builds Bridges to the Future with BequestsIn Ghana, a WILPF member directs her attention forward.by Darien De LuWILPF US PresidentFebruary 2023Here we are, in a new year, but still here we see the global and national problems that both preceded and grew in extent in 2022. Looming ahead is the 2024 election year. So what is WILPF going to do… Updates
- Women in Nicaragua TripPicture of our Brigade with six members of Las Dioses Co-op (works closely with La Fondacion Entre Mujeres (FEM), or Foundation between Women). I’m in the back row, third from right.by Dianne BlaisWILPF US SecretaryConvener, Jane Addams BranchFebruary 2023I was one of 22 women who traveled in Nicara… Updates
- New One WILPF Call Format, Calendar, and Feedback SurveyBy Ashley Carrington and Marybeth GardamOne WILPF Call TeamFebruary 2023Our One WILPF Calls for 2023 are now quarterly. Our format is shifting a bit, and we’re asking for your feedback in a short survey.Starting with our January 12th call, we’ve shifted to a quarterly pattern for these calls. Since… Updates
- Greater Philadelphia Branch Continues Anti-racism and No Nukes WorkMembers of the North-West Green Party of Philadelphia with the Divest Philly from the War Machine Banner standing at the Federal Courthouse on January 22.by Tina SheltonMember, Greater Philadelphia BranchFebruary 2023Greater Philadelphia Branch continues its anti-racism work through a bimonthly Roun… Updates
- Announcements & Updates: Feb. 7 Facebook Training and Feb. 13 Galentines Day Zoom PartyFebruary 2023Feb. 7 Facebook Training for Experienced Participantsby Darien De LuWILPF US PresidentWILPF counts on our members to help with the social media (SM) posts needed for WILPF outreach and publicity, and Facebook is, currently, the SM platform most widely used by WILPFers.On Tuesday, Februa… Updates
- Help Get Cuba off the US list of State Sponsors of TerrorismYou can help share the facts through supporting resolutions, so that people in the U.S. know the truth about Cuba. Help pass resolutions in your community. Initially designed for city councils, resolutions are also applicable to organizations — unions, churches, others — to show what is in fact true… Updates
- Critique of the Israeli Government’s Actions Toward Palestinians Is Not Hatred Toward JewsA group of tour guides in their national dress pose in front of the Knotted Gun sculpture at UN Headquarters in NYC. Photo credit: UN Photo/Andrea Brizzi, from the United Nations Facebook page.by Genie Silver, Jan Corderman, Louise Lisi, & Tura Campanella CookMiddle East Peace & Justice Action Commi… Updates
- Announcements & Updates: 2023 “Gathering” Approved; Join WILPF SMART; Jane Addams Branch Is WILPF’s Virtual BranchJanuary 2023Virtual “Gathering” Approved for Summer 2023by Dianne Blais WILPF US Gathering ChairThe WILPF US Board recently approved a virtual “Gathering” for 2023. To avoid possible confusion, we don’t use the word “Congress” since the Bylaws have special provisions pertaining to WILPF Congresse… Updates
- The Commission on the Status of Women Forum Is Coming Up Soon!WILPF CSW Forum Participants enjoy the evening together in 2019, the last year meetings were held in person.By Jan CordermanCo-coordinator of WILPF’s CSW ProgramsJanuary 2023The UN Commission on the Status of Women will hold its 67th session March 6-17, 2023, with the priority theme: “Innovation and… Updates
- Jim Allison Turns 90: WILPF US Proclaims January 21st a Day of Pro-Democracy Action in His HonorJim and Tomi Allison at an Inaugurate the Revolution event in January 2017. Photo credit: Limestone Postby Marybeth GardamChair, W$D CommitteeJanuary 2023Shortly before Jim Allison’s 90th Birthday on December 23, 2022, he agreed to an interview over Zoom with Marybeth Gardam, Chair of the Women, Mon… Updates
- Planning for an In-Person WILPF Congress in 20242017 Chicago Congress Leadership Institute participants and presenters.By Darien De LuWILPF US PresidentJanuary 2023About three years ago, as WILPF President, I was working with the national Congress Committee, looking for appropriate venues for our 2020 Congress. Then the COVID pandemic began, and … Updates
- Something to CELEBRATE: Second Anniversary of TPNW’s Entry Into ForceThis image was provided by the Nuclear Ban Treaty Collaborative of which WILPF US is a member.by Cherrill Spencer and Ellen ThomasCo-chairs, DISARM CommitteeJanuary 2023It feels like we don’t have much to celebrate lately so the DISARM Committee invites all WILPFers to get out on their favorite dem… Updates
- Carrboro City Council in NC Passes Strong Resolution in Favor of TPNWSome of the WILPF members and friends who gathered on December 6 to support the Carrboro City Council’s passage of a resolution supporting the TPNW.By Anne CassebaumTriangle BranchJanuary 2023Triangle WILPF is working for nuclear disarmament by supporting the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear … Updates
- Report Back from COP27 by Our Delegate Cindy PiesterFrom left, WILPF women Nouha Ghosseini (Lebanon), Ayo Ayoola-Amale (Ghana), Cindy Piester (United States), and Tamara Lorencz (Canada) call for peace in the COP27 Blue Zone.by Cindy PiesterWILPF US Delegate to COP 27January 2023I was the WILPF US Delegate to the 27th Conference of the Parties to the… Updates
- The Risks of Artificial Intelligent Weapons and the Need for Negotiations and Treatiesby Eileen KurkoskiChair of the Anti-Killer Drones Group, DISARM CommitteeJanuary 2023Artificial intelligence is developing quickly and impacting many aspects of our lives. Militaries are using it in weaponry, including nuclear weapons, to grow and maintain power, even if it jeopardizes our very exis… Updates
- Gun Violence in America Can and Must Be Challenged!Tallahassee, Florida / February 21, 2018. A huge crowd participated at a “Never Again” rally to protest and change gun laws after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Photo credit: KMH PHOTOVIDEO, Shutterstock.com.By Virginia Pratt, LICSWWILPF Boston BranchJanuary 2023According to t… Updates
- Fresno Branch Makes Video about Farmworkers and Covid-19Angel Vasquez and Patricia Wells in a play available on YouTube that was co-written by Agustin Lira and WILPF Fresno member Patricia Wells. By Patricia WellsFresno BranchJanuary 2023WILPF Fresno has recently completed a video about Covid-19 and farmworkers and is in the process of distributing it. T… Updates
- Letter Writing to Ease the MindBy Ellen MassBoston BranchJanuary 2023The Boston chapter of WILPF US started a Saturday morning letter writing group in September 2020 because of memories from the letter writing group of Yvonne Pappenheim here in Boston who would insist on bringing senior WILPF women together at her home where she … Updates
- Maine WILPFers Call for DiplomacyPeter Morgan of Maine Veterans for Peace and Jacqui Deveneau of Maine WILPF hold new “Diplomacy” banners at a winter solstice event in Portland, Maine.By Martha Spiess and Christine DeTroyMaine BranchJanuary 2023Concerned Maine WILPFers have been actively supporting the call for a Christmas Truce. T… Updates
