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- First International Conference Against US/NATO Military Bases, November 16-18 in Dublin By Nancy Price For Disarm and Earth Democracy Issue Committees The First International Conference Against US/NATO Military Bases will be held November 16-18, 2018, in Dublin, Ireland. The conference is jointly organized by the Peace and Neutrality Alliance (PANA), Ireland, and the Coalition Against… Updates
- WILPF US Supports Bill to End Israeli Military Detention of Palestinian Children By Jan Corderman Des Moines Branch and WILPF US Treasurer An estimated 10,000 Palestinian children have been detained by Israeli security forces and prosecuted in the Israeli military court system since 2000. Independent monitors such as Human Rights Watch have documented that these children are… Updates
- Screwnomics and Its Potential for WILPF Branches By Marybeth Gardam Chair, Corporations v Democracy Issue Committee A new book is making waves across the country with information that is both practical and approachable… and appeals to women caught in an economy that deliberately disadvantages them. Your Corporations v Democracy Chair is delight… Updates
- Development Needs Research Sleuths and Card Glitch Squad! By Marybeth Gardam Development Chair The Development Committee is looking for two groups of members who can help in specific (NOT asking for money) ways. These are small, discrete assignments but they will make a big difference in funding our work. If you are often online and enjoy doing rese… Updates
- #NoWar 2018: World Beyond War Conference, September 21-22 in Toronto By Leah Bolger Disarm/End Wars Committee and World Beyond War WILPF partner organization, World Beyond War (WBW), will be holding their third annual conference on September 21-22 in Toronto, Canada. The conference will be held at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) and the theme this year … Updates
- Humboldt WILPF Joins “Families Belong Together”March and Holds Annual Book Sale The Humboldt WILPF Branch with their banner at a local “Families Belong Together” march. By Sue Hilton President, Humboldt Branch We've been pretty busy here in Humboldt this month, gathering for the Poor Peoples Campaign, marching to keep families together, and celebrating the Fourth of July with … Updates
- Forty Days of PPC Nonviolent Direct Action Culminate at the US Capitol Brenda McGowan, Rockford IL Branch, and Mary Hanson Harrison, WILPF-US President, at the June 23 Poor People’s Campaign Rally in Washington, DC. Photo: Phoebe Sogren. By Mary Bricker-Jenkins Chair, ad hoc WILPF4PPC Committee “This is a movement, not a moment,” Rev. Dr. William Barber reminded us … Updates
- WILPF Earth Democracy Member to Attend the 2018 HLPF By Dawn Nelson WILPF Earth Democracy is developing an agenda to integrate the work from this issue committee into broader WILPF work. WILPF Earth Democracy issue committee member Dawn Nelson will attend the 2018 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) on Sustainable Development at the United Nations to… Updates
- Disarm/End Wars Co-Chairs Secure First Signature on Congressional PledgeJoanne Steele, Rick Wayman, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Robin Lloyd, and Ellen Thomas, at Norton's office on May 21, 2018. By Ellen Thomas Co-Chair, Disarm/End Wars Committee Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton met with Robin Lloyd and Ellen Thomas, the co-chairs of the WILPF-US Disarm/End Wars Committee… Updates
- WILPF Branches Poor People’s Campaign Round Up: Weeks 1 and 2Katherine Flaherty of WILPF DC Metro, Camille Dantzel , a PhD candidate at Howard University, and WILPF US Board member Marybeth Gardam joined hundreds on the Capitol lawn in DC at the kickoff launch for the Poor People's Campaign on May 14, 2018. They held the WILPF4PPC Banner aloft and marched to … Updates
- WILPF’s Triennial International Congress in Ghana: What You Need to Know */, By Zala Zbogar Congress Coordinator (Geneva) We are excited to gather with all of you in Accra, Ghana, for The 32nd WILPF Triennial International Congress to be held August 20-22. This year's Congress is the first to be hosted in Africa. With expanding WILPF membership in the region and our g… Updates
- Burlington Branch to Host Five-Day Hibakusha EventShigeko Sasamori, one of the Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors), with a student at Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, OK. Photo: www.hibakushastories.org By Robin Lloyd Burlington Branch The Burlington, Vermont Branch of WILPF and Hibakusha Stories are working on a very special project for st… Updates
- Honor the Dead by Working for PeaceIsaac Villegas, pastor of the Chapel Hill Mennonite Fellowship, delivers an address at the Memorial Day Commemoration of the Victims of War held in Chapel Hill on May 28. Photo credit: Emily O’Hare, WILPF member. By Lucy Lewis Triangle (NC) Branch Steering Committee Triangle (NC) WILPF was deeply en… Updates
- Developing a Peace Movement Middle East Agenda Photo source: US Campaign for Palestinian Rights By Odile Hugonot Haber and the Middle East Committee Since Israel attacked the US ship “Liberty,” a ship the US had sent to monitor the Suez Canal in the beginning of the Six Days War (1967), relations between the US and Israel have become increasing… Updates
- Working Group Discusses the History of US RacismHoward University students protest outside the National Crime Conference in Washington, DC, 1934 (© Bettmann, Getty Images), from the Equal Justice Initiative’s website www.eji.org. By Courteney Leinonen Convener, Racial Justice Working Group of the Advancing Human Rights Issues Committee On May 24,… Updates
- Recent Maine Branch ActivitiesProtesters demonstrate outside a US Marine base on Okinawa. The US plans to greatly expand the base in the rural fishing village of Henoko. Photo Credit: Sonia Narang, PRI. By Martha Spiess and Christine DeTroy Maine Branch of WILPF Our small branch continues to collaborate with Brunswick's local pe… Updates
- WILPF/Poor People’s Campaign: 40 Days of Action Begin May 14!By Marybeth Gardam, Nancy Price, and Mary Bricker-JenkinsWILPF-US, as a national partner of the PPC, will be represented at the opening Monday, May 14th and closing June 23rd events in Washington, DC, as well as at state capitals and branch locations around the country over the 40 Days of Action. Th… Updates
- Peace and the PPC at the Aviano Air Base, Italy Two Partisans for Peace: In the foreground is Dom Pierluigi of the Balducci Center and a parish priest in Zugliano, in the background is the oldest living partisan in the region speaking on defending democracy then and now. Photo credit: Mary Bricker-Jenkins. By Mary Bricker-Jenkins Chair, Poor Peo… Updates
- Militarism and War Cause Ecological Devastation World Beyond War flotilla on the Potomac. www.worldbeyondwar.org By Nancy Price Militarism and Ecological Destruction, two of the four evils described by the Poor People's Campaignwere the focus of the “Environment and Health” Plenary at the conference on U.S Foreign Military Bases, held January 12… Updates
- Interested in Middle East Issues? Join Our Meeting! By Middle East Committee Leadership Group Calling all members and each branch to send a rep to join our Middle East Issues Committee calls. Join us in an exciting conversation about what our Middle East Committee’s work and areas of focus might look like going forward! The 2018 Call Series… Updates
