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- Taking Nuclear Free Future to DC By Carol Urner and Ellen Thomas for the Disarm/End Wars Issue CommitteeThe second Nuclear Free Future (NFF) Tour began April 1 and should end May 15. By mid-May we expect to be too exhausted to continue this new tour into the Southeastern states, up the East Coast and into the Midwest. We are sti… Updates
- Celebrate Earth Day April 22 Signs by Jeri Bodemar on left; and Paula LeRoy at the Santa Cruz climate march. Credit: Joy Hinz By Nancy Price, Earth Democracy Issue CommitteeOn Earth Day, let’s celebrate Berta Cáceres’ life and honor those in our communities who are dedicated to exposing and finding solutions to environmental r… Updates
- Tucson, Southern Indiana actions Photo: Tucson Branch members join others at vigils against drone attacks. Drone warfare - Tucson connections By Deborah Livingston Tucson AZ Branch Tucson WILPF members join others in the peace community at vigils outside the gates of Davis Monthan Air Force Base (where armed drones are piloted ar… Updates
- Florida Safe Harbor ActBy Brianna O’Steen, Advancing Human Rights, Human Trafficking SubcommitteeLater this month I will be hosting a webinar to present findings from my research on the Florida Safe Harbor Act and domestic minor sex trafficking across the state, as a graduate student at the University of South Florida. T… Updates
- Babycare: Way to universal healthcare? Photo credit: Quinn Dombrowski from Flickr Creative Commons By Marybeth Gardam and James Allison, Corporations v Democracy Issue CommitteeShould the Corporations v Democracy Issue Committee work on this idea for extending Medicare type benefits to newborns? Would you be willing to work on this with… Updates
- Crew the Golden Rule peace boat Helen, Ed, Dave, Michael on board Golden Rule Credit: Veterans for PeaceBy Helen Jaccard, Disarm / End Wars Issues Committee The Golden Rule sails to the Pacific Northwest this year, leaving Humboldt Bay at the end of May and returning in mid-October.We need crew and captains (no license necessa… Updates
- President re-elected by WILPF US President re-elected by WILPF US Mary Hanson Harrison has been elected to a second term as president of the WILPF US Section. Candidates for the remaining offices were approved by the membership, as well as a new dues structure. President Mary Hanson Harrison, winner Treasurer Jeanmarie Bish… Updates
- Act to redress murder of Berta Cﾃ｡ceres Berta Cáceras. Photo credit: Prachatai, Flickr Creative Commons March 10, 2016 Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section (WILPF US) condemns the murder of Honduran human rights activist Berta Cáceres. Click to Urgent action Follow International WILPF statement and comments … Updates
- CSW: Gender safety, developmentBy Dixie Hairston, Programs Coordinator. 2016 UN Practicum and Local2Global WILPF US will be sending a delegation to the 60th Commission on the Status of Women March 12-March 19 as part of our national and international work. The priority theme of the CSW this year is ‘Women’s Empowerment and its … Updates
- Plan World Water Day-March 22 Alexandra Hoffman and Judy Bonnell-Wenzel of Ann Arbor WILPF demonstrate on behalf of Flint residents. Credit: Odile Hugonot Haber By Nancy Price, Earth Democracy Committee World Water Day was created in 1993, one year after the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit. Plan an action or event now and post to t… Updates
- Equality is goal of Women’s Day Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown The 2016 theme for International Women’s Day is “Planet 50-50 by 2030: Step It Up for Gender Equality.”.March 8 is the official date, and WILPF US branches will be celebrating the day throughout the month. The United Nations observance will reflect on how to accelerate th… Updates
- Nuclear-Free Future tourText by Carol Urner, Photos by Ellen Thomas, Disarm/End Wars Issue Committee Nine WILPF Branches in California and three in Oregon participated in the Nuclear-Free Future learning and action program presented by Carol Urner and Ellen Thomas on behalf of the WILPF US Disarm/End Wars Issue Committee … Updates
- No Way to Treat a Child By Odile Hugonot Haber, Middle East Committee The No Way to Treat a Child campaign aims to expose the practice and impacts of Israeli military detention on Palestinian children to the US public and elected officials in order to hold Israel accountable to international laws and to build support for … Updates
- Mobilization to Stop the Drone WarsBy Helen Jaccard, Disarm / End Wars Issues Committee Join us March 27-April 2, 2016 at Creech Air Force Base, Indian Springs, Nevada for a 2nd national mobilization of nonviolent resistance to shut down killer drone operations in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and everywhere. Spe… Updates
- Arizona branch connects with youthBy Barbara Taft, Greater Phoenix Branch treasurer Greater Phoenix Branch has just put out its first newsletter, in which we told about our production of Most Dangerous Womenas well as our recent tabling at the Mesa Martin Luther King Day event. Since then, we tabled at Arizona State University durin… Updates
- Tucson –TPP, refugees, Gaza’s childrenBy Deborah Livingston, WILPF Tucson Branch Co-chair Members of the Tucson Branch demonstrated against the Trans Pacific Partnership at a Congressional office in February and tabled at the 34th Annual Peace Fair, whose theme was Compassion for Refugees & Migrants, All One World. The Raging Grannies s… Updates
- Memorials WILPF US remembers former board members, Ethel M. Jensen and Georgia Pinkel.. Ethel M. Jensen, 1921-2015 Longtime WILPF peace activist Ethel M. Jensen died on November 5, 2015. Ethel's life included an undergraduate education at Ohio State University, wartime marriage to Joe in 1944, birthing and … Updates
- Status update: Cities for CEDAW By Brandy Robinson, Advancing Human Rights Issue Committee The NGO Committee on the Status of Women and others officially started Cities for CEDAW campaign in 2013. The US is one of few countries not to ratify CEDAW – the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. … Updates
- 3-day walk to halt KM pipeline By Hattie Nestel The idea for the MLK, Jr Walk, over the January 16-18 weekend, to oppose the Kinder Morgan pipeline was a sudden inspiration, when a lightbulb went off in my head on a short walk in mid-December opposing the same pipeline. I reported on this 429-mile $5 billion pipeline project in… Updates
- Ready for Water Day & Earth Day? By Marybeth Gardam, Corporations v Democracy Issue Committee Chair The interconnectedness of water with resource conflicts and war is becoming better understood among activists, but we need to keep raising this in our communities. Water has also become a hot-button issue that spotlights economic in… Updates
