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- 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
- The Voting Rights Resources gives you tools and resources to take action to protect the freedom to vote!Before elections, on Election Day, and between elections WILPF member action can help voters stand up against systemic racism, poverty, and the war economy and militarism. From linking to organizations facilitating GOTV to letter-writing campaigns to elected representatives, find information and ide… Updates
- Announcements & Updates: WILPF US Elections, Freedom to Vote, Kentucky/Indiana Branch Meeting, Day of Dialogue, DPoW Event VideoNovember 2022WILPF US Elections: Thank You Board Candidates & Save the Date – November 10!by Darien De LuWILPF US PresidentWe are very glad to announce that two candidates are running for seats on WILPF’s national board:Barbara Neilsen for TreasurerGeorge Friday for Program Committee Chair. (one of … Updates
- Join the November 12 Global Day of Action during COP27 Climate Talks in EgyptA Fridays for Future student demonstration in Hamburg, Germany, on 9/23/2022. Students took to the streets to strike and demand that their politicians act urgently to prevent further global warming. Klaus Cook / Shutterstock.by Nancy Price, Co-chair, Earth Democracy CommitteeCindy Piester, WILPF Int… Updates
- Making Visible the Invisible: Poverty in the United Statesby Dorothy Van Soest Lifelong WILPF member and former WILPF Liaison to the Poor People’s Campaign November 2022Making thinkers out of fighters and fighters out of thinkers. — General Baker“Isn’t it wonderful,” a Poor People’s Campaign activist friend of mine excitedly proclaimed on Septemb… Updates
- WILPFers Take Part in “Defuse Nuclear War” Pickets All Over the USMarjorie Atkinson, 100 years old, adds her sign to the Santa Cruz branch action. Photo used with Marjorie’s permission. by Cherrill Spencer and Ellen Thomas Co-chairs, DISARM CommitteeNovember 2022WILPF US is a member of the "Defuse Nuclear War" coalition and our members all over the US enthu… Updates
