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- The People vs. MonsantoBy Marybeth Gardam, Development Chair, and Nancy Price, Earth DemocracyAn international list of scientists and advocates to end corporate agriculture’s assault on people and nature, a People’s Tribunal vs. Monsanto, will take place October 14-16, 2016, in The Hague to hold Monsanto accountable for “… Updates
- Swap the art Representatives from the Tucson Branch and other organizations at the press conference outside Tucson City Hall. Courtesy Deborah Livingston. By Deborah Livingston, Co-Chair, Tucson WILPF Tucson WILPF members and representatives from several other organizations held a press conference outside Tucso… Updates
- Legacies that empower activism Photos l to r: Helga Herz; Credit Mary Grace Long. Joy Marks staffing a table; Courtesy Laura Dewey. By Marybeth Gardam, Development Chair The Detroit Branch of WILPF recently contributed $500 to support our Spring Appeal and the Craigslist “Pop Up Donation Challenge.” This means their gift could e… Updates
- Sacramento speaks out against anti-BDS bill By Ellen Schwartz, Sacramento/Sierra Foothills Branch Laurie Jones, Don Knutson, and Ellen Schwartz of the Sacramento Branch WILPF spoke on Tuesday, June 28, before the California state senate judiciary committee in opposition to the anti-BDS Act of 2016 (AB 2844), a bill that is anti-free speech, … Updates
- WILPF is updating our database. Keep an eye out for email.WILPF will be sending out an email soon to all WILPF US members requesting that you help us update our records. This email will allow you to review the information that we have in our database and then give you the opportunity to update this information. This is particularly important for branch aff… Updates
- “ONE WILPF”all member call By Marybeth Gardam, Development Chair The first “ONE WILPF” call was held Thursday, June 23. Every current member was invited to participate: 68 WILPF members preregistered for the call, and about 40 of those members called in. The second “ONE WILPF” call is scheduled for Wednesday, July 13, at 6 p… Updates
- Remembering Hiroshima and NagasakiBy Robin Lloyd, N. Vermont/Burlington BranchTwo members of Burlington WILPF met with the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, Miro Weinberger, on May 25 during his morning coffee hour with citizens and proposed that he join us in strategizing on a press conference and/or other events around Hiroshima Day. … Updates
- Exciting leadership opportunities! WILPF-US Board elections this fall! Do you want to take your WILPF membership to another level? Consider running for any of the five board positions that will be open in January 2017. We need enthusiastic, active members to serve on the board and help lead our organization. Elections will take place this fall, with nominating and app… Updates
- A Memorial Day celebrating peace Photo: From left, Flo Freshman, Cynthia Bennekaa, Marge Thornton, and Barbara Reed sharing stories of remembrance. Credit: Michael Taft, videographer. By Barbara Taft, Greater Phoenix Branch The Greater Phoenix Branch decided to reconceive Memorial Day, May 30, 2016, making it something unique—a d… Updates
- Support WILPF’s Spring Appeal and Support Peace!Dear WILPF Member or Friend, One of our younger members recently put WILPF’s situation in the 21st Century into powerful words. She said: “Those who oppose human rights and peace will always have funds to invest in violence and war. But organizations like WILPF will always have to seek funding for p… Updates
- Review program plan for WILPF Program Chairs Maureen N. Eke and Odile Hugonot Haber invite members and branches to review and participate in designing the strategic plan for our Section’s programs. The focus is on Advancing Peace, Justice, and Human Rights. An eAlert next week will direct members to the report and seek feedback… Updates
- Change national priorities “Tax Day By Odile Hugonot Haber odilehh@gmail.com WILPF branches around the country will join in Days of Action from April 15 to 18 as part of a worldwide protest against military expenditures. Weapons will not fix climate change; we need urgently to change our national priorities. Joan Brannigan reports th… Updates
- Women and the war on drugs Omayra Morales, former coca grower from Colombia, speaks at a coca farmers congress in Lima Peru in 2004. Credit: Transnational Institute By Robin Lloyd, Burlington VT BranchI will be a representative of WILPF International to the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs on April 19-20. T… Updates
- Defend Black Hills Photo: Miners’ Canaries Harold One Feather, Charmaine White Face and Leona Morgan spoke before Physicians for Social Responsibility, in Washington, DC, Jan 27, 2016.WILPF has been involved with the campaign for a moratorium on uranium mining at least since Ellen Thomas first met Charmaine Whitefac… Updates
- CSW panel with Gender at Work By Brandy Robinson, Advancing Human Rights Issue Committee The 60th United Nations Conference on the Status of Women sponsored a parallel event entitled “Expanding Gender Equality, Unbinding the Gender Binary,” featuring a collaboration of WILPF US, Gender at Work, Say This Not That! and S.H.E. (… Updates
- 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
