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- Passionate about WILPF’s Mission? Join the Development Committee!By Jan CordermanWILPF US TreasurerApril 2021We’re inviting you to join WILPF’s Development Committee. Our committee's job is not simply to raise money. The committee is responsible for overseeing the organization's overall fundraising to carry out our current plan and to help create and establish th… Updates
- Committee Updates: Join “Before or After” Calls; Support WILPF US Anti-Racism Efforts; Send Responses to Virtual P&F and Photos for New WebsiteWe want to hear your thoughts about the first virtual Peace & Freedom issue!April 2021All Are Invited to Half-Hour Calls Before and/or After Program Meeting on Tuesday, April 6!By Darien De LuPresident, WILPF USAnother month, another chance to ask your WILPF questions! And another chance for me to m… Updates
- Earth Day Is April 22 “Time to Plan Now!By Nancy PriceCo-chair, Earth DemocracyApril 2021Calling all WILPF branches and members to celebrate Earth Day on April 22. This year’s theme is “Restore Our Earth.” What are you planning? What is your community planning? Let’s all commit to living as if Earth Day is every day!It’s time to plan an e… Updates
- Holding the Military AccountableA film still from the documentary No Defense: The U.S. Military’s War on Water by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sara Ganim.By Marguerite AdelmanWILPF Burlington Branch and VT PFAS and the Military CoalitionApril 2021More than 650 towns contaminated. Millions of Americans affected. The largest-kn… Updates
- Urge Support for Senate Bill to End the US Blockade of CubaGroup of people marching against the US blockade of Cuba in Santa Clara, Cuba, on May 1, 2019. Photo credit: Julio Rivalta / Shutterstock.com.By Leni Villagomez ReevesCo-chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance CommitteeApril 2021WILPF US supports a new bill in the US Senate (S.249) that would end th… Updates
- The American Recovery Act & Move the Money: A Rare Window of OpportunityImage by pasja1000 from Pixabay.By Marybeth GardamONE WILPF Call TeamApril 2021The next ONE WILPF call on Thursday, April 8 (4 pm PST / 7 pm EST) will have two wonderful speakers offering insight and action plans to redirect short term and longer term public funding towards the public good. We have … Updates
- Apply Now to be Part of a Nationwide WILPF Study & Discussion Group to Uproot Racism!Photo & design by Eileen Kurkoski.ByEileen Kurkoski, Coordinator of the Anti-Racism TeamJoan Goddard & Janice Hawkins, Anti-Racism Team members April 2021Starting Saturday, May 1 at 12 noon ET, 9 am PT, WILPF is offering a 7-week study and discussion group about personal and systemic racism based… Updates
- Triangle WILPF Holds Virtual RetreatFrom left, WILPF members Lori Hoyt, Lorna Chafe, Lucy Lewis, and Miriam Thompson at a Fight For $15 rally at the North Carolina State Capitol in Raleigh in 2019.By Lorna Chafe Triangle (NC) BranchApril 2021Triangle WILPF in NC held a virtual retreat on February 27, 2021, over a three-hour period wit… Updates
- Branch Happenings: Maine and PittsburghThe #NuclearBan Banner recently visited Suzanne Hedrick (top image), 38 years after she crisscrossed Maine with a mock missile to protest their proposed testing in Maine. Christine DeTroy (bottom image) launched the #NuclearBan Banner Campaign in January to celebrate the Treaty on the Prohibition of… Updates
- Webinar on March 14 Will Celebrate the Advancement of Cuban Women!Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, MPH, left, and Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera, right, will speak at a March 14 webinar celebrating Cuban women.By the Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issue CommitteeMarch 2021“Feminist Solidarity! Celebrating International Women’s Day and the Advancement of Cuban Women”: Web… Updates
- Join March 17 Zoominar: “The Space Force: Who Cares About an Arms Race in Space?”A banner celebrating the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was placed in front of the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge in Maine.By Martha SpiessMaine WILPFMarch 2021Maine’s sole nuclear power plant, “Maine Yankee,” operated from 1972-1996. It was shut down du… Updates
- This Year’s CSW Forum Panels Are Virtual; Attend Our March 18 Panel on the International Peace TrainIn 1995, WILPF sponsored a “Peace Train” that brought 230 women and 10 men from 42 countries to the Fourth UN Conference on Women in Beijing. During the three-week trek from Helsinki, Finland, to Beijing the activists met with women’s groups and political leaders. Credit: WILPF archive. (Prizes for … Updates
- World Water Day and Earth Day Programs: Save the Dates for Two Free WebinarsBy Marguerite AdelmanEarth Democracy Committee and Burlington WILPFMarch 2021Is your branch looking for safe ways to learn about and acknowledge World Water Day on March 22 and Earth Day on April 22? WILPF US’s Earth Democracy Committee and WILPF Burlington are offering webinars for each of these im… Updates
- Upcoming March 26 Webinar “Honoring African Women Who Strive for Justice!”The WILPF Africa Facebook page, used with permission.By the DISARM/End Wars Issue CommitteeMarch 2021On Friday, March 26, the DISARM Committee will host a webinar “Honoring African Women who Strive for Justice,” at 11:30 am PT, 2:30 pm ET, 8:30 pm (Nigeria time)Please click here to register in advan… Updates
- Overcoming Despair and Finding Hope in Difficult TimesBy Dorothy Van SoestWILPF Liaison to the Poor People’s Campaign and WILPF Women, Money & Democracy Committee memberMarch 2021Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to m… Updates
- Lebanon, the Forgotten CountryRiad El Soleh-Beirut, Lebanon - October 19, 2019: Lebanese protesters against the current government, and against corruptions in the country. Photo credit: Hiba Al Kallas / Shutterstock.com.By Nada FarhatMEPAJC member, WILPF US Jane Adams Branch, and WILPF Lebanon Executive MemberMarch 2021Lebanon’s… Updates
- Are You Ready to MOVE THAT MONEY?!What could we do with $74B taken from the Pentagon’s budget? Photo used with permission from the National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies.By Cherrill Spencer, Coordinator of Resource Preparation Team for the Call for Peace Campaign Nancy Price, Team MemberMarch 2021WILPF US is… Updates
- It’s All Here for You! Where to Find WILPF Webinars, eNews, and eAlertsBy Darien De LuWILPF US PresidentMarch 2021As you struggle with some unfamiliar computer program or app on your phone, breathe for a moment and remember: There is a good side to these electronics! Here at WILPF US we not only are creating more and more informative contentbut we’re also making it eas… Updates
- Committee Updates: Calling All Members to Anti-Racism Awareness; Webinar on International COVID Collaboration; Help WILPF Advance Human RightsWILPF member, Cherrill Spencer, with others at BLM rally, June 6, Palo Alto. Photo by Ruth Robertson, used with permission.February 2021WILPF Calls All Members to Anti-Racism Awareness Work Now is the time for all at-large and branch members to seek out deeper understandings and analysis of structur… Updates
- WILPFers All Over the US Celebrate Nuclear Treaty’s Entry into ForceThe Golden Rule showing a banner announcing the EIF of the TPNW sails past Oahu, Hawai’I between Kaneohe Bay and Honolulu, on January 22, 2021. WILPFer Helen Jaccard on left, Connie Durant on right. Photo by Captain Kiko, used with his permission.By Cherrill SpencerCoordinator of Resource Preparatio… Updates
