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- Bolivia “the Election ReportPresidential candidate for the MAS party (Movement for Socialism), Luis Arce, leaves the Supreme Electoral Court in La Paz, Bolivia, after officially registering as a candidate on February 3, 2020. Photo credit: Radoslaw Czajkowski / Shutterstock.comBy Leni Villagomez ReevesCo-chair, Cuba and the Bo… Updates
- Life in the Balance: Knowing, Caring, and ActingPhoto shared by Dorothy Van Soest and used with her permission.November 2020By Dorothy Van SoestWILPF US Liaison to the Poor People’s CampaignAt the beginning of March, Seattle is designated a COVID-19 hot spot. Sheltering in the comfort of my privileged existence is an inconvenience, not a hardship… Updates
- International Day of Peace Celebrated by WILPF Branches All Over the USTo celebrate the International Day of Peace, the Greater Philadelphia branch helped to create a clothesline from which hung fact sheets describing how much money Philadelphia taxpayers pay towards the military in a year and the local items that money could have bought instead. Photo by WILPF member … Updates
- New Middle East Committee Name Expresses Who We Are and What We DoNovember 2020By Barbara TaftCo-chair, Middle East Peace and Justice Action CommitteeThe Middle East Committee has changed its name to better reflect who we are and what we do. We are now the Middle East Peace and Justice Action Committee. Several governments in the region have taken COVID-19 restric… Updates
- Branch Happenings: Greater Philadelphia Branch & Jane Addams BranchHelen Evelev (left) and Tina Shelton (right) attending the Peace Day Philly event on September 20, 2020, at Rittenhouse Square. Photo by Lynn Fitzgerald, used with permission.Greater Philadelphia Branch Conducts Socially Distant Activism!By Tina SheltonCo-chair, Greater Philadelphia Branch The Great… Updates
- Name that Newsletter! WILPF’s eNews Needs a New Name “What Are Your Suggestions?You don’t need to go out to a newsstand to be updated on WILPF US News, but help us give our monthly e-newsletter a catchy new name! November 2020By Darien De Lu WILPF US PresidentWhat name conveys the urgency of the news and the principles of WILPF? Ten or eleven months per year, WILPF US emails ou… Updates
- With a week before Election Day, what are you going to do to “Protect the Results”Now's the time to think it through!What if President Trump carried out his threats and refused to accept a loss in the Nov. 3 election? What are you — what are we — prepared to do to mobilize against a possible post-election coup d’état and a move toward fascism?We shouldn’t be surprised by Trump’s … Updates
- Committee Updates: Disarm October Events; AHR Honors Baker & Hamer; W$D Backs the THRIVE CampaignRay Acheson celebrating the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons outside the UN. Acheson will speak in a webinar sponsored by Disarm/End Wars on October 22. Photo by David Field, used with permission of Ray Acheson.October 2020October 2020 Disarm Events: Keep Space for Peace Week & Oct. 2… Updates
- Branch Happenings: Triangle (NC), Maine, & JA BranchMaine WILPF member Denny Dreher holds one of several large photo panels from the Japan Council against A & H bombs that was part of a 75th anniversary commemoration event cosponsored by the branch on August 8, 2020.October 2020Triangle Branch Active in GOTV Work and Contested Election TrainingsBy Lu… Updates
- All WILPFers Invited to Three Free Virtual Events on the Complex History of Women’s Suffrage: October 21 & 22Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner will deliver virtual presentations on women’s suffrage on October 21 & 22.By Marguerite AdelmanBurlington BranchOctober 2020With support from a WILPF US mini-grant, the Burlington Branch of WILPF has partnered with the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance and the League of Wo… Updates
- WILPF Offers Member and Branch Skills Training & Support Tools: Twitter Training October 15Learn the basics of tweeting at an October 15 national training for all WILPF members and branches!By Darien De LuPresident, WILPF USOctober 2020In these difficult yet crucial pandemic times, is your branch actively involved in issue-related activities – local ones or WILPF ones or both? For the las… Updates
- Join Two “Zoom of Our Own” Conversations on Economic Justice: October 13 & 27By Marybeth GardamChair, Women, Money & Democracy CommitteeOctober 2020What’s new at WILPF’s partner An Economy of Our Own (AEOO) and their Screwnomics project? Two intriguing “Zoom of Our Own” Conversations just for youco-sponsored by WILPF’s Women, Money & Democracy Committee.Register for these FR… Updates
- It’s Time for Emergency-Speed, Whole Society Climate Mobilization!Artwork depicting Pachamama, the Incan earth/time mother who is an ever-present and independent deity and who has her own creative power to sustain life on this earth. The Law of Mother Earth was written into the new Bolivian Constitution in 2009. Thank you to the unknown artist for this wonderful i… Updates
- WILPF US Seeks Applicants for August 1 Congress CoordinatorWILPFers join Detroit water picketers during the 2014 Congress. The 2021 Congress in August will be entirely virtual. Photo by Darien De Lu.October 2020We’ve set tentative dates for the WILPF US national Congress: Save these two weekends in August 2021 – August 6-8 and also August 13 -15 2021. Right… Updates
- Voting Power Unleashed: The Poor People’s Campaign Does M.O.R.E.October 2020By Dorothy Van SoestWILPF US Liaison to the Poor People’s CampaignA month before the election, our nation mourns 200,000 plus COVID-19 deaths, disproportionately concentrated among low-wage essential workers and people of color. Conflagration on our streets burns down centuries of willfu… Updates
- No Way to Treat a Child: Help Us End the Military Detention of Palestinian ChildrenStages of Detention Poster from the No Way to Treat a Child Campaign of Defense for Children International - Palestine.By Odile Hugonot Haber and Jan CordermanFor the Middle East Peace and Justice Action Committee October 2020Over the years we’ve kept WILPFers informed about the #nowaytotreatachild … Updates
- Fresno Branch Celebrates National Women’s Equality Day on August 26, 2020WILPF Fresno Branch members celebrating Women’s Equality Day on August 26, 2020. Back row, from left: Nancy Hatcher, Joan Poss, Bev Fitzpatrick, Teresa Castillo. Front row, from left: Ann Carruthers, Evonne Waldo, Jacinda Potikian, Jean Hays. Photo by Bev Greene.By Nancy HatcherMember, Fresno Branch… Updates
- In Honor of Justice Ruth Bader GinsburgWashington, D.C., September 19, 2020: Wreaths outside the Supreme Court after the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Photo credit: Eli Wilson / Shutterstock.com.By Jane “Cricket” DoyleUS Liaison to the WILPF International Board Americas RepresentativeOctober 2020On behalf of everyone in WILPF US, I write… Updates
- Thank You WILPF!By Alycia (Longriver) DavisCape Cod WILPF BranchCape Cod Branch member Alycia Longriver Davis, 71, has written a thank you letter to all WILPF members and has also shared two books she has created about peaceful living and respecting the earth. Her letter begins:“I’m Stage 4 cancer, hospice, spiritu… Updates
- Committee Updates: WILPF US Board’s “Call for Peace,” AHR Meets Oct. 1, W$D Public Banking Toolkit September 2020 WILPF US Promotes Call for Peace By Eileen Kurkoski and Darien DeLu WILPF is promoting radical ideas again! In August, the Board voted to agree with the Program Committee’s decision and support the Call for Peace proposal. The Call is for two major initiatives: a permanent extension … Updates
