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- Rise Up! Women Organizing for Action Join us for the WILPF US 33rd Triennial Congress, Thursday July 27 – Sunday July 30, in the vibrant city of Chicago! The Congress Planning Committee is hard at work creating a great program to inspire and engage. We are building a “working Congress”—one geared toward collaboration, so we can contin… Updates
- Report on the Commission on the Status of Women 2017 At the CSW event dedicated to the conversation on the #NoBordersOnGenderJustice Initiative. Credit: Alexandra Rojas/WILPF. By Robin Lloyd, Burlington Branch and co-chair of DISARM/EndWar The annual gathering of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the UN in New York City involves more glo… Updates
- Energizing the San Diego Branch By Anne Hoiberg, WILPF member, San Diego How exciting it was to participate in a successful panel presentation, a parallel event at the United Nations’ CSW61, March 17. Not only did the three refugee panelists tell their harrowing stories related to war or persecution, but they also discussed their… Updates
- ONE WILPF: Standing in solidarity across WILPF US, April 22, 2017 Solidarity events are moving forward in 26 branches across the US, and the benefits for WILPF US and for our branches are wide-ranging. Turns out, Solidarity is fun and empowering. These events connect us to one another and to new allies in our communities. They raise our visibility and amplify our… Updates
- International Women’s Day Margaret Prescod speaking at the LA Branch luncheon. Credit: WILPF LA Branch, Youtube. WILPF US branches around the country marked March 8, International Women’s Day, by being bold for change. Here are three accounts, from both coasts. Maine Distributes Flowers and Peace By Jean Sanborn, WILPF M… Updates
- Water as life —Protect our water commons By Nancy Price, Earth Democracy Native Americans and indigenous peoples worldwide know water sustains life and is sacred. Their relationship with the natural world is unique. The Standing Rock Lakota opposition to the DAPL is to protect the sacredness of our water commons for all people. Here’s wha… Updates
- Challah for Gaza, mouth-off monologues, and postcards and pizza Tucson Branch members. Courtesy Deborah Livingston. Tucson, Des Moines, and Detroit Branches hold novel events to raise funds—and awareness. Challah for Gaza By Deborah Livingston, co-chair, Tucson WILPF On Sunday, March 19, the Tucson Branch of the Woman’s International League for Peace and Freedo… Updates
- Anytown USA says NO to Trump budget Infographic on military spending. Credit: Global Campaign on Military Spending, www.demilitarize.org . By Leah Bolger, chair, Corvallis, OR WILPF Branch Recently, the Charlottesville, VA City Council voted unanimously to oppose the Trump budget proposal because of its large increase in military s… Updates
- Greater Phoenix Branch is growing and on the move Some of the peace posters produced by young visitors to the Greater Phoenix Branch’s Peace Kids booth at the Scottsdale Arts Festival were hung in the branch’s “art gallery.” Credit: Mike Taft. By Barbara Taft, Greater Phoenix Branch treasurer The Greater Phoenix Branch has been busy with tabling a… Updates
- The Golden Rule: Helping to “End the Whole Nuclear Era” Sailing in Bellingham, Washington Harbor, on The Golden Rule, August 20, 2016. Credit: Gerry Condon. By Helen Jaccard, WILPF US at-large member, Veterans For Peace associate member, VFP Golden Rule project manager WILPF will again play a big role in the voyage of the Golden Rule Anti-Nuclear Protes… Updates
- WILPF Santa Cruz works to end solitary confinement torture Santa Cruz WILPF members Cat Heron Steele and Willow Katz protest torture and the Trump inauguration, January 20, 2017. Credit: John Malkin.By Willow Katz, Santa Cruz WILPF Since 2012, over 2,500 prisoners in California have been released from Security Housing Units (SHU)—solitary—to general prison… Updates
- Monterey benefit concert for Syria By Judy Karas, co-chair, WILPF Monterey County Branch The WILPF US Monterey County Branch joined the Monterey Peace and Justice Center and the Monterey Peninsula Friends Meeting (Quakers) on February 3, 2017, to sponsor “A Musical and Cultural Benefit for Syria,” a benefit concert for Syrian refuge… Updates
- The ONE WILPF CALL is for all members! Submitted by the Development Committee of WILPF US The ONE WILPF CALL is for all members! Join the March 9 call to learn about a second Solidarity Event being planned for June 18. WILPF International is asking WILPF US members to take action together. You don’t have to be a branch leader or contact… Updates
- DISARM/End Wars updates 2017 Nuclear Free Future Tour route. Join in the Women’s March to Ban the Bomb; follow the next segment of the Nuclear Free Future Tour; petition against shipments of extremely hazardous liquid weapons-grade radioactive materials. Women’s March to Ban the Bomb, June 18—NYC and everywhere! WILPF bra… Updates
- Tucson Raging Grannies sing for peace The Tucson Raging Grannies getting ready to sing at the 2017 Peace Fair. From left: Barbara Taylor, Rosemary Plakas, Deb Livingston, Marita Stith, and Stephanie Keenan. Courtesy Deborah Livingston. By Deborah Livingston, Co-Chair, Tucson WILPF The Tucson Raging Grannies performed at Tucson’s 35th a… Updates
- Spending Inauguration Day in civic engagement From left: Marlena Santoya, Stelle Sheller, Tina Shelton, and Judy Elson at the Free Library of Philadelphia, January 20, 2017. Courtesy Tina Shelton. By Tina Shelton, Greater Philadelphia Branch Four members of the Greater Philadelphia Branch Coordinating Committee were able to attend the Civic En… Updates
- WILPF social media trainingSubmitted by the Development Committee of WILPF USAre you missing out? WILPF US is offering members a free training in how to use Facebook. Sign up today.Without many options for affordable or responsive media, one of the few ways to get your message out to the public today is through social media. … Updates
- Why waste water? BY Nancy Price, Earth Democracy March 22 is United Nations World Water Daytime for some local education and action, and to again say “No” to bottled water and “No” to using glyphosate-based herbicides, such as Roundup. The 2017 theme—“Why Waste Water?”—is about reducing and reusing wastewater. Worl… Updates
- SAVE THE DATE! Hull House, Chicago. Credit: Wikimedia Commons WILPF US 33rd Triennial Congress 2017 Thursday, July 27 – Sunday, July 30 Our 2017 Congress is set for Chicago! The conference center and dorm rooms are located on the University of IL-Chicago campus, near the restaurant scenes of Little Italy and Gree… Updates
- Women’s March on Washington: Just a beginning Odile Hugonot Haber and Laura Dewey at the Women’s March in Washington. Credit: Laila Hamdan BY Laura Dewey and Odile Hugonot Haber Detroit WILPF joined with the Coalition of Labor Union Women and the Utility Workers of America to organize two buses from metro Detroit to Washington, DC. Bus riders … Updates
