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- 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
- UN Says “US Blockade of Cuba Is a Crime that Has to End”Children drawing at a community project in Cotorro, Havana, in 2014. The project includes arts and music opportunities for kids and a social service component for older and impaired adults. Photo by Leni Villagomez Reeves. by Leni Villagomez ReevesCo-Chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Committee… Updates
- Palo Alto Pickets Their Congresswoman Over Reducing Risk of Nuclear WarRep. Eshoo’s constituents stand outside her office. Her field representative Nicholas Hargis and WILPFer Cherrill Spencer exchange letters about nuclear weapons. Photo taken with Spencer’s camera.by Judy Adams and Cherrill SpencerMembers of the Peninsula/Palo Alto BranchNovember 2022“This weekend wi… Updates
- Start Making Contacts Now for the 2023 UN Commission on the Status of Women!Participants in the 2019 UN Practicum for Advocacy.by Shilpa PandeyMembership Chair, WILPF USNovember 2022I am reaching out to share that next year our section will be resuming our UN Practicum in Advocacy and Local to Global program after a gap of two years due to the pandemic. Start making contact… Updates
- Announcements: Join the Interactive Panel Presentation for Domestic Violence Awareness Month on October 21; New Branch Forming in Kentucky/Indiana!October 2022Join the Interactive Panel Presentation for Domestic Violence Awareness Month on October 21On Friday, October 21, 2022, at 8 pm EDT/ 7 CDT/ 6 MDT/ 5 PDT, the Domestic Prisoners of War Committee (WILPF US’s newest Issue Committee) will hold an introductory Panel Presentation covering how … Updates
- Request a Free Zoom Workshop on PFAS, Tailored for Your WILPF Branch!by Marguerite Adelman WILPF Burlington Branch and Earth Democracy CommitteeOctober 2022Forever chemicals, or PFAShave monopolized the news in the last year— especially since the EPA lowered its lifetime advisory limits for two of the most common PFAS to almost 0 parts per trillion (PPT), and is cons… Updates
- Actions for WILPFers to Take in October to Defuse the Possibility of Nuclear WarWILPFers in the Madison, Wisconsin WILPF branch demonstrate for peace in Ukraine, September 12, 2022. Photo provided by WILPF Madison WI branch, used with their permission.by Cherrill Spencer and Ellen Thomasco-chairs of DISARM/END WARS Issue CommitteeOctober 2022Before we ask WILPFers to take actio… Updates
- Earth Democracy Attends SAFE Rally at EPA in Washington, DCby Nancy Price Earth Democracy Committee October 2022 On Tuesday, September 20, soon after 9 am, Nancy Price, Lib Hutchby and Keval Kaur Khalsa who drove from the Chapel Hill Branch in North Carolina, joined Board Member Dianne Blais from Fairfax, Virginia, and Pat Elder from Maryland at Federal Pla… Updates
- Working Internally on Anti-Racismby Sue Hilton, Humboldt, CA Branch; Mary Foster, Jane Addams Branch; Samantha Turner, Southern Piedmont Branch, NC; Robin Lloyd, Burlington Branch; Gloria McMillan, Tucson BranchOctober 2022We're a small group of WILPF members of European-descent from around the country, talking and thinking about h… Updates
