NEWS-Updates
- Racial ReckoningsBy Candace PerryCape Cod BranchMarch 2022The Cape Cod Branch invites everyone to attend an International Women’s Day program, Racial Reckonings. The Zoom program is on March 8 from 7:30 - 9 p.m. (EST). To attend, please register in advance by clicking here. There will be three short plays and discus… Updates
- WILPF Discussion Listserv Invites Subscribers in MarchBy Dianne BlaisWILPF US SecretaryMarch 2022A number of WILPF members have asked for a way to have national discussions with other individual WILPF members. A listserve is one way to do this. Posting to a listserv – sending an email to it – allows the listserve “subscriber” email to multiple other pe… Updates
- Peacebuilding & Advocacy 101: Understanding Middle East RealitiesBy Orly Benaroch LightMiddle East CommitteeMarch 2022Today, some organizations and even governments are flooding the online space with fake news or propaganda. In order to develop critical thinking that allows us to distinguish between truth and lies, and facts and opinions, we need the widespread i… Updates
- Factory Farm Moratorium: Love for Iowa’s EnvironmentBy Jan CordermanMarch 2022On Valentine’s Day, Des Moines Branch members picketed for a Factory Farm Moratorium! Roses are Red Violets are blue Factory Farms stink: Pee-Yew! Iowa, Iowa, I love you! Too bad that your rivers are filled with poo A factory farm ban Will make you good as new! Iowa, Iow… Updates
- Stronger TogetherSusan Smith of WILPF Pittsburgh, reading the letter to the County Executive at the City/County Building, January 22, 2022.By Susan SmithPittsburgh BranchMarch 2022Pittsburgh WILPF partnered with other organizations to celebrate the first anniversary of the Entry Into Force (EIF) of the Treaty on the… Updates
- US Cuba Conference Featuring Federation of Cuban Women United Nations DelegationBy Cindy DomingoCo-chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues CommitteeMarch 2022WILPF’s Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee and US Women and Cuba Collaboration are participating on two panels with the Federation of Cuban Women’s Delegation to the United Nations 66th Session of the… Updates
- Ban Killer Drones and Robots (Part 1)Photo from page 72 of “The Many Humanitarian Impact of Drones” by Reaching Critical Will (permission granted on page 1). © REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah By Eileen KurkoskiDisarm/End Wars CommitteeWe hope you will take the time to read The Many Humanitarian Impact of Drones, a rare, comprehensive book prod… Updates
- TPNW First Anniversary CelebrationsClick here to view slide show of photos of WILPF members across the country celebrating the first anniversary of the entry into force of the TPNW.By Ellen ThomasDisarm/End Wars Co-ChairsFebruary 2022On the weekend of January 22, 2022, WILPF members gathered around the country to celebrate the first … Updates
- National Call: Protest U.S. Enabled Blockade of YemenBy Odile Hugonot HaberCo-chair, Middle East committee of WILPF USFebruary 2022We call on people around the country to protest the war on Yemen and demand their members of Congress pass a Yemen War Powers Resolution.Since March 2015, the Saudi/UAE-led bombing and blockade of Yemen have killed tens of… Updates
- Committee UpdatesJoan Patchen Fund Grant; WILPF Humboldt Branch Report; Poor Peoples Campaign: A Call for Moral Revival; W$D Zoom Meetings; Get Involved: No Killer Drone Group; TNPW First Anniversary; Protest U.S. Enabled Blockade of YemenJoan Patchen Fund GrantJoan Patchen served in many capacities and inspired man… Updates
- Poor Peoples Campaign: A National Call for Moral RevivalBy Emily KeelPoor Peoples CampaignFebruary 2022Greetings friends! I am happy to join Rev. Rowan Fairgrove as we prepare you in our national organization to participate in a momentous opportunity to carry the mantle for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr forward. Our WILPF branches have voted to support and … Updates
- Fannie Lou Hamer Banch Readies for One Year AnniversaryBy Theresa El-AminBlack Liberation Caucus Committee, WILPFFebruary 2022 The Fannie Lou Hamer Branch in Columbus, Georgia, started with 8 (eight) gift memberships from the Southern Anti-Racism Network. Roy Bourgeois, Founder of SOA Watch, joined at the invitation of Fannie Lou Hamer Branch Organiz… Updates
- A Celebration of Life: Joan Patchen FundBy Elenita MunizWILPF Cape CodFebruary 2022"Racial Reckoning," a program of three short plays, two by WILPF member Candace Perry, was presented recently by Wellfleet Preservation Hall. The virtual program was sponsored in part by a grant from the Joan Patchen Fund, established in memory of a long-ti… Updates
- Flipping The Switch On A Sexist, Racist EconomyThe Women, Money, & Democracy Committee Re-Envisions ItselfBy Marybeth GardamWomen, Money, and Democracy CommitteeFebruary 2022On January 29, the Women, Money & Democracy held its second Committee Planning Retreat.The members have committed to doing their economic justice work through gender equity … Updates
- Two WILPF US SOLIDARITY ACTIONS Chosen for 2022Standing together on ONE DAY, with ONE MESSAGE, as ONE WILPFBy Marybeth GardamWomen, Money, & Democracy CommitteeFebruary 2022Twenty-one Branches and sixteen members of WILPF US voted in support of two different Solidarity Actions to take together in 2022. The votes were collected through a google b… Updates
- Water Is LifeMarguerite Adelman and Pat Elder taking a water sample at Camp Ethan Allen Training Site, Jericho, VT. Photo by Bob AdelmanBy Barbara WestWILPF Maine and Pat Elder, Military Poison ProjectWILPF US Documents Military Poisons in Maine’s WatersTesting in the Androscoggin RiverThanks to the generous fin… Updates
- COVID-19: You, the US, Cuba, and the WorldBy Leni Villagomez ReevesCo-chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issue CommitteeFebruary 2022Some obvious truths:Vaccinated people can still get COVID-19 infection, especially with the currently circulating omicron strain.Vaccinated people are less likely to have severe diseases and less likely t… Updates
- Committee Updates: Human Rights Conference; Let’s Talk!; Building Bridges; WILPF US Needs YouDecember 2021Let’s Talk: Share About WILPF USStart the new year right! Let’s talk on Tuesday, January, 4 2022! You’re invited to join the WILPF President, Darien De Lu, to ask and share about WILPF US. The monthly Before and After Meetings take place a half-hour before and in the half-hour following… Updates
- Which Side Are We On? A TIME FOR ACTIONDianne Blais, in Washington DC at the PPC march & rally on November 15By Dorothy Van SoestWILPF Liaison to the Poor People’s Campaign (PPC)December 2021A Call to Moral Revival Into Real ActionThe first person I met was Sister Carol Gilbert. I had read about her and Ardeth Platte and their anti-nucle… Updates
- Decades of WILPF US Racial Justice Work, Part 3: Truth and Reconciliation, Building the Beloved Community, and the UFORJE CampaignsFormer Board members Paij Wadley-Bailey and Pat O’Brien. Photo by Robin Lloyd, used with permissionBy Darien De Lu PresidentDecember 2021Racial Justice Work: Understanding and AwarenessWILPF’s work on racial justice issues has continued through the decades. Here, in part 3, I focus on about 1996 to … Updates
