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- Earth DemocracyBy Nancy PriceDecember 2021Women Mobilizing for Climate Justice, Gender Equality and Feminist Peace!Here’s your opportunity to hear the inspiring first-hand reports from WILPF International and CODEPINK women who attended the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP26) — Climate Summit, Glasgow, Sc… Updates
- First Anniversary of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) Entry Into Force is Coming Up!Wisconsin Chase Tower, #STILL HERE CoalitionBy Ellen Thomas, Cherrill Spencer, and Robin LloydDisarm/End Wars Co-ChairsDecember 2021What are you planning?Saturday, January 22, 2022, is the first anniversary of the Entry Into Force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). A number … Updates
- Community Immunity: COVID-19 Vaccines in CubaBy Leni Villagomez ReevesCo-chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issue CommitteeDecember 2021Cuba is vaccinating with Cuban vaccines - and it’s working.Cuba is vaccinating faster than any other country in the world, in terms of percentage population per day. Currently, almost 100% of vaccine-elig… Updates
- Mobilizing to Demonstrate Against War in YemenBy Odile Hugonot HaberCo-chair, Middle East committee of WILPF USDecember 2021January 25, 2021, over 230 organizations in the U.S. and throughout the world mobilized to demonstrate against the war in Yemen: “The World Says No to the War in Yemen.” When President Biden took office, he said he would e… Updates
- Committee Updates & More: Congress Survey Analysis; Poor People’s Campaign; WILPF US Racial Justice; Inside & OutNovember 2021The BIG BOLD CONGRESS 2021 Survey of Registrants THANK YOU ALL – with an encouraging 34% return rate – for taking the time to answer our three questions with clarity and sensitivity! Bravo!1a: Was the structure (Zoom) and design of the Congress effective for you? Participants answered… Updates
- Seasonal Perspectives: Indigenous Wisdom, Activism, and RitualBy Marybeth GardamNovember 2021ONE WILPF Call - 7 PM EST / 6 PM Central / 4 PM PST During Indigenous Peoples Month, this One WILPF Zoom will tie indigenous wisdom, activism and ritual to a comparison of Thanksgiving, and will offer information about new legal rights of nature suit in Minnesota again… Updates
- First Annual Fannie Lou Hamer Human Rights ConferenceBy George FridayNovember 2021SAVE THE DATE: Sat., December 11, 10am–2pm Pacific, 1pm–5pm EasternFannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) is a prominent leader for the Civil Rights Movement, women’s rights, and American voting. She was also a community organizer, activist, and challenged the definition of libera… Updates
- Climate Strikes have resumed in Des MoinesBy Jan CordermanNovember 2021 When 13 year old Lilly Hill announced she was planning to continue the Climate Strike after a long break due to COVID19, WILPF Des Moines Branch members let her know they’d be beside her. Lilly called for a rally at the State Capitol on Wednesday, October 27, stating:"T… Updates
- Women, Money & Democracy Committee Engages New Members & Plans Retreat for Future StrategiesBy Marybeth GardamNovember 2021While recruiting new members, forging new collaborations and doing remarkable outreach, W$D Committee will be doing strategic planning for the next 2-5 years at a half day planning retreat on Sunday, Nov. 14th (9am-noon pacific/noon-3pm eastern/11am-2pm central). All … Updates
- Earth DemocracyBy Nancy PriceNovember 2021Climate justice is about recognizing theinterconnectedness of our strugglesCOP 26 – The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is the last chance for countries to commit to serious action by 2030 to head off catastrophic climate breakdown and disastrous consequences… Updates
- Unity DayBy Elenita MunizNovember 2021The Cape Cod branch took part in the fifth annual Unity Day on the town Green in Hyannis, MA on August 6th. Because this was also the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, we combined the two events.Dressed in white, we hung our banners from a beautiful old tree, plante… Updates
- Saying Their Names is Not Enough: Honoring the Transgender CommunityBy Nikki AbeledaField Facilitator, Inside & Out InitiativeNovember 2021November is an important month for making the Transgender community more visible. November 13th to 19th is Transgender Awareness Week followed by Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) on November 20th.During Transgender Awareness… Updates
- Paving the Way for Women’s Inclusion in Palestinian and Israeli PeacebuildingBy Orly Benaroch LightWILPF San DiegoNovember 2021Women have consistently been leaders in the process to bring peace to the Middle East. The exclusion of women from the political arena, heavily populated by military men, has empowered women and contributed to a different outlook on the central probl… Updates
- Baring My ChestBy Sylvia MetzlerWILPF PhiladelphiaNovember 2021“Life holds potential meaning under any conditions, even the most miserable ones.” —Dr. Viktor FranklPerhaps I was dreaming about it, or somewhere it played in my subconscious, but all I can tell you is that I woke up shivering. It was two days … Updates
- Kidnapped Diplomat Alex Saab Brought to the US to Stand Trial for Buying Food for VenezuelaBy Leni Villagomez ReevesNovember 2021Who is Alex Saab?Alex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat who was en route from Caracas to Tehran on June 12, 2020, when his plane was diverted to Cabo Verde, a small island nation off the coast of West Africa, for refueling. He was removed by force by the Cabo Verde … Updates
- Eyes On Pentagon, Warming & COP26Photo credit: Charlotte Otto (Airshow Protest in Brunswick 3 weeks ago)By Christine DeTroy and M. Spiess.November 2021All eyes turn to Glasgow this fall- to the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (the COP26 summit)- arriving only months after a United Nations report by the Intergovernmen… Updates
- Committee Updates: Board Elections; Join the AHR; Before/After Conversations; Social Media Committees Needs You!October 2021Before/AfterCall in on Tuesday, October 5, for informal conversation! Once again I welcome you to the continuing and less formal Before/After conversations. Join me in the half-hour prior to and after the Program Committee meeting:Before – 7:30-8 pm EDT / 6:30-7 CDT/ 5:30-6 MDT / 4:30-5… Updates
- WILPF US Racial Justice Work Part 2: Looking Out, Looking InBy Darien De LuPresidentOctober 2021Inner and Outer WorkThese two areas of work, inner and outer, share broad goals; but the individual objectives along the way to those goals will differ. With inner work, we’re speaking to sympathetic WILPF members, with whom we share community. Our strategies for … Updates
- De-escalation Starts With UsBy Anne BarronWILPF San Diego October 2021What would the world look like if our taxes were spent on human services instead of war?Last month marked a terrible benchmark in the U.S. war. Seventy-six years ago, the U.S. dropped two annihilating atomic bombs on the Japanese people. Japan had been an ag… Updates
- Earth Democracy By Nancy PriceOctober 2021October is the month to continue mobilizing for System Change Not Climate Change! Plan to join climate marches, demonstrations, rallies and #FridaysForFutures. Together, we must all loudly and clearly call out for climate justice for people and the planet.As Guardians for … Updates
