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- Sign Up for Public Banking Learning Circle Beginning August 27!Tired of economic mansplaining? Join a six-session learning circle for women about public banking beginning August 27.By Marybeth GardamChair, Women, Money & Democracy CommitteeAugust 2021Get informed and prepared to be an effective advocate right in your own community! Sign up for a PUBLIC BANKING … Updates
- “Uplifting Transgender Women of Color” August 21 Congress Panel With ActivistsAt a WILPF US Congress panel on August 21, learn about some current advocacy efforts on transgender rights and how you can support them.By Nikki AbeledaField Facilitator, WILPF US Inside and Out InitiativeAugust 2021Every day, transgender people face marginalization due to discrimination and violenc… Updates
- The Herculean Task of PFAS Disposal and Remediation: August 9 ZoominarBy Marguerite AdelmanWILPF BurlingtonAugust 2021The Vermont Military Poisons/PFAS Coalition, WILPF Burlington, and the Earth Democracy Committee are holding a Zoom webinar on PFAS Disposal and Remediation on Monday, August 9 at 7:30 pm ET (6:30 pm CT, 5:30 MT, and 4:30 PT). The 90-minute, Zoom webin… Updates
- Can “We”Rise to the Challenge of Our Climate and Earth Emergency?Picture by Nancy Price at Fridays for Climate Action, Davis, CA, in May 2021. By Nancy PriceCo-chair, Earth Democracy Issue CommitteeAugust 2021All recent reports make clear that we have passed a tipping point and entered a new level of climate, water, and food security emergency. We must join toget… Updates
- Congress Roundtable August 21: “How WILPF Can Change U.S. Policy in the Middle East”A mother paints the Palestinian flag on her daughter’s face amid Gaza’s ruins in July 2021. Photo by Sarah Murtaja; used with permission.By Barb TaftCo-chair, Middle East Peace and Justice Action CommitteeAugust 2021On Saturday, August 21, beginning at 3:20 pm PDT / 5:20 pm CDT / 6:20 pm EDT, our pa… Updates
- “Move the Money from War to Peace, Global to Local” Panel at WILPF Congress on August 21A B1-B bomber assigned to the 7th Bomb Wing at Ørland Main Air Station in Norway, March 2021. Photo courtesy of US Air Force.By the DISARM/End Wars Issue CommitteeAugust 2021On Saturday, August 21 at 1:45 pm PDT / 3:45 pm CDT / 4:45 pm EDT the DISARM/End Wars Issue Committee will sponsor a panel “Mo… Updates
- What Is True in Cuba? Join “Lessons from Cuba – Women on the Frontlines Establishing Democracy!” on August 14Kathryn Hall-Trujillo (left), founder of The Birthing Project, and Cindy Domingo (right), co-chair of Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance for WILPF US, two of the speakers at a Congress panel on August 13.By Cindy DomingoCo-chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issue CommitteeAugust 2021For the past … Updates
- “Uniting Communities for Environmental Justice: Radioactive Pollution, Deadly in Any Space” Congress Session on August 15Tina Cordova will be one of the speakers at an August 15 panel on nuclear radiation, waste, and testing fallout, and environmental justice efforts led by people suffering from their effects. Photo by Joshua Wheeler, used with permission.By Ellen ThomasCo-chair, DISARM/ End Wars Issue CommitteeAugust… Updates
- “Feminist Foreign Policy: A Path to Peace, Freedom and Justice” with Dr. Patricia Hynes on August 14Traprock Center for Peace and Justice Director Pat Hynes at a local climate action event in Greenfield, MA on April 29, 2017. Photo by Diana Roberts, used with permission.By Nancy PriceCo-chair, Earth Democracy Issue CommitteeAugust 2021On Saturday, August 14 at 2:30 pm PDT / 4:30 CDT / 5:30pm EDT, … Updates
- May Takayanagi Turns 97!From left, WILPF Boston members Nancy Wrenn, May Takayanagi, Joan Ecklein, ‘Libby’ Gerlach, and Pauline Soloman, at a celebration for May’s 97th birthday. Photo by Eileen Kurkoski.By Eileen KurkoskiBoston BranchAugust 2021Thanks to each of us having COVID vaccinations, WILPF Boston members gathered … Updates
- Next Advancing Human Rights Issue Committee Is August 30 “Join Us!By Joan GoddardTemporary AHR CoordinatorAugust 2021The Advancing Human Rights (AHR) committee has had two revitalizing meetings and will meet again on Monday evening, August 30.Write to AHRchair@wilpfus.org to get registration information for that meeting and to be connected with one or more of the … Updates
- Sneak Peek of Weekday Presentations at CongressBy Mary Hanson HarrisonWILPF US 34th Triennial Congress CoordinatorRegister now »»Visit Congress website.July 2021SEEKING SOLUTIONS? You’ve come to the right place! Join our WILPF US CONGRESS for WEEKDAY afternoon/evening Zoom presentations August 9–12 & August 16–19, Mondays-Thursdays starting at 5… Updates
- Cuba Discussion at the July 6 All-WILPF Members Program Committee Meeting“Vacuna Yoa” photo by Yoamaris Neptuno Dominguez, used with permission.By Leni Villagomez ReevesCo-chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance CommitteeAll WILPF members are cordially invited to join the All-WILPF Members Program Committee Meeting on Zoom, hosted by the Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance … Updates
- “Golden Rule” Arrives in San Francisco BayThe four crew members of the Golden Rule were greeted with hugs and leis when they arrived at Schoonmaker Point Marina in Sausalito on June 1. Photo by Gerry Condon, used with permission.By Gerry Condon* and WILPF Member Helen JaccardJuly 2021The Golden Rule crew and supporters were greatly relieved… Updates
- Children Die as Things Get Worse in Yemen: Please Act Now!Taiz, Yemen – February, 2021: A girl at a displacement camp in Taiz in southern Yemen. The war in Yemen has led to more than 4 million internally displaced people and caused the deaths of more than 12,000 civilians, 25% of them children. Photo by Akram Alrasny / Shutterstock.com.By Odile Hugonot Hab… Updates
- Making Zoom Work for YOUBy Darien De LuWILPF US PresidentJuly 2021Is that you in the picture – confident in your power to be in charge of your world (well, at least of your online experience)? It can be! Technology is here, whether we like it or not, but we can help each other by becoming more adept with the options each i… Updates
- WILPF Partners with the Poor People’s Campaign to Build America’s Third ReconstructionMembers of the WILPF San Jose branch called on all California representatives to embrace the 3rd Reconstruction Resolution at Representative Zoe Lofgren’s office (CA 19th District). By Dorothy Van SoestWILPF Liaison to the Poor Peoples CampaignWILPF Women, Money & Democracy CommitteeMember, Washingt… Updates
- Don’t Miss “The New Corporation” Film and US July 21 PresentationsBy Rickey Gard DiamondWomen, Money & Democracy Issue CommitteeJuly 2021The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequelalthough released in Canada is 2020 and available on Netflix there, it is only now premiering in the U.S. with a special showing through WILPF US. We’re honored that Women’s … Updates
- Responding to Global Nuclear Weapons Spending and Biden’s FY2022 BudgetPresident Biden’s proposed budget for FY2022 has an increase in military spending over 2021. Pie chart courtesy of the National Priorities Project.By Cherrill SpencerCo-chair of the DISARM/END WARS Issue CommitteeJuly 2021The President’s proposed discretionary budget for the next fiscal year, which … Updates
- Write Letters to Kings Bay Plowshares 7 ActivistsAll of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 were convicted and imprisoned for their nonviolent action at the largest nuclear submarine base in the world on April 4, 2018. Photo from kingsbayplowshares7.org, used with permission.By Randa SolickWILPF Santa CruzJuly 2021Seven Catholic plowshares activists entere… Updates
