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- Committee Updates: WILPF US Congress Is Bigger and Better; New WILPF Anti-Racism Committee; W$D Public Banking Webinar SeriesJune 2021WILPF US Congress in August Is Bigger and Better!By Mary Hanson HarrisonWILPF US 34th Triennial Congress CoordinatorSave the dates and get excited! We’re going BIGGER and BETTER!!“WOMEN, POWER, and SOCIAL JUSTICE: Building from Strength” is the theme for the 34th WILPF US Triennial Congress… Updates
- Help Protect Palestinian FamiliesPalestinian families whose homes were damaged by Israeli aircraft strikes displaced to a United Nations school in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on May 17, 2021. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib / Shutterstock.com.By Ellen RosserMiddle East Peace and Justice Action CommitteeJune 2021Let's not forget how the … Updates
- Poor People’s Campaign Launches a Third ReconstructionThe Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is engaged in “moral fusion organizing” and continuing to build a transformational movement. Participate in upcoming actions on June 7 and June 21!By Dorothy Van SoestWILPF Liaison to the Poor Peoples CampaignWILPF Women, Money & Democrac… Updates
- Three New Branches in the South!; Plus Maine & St. Louis EventsA Tax Day Spring awakening held on the Brunswick, Maine town green was co-sponsored by Maine WILPF.June 2021Three New Branches in the South!By Theresa El-Amin, Fannie Lou Hamer BranchGeorge Friday, Triad North Carolina BranchOn May 22, 2021, new WILPF members in Metro Atlanta and the Triad of North … Updates
- Let’s Raise Our Voices for Human Rights in ColombiaDemonstrations against the economic policies of Colombian President Ivan Duque by citizens in Medellin, Colombia, May 5, 2021. Photo: Wirestock Creators / Shutterstock.com.By Leni Villagomez ReevesCo-chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance CommitteeJune 2021We are being urged by people of Colombia, … Updates
- Congressional Pressure Necessary to #defund the ICBM Modernization Program and #movethemoney to Peace Programs!Graphics from beyondthebomb.orgused with permission.By Ellen ThomasDISARM Committee Co-chairJune 2021Please join DISARM’s June 2021 Disarm Legislative Action Campaign to move forward two significant pieces of weapons-cutting legislation that are stuck in committees of the 117th Congress. We are aski… Updates
- Join June 30 Meeting to Help WILPF Advance Human Rights!The WILPF US Advancing Human Rights (AHR) Committee is being revived. Bring your interests, ideas, and questions to our June 30 meeting.By Joan Goddard2020 WILPF US Program ChairJune 2021There are so many ways to support human rights! WILPF members interested in United Nations work involving women, … Updates
- Caring Wages for Caring Workers: Join the June 10 ONE WILPF CallDanielle Atkinson, National Executive Director and Founder of Mothering Justice, will be one of the speakers discussing how we can truly value essential workers during the June 10 ONE WILPF Call. Photo courtesy of the speaker.By Marybeth GardamChair, Women, Money & Democracy Committee June 2020Lesso… Updates
- “Should Trees Have Standing?” The Legacy of Christopher D. StonePhoto credit: TSN52 / Shutterstock.com.By Nancy PriceCo-chair, Earth Democracy Issue CommitteeJune 2021For those who have never read Christopher D. Stone’s seminal article, he is remembered by so many as the father of environmental law for his inspired, pathbreaking article, “Should Trees Have Stand… Updates
- Help Yourself Master Zoom and Make WILPF’s Congress a Success!By Darien De LuPresident, WILPF USJune 2021Are you ready to be the one adept at setting your microphone levels, instead of the one who can’t be heard? Would you like to smooth out your branch’s Zoom meetings? Do you want to impress your grandchildren with your Zoom tech skills? Do you have a grandch… Updates
- Help Vaccinate Cuba, so Cuba Can Continue to Help Others“Vacuna Yoa” by Yoamaris Neptuno Dominguez, used with permission.By Leni Villagomez ReevesCo-chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance CommitteeJune 2021There is a worldwide shortage of syringes, and the price has increased tenfold over the past months. The United States blockade has made Cuba’s acces… Updates
- Committee Updates: Two Middle East Action Items & Join All-Members Program Committee Meeting TONIGHT!Des Moines Branch members have staged a protest at the marketing firm LS2 three weeks in a row calling for the company to drop the government of Saudi Arabia as its client. Photo by Jan Corderman.May 2021Two Middle East Action Items & Thanks to New Members!By Jan Corderman and Odile Hugonot HaberMi… Updates
- Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Hate Incidents: A Personal ReportA protester holds up a sign at a peace vigil to honor victims of attacks on AAPI people in Union Square Park on March 19, 2021, in New York City. Photo credit: Ron Adar/Shutterstock.com.By Shirley Lin KinoshitaLifetime Member, San Jose BranchMay 2021As an Asian American I view with concern, but not … Updates
- The Next 500 Days: Together We Grow a New, Unsettling, Unstoppable ForceWILPF US has been supporting the Poor People’s Campaign from the beginning. On December 11, 2019, several WILPF members marched in San Francisco as part of the PPC’s nine-month “We Must Do M.O.R.E.” national tour. Among them were Peninsula/Palo Alto branch member Cherrill S. (left), with Jackie Caba… Updates
- “ONENESS vs. the 1%”: A Must Read for All WILPFersVandana Shiva, Indian activist, environmentalist, and one of the main leaders of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), speaks at the conference “Terra Futura” in Florence, Italy, in May 2011. Photo credit: Giacomo Marini / Shutterstock.com.By Jean Hays, Fresno Branch, and Nancy Price, Co-C… Updates
- Building Support for the Nuclear Ban Treaty & New Act to Abolish Nuclear WeaponsScreenshot of Representative Eleanor Holmes Norton during a webinar on April 24 to build political support for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Here she is announcing her bill HR-2850, the “Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act.” Photo by Ellen Thomas, use… Updates
- Send In Your Proposals for WILPF US Virtual Congress Presentations! Deadline May 31By the Congress Program Committee (CONPRO)Got something to say? Something to show? Something to contribute? The first WILPF US virtual Congress offers a unique and unprecedented opportunity to reach out to as many people as we can.Our 34th Triennial Congress WOMEN, POWER, and SOCIAL JUSTICE: Buildin… Updates
- Take Action Now on H.R. 2590: Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian ChildrenAn unidentified Palestinian mother and daughter protest Jewish settlements in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on Feb. 11, 2011. Photo credit: Ryan Rodrick Beiler / Shutterstock.com.By Odile Hugonot HaberCo-chair, Middle East Peace & Justice Action CommitteeMay 2021On April 15, 2021,… Updates
- Branch Happenings: Westchester and Monterey CountyThis is one of many peace posters made by students in the 1980s and 90s that will be on exhibit in May 2021 in Montrose, NY, sponsored by Westchester WILPF.May 2021Westchester Branch Sponsors Peace Poster Exhibit in MayBy Linda ConteWestchester (NY) BranchAn exhibit of posters created by Westchester… Updates
- WILPF US Statement on the Conviction of Derek ChauvinEven with this conviction, #GeorgeFloyd is still dead.The conviction on all three counts of murder may provide some “Painful earned justice,” yet what is done is irreversible.Although we may hope this conviction leads to even more accountability, the fact remains that before this trial completed, an… Updates
