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- Action Needed on Yemen: Join International Day of Action on January 25A girl suffers with cholera in the Yemeni city of Taiz (April 4, 2019). Photo credit: anasalhajj / Shutterstock.com.By Odile Hugonot HaberCo-chair, Middle East Peace and Justice Action Committee December 2020The war in Yemen has entered its sixth, devastating year. Over 100,000 people have died and … Updates
- WILPF-US Endorses Nobel Peace Prize Nomination of the Cuban International Medical BrigadesA Cuban doctor at a consult. Photo by Yoamaris Neptuno Dominguez, used with permission.By Leni Villagomez ReevesCo-chair, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance CommitteeDecember 2020For work undertaken in the struggle to overcome disease and suffering, which also constitute a threat to peace, for pioneer… Updates
- Branches Are Invited to Apply for the “Building Branches from the Inside Out” InitiativeBranch Renewal Committee Member Mary Hanson Harrison (left) and two young women at the January 2017 Women’s March.By Mary Hanson Harrison, Eileen Kurkoski, Jan Corderman, & Laura Dewey Branch Renewal CommitteeDecember 2020“Build and strengthen relationships and movements for justice, peace, and radi… Updates
- Committee Updates: Support WILPF this Holiday Season; Planning Begins for 2021 Congress Branch PresentationsMarguerite Adelman, “Seeking Peace,” 2018: Acrylic, beads, felt, and origami on canvas, 20” x 16”.December 2020A Powerful Holiday Gift IdeaBy the WILPF US Development CommitteeSupport the organization you love by giving a WILPF membership as a gift to someone you love. It’s so simple. Just send an e… Updates
- Committee Updates: Give WILPF US Membership for the Holidays; Join Nov. 10 Program Call; W$D Supports Public BankingNovember 2020Six Reasons to Give WILPF US Membership as a Holiday GiftBy the WILPF US Development CommitteeIntroduce your friends and family to WILPF US – emphasize young women and men…nieces and nephews, grandchildren who are teenagers, etc. Create a relationship between someone you love and the or… Updates
- Nuclear Weapons Abolition Is Now International Law!The Disarm/End Wars Issue Committee raised a glass together on October 25 to celebrate the TPNW treaty becoming international law after Honduras became the 50th country to ratify it. By Ellen ThomasCo-chair, Disarm/End Wars CommitteeNovember 2020On October 25thon their monthly zoom conference call, … Updates
- Join Us on November 11 to Launch the WILPF Membership Drive: One by One, We Grow!By Shilpa Pandey Membership Development ChairJan CordermanTreasurer November 2020As a recent headline in Foreign Policy puts it: “Women Make Peace Stick.”That’s why we want to work together to invite others to connect with the international peace movement and be part of our organization to hear t… Updates
- Bolivia “the Election ReportPresidential candidate for the MAS party (Movement for Socialism), Luis Arce, leaves the Supreme Electoral Court in La Paz, Bolivia, after officially registering as a candidate on February 3, 2020. Photo credit: Radoslaw Czajkowski / Shutterstock.comBy Leni Villagomez ReevesCo-chair, Cuba and the Bo… Updates
- Life in the Balance: Knowing, Caring, and ActingPhoto shared by Dorothy Van Soest and used with her permission.November 2020By Dorothy Van SoestWILPF US Liaison to the Poor People’s CampaignAt the beginning of March, Seattle is designated a COVID-19 hot spot. Sheltering in the comfort of my privileged existence is an inconvenience, not a hardship… Updates
- International Day of Peace Celebrated by WILPF Branches All Over the USTo celebrate the International Day of Peace, the Greater Philadelphia branch helped to create a clothesline from which hung fact sheets describing how much money Philadelphia taxpayers pay towards the military in a year and the local items that money could have bought instead. Photo by WILPF member … Updates
- New Middle East Committee Name Expresses Who We Are and What We DoNovember 2020By Barbara TaftCo-chair, Middle East Peace and Justice Action CommitteeThe Middle East Committee has changed its name to better reflect who we are and what we do. We are now the Middle East Peace and Justice Action Committee. Several governments in the region have taken COVID-19 restric… Updates
- Branch Happenings: Greater Philadelphia Branch & Jane Addams BranchHelen Evelev (left) and Tina Shelton (right) attending the Peace Day Philly event on September 20, 2020, at Rittenhouse Square. Photo by Lynn Fitzgerald, used with permission.Greater Philadelphia Branch Conducts Socially Distant Activism!By Tina SheltonCo-chair, Greater Philadelphia Branch The Great… Updates
- Name that Newsletter! WILPF’s eNews Needs a New Name “What Are Your Suggestions?You don’t need to go out to a newsstand to be updated on WILPF US News, but help us give our monthly e-newsletter a catchy new name! November 2020By Darien De Lu WILPF US PresidentWhat name conveys the urgency of the news and the principles of WILPF? Ten or eleven months per year, WILPF US emails ou… Updates
- With a week before Election Day, what are you going to do to “Protect the Results”Now's the time to think it through!What if President Trump carried out his threats and refused to accept a loss in the Nov. 3 election? What are you — what are we — prepared to do to mobilize against a possible post-election coup d’état and a move toward fascism?We shouldn’t be surprised by Trump’s … Updates
- Committee Updates: Disarm October Events; AHR Honors Baker & Hamer; W$D Backs the THRIVE CampaignRay Acheson celebrating the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons outside the UN. Acheson will speak in a webinar sponsored by Disarm/End Wars on October 22. Photo by David Field, used with permission of Ray Acheson.October 2020October 2020 Disarm Events: Keep Space for Peace Week & Oct. 2… Updates
- Branch Happenings: Triangle (NC), Maine, & JA BranchMaine WILPF member Denny Dreher holds one of several large photo panels from the Japan Council against A & H bombs that was part of a 75th anniversary commemoration event cosponsored by the branch on August 8, 2020.October 2020Triangle Branch Active in GOTV Work and Contested Election TrainingsBy Lu… Updates
- All WILPFers Invited to Three Free Virtual Events on the Complex History of Women’s Suffrage: October 21 & 22Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner will deliver virtual presentations on women’s suffrage on October 21 & 22.By Marguerite AdelmanBurlington BranchOctober 2020With support from a WILPF US mini-grant, the Burlington Branch of WILPF has partnered with the Vermont Suffrage Centennial Alliance and the League of Wo… Updates
- WILPF Offers Member and Branch Skills Training & Support Tools: Twitter Training October 15Learn the basics of tweeting at an October 15 national training for all WILPF members and branches!By Darien De LuPresident, WILPF USOctober 2020In these difficult yet crucial pandemic times, is your branch actively involved in issue-related activities – local ones or WILPF ones or both? For the las… Updates
- Join Two “Zoom of Our Own” Conversations on Economic Justice: October 13 & 27By Marybeth GardamChair, Women, Money & Democracy CommitteeOctober 2020What’s new at WILPF’s partner An Economy of Our Own (AEOO) and their Screwnomics project? Two intriguing “Zoom of Our Own” Conversations just for youco-sponsored by WILPF’s Women, Money & Democracy Committee.Register for these FR… Updates
- It’s Time for Emergency-Speed, Whole Society Climate Mobilization!Artwork depicting Pachamama, the Incan earth/time mother who is an ever-present and independent deity and who has her own creative power to sustain life on this earth. The Law of Mother Earth was written into the new Bolivian Constitution in 2009. Thank you to the unknown artist for this wonderful i… Updates
