NEWS-Updates
- Action with Impact: Making Longer-Term Plans in 2019 By the WILPF US Development Committee What drives our successful actions? YOU do! Planning NOW for success will allow you to have greater impact in your communities. Ask any major funder what moves them to invest in an organization and most will prioritize one thing above others: Action with Impact… Updates
- Triangle (NC) WILPF Members Arrested Protesting Kavanaugh Photo by TW Collins By Lucy Lewis Triangle Branch (NC) Triangle (NC) WILPF members Ruth Zalph and Fran Schindler joined thousands of other protestors in Washington, D.C., in September and early October, speaking out against the nomination and then the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh to the United S… Updates
- Screwnomics for Reaching NOT the Usual Suspects By the Corporations v Democracy Issue Committee A new partnership between WILPF’s Corporations v Democracy Issue Committee and the author of Screwnomics can provide new avenues for education, empowerment, and recruitment among hard-to-reach populations. We all recognize that many women we talk to a… Updates
- Melissa Torres Elected Vice President to the WILPF International Board Well-wishers hug Melissa Torres after her election as an International Vice President for WILPF at the Congress in Ghana. Photo credit: Jan Corderman. By Jan Corderman and Dixie Hairston When the election results were announced on the final day of our International Congress held at the University o… Updates
- Support Citizen-Scientist Sampling and Education Events in Tennessee Dr. Michael E. Ketterer at the Davy Crockett Lake Sampling Event (Greeneville, TN), August 17, 2010. By Linda Cataldo Modica At-Large WILPF-US Member and VP of the Erwin Citizens Awareness Network One of Erwin Citizen Awareness Network’s (ECAN’s) most important projects—an extensive citizen-scienti… Updates
- Remarkable Hibakusha Events in Vermont Move People to ActionAtomic bomb survivor Shigeko Sasamori responds to a question at a September 19 program at the University of Vermont sponsored by the Burlington Branch. By Marguerite Adelman Burlington VT Branch Members of WILPF Burlington VT recently completed three days of amazing educational peace programming at … Updates
- No War 2018 Conference in Toronto Energizes Activists Photo credit: From the Facebook snapshot album of moments at the No War 2018 conference held in Toronto September 20-22, 2018. By Odile Hugonot-Haber Alan Haber & Odile Hugonot-Haber (from video of Medea Benjamin’s talk on Iran) Dianne Blais, Leah Bolger, Joan Ecklein, Alan Haber, and O… Updates
- Accepting Applications for UN’s 63rd Commission on the Status of WomenMembers of the 2018 Local2Global delegation, Linda Lemons, Marguerite Adelman and Barbara Nielsen, with members of the 2018 Practicum in Advocacy program, Zein Haikal and Hsiu-Fen Lin. By UN Programs Co-Faculty: Dr. Melissa Torres, WILPF International Board Vice President, and Dixie Hairston, WILPF … Updates
- Reflecting on the Work, Life, and Legacy of June Krebs June Krebs speaking, second from left. Photos courtesy of Karen Share, daughter of June Krebs. By Tina Shelton, with Libby Frank and Sylvia Metzler Greater Philadelphia Branch June Krebs, a longtime member of WILPF, died on April 17, 2018. June found a home in WILPF because her social justice spiri… Updates
- Peninsula/Palo Alto WILPF Supports Christine Blasey Ford at Vigil Palo Alto Raging Grannies hold signs in support of their neighbor Christine Blasey Ford at a vigil held on September 23, 2018. Photo: Aric Crabb, The Mercury News, © Bay Area News Group, 2018. By Judy Adams Peninsula/Palo Alto Branch Palo Alto was in the San Francisco Bay-area and national news spo… Updates
- Two November Events Aim to Build US and Global Peace Movement Photo credit: http://www.nationofchange.org By Nancy Price Earth Democracy Co-Chair National and global peace movements are coming together to build a broad-based grassroots intersectional movement at two important November events. The November 10 Peace Congress: End Wars at Home and Abroad will be… Updates
- At Western Cluster Meeting, Eight Branches Discuss Five TopicsThe Sacramento Raging Grannies lead a sing-along at the September 2018 Western Cluster Meeting. All meeting photos were taken by Cherill Spencer. By Cherrill Spencer Peninsula/Palo Alto Branch and September 2018 Western Cluster Meeting attendee. Every year the WILPF branches in northern California g… Updates
- Middle East Issues Off the Radar at Ghana Meeting Hanan Awwad, Palestine Section, speaks at the International Congress in Accra, Ghana. Photo by Barbara Taft. By Barbara Taft Co-Chair, Middle East Committee For many years, issues surrounding the Middle East have taken center stage at our WILPF International Congresses. Most of what has been discus… Updates
- California WILPF At-Large Members Produce Play on US Immigration, Detention Policies Building the Wall book cover, from playwright Roebert Schenkkan's website. By Millee Livingston WILPF At-Large Member A few WILPF at-large members in the Auburn, CA, area produced a staged reading of the play Building the Wall on October 5-6, 2018. Building the Wall is a futuristic look at our immi… Updates
- ANA Experts Raise Weapons and Nuclear Energy Oversight Concerns Graphic from ananuclear.org By Odile Hugonot-Haber What follows is a brief report on the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) Fall 2018 Meeting in Boulder, CO, one of two annual working and planning meetings. This was my first time participating in a working meeting. The meeting, held Septembe… Updates
- Disarm-End Wars Upcoming Events and Petition UpdateMartha Spiess reported that the Maine WILPF Branch participated in the #Rise for Jobs, Justice and Climate Rally organized by 350Maine in Portland on September 8, 2018. A Peace Hub portion of the rally gathered to reflect upon the largest carbon footprint: the military. Young people spoke, entreatin… Updates
- August 2018 Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration Events Sophia Barbagelapa, 7, floats a paper lantern in the water as people gather on August 6, 2018, at Green Lake (Seattle) to honor victims of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and other wars. Thousands gathered on the 73rd anniversary of the U.S. use of the atomic bomb. This date has been ma… Updates
- How Student Activism Thrives: Ultimate Civics on the Sept. 13 ONE WILPF Call A 2016 photo of some of the 21 youth plaintiffs, ages 8-19 (now age 10-21) who brought a landmark constitutional climate change case against the federal government and the fossil fuel industry. Read more about the lawsuit at Our Children's Trust. Photo: Earth Guardians. By the ONE WILPF Call Team W… Updates
- Program News from the Triennial International Congress in Ghana On the first day of Congress, WILPF welcomed five new Sections and nine new Groups. Read the article at wilpf.org. (Photo © WILPF). By Barbara Nielsen Chair, National Program Committee Here is a first report of WILPF program news from the 32nd Triennial International Congress, held August 20-22, 20… Updates
- Important Fall Disarm/End Wars Events and Breaking ICAN News By Ellen Thomas Co-Chair, Disarm/End Wars Committee There are many important disarmament events this fall, from September to November. We have listed them here in chronological order, with links (when available): World Beyond War #NoWar2018 Conference Toronto, September 21-22 This conference is bei… Updates
