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- Nothing Less Than a Call for a National Moral Revival: Join Feb. 8 ONE WILPF Call By the ONE WILPF Call Team On our February 8 ONE WILPF CallCiara Taylor of the Poor People’s Campaign will discuss how WILPF members and branches can connect with this ally organization and engage in meaningful contributions to their planned MAY DAYS OF ACTION from Mother’s Day through Summer Solst… Updates
- Trump Administration Withholds $65 Million in Aid to United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Palestinian refugees receive aid at a United Nations food distribution center in al-Shari refugee camp in Gaza city on January 18, 2018. Photo: Ashram Amra/APA Images. By Genie Silver, Middle East Committee On January 16, 2018, the Trump Administration announced that it was withholding $65 million … Updates
- Branches Represent WILPF in Women’s Marches By ONE WILPF Call Team Members WILPF members organized quickly after the Thursday, January 11 ONE WILPF Call where it was decided that WILPF branches would have a WILPF US presence at the January 20th Second Annual Women’s Marches being planned around the country. Quick action and organizing brough… Updates
- Earth Democracy: Our Bold Agenda for the State of the Union A lunch group of WILPF members who attended the historic “Closing U.S. Military and NATO Bases in Foreign Countries” conference held in Baltimore on January 12-14, 2018. Front row: Alan Shorb and Nuri Ronaghy, Ojai, CA. Back row: Jeanne Sears, Baltimore; Dianne Blais, Virginia; Nancy Price, Sacrame… Updates
- Golden Rule Project Manager Tours Japan By Helen Jaccard Disarm/End Wars Issues Committee of WILPF, Veterans for Peace Golden Rule Project Manager The Golden Rule peace boat will be in Japan during July and August 2020 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I toured Japan Dec 2-21, 2017, i… Updates
- Disarm-End Wars Working Group and Events Ellen Thomas tabling at the “Closing U.S. Military and NATO Bases in Foreign Countries” conference held in Baltimore on January 12-14, 2018. Photo: Nancy Price. By Disarm-End Wars Committee co-chairs Robin Lloyd, Barbara Nielsen, and Ellen Thomas, and EWNE campaign organizing and capacity-building … Updates
- Burlington Campaign Against F-35 Siting Succeeds! Robin Lloyd reports from Burlington, VT, “Hurrah! We won the right to have our F-35 ballot item put on the ballot in March! And we made the cover of the Burlington Free Press! (that’s me with the pink hat in the foreground). I’m proud of our signage: we lettered both sides of our posters, leading t… Updates
- Invitation to Join Program Committee Meetings First Sunday of Each Month By Program Committee Chairs Teresa Castillo (Fresno branch) and Barbara Nielsen (San Francisco branch) Our national Program Committee’s 2018 meeting series is on the first Sunday of each month following the inaugural meeting held on Sunday, February 4. Meeting time is 4:30 pm pacific, 6:30 pm centr… Updates
- Yemen Has Become “Hell on Earth” Saleh is four months old and severely malnourished. His 22-year-old mother, Nora, already has five children. Photo: Giles Clarke/UNOCHA By Odile Hugonot Haber, co-chair of the Middle East Committee “This place is hell on Earth” says 25-year-old Lutf Alsanani, a Sana’a resident. 15,489 air raids hav… Updates
- Join Middle East Committee’s New “Letter Writing Parties” Photo: Giles Clarke/UNOCHA By Barbara Taft, co-chair, Middle East Committee The Middle East Committee already suggests that people write or contact their representatives and senators on policy and legislation. We hope you’ll continue to write those letters, but we want to add a new opportunity for… Updates
- Pittsburgh News: Stop Banking the Bomb, Summit Against Racism, Women’s March Jennifer and Edith Bell at the Pittsburgh Women's March By Edith Bell, Coordinator, WILPF Pittsburgh branch The WILPF Pittsburgh branch is working with Veterans for Peace of Western PAthe Thomas Merton Centerand other groups to stop PNC Bank, a regional bank, from financing the manufacture of nucle… Updates
- Upcoming Conference Call on Racial Justice, Human Rights, and Reproductive Justice Inaugural meeting will be February 22, 2018, at 5 pm pacific, 7 pm central, 8 pm eastern. By Barbara L Nielsen, co-chair, Advancing Human Rights Issues Committee Thanks to everyone who participated in our umbrella human rights and our racial justice workshops at the Chicago Congress! All members fo… Updates
- Greater Philadelphia Branch Holds Fracking, Money, and Politics Session By Tina Shelton, co-chair of Greater Philadelphia Branch The Greater Philadelphia Branch joined with Weaver's Way Coop for a lively and informative session in late November 2017. Held at Weaver’s Way Mercantile, we gathered to learn more about the influence of lobbyists on our legislative process. … Updates
- Fundraising Offer Extended on “We Who March” Photo Book By Marybeth Gardam, WILPF US Development Chair To mark the recent Second Annual Women’s Marches, Ellen Feldman has graciously extended the offer to donate $12 to WILPF US for any one of our members to purchase her beautiful photo book We Who March. The book contains her artful photos of Women’s Mar… Updates
- WILPF Fresno Hosts Third Water Forum March 10, 2018, at Fresno City College WILPF Fresno, in collaboration with other environmental groups in the San Joaquin Valley, will host its third water forum: “H2O III: Distilling Sustainable Solutions,” to be held on Saturday, March 10, 2018, at Fresno City College. The day-long forum will addr… Updates
- DISARM-End Wars national issues committee had plenty of reasons to celebrate in 2017!Photo credit: www.nobelpeaceprize.org United Nations Nuclear Ban Treaty Adopted Just in case you hadn’t heard, amazingly, the United Nations adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – that’s right, it’s a treaty to ban nuclear weapons! Read the treaty here. As of December 10, 56 nat… Updates
- The Situation of the Children of Palestine Conditions, Legal Issues and Possible Actions Photo credit: Mondoweiss.net By Odile Hugonot Haber Postings have been circulating on Facebook, and articles online around the world, about the plight of Ahed Tamimia sixteen-year-old Palestinian girl who lives in the West Bank. She has been imprisoned by the Israelis, along with her mother a… Updates
- Spring Forward with Earth Democracy from January to June Photo credit: Designed by Nancy Price By Nancy Price Time to Spring Forward with Earth Democracy and Corporations v Democracy from January to June. As we begin 2018 with branch meetings, issue and program committee and ONE WILPF calls, here’s what we are planning. We’d love to hear from you. Sha… Updates
- 2017 was a busy year for the JACBA Committee of the Des Moines Branch Photo by Al McDonell. Back row: Jan Corderman, Vonnie Salem, Doris Covalt. Front row: Willa Tharpe, Mary Ann Koch, Karla Hansen By Jan Corderman, Des Moines Branch There is nothing like a good book and friends to put a smile on the face of a class of third graders! Jan Corderman and Mary Ann … Updates
- Remembering Joan Bazar Photo credit: WILPF US Wonder Women Video (2017) Joan Bazar died peacefully late morning, Friday, December 22nd, at her home in California. Her daughters were with her. Plans for a memorial gathering are pending. You can use Joan's address to send a card to her daughters, Annalise and Julia Ba… Updates
