NEWS-Updates
- Apply for Minigrant to fund a project WILPF has three granting cycles, February 1, June 1 and October 1. Grants are made to branches and to issue committees for projects that serve WILPF's mission and vision by building our programs. We favor projects that can be shared and replicated and that will have a national impact. We fund small… Updates
- Oral histories video now onlineJudy Adams’ video celebrating the first Peninsula/Palo Branch members who were interviewed as part of a 10-year oral history project that interviewed 90 women about their peace work be viewed directly here.You can also go to other WILPF videos on the vimeo website. Browse through the several listed … Updates
- Marching for climate justice Photo: Climate activists form human chain in Paris on Nov. 29 at the opening of the COP21 climate talks. By Nancy Price, Randa Solick and Joan BranniganWILPF womendefying the French ban on marches, joined the Nov. 29 Human Chain for Climate Justice that lined Blvd. Voltaire from the Church of St. A… Updates
- Help recruit candidates for 2016 boardDarien De Lu, Elections SubcommitteeThis year is an unusually good time to run for the WILPF US board, so who among your WILPF contacts could advance WILPF US and discover the personal value of board work? The election this year offers a wider range of choices for potential candidates -- both a larg… Updates
- Earth Democracy tours fracking sites By Jean Hays, Fresno CA Branch They say a picture is worth a thousand words. We members of the WILPF Fresno’s Earth Democracy group learned first-hand, along with 29 others, what it means to be up close and personal to a field where fracking is and has been going on for years. A few of us WILPFers … Updates
- Golden Rule peace boat update By Helen Jaccard, Disarm/End Wars Issues Committee The newly restored Golden Rule historic nuclear abolition/peace boat returned to Humboldt Bay October 16 after her journey to San Diego for the Veterans For Peace National Convention. I crewed and was the primary spokesperson for the entire journe… Updates
- Triangle NC marks 80 years of activismBy Lucy Lewis, Triangle NC WILPF BranchTriangle Branch celebrated WILPF’s 100-year and the Triangle Branch’s 80-year anniversaries with an Evening of Celebration, Solidarity, and Resistance on November 6 in Chapel Hill, NC. More than 70 WILPF members, friends, and allies attended the November 6 even… Updates
- Attention on Venezuela electionsBy Cindy Domingo, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues CommitteeOn December 6, the Venezuelan people cast their ballots in national elections for all 167 National Assembly seats. These elections are critical for the future of the Bolivarian Alliance in Latin America and the Bolivarian revolution… Updates
- Branch learns about Syrian womenBy Robin Lloyd, Burlington WILPFAuthor and Burlington resident Janet Biehl recently traveled to Rojava, Northern Syria, where Kurdish men and women have organized themselves into a democratic autonomous region and women have full equality. The extraordinary story of Rojava and the philosopher who in… Updates
- Exhibit, video hail branch’s 93 yearsBy Judy Adams, Palo Alto/Peninsula Branch A tolling bell honoring Armistice Day marked the exhibit opening: eleven rings signifying the eleventh day and eleventh month. A reading of Palo Alto’s Proclamation followed, declaring November 11, 2015, "Women's International League for Peace and Freedom Da… Updates
- Dates of 2016 board meetings WILPF US board meetings in 2016 will be January 16, March 15, May 17, July 19, September 20, and November 15. Meetings are open to all WILPF members; pre-register to receive call-in information and agenda in advance of meeting by writing to secretary@wilpfus.org. Join or renew your membership here.… Updates
- The Power of Consistent Giving Your end-of-year gift to the WILPF US 2015 Annual Appeal supports our work Make your contribution today! Year after year, donors have helped to sustain WILPF US through their contributions of hard work and financial backing. This year we are starting recognition of loyal supporters who gave three y… Updates
- WILPF: Steps to end Middle East crisis WILPF US asks the US government to halt the sale of penetrator bombs to Israel, and to cease all military aid to Israel until it ends the occupation of Palestine. The statement also calls for an international conference to be convened by the UN Security Council. Letters containing the statement are… Updates
- WILPF in Paris for COP 21by Nancy Price, Earth Democracy Issue CommitteeFrom Nov. 29 to Dec. 12, all eyes will be on Paris. International WILPF will be there with a display at the main exhibition space and with panels at the People’s Climate Summit. Every UN climate negotiation has fallen far short of what needs to be done … Updates
- Climate Change+Women+Peaceby Corporations v Democracy and Earth Democracy Issue CommitteesA new project funded by a WILPF mini-grant will provide printed materials for branches and members to engage their communities on the combined impact of climate, trade and war on women and families. The world is seeing it in a historic… Updates
- Panel brings WILPF to UN Peace Forumby Melissa Torres, US Section representative to International BoardKristin Alder, Brandy Robinson, Altaira Hatton, Rachel Nagin, and I represented WILPF US at the United Nations Peace Forum on October 29. Our panel,"Strategic Re/Engagements: Advancing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda over the Ne… Updates
- Only Congress can lift the blockadeby Cindy Domingo, Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee President Barack Obama continues to implement policies that impact travel and trade between the US and Cuba since his original announcement last December of normalizing relations between our two countries. However, because the bl… Updates
- Eight campaigns that deserve our supportby Ellen Thomas, Disarm/End Wars CommitteeSo many new, serious campaigns! Check these out, and post info about others on WILPF US Facebook. Disarm/End Wars Committee has developed and/or been asked to help with some notable current campaigns to stop nuclear weapons deployment in Europe, nuclear was… Updates
- Right to Health & Safe Food campaign “phase 2Earth Democracy and Corporations v Democracy Issue Committees Amid growing actions against Monsanto and its toxic Glyphosate herbicides, branches and members are being asked to distribute more of the Infographic Cards on Glyphosate. Read more about why, and ideas for how to make them more available:… Updates
- Stories of activists inspire Palo Alto exhibitby Judy Adams, Peninsula Branch exhibit committee member. The Peninsula Branch (begun in 1922) is reaching out to new generations with its WILPF Centennial exhibit and grand opening event in a Palo Alto, CA, library November 14-December 24. Oral histories dating from 1979 onward were the start. Why … Updates
