Committee Updates and Action Items: June 2nd Program Call, Disarm Webinar Series
Issue Committee action plans will be discussed on the June 2nd Program Call. All are welcome!
June 2020
June 2 Program Call for All Members!
By Joan Goddard
Program Committee Chair
All WILPF US Members: Please join the June 2nd Program Call at 5 pm PDT / 8 pm EDT. We will all discuss the issue committees’ new plans for action and local outreach. Some actions are for the next months and some for longer preparation.
We’ll have a breakout room for each issue committee to meet with and discuss action plans with branch and at-large members.
Please do join the call! Click here to pre-register if you have not been on recent Program calls. For more Information, see the eAlert message sent to all members on Friday, May 29, with the subject: Action Plans & 6/2 Meeting for All Members.
Questions? Contact Joan Goddard, 2020 WILPF US Program Chair: joan[at]rujo.org.
Monthly Disarm Webinar Series Continues
By Ellen Thomas and Robin Lloyd
Co-chairs, Disarm/End Wars
The Disarm/End Wars Webinar series continues throughout the year. Each of the events will be an individual Zoom call. We plan to send out an eAlert a few days before each webinar providing the event time and the Zoom link.
Save these dates for the rest of our series! 
- On June 28 – Phyllis Bennis of Institute for Policy Studies about issues surrounding the founding of the United Nations and the uphill battle to democratize it.
- In July – about the Downwinders of the July 16, 1945, Trinity A-bomb test in New Mexico and later nuclear bomb tests in Nevada.
- In August – Hideko Tamura’s experience of the Hiroshima bombing and life before and after.
- On September 20– Alice Slater of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation on the new and hoped-for Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
- On October 24United Nations Day – a speaker from Reaching Critical Will about WILPF’s active role in disarmament efforts before and since the United Nations was founded.
Photo: Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies.
Be on the lookout for an eAlert about the June 28 Webinar. If you have any questions, contact Robin Lloyd: robinlloyd8@gmail.com and put in the subject line: “Question about Webinar”.
Please also visit our recently updated DISARM/End Wars webpage where there are multiple resources, including an Interactive Timeline of 1945 and Resources for 75th Anniversary Commemorations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
