by WILPF Santa Cruz

A Santa Cruz WILPF delegation boarded the train this morning on its way to a 100th anniversary event at the Hull House Museum in Chicago featuring two Nobel Laureates. Leymah Gbowee of Liberia and Jody Williams of the US.

The Nobel Women’s Initiative is co-hosting the special gathering with US WILPF.  Gbowee was honored for her leadership of the women’s movement that ended the Second Liberian Civil War and Williams for her work to ban landmines. Jane Addams, co-founder of the Hull House to provide services for immigrant workers in Chicago in 1889, is the first U.S. woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

The gathering will offer an opportunity to forge consensus on a USA Peace and Freedom Statement that will be delivered to the WILPF Congress in The Hague, Netherlands in April, 2015. The California delegation will escort their special guest, a life sized Jane Addams replica who will return to her home at the Hull House as a symbolic gesture to say: “Happy 100 Years to Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.” Order replicas online from this firm

On the train trip WILPF co-founder Jane Addams will generate conversation, historical trivia games, post photos and videos on social media! Their delegation includes Cappy Israel, Rebecca Jordan, Marilyn Lucier, Jennifer Pitino and her son Daniel, Patricia Schroeder and Jackie Tonkel.

To join in the conversation during the trip, go to Facebook   or Twitter.    
 

Photo: Leymah Gbowee, will also be the keynote speaker at the WILPF Centennial Conference in The Hague in April.