Nine WILPF branches in California and three in Oregon participated in the Nuclear-Free Future program, and seven delegations have already visited local offices of their representatives in support of HR 1976, the only Congressional bill on abolishing nuclear weapons.
Updates
Saturday, March 5, 2016 - 08:26
The No Way to Treat a Child campaign aims to expose the practice and impacts of Israeli military detention on Palestinian children in order to hold Israel accountable to international laws and to build support for ending the military occupation.
Saturday, March 5, 2016 - 08:22
Join us March 27-April 2, 2016 at Creech Air Force Base, Indian Springs, Nevada for a 2nd national mobilization of nonviolent resistance to shut down killer drone operations in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and everywhere.
Saturday, March 5, 2016 - 08:13
Greater Phoenix Branch has just put out its first newsletter, in which we told about our production of Most Dangerous Women, as well as our recent tabling at the Mesa Martin Luther King Day event.
Saturday, March 5, 2016 - 08:10
Members of the Tucson Branch demonstrated against the Trans Pacific Partnership at a Congressional office in February and tabled at the 34th Annual Peace Fair, whose theme was Compassion for Refugees & Migrants, All One World.
Saturday, March 5, 2016 - 08:06
WILPF US remembers former board members, Ethel M. Jensen and Georgia Pinkel.
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 08:08
The NGO Committee on the Status of Women and others officially started Cities for CEDAW campaign in 2013. The US is one of few countries not to ratify CEDAW – the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 07:56
The idea for the MLK, Jr Walk, over the January 16-18 weekend, to oppose the Kinder Morgan pipeline was a sudden inspiration, when a lightbulb went off in my head on a short walk in mid-December opposing the same pipeline.
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 07:49
The interconnectedness of water with resource conflicts and war is becoming better understood among activists, but we need to keep raising this in our communities. WILPF has new tools to help.
Friday, February 5, 2016 - 07:27
We are now in the midst of our West Coast tour campaigning for abolition of nuclear weapons and an end to war. We are actively promoting HR 1976, the only bill in Congress calling for abolition of nuclear weapons.
