Members of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Club of the Des Moines Branch share inspiring books with local schoolchildren, and the students say it is one of their favorite activities of the year!
Updates
We’re facing a national and global drinking water crisis caused by PFAS: dangerous, toxic, man-made chemicals. Go see the film Dark Waters, and help build a broad, intersectional movement to protect the environment and our health.
From November 6 to December 13, every weekday is a “Ban Nuclear Weapons” national call-in day! Please call and, if possible, set up a meeting with your representative.
WILPF US is announcing a National Call-in Day to promote the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, on Friday, November 1, while our US Congress members are back in their local district offices.
The US government is increasing its attacks on Cuba and Venezuela and promoting policies intended to cause suffering. We are expanding WILPF’s Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issue Committee – join us in this important work!
The Holistic Committee, meeting since March to review program functioning, is proposing a new plan for more strategic program work. All WILPFers will have an opportunity to provide input into this proposed “Program 2.0.”
World Beyond War’s fourth annual conference in Limerick, Ireland, held October 5-6, 2019, included international speakers, reports from new WBW branches, and a protest at the Shannon Airport.
The Humboldt Branch had a busy few weeks in late September/early October, including two climate events and an International Day of Peace Celebration, and a meeting with our congressman.
Mary Hanson Harrison was part of the ceremony honoring this year’s Food Sovereignty Prize winners, Urban Tilth and Plan Pueblo a Pueblo.
In the wake of the September drone attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities, the Middle East Committee urges WILPF members to call or write their elected officials asking for the U.S. to exercise restraint.