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.”
Updates
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.
On October 12, WILPF Pittsburgh organized a showing and discussion of the documentary Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives, co-sponsored by the local Veterans for Peace and Izaak Walton League.
On September 24, 2019, the national board discussed membership development, WILPF’s improved finances, and new proposed guidelines for issue committees that are already leading to greater activism.
WILPF Members are being asked to mount an action during the month of October with the theme “Treaties Keep the Peace / Broken Treaties Lead to War.” Resources are available!
Ellen Thomas’s Nuclear-Free-Future Tour report is available! And save the dates: November 12-15, lobbying for HR-2419 in Washington, DC & April 24-26, World Conference for Disarmament, Peace, Climate & Justice.
The Patagonia Environmental Fund awarded the Earth Democracy committee a $12,000 grant for “The Pentagon: Exposing the Hidden Polluter of Water,” our new, collaborative project in California.