Committee Updates: Board Elections; Join the AHR; Before/After Conversations; Social Media Committees Needs You!

October 2021

Before/After

Call in on Tuesday, October 5, for informal conversation!  Once again I welcome you to the continuing and less formal Before/After conversations. Join me in the half-hour prior to and after the Program Committee meeting:

Before – 7:30-8 pm EDT / 6:30-7 CDT/ 5:30-6 MDT / 4:30-5 pm PDT

After – 10-10:30 pm EDT / 9-9:30 CDT/ 8-8:30 Mdt/ 7-7:30 pm PDT

Learn more about and give me your feedback on WILPF activities and projects. Call in for ten minutes or for both half-hours. Converse and ask me questions about our program work and more. You may also wish to learn more by listening to the two-hour Program Committee meeting, in the middle. (However, only the committee members may actively participate in that meeting.)

Register in advance for these Tuesday Zoom meeting sessions:  register here.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  Let’s get to know each other. Drop on in!

The TIME is NEAR! Board Elections!

Now is the time to apply for or nominate someone else for an opening in the 2022 WILPF US board! See the elections timeline. The deadlines are October 10 for nominations and October 15 for applications.

See the Position Openings to know what seats are vacant for 2022. Get details on the job description here.  The actual application form is available here.

For further information about nominating a potential candidate for a position, candidate qualifications, and other election matters, contact nominatingcommittee@wilpfus.org or call (617) 266-0999 (preferably during working hours on Wednesday).

JOIN the Working Subcommittees of Advancing Human Rights!

The full AHR Issue Committee has had four revitalizing meetings.  Recently, several of the subcommittees have been meeting (see list below) and they all want to welcome YOU! Write to AHRchair@wilpfus.org to be connected with one or more of the following subcommittees already getting organized – or to suggest another one!    

United Nations activity regarding women, including human trafficking; Immigration and border militarization; UN International Decade for People of African Descent / Reparations; Anti-racism work; End mass incarceration – and more!
Contact Joan Goddard, Interim AHR Coordinator, for the late-October date of the next meeting of the full AHR Issue Committee: AHRchair@wilpfus.org

The Social Media Committee needs you…

(To respond or for more info on these items, email President@wilpfus.org)

Did you register for Congress?  Did you attend?  The Social Media Ctte. invites your feedback on your “tech. experience”:  Did Zoom work well for you?  What feedback do you have on Congress functions: How good was the ease of getting into meetings?  Why did you participate – or not?  Why – with over 240 registrants – did we usually see some 80 at a given presentation?

Have you been to our recordings page, to see the Congress session recordings and much more?  The Social Media Ctte. reminds you that we need 6 more subscribers to our YouTube page to reach the 100 level – which qualifies us to name our page something snappy – instead of Share the website link: https://bit.ly/WILPFUSVids!

Do you use Instagram or Twitter? Help us develop better ways to reach out to the world of social media – building better connections to our branches and to other communities! The Social Media Committee especially seeks those who use Twitter and/or Instagram.