Updates

Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 08:30
Human Trafficking

Use your January renewed energy to prepare and to take action locally as part of the national campaign, “Intercept Human Trafficking” around football’s Super Bowl! Demonstrating, leafleting, writing letters to the editor will all help get the word out.

Friday, December 5, 2014 - 13:56

In Mexico to follow up on the WILPF US agreement at our Congress in Detroit to support a binational collaboration between our Section and LIMPAL Mexico, Melissa Torres was on hand for the uprising in support of the missing 43 students of Ayotzinapa.

Friday, December 5, 2014 - 13:52

November 21-23 weekend protests against the Stewart Detention Center and the infamous School of the Americas (SOA) included members from the Washington DC and Triangle (NC) branches.

Friday, December 5, 2014 - 13:46

Selected to attend 2015 Congress in The Hague, representing the US section are delegates Mary Hanson Harrison (president), Regina Birchem, Barbara Nielsen, Jane Doyle and Carol Urner.

Friday, December 5, 2014 - 13:40

Applications close December 15 for two WILPF US programs at the UN’s 59th Commission on the Status of Women March 7-15, 2015 in New York City.

Friday, December 5, 2014 - 13:27

WILPF’s Cuba and the Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee is proud to announce the upcoming tour of Isel Calzadilla Acosta, founder and coordinator of Las Isabelas, the first lesbian group in Santiago de Cuba. 

Friday, December 5, 2014 - 13:23

Jackie Cabasso and Alice Slater of our committee are attending two nuclear disarmament meetings this month in Vienna on the Humanitarian Consequences of Nuclear War.

Friday, December 5, 2014 - 13:09

December 10 has been declared Jane Addams Day in Illinois, and on that day, Hull House in Chicago will host a 5-9pm event, Care and Resistance: Stories, workshops and actions for peace:
Jane Addams book club in Santa Cruz
Victory for homeless campaign in Palo Alto
Branches in West plan for Centennial event

Tuesday, December 2, 2014 - 06:02

We, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, US Section (WILPF US), stand in solidarity with our sisters in the WILPF, Mexico Section, and the people of Mexico, as they stand up demanding answers and an end to the violence and killing resulting from a failed drug war and state corruption

Wednesday, November 26, 2014 - 14:19

People praying in Ferguson, MO on August 15, 2014, after the release of the name of the officer who shot Michael Brown.  

Photo by Dreamstime, with permission

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