Activists in Burlington, VT, won the right to have their F-35 ballot item about the siting of the jet bomber at the airport put on the ballot in March, and the story made the cover of the Burlington Free Press!
Updates
Monday, February 5, 2018 - 09:40
Our national Program Committee’s 2018 meeting series is on the first Sunday of each month. Meeting time is 4:30 pm pacific, 6:30 pm central and 7:30 pm eastern. These hour-long planning calls will move our program strategic plan and actions forward via our issues committees, branches, and at-large members to meet our plan goals with measurable results.
Monday, February 5, 2018 - 09:30
“In a thousand days Yemen has become a land of blood and bombs,” Middle East Committee co-chair Odile Hugonot Haber reports. Call your representatives to protest arms deals and end the inhumane blockade!
Monday, February 5, 2018 - 09:14
New letter writing parties aim to involve local supporters and members in discussion on important and relevant issues, and to turn around public opinion when the local news is getting it wrong.
Monday, February 5, 2018 - 07:56
The Pittsburgh WILPF branch is working with Veterans for Peace of Western PA, the Thomas Merton Center, and other groups to stop PNC Bank, a regional bank, from financing the manufacture of nuclear weapons. Several additional organizations have endorsed our campaign.
Monday, February 5, 2018 - 07:34
Please mark your calendars for the fourth Thursdays. Thanks to everyone who participated enthusiastically in our umbrella human rights and our racial justice workshops at the Chicago Congress, and to every member who has been working on these issues so passionately for so long!
Monday, February 5, 2018 - 07:06
The Greater Philadelphia Branch joined with the Weaver’s Way Environmental Committee for an informative and enjoyable information session.
Monday, February 5, 2018 - 06:54
To mark the recent Second Annual Women’s Marches, Ellen Feldman has graciously extended the offer to donate $12 to WILPF US for any one of our members to purchase her beautiful photo book We Who March.
Sunday, February 4, 2018 - 14:52
WILPF Fresno, in collaboration with other environmental groups in the San Joaquin Valley, will host its third water forum: “H2O III: Distilling Sustainable Solutions,” to be held on Saturday, March 10, 2018, at Fresno City College.
Thursday, January 4, 2018 - 13:27
Just in case you hadn’t heard, amazingly, the United Nations adopted the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – that’s right, it’s a treaty to ban nuclear weapons!
