70 Years of Nuclear Weapons – At What Cost? is the theme of a gathering at Lawrence Livermore Lab in California, while WILPF members lay flowers at a Japanese bell in Des Moines, Iowa, and a Disarm leader speaks in Portland, Oregon.
Updates
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 10:23
North Carolina’s Triangle Branch Water Committee is working on fracking, coal ash dumping, indigenous rights, voting rights, and specific legal actions in which WILPF was active in planning meetings that resulted in three North Carolina lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of procedures.
Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 10:09
Detroit WILPF Branch member Kim Redigan with her activist colleagues and sponsoring organizations planned the Detroit to Flint Water Justice Journey – a 70-mile walk July 3-10 calling for affordable, clean water for all statewide.
Sunday, August 2, 2015 - 11:42
Re-envisioning WILPF in the 21st Century is an imperative. We’ve got critical goals, but we need your support to get there. This campaign update includes information YOU can use to help us plant new seeds.
Monday, July 20, 2015 - 09:26
In his first foreign policy speech April 5, 2009, President Obama in Prague told thousands of people that his presidency would see “America's commitment to seek peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”
Monday, July 20, 2015 - 08:09
Lessons learned from U.S. Social Forum events in San Jose, Philadelphia, Jackson and Tijuana are still evolving. Activists converging to share perspectives on social justice, human rights and climate justice returned home with new contacts and ideas.
Monday, July 20, 2015 - 08:03
Going to trial July 7 for protesting the imprisonment of 17 Salvadoran women for miscarriages proved rewarding, says Paki Wieland. “Both the judge and prosecutor allowed they learned about the injustice done to the women, and they thanked us for that.”
Monday, July 20, 2015 - 08:00
Assert community rights over corporate rights. WILPF activists are launching, in collaboration with the Alliance for Democracy, the second round of the “We Will Not Obey” TPP-Free Zone campaign.
Monday, July 20, 2015 - 07:55
A proclamation calling for reduced spending on nuclear weapons and redirection of those funds to meet the urgent needs of cities leads off a week of remembrance in Pittsburgh, PA, for the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 12:49
Hiroshima/Nagasaki days are just a month away. The world’s first atom bomb, named Trinity by hubristic males, was exploded on July 16, 1945. The two bombings in Japan followed soon afterward. The world seems closer now to nuclear catastrophe than since the early 1960s.
