W$D Committee Seeks Member Input for 2025-26 Priorities and Goals
Women, Money, & Democracy
Join one-hour LISTENING FORUM on Saturday, February 8
9:00 a.m. PT/10:00 a.m. MT/11:00 a.m. CT/12:00 p.m. ET
Register for W$D’s upcoming listening forum on February 8 here.
Share YOUR suggestions for the most pressing economic justice issues with the W$D Committee.
The Women, Money & Democracy Committee of WILPF US works on issues of economic justice and lifts up solutions or remedies to the rigged system that punishes our most vulnerable neighbors. As a feminist organization, we particularly emphasize issues that impact women and families.
Recent projects, still in place, include:
- Advocacy for public banking initiatives around the country–to keep public money local with local governance and deny the largest commercial banks millions of dollars they take from cities and states.
- Feminist economic literacy–so women gain a practical understanding of how economics affects their lives. With our allies at An Economy of Our Own, we co-sponsor brilliant virtual conversations illuminating these issues.
- Opposition to corporate power and “corporate personhood”–this project helps fulfill our committee’s long-standing commitment to this work via education and advocacy.
- Advocacy for monetary reform–changing how our money is created could eliminate much of the oppressive debt that burdens all Americans. Our allies at Alliance for Just Money have solutions!
- Fair elections–raising awareness of the dangers of money in elections, working for more equitable election financing, and encouraging general support of progressive women candidates (in keeping with WILPF’s 501(c)(4) status).
If our committee had more members, passionate leaders to steer new projects, and a consensus on where to put our energy, it might address many other economic justice issues that affect women and families.
Some of those possible new priorities are easy to imagine:
- Healthcare justice and reform–advocacy for universal national healthcare. Fixes are being proposed that WILPF members might help advance.
- Bail reform–the bail system in this country is corrupt and inequitably affects poor people and people of color. Some solutions are being proposed that we might get behind.
- The roots of homelessness, practical solutions, and the complex reasons behind the issue could be addressed through advocacy for legislative reforms and raising awareness of the dangers of gentrification and profiteering among real estate developers and vulture capitalists. We could engage in this work in collaboration with our Advancing Human Rights Committee’s Housing Justice Working Group.
- Advocacy for divestment from investments that support war profiteers–this goal includes divesting banks, schools, pension funds, hospitals, cities, and states from investments that prop up war profiteers and weapons manufacturers/dealers. This work would be done in collaboration with our DISARM Committee.
- Opposing public education censorship and dumbing down measures that remove education on climate change and evolution from science curriculums and public dollars spent on private school voucher programs.
- Supporting alternative media in the face of unprecedented media consolidation and control of information.
Which issues affecting economic justice, women’s rights, and defending democracy would YOU like to see WILPF’s W$D Committee prioritize in the next two years?
Come to the listening forum on Saturday, February 8, and have a voice in shaping W$D’s future projects.
