News

Monday, June 8, 2015 - 10:43

WILPF’s Centenary featured in a Memorial Day commemoration in Boston, a member’s celebration of 59 years of activism in San Jose and a three-generation family in Sacramento.

Monday, June 8, 2015 - 10:25

Our Citizen Diplomacy Group led by Sharon Tennison, creator of the Center for Citizen Initiatives, is in Russia to meet with citizens in four cities to learn and to build relationships to work for reconciliation. 

Monday, June 8, 2015 - 10:18
Mary Clark , Helen Hildreth and Ann Peabody Brown lead protest against the Vietnam War in the 1960s.

Hear for yourself the inspiring stories and voices of more than 90 of our WILPF (and Women Strike for Peace) sisters, interviewed in the 1980s by the Women’s Peace Oral History project.

Monday, June 8, 2015 - 10:13

Sha’an Mouliert, a Vermont community organizer, educator, and artist, received the Lyndon State College Presidential Medal of Freedom during commencement ceremonies.

Monday, June 8, 2015 - 09:27

World Beyond War, which has been endorsed by WILPF US, WILPF International and several WILPF sections, has recently published   A Global Security System: An Alternative to War.

Saturday, May 16, 2015 - 12:46

Nominations due May 30.
Applications due June 6.

Friday, May 8, 2015 - 08:12
WILPF Executive Committee

Read about the officers, resolutions, Manifesto and new Sections and listen to audio of 41 presentations during the Conference – linked from the 100th Anniversary Special Edition of the WILPF International Membership News.

Friday, May 8, 2015 - 08:00
Women's Power to Stop War

Congress delegates and participants in 100th anniversary celebration in The Hague called on countries to reduce military spending by 10% and shift the funds to education as a specific step toward world peace.

Friday, May 8, 2015 - 07:51

Exhibits and events continue in the US in honor of the 100th anniversary – a library exhibit at the University of Colorado, Manifesto celebration in Cape Cod, and a mayoral proclamation in San Francisco.

Friday, May 8, 2015 - 07:37
Hattie Nestel continues her organizing and work to oppose the Kinder-Morgan Pipeline gas pipeline

As part of her opposition to the proposed Kinder Morgan Corporation pipeline that would carry fracked gas from fields in Pennsylvania through New York State, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire, Hattie Nestel participated in six days of a Pipeline Pilgrimage led by Young Adult Quakers through six New Hampshire towns. 

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