We, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom - US Section (WILPF US), applaud President Barack Obama for moving to restore full diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba for the first time in over fifty years. Those years revealed a failed policy by the US, and some remarkable achievements by the small, struggling nation of Cuba.
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 11:57
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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
Wednesday, December 3, 2014 - 09:14
Apply by December 15 to attend the 59th Commission on the Status of Women March 7-15, 2015 in New York City as part of WILPF’s UN Practicum in Advocacy and the Local to Global.
