“Hope is something you do, not something you have.” Joanna Macy. Randa Solick’s inspiring report on the 2014 Women’s Congress for Future Generations and Hattie Nestel’s video interviews of people organizing against the gas pipeline exemplify hope turned to action.
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Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 08:58
A New Year begins with New Years Resolutions. Let’s resolve in 2015 to use our power as committed WILPF women to abolish nuclear weapons and to end all wars! And let’s work to make it so!
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 08:53
During 2015 our WILPF Disarm/End Wars members will be watching closely the actions of NATO, which is rapidly expanding into an aggressive global military alliance. NATO can lead us into a new Cold War -- or plunge us into Hot Wars, or into nuclear holocaust either by accident or design.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 08:44
The next mini-grant deadline is February 1. There are three mini-grant periods per year. You can apply for up to $2500. Grants are made to Branches and to Issue Committees. Branches receive the funds up front. Issue Committees are reimbursed. To apply, send your request by email to Barbara West. See details here.
Tuesday, January 6, 2015 - 08:30
Use your January renewed energy to prepare and to take action locally as part of the national campaign, “Intercept Human Trafficking” around football’s Super Bowl! Demonstrating, leafleting, writing letters to the editor will all help get the word out.
Monday, January 5, 2015 - 12:42
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.
Wednesday, December 17, 2014 - 11:57
Connect with others working on the environment, human rights, disarmament, the Americas, justice in the Middle East.
Click here to see the diverse range of work that WILPF US is involved in. Choose your passion.
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.
