On August 2-10, 2019, three WILPF US members joined thousands of Japanese activists in Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the World Conference against A & H Bombs. Join New York City events in April 2020!
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94-year-old Sacramento WILPF member Esther Franklin offered herself for arrest at a Livermore Lab protest on the 74th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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WILPF is sharpening our social media skills and we need your help! Join the Social Media Committee, or contribute powerful images and ideas on the military-climate crisis connection.
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The UN predicts Gaza will be unlivable by 2020 and children are already dying from contaminated water. Contact your representatives to support a bill restoring much-needed aid.
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WILPF Des Moines took a resolution to our local Democratic body requesting that they press the DNC to support a Presidential candidate debate solely focused on climate crisis.
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WILPFer Judy Adams helped organize a July 2 MoveOn National Action Day event that brought nearly 300 participants to the same Palo Alto street corner where the branch holds weekly demonstrations.
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International women’s peace organizations are saying now is the time for breakthroughs in US-North Korea diplomacy, and to finally end the seven-decade Korean War.
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On August 7, 2019, Corvallis (OR) WILPF co-hosted the 38th Hiroshima/Nagasaki Never Again memorial, and turnout was one of the largest in the history of the event.
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Greeley (CO) Branch members celebrated the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote by handing out WILPF information in front of a large grocery store.
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Mourning Rose Daitsman, sage advisor to WILPF US leaders for decades. Heart and soul of the Milwaukee WI branch.