The Greater Philadelphia Branch hosted a branch meeting November 15 to have an exchange with WILPF Board President Mary Hanson Harrison on local, national and international goals, and recount their activities during 2015.
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The Peninsula/Palo Alto Branch misses-Lois Salo, its longtime membership chair, who was best known as a coalition builder. She networked with peace and justice, environmental and homeless groups in bringing issues to city and county governments.
The next WILPF Minigrant application deadline is February 1, 2016. We have three granting cycles, February 1, June 1 and October 1. Grants are made to branches and to issue committees for projects that serve WILPF's mission and vision by building our programs.
Judy Adams’ video celebrating the first Peninsula/Palo Branch members who were interviewed as part of a 10-year oral history project that interviewed 90 women about their peace work be viewed directly online.
WILPF welcomes members to participate in creating and carrying out our work. Find a committee to pursue your advocacy goals or work on governance. The monthly board calls are open to members as well. Not yet a member?
WILPF women, defying the French ban on marches, joined the Nov. 29 Human Chain for Climate Justice, while over one-half million people, including Santa Cruz, CA, and St. Louis, MO, join the #GlobalClimateMarch.
This year is an unusually good time to run for the WILPF US board, so who among your WILPF contacts could advance WILPF US and discover the personal value of board work?
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. We members of the WILPF Fresno’s Earth Democracy group learned first-hand, along with 29 others, what it means to be up close and personal to a field where fracking is and has been going on for years.
The newly restored Golden Rule historic nuclear abolition/peace boat returned to Humboldt Bay October 16 after her journey to San Diego for the Veterans For Peace National Convention. Crewmember Helen Jaccard credits WILPFers and other women with the success of the voyage.
Triangle Branch celebrated WILPF’s 100-year and the Triangle Branch’s 80-year anniversaries with an Evening of Celebration, Solidarity, and Resistance on November 6 in Chapel Hill, NC.