Please Support Our Work Before January 1

November 18, 2019            

Dear WILPF member and friend of WILPF:

WILPF women activists are standing up, speaking up, and organizing in strategic ways.
That’s what WILPF does: We organize. We speak out. We DON’T give up!

WILPF is making noise while calling out racism, fear-mongering, and war for profit.  We’re confronting corruption and supporting grassroots solutions. But we still have a long way to go to confront disastrous patriarchy and unsustainable late stage capitalism with its armed and monied powers. We need you with us.

United with peace women in Venezuela, the Korean Peninsula, and across the globe, we continue to move forward our hope for peace, planet, and economic justice.  I’m sharing some stories about solutions we’re working on. So much is required to organize cohesive, consistent, strategic actions work. We’re able to keep going because of donors like you.

I know you’ve donated before and care deeply about peacemaking and strengthening women’s voices.  

Will you support our work with a gift before the end of 2019?

We’re asking for a gift that stretches you a bit because challenges today are stretching us – to do more with less. With your gift we pledge to keep up WILPF’s proud tradition of activism.

You have been a vital supporter of WILPF. Any amount helps, but if you are able to donate $250, we’ll send you a WILPF BUTTON along with our gratitude, to wear to your next protest, demonstration, or march – or anytime!  

Your gift will help train other activists and connect you to the strong WILPF network across the nation and around the world.   

How to Donate  
Whether you contribute online or by mail, you have the option of giving directly to WILPF without a tax deduction, or you can receive a tax deduction by directing your payment through our nonprofit fiscal sponsor, the Peace Development Fund (PDF).
 
Online
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It is easy and safe. Follow directions to give directly to WILPF or through PDF.  
 
By Mail
To donate directly to WILPF without a tax-deduction, make your check payable to "WILPF-US" in any amount and send to the address below.
 
For a tax-deduction, make your check payable to "WILPF-PDF".   
 
Whichever option you choose, mark "EOY APPEAL" in the check memo and mail your contribution to our office at:

WILPF US,  
PO Box 13075  
Des Moines, IA 50310

In Solidarity,

Darien De Lu 
WILPF US Section President   

Learn more about the powerful work WILPF has been doing in 2019 and will continue into 2020

A Big Win in California!
WILPF members joined forces with others to pass a new state public banking law, setting an example for other states to follow.  Public banks can free municipalities from greedy Wall Street banksters by letting us direct local investment to local projects that support our values. 

Public banking offers the potential for system change and a more equitable economy.

WILPF Energizes Women to Leadership
This year our ONE WILPF Calls brought inspiring speakers and enabled planning across the US for marches, teach-ins, and protests around our three national Solidarity Actions.
                        
"Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war”
       — Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Your Gift Fuels Our Outreach!

An Important Win, but Just Short of What We Need

WILPF’s Earth Democracy Issue Committee developed a new project that highlights the military’s  reckless use of toxic PFAS chemicals.  We’ll collect health data from communities whose water has been contaminated by nearby military bases.
 
We received a grant from Patagonia Foundation, but for $6,000 less than we requested.  We have to make up that shortfall!  Help us alert affected communities, support local community leaders, and advocate for life-saving regulatory changes.

Your gift can help complete this project! Help us reveal the heartbreaking health data the US military knew about but covered up for decades. Learn more about this project here.

And the Children Will Lead Us
From Greta Thunberg’s Climate Strike, to the Florida gun control activists, to the Sunrise Movement, to the WILPF-backed Our Children’s Trust lawsuit, demanding the Constitutional “right to a climate system capable of sustaining human life” – young people are leading efforts to save lives and the planet. 

WILPF is investing energy in education and outreach to the younger generation with so much potential for system change.

Photo by Glenn Ruga. New York Climate Strike, September 20, 2019.

Burlington, VT WILPF continued their powerful collaboration with local public schools to offer a retrospective on Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in follow-up to last year’s project on Hiroshima survivors.  

In Westchester, NY, WILPFers organized a display of peace posters done by children from the 1970s, reminding the public of the enduring hopes of children for peace. This was the first project of the newly relaunched branch.  

Working Smarter & More Strategically in Coalition
Internally, WILPF US is retooling and modernizing our processes and structures to become more agile, more visible, and more effective. A new plan for our program work will keep our issue work more strategic and cohesive. We’re encouraging new strategic national and local collaborations with exciting partners. Already we’re seeing successes.  

Corporations v Democracy
WILPF’s newly relaunched Corporations v Democracy Issue Committee is producing an update of their powerful Corporate Power Study Course and creating a Feminist Economic Toolkit, to help women create powerful local solutions.

WILPF US Practicum

Our 2019 WILPF US Practicum brought young women from across the US to participate in the March Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), connecting with international women peacemakers and learning how to put theory into practice – taking it from the global to the local level.

Donate today to empower a feminist voice for global peace.

Addressing Poverty and Economic Injustice
Once again our members joined the actions of the Poor People's Campaign, which is poised for a large mobilization in June 2020 to keep the pressure on candidates.

We'll continue our relentless resistance in 2020, with your help!
Please support our work before January 1^st.