Branches/Areas – last call to be considered to host the 2024 WILPF Congress – March 15 is the deadline!

Feminist cooperators are everywhere! Register for the March 9^th ONE WILPF Call to learn about alternative banking solutions being created by women who are most affected by financial insecurity and predatory lending.

Please attend the webinar “End Women’s Poverty: Invest in Caring Not Killing” on March 8, organized by the California Poor People’s Campaign and co-sponsored by WILPF! Women and children are 70% of the poor in the US and stats are similar around the world.

Following the first anniversary of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on February 24, we must show our congressional representatives, who keep voting to send more weapons to Ukraine, that there are peaceful alternatives to war. The DISARM/End Wars Committee offers resources and actions to stop this war that has already cost more than 200,000 lives.  
 

In Greenfield, Massachusetts, signs abound in downtown shop windows, among them PEACE, ART NOT WAR, FOOD FOR ALL NOT WAR, SOLAR NOT WAR, MAKE TEA NOT WAR. Invite your own community’s shops to display signs like this!

The WILPF International resolution supporting the United Nation’s International Decade for People of African Descent recognizes the importance of promoting the human rights of those on the African continent plus the many millions more people of African descent live in other parts of the world.

WILPF branches and at-large members celebrated the second anniversary of the TPNW’s entry into force between January 20th and 23rd, 2023. Read reports and view photos from nine cities where demonstrations were held.
 

Banks keep consolidating their power by extracting interest from people, businesses, governments, and the planet. A new webinar on February 23 examines how the bank credit system undermines peace, equity, and the environment and what we can do about it.

Branches can apply for a grant of $250-$2500 to carry out a project. The next deadline to apply is February 15!

This year’s World Water Day theme is “Accelerating Change” to solve the water and sanitation crisis. Because water affects everyone, we all need to take action.