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Published on January, 00 2020
ENGAGE • CONNECT • LEAD
Amplify your voice with ours
Easy-to-Use Powerful Maestro Technology
ONE WILPF Calls are for all WILPF US members
Click here to see the archives of the latest Audio Recordings and Notes. For prior year items, see the yearly archives in the sidebar.
Register for the next ONE WILPF Call
Calls are scheduled the second Thursday of each month at 4pm Pacific/7pm Eastern. If this changes, if you were signed up for email notices you will receive notification. (Email info@wilpfus.org for further information on how to receive the eAlerts.)
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TALK with WILPF leaders from across the US.
PLAN sharing strategies and resources that work fo peace, planet, women’s rights, and human rights.
ACT TOGETHER for measurable impact on the causes that matter to you.
These calls use a powerful but easy to navigate conferencing technology that combines presentation and workshop time in break out rooms YOU help lead!
ONE WILPF CALLS are no longer limited just to WILPF members. Discussion is preferentially for WILPF members, but all are welcome on the calls. Participants must pre-register. Click here to register.
ONE WILPF CALLS are just for WILPF members so you have to pre-register.
- Hear nationally known activists and speakers
- Participate in Q&A and discussions in response to the speakers
- Help plan WILPF actions and next steps for your community
- Help lead our national section and guide program
LISTEN TO WOMEN… FOR A CHANGE!
To suggest a speaker or topic, email us at 1wilpfcalls@gmail.com.
How To Participate
You can call in with your phone or using both your phone and your computer for a fuller communication experience. All voices will be muted during the general part of the call and open during Break Out Rooms.
PRESS 5 on your phone keypad if you have any technical problems.
PRESS 1 on your phone keypad during Q&A to raise your hand and get on the stack, or to vote in real time polls
Call Norms
- Be prepared and come ready to engage. Read the agenda, if you receive the WILPF eAlerts that provide it. Seek to anticipate the discussion and do preparatory work ahead of time.
- Balance your participation—speak and listen—and make sure everyone’s voice is heard.
- Look ahead to positive action, not back on ‘shoulda, woulda, coulda’.
- Stay Focused. Everyone is responsible for helping to stay on topic—capture off topic items in a ‘backburner’ and agree to discuss them later at a more appropriate time.
- Be concise and to the point.
- Be open to feedback.
Archived Audio Recordings and Notes
April 9
Connection to the Earth and Sustainable Society in Harmony with Nature
Osprey Orielle Lake speaks for the Women’s Indigenous Climate Action Network (WECAN), an international organization that supports indigenous eco-activist women across the planet in their quest to make our world more sustainable and equitable while protecting precious resources and sacred land.
Osprey Orielle Presentation 15:55 minutes)with Q&A (total, with both, of 65:47 minutes):
March 6
75 Years of Opposing Nuclear Weapons
Holding Space for Peace in a System Based on Destruction
Marking the 75th anniversary of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings may be the most important way we can raise awareness in 2020 of the dangerous ramping up of nuclear threats. Even if you or your branch have never planned an anniversary action before, it may be time to begin planning for this August.
On this ONE WILPF Call, two anti-nuclear powerhouses share their perspective on organizing in 2020 and beyond against the Administration’s shocking increase in nuclear weapons spending.
Featured Guest Speakers Marylia Kelley of Tri-Valley CARES in Livermore, CA and Jackie Cabasso of the Western States Legal Foundation and Mayors For Peace, are experts on the dangers and threats of new nuclear weapons. They offered practical ideas for how to confront the rising tide of new nukes being advanced by our government. Listen to now, while there’s still time, to plan for August 2020 events.
Announcements
Earth Democracy Military Poisons Tour.
The Cuba & Bolivarian Alliance Committee.
Women,Money & Democracy Committee.
Poor Peoples Campaign.
DISARM.
For Burlington VT WILPF's program DVD Hibakusha Stories: Testimonies of Atomic Bomb Survivors (2 hours), while they last, contact madel51353@aol.com. Or watch it online here.
Click here for Marylia Kelley’s presentation
Click here for Jackie Cabasso’s presentation
Click here for Call Textpad with link to references
VT Branch Anti-Nuclear Resources
February 13
Planning for Discernment & Success
A Leadership Training Session for Issue Committees, Branches and At-Large Members
Important announcements from WILPF US and select issue committees:
The Poor Peoples Campaign, Women, Money & Democracy, DISARM, Earth Democracy, and President Darien DeLu on this year’s Commission on the Status of Women events in NYC in March.
Case Study: Planning for Success
Marguerite Adelman from Burlington VT WILPF provided glimpses into what makes her events so effective, well-planned, attractive to local funders, and able to connect with the local school system.
Her tips for being more organized and effective can help make your branch and your events more visible and successful. For more info contact Marguerite at madel51353@aol.com
Discerning the Way Forward for Your Projects
Good planning begins with choosing the right action for your community and setting planning timelines, budgets and goals. A SWOT Analysis can help you choose wisely and make long term plans that will expand your circle and create success.
SWOT = Strengths,Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats.
The Powerpoint presentation of this HOW-TO Training is available here.
The notes and talking points are available here.
Planning For Success CASE STUDY: Listen to Marguerite Adelman of the Burlington Branch here.
Consider reviewing this presentation with your branch and local leaders.
January 9
Planning for Activism in 2020
Featured speaker Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap of MOVE TO AMEND spoke about the upcoming (January 21st) 10th Anniversary of Citizens United and the work Move To Amend has done to advance the We The People Amendment to the US Constitution. Kaitlin cited the heavy toll dark money concentrated wealth have had on diminishing our democracy, silencing the voices of ordinary Americans, and she offered ideas for resistance and action.
A new PROGRAM PLANNING PROCESS at WILPF US was introduced.
Planning for a 2020 SOLIDARITY ACTION THEME was begun, centralizing the 100th Anniversary of SUFFRAGE and ways that WILPF could use that event to inspire activism for the 2020 Presidential Election.
Announcements included advance planning for the POOR PEOPLE’s CAMPAIGN in June, Cuba & Bolivarian Alliance Committee events in March, DISARM events in New York in April and the 75th Anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing in August.
Listen to Kaitline Sopoci-Belknap's presentation
Listen to Members Forum
For archives from 2019 and earlier calls, see links at the top of the side bar to the right.
