eAlert and eAction Archives

Published on September, 28 2013

2021

March 26: Join webinar Fri.: Honoring African Women
As a followup to our successful webinar, “AFRICOM and Human Rights in Africa”, we offer this webinar in the context of the militarization of the African continent by AFRICOM. The “Africa Command” handles U.S. military operations in Africa and maintains military relations with 53 countries on that continent. AFRICOM is planning its biggest military training exercise yet for this coming June: AFRICOM Lion.

March 11: Sunday, March 21 - webinar for World Water Day
On Sunday, March 21 – the day before World Water Day – Earth Democracy is offering a webinar to introduce you to our newly designed website. This redesigned Military Poisons website exposes the connections between the military and PFAS contamination of our water, food, and bodies.

March 3: Can we talk on 3/6 about MA & public banking?
Public banking initiatives in Massachusetts are advancing fast. Your help NOW, as a Massachusetts resident, can help move critical legislation forward. Join the Boston WILPF Branch’s zoom meeting to learn details about how you can support this legislation and why it matters. Hear from Massachusetts Public Banking experts.

March 1: eAlert - Tues., 2/2, Join the Conversation
Ask Your Questions about WILPF in the Before and After Conversations! You’re also welcome to hear about WILPF US issue work by listening in to the Program Committee meeting in between.

February 23: Support Caregivers: ‘Marshall Plan for Moms’
Support a ‘Marshall Plan for Moms’. As the pandemic has uncovered the inequities in our economic system, we’re seeing how the most essential workers are the lowest paid and least valued. Please take two actions now to help address these inequities:

February 16: View P&F articles & 2/18 webinar
Have you taken time to read the new Winter/Spring Issue of our Peace & Freedom magazine? And don’t miss the Thursday, February 18, webinar with article author, Gloria McMillan!

February 8: By 2/13 — cards for police accountability
The Valentine’s Day Campaign for Police Accountability intends to spread a message of hope. Sign on to let the Peace Economy Project carry your name and message to your legislators! If the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Michael Brown have taught us anything, it is that we need a change to the laws that govern police authority.

February 1: Lebanon WILPF Speaks: Challenges and Hope – Feb. 9
Hear directly from our distinguished sisters in WILPF Lebanon: The Lebanon Section, established in 1962, has played a pivotal role in formulating WILPF policy statements on the Middle East for nearly 60 years. Lebanon today is challenged by the effects of war, political instability and government corruption.

January 27: Tues., 2/2, Join the Conversation
Ask Your Questions about WILPF in the Before and After Conversations! You’re also welcome to hear about WILPF US issue work by listening in to the Program Committee meeting in between.

January 18: Nuke Ban Treaty Resources for 1/22 Start: Take Action
Publicizing and Supporting the January 22 Start of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. This eALERT and the four resource guides it points you to describe this new important new treaty and why we are celebrating it coming into effect. The US Government has only denigrated the TPNW and tried to get the ratifying countries to rescind their ratifications (but none have).

January 14: Yemen Alert: Sat. film & 1/25 actions
Millions of Yemenis are at risk! Be part of world-wide actions to say No to the War in Yemen!

2020

December 29: eAlert: on Jan. 5 join new Chat before/after Program Call
Join us Tuesday, January 5, to ask questions, share ideas, and talk with other WILPFers nationwide, at a new time: one hour before and/or one hour after the Program Committee meeting call. You’re welcome to call in before the likely 2-hour committee meeting. The open-to-all call is at 4 pm Pacific Time / 7 pm Eastern Time – and/or stay for an hour afterward, starting at 7 pm PT / 10 pm ET.

November 16: In a Time of Anxiety and Distrust… Some Seeds of Peace!
WILPF US celebrates the commitment to voting shown by more people than ever before in the US. We especially thank those people of color — Blacks, Latinxes, and others — who made the positive difference in many contests and who turned out to vote in the face of long lines, the pandemic, and the threat of polling place violence.

November 10: Watch party to view "The Laundromat", Sat., 6 pm ET
Join a WILPF Watch Party to view together “The Laundromat" and then discuss how we can address the issue of corporate fraud and offshore tax-sheltering

October 31: NO COUP! Home-Based Action for a Full and Accurate Vote Count!
Are you feeling increasingly concerned about the US commitment to Choose Democracy? Whoever you are, whatever your age or situation, you can take action! Yes! Even if you’re protecting your health by staying home in these difficult times, you can help Hold the Line for democratic elections and Protect the Vote!

October 27: eAlert: ACT to Protect Election Results
What if President Trump carried out his threats and refused to accept a loss in the Nov. 3 election? What are you — what are we — prepared to do to mobilize against a possible post-election coup d’état and a move toward fascism?

October 13: 10/15 Twitter Trng. - plus more on Facebook & Soc. Media
Are you interested in Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, or other social media? You can learn how to better use social media to tell WILPF stories – and expand your political influence!

October 9: 10/13 & 27: Feminist Solutions to Disrupt The Rigged Economy – 2 webinars
WILPF’s Women, Money & Democracy Committee is co-sponsoring with our partner organization An Economy Of Our Own (AEOO) two free Zoom webinars in October.

September 15: eAlert: Mon., 9/21 - Celebrate with us!
For September 21, the concluding day of WILPF's Season for Solidarity, turn on a candle in your window and tune in with many others, partnering to celebrate the enduring power of activism! It's a film event: 100 Cities, Music, One Night for Peace: We Are Many!

August 30: eAlert: Tues., 9/1 - All, Join Call
Join us Tuesday for the open-to-all-members Program call. Learn about and get involved in the recently adopted WILPF US Call for Peace.We will share other Program-related information and ask for your ideas and commitment.

August 28: eAlert: Sun., 8/30 eRally - After DNC/RNC
Join Online Rally and Webinar. The past months of the Black Lives Matter Movement have confirmed once again: The only way to challenge our racist, militarized system is with the power of people demanding system change.

August 27: Why drop the ADL?
WILPF Signs On To Historic Letter: The ADL is Not an Ally. Our Middle East Committee is at it again, continuing our sometimes controversial challenge of the status quo. We have advocated, and WILPF US has agreed, that WILPF should join hundreds of other progressive organizations in spreading the word, not to work with the Anti-Defamation League.

August 25: Election 2020: What YOU can do, now & later
Election 2020 — Facts Not Fear: What YOU Can Do, now & later. On our latest ONE WILPF Call, our expert speakers recommended actions and tools to defend voting rights and an accurate vote count. Read about multiple suggestions for actions, along with links for learning more.

August 14: eAlert: 8/27 Training: Hosting a Virtual Meeting
How can you and your branch connect as a group while being safely socially distanced?

July 9: eAlert: 7/13 Join us! Radioactive NM, from Trinity to Now, a WILPF webinar
Hear about the effects of the July 16, 1945 secret Trinity test on the people downwind from the area. Learn how New Mexico has become the most nuclear-contaminated state in the country, with uranium mining, nuclear research facilities, and nuclear waste storage! Speakers: Tina Cordova, a founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium (TBDC) and Joni Arends is Co-founder and Executive Director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety (CCNS)

July 3: eAlert: Wonderful WILPFers: Apply and Run for the Board!
Do you know a WILPF member whose commitment, passion, and energy would make her/him a valuable national board member? Now is the time to put your best foot forward! This is a crucial year! This year's elections offer an unusual opportunity to choose among a number of open board positions for terms ranging from one to three years.

June 25: eAlert: Join Sun. webinar: The UN, 1945 to Now - 6/28
Join Phyllis Bennis on the 75th anniversary of the creation of the United Nations Charter. Bennis is author of Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's United Nations. Also speaking is Blanche Wiesen Cook, author of the three-volume biography, Eleanor Roosevelt.

June 17: eAlert: Poor People's Campaign - 6/18 & 6/20!
The Mass Poor People's Assembly and Digital March on Washington. Saturday, June 20, 2020! From Washington State to Florida, Burlington, Vermont to the border, people are coming together to confront the interlocking evils of systemic racism, poverty, ecological devastation, militarism and the war economy, and the distorted moral narrative of religious nationalism.

June 15: eAlert: Help Call Out Murder & Pandemics
Statement on the Murder of George Floyd and the Calls for Change. WILPF stand in solidarity with the protestors of police brutality and systemic racism calling to defund the police, because Black Lives Matter. No one should have to suffer the heavy emotional and physical burden of generations of inequality, constant oppression, discrimination, and trauma

June 8: Stop Israeli Plan to Annex Palestinian West Bank Land
Please contact your Senators and Representatives to oppose Israel's plan to annex 30% or more of the Palestinian West Bank. Annexation amounts to an act of aggression, forbidden by international law

May 29: Action Plans & 6/2 Meeting for All Members
This open-to-all-members Program meeting is for branch members and at-large members. Attend and gather information to help with planning for short- and long-range activities!

May 27: Take 2 Actions for Peace
Take Action During the Week of Memorial Day. A Time to Remember the Costs of War. This week WILPFers can take action to support peaceful diplomacy and stop war! WILPF US endorses the Global People's Movement special days of action to end sanctions and build global solidarity to end war, May 24-31.

May 15: Join Sun., 5/17 WILPF webinar: Plowshares action & trial
Join us for a Zoom webinar on nuclear issues and the Kings Bay Plowshares 7! Martha Hennessy, a member of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, their lawyer Bill Quigley, and fellow Catholic Worker and NukeWatch activist John LaForge speak about nuclear issue criminal trials and their efforts to use the Necessity Defense.

May 9: Mother’s Day Call for Healthcare for All and Peace
On Sunday we honor mothers. In this pandemic period, WILPF honors all mothers and women nationwide who have lost their lives to COVID-19, including 88 (mostly female) nurses, as of this writing…. now we see clearly those who have been hurt the most. This hurt is not just because of the virus, but because of the social structures in which it has taken hold – structures characterized by gender, racial, and ethnic discrimination plus economic and political disparities. These people and communities are the ones who must be at the table, to propose solutions

April 27: Act to forgive student loans »
A recent national webinar drew hundreds of people and advised holders of federal student loans how to apply for delayed payments during the pandemic. But any student with a loan from a bank, private lender or their university finance office is just out of luck!

April 16: 4/17 & 4/21 webinars counter impoverishment »
The topic of the webinars, Building a Better World with Sustainable Development Goals, may be unfamiliar. Yet the two webinars on Friday, 4/17, and Tuesday, 4/21, will help answer key questions. How do we counter the increasing impoverishment -- rather than development -- for much of the world's population occurring in this pandemic time?

March 19: 3/21 & 22 - Virtual Cuba Conference! »
This weekend, without leaving your home, you can attend a plenary and/or another session of the International Conference for the Normalization of US-Cuba Relations!

February 17: Environmental activist Pat Elder to speak at WILPF branch event near you »
While environmental groups are pointing out the chemical and manufacturing companies that have contaminated our drinking water, WILPF is focused on Exposing the Pentagon: The Hidden Polluter of Water.

February 14: "Secret" Trial in US? Speak out! »
Speak out for news coverage of the Venezuela Embassy Protectors trial and the issues surrounding it, especially related to international law!

January 14: Speak up to shape next steps: ballot result »
With the approval of the second Bylaws amendment, giving the national board some limited flexibility in scheduling the WILPF US Congress, I can now confirm: Our next Congress will take place in the summer of 2021. (That will be in the same year as the International WILPF Congress, planned for Australia.) We now move forward, based on that Bylaws change; please respond to the items below.

2019

December 12: March Action Tour at California Cluster
California has the highest number of current and former military bases in the country, and those bases — whether still open or closed down -- have left a deadly legacy of toxic land and water contamination. The action tour in March focuses on just one family of toxic chemical compounds, called PFAS, used currently on military bases. WILPF is urging you to join us in supporting this project.

December 3: Dark Waters film: Take Action
Please take time to see this movie and offer our handout to moviegoers. Let's get out the word about our project on The Pentagon: Exposing the Hidden Polluter of Water -- and about the Department of Defense's responsibility for the drinking water crisis and health crisis on bases and in surrounding communities.

November 19: End the Coup in Bolivia
Please contact your Congressional representative to assert that the US should respect the national sovereignty of the Bolivian nation and should not intervene politically or militarily.

October 29:No Nukes Call-in Day, Nov. 1
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom is uniting with NuclearBan.US, Code Pink, and World Beyond War on a National Call-in Day to promote the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

October 25:Learn More About California Water Pollution Project
Pat Elder is creating a project website (see http://miliarypoisons.org) and a database of California military base profiles, with a history of contamination and searchable by town and zip code. Pat will create a tool kit on how to do this kind of research. We'll continue to gather information and want to engage directly with those affected to highlight the conditions in these communities.

September 30: Call Governor Newsom today to sign Public Banking Law
The Public Banking bill, AB 857, is now officially on California Governor Newsom's desk. To make the Public Banking Act into law in California, we have one final step. [We succeeded! The bill is now law!]

September 18: Plan Now for Keep Space for Peace Week
Is your branch or community planning an event for Keep Space for Peace Week? We'd like to know!

August 30: Deadline Approaching to Apply or Nominate for the National Board!
WILPF's membership is growing, and our influence is on the rise. Board participation helps move WILPF forward. Nominate or run for one of the open positions.

August 29: California Statewide Call-to-Action for Public Banking
Call your representative today. Yes on AB 857! [We succeeded! The bill is now law!]

August 13: September 1 Candidates Forum
We, national WILPF US leaders, write in support of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization and its State Chairperson, Maureen Taylor, to invite you, WILPF members from Michigan and nearby states, to an important event.

August 9: August Actions: Show Up and Speak Out!
Members of the House of Representatives and the Senate are back in their home districts for summer recess until September 9. Possibly, they may be called back for a special session of either branch to consider urgently needed gun legislation. Already, the House has passed HR 8 -- Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019.

July 20: Emergency Mobilization for Philippines Senator Risa Hontiveros!
Take action this weekend to support Senator Hontiveros and others jailed in the Philippines for their struggle for justice and decency! Join us in this emergency mobilization for her: Call your representatives and/or help get out the message on social media.

July 17: Bringing a Climate Question to the Iowa Candidate Forums
It would be wonderful if Iowa WILPF members, with signs, could attend one of the three still open IOWA AARP candidate fora to ask a climate justice question! All five fora will be live-streamed at DesMoinesRegister.com. So, please wear your new WILPF US sash or hold up your People and Planet before Profit or WILPF US banner.

June 25: Oppose war with Iran: Contact Your Senators Now!
Call your Senators to ask them to oppose any attack on Iran: 1 202 224 3121. (Ask to be connected to your Senator.) Many Senators already strongly oppose any such aggression. Despite Trump's contention that he doesn't want to go to war with Iran, recent incidents suggest that is what he intends.

June 17: Statewide Call-to-Action for Public Banking
With your help in making phone calls, we defeated the big banks in the California State Assembly. Now the Senate is considering AB 857, the Public Banking Act. We're in the final home stretch to get AB 857 to Governor Gavin Newsom to be signed into law. Help us get to the finish line and free California from Wall Street's stranglehold. [We succeeded! The bill is now law!]

June 6: Nuclear-Free-Future Tour of California
On our July 13-28 Nuclear-Free-Future trip through California we will collect messages, petitions, photos and videos to take with us to Hiroshima. Invite us to stop by!

May 30: Watch Climate Justice History be Made
June 4, watch climate justice history be made in Portland, Oregon! Might all fossil fuel expansion operations in the US stop until the end of the Supreme Court trial on Juliana v. United States?

May 21: Urgent! CALL NOW on Public Banking!
Call your State Assembly member now and ask for a "YES" Vote for Public Banking -- AB 857! [We succeeded! The bill is now law!]

April 18: Urgent! Act today for CA 857 on Public Banking!
Your short calls can make the difference to get CA 857 through its first Assembly Committees! This is the public banking bill that does so much good and that we told you about in the April 8 eAlert. [We succeeded! The bill is now law!]

April 8: Help Us Get Assembly Bill 857, Public Banking to Gov. Newsom's Desk
Assembly Bill - AB 857 is now in the California State Assembly. Please join in getting this bill through the three Assembly committees (see below), into the State Senate and signed by Governor Newsom. Already, the California Banking Association and others are lobbying against this bill! [We succeeded! The bill is now law!]

February 20: Stop US Intervention in Venezuela
WILPF US calls on our WILPF members and all peace-loving people to demand that the US stop intervention in Venezuela and the region and respect the sovereign rights of the Venezuelan people to determine their own future.

January 28: Hands off Venezuela
WILPF US and the WILPF US Cuba and Bolivarian Alliance Issues Committee calls on our members and supporters to contact your Congressional representatives and to organize support for actions happening nationwide to oppose the Trump administration's attempts to overthrow the democratically elected government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

2018

July 10: National Board Member Openings
June 23: How to Help Children Kidnapped at the Border
June 16: Poor People's Campaign. Week Six
June 14: Serve as National Board Member
June 8: Poor People's Campaign. Week Five
June 2: Poor People's Campaign. Week Four
June 1: Register Now for the WILPF 2018 International Congress in Accra!
May 26: Poor People's Campaign. Week Three
May 23: WILPF Sisters, Discover (Y)our Leadership!
May 17: Poor People's Campaign. Week Two
April 24: [resend] Special ONE WILPF Call on Intl Draft Constitution & By-laws
April 19: Special ONE WILPF Call on Intl Draft Constitution & By-laws
April 18: International Board Position Opens August 2018
April 10: International Nominations & Reorganization Plan
March 30: International Board Position Opens August 2018
March 9: Apply to be a delegate at WILPF International Congress in Ghana
March 8: WILPF US Celebrates Women on International Women's Day
March 6: Action Alert: Contact Your Senators to Remove U.S. Forces from Yemen
March 1: Sign Petition to Drop Charges Against Okinawa Activists