Winter/Spring 2025

This cover photo by Chris Trinh of water protector Kiley Knowles during the Anishinaabe-led fight against the Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline is perfect for this issue of Peace & Freedom, which is mostly focused on WILPF US’s 2024 Triennial Congress “Water on the Frontlines for Peace.” Some of the most important and informative presentations at last year’s Congress are included here. There is much to learn from these voices and the connections they reveal, especially the Indigenous women of the R.I.S.E. Coalition who remind us of their long history as stewards of Mother Earth, Kim Poole’s “Way of Water” as a paradigm for organizing nature-centered, transformative activism, and Osprey Orielle Lake’s excerpt about the need for true intersectionality. Mary Grant illuminates the newest threats to public control of water but also shares ways communities are resisting them, and Pat Hynes draws our attention to the dire water crisis in Gaza. You will get to meet Shelby Young, the WILPF US field organizer, and celebrate the lives of departed longtime WILPFers May Takayanagi and Libby Frank. Discover all this and more in the Winter/Spring issue!