Updates

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 11:31

The US Section of WILPF wholeheartedly supports the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) aka the “Iran Nuclear Deal,” and strongly urges Congress to vote in favor of the resolution supporting it.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 11:27

Raised from the sea and lovingly restored, the Golden Rule once again is sailing to bring a message of nuclear abolition. WILPF member Helen Jaccard is one of the four crew members on the boat that will be docking at ports along the West Coast.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 11:11

Share the experience of Santa Cruz WILPF’s Jane Addams-inspired events via videos of women recounting tales of activism, a tour of artwork on display in the library, and a report from the International conference in The Hague.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 10:30
Jan Burns reads the inscription on the Japanese bell

70 Years of Nuclear Weapons – At What Cost? is the theme of a gathering at Lawrence Livermore Lab in California, while WILPF members lay flowers at a Japanese bell in Des Moines, Iowa, and a Disarm leader speaks in Portland, Oregon.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 10:23

North Carolina’s Triangle Branch Water Committee is working on fracking, coal ash dumping, indigenous rights, voting rights, and specific legal actions in which WILPF was active in planning meetings that resulted in three North Carolina lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of procedures.

Tuesday, August 4, 2015 - 10:09

Detroit WILPF Branch member Kim Redigan with her activist colleagues and sponsoring organizations planned the Detroit to Flint Water Justice Journey –  a 70-mile walk July 3-10 calling for affordable, clean water for all statewide.

Sunday, August 2, 2015 - 11:42

Re-envisioning WILPF in the 21st Century is an imperative.  We’ve got critical goals, but we need your support to get there.  This campaign update includes information YOU can use to help us plant new seeds.

Monday, July 20, 2015 - 09:26

In his first foreign policy speech April 5, 2009, President Obama in Prague told thousands of people that his presidency would see “America's commitment to seek peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.”

Monday, July 20, 2015 - 08:09

Lessons learned from U.S. Social Forum events in San Jose, Philadelphia, Jackson and Tijuana are still evolving. Activists converging to share perspectives on social justice, human rights and climate justice returned home with new contacts and ideas.

Monday, July 20, 2015 - 08:03

Going to trial July 7 for protesting the imprisonment of 17 Salvadoran women for miscarriages proved rewarding, says Paki Wieland. “Both the judge and prosecutor allowed they learned about the injustice done to the women, and they thanked us for that.”

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