Assert community rights over corporate rights. WILPF activists are launching, in collaboration with the Alliance for Democracy, the second round of the “We Will Not Obey” TPP-Free Zone campaign.
Updates
Monday, July 20, 2015 - 07:55
A proclamation calling for reduced spending on nuclear weapons and redirection of those funds to meet the urgent needs of cities leads off a week of remembrance in Pittsburgh, PA, for the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 12:49
Hiroshima/Nagasaki days are just a month away. The world’s first atom bomb, named Trinity by hubristic males, was exploded on July 16, 1945. The two bombings in Japan followed soon afterward. The world seems closer now to nuclear catastrophe than since the early 1960s.
Monday, July 6, 2015 - 12:38
On the West Coast a gong will ring out to mark the dropping of the atom bomb on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, and lanterns will be launched in the sea, committing to a nuclear weapons-free future. What are your plans?
Thursday, July 2, 2015 - 08:28
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, United States Section, celebrate this major milestone for all – those directly affected and all of us whose lives are touched by this change in a myriad of ways – while continuing our collaborations toward securing human rights universally.
Wednesday, July 1, 2015 - 05:19
As the sunflower turns toward the light so too WILPF turns our world toward peace. Please keep the light of PEACE glowing. DONATE TO GROWING WILPF TODAY!
Wednesday, June 24, 2015 - 10:55
We, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, United States Section (WILPF US), continue to be outraged by racially motivated hate crimes committed across the globe that fuel conflict and war. The stubborn and persistent racism in the United States continues to be one of the elevated priorities to address in our advocacy.
Monday, June 15, 2015 - 15:06
The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915 during World War I, with Jane Addams as its first president. WILPF works to achieve through peaceful means world disarmament, full rights for women, racial and economic justice, an end to all forms of violence, and to establish those political, social, and psychological conditions which can assure peace, freedom, and justice for all.
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 12:50
This year’s US Social Forum will draw participants from around the US to Philadelphia and San Jose for several days of movement building. Advance registration closes June 19.
Monday, June 8, 2015 - 12:46
Acting on the theme Women’s Power to Stop War, Nobel laureates led a walk across the DMZ in Korea, and US Section members back from the events in The Hague are carrying the powerful message to branches around the country.
