WILPF US representatives joined 5,000 others at the June 23 Poor People’s Campaign rally in DC, bringing with us the energies of 21 branches that have worked to change the nation’s moral narrative.
Updates
Dawn Nelson, Earth Democracy member, will attend the 2018 High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) at the UN to identify innovative ways for WILPF membership to engage on issues of poverty and environment.
On May 21, Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton met with the Disarm/End Wars Committee co-chairs and became the first US legislator to sign the “Congressional Pledge” to support joining the UN Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons.
WILPF Branches around the country shared reports and pictures from weeks one and two of the Poor People’s Campaign. Still to come: Weeks four, five, & six and the June 23 mass rally in DC.
We are excited to gather with all of you for The 32nd WILPF Triennial International Congress to be held August 20-22 in Accra, Ghana.
The Burlington, Vermont Branch of WILPF is collaborating with other groups to bring two Hibakusha (atomic bomb survivors) to Vermont for five days in September.
The Triangle (NC) Branch engaged in Memorial Day activities bracketed by two PPC events. WILPF members participated in two May PPC protests and several were arrested for civil disobedience.
The US-Israel military-industrial complex has led to a dangerous point, but we can call for alternative policies, divestment, and citizen-driven conflict resolution.
On May 24, 2018, the Racial Justice Working Group convened and discussed a selection of materials on the overall topic of racial terrorism and the construction of systemic racism in the US.
In April and May, Maine WILPF sponsored talks on Yemen and on the worldwide movement against the new US base in Japan.