In November 2017, student activists invited the Triangle WILPF to join the struggle against the "Silent Sam" Confederate statue. Support our efforts by expressing your concern about this blatant message of white supremacy!
Updates
Your Development Committee has been busy this first quarter-year working on a coordinated strategic approach and adding members. We have lots to report!
Under this administration, the Environmental Protection Agency continues to abandon its mission to protect our health and Mother Earth. This Earth Day it is time to say: “Not on our watch”!
On Thursday, March 8th—International Women’s Day—WILPF US sponsored its first ever PUBLIC ONE WILPF Call. It focused on promoting WILPF as an organization that empowers women organizers. In the second part of the call, two speakers provided valuable information on election integrity.
The San Jose Raging Grannies and WILPF members serenaded marchers at the March for Our Lives on Saturday, March 24. WILPF marchers sent pictures & reports from St. Louis, Tucson, Pittsburgh, Des Moines, and Menlo Park, CA.
At an event marking the 15th anniversary of Rachel Corrie’s death, activists call for support to prevent the utter destruction of Gaza, and to end the arbitrary military detention of Palestinian children.
There is a tragic new trend in which traffickers act as administrators of fraudulent halfway houses. Once within these halfway houses, addicts can be easily sex trafficked.
On World Water Day, the Des Moines Branch of WILPF rallied at the River Walk to stand up for clean water. Speakers called for action against the Bayer/Monsanto merger and for a moratorium on Iowa factory farms.
New “Treaty Compliant” Effort, Spring Days of Action, Tax Day, Social Media Training, and more as we work to End the Whole Nuclear Era and toward total disarmament.
Pittsburgh has reached another milestone as a CEDAW city. A Gender Equity Commission and new executive director are ready to go to work.