Upcoming March 26 Webinar “Honoring African Women Who Strive for Justice!”
Published on March, 26 2021
The WILPF Africa Facebook page, used with permission.
By the DISARM/End Wars Issue Committee
March 2021
On Friday, March 26, the DISARM Committee will host a webinar “Honoring African Women who Strive for Justice,” at 11:30 am PT, 2:30 pm ET, 8:30 pm (Nigeria time)
Please click here to register in advance for this Zoom meeting. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
All who take part are invited to speak about the woman you want to honor, for 3 to 5 minutes. Please contact Robin Lloyd, robinlloyd8@gmail.com, ahead of time if you’d like to speak, and, if possible, send a photo of the honoree to Robin’s email address to use when you speak. (Men are welcome to propose women.)
Already a man from Côte d’Ivoire is proposing Edith Pulcherie, who is in prison for challenging the extension of the term of the president there. A new American in the US from Uganda will honor Barbara Itungo Kyagulanyi, the wife of Bobi Wine, who was an opposition candidate in the recent Ugandan election.
What African woman, or women’s group, do you know, or have heard or read about, today or in history, that should be honored? We want especially to hear suggestions from our WILPF sections in Africa.
We’re looking forward to a richly participatory webinar!
Ask Your Congressional Rep to Sponsor the New Nuclear Abolition Bill
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton will soon be reintroducing her “Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act,” which was HR-2419 in the 116th Congress. It will have a new number this session.
Ms. Norton said that she will welcome co-sponsors of the bill BEFORE it is introduced this 117th session. In past sessions we have sought co-sponsors after a number was assigned. She agrees that the legislation will have more weight if more representatives join up front. The online letter you can send to your representative has a new access link.
In addition to contacting our own Representatives in the 117th Congress, we need to call and write to previous co-sponsors, asking them to contact Trent Holbrook at Ms. Norton’s office, (202) 225-8050, to say they want to be listed when the bill is reintroduced this session.
Here is a list of the HR-2419 co-sponsors in 2019-2020 by state, several of whom have co-sponsored multiple times:
• Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA-13] 2019
• Rep. Jan Schakowsky [D-IL-9] 2020, and 2017
• Rep. Jim McGovern [D-MA-2] 2019, and 2017
• Rep. Rashida Tlaib [D-MI-13] 2020
• Rep. Andy Levin [D-MI-9] 2020
• Rep. Ilhan Omar [D-MN-5] 2019
• Rep. Carolyn Maloney [D-NY-12]
• Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee [D-TX-18] 2020, and 2005
