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You will find 35th Congress preview material on pp. 2-4, but this issue is mostly focused on what we need to challenge and change in our current economic systems and structures so we can have a “solidarity economy” that cares for all people and the planet. Articles include Rickey Gard Diamond on the “financialization” of our economy and how this relates to violence and authoritarianism, Rev. Rowan Fairgrove on poverty as a risk factor for death, Angela Priestley on climate action and investing in the care economy, and Tina D. Shelton and Adrian Bernal on the election-year myths being propagated about immigration and the increasing militarization of our borders. Two reports on COP 28, by Cindy Piester and Tamara Lorincz, are deeply informative about the solutions needed at this crucial moment, such as disarmament for decarbonization, cutting military spending for climate finance, and environmental peacebuilding.
In her opening message, WILPF US President Darien De Lu encourages WILPF branches and members to “connect and organize with local movements, building on WILPF’s issue committees’ work” and, during this election year, to “challenge the focus on powerful fear narratives: job insecurity, violence, claims of increasing crime, foreign enemies.”
In the Spring/Summer issue
- Water on the Frontlines for Peace: Agency, Advocacy, Action
- Register Now for the WILPF US Congress
- The Lloyd Family Legacy Campaign Launches at WILPF US!
- Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing
- Women Investing for Change
- Letters to the President
- Poverty = Death: Join the PPC March on June 29
- What’s Money Got to Do with It?
- Care Jobs Are Green Jobs
- Worker Co-ops Build a Solidarity Economy
- Bringing Feminist Peacemaking to Immigration Debates
- Now’s the Time for a Major Woman-led Peace Movement
- COP Report: Rising Resistance and Demands for a Change of Course
- Reflections on War and Peace at COP 28
- MacGregor Eddy: Tireless Witness against War
- Summer Reading List
- Treasurer’s Report to Members
- Branches Show Solidarity Locally and Globally
- Life Happens: Be a Sustainer
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