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Our Communities, Our Story
Watch for the fall/winter 2016 issue of "Peace & Freedom" magazine to arrive in your mailbox! The issue is also available as a PDF on the
Share the online issue to tell the story of WILPF US and our work to promote the causes of peace and justice in our local and our global communities.
- Mary Hanson Harrison looks back on recent WILPF history and forward to Chicago and Congress 2017.
- Alice Slater reflects on progress to "break the nuclear disarmament impasse"
and on the challenges citizen activists face in preparing for negotiations on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons.
- Odile Hugonot Haber reviews efforts to create a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone in the Middle East and calls for bridges of understanding.
- Phyllis Bennis reminds us that "more 'war on terror' means more terrorist attacks" and that the "military-first US strategy is exacting a huge price."
- Dawn Nelson reports on the UN's High-level Political Forum on Sustainable
Development, noting WILPF's remarkable impact within the women's advocacy group.
- Nancy Price invokes Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "revolution of values" as a guide toward "a peaceful transition to economic, social, climate, and environmental justice in our communities."
- WILPF US stands with the Standing Rock Sioux, and, in her review of Wenonah Hunter's book "Frackopoly," Patricia Hynes signals the power of such grassroots movements as the Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
- Cindy Domingo provides a personal perspective on the "war on drugs" in the
Philippines and offers an update on the Bolivarian process in Venezuela.
- LaShawndra Vernon takes a closer look at the root causes of violence in our neighborhoods and shows us how Milwaukee communities are coming together to create change.
- WILPF remembers Margaret Dawson Stein and Ellen B. Blosser.
- The Dangerous Women Book Group, a nation-wide endeavor, is launched, inviting all WILPF US members to select and read a book together, for discussion during the February 2017 ONE WILPF Call.
- Learn more about the ONE WILPF CALL, "a new way to connect, share resources, and plan strategically" with other WILPF members and branches. Learn about WILPF membership dues and what more you can do to support the WILPF programs and activities.
Thanks to Sister Cities International, this issue also includes original art from young artists who, through their imaginative illustrations, show us how to "grow peace through people."
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