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Registration deadline extended to July 21
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We're onward to Chicago!
Strong and feisty women from across the U.S. and beyond.
Organizing for Action.
Rising Up, Remembering and Reimagining
a NEW future for WILPF and the World.
Thursday, July 27 - Sunday, July 30, Chicago, IL
University of Illinois at Chicago
Student Center West, 2nd Floor Conference Rooms
828 South Wolcott Ave ● Chicago IL 60612
RISE UP * REVOLT * REIMAGINE * REMEMBER * RECLAIM
July 27th - Thursday Night Peace Activist Panel:
Peace, Protest and Policy: Women Waging Peace
- Phyllis Bennis - Director, New Internationalism Project, Institute for Policy Studies
- Kathy Kelly - Founding Member, Voices in the Wilderness and Co-coordinator, Voices for Creative Nonviolence
- Leah Bolger - Coordinating Committee Chair, World Beyond War
- Ellen Thomas - Co-Chair, WILPF US Disarm/End Wars Committee
July 28 - Friday Morning Plenary
Labor and Democracy: You Can't Have One Without the Other
- Larry Spivack - President, IL Labor History Society
July 28 - Friday Night Chicago Activist Panel
What Has Peace Got to Do With It? Chicago Standing Up!
- Olga Bautista - Community Organizer, Southeast Environmental Taskforce
- Mary Dean - Organizer for World Beyond War, WILPF US Member
- Kelly Hayes - Direct Action Trainer, Journalist, Photographer
- Pam Smith - Co-Founder & Executive Director, Addie Wyatt Center, Chicago and Kingian Nonviolence Trainer
July 29 - Saturday Afternoon Plenary
Women Labor for Equal Pay for Equal Work
- Stefanee Parks-Asche - Director, IL Labor History Society
From Imagination to Action
- Mary Hanson Harrison - President, WILPF-US
WORKSHOPS - Friday, July 28 & Saturday, July 29
- Women Cultivating Peace: Global Warming, Food Sovereignty and Regenerative Agriculture (W1)
Discussion leaders: Mary Hanson Harrison, Shilpa Panday, Patti Edwardson Naylor, activist for women in agriculture
- Next Steps after Ban the Bomb to Peace and Freedom (W2)
Discussion leaders: Ellen Thomas, Leah Bolger, Cynthia Roberts
- Knowing What's Possible: Change the Story, Change the Future (W3) Discussion leader: Nancy Glock-Grueneich
- Reclaim Elections 2018: End Stolen Elections, Voter Suppression & Gerrymandering (W4)
Discussion leaders: Michelle Laws, Nancy Price
- WILPF 101: Expanding membership, starting and maintaining a branch, finance & fundraising, internships, ONE WILPF Calls and Solidarity Actions (W5)
Discussion leaders: Marybeth Gardam, Jan Cordeman, Elenita Muniz, Shilpa Pandey
- Effective Advocacy: Meeting with Elected/Appointed Officials, Lobbying, Print and Social Media-Facebook, Twitter and more (W6)
Discussion leaders: Leah Bolger, Dace Zeps
- Our Bodies, Our Lives and Human Rights: Aging, Disabilities and Reproductive Rights (W7)
Discussion leaders: Janet Slagter, Andrew Moreno, Eliza Garbutt
- Community Empowerment: Change the Rules, Change the Outcomes (W8)
Discussion leader: Nancy Glock-Grueneich
- Creative Communication: music, theater, documentary film, street performance, puppets, banners, chalk, light art (W9)
Discussion leaders: Candace Perry, Janet Fitch
- A Conversation on Building the Beloved Community (W10)
Discussion leaders: Sylvia Metzler, Courteney Leinonen, Chris Moren, Joan Brannigan, Barbara Nielsen
- Women Forced to Flee: Confronting Immigration, Migration, Refugees, Human and Sex Trafficking (W11)
Discussion leaders: Nancy Matthews, Berhane Hailemichael, Melissa Torres, Dixie Hairston, Eliza Garbutt
- Solidarity Forever! Networking and Collaborative Movement Building (W12)
Discussion leaders: Leah Bolger, Cindy Domingo, Barbara Nielsen, Andrew Moreno
- International WILPF: Working with WILPF International to build a global grassroots WILPF movement, strengthening the PracticumLocal2Global seminars at the UN Commission on the Status of Women (W13)
Discussion leaders: Melissa Torres, Dixie Hairston, Regina Birchem, Barbara Nielsen, Nancy Price, Eliza Garbutt
Onward to Chicago. Register
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