Get Ahead of Solidarity Event Planning for 2018 on the January 11th ONE WILPF Call.
Your ONE WILPF Call Team has put a lot of strategic planning into our All Member Calls for 2018. We've based our plans on the survey results our members completed.
This month's ONE WILPF Call will focus on a range of possible Solidarity Events being proposed by Issue Committees, Program Committee and inspired by the latest headlines and assaults on the environment, human rights and voter rights. See actions being suggested here.
The first solidarity event we're suggesting for Branches and Members is the quickly approaching Women's March for January 20th (and 21st in some locations). Join the call and work collaboratively with members across the country to plan the best way to be visible AS WILPF in events being planned in your local area. Find local events.
January 11: Planning & Scheduling Together for the Year
Preparation & Resources for the Women's March (Jan 20/21)
Introduction of the new WILPF Ad Hoc Committee on connecting your work to Rev Barber's Poor People's Campaign! A glimpse into the 2018 plans from several of our Issue Committees.
2018 Programming
We're also planning for three Training Webinars on calls that will focus on leadership skills and recruiting tips, and a few mini-training events as well. And we're planning three public ONE WILPF Calls as a recruiting tool, making them open to the public and asking for your help promoting them to your prospective members and friends. These will be powerful commercials for membership in WILPF US.
We've set the schedule for ONE WILPF Calls for 2018. You will want to put them on your calendar to be sure to get on the calls at 4pm pacific, 5pm mountain, 6pm central and 7pm eastern. If it's the 2nd Thursday, it's the ONE WILPF Call!
February 8: Planning for WILPF participation in May Days of Action With the Poor People's Campaign
Mary Bricker-Jenkins (at-large, Tennessee) is chairing this new Ad Hoc Committee.
Mini-Training: Welcoming Skills to help share leadership with new members.
March 8: Invite prospective members and Friends of WILPF to this public call
Jan BenDor of the Michigan Election Reform Alliance on Fixing Gerrymandering & Redistricting Voter Suppression Through Collaborative Election Reform Strategies.
In preparation for the 2018 and 2020 elections, learn about how you can help protect voter rights, fair elections and ensure everyone's vote counts in your community. Learn more. Jan's work with election reform in Michigan is stunning, based on her years of community organizing and knowledge of voter rights.
April 12: Making Earth Day louder & making WILPF more visible!
Work collaboratively to raise environmental justice issues and protect our fragile climate in your community. Featured speaker Nancy Lee Wood on The Sociology of Climate Change and the Need for Biodiversity. Nancy teaches Sustainability & Post Carbon Education at Bristol Community College in MA.
May 10: Strategies For Strengthening Your Branch or Starting a New One
Get valuable tips on recruiting, running effective and fun meetings, creating a stronger WILPF Community in your city or state, and raising WILPF's visibility where it counts most. We'll also do last minute planning for the Poor People's Campaign Days Of Action.
June 14: Planning for July & August Solidarity Events
Independence (from corporate rule) Day and Hiroshima Day (connecting with the Nuclear Weapons Treaty Petition). Mini-Training: Planning to Win - Begin now to plan the year ahead for your branch.
July 12: Invite prospective members and friends of WILPF to this Public Call
Women Leaders On The Move - We'll feature emerging women activists who represent the most effective organizing and newest memes, along with several of our most venerable WILPF women leaders. We'll also do last minute prep for Hiroshima Day and reports back from July 4th actions.
Other dates with topics/speakers to be announced Include:
August 9, September 13, October 11 (Public Call) , November 8 , December 13
ONE WILPF CALL Instructions
- You can call in with only your phone, or using both your phone and your computer for a fuller communication experience.
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All voices will be muted during the general part of the call and open during Break Out Rooms.
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PRESS 5 on your phone keypad if you have any technical problems
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PRESS 1 on your phone keypad during Q&A to raise your hand and get on the stack, or to vote in real time polls.
This is an all member call.
Every WILPF Member, in a branch or at-large, is invited to attend to connect and be part of strategy setting from the ground up at WILPF US.
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