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Seeking Congress Workshop Discussion Leaders
We are seeking individuals who would be interested in leading Issue and Skill-Building Workshops using approaches resulting in collaborative discussions and next-step action items.
If you have an expertise in a topic and would like to offer to lead a discussion for one of the workshops listed below, or would like to suggest a discussion leader, please provide information in the
form below by 5/29.
Based on feedback from respondents to the survey in April, members expressed the most interest in the following proposed topics:
Proposed Issue Workshops:
- Global Warming: Food Sovereignty and Regenerative Agriculture
- Next Steps after Ban the Bomb to Peace and Freedom
- Going Local: Community Democracy Took-Kit - ordinances, resolutions, public banking, participatory budgeting
- Election 2018: Reclaim Elections, Restore Voting Rights, Protect Our Ballots
- Transforming Today's Militarized Policing and Prison Pipeline
- Women Forced to Flee: Confronting immigration, migration, refugees, human & sex trafficking
- Our Bodies, Our Lives and Human Rights: Aging, disabilities, and reproductive rights
Proposed Skill-Building Workshops:
- Building the Beloved Community: race, diversity and anti-oppression training
- Effective Advocacy: meeting with elected/appointed officials, lobbying, print and social media
- Solidarity Forever! Networking and collaborative movement building
- Story-telling to Change the Narrative toward Peace and Freedom
- Creative Communication: music, theater, street performance, puppets, banners, chalk, light art, and more
- WILPF US 101: expanding membership, starting and maintaining a branch, finance & fundraising, internships, ONE WILPF calls, and Solidarity actions
- WILPF US 102: collaboration with WILPF International to build a global grassroots WILPF movement, strengthening the Practicum and Local2Global seminars at the UN Commission on the Status of Women
If you would like to offer to lead a discussion for one of the workshops listed above, or would like to suggest a leader, please provide information in the form below by 5/29.
Click here to enter your recommendations by 5/29
If you would like more information on the content of these workshops and how you can offer your expertise, please contact Nancy or Robin. We look forward to hearing from you to discuss your ideas. Your participation will make this Congress a great success.
Onward to a truly productive and memorable Congress in July!
See the
Congress web pages for more Congress details.
Congress Program Co-Chairs
Nancy Price
530-758-0726
Robin Lloyd
802-355-3256
EDT in Burlington, VT or
robinlloyd8@gmail.com
P.S. If you have already offered to present one of the topics listed above, you do not need to provide your information again.
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Women's International League for Peace and Freedom/US Section
PO Box 13075 | Des Moines, IA 50310 | 617-266-0999 |
www.wilpfus.org
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