An urgent alert from the US Section of the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
February 2021
Call for anti-racism awareness, Feb. 3 webinar on international COVID-19 cooperation, AHR committee renewal, WILPFers throughout U.S. celebrate TPNW, ask your reps to cosponsor Norton bill, Lebanon Speaks webinar, learn about Jane Addams’s “two Chicagos” Feb. 18, organize for World Water Day, W$D public banking tools, Cape Cod holds “Inaugural Ball stand-out,” Peninsula/Palo Alto, Des Moines, and Pittsburgh Treaty events, and MORE, in this month’s eNews.
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Now is the time for all at-large and branch members to seek out deeper understandings and analysis of institutional racism; Attend a February 3 webinar on U.S.-Canada-Cuba collaboration to treat COVID-19; Help to reestablish the AHR Committee at their March 4 meeting.
WILPF US members turned out at 20 different places from sunny Hawaii to frigid Vermont, a noticeable fraction of the 150 Treaty celebration events that took place all over the world on January 22. By C. Spencer. 
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton will welcome co-sponsors of the “Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act” before it is reintroduced this session. Call your representatives and senators now! By E. Thomas.
On February 9, hear directly from four of our distinguished sisters in WILPF Lebanon about the challenges their country faces and the innovative work they are doing to advocate for peace. By N. Farhat, T. Cook, T. El-Amin, & G. Friday.
Many of us are aware of the “global” Jane Addams, but what do we know of the “local” Addams, and why do Addams’s two Chicagos matter to us today? Learn more at a February 18 webinar. By D. De Lu & G. McMillan. 
Time to organize for World Water Day March 22 on the theme “valuing water.” Join the global conversation about what water means to you. By N. Price.
The East Bay (California) WILPF Branch has been working on a high school counter-recruiting project that might inspire actions across the country. Join the ONE WILPF Call on February 11 to learn more.
The Women, Money & Democracy Committee’s new Public Banking Toolkit is available now and a series of public banking “deep dives” is coming soon! Public banking initiatives can “Move the Money” from a war to a peace economy. By M. Gardam.
On January 20, a small dedicated crew of Cape Cod Branch members donned ball gowns and elbow-length white gloves in downtown Hyannis for an “Inaugural Ball Stand-out.” By E. Muñiz.
Together with other local groups, the Peninsula/Palo Alto Branch ended up planning a “time-coordinated” calendar of five vigils and one virtual event on January 22-23 to celebrate the TPNW’s entry into force. By J. Adams.
To celebrate the TPNW’s entry into force on January 22, the Des Moines Branch held a car caravan and rally downtown; the Pittsburgh Branch co-sponsored a Stop Banking the Bomb event and held a watch party.
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