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Peace & Freedom:
Women Organizing for Action
The spring/summer 2017 issue of "Peace & Freedom" magazine will be out soon. Watch your mail for the print issue. The magazine is also available as a PDF on the WILPF US website.
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.
- Rise up! President Mary Hanson Harrison calls on members to come together and "put the power of our imagination to work." Join WILPF US in Chicago for the 33rd Triennial Congress.
- WILPF members Nancy Price and Shilpa Pandey relate early personal histories that held the roots of their activism, and young WILPF interns share their experiences learning about peace advocacy.
- WILPF US remembers peace activists Wilmer Brandt, Carol Norberg, Aileen Hernandez, and Betty June March.
- Robin Lloyd and Valentine Moghadam report on the 61st session of the UN's Commission on the Status of Women and discuss this year's theme, "Women's Economic Empowerment in the Changing World of Work," looking at connections between women's empowerment and peace and security.
- Cathy Deppe reports on her experiences in Berlin at the International Peace Bureau World Peace Congress in 2016 and the efforts of war tax resisters and peace tax campaigners.
- Patricia Hynes writes of girl soldiers, the "forgotten casualties of war," and Julie Kabukanyi and Pat Aron cover Boston WILPF's work on the Congo Conflict Minerals bill in their article "Protecting the Children of Congo."
- Jim Allison explains how proportional representation elections and rank order voting may be a way to make all voting more equitable.
- Branches across the US come together in solidarity for Earth Day, International Women's Day, the Women's March on Washington, and for numerous other events and actions.
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