4pm Pacific, 5pm Mountain, 6pm Central, 7pm Eastern
Part 1: The Poor People's Campaign
The ONE WILPF Call for May will include some last minute announcements and preparations for the kick off/launch of the
POOR PEOPLE'S CAMPAIGN: A Call for Moral Revival. Forty Days of Action are being proposed with weekly themes and recommended action. Read more about it in the
May ENews.
Members are being asked to plan actions and events at their state capitols on Monday, May 14th, or be present for the kickoff of the campaign at the Capitol in DC.
If you plan to be in DC and want to stand together as WILPF,
contact us here.
Resources/Tools
There are some great ideas for action and organizing on the website of one of WILPF's allies, Popular Resistance. Check out their
Toolkit. We'll have our own WILPF webpage up about the Poor People's Campaign soon!
Part 2: Inspiring Outreach
The ONE WILPF Call will also include a training for members on one of our most challenging fronts.
Thinking in New Directions about Recruiting:
A Leadership Training
Without enough active members, the few who are active are overburdened and over scheduled. And yet, almost every one of our branches tells us that they do not have in place a strategic plan for recruiting.
This means inevitable exhaustion among the branch leadership, and a resignation about what the branch can't take on. Capacity is a real problem. It threatens our branch survival and that is serious.
The Moment is Now
This is a time when women across America are increasingly looking for ways to get more involved in grassroots efforts to change the world.
Membership in a woman-led, woman-empowering, non-partisan grassroots organization that looks holistically at the roots of war and confronts the connections that support a war economy, environmental disasters, fossil fuel dependence, human and civil rights abuses, the war on women, and our national obsession with violence should be really attractive to women looking for a feminist perspective in movement work.
WILPF offers a long history of empowering women leaders on all these issues, and connecting them to peace women across the planet through our international programs and activism that combines the local and the global. And we offer more than just a virtual organizing and action experience. We offer sisterhood and fellowship, an identity within the community, and support for women pursuing their individual passions in activism.
Why wouldn't WILPF appeal to women looking for ways to participate actively in system change?
What's been missing is our FOCUS on how to effectively PLAN for recruiting.
Let's spend some time together on this call looking for new ideas and new strategies for adding capacity and inspiring women to join us.
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.
