HOME ABOUT US JOIN US/ RENEW UPCOMING EVENTS NEWS RADIO BOOK CLUB NEWSLETTER PAST EVENTS WILPF NATIONAL WILPF INTERNATIONAL LINKS Contact info for elected officials David Price CH office 919.967.7924 DC office 202.225.1784 website Kay Hagan Raleigh office 919.856.4630 DC office toll free 877.852.9462 website Richard Burr WS office 800.685.8916 DC office 202.224.3154 website About Us The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) was founded in 1915 with Jane Addams, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, as its first president. For more history, go to www.wilpf.org. WILPF empowers women to work effectively for peace and justice in over 100 U.S. communities and 40 nations around the world. The Triangle Area Branch was one of the first in the United States (1935). We invite you to be part of it! Join your sisters in WILPF to: · UNITE in a worldwide sisterhood of peace and justice; · BUILD a constructive peace through world disarmament; · WORK for the equality of all people in a world free of sexism and racism; · CREATE lasting social change and worldwide peace and justice. ACTIVELY... MEETINGS: 2nd Saturday of each month for education, information sharing, and strategizing. 10am-12 noon, usually at Chapel Hill Friends Meeting House, Raleigh Road in Chapel Hill. Monthly steering committee meetings - 4th Saturday each month, 9am at Weaver Street Market, Carrboro. Friends and members are welcome. VIGILS: We hold monthly vigils to connect with the community on a critical peace and justice issue, 12-1 pm at the Peace and Freedom Plaza (Franklin Street Post Office) in Chapel Hill. We also participate in the weekly peace vigils on Fridays, 4:30-5:30 pm (winter) and 4-5pm (summer) at the intersection of Franklin Street and Elliott Road, Chapel Hill. ...or QUIETLY · Become an “expert” on an issue that is important to you, then keep our members informed and promote calls for appropriate action. · Write letters or make phone calls to legislators and elected officials. · Join the WILPF listserv for action alerts and timely information (email marg_wilpf@msn.com). · Write short articles for the WILPF bi-monthly newsletter. · Help publicize WILPF activities. · Represent WILPF at coalition events. Use your talents and your thirst for peace and justice at your own pace. ISSUES and ACTIONS: We support the national WILPF legislative campaigns, currently Middle East Peace and Save the Water. We are also very active on issues including the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, civil liberties and human rights, impeachment, corporate globalization, and universal health care. We are members of the Orange County Peace Coalition, and many of our members are Raging Grannies. We have a sister branch in El Salvador. 2009-10 GOALS from 6/13/09 Retreat We discussed 9 issue areas, and voted on those which members most wanted to work on and support. The four top priorities are: 1. Health Care 2. Labor support 3. Reclaiming Democracy 4. Peace and Human Rights We agreed that anti-racism is a component of each of these and would not be addressed as a separate issue. Other issues that we will work on, but did not develop goals for are: Immigration, education inequity, environment, economic justice, gender equity Health Care 1. Educate ourselves, educate public, take direct action 2. Mobilize for June 25 bus to DC to support single-payer health care system 3. Make regular calls to president, senators, representatives 4. Write letters to the editor 5. Picket BCBS 6. Hold a health-care vigil, protests 7. Health care group write up for WCHL commentary 8. Lori call Jonathan Kotch re update on Health Care reform 9. Explore meeting with Kay Hagan Labor Support 1. Will focus on 4 campaigns: Moncure Repeal of 95-98 (prohibiting state workers from collective bargaining) Employee Free Choice Act FLOC campaign against RJReynolds for tobacco pickers 2. Build coalitions of progressive educators 3. Integrate with immigration struggle, Smithfield efforts 4. Work with Black Black Public Workers Association and Students Allied with Workers on 95-98 repeal 5. Start forums to bring labor issues to the public 6. Work with the churches and faith community in Moncure Reclaiming Democracy 1. Bring Democracy School NC this year; collaborate with Balance and Accuracy in Journalism, League of Women Voters, Institute for Southern Studies, Progressive Democrats, Bill of Rights Defense Committee 2. Educate people, target candidates with letters and calls 3. Support publicly funded campaigns, and work for voter-owned elections in Carrboro Peace and Human Rights 1. Continue to mobilize against US war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and neighboring countries, through vigils, rallies, petitions, meetings with elected officials, educational events. 2. Continue to work for just peace in Israel/Palestine, though vigils, rallies, petitions, meetings with elected officials, educational events. HOME · ABOUT US · JOIN US · NEWS · EVENTS · NEWSLETTER · LINKS Steering Committee - Lori Hoyt, Lucy Lewis, Dick Paddock, Ann Powers, Miriam Thompson. Email contact: Liza Farmer at farmer_liza@yahoo.com