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 Elizabeth Dole Raleigh office toll free 866.420.6083 DC office 202.224.6342 website Richard Burr WS office 800.685.8916 DC office 202.224.3154 website News Tan Schwab, who gave so much to WILPF through her tireless work, passed away on February 11, 2008. She will be sorely missed. A short note from her daughter, Ann: WILPF was her single most important organization with which she most strongly identified. As a third generation life-member myself (albeit a less active one than I should be as of late), I appreciate the bond of sisterhood that we all share in this special family of peace. Tan Schwab was a model to us all who feel strongly about justice, fairness and peace. She not only talked the talk but she walked the walk (literally - on many a vigil, march and demonstration over the years!). Please continue to do the good work that you all do – it is the finest testament to her life that there is. In the meantime, please also consider making a donation to Triangle WILPF in the name of Tan Schwab, so that we can ensure her legacy thrives and grows in the furtherance of peace and justice worldwide. Checks may be made payable to Triangle WILPF, and sent to Ann Powers, 250-100 S. Estes Dr., Chapel Hill NC 27514. Triangle WILPF is on of many organizations who went to Raleigh to participate in the HKonJ Street (Historic Thousands March on Jones Street) rally on February 10. We are committed to the struggle to build a People’s Movement based on the 14 Point Program: 1. All children need high quality, well funded, diverse schools. 2. Livable wages and support for low income people. 3. Health care for all. 4. Redress two ugly chapters in N. C. racist history: The overthrow of the bi-racial 1898 Wilmington Government and the sterilization of poor Black women from 1947-1977. 5. Same day registration and public financing of elections. 6. Lift every HBCU. 7. Document and redress 200 years of state discrimination in hiring and contracting. 8. Provide affordable housing and stop consumer abuse. 9. Abolish racially biased death penalty and mandatory sentencing laws; reform our prisons. 10. Put young people to work to save the environment and fight for environmental justice. 11. Collective bargaining for public employees. 12. Protect the rights of immigrants from Latin America and other nations. 13. Organize, strengthen, and provide funding for our civil rights enforcement agencies and statutes now. 14. Bring our troops home from Iraq now. Triangle WILPF recently received a card and note from Sima Fellahi, a Carrboro resident who was unjustly arrested by Chapel Hill police for civil immigration violations and is awaiting an appeal for a new hearing. WIL – Thank you so much for helping me by your generous gift to my Legal Defense Fund – now I am home with my daughter and enjoying every minute of it and that would not have been possible without your help. Sima Take a visible stand against bottled water and the depletion of the water table in impoverished nations - buy a Save the Water WILPF water bottle. Stainless steel, nylon carrying bag. A great gift - for yourself and/or family and friends. $15 - contact Lucy Lewis at lewis2001@earthlink.net to order. Click here for full sized pdf poster. Hello Fair Wage friends- The North Carolinians for Fair Wages coalition wishes to express our sincere thanks for your endorsement of the campaign to raise the minimum wage. At week's end, we had 799 individual and 107 organizational endorsements! Governor Easley signed the bill into law this morning, raising North Carolina's minimum wage from $5.15 to $6.15 per hour. This adds $2080 to minimum wage workers' yearly incomes - which translates to roughly $173 extra a month - and directly affects more than 139,000 workers in our state beginning in January 2007! Thank you for all of your hard work. Many of you contacted your legislators repeatedly, wrote letters to the editor, and gathered endorsements on a regular basis. Without your support, this increase would not have happened. While we celebrate this long-overdue raise for our workers, the fight has not ended. A one dollar increase is certainly a victory; yet it still falls short of a living wage for North Carolinians, which is now over $12.00 per hour! We ask that you continue to support the North Carolinians for Fair Wages coalition as we all push for fairer wages in our great state together. In the meantime, let's celebrate this monumental victory, and thanks again for your tireless work! Keep informed on the progress of the NCFW campaign by visiting www.ncfairwages.org. HOME · ABOUT US · JOIN US · NEWS · EVENTS · NEWSLETTER · LINKS Steering Committee - Marguerite Coyle, Lucy Lewis, Dick Paddock, Ann Powers Email contact: Marguerite Coyle at marg_wilpf@msn.com