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 Past Events - Photo Highlights WILPF was one of the sponsors of three events during Dr. Jeff Halper's recent tour in the Triangle. Dr. Halper is an Israeli-American peace activist, professor of anthropology, distinguished author, and internationally acclaimed speaker. In 2006 he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee. He is the author of Obstacles to Peace: A Reframing of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, a widely used resource manual of articles and maps. His new book, An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel, has just been published by Pluto Press. For more information, visit www.peace-with-justice.org and www.icahdusa.org WILPF members mobilized with thousands of other North Carolinians in support of a 14-point People’s Agenda for the second annual HKonJ -- Historic Thousands on Jones Street in Raleigh – on February 9, 2008 in Raleigh. Stay tuned for more information about the formation of local People’s Assemblies to work on the agenda, or visit www.hjonj.com WILPF organized a vigil to protest the threats of a military attack on Iran in September, 2007, at Chapel Hill’s Peace and Freedom Plaza (old Chapel Hill Court House), gathering dozens of signatures on petitions opposing any such action. WILPF delegation rallied and lobbied in DC to end 40 years of Israeli Occupation Jean Chapman, Triangle WILPF, and fellow pilgrims at the 2007 Sacred Peace Walk in Nevada to raise awareness about the dangers of nuclear war. WILPF member Peggy Misch reported on her recent trip to Palestine with the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions at our January 12 meeting. Here Peggy is in Bethlehem, next to the wall that Israel is building within Palestine land as Israel increases its territory. Photo: WAT gallery | Reuters gallery National WILPF was one of dozens of endorsers of the Shut Down Guantanamo protest on January 11, the fifth anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at Guantanamo. Triangle WILPF member Jean Chapman joined hundreds who marched through the streets of D.C., winding a path from the Capitol to the Supreme Court and ending at the U.S. Federal District Court House. Throughout the morning other activists entered the court house to file Habeas Corpus petitions and await the presentation of the prisoners. More than 90 protestors were arrested, but later released. The War in Lebanon and Its Aftermath. On January 3, Rania and Rifaat Masri spoke to members of the Triangle Community. Rania joined the faculty of Science as an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at the University of Balamand in Lebanon in 2005, at which time she left her position as the Director of the Southern Peace Research Center at the Institute for Southern Studies in Durham. Her father, Rifaat, an independent businessman , traveled to Lebanon in the summer, a week before the Israeli war on Lebanon and remained in Lebanon during the war. Rania is co-founder of the Campaign of Civil Resistance (CCR), a civilian, nonviolent group working to offer support to displaced persons, foster Lebanese unity, and work on political/legal issues. The event was cosponsored by Triangle WILPF, Balance and Accuracy in Journalism (BAJ), and the Coalition for Peace with Justice (CPWJ). WILPF’s Raging Granny members Kay Mercereau, Ann Powers, Jane Hare, Marguerite Coyle, Lori Hoyt and Ruth Zweidinger add their voices to the Hiroshima Commemoration on August 6. On May 13, WILPF members Joan Walsh, Lucy Lewis, Lori Hoyt and Peggy Misch joined the monthly anti-torture vigil in Smithfield. The women are also members of the Orange and Durham Bill of Rights Defense Committees. Stephanie Eriksen, Peggy Misch (WILPF), and Linda Barnes at Kinston protest. The 'Leaning Lady Liberty' created by Roger Ehrlich and Joe McTaggart, is one of several "Monuments for Peace" (photo by Roger Ehrlich). Go to www.publicassembly.net for more info about Monuments for Peace, and www.stoptorturenow.org for more info about the Stop Torture/Aero Contractors campaign. “On June 4, WILPF was one of the sponsors of William Powers’ talk about his latest book, “Whispering in the Giant’s Ear: Chronicle from Bolivia’s War on Globalization”. Powers, an aid worker in Bolivia, has just published this very timely book about Bolivia’s struggle against corporate globalization. For more information, go to www,williampowersbooks.com . Balance and Accuracy In Journalism and the Carolina Interfaith Task Force on Central America were also program sponsors. WILPF members Peggy Misch and Joan Walsh (also members of the Orange and Durham Bill of Rights Defense Committees) were among protestors demonstrating on May 1 in Kinston at the annual meeting of the Board of Directors Global Transpark. Global Transpark has a contract with Aero Contractors, which has been reported to have been used for “rendition” or flying kidnapped suspects out of the US to countries where torture is allowed. Triangle WILPFers join March 2006 anti-war march in Fayetteville Triangle WILPF Branch welcomed International WILPF Vice-President Marta Benavides for a visit, including a program at the CH Public Library, in March, 2005. The branch is creating a "sister" relationship with the WILPF (LIMPAL) Section in El Salvador. 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