Peace and Freedom articles from January 2001

Peace and Freedom archives from January 2001

The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) has been working since 1915 to unite women worldwide who oppose oppression and exploitation. WILPE stands for equality of all people in a world free of racism, sexism and...

Finding Our Power.(world politics and being an activist)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... "It is not your right to feel powerless." This line from a poem by Carolyn Forche haunted me during the endless post-election, pre-presidential period we've just come through. Certainly as we work through WILPF we face the challenge of...

STATEMENT OF U.S. WILPF ON THE SITUATION IN PALESTINE/EAST JERUSALEM.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... 1) We, the United States members of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom mourn every death that has resulted from the recent violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 2) We condemn the use of all deadly force. Only...

U.S. Militaristic Domination.
January 1, 2001... In early July of last year, the United States scheduled the third test of the proposed National Missile Defense system using facilities in Vandenberg, (California) and Kwajelien, (Marshall Islands). National Missile Defense (NMD) is...

What if We Had Disarmament?(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Recently, a progressive American citizen told me some politicians in the United States do not want to give any more support to peacekeeping efforts around the world. They've grown weary of sending troops across the globe to put out fires. ...

WILPF In Washington.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Give Peace a Chance The ImPEACEment group of WILPF's disarmament committee put together voter education materials for the 2000 elections to quiz Senate and House candidates on peace issues and the war economy. The handy flyer, with facts...

Building a Department of Peace.
January 1, 2001... Imagine a United States where bombing campaigns and military deployment were not the only tools available to deal with conflicts. Visualize a nation that fostered peaceful resolution of conflicts at all levels, from the family to the...

What's This? Corporations and the U.N. Get Chummy.(United Nations)
January 1, 2001... The connection between governments and corporations has been powerfully evident through the so-called military-industrial-government complex. The corporate manufacture of arms for our own trumped-up "defense" needs and for sales to other...

Uniting For Racial Justice.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Uniting for Racial Justice campaign looks back at 2000 with satisfaction. The campaign has succeeded in developing a strong committee and creating the structure required to support this critical WILPF work. The "Truth" part of the...

RACE RAVES.(public discussion of racism on college campuses)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Definition of rave: To write or talk about with enthusiasm. Starting at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC), Race Raves began making an eastward sweep early this year. Organized by UFORJE, the Race Raves are being held on...

UFORJE LOCAL LOBBY WEEK - APRIL 9-20.(Uniting for Racial Justice campaign of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... During the October retreat of the UFORJE Campaign, the newly formed Legislative Committee proposed a WILPF-wide Local Lobby Week focusing on UFORJE concerns. Members are urged to meet with their congressional representatives while they're at...

WILPFERs Protest U.S. Efforts to Escalate Arms Race.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... This fall, nearly 50 Santa Cruz citizens joined together to caravan down the coast to the Vandenberg Air Force Base. Many were students and other young people, members of the Direct Action Network from the Resource Center for NonViolence. A...

Celebrity Auction a Hit.(fundraiser)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... What began as a modest fundraising proposal to celebrate WILPF's 85th anniversary has turned out to be a resounding success on many levels. Not only have we raised funds to support the important work of WILPF, we've spread the word about...

AFRICA.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Regina Birchem "Where will your two boys sleep?" Answer: "On the floor." "Where will they go to school?" Answer: "My pastor will arrange that when they come." "How will you support them on $10.50/hr wages?" Answer:...

CIVIL LIBERTIES.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... One of the worst parts of the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is the provision for the use of secret evidence in deportation proceedings. The United States is going after "terrorists" by targeting individuals for their...

SECRET EVIDENCE REPEAL ACT, H.R. 2121.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Strong legislation to ban the use of "Secret Evidence" was introduced in the last session of Congress by Representatives David Bonior (D) and Tom Campbell (R) as The Secret Evidence Repeal Act of 1999 (H.R. 2121). It unfortunately never...

DRUG POLICY.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The WILPF board unanimously passed a statement on drug policy at its October meeting. It's interesting to note that we have done this at a time when more and more voters are passing referendums permitting the use of marijuana for medical...

The Sentencing Project.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Sentencing Project, a national nonprofit organization engaged in research and advocacy on criminal justice policy and its consequences, recently published the first national 50-state study on the impact of incarceration on crime in the...

WILPF Visits Cuba.(Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)
January 1, 2001... Last year I fulfilled a lifelong dream when I got the chance to visit Cuba for the first time, as part of a WILPF delegation. As a journalist, I was particularly interested in talking with Cuban reporters and I was lucky enough to meet and...

World March of Women.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Hundreds of thousands of women (from 139 countries and territories) participated in the World March of Women this past fall. On October 14 in Boston, the local WILPF chapter initiated "Women Breaking the Shackles of Poverty and Violence,"...

Jane Addams Children's Book Award.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Board of Directors of the Jane Addams Peace Association and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award Coordinating Committees join me in thanking all WILPFers and friends who attended the Children's Book Award Ceremony held at the Church Center...

Stories That Teach.
January 1, 2001... As a child, I often stared at the magazines and books my activist parents kept in our house. There was one book in particular that affected me: American Pictures: A Personal Journey Through the American Underclass, published in 1985 by Danish...

Building a Peace Camp.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... During WILPF's 1998 International Congress in Maryland, I ran into a friend from the Detroit Branch of WILPF, Helga Herz. She had copies of "How to do a Peace Camp," a manual which had been compiled and edited by Helga and Sherry Wells, both...

A Final Gift for Peace and Justice.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... WILPF is extremely grateful for all the gifts we receive each year, but we are always especially honored by the last gift many people make to the organization. We would like to pay special tribute to those who remembered WLLPF in their will...

REMEMBERING ERNESTINE.(Ernestine Leas, member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Our much beloved Ernestine Leas of Fresno died last year, leaving us with wonderful memories of her wisdom and humor. She joined the Fresno WILPF Branch soon after it was formed 35 years ago and served as president, before taking over as...

WILPFERS HONORED.(members of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom)(\)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Cabrillo College presented Gaby Litsky (Santa Cruz) with the Rosmarie Greiner Peace Activist Award for her work with WILPF Peace Camps and her consultations on a nonviolent conflict resolution for the Santa Cruz Department of Parks and...

ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Santa Cruz ran an excellent article by WILPF member Elizabeth Jones on the issue of global warming and the need to phase out our dependence on oil. Among suggested actions were: asking the city and county about realistic transportation plans,...

GLOBALIZATION AND CORPORATIONS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... The Philadelphia Corporate Globalization group is in the process of educating itself and planning actions, such as demonstrating against sweatshops and using existing laws to police corporations. The branch held a recent action outside of a...

RACIAL JUSTICE.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Chapel Hill published "Remarks on Racial Justice" by Yonni Chapman. Chapman has many excellent and widely-applicable suggestions on how to confront racism. Ask Chapel Hill for a copy at WILPF do Jean Wagner, 311 Burlage Circle, Chapel Hill NC...

CHALLENGING WASHINGTON.(US political policies abroad)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Chapel Hill, responding to an ad by Japanese women in the Oct. 1 New York Times beseeching the world to make the 21st century nuclear weapons free, asked U.S. WILPF to consider a response ad in the Times and in the Tokyo press, and wrote to the...

THE CONVENTIONS AND THE ELECTION.
January 1, 2001... Philadelphia marched in the Unity 2000 March in Philadelphia in July during the Republican Convention. Peninsula reported on the Democratic Convention. Events included the Mothers' Convention on Welfare, Mexico/California Border Memorial...

IRAQ AND THE MIDDLE EAST.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Portland reported on the women in black WILPF presence at the Fellowship of Reconciliation's Campaign for Nonviolence in Washington during the three-day focus on Iraq, a very moving drama of grieving, silence, the reading of the poem "We...

MEETING AND FORUM TOPICS.
January 1, 2001... Peninsula heard a speaker on Colombia, the military, and the drug scene in November. Chapel Hill cosponsored a talk by Robert Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Palo Alto heard a powerful report on the firms that reap profits from...

PEACE CAMP AND PEACEMAKING.
January 1, 2001... Minnesota Metro had a press conference with people representing Jane Addams and Emily Greene Balch at their 85th Anniversary celebration. Chapel Hill participated in the December Holiday Parade in support of peaceful toys. Detroit had a...

FUNDRAISERS.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... Catonsville sold angel pins at their November meeting and received 15 percent of the price for the branch. Des Moines sold nutmeats for the holidays and had a bake sale during nonprofit organization day in October. Detroit arranged a theater...