Eye Alerts
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Alerts on key issues facing Congress are sent to "EYE contacts" around the country from the WILPF in Washington office or the DISARM Eye on Congress committee on a regular basis. Click on the links below to read our current alert or past alerts on key disarmament issues.
Read more about the EYE on Congress project, or to become an Eye contact for your WILPF branch, please contact Val Mullen (vmullen@together.net)
WILPFers Attend and Meet-Up at the Obama Inauguration!
WILPF Co-Presidents Attend the Inauguration in Washington DC!
| WILPF Co-Presidents Nancy Munger and Laura Roskos attended the Obama Inauguration |
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WILPF Co- Presidents Laura Roskos and Nancy Munger attended President Barack Obama's Inauguration and arranged several opportunities for meet-ups with WILPFers.
Laura and Nancy displayed the WILPF banner and were wearing beautiful WILPF scarves - extras of which are available for you ($10/each).
The Co-Presidents were not only at the Inauguration as spectators, but also to advocate for WILPF's priorities for the Obama administration.
WILPF's eNewsletter sent out on Tuesday Jan 20th contained WILPF's full political agenda and link to WILPF's letter to Obama!
The photos to the right show Laura and Nancy doing their best to "shoo out" George W. Bush!
New US WILPF Statement on the War in Iraq and Iran
TO ALL CONGRESS PEOPLE
re: WAR in IRAQ and IRAN
We condemn and oppose the United States war and occupation of Iraq, which has caused the death of over 4,000 U.S. military personnel and over 1 million Iraqis. Untold numbers of combat troops have been physically and psychologically damaged. In addition there are over 5 million Iraqi refugees, which place a strain on the economies of the receiving countries. An estimated 1 million war widows work to eke out a living for their families.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days -- August 6 to 9
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Days -- August 6 to 9 -- are now almost upon us. The DISARM UPDATE has been carrying action and organizing resources since May. Report your plans to the WILPF DISARM committee for sharing with other Branches and on the national event register. Check out our Hiroshima-Nagasaki Days and Nuclear Free Future Month page for items you can use, including a petition from the Burlington WILPF Branch calling on Congress to declare August 6 national Nuclear Disarmament Day. We plan to deliver it to Congress in September.
WILPF is also co-sponsoring the United For Peace and Justice national web site and event register now available at http://www.nuclearfreefuture.org/ . You will find there many additional resources, action ideas, and a place where you can enter plans for your own events and read descriptions of others. In addition WILPF has joined UFPJ in designating the whole of August as Nuclear Free Future month. So we can join many others the whole month long in collecting petitions, vigiling, asking questions of candidates, joining in legislative action, educating ourselves and our communities and finding ways to lift high our demands for nuclear disarmament. This is the right time!
Click here to download the Nuclear Disarmament Day petition in pdf format
Alert-From FCNL-Invest in Peace Action
There is a need for a dramatic increase in spending on the civilian
instruments of national security - diplomacy, strategic communications,
foreign assistance, civic action, and economic reconstruction and
development."
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates speaking at Kansas State University,
11/26/07
From FCNL-Take Action on Diplomacy
The House of Representatives voted Wednesday to require the president to begin withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq within 30 days and set a goal for withdrawal of most combat troops by the end of 2008. The bill would also ban the use of torture in interrogations, direct the administration to seek regional stability in conversation with Iraq's neighbors, and prohibit the U.S. from building permanent military installations in Iraq. But the bill, which provides $50 billion in additional funding for war, will never become law because President Bush will veto it and Congress does not have enough votes to override the president's veto.
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