Committee Updates and Action Items: June 2nd Program Call, Disarm Webinar Series

Published on May, 21 2020

Issue Committee action plans will be discussed on the June 2nd Program Call. All are welcome!

June 2020

June 2 Program Call for All Members!

By Joan Goddard
Program Committee Chair

All WILPF US Members:  Please join the June 2nd Program Call at 5 pm PDT / 8 pm EDT. We will all discuss the issue committees’ new plans for action and local outreach. Some actions are for the next months and some for longer preparation.

We’ll have a breakout room for each issue committee to meet with and discuss action plans with branch and at-large members.

Please do join the call! Click here to pre-register if you have not been on recent Program calls. For more Information, see the eAlert message sent to all members on Friday, May 29, with the subject: Action Plans & 6/2 Meeting for All Members. 

Questions? Contact Joan Goddard, 2020 WILPF US Program Chair: joan[at]rujo.org.

Monthly Disarm Webinar Series Continues

By Ellen Thomas and Robin Lloyd
Co-chairs, Disarm/End Wars

The Disarm/End Wars Webinar series continues throughout the year. Each of the events will be an individual Zoom call. We plan to send out an eAlert a few days before each webinar providing the event time and the Zoom link.

Save these dates for the rest of our series! Phyllis Bennis

  • On June 28 - Phyllis Bennis of Institute for Policy Studies about issues surrounding the founding of the United Nations and the uphill battle to democratize it.
  • In July - about the Downwinders of the July 16, 1945, Trinity A-bomb test in New Mexico and later nuclear bomb tests in Nevada.
  • In August - Hideko Tamura's experience of the Hiroshima bombing and life before and after.
  • On September 20- Alice Slater of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation on the new and hoped-for Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
  • On October 24, United Nations Day - a speaker from Reaching Critical Will about WILPF’s active role in disarmament efforts before and since the United Nations was founded.

Photo: Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies.

Be on the lookout for an eAlert about the June 28 Webinar. If you have any questions, contact Robin Lloyd: robinlloyd8@gmail.com and put in the subject line: “Question about Webinar”.

Please also visit our recently updated DISARM/End Wars webpage where there are multiple resources, including an Interactive Timeline of 1945 and Resources for 75th Anniversary Commemorations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

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