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RAGING GRANNY SONG: WILPF is 94 years old!

Grannies,

Some of you are still celebrating the Christmas  holidays. I'm also looking forward to 2009 with a WILPF themed, Raging Granny song.

This song was first brought to the grannies at the 2008 Des Moines WILPF Triennial by Cappy Israel, WILPF/Raging Granny from Santa Cruz CA. Believe they have a new edition of their songbook.

I've misplaced my songsheet so here is the first verse from memory. My goal is to memorize the verses, accompanied by my uke and use it in 2009. Think it's ok to add your own verses.

WHEN WE'RE 94

Tune: When I'm 64 (Beatles)

 

When we get older, losing our minds

Many years from now

We'll still be raging in our flowery hats

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Goodsearch.com-A Great Way to Give

Have you set your web search default to Goodsearch.com?

It's the easiest way to give to our favorite cause -WILPF!

Just go to the "Tools" icon on your screen and change the internet options.  Type in www.goodsearch.com and set that as your default by clicking "ok" or "apply."

 Disarmingly yours for a nuclear-free-future,

Shirley Lin Kinoshita

San Jose Branch WILPF

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Feminist Analysis

Who in WILPF is involved in doing feminist analysis either nationally or internationally? -Deb Garretson
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30th Triennial Congress Reports

Dear WILPFers, If you attended the recent Iowa Congress and have a report or submission you would like to share about Congress, please send it to me at bln.sf.ca@gmail.com and I will post it on this blog. This was my first full Congress and it was quite an experience! The Des Moines branch outdid themselves and set yet another high standard for the next Congress in 2011. Barbara L. Nielsen, San Francisco branch (and national treasurer 2008-2011)
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Calling all WILPF Raging Grannies!

As your erstwhile song leader from the Triennial Congress, I just wanted to send a note of thanks for participating on stage and at the water acton at the Des Moines Farmer's market. Think we perked otherwise serious business up a bit. Thanks so much. While I thoroughly enjoyed all aspects of the Congress my primary regret was that there was so little opportunity to share ideas and songs. This blog spot is my hope of remedying this shortcoming. Some of us were still singing while we waited in airports to board. Ellie Bluestein from Fresno asked me to send her the lyrics of 2 songs I sang there.
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WILPF 30th Triennial Congress Blog

WILPF Thirtieth Triennial Congress Blog
June 23-29, 2008
Indianola, Iowa- Simpson College

By Courtney Johnson, WILPF Intern and Y-WILPF member

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Children in Armed Conflict: Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

  Children in Armed Conflict:
Optional Protocol of the Convention on the Rights of the Child

Palais Wilson, May 22, 2008 
Geneva, Switzerland           

DAY TWO (Day One was spent at the US Mission with US Officials-See separate blog on the Child Soldier)

WILPF, US focuses on counter-recruitment in the US. Other US NGOs and ones from other countries do so with other aspects of the child soldier issue, especially in Iraq. What follows is an edited, partial transcript. Bold print refers to some of US WILPF concerns in its report. Pages 3-5 provide some questions asked by members of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and some US answers.

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The Child Soldier: US WILPF and the US Government

 

Memorial Day, 2008

The Child Soldier: US WILPF and the US Government

DAY ONE:

     Could any of us have imagined this face-off over the child soldier issue six years ago? At the same time, within this treaty review process, US democracy has seemed to awaken.

     In this scenario, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, based in Geneva Switzerland, called on the US government to testify before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

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Letters to the Editor

I suggest that it would be wonderful if members would post their letters to the editor on this site, and specify if they would be okay with others using the material. It might get more letters out there throughout the country. Everyone can't be an expert in everything and it would widen the range that WILPF might be able to influence. -Deb Garretson, Bloomington
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Visiting Branch Congressional delegations with Gaza and Peace is Possible Post Cards

I’ve just completed a ten day period in Washington D.C. (Feb 19 to 29). I want to report to you on the visits, in which Tzili Mor of AHR/CEDAW and Ellen Barfield of DISARM! Dismantle the War Economy also participated. Ellen Thomas served as a collection point in D.C. for post cards, and she and Elisabeth Leonard in Philadelphia provided hospitality.

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