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Email this pageWILPF DISARM! Chair, Carol Riley Urner, featured in Whittier Daily News
"hard at work pushing for peaceful solutions to the world's problems through the 92-year-old Women's International League for Peace and Freedom - a group that has earned a place at the table of organizations like the European Union and the United Nations."
Nuclear Posture Review Statement
Nuclear Posture Review Promotes National Insecurity
Statement of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
1213 Race Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
March 17, 2002
Hearing on Environmental Impact of National Missile Defense (NMD) and Weapons in Space
WILPF presented a cogent statement at a Missile Defense Agency hearing October 19th in Sacramento, California criticizing the agency's proposed environmental impact statement. The hearing was one of four public hearings in October, required under the National Environmental Policy Act. Carol Reilley Urner, co-chair of WILPF's Disarm! Dismantle the War Economy Campaign, waded through more than 700 pages of documents to prepare WILPF's response.
WILPF STATEMENT ON THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NUCLEAR BOMBINGS OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI
We of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom thank Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba and Mayor Iccho Itoh for their initiatives in developing the Mayors' for Peace Campaign, and for their courageous and persistent efforts to move the world forward toward abolition of nuclear weapons.
Nagasaki Peace Declaration
"What can people possibly be thinking?"
At the close of the 61st year following the atomic bombings, voices of anger and frustration are echoing throughout the city of Nagasaki.
Disarm Resources
Brief Summaries of Treaties and Conventions Relative to Disarmament
Giving Summary, Status, and US Position on Each
Disarm Headlines and Statements
Nagasaki Peace Declaration from the Mayor of Nagasaki
WILPF statement on the 60th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Welcome to the ABOLITION section of WILPF's DISARM! Campaign
For more information about Abolition, please contact Carol Urner.
MIL-CORP CONNEXION: DISMANTLING THE WAR ECONOMY
Note: For latest information on Mil-Corp and other DISARM issues go to our Bi-weekly DISARM UPDATE at disarm.wilpf.org
Download sections of our 2005 edition of the Mil-Corp Manual here. Join us in researching and exposing the war profiteers and in working for the transfer from a war economy to an economy of peace.
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)
Take Action on Iraq
The Senate is expected to vote next week on a non-binding resolution
rejecting the escalation of the war in Iraq. Write your senators today. Urge
them to support the Biden resolution (S. Con. Res. 2) that rejects the
escalation of the war as an important first step. But Congress should also
articulate a political strategy that includes support for peace talks among
Iraqis, support for a regional peace process that includes Iran and Syria,
and a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops while also limiting the
From FCNL-Stop U.S.-India Nuclear Arms Deal
This week the people voted to send a new Congress to Washington, changing the balance of power and electing new leadership in the House. But before that new Congress takes office in January, the old Congress will reconvene here in Washington next week for a ³lame duck² session.
