Branch President Cleta Brown: We have decided to focus this year on educating ourselves about the programs, projects and issues being addressed by WILPF International– they are many and we want to become local experts and educators about WILPF’s work and mandate. So, our meetings will become study sessions for the most part, but will […]
Nanaimo’s fifteenth annual Lanterns for Peace Ceremony will be held on Saturday August 6th. Lanterns will be launched at dusk at Swa A Lana Lagoon on Nanaimo’s waterfront. This is an event for everyone including families and children. The ceremony is to commemorate the anniversary of the first use of the atomic bomb when the city of […]
Have a good summer, everyone, and we’ll see you then.
This meeting will be held at the home of Marlene LeGates. Please email if you need directions (mlegates33@gmail.com).
Meet the author! Murray Thomson will be in town on Tuesday, May 17, in a book launch co-sponsored by WILPF, to promote his new book. Click this link for details: INVITE_BOOK LAUNCH 802 Recipients of the Order of Canada Call for a Nuclear Weapons Convention Eight hundred and two recipients of the Order of Canada have […]
Emily Hobhouse was a social activist and humanitarian as well as a pacifist and involved in the Women’s Suffrage Movement in England. She was also involved in the creation of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) in the Hague in 1915. Jenny Hobhouse has researched, sorted and studied the Emily Hobhouse papers […]
Add your signature to an open letter drafted by The Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, calling on the Government of Canada to reduce the military budget and re-allocate the funds to urgent environment and social needs.
Bring all your ideas for discussion.
This editorial on “Women’s Economic Empowerment: From an Economy of War to An Economy of Peace” addresses the UN 60th Commission on the Status of Women.
