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.
March 7, 2016 The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada Ottawa Dear Prime Minister: We are writing on behalf of the Nanaimo Branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. The League was established in 1915. Its primary objectives today include preventing war by ongoing mediation and negotiated settlement […]
Gail Davidson, retired lawyer and member of Lawyers without borders, will speak about Canada and the laws of war.
Bring your great ideas for exciting projects we can undertake this year!
Dr. Nikki Strong-Boag, feminist historian, will speak on “From Suffragist to Social Democrat: The choices of Laura Emma Marshall, B.C. Suffragist, Activist and CCFer (1882-1964)”. Our business meeting will begin at 10:30 and Dr. Strong-Boag will speak at 11:00.
Come and enjoy good food, good conversation, and a concert of the Raging Grannies.
