Listen to Women for A CHANGE

Newsletter of WILPF Minnesota Metro Branch

Fall 2008 [PDF 753kB]
      International WILPF Statement on the Situation in Georgia
      "People & the Right to Self-Governance ..." commentary by Lisa Boyd
      Hiroshima Nagasaki Celebration 2008 from Jo Blatchley
      Arts Committee Update by Marilyn Cuneo
      National WILPF 30th Triennial Congress
      Notes from MN Metro WILPF Planning Retreat
      Membership in WILPF from Doris Marquit
      Calendar
      New editor Lisa Boyd

January -February 2008 [PDF 477kB]
      Upcoming Coffee With Programs
      Welcome to Peace Island from Susu Jeffrey
      National & International Section News
      Letter from Felicity Hill, WILPF's international office in Geneva
      MN Metro News - "Tea with Humphrey Institute International Fellows" - Newsletter Editor Wanted
      "The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein
      Short Takes - Catherine Graham, Nestor Nunez
      Calendar
      Last issue edited by Leslie Reindl

November-December 2007 [PDF 479kB]
      2008 Coffee With Programs
      "A Moment Before the Lights Go Out" by Amira Hass
      National WILPF's Middle East Letter to the U.S. State Department
      "The Commons - Now at the Heart of War and Peace" by Jan Hively
      A Response from Keith Ellison to Jan Hively
      "Building a Community for the Future" editorial by Leslie Reindl
      "Protesting the Space War" by Bruce Gagnon
      "Star Wars Coverage Misses the Point" by Bruce Gagnon
      Calendar

September-October 2007 [PDF 440kB]
      Fall Membership Meeting, October 6
      Over 100,000 people marched in Washington, DC ...
      "Darfur, Darfur" (Key Note Speaker: Brian Steidl) at the UN Rally, October 24
      U.S. Section News: Big Changes Afoot
      Campaign and Committee Reports
      Branch News: Coffee with Mary Jane LaVigne; etc.
      "Questioning Capitalism" by Karen Redleaf
      U.S. Social Forum Midwest Region
      Calendar

July-August 2007 [PDF 650kB]
      Fall Membership Meeting, October 6
      Hiroshima/Nagasaki Commemoration August 5
      Is War with Iran Next? Editorial by Leslie Reindl
      U.S. Section News: U.S. Social Forum and WILPF
      Branch News: Retreat Report; New Book Group; Arts Committee Report
      "Questioning Capitalism" by Karen Redleaf
      Breaking News ...
      Events: Showing of "Why Reparations?"; Major "Days of Action" in Washington, Sept. 15-21

May-June 2007 [PDF 470kB]
      All Member Retreat, Saturday, June 30
      U.S. Social Forum
      Think Bolivia! 2007 WILPF 29th International Congress
      U.S. Section News: Letter to Black America on Palestinian Rights ...
      Branch News: Coffee Withs; The World Says No to Israeli Occupation
      "You Are What You Grow" by Michael Pollan
      Make the Nestle Connection

March-April 2007 [PDF 450kB]
      Witnessing history - neighbors attend historic Ellison oath ceremony
      Calling May Day Marchers
      Coffee With: Colombia in Turmoil
      U.S. Section News
      Branch News
      "Swiftboating"
      Lies of the vigilantes
      Calendar
      We Have Become Death

January-February 2007 [PDF 665kB]
      February Coffee With: Nuclear Power and Other Problems
      March Coffee With: Children's Books on Peace and Justice
      Code Pink
      U.S. Section News
      America is Alive with Protests
      International Women's Day
      News about our 501(c)3 Status
      The Jane Addams Peace Association
      Parallel Convention 2008
      Pre-Christmas Protest Pictures
      The War Plays Project Presents ...
      List of Congresspeople

November-December 2006
      What's Next for the Peace Movement?
      An Encounter with The Media
      U.S. Section News
      Some Related Nuclear News
      Branch News
      The Source of Hopelessness: A Review of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth
      Coming Up

September-October 2006 [PDF 78kB]
      Upcoming Minnesota Metro Events
      Coffee With programs
      US Begins Building Treaty-Breaching Germ War Defense Center
      NATIONAL NEWS
      News from U.S. Section of WILPF, National Campaigns, and Issue Committees
      BRANCH NEWS
      US accused of bid to oust Chavez with secret funds
      Private Fuel Storage Is All But Dead
      Genocide in Gaza
      Deadly Harvest: Lebanese Fields Sown With Cluster Bombs
      COMING UP

July-August 2006
      Lebanon Under Fire
      UN to Probe Human Rights Abuses
      News from Mary Day Kent
      Branch News
      Corporations v. Democracy Committee
      Not In Our Name: Vietnam, Iraq and the Voters' Pledge
      Troops Home Fast
      Black Robbers - A True Story
      Coming Up