Sacramento WILPF

"What's in Your Water:
Exposing the Pentagon- Hidden Polluter of Water"
Wednesday, March 18
6:30–9:00p.m.
WILPF Branch Potluck provided and Talk
Southside Cohousing, 434 T St.

Investigative journalist Pat Elder of civilianexposure.org will visit 20 cities and military bases to expose the military’s contamination of drinking water statewide and the current public health and environmental crisis. The Pentagon knew, but never warned us.

Since the 1970s, the Pentagon has covered up the reckless use of fire-fighting foam containing PFAS “forever” chemicals that persist in the environment and our bodies. PFAS are linked to chronic and life-threatening illnesses.

Donations are greatly appreciated and support a good cause!

FMI: 916-739-0860

This is part of a California Tour. For all tour dates and info, visit

www.militarypoisins.org

2020 Meeting Schedule

WILPF Sacramento Branch 2020 Meeting Schedule

Meetings occur once per month, alternating each month between the 3rd Wednesdays in the evening and the 3rd Sundays in the afternoon to reach as many of our members as possible.  

Anyone interested in attending meetings is welcome!  All meetings include a snack potluck.  Feel free to bring a snack to share. (But there's always plenty, so don't stay away because you have no snack to bring!)  

Meeting locations are at member's homes.  Locations are determined 2 meetings out at each meeting. 

For meeting locations not listed, call 916-456-1282 (please, leave a message) or email [email protected] 

 

Date	Day	Meeting Time	Location
January 19, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:30 PM	22 Cadillac Drive #106, Sacramento, CA
February 19, 2020	Wednesday	7:30-9:30 PM	9629 Bradhugh Court, Sacramento, CA
March 15, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:30 PM	554 38th Street, Sacramento, CA
April 15, 2020	Wednesday	7:15-9:15 PM	3709 Miller Way, Sacramento, CA
May 17, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:30 PM	TBD
June 17, 2020	Wednesday	7:15-9:15 PM	TBD
July 19, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:30 PM	TBD
August 19, 2020	Wednesday	7:15-9:15 PM	TBD
September 20, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:40 PM	TBD
October 21, 2020	Wednesday	7:15-9:15 PM	TBD
November 15, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:30 PM	TBD

 

Meetings occur once per month, alternating each month between the 3rd Wednesdays in the evening and the 3rd Sundays in the afternoon to reach as many of our members as possible.  

Anyone interested in attending meetings is welcome!  All meetings include a snack potluck.  Feel free to bring a snack to share. (But there's always plenty, so don't stay away because you have no snack to bring!)  

Meeting locations are at member's homes.  Locations are determined 2 meetings out at each meeting. 

For meeting locations not listed, call 916-456-1282 (please, leave a message) or email [email protected] 

 

Date	Day	Meeting Time	Location
January 19, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:30 PM	22 Cadillac Drive #106, Sacramento, CA
February 19, 2020	Wednesday	7:30-9:30 PM	9629 Bradhugh Court, Sacramento, CA
March 15, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:30 PM	554 38th Street, Sacramento, CA
April 15, 2020	Wednesday	7:15-9:15 PM	3709 Miller Way, Sacramento, CA
May 17, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:30 PM	TBD
June 17, 2020	Wednesday	7:15-9:15 PM	TBD
July 19, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:30 PM	TBD
August 19, 2020	Wednesday	7:15-9:15 PM	TBD
September 20, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:40 PM	TBD
October 21, 2020	Wednesday	7:15-9:15 PM	TBD
November 15, 2020	Sunday	2:30-4:30 PM	TBD

 

Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 6pm: Pizza & Postcards

Join members of the Sacramento Branch WILPF on Tuesday, June 12, 6-8pm at the Sactown Union Brewery, 1210 66th St. (Off Folsom Blvd).

We will supply pizzas, postcards, and talking (or writing) points on several issues (we're aiming for three).  The topics we're planning for June 12 are:

• Demanding that the US sign the historic Nuclear Ban Treaty
• Support Rent Control
• Support the Sierra Club's "Buy Clean" Campaign. The Buy Clean campaign calls for state agencies to spend taxpayer dollars on supplies for public infrastructure projects in a way that is consistent with the state’s globally recognized climate change goals. This has been adopted (in principle) at the state level; now the project is aiming to make sure it really happens, and to educate and influence local governments to do the same. 

For more information, call Pennie at (916) 420-0405

Living History Performance of Jeannette Rankin

Living History performance of Jeannette Rankin
first woman elected to the US Congress,
& Suffragette Songs with the Raging Grannies.

November 5, 2016

2:00-3:30 pm

At the California Stage
2509 R Street
Sacramento, CA 95816

Join us as we commemorate the centennial anniversary of the election of the very first woman to US Congress– some 130 years after the founding of the republic. Jeannette Rankin was the first woman to hold a US federal office position in 1916 when elected by the state of Montana. In light of this historical event and the current event of a woman candidate for President in this year’s election, let’s remember the courageous Jeannette Rankin (1880-1973) through her living history performance by Jeanmarie Bishop.

Jeanmarie Bishop grew up in Arizona, US and Toronto, Canada, falling in love with theatre at a young age. She has performed many, various roles in the theatre and became the Founding Artistic Director of the Nevada Shakespeare Company. She wrote and performed the play, A Single Woman, about the life of Jeannette Rankin, which we will view selections of during this performance.

Join us for…
- Suffragette songs by the Raging Grannies choral group
- Performance selections of A Single Woman, the life of Jeannette Rankin
- Q & A with the Living History Performer, Jeanmarie Bishop

Questions? Please call Pennie at 916-456-1282

Hundredth at the Hague: Women and Peace

Women’s International League for Peace
and Freedom celebrates its Birthday
and Women’s Power to Stop War

March 24, 2016, Thursday
From 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
At Southside Park Co-housing Common House
434 T Street
           Sacramento, CA 95811
* Common House located in center of the complex *

In April 2015, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) celebrated its 100th birthday in its birth place, the Hague, Netherlands. Three Sacramento women attended those events and will share their impressions, analyses and photos of the events and experiences. Join us in celebrating 100 years of accomplishments and “travel” to the event via our 3 panelists.

7:30 pm - Program Commences - Panel Presentation by Darien De Lu, Esther Franklin and Pennie Taylor
8:15 pm - Break
8:30 pm - Q & A Session

Light refreshments provided

Questions? Please call Darien at 916-739-0860

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Labor Donated

Tour for a Nuclear Free Future, Saturday, February 6, 2016, 4:30-6pm

TOUR FOR A NUCLEAR FREE FUTURE

        You are invited to participate in a special living room conversation with national campaign activists working for a nuclear weapons-free  world.

        This event is sponsored by Sacramento Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the WILPF US Disarm/End Wars Committee:

                Saturday, February 6, 4:30-6 pm 

                9629 Bradhugh Ct. , Sacramento 95827 (Bradshaw exit of Hwy 50)

                        FMI -- 916-835-4330 or 916-456-1282

Ellen Thomas and Carol Urner at Des Moines Peace Garden

        Carol Urner and Ellen Thomas, co-chairs of the WILPF-US Disarm/End Wars Issue Committee will discuss the many national and international efforts for Nuclear Weapons Abolition.  They'll tie international developments to the recent initiative in the U.S.:  the Nuclear Weapons Abolition and Economic and Energy Conversion Act (H.R. 1976). 

        HR 1976 would 'provide for nuclear weapons abolition and economic conversion ... while ensuring environmental restoration and clean-energy conversion.' Go to the link below to ask your Representative(s) to support it!

        Carol and Ellen are on a 2016 tour of the U.S., to promote awareness of and support for HR-1976 and other actions to protect us all from nuclear annihilation.  They're in Sacramento to meet with WILPF members and others who want to learn more and help activism on nuclear arms and peace issues.

        For more information on HR 1976 or to send a letter to congress Click Here.

 

WILPF 100th Birthday events in March and beyond

Year-Long 100th Birthday Celebration
Includes Weekly Cultural Offering for Women's History Month 

       To start its celebration of the 100th birthday of this international group, the local branch of the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) hosts a series of FREE Thursday evening programs during the March Women's "Her"story Month.  The programs run from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm at the Colonial Heights Library, 4799  Stockton Blvd., Sacramento, every Thursday evening in March.

       The free programs on the theme of the influential role of women consist of film showings with discussions for the first three Thursdays in March, culminating on Thursday, March 26, with a performance telling illustrating the life and art of the great Isadora Duncan--a "Living History Dance Performance"

       The Sacramento-Sierra Foothills WILPF also offers an Auburn event on Saturday, March 14, at the Auburn Library, 350 Nevada Street.  The special event book reading for Kids’ Craft Time at 1:00 pm features two  prize-winning children's  books:  We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song and Brave Girl.  Both books won the 2014 Jane Addams Children’s Book Award (more information at http://www.janeaddamspeace.org/jacba/).  Please contact 530/887-1775 for more information on the Auburn reading.

Download Women's History Month Celebrations Flyer.pdf (350.0K)

Download Book Reading- FLYER.pdf (348.8K)

WILPF started in 1915 as an innovative women's effort to prevent World War I, with an international peace conference in the Hague, Netherlands. Although the war started even before the conference began, the organization continues in its work to halt wars and support actions and structures to support global social justice, environmental sustainability, and peace.

       The 100th birthday activities in Sacramento continue through a year of special programming and follow-up.  Other activities later this year feature programs every other month, including a presentation by local members about their experience at the April 100th anniversary WILPF conference in the Netherlands.  In June the local group initiates an economics study group emphasizing corporations' role in catastrophic climate change.      

       WILPF also sponsors the ongoing activities of the Sacramento area chapter of the Raging Grannies.  Throughout the year, the Raging Grannies, a group of male and female volunteers, engage with satirical songs at numerous social action and peace rallies and other events.  For more information on the Raging Grannies email joan.kelly "at" att.net.

       The March WILPF presentations include the following:

    •      March 5: An introduction to WILPF followed by two short films on women's history ("History Revisited" and "The Role of American Women in the Work of the Nation", followed by discussion.

     •      March 12:  A film showing of "Femme:  Women Healing the World" (part 1) and discussion of women's approach to solutions to the multiple crises we face.

     •      March 19:  Continuation of "Femme:  Women Healing the World" (part 2) and discussion.

     •      March 26:  Lois Flood, founder of Diablo Dance Theatre and Ballet Petite of Danville, ballet master, dance teacher and peace activist will tell the story of Isadora Duncan, a revolutionary dancer and writer, through the arts of dance and poetry. Isadora Duncan (1877-1927) is world renowned as a dancer, a symbol of revolution and women’s emancipation.

       The nearest cross street for the Colonial Heights Library is 21st Ave.  The nearest transit stop is Stockton Blvd. and 21st Ave.  The meeting room is substantially wheel chair accessible.

       For further information, please call 916/456-­1282.

WILPF is celebrating 100 years of work toward peace: 
US WILPF
WILPF International

 

Creating a Vision of Peace

Join us for a multigenerational multimedia presentation
Creating a Vision of Peace
with Nia Shima-Franklin
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Unitarian Universalist Society of Sacramento
Classroom 7/8, 2425 Sierra Blvd., Sacramento
7 pm Refreshments, meet our speaker, Nia Shima-Franklin
7:30 pm Presentation

As the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom nears its 100th anniversary, we are continuing to build our vision of a just and peaceful world. To help develop a new generation of activists, our Practicum in Advocacy program, each year since 2008 has brought up to 20 young women to New York to attend the meetings of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW).

Nia Shima-Franklin, WILPF member from Santa Cruz, CA, participated in the WILPF Practicum in Advocacy in March 2013. Upon her return, Nia collaborated with WILPF member and former Santa Cruz mayor Jane Weed Pomerantz, to produce a workshop on the CSW conference and strategies for change.

They condensed the workshop to make it possible to present to WILPF branches and other organizations around the region.

Admission: Free. Light dessert included.
For more information: Pennie Taylor, (916) 456-1282, [email protected]

Sponsored by Sacramento/Sierra Foothills Branch Women's International League for Peace & Freedom, with support from the Franklin Peace Education Foundation

Permaculture: A Proven Recipe for Sustainability

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Participants will hear an overview of permaculture about both agro-ecology and human shelter.

Summaries will be handed out for later reference, and selected books will be available for viewing.

DATE: May 18, Saturday
TIME: 2:00 - 6:00 pm
LOCATION: 3709 Miller Way, Sacramento, CA
*Look for signs*

DONATION: $10 - $35 sliding scale

Scholarships available! For scholarships, or more info please contact Darien at 916-739-0860

Drone Brunch, Sunday, April 14

Sunday, April 14, 2013, 10am-1pm

Please come to a potluck brunch with a presentation on drones/targeted assassinations/torture and international law by Marjorie Cohn, former President of the National Lawyers’ Guild. 

Coffee, tea, juice, bagels and homemade gravlax (a Scandinavian dish of dry-cured salmon marinated in herbs) will be provided. 

Southside Park Co-housing Common House, behind 440 T St., Sacramento (enter on T or 6^th streets; Common House is in the center of the complex, not along the street). 

Co-sponsored by Sacramento NLG Chapter, Womens International League for Peace and Freedom Sacramento-Sierra Foothills Branch, and Sacramento Area Peace Action. 
FMI: [email protected].

Free.