WILPF to Sponsor Monthly Film and Discussion Events

The local branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), the oldest and largest international women’s peace organization in the world, will be sponsoring a monthly video and discussion event at Café Bliss coffee house in Point Breeze.  The first evening event, to occur on Friday, November 5, from 7 to 9 pm, will feature a movie about the notorious School of the Americas, renamed Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.  It is timed to highlight the local Western PA School of Americas Watch fifth annual bus trip to Columbus, Georgia, joining thousands of others at the yearly Ft. Benning vigil and rally to close the SOA.

Pleased with the three video and discussion events they sponsored with Global Network during “Keep Space for Peace Week,” local WILPF members decided to follow up with a monthly informal gathering for film viewing and conversation.  The video shown, Space 4 Peace, points out plans of our government to militarize and dominate space, making clear the urgent need to press our nation to re-enter the UN disarmament process. 

Starting in December, the film and discussions will occur on the second Tuesday of each month.  WILPF encourages friends and neighbors to save the dates and plan on viewing an informative movie on important issues, followed by interesting discussion in the warm, friendly setting of Café Bliss, located on Penn Avenue in Point Breeze near The Factory and the East End Food Co-op.

- Edith Wilson is a 61 year old mother of four, a teacher aide working with special needs children, and looking forward to retiring at the end of the school year so that she can devote much more time to her real passions: closing the School Of the Americas and working for peace and economic justice as a democratic socialist leaning toward anarchism.  Wilson is active in Code Pink, WILPF, SPUSA, and the Edgewood effort to pass an anti-Patriot Act resolution.