Projects of the Branch

The New York Metro Branch of WILPF coordinates the following projects:



    Trudy Orris Media Fund

    As part of the Trudy Orris Media Fund Film Series, WILPF NY Metro is screening two films about the plight of Congo, "The Greatest Silence" and "Lumo" are the films we are highlighting currently.

    Check out the official site for The Greatest Silence.

    Check out the official site for Lumo

    Read more about this fantastic film series.






    Project Congo

    From the glamour and rarity of diamonds to the common cell phone, African resources flow out of the country through multi-national funnels. This heinous mechanism benefits foreign interests and, meanwhile, guts the local economy. This project raises awareness about sexual violence in the CONGO and connecting unbridled brutality to externalized controls.

    Visit WILPF's Project Congo page for more information.






    Militarization of Fashion

    This project, the Militarization of Fashion, focuses on our wholesale buy-in to the Warfare Economy.
    If Fashion is supposed to express our individuality
    and uniforms to homogenize us,
    then dressing in a uniform,
    as a statement of style,
    hardly expresses the unique;
    rather, the wearing of camouflage states
    that we accept dressing to kill; daily.
    This project challenges us to find ways
    to expose this trend and
    encourage others to notice
    the banal prevalence
    of military culture
    in civilian life.
    WILPF NY Metro is in
    the process of working with
    design students to create
    a Peace Fashion line.
    Keep visiting this site for more info.






    Online Organizing

    Join us! Welcome to the new WILPF New York Metro website. We will be developing online activities and actions that you, our members and readers, can participate in.

    Please pardon our dust and tools. With this website, we are launching a new project, in which we hope the scope of our work will expand exponentially. We invite you to come back often.








WILPF is Building the Beloved Community by seeking to understand and address racism and discrimination in our society. Discussion about these issues is crucial to finding a viable solution. Add your voice and reason to the conversation.

WILPF is Challenging Corporate Power through education beginning with a six-week course developed by WILPF, which is being held across the world. A course will be held this summer. Call the WILPF New York Metro office to enroll.

WILPF is Disarming The War Economy by linking the effect of the for-profit war machine on our day-to-day lives. With the Raging Grannies and through song, art and satire we work to bring the immoral cost of the Iraq occupation home.