Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice

Flywheel Skill Share is an interconnected community in which meaningful relationships drive collective change.   Flywheel Skill Share uses an antiracist and restorative justice lens in Dane County to connect people in sharing time and talents to meet needs, improve systems, and address community issues. More about this group – their upcoming events and Action Alerts - follow....

This is URGENT. Email and Call your Senators to tell them: we CAN afford healthcare, education, and green jobs! The people and planet CAN’T afford an $8 Trillion  Pentagon budget!

Don't miss this opportunity to shop for a a great assortment of Palestinian products including embroidery, ceramics, jewelry, wood products, olive oil, olive oil soap, spices, kuffiyeh scarves, calendars and more offered by MRSCP, Playgrounds for Palestine-Madison and Palestine Partners. The Festival offers hundreds of fairly-traded, international products for you to choose from--the handiwork of weavers, knitters, metal-workers, wood-carvers, and creative artists from around the world.

WNPJ will continue to add statements as they come in, please check back for more.

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WISDOM: The verdict in the Kenosha murder case has come as a shock to us all.  We cannot excuse the expressions of white supremacy that have surrounded this situation and the people who will see this as some sort of vindication of violent behavior...Even worse is that some will use it to portray the killer as some sort of hero. This verdict is one more demonstration that our criminal legal system is broken.  A young white man was just exonerated for actions we all know would have been punished severely if he had been African-American or Native American.  Unfortunately, in our state and country, justice is not blind. Read more

The threat of nuclear war is now higher than it was during the Cold War. That’s according to former Defense Secretary William Perry -- who is no peacenik.  That’s why it’s more urgent than ever that our Representatives institute a policy of No First Use and No Sole Authority in order to reduce the grave peril posed by nuclear weapons.

If you are interested in participating in any of the activities below - or if you have skills to offer such as writing, media, technology or communications, please get back to us at safeskieswi@gmail.com and we will connect you with the right person!  This is a brief overview of some of the things we are working on.

The following request came to WFVJ through our friends at the Wisconsin Council of Churches.  Please respond to volunteer@wichurches.org if you are able to help out. We need volunteers who would make a commitment of volunteering regularly; either volunteering once a week for a set time (for example, every Tuesday for 8 weeks) or people who would like to go up to Ft. McCoy and stay for a week (there is housing on base available).

This Action Alert concerns the new U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Our Peace Action campaign to block this sale scored a major victory when we were able to gain a Senate vote on the sale. The Senate will be voting on a resolution by Senators Paul, Sanders and Lee to block the sale any day now. Can you call your Senators today and ask them both to vote for this resolution to disapproval the sale?

Watch here for the viewing link - to come soon!