Arkansas
WANdD is a local chapter of a national women’s organization, Women’s Action for
New Directions, that was founded in the early 1980'sby Dr.Helen Caldicott as Womens Action for Nuclear
Disarmament.When the Cold War
ended and the nuclear threat was thought to be over, the name was changed.And WAND expanded it’s mission to
include world peace and security, nuclear disarmament and redirecting excessive
resources to human and environmental needs.
Arkansas
WAND as founded in 1997 and has worked to involve women in changing the climate
of fear and retaliation to one of working together with other communities and
nations in a spirit of peace and reconciliation.We have sponsored such diverse programs as a visit from
AdmiralRamdas from India and
Father Bourgeois of the School of the Americas to Gila Svirsky, peace activist
from Israel.We invie you to join
us!
Our
mission is to empower women to act politically to reduce violence and
militarism and to redirect excessive military expenditures to unmet human and
environmental needs.
Our Goals:
v Challenge and promote alternatives to militarism and violence as the solution to conflict.
v Shift from a military to a civilian-based
economy to address the threats to our real security, ensuring that
human, economic and environmental needs are met.
v Clean up environmental effects of nuclear
weapons production as well as toxic waste at all military facilities,
and prevent further contamination.
v Eliminate the testing, production, sale and use of weapons of mass destruction.
v Prevent violence against women.
v Increase women's political leadership.
v Stand for nuclear non-proliferation and against the development of new nuclear weapons.
v Work towards a carbon free and nuclear free US energy policy.
