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Welcome to Arkansas WAND!
 We are a chapter of a national organization, Women's Action for New Directions that was founded in the 1980s by Dr. Helen Caldicott as Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament. When the Cold War ended and the nuclear threat was thought to be over, the name was changed. WAND expanded its mission to include world peace and security, nuclear disarmament, and redirecting excessive resources from the military.
Arkansas WAND was founded in 1997 and has worked to involve women in changing the climate of fear and retaliation to one of working together with other nations in a spirit of diplomacy and cooperation. We invite you to join us!
Our mission is to empower women to become politically active 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.
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Join WAND in Supporting Joyce Elliot for Congress
We wish Joyce Elliott, national WAND board member and Arkansas WAND member, success in her race for Congress! She has been a strong advocate for education in Arkansas and is a strong supporter of WAND’S issues. If you’d like to make a donation to her campaign through WAND, visit www.wand.org and click on WAND PAC.
WAND “empowers women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism.” . . . .
“Women’s place is in the House – and in the Senate! “ -Bella Abzug
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"A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.” - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The bipartisan consensus on U.S. military spending
Global Security has taken the Fiscal Year 2008 U.S. budget and prepared a new chart illustrating the most significant and under-discussed political fact in the United States, one that substantially affects every other issue:
  
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