{"id":665,"date":"2017-03-24T16:14:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/?p=665"},"modified":"2017-03-24T16:14:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T20:14:18","slug":"women-strike-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/women-strike-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Strike for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWomen Strike for Peace (WSP) was founded in 1961 to protest U.S. and Soviet atmospheric nuclear tests. WSP\u2019s motto was \u201cEnd the Arms Race \u2013 Not the Human Race.\u201d Over the years, WSP organized and participated in a variety of peace protests including demonstrating at the nuclear test site in Nevada, a seven-city billboard campaign, and a lobby-by-proxy program.<\/p>\n<p>In the Washington office, WSP\u2019s national legislative coordinator monitored legislation and alerted women when pertinent issues were under discussion and lobbied Congress in support of the Limited Test Ban Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and in opposition to the Strategic Defense Initiative and other Anti-Ballistic Missile systems.<\/p>\n<p>WSP spearheaded a variety of initiatives including the following: Proposition #1 \u2013 A People\u2019s Referendum for Survival (1979); \u201cI refuse to be one of Twenty Million Acceptable Dead\u201d (1982); and \u201cBasic Primer on Star Wars for the Legitimately Confused\u201d (1986). WSP also protested U.S. \u201cintervention\u201d in Southeast Asia, Central America, and the Middle East. WSP was the first group to demonstrate against U.S. involvement in Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the proposed Reagan Gorbachev summit in 1985, WSP helped to found Women for a Meaningful Summit that became a network of international women\u2019s organizations working for peace and justice.<\/p>\n<p>American University Library Special Collections holds the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/library\/archives\/finding_aids\/women_fa.cfm\">historical files of the Washington, D.C. office of Women Strike for Peace <\/a>that includes a subject file pertaining to issues such as disarmament and nuclear testing, correspondence to and from members of Congress and WSP, and WSP brochures, petitions and publications. Among these materials are brochures and leaflets relating to the activities of other peace organizations in the United States and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_666\" style=\"width: 206px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bender-lib.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/03\/We-Are-Angry-Women.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-666\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-666\" src=\"http:\/\/bender-lib.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2017\/03\/We-Are-Angry-Women-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-666\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We Are Angry Women 1980<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women Strike for Peace (WSP) was founded in 1961 to protest U.S. and Soviet atmospheric nuclear tests. WSP\u2019s motto was \u201cEnd the Arms Race \u2013 Not the Human Race.\u201d Over the years, WSP organized and participated in a variety of peace protests including demonstrating at the nuclear test site in Nevada, a seven-city billboard campaign, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-collections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}