Women's Action for New Directions

Mission

WAND was founded in 1982 as Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament. With the end of the cold war, we became Women's Action for New Directions, and have been dedicating our energies to redirect federal budget priorities away from the military and toward human needs. WAND empowers women to act politically to reduce violence and militarism, and redirect excessive military resources toward unmet human and environmental needs.

Goals

Our goals are to :

  • Challenge and promote alternatives to militarism and violence as the solution to conflict.
  • 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.
  • Clean up environmental effects of nuclear weapons production as well as toxic waste at all military facilities, and prevent further contamination.
  • Eliminate the testing, production, sale and use of weapons of mass destruction.
  • Prevent violence against women.
  • Increase women's political leadership to further WAND's goals.
Activities

Chapters: Local groups of energetic and concerned women who come together to bring WAND's message to their local communities.

WiLL (Women Legislators' Lobby): Roughly 500 state legislators from 49 states representing tens of millions of constituents. WiLL is the only multipartisan national network of progressive women state legislators working to influence federal policy and budget priorities.

Education Fund: The WAND Education Fund creates educational materials for training and briefing individuals, elected leaders and the media.

STAND (Students Taking Action for New Directions): Introduces passionate and informed high-school and college-aged women to WAND's issues and WAND's network of activists, organizations, and women legislators.

WAND Partners: Organizations throughout the US linked with WAND to advance progressive public policies that redirect excessive military spending to unmet human and environmental needs.

For more information about Women's Action for New Directions visit: www.wand.org