Weekly News: Stand w/ Standing Rock 10/10; and more

Written by Victoria Ross on October 5, 2016. Posted in Talking Peace News

WNY Peace Center Weekly Update – October 5, 2016
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Get your ticket(s) at wnypeace.org – and consider buying ads, and donating auction items – for our exciting 49th Annual Dinner, Friday, Nov. 11, Buffalo Niagara Convention Center (doors open at 5:30pm), with Aly Wane, UndocuBlack, Keynote Speaker!

** Buffalo Stands with Standing Rock! Show Your Support! Details below. **

Please thank Senator Gillibrand (716-854-9725) and Congressman Higgins (716-852-3501) for their support of blocking the $1.15 Billion Saudi Arms Sale! – and celebrate the legislation permitting 9-11 Families to sue Saudi Arabia.

*** Where Is Our Kids’ Money?! Citizen Action Rally for Funding from NYS
TEN YEARS PAST DUE – Rally for Foundation Aid. Details below. ***

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*** Where Is Our Kids’ Money?! Citizen Action Rally for Funding from NYS ***
TEN YEARS PAST DUE
That’s how long it has been since our Buffalo Public Schools and school districts across New York State have been without the hundreds of millions of dollars owed to them by the state.
This is unacceptable and that’s why we’re complementing the AQE Walk from New York City to Albany with a bike ride from Buffalo to converge on Albany from both fronts demanding that this Foundation Aid be released.
It is our hope that you join us for our rally/press conference to send off our riders who are picking up past due invoices from school districts across the state to bring to the State Capitol on the 11th.
Rally for Foundation Aid, Steps of City Hall. Wednesday October 5, 2016
3:30pm Rally
4pm Press Conference

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5th Anniversary of Occupy Buffalo
Gathering at Niagara Square – Wednesday, October 5, 5:30pm
Bring anything that you might’ve brought then

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Civil Discourse and Civil Action in Uncivil Times
Speaker Christine Ashley is the renowned Field Secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation.
Thursday, Oct 6, 7pm. Canisius College Science Hall Commons, 2000 Main St, Buffalo. Sponsored by PeaceAction Canisius.

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World On Your Plate (WOYP)
13th Annual Conference Focusing on Food, Nutrition, Environment, Farming and Politics
Friday, October 7, 5-9pm and Saturday October 8, 8:30am – 5pm
Daemen College – 4380 Main Street Wick Student Center, Amherst, NY 14226
More info at worldonyourplate.org

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** Buffalo Stands with Standing Rock! **
You Can’t Drink Oil! Water is Life!
Monday, October 10, 11am – Rally at Army Corp of Engineers, 1776 Niagara St. Buffalo.
March down Niagara to W. Ferry to the foot of Ferry then back along the river to Unity Island (located slightly south of Army Corp of Engineers at 1731 Niagara St.)
Press conference at 11:30 am. Demand the Army Corp of Engineers STOP the construction of the Dakota Access pipeline and respect Indigenous Sovereignty of the Standing Rock Sioux and honor the Fort Laramie treaties.
Please bring a dish if you can for a potluck following the rally and march at Unity Island.

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Resist Militarism! Taskforce Vigil:
Disrupt the death squadron operating at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station (NFARS):
Join us at the main gate to the NFARS on the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each month (or pick another day of the week and bring a group with signs).
Thursday, October 13, 3:30-4:30pm. For more information, contact Russell Brown, at 716-570-5200; hobadoxa@me.com.

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Racial Justice Taskforce
Community Speak Out on Ethical Peace Officers
Training and culture can be changed, who is hired and how breaches are handled must be changed too.
This is the fifth in a series, with information and discussion to help us work together, creating the culture of peace and justice that we all need.
Come and join the Speak Out! District B
Thursday October 20, 6-8pm. West Side Community Center. 161 Vermont St. Buffalo, NY

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A United Nations Day Discussion: First Nations
The UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous People, the Doctrine of Discovery, and protecting our water and land.
Peace Coffeehouse. Agnes Williams, Seneca, and Michelle Bancroft will present.
Monday, October 24, 7-9pm, Canisius College Science Hall, 2000 Main St, Buffalo

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Repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) – the flawed blank check that authorizes the president to wage war, anywhere at any time. It’s been fifteen years of endless war. Now is the time for the U.S. Congress to repeal the overly broad 2001 and 2002 AUMFs.
Click here to sign the petition that’s part of Rep. Barbara Lee’s campaign to tell Congress to stop the endless war, and repeal the 2001 and 2002 AUMFs!
: https://www.credomobilize.com/petitions/congress-repeal-the-blank-check-for-endless-war?akid=19689.8770573.FMQJCl&rd=1&suppress_one_click=true&t=3

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TELL PRESIDENT OBAMA: We Support a U.S. No First-Use Policy on Nuclear Weapons.
A no first-use policy on nuclear weapons is essential to our long-term security and to nuclear abolition. Nuclear weapons are simply too dangerous to be used, and this policy would promote U.S. leadership in the cause of reducing nuclear stockpiles worldwide, and may set a new standard for other nuclear states. We must become a nuclear-free world; our security depends on it. Let President Obama know that you support a no first-use policy on nuclear weapons; that our U.S. foreign policy should promote peace, not militarism; and that U.S. foreign policy and security in this world requires strong leadership for nuclear abolition. Sign the petition!
http://org.salsalabs.com/o/2244/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=20243
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Latin America Solidarity Committee (LASC)
Stand in Solidarity with Farm Workers: Boycott Wendy’s!
Farm workers are among the most abused and exploited workers in the United States. For 23 years the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), has marched, picketed, and fasted for justice for farm workers in Florida. Their efforts have convinced many corporations to join the Fair Food Program, a partnership that has eliminated modern-day slavery and sexual violence in the Florida tomato fields, improved farmworker wages for the first time in decades, and guaranteed basic protections for workers. Most of the major fast-food chains now participate in the FFP including McDonalds, Burger King, Subway, and Taco Bell. But Wendy’s refuses to join. In March, 2016, the CIW called a consumer boycott of Wendy’s until they join the FFP.
Sign the petition indicating your intention to boycott Wendy’s until the corporation joins the Fair Food Program. Sign the petition! http://p2a.co/x51Edkh

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Tell Sec. Clinton, our senators, and congressional reps: Publicly oppose a lame-duck vote on TPP! Negotiated for years behind closed-doors with the aid of hundreds of corporate advisors, while the public and press were shut out, the TPP would offshore good-paying U.S. jobs – and drive down wages in the jobs that are left – by pitting American workers against highly exploited workers making less than 65 cents an hour in Asian countries. The TPP would also raise medicine prices by giving big pharmaceutical companies new monopoly rights to keep lower-cost generic drugs off the market. If that weren’t enough, the TPP would also provide oil, gas and mining corporations new tools to challenge policies designed to tackle climate change, both at home and abroad.
Click below to sign the petition: http://act.credoaction.com/sign/clinton_tpp_lame_duck?t=7&akid=19284.8770573.loHUpg

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Please consider connecting with PUSH Buffalo to get your home insulated and possibly powered by solar panels. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/going-green-the-rusty-nickel-brewing-co-tickets-26083031048

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Gro-operative: Worker Co-operative Vertical Farming Revolution! In 2013 we decided to start a farming revolution where urban centers can make the food for their citizens in an environmentally sustainable way within the city limits. Since then we have built out a 1,500 square foot space where we grow over 1,500 herbs and greens with plenty of fish too! Now we have much more demand for our products than we can supply and we need to increase capacity to keep Western New York happy.
Donate: www.indiegogo.com/projects/worker-co-operative-vertical-farming-revolution#/ …and spread the word!

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For questions, comments, inquiries, suggestions, and concerns regarding the Peace Center, contact our Executive Director at: Victoria (Vicki) Ross Phone: (716) 931-3520 Email: victoryross9@gmail.com
Our Weekly Office Hours (for drop-in visits, calls, etc.) are:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 1-3 p.m., or by appointment.
1272 Delaware Avenue (use back entrance and ring buzzer to get inside), Buffalo, NY 14209
Phone: (716) 332-3904

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