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Dear Friends,
Yes!! Desperately needed and We Shall Overcome! Si, se puede! There’ll be a Families Belong Together Rally & March at 10am Saturday, June 30, starting at Niagara Square, with Music, Speakers, and a march up to ICE at Delaware North, 250 Delaware Ave. (cnr w Chippewa). Numerous groups and individuals have flocked to support. See wnypeace.org/familes-belong-together-rally-and-march/
Please join us for the free bus going to Washington DC for the 40th-day-of-action kickoff period of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival! It’s a Sat, June 23 – Bus trip to DC (Leaving Fri/Sat Midnight from UB South Park & Ride). Register today to ensure you save your seat on the bus! Sign up at https://goo.gl/n6jyUh
Also please register at https://www.actionnetwork.org/events/new-york-delegation-poor-peoples-campaign-global-day-of-solidarity-and-mass-rally-in-dc
And the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival has only just begun. Join us for the Celebration For Change: a Poor People’s Campaign Event Thurs, July 12, 5:30 to Dusk at MLK Park. Music will include a Community Jam Session with Ismail & Co, food (hot dogs and potluck), and great information and inspiration from supporting groups. #UnitetheStruggles.
Our tabling at the World Refugee Celebration at LaSalle Park on Sat, June 23, will not be a watch party after all as the high probability of rain pre-empts use of our electronic equipment. We’ll still promote the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival! at the WNY Peace Center Table 10am-1pm. Please come out to that event 8am-8pm (soccer games, children’s activities, entertainment, food, and most of all Caring for People and the Planet! Now more important than ever!
You’ll want to save some energy for Sunday, 6/24, too, both for the Racial Justice Taskforce at 1-2:30pm at the WNYPC (1272 Delaware, entrance & pkg round back of building). Then two superb events take place at 4pm: (1) Dare to Dream – with film documentary and exploration re the famed excellent Cuban free medical school program, at Hallwalls (Delaware @Tupper); and Music in the Woods – inspirational musical experience with renowned musicians Nan Hoffman, Joe Tumino and friends at Riverside Salem, 3449 West River Road, Grand Island.
Lastly don’t forget to sign your 8 to 13 year olds for Camp Peaceprints, now in its 11th year, July 16-27, M-F 10am-3pm; with swimming (4 times); field trips to new Underground Railroad Museum in/and Niagara Falls, as well as Tifft’s Nature Preserve. We’ll also meeting with Mayor Brown. Sign them up with registration form accessible at wnypeace.org/education&humanrights
Many Thanks, Peace, Solidarity, and yes Love.
See our calendar for more details! as well as the rest of this post (click below).
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Below are
– more event listings (see also calendar & facebook page);
– Taskforce items and campaigns; and
– regularly scheduled events – all in that order.
And be sure to go to wnypeace.org/calendar for more event listings – there’s plenty more and additions are frequent! …..
No hate, no fear as we are #StillResisting. #UnitetheStruggles !
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love. #loveisloveBUF <3
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EVENT LISTINGS
Poor People’s Campaign – DC Rally
June 23 @ 12:00 am – 11:30 pm
Culminating the 40 Days of Action (which was the kick-off to an ongoing campaign). Bus to DC and back from National rally with movement leaders. Register today to ensure you save your seat on the bus! Sign up at https://goo.gl/n6jyUh and also please register at https://www.actionnetwork.org/events/new-york-delegation-poor-peoples-campaign-global-day-of-solidarity-and-mass-rally-in-dc
World Refugee Day (9th Annual)
June 23 @ 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
LaSalle Park, Buffalo, NY 14202. World Refugee Day is a global initiative by the United Nations, annually celebrated on June 20th honoring the courage, resilience and strength of over 50 million refugees and displaced persons who have been forced to flee their homes due to fear of persecution or to escape disasters.
Racial Justice Taskforce Mtg
June 24 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Please join us at the WNY Peace Center (NRC Bldg, 1272 Delaware Ave; entrance & pkg round back of bldg) to work on: racism and harassment in Kenmore Public Schools/township(?); getting coverage of the Community Police District meetings (5 districts, monthly); petition to name new police headquarters for Officer Edward Obertean (killed working to stop
Dare to Dream, on scholarships to medical school in Havana
June 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Building Bridges, Tearing Down Walls: this summer’s Pastors for Peace Friendshipment to Cuba coming through Buffalo! With a documentary telling the story of the largest medical school in the world, the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba. Additional Info: “Dare to Dream” is a 30 minute movie that tells the story of the largest medical school in the world, the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba through the eyes of US students who received full scholarships from the Cuban government with the commitment to practice medicine in under-serve communities.
Event Sponsored by WNY Peace Center http://wnypeace.org/ and its taskforce, the Latin American Solidarity Committee www.lascwny.org/ Suggested free will donation.
Music in the Woods
June 24 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Join renown musicians Nan Hoffman, Joe Tumino and friends in a wonderful Riverside-Salem UCC/DC tradition. Be inspired and sing along! Program followed by potluck. Environmental Cottage, 3449 West River Road, Grand Island.
Vigil for Victims of Torture
June 26 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Silent, one-hour vigil at University Presbyterian Church (corner of Main Street and Niagara Falls Boulevard, across from the UB south campus); to offer symbolic remembrance and support to those who have been victimized by torture around the world; on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, the United Nations International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
The Radical King Book Club Meeting
June 27 @ 12:00 am
June 27th Time: TBD Place: TBD Join The Radical King Book Club Meeting for the first event of discussing the book The Radical King by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Author), Cornel West (Editor) “The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies.” Said Cornel West
Familes Belong Together (Rally and March)
June 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Rally at Niagara Sq, with Women’s Resistance Revival Chorus and speakers including students who were just at the Southern Border; march to ICE, Delaware North Bldg, 250 Delaware (cnr w Chippewa), and return. Cosponsors include ACLU NY, Interfaith Peace Network, International Institute of Buffalo, Justice for Migrant Families, NYCLU, PeaceJam Buffalo, Sister District of WNY, StandUp WNY, Stronger Together WNY, Veterans For Peace #128, WNYCOSH, WNY Resists, WNY Peace Center, and more.
Taste of Diversity
June 30 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Come out and enjoy music, vendors – of great food and terrific clothes, art, and other gift items – and good company all day long along Grant Street, between Lafayette and Auburn Streets. All are welcome – and of course come and go as you please all day long. Performances in multiple sites along Grant
Myanmar Water Festival
June 30 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
At Grant Street between Auburn Ave. and Breckenridge St., Buffalo, NY 14213. The Water Festival is the most important cultural event of the Burmese community in Buffalo as it celebrates Burmese New Year. The theme of this year Water Festival is “Diversity and Progress through Water.” Cultural and traditional dances of diverse ethnic people
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TASKFORCES
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EDUCATION & HUMAN RIGHTS TASKFORCE
CAMP PEACEPRINTS 2018, “The Language of Peace”
M-F July 16 – July 27 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
Announcing the eleventh annual Camp Peaceprints, brought to you by the Interfaith Peace Network, the SSJ Sister Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence, and the WNY Peace Center. The Camp, for youth ages 8 to 13, provides exposure to a diverse community while introducing and exploring communication, social justice issues, peaceful conflict resolution – and did we say swimming (4x), field trips (2x), and learning signing? At St. Mary’s School for the Deaf, 2253 Main St.
We learn how to listen, express ourselves, cooperate, deal with feelings, and problem-solve; as well as exploring and hopefully being inspired toward Nonviolence. Students from St. Mary’s School for the Deaf will join us in camp activities and teach us American Sign Language, sharing their universal language of peace with the entire Camp Peaceprints community. We’ll have wonderful guest presenters – activists and artists from the Buffalo area. We’ll also play games, have recreation (yes swimming!), do art projects and go on field trips.
Registration is $125 per week (discount $240 for the two-week period), with sliding scale and scholarships available. For registration forms and further info, please go to sisterkarencenter.org or click here–> CPP18+Registration+and+Consent (3).
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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE TASKFORCE
No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge
June 22 amd 29 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Join us every Friday from 2 PM to 3 PM at the corner of Busti Ave and Vermont St. in Buffalo NY. Vigil against the shipment of high level LIQUID radioactive spent fuel from Chalk River Ontario to Aiken South Carolina. If any of it spills out, it will be next to impossible to clean.
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Action Alert re Stone Dam Road Pipeline: go to wnypeace.org/environmental-justice/
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GENDER JUSTICE TASKFORCE
If you believe that discrimination against all women should be eliminated, please support enacting the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the city of Buffalo. Follow this link for more information: https://cities4cedaw-buffalo.org/ and contact your district’s councilperson to urge them to support this ordinance too.
Darius G. Pridgen- Ellicott District- 716-851-4980
Christopher P. Scanlon- South District- 716-851-5169
David A. Rivera- Niagara District- 716-851-5125
Joel P. Feroleto- Delaware District- 716-851-5155
Richard A. Fontana- Lovejoy District- 716-851- 5151
David A. Franczyk- Fillmore District- 716-851-4138
Joseph Golombek, Jr.- North District- 716-851-5116
Ulysees O. Wingo, Sr.- Masten District- 716-851-5145
Rasheed Wyatt- University District- 716-851-5165
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IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE JUSTICE TASKFORCE
World Refugee Day (9th Annual)
June 23 @ 8:00 am – 8:00 pm
LaSalle Park, Buffalo, NY 14202. World Refugee Day is a global initiative by the United Nations, annually celebrated on June 20th honoring the courage, resilience and strength of over 50 million refugees and displaced persons who have been forced to flee their homes due to fear of persecution or to escape disasters.
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Familes Belong Together (Rally and March)
June 30 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Rally at Niagara Sq, with Women’s Resistance Revival Chorus and speakers including students who were just at the Southern Border; march to ICE, Delaware North Bldg, 250 Delaware (cnr w Chippewa), and return. Cosponsors include ACLU NY, Interfaith Peace Network, International Institute of Buffalo, Justice for Migrant Families, NYCLU, PeaceJam Buffalo, Sister District of WNY,
Taste of Diversity
June 30 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Come out and enjoy music, vendors – of great food and terrific clothes, art, and other gift items – and good company all day long along Grant Street, between Lafayette and Auburn Streets. All are welcome – and of course come and go as you please all day long. Performances in multiple sites along Grant
Myanmar Water Festival
June 30 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm
At Grant Street between Auburn Ave. and Breckenridge St., Buffalo, NY 14213. The Water Festival is the most important cultural event of the Burmese community in Buffalo as it celebrates Burmese New Year. The theme of this year Water Festival is “Diversity and Progress through Water.” Cultural and traditional dances of diverse ethnic people
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Calls are still needed to your NYS Assembly Members to ask them to support NYS ASSEMBLY Bill #4050. IF SEAN RYAN IS YOUR ASSEMBLYPERSON, PLEASE CALL HIM! 716-885-9630! ALSO CO CLERK MICKEY KEARNS (716) 858-8785.
The GreenLight NY program restores access to drivers’ licenses to all community members, to avoid abusive immigration enforcement. For more info, please come out to above mentioned event, or go to
https://www.facebook.com/GreenLightNY/; Green Light Petition
Vive la Casa, shelter for people awaiting documents and/or sanctuary, still desperately needs personal hygiene products and of course, CASH.
jrchc.org/vive
(Checks to Jericho Road/VIVE) 50 Wyoming St., Buffalo, NY 14211, 892-4354.
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LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE (LASC)
Dare to Dream, on scholarships to medical school in Havana
June 24 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Building Bridges, Tearing Down Walls: this summer’s Pastors for Peace Friendshipment to Cuba coming through Buffalo! With a documentary telling the story of the largest medical school in the world, the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba. Additional Info: “Dare to Dream” is a 30 minute movie that tells the story of the largest medical school in the world, the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) in Havana, Cuba through the eyes of US students who received full scholarships from the Cuban government with the commitment to practice medicine in under-serve communities.
Event Sponsored by WNY Peace Center http://wnypeace.org/ and its taskforce, the Latin American Solidarity Committee www.lascwny.org/ Suggested free will donation.
| Stand with Sen. Sanders: Rebuild Puerto Rico The situation is still dire in Puerto Rico. Please go to the link below to see what you can do to Stand with Puerto Rico (and Sen Sanders). |
| https://act.credoaction.com/sign/sanders_puerto_rico?t=8&akid=26241%2E8770573%2Evra5l7 |
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As you know, people desperately need our help because of the continuing devastation caused by “natural” disasters (read fossil-fuel-burning-generated Climate Catastrophe) as well as other factors. You can contribute as follows:
Puerto Rico—Go to hispanicheritagewny.org for a full report on ways to help.
We also recommend:
Mutual Aid Community Soup Kitchens Paypal address: cdpecpr@gmail.com run by Giovanni Roberto, friend of MaryAnne Grady Flores (UpstateDroneAction.org and Puerto Rico activist].
The Mariafund.org is another fund governed by many grassroots community groups.
Cuba—Alliance for Global Justice/Irma Relief, 418 W. 145th St.. New York, NY 10031 (for tax deductible). Not tax deductible, IFCO/Irma Relief (same address) Phone: 212-926-5757 Please give generously – the situations continue to be terrible for many!!
Chenalhó, Chiapas—Humanitarian crisis
This article in the National Catholic reporter gives a brief overview of the situation.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/world/enough-deaths-mexican-clergy-reiterate-chiapas-crisis
If you would like to help, go to weaving-for-justice.org
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PRISONER’S RIGHTS TASKFORCE
Wednesdays 4-5pm protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). All are welcome. Please bring signs.
Please join us in promoting the H.A.L.T. Solitary Confinement campaign. Please call your State Senators and ask them to cosponsor and vote for the bills S. 4784. (You can also thank the representatives who passed it in the Assembly!)
Other Ways you can help:
Sign the petition to support the HALT Solitary Confinement Act: https://goo.gl/HLwqbK
Encourage your organization to endorse the HALT Solitary Confinement Act: https://goo.gl/forms/FM2F6DZAcPZp1co32
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RACIAL JUSTICE TASKFORCE
The Radical King Book Club Meeting
June 27 @ ~ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Place: TBA. Join The Radical King Book Club Meeting to discuss the book The Radical King by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Author), Cornel West (Editor)
Racial Justice Taskforce Mtg
June 24 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Please join us at the WNY Peace Center (NRC Bldg, 1272 Delaware Ave; entrance & pkg round back of bldg) to work on: racism and harassment in Kenmore Public Schools/township(?); getting coverage of the Community Police District meetings (5 districts, monthly); petition to name new police headquarters for Officer Edward Obertean (killed working to stop the KKK).
THE CARIOL HORNE WHISTLEBLOWER FUND
The Western New York Peace Center has created a fund for the purpose of supporting police officers who face reprisals from their department from choosing to strictly uphold their oath to protect and serve the community. gofundme.com/cariol-horne-whistleblower-fund. The Peace Center has named this fund after Cariol Horne who saved the life of a citizen, but was fired just prior to earning her 20-year pension. Our goal is to encourage good police officers in following their moral conscience if and when it conflicts with the infamous blue wall of silence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence
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Join the #BuffaloLLEP movement. It’s easy.
Join the hundreds of Buffalonians who make up the #BuffaloLLEP movement, asking Mayor Byron Brown to make low-level marijuana arrests Buffalo’s lowest level enforcement priority (LLEP).
People across the U.S. recognize what a destructive failure the 40-year “war on drugs” has been. In Buffalo, the news hasn’t sunken in yet, though, as those living in communities of color & low-income areas are still disproportionately targeted by law enforcement for marijuana arrests. Join the #BuffaloLLEP movement to stop these unfair & harmful enforcement tactics!
Learn more.
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Each Police District has a Chief and Community Police Meeting. We encourage people to go to them and communicate freely on issues of concern. See wnypeace.org calendar for listings, and/or call your District and ask when & where the next Chief and Community Police Meeting will be held.
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RESIST MILITARISM! TASKFORCE
Resist Militarism! Taskforce & Veterans for Peace Joint Mtg
Please call your Senators and Congresspersons to urge them to vote in favor and cosponsor if possible Senator Markey’s Bill # 200 and House Bill, Rep Lieu # 669, to Restrict First Strike with Nuclear Weapons.
If you’d prefer to send an email to your senators, you can do so here.
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Our tax dollars are funding massive civilian casualties and the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The U.S. military is providing midair refueling to warplanes, sharing intelligence for targeting assistance, and selling U.S. bombs to the aggressors. U.S.-supported airstrikes target schools, hospitals, and water and sanitation infrastructure. As a result, millions of Yemeni people are on the brink of starvation and are facing the fastest-growing cholera crisis ever documented.
Every day that the war on Yemen continues, America is complicit in aiding war crimes. Call your U.S. Senators today at 1-833-786-7927 and urge them to stop fueling war on Yemen!
Please let us know if you’d like to be involved with our Infringement Festival activities which will be focused on Yemen. We’d love to have your help. Please call Russell Brown 716-570-5200 or email Marie Schuster mariemschuster@gmail.com.
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REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS in the One Movement, One Struggle
Riverside-Salem UCC/DC Sunday. Progressive program followed by potluck. Sundays, 4-7pm. Environmental Cottage, 3449 West River Road, Grand Island. 6/24 MUSIC IN THE WOODS – with Nan Hoffman, Joe Tumino, and friends. Followed by potluck. All are Welcome!
Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays, 1-3pm. Vicki Ross, hosting – topics Families Belong Together; Immigrant & Refugee Justice. Call-in show! Go to wbny.buffalostate.edu or http://tunein.com/radio/WBNY-913-s27549/.
Buffalo Supports Standing Rock Water Protectors/Nekanesakt. Indigenous support group/allies. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month, 6:30-8pm. At Burning Books, 420 CT Ave. All are welcome!!
Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce. Wednesdays 4-5pm protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). All are welcome. Please bring signs.
Interfaith Peace Network
On hiatus in July. Next meeting 9am, Thurs, Aug 2, at NRC, 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY 14209 (entrance and parking round back).
Environmental Justice Taskforce
Protest the Shipments of VERY Dangerous Radioactive Liquid from Canada.
Fridays 2-3pm, Front Park, Buffalo. Email Charley Bowman renewableenergy@wnypeace.org with your phone number for him to call and let you know whether (weather 😉 the vigil will take place that particular Friday. Or just show up and bring your own sign if you’re not sure others will be there!!
Fridays – 1st and 3rd of the month; 6pm: Stop The Violence Coalition,
United Way Building, Delaware and Summer Sts. NO MTG on 7/15.
Saturdays, Noon-1pm: Women In Black. Nonviolence vigil, Bidwell and Elmwood. Signs also available. (and you don’t need to be a woman or dress in black 😉
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Many thanks, peace, solidarity, and yes – Love. We shall overcome!!