MONDAY Emergency Rally for Yemen Relief, 12-1:30pm
716-332-3904 11/24/18
Dear Friends,
The Senate is set to vote this week on SJR 54, joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress.
Join us outside Sen. Schumer’s office, 130 S. Elmwood Avenue, MONDAY 12pm-1:30pm, to encourage him to co sponsor the resolution. Demand an end to US involvement in Yemen which has directly contributed to the humanitarian crisis that exists today.
The United States began supporting the Saudi and United Arab Emirates war on Yemen during the Obama administration, providing weapons, mid-air refueling of Saudi bombers, logistical support via surveillance drones to the Saudi-led collation, and has engaged in targeted drone strikes.
The US backed, Saudi blockade of Yemen’s main ports prevent lifesaving aid from consistently entering the country. 18 Million Yemeni are food insecure, 2.9 million children and women are acutely malnourished, and 120,000 children have died due to malnutrition or malnutrition caused diseases. Many families are dependent on rations to survive.
In August, 2018 a 500lb laser guided missile manufactured in the USA by Lockheed Martin targeted a school bus full of children on a field trip. 34 children were killed and many more were wounded. According to a November Associated Press article, a third of all U.S. drone strike casualties in Yemen are civilians, many of them children.
With over 15,200 reported cases of Cholera, 16.4 Million Yemeni are without access to basic health care, while US backed Saudi Coalition bombers have attacked hospitals and Doctors Without Borders clinics on at least 6 occasions since 2015
Congress has never voted to go to war in Yemen. Although, the Senate has come withing three votes shy of stopping arms sales to Saudi Arabia that fuel the war, the House of Representatives voted twice against taking steps to stop the US’s illegal involvement in the war.
Many thanks, peace, solidarity, and yes – Love
We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
More Event Listings:
Monday evening:
* LASC Coffeehouse, 7-9pm, Canisius College Science Hall. A Sandanista Point of View on the Crisis in Nicaragua.
* Prisoners Are People Too Monthly Meeting, 7-9pm, CAO Rafi Green Center, 1423 Jefferson Ave. Film Showing: Prison Song.
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Many thanks, peace, solidarity, and yes – Love
We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver The time is now, and we are the people we’ve been waiting for. And remember to tune in: DEMOCRACY NOW! IS NOW BEING BROADCASTMONDAY-FRIDAY, 8AM-9AM (LIVE) ON WBNY 91.3FM. Hear it over the radio orstreaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu.
Below are
– more event listings (see also calendar & facebook page);
– Taskforce items and campaigns; and
– regularly scheduled events – all in that order.
No hate, no fear as we are #StillResisting. Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
* ECONOMIC JUSTICE
Please continue to support the Poor People’s Campaign. Current focus: Voter Registration and empowerment. Stay tuned for information on future events and ways to get involved. Also, visit and join the Poor People’s Campaign online: www.poorpeoplescampaign.org and on facebook (locally, statewide and nationally): Poor People’s Campaign WNY, NYS Poor People’s Campaign, Poor People’s Campaign.
* EDUCATION & HUMAN RIGHTS
Mark your calendars: **Human Rights Day, UN-declared: December 10.**
* ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Two big victories!!: Judge’s put a halt to two terrible proposed pipelines:
– Keystone Pipeline (proposed for entire North-South in Central US); and
– NAPL/Northern Access Pipeline (proposed to take fracked gas from PA through WNY).
We are overjoyed, yet ever-vigilant. Join us for:
No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge
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.
Action Alert re Stone Dam Road Pipeline: go to wnypeace.org/environmental-justice/
* GENDER JUSTICE
Save the Date: January 20, 2019 WOMEN’S MARCH – BUFFALO/WNY. Niagara Square. Details tbd. Call 716-332-3904 to get involved as a co-sponsor.
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
(Note all-male Common Council – symptomatic of issues!)
* IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE JUSTICE
Vigil for Victims of ICE Terror
Thursdays, 5-6pm, ICE building on the corner of Delaware and Chippewa. Bring your signs and spirit of Solidarity. We will not stay silent! #EndICETerror #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishICE
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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
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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.
* LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY
Coffeehouse: 7pm Monday, November 26 , 2018
A Sandanista Point of View on the Crisis in Nicaragua
Canisius College Science Hall
Dr. Matlin will have recently returned from a trip to Nicaragua where he will have conferred with citizens and Sandanista leadership. Dr. Matlin, a pediatrician, was declared a “Hero of the Revolution” by the Sandanista for his service to that country and the revolution. To learn more check out his debate about the causes of the current crisis with fellow progressive Michael Argaman on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcFtFgVDg3Q
Vigil for Victims of ICE Terror Thursdays, 5-6pm, ICE building on the corner of Delaware and Chippewa. Bring your signs and spirit of Solidarity. We will not stay silent! #EndICETerror #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishICE
Venezuela Sanctions Petition
After the attempted assassination of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, your help is requested. Please sign the petition to end US and Canadian sanctions:https://afgj.salsalabs.org/campaigntoendusandcanadasanctionsagainstvenezuela/index.html. The civilians and general populations are the ones to pay for this kind of foreign policy. The US government needs to stop penalizing the common people and destabilizing other countries. Please sign and share. Many thanks to Shontae Cannon-Buckley for her work on this issue!
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
* PRISONERS’ RIGHTS
Wednesdays 4-5:30pm 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
* RACIAL JUSTICE
RACIAL JUSTICE TASKFORCE MEETING: Sunday, December 16, 1pm at Little Africa, 352 South Elmwood (btwn Trinity and Tupper), Buffalo, NY. Parking also round back (off Tupper).
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.
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.
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.
* RESIST MILITARISM!
MONDAY Emergency Rally for Yemen Relief, 12-1:30pm
The Senate is set to vote this week on SJR 54, joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities in the Yemen that have not been authorized by Congress.
Join us outside Sen. Schumer’s office, 130 S. Elmwood Avenue, MONDAY 12pm-1:30pm, to encourage him to co sponsor the resolution. Demand an end to US involvement in Yemen which has directly contributed to the humanitarian crisis that exists today.
Know about the King’s Bay Plowshares? 7 courageous and compassionate Catholic Workers who went to largest submarine base in the world Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia on April 4th, 2018. They went to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat swords into plowshares”. Read their story at https://www.kingsbayplowshares7.org/ .
Donate, help us organize on their behalf, and agitate and pray for their acquittal. They face very serious charges of up to a decade of prison time, just for reminding our government of the illegal and foolhardy nature of our nuclear weaponry.
Please call our 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.
– Support House Resolution 922 to define presidential wars not declared by Congress as impeachable offenses. These wars include wars of co-belligerency such as the US role in the atrocities in Yemen.
If you’d prefer to send an email to your senators, please do so.
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