+Tomorow Rapid Respnse NO WAR ON IRAN! 5pm, Bidwell & Elmwood; Monday: Medea!
716-332-3904 1/8/20 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
We are having another Emergency, Rapid Response Rally re Iran, tomorrow 5pm & Bidwell & Elmwood!
Also Medea Benjamin will join us on our Talking Peace Radio show on
Monday, to talk about the outrageous aggression being perpetrated by the
current administration. So, please note:
NO WAR ON IRAN!
January 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
At Bidwell & Elmwood. Please bring signs, and your energy. Because we are not going allow it – not in our name! Please also call our senators and congresspeople (202-224-3121) to urge them to do everything in their power to stop our warring on Iran!! Sponsored by CodePink, MoveOn, the WNYPC and more. #NOWARWITHIRAN!
And
Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays,
1-3pm. Call-in show with Jim Anderson and Vicki Ross co-hosting. Also streaming
on-line at wbny.buffalostate.edu. Special guest: MEDEA BENJAMIN, CodePink. Topic:
#NoWarWithIran, #Unite, #WomenRiseUP
Also, and
again, please call your Congressperson (Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121 –
or Reps Higgins or Reed if you don’t have one) and our Senators to urge a stop
through the War Powers Act to any war on Iran, as well as any more troops to
the Middle East. They may vote tomorrow!
Remember the January 11, 1:30pm membership meeting at the WNYPC, NRC Bldg, 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo 14209 (entrance & parking round back); and the Women’s March Sunday January 19, 1:30pm, part of a Weekend of Action! And much more at wnypeace.org – events are added regularly.
As
always, more below, including regularly scheduled events & vigils, and more
at wnypeace.org, and on our facebook page, twitter (@wnypeace), and Instagram
(wnypeace)!
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#Unite!
#OneLove
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Events this week:
Resist Militarism! Taskforce Mtg
January 8 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
At Isaías González-Soto Branch Library (formerly Niagara Branch), 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo NY. Discuss ideas for what an interactive memorial in Buffalo that acknowledges all victims of war could look like. All are welcome!
NO WAR ON IRAN!
January 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
At Bidwell & Elmwood. Please bring signs, and your energy. Because we are not going allow it – not in our name! Please also call our senators and congresspeople (202-224-3121) to urge them to do everything in their power to stop our warring on Iran!! Sponsored by CodePink, MoveOn, the WNYPC and more. #NOWARWITHIRAN!
End the ICE Terror weekly vigil
January 9 @ 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Join the Immigrant & Refugee Taskforce every Thursday from 5:00-6:00 PM for an End the ICE Terror vigil in front of the ICE Field Office at the Delaware North Building (250 Delaware Ave at the corner of Chippewa). Bring your signs and spirit of solidarity. We will not stay silent!
WNYPC Membership Mtg
January 11 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
At WNYPC/NRC Bldg, 1272 Delaware Ave (entrance & parking round back of bldg). Come on out and get connected with the WNYPC’s vital taskforces, submit a membership survey, get info on past and upcoming events and campaigns. And please re-up your membership for the year if you haven’t already! That will enable to have a vote. Focus on Taskforces and Committees.
Trip to Albany to lobby to #FreeOurElders
January 14 @ 5:30 am – 9:30 pm
Bring them home!! End
Death-by-incarceration sentences to promote parole justice. Free transportation
and food is provided. To rsvp, please go to: bit.ly/35ZDluL. Questions?
Contact Rosie Rios, rmr2198@columbia.edu. Parole Preparation Project; RAPP
(Release Aging People in Prison).
Women’s March WNY Sign-Making Gathering
January 18 @ 3:30 pm – 5:30 pm
At WNY Peace Center, 1272 Delaware Ave. Join us as we prepare for the Women’s March 2020! We will be making signs and viewing the film, ‘Doctrine of Discovery’, as part of the Weekend of Action. All are welcome!
Women’s March – Buffalo/WNY
January 19 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
At Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY. #UNITE – as part of the Weekend of Action! A rally and march with speakers, music, and the Spirit, to celebrate Truth and Love. We will stand together for Women, Solidarity with and Justice for People and the Planet, and #womenswave, #powertothepolls. See our ~70 great cosponsors list on our website wnypeace.org or the facebook event page.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Celebration
January 19 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
At Kleinhans Music Hall, One Symphony Circle, Buffalo NY. Come join this beautiful community celebration of our beloved Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. This African-American community celebration of the life and legacy of Dr. King includes exciting music and dance performances from throughout Western New York. Free and open to the public. All are welcome.
Trip to Albany to Pass #HALTsolitary Act
January 21 @ 5:30 am – 9:30 pm
WNY chapter of the Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIC) is going to be joining various chapters across the state in Albany on Tuesday, January 21 (https://www.facebook.com/events/564954490972330/) to advocate for legislators to pass the #HALTsolitary act. It is so important to passing the act. More than 2 weeks in solitary is torture per international standards, and tremendously harmful and traumatic to people. We need more voices coming to Albany with us to make sure this time it gets passed! Please join us!
Sanctuary for Refugees (LASC Coffeehouse)
January 27 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
At Canisius College (Main & Jefferson), Science Building Lounge. Speaker Rev. Nancy Rosas is the pastor at Pilgrim St Luke’s UCC, the only active sanctuary church in Buffalo. The church has hosted numerous families who are threatened with deportation. The families are afforded a comfortable and safe place to stay while they need one. Come find out more. All are welcome. Light refreshments.
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REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS in the One Struggle, One Vision, One Love:
Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio
Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays, 1-3pm. Call-in show with Jim Anderson and Vicki
Ross co-hosting. Also streaming on-line at wbny.buffalostate.edu. Special
guest: MEDEA BENJAMIN, CodePink. Topic: #NoWarWithIran, #Unite, #WomenRiseUP
Buffalo Nekanesakt. Indigenous support group/allies. 1st & 3rd Tuesdays,
6:30-8pm. At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Ave. All are welcome!! Reading
group for
the Great Law of Peace will meet on the last Tuesday of January for its final
session on the Kayanerenko:wa as put forth by Kayanesenh Paul Williams.
Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce – NO
MORE Deaths! Vigil/protest Wednesdays 4-5:30pm at the Erie County Holding
Center (Delaware & Church). The Sheriff’s Administration is a Public Health
Emergency!! All are welcome. Please bring signs.
Resist Militarism! Taskforce – Regular monthly planning meeting third Weds of
the month, Jan 15; 5-6:30pm. at Isaías González-Soto Branch (formerly
Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201.
Interfaith Peace Network – in January only, 2nd & 4th Thursdays
of the month, ie, January 9 and January 23, with special presentations on
Congregation of Israel and Sufism respectively; 9:15am at 1272 Delaware Ave,
Buffalo NY 14209 entrance and parking round back.) Breakfast potluck, and
discussion.
End ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, vigil in front of the ICE building on the
corner of (@250) Delaware and Chippewa. Bring your signs and spirit of
Solidarity. We will not stay silent! #EndICETerror #FamiliesBelongTogether
#AbolishICE #CLOSETHECAMPS #NeverAgainIsNow
Environmental Justice Taskforce – Vigil to Protest the Shipments of VERY
Dangerous Radioactive Liquid from Canada coming over the Peace Bridge. Fridays
2-3pm, Front Park at Vermont & Busti, Buffalo. Signs welcome and also
usually available.
Stop The Violence Coalition – 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month; 6pm, United Way
Building, Delaware and Summer Sts.
Women In Black – Nonviolence vigil, Bidwell and Elmwood. Saturdays, Noon-1pm.
Signs also available. (and you don’t need to be a woman or dress in black)
Special gathering on Jan 4 for National Day of Action: US out of Iraq!!!
Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage & UCC/DC – Various progressive
spiritual activist and naturalist programs, Sundays, 4-6pm followed by a
pot-luck. 3449 West River Road, Grand Island, NY 14072. Celebrate Epiphany on
Sunday, 1/5.
Of note: Little Africa Culture Club, 356 S. Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY.
African Drumming Sundays, 12-2pm.
We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
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Si, se puede! We shall overcome. #Unite
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.