Happy Valentines’ Day: Rev. Dr. Cornel West!! coming to us 11/9/20!!
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Dear Friends,
If you haven’t already heard our big news,
Rev. Dr. Cornel West will keynote the WNY Peace Center’s Annual event Monday,
November 9, 2020! That’s the Monday after the election of a lifetime! Our
Beloved Brother Cornel will help us navigate from wherever we’re at, at that point.
We couldn’t be more excited and grateful! Save the date! And of course, more
details to follow …..
We’ll soon be snail-mailing reminders about re-upping – or becoming – a member of the WNY Peace
Center. As a recipient of this Weekly News/Weekly Update, you know how hard we
work and how much we offer the community through our rallies/marches/coffee houses
and all kinds of events, campaigns, collaborations, coalitions, website, social
media, and much more.
Moreover the vast majority of our offerings are free to you and all the community
(while actually costing us to do it). This is your chance to make sure it all
keeps happening – we need your support to ensure it does! So you can
donate/become a member at wnypeace.org. Or wait for the mailing …. Either way,
we can’t do it without you! Thanks in advance.
Please see much more below, including great events this week, 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
Events this week:
Vigil Protest of VERY Dangerous Radioactive Liquid over Peace Bridge
February 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Environmental Justice Taskforce – Vigil to Protest the Shipments of VERY
Dangerous Radioactive Liquid from Canada coming over the Peace Bridge. Every
Friday 2-3pm, Front Park at Vermont & Busti, Buffalo. Signs welcome and
also usually available.
Women In Black – Nonviolence vigil
February 15 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
At Bidwell and Elmwood. Saturdays, Noon-1pm. Signs also available. (And
you don’t need to be a woman or dress in black!)
Riverside Salem
February 16 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
At Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage
& UCC/DC, 3449 West River Road, Grand Island, NY 14072. – Various
progressive spiritual activist and naturalist programs, Sundays, 4-6pm followed
by a pot-luck.
Talking Peace w WNYPC, WBNY 91.3FM
February 17 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Call-in radio show with Vicki Ross hosting.
Also streaming on-line at wbny.buffalostate.edu. Special Presidents’ Day show
with League of Women Voters’ Barbara Gunderson. Re Voter Registration (apps?!),
Electoral College, Impeachment, more.
WNY Poor People’s Campaign General Meeting
February 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
At Raq’s Solidarity, 322 Amherst Street,
Buffalo 14207. Join the WNY Poor People’s Campaign to learn more about what
we’re working on and how you can get involved! No worries potluck! Please bring
a snack or drink to pass. For more information contact Sara Palmer at
716-427-4933 or saraleepalmer02@gmail.com
BULYPNY Black Restaurant Week
February 18 – February 23
February 18th – 23rd; please visit
https://bulypny.wixsite.com/blackrestaurantweek/copy-of-2019-participating-restaura
for participating restaurants. Visit a participating restaurant for breakfast,
lunch, or dinner; then purchase a meal from their special Restaurant Week menu.
The vision is to empower and highlight the great minority-owned restaurants
here in Buffalo, NY. Organized by Buffalo Urban League Young Professionals.
Nekanehsakt
February 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Avenue,
Buffalo 14213. Indigenous support group/allies (including Indigenous Women’s
Initiatives, WNYPC). Every 1st & 3rd Tuesdays. Come help plan support for
Indigenous rights, people, and the planet. Learn about – and help with – the
NuclearFree Peace On and With the Earth Month (April), and the Walk For Life,
Walk For Water, Walk for Mother Earth (April 3-26). See more on our website –
or just come to the meeting!
Resist Militarism! Taskforce Meeting
February 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
At Isaías González-Soto Branch
(formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201. Come be part
of grounding the drones and ending the wars. Planning is in process for
event(s) in Niagara Falls, with PeaceAction Niagara University and more; for
moving toward having monuments for Peacemakers not just warmakers; retracting
the AUMF, and more. All are welcome!
ECHC Vigil: NO MORE Deaths!
February 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
At the Erie Co Holding Center, Delaware between Church & Eagle Sts, Buffalo. Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce Vigil/protest Wednesdays 4-5:30pm at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). The ECHC has significantly higher deaths than similar facilities. The Sheriff’s Dept has misreported, and been determined to have committed homicide by medical neglect per the DOJ! The Sheriff’s Administration is a Public Health Emergency!! All are welcome.
**Please bring signs. **
Also please call Gov Cuomo at (518) 474-8390
to urge him to remove Sheriff Howard as he clearly is not up to the job.
Immigrant & Refugee Justice (IRJ) Taskforce Mtg
February 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
At SPoT Coffee, 227 Delaware Ave. Join us
every third Thursday from 6:00 – 7:00 PM for an IRJ taskforce meeting to
discuss topics relevant to immigrant and refugee communities. We currently meet
at SPoT Coffee just after and across the street from our weekly vigil (5-6pm)
at Delaware North.
Global Days of Listening Call – APV streaming online
February 21 @ 10:30 pm – February 22 @ 10:30 pm
At http://globaldaysoflistening.org/. The Afghan Peace Volunteers will
have their regular monthly international call. You can listing to it streaming
on-line. You can also sign up for another month, especially if you are part of
a group. Global Days of Listening has included many great peace, justice,
climate, and especially nonviolence advocates and activists from all over the
world. Don’t miss the call and/or the inspiration!
Peace Coffeehouse: Bolivia and struggles against corporate tactics
February 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Jim Schultz, on ways of resistance to
corporations, from the Cochibamba Water Revolt in Bolivia to the
present. 7pm – 9pm at Canisius College – Science Hall. Jim Schultz, author
and executive director of the Democracy Center for 25 years, has worked with
citizen activists on five continents, from indigenous communities in
Bolivia to senior leaders in the United Nations. https://democracyctr.org/author/jim_shultz/. Event Sponsored by WNY Peace Center
http://wnypeace.org/ and its taskforce, the Latin American Solidarity Committee
LAST DAY Today and Tomorrow!
For Future Generations: A Plastic Pollution Study of Lake Erie’ Opening
At CEPA Gallery, 617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. Opened January 17, 2020; exhibit is up through February 15, 2020. Artist Alexis Oltmer (b.1990) has spent 3 years creating For Future Generations : A plastic pollution study of Lake Erie, an environmental and conceptual body of artwork which elevates plastic pollution imagery.
REGULARLY
SCHEDULED EVENTS not already listed above:
The Environmental Show, with Jack Kanack, John
Cunningham and Charley Bowman. Radio show every Monday at 9 AM – 10 AM on WBNY
91.3 FM. Also streaming online at wbny.buffalostate.edu.
Interfaith Peace Network – First
and third Thursday of each month at 9:15am. Located at 1272 Delaware Ave,
Buffalo NY 14209 entrance and parking round back.) Breakfast potluck, and
discussion.
Environmental
Justice Taskforce Mtg, every first Thursday of the month, 6-7:30pm. At Isaías González-Soto Branch
(formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201. Regular
monthly meeting. Come learn, help plan and organize to move ourselves on to
Renewable energy and off fossil fuels. Bomb train resistance, No Nuclear Waste
over the Peace Bridge and on public highways etc. also often included
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! Taskforce meeting hosted at Spot Coffee
across the street from the vigil location on the third Thursday of the month.
(2/20/20 from 6-7pm) #EndICETerror #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishICE
#CLOSETHECAMPS #NeverAgainIsNow.
Stop The Violence Coalition – 1st
and 3rd Fridays of the month; 6pm, United Way Building, Delaware and Summer
Sts.
Of note: Little Africa Culture Club, 356 S. Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY.
African Drumming Sundays, 12-2pm.
We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
More listings on calendar and in previous
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One
Struggle, One Vision, One Love!!
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