716-332-3904 11/8/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
The WNYPC 52nd Annual Dinner is sold out! There will not be any extra tickets available at the door (no scalpers either, we’re guessing 😉 It’ll be an excellent evening, and if you’re missing it, just make sure to get your ticket(s) earlier next year!
And for those of you who are coming, we’ll have a wonderful evening with Medea, Valentino, the WNY Resistance Revival Chorus (and hopefully Drea is coming), Peace Action Canisius College, and many friends and kindred spirits.
Be sure to come early ie at 5pm with some money so you have a chance participate in an especially great basket raffle (20-something great possibilities) and an exciting silent auction. And to buy one of Medea’s informative and insightful books. Plus visit with others.
Don’t forget: free parking at the Fernbach ramp. (Again,l rather than an actual physical ticket your name(s) will be listed for check-in.)
We have two big events this week
– Armistice Day on Monday (please meet us at 10:30am at the Buffalo and Erie Co Naval and Military Park, at the Anchor). The day was meant to honor the peace, and the many victims of war.
– Bail Reformed? What the New Law Means for Erie County, Weds, Nov 13, 6-7:30, At the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library, 1423 Jefferson Ave (@ E Utica), Buffalo, New York. The WNY Peace Center will host a community discussion to break down the New York State criminal justice reform bill that passed, changes to cash bail beginning January 1, 2020, and what this reform means for the community. The evening will commence with a panel discussion followed by a Q&A. Panel participants include the office of Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, Vera Institute of Justice, Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, The Partnership for the Public Good, VOICE Buffalo, and others.
There are big doings at the County Legislature, too. Please come out to Old County Hall, 92 Franklin, 4th floor, on Weds, at 10-10:30am to hear the Sheriff’s explanation of an 11% increase in their budget. (We need to “Move the Monday” from “Fear, Inc.” [efforts to intimidate, control, and worse] to life-sustaining efforts!)
Also on Nov 14, at about 2:30pm, Old County Hall, 92 Franklin, 4th floor, the Erie Co Leg Public Safety Committee will cover Legislator Baskin’s Resolution for the Corrections Advisory – for which we have nominated Heron Simmonds. Please come out to support!
And please sign on to the WNY Youth Climate Council’s petition for declaring a Climate Emergency! Please !
Sign Now
(if link doesn’t come through, you can click on “Read More” on this posting – it’ll be under Environmental Justice!) They’ll be submitting it to the Buffalo Common Council in about a week.
Again, please don’t forget to support our Friends of Democracy Now! in Buffalo campaign. Democracy Now! gives people the info needed to build a movement/ #unite, and we need the funds to keep it on WBNY. Please contribute via the WNYPC – online or with a check sent (and made out) to WNY Peace Center, 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, and write in the memo line: Friends of Democracy Now! in Buffalo (or in a note in the online submission). We need to keep DEMOCRACY NOW! BROADCAST Live MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8AM-9AM (LIVE) ON WBNY 91.3FM. and streaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu.
As always, more below, and lots more at wnypeace.org, and on our facebook page, twitter (@wnypeace), and instagram!
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#Unite! #OneLove
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Events this week:
Women In Black
November 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Nonviolence vigil, Bidwell and Elmwood. Saturdays, Noon-1pm. Signs also available. (and you don’t need to be a woman or dress in black!)
Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage
November 10 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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. This week Session 3 (of 3) on Jim Antal’s book, Climate Church Climate World.
Armistice Day
November 11 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Reclaim Armistice Day as a somber day to remember all victims of war and be called to work for peace. We will gather at the Buffalo Naval Park at the Anchor (Marine Drive & Erie St.) at 10:30am. Please join us! Signs welcome. (Get white poppies at the WNYPC Annual dinner on Nov 8 – see separate listing)
Talking Peace w WNYPC on WBNY 91.3FM
November 11 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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 Armistice Day edition with Russell Brown, WNYPC Board (Co-)Chair, and Veterans for Peace Ch 128 President. Resist Militarism!
No More Deaths! – Vigil at Erie Co Holding Center
Weds, Nov 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – 4 DEATHS in 2 ½ months! Sheriff Howard is (yet another) elected official who needs to be impeached. Please join with the WNYPC’s Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce and our many allies at this regular Wednesday vigil at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). Come ahead – All are welcome. Grieving families will be joining us, and people with related lived experience are more than welcome! Please, too, bring signs. Cosponsored by Voice Buffalo, Brothers Doing Better, Prisoners Are People Too, Buffalo AntiRacism Coalition (BARC), Black Love Resists in the Rust, SURJ, and more. 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.
Bail Reformed? What the New Law Means for Erie County
November 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
At the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library, 1423 Jefferson Ave (@ E Utica), Buffalo, New York. The WNY Peace Center will host a community discussion to break down the New York State criminal justice reform bill that passed, changes to cash bail beginning January 1, 2020, and what this reform means for the community. The evening will commence with a panel discussion followed by a Q&A. Panel participants include the office of Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, Vera Institute of Justice, Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, The Partnership for the Public Good, VOICE Buffalo, and others.
Erie Co Leg Public Safety Com – Corrections Advisory Bd Res’n
November 14 @ 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
At Old County Hall, 92 Franklin, 4th floor, the Erie Co Leg Public Safety Committee will cover Legislator Baskin’s Resolution for the Corrections Advisory – for which we have nominated Heron Simmonds. Please come out to support!
No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge
November 15, 2-3pm
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>
Transforming Transportation – Panel
November 18 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
UB South Campus, Hayes Hall 402. This is a Sierra Club panel discussion that will dig in to the needs of our community, environmental justice as well as the CLCPA and the study that was just presented by the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club, Transforming Transportation. Parking available at St. Joseph’s University Church; or the Park & Ride.
Peace Coffeehouse: Cuba & the US: Friendshipment Caravans
November 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
At Canisius College – Science Hall (convenient parking on Main near Delavan) Cuba and the United States: Friendshipment Caravans Speakers Vicki Ross and Marie Schuster: a report on their experiences with the Pastors for Peace Caravan which visited Cuba this July, organized by the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO). With IFCO, they challenged the travel restrictions imposed by the United States, which try to stop us from seeing the truth of Cuba for ourselves. Come learn about Cuba-US bilateral relations, reject the new activation of titles III and IV of the Helms-Burton Act, and call for the end of the US blockade against Cuba.
Sponsored by Peace Action-Canisius, and www.lascwny.org/ and WNY Peace Center http://wnypeace.org/ Free and open to the public
(WNYPC) Gender Justice Taskforce Mtg
November 25 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm
At the Merriweather Library meeting room, 1324 Jefferson (at E Utica), Buffalo. Come out to discuss the Women’s March, intersectionality, and much more. All are welcome! (light snacks provided)
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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 Vicki Ross hosting. Also streaming on-line at wbny.buffalostate.edu. Special Armistice Day edition with Russell Brown, WNYPC Board (Co-)Chair, and Veterans for Peace Ch 128 President. Resist Militarism!
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 meets on the last Tuesday of the month.
Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce – NO MORE Deaths! Vigil/protest Wednesdays 4-5:30pm at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). Another Death! 4 in 2 ½ months! The Sheriff’s Administration is a Public Health Emergency!! All are welcome. Please bring signs.
Resist Militarism! Taskforce – Postponed: regular monthly planning meeting third Weds of the month, now date tba. at Isaías González-Soto Branch (formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201; 5-6:30pm.
Interfaith Peace Network, 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month, 9:15am at 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY 14209 entrance and parking round back.) Breakfast potluck, planning/publicizing, & 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
Buffalo Youth Climate Strike – all are welcome 2-3pm at Niagara Square for a youth-led rally to stand up for People and the Planet, and radical change to mitigate and avert climate catastrophe. Bring signs! See you there!
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)
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. This week Session 2 on Jim Antal’s book, Climate Church Climate World.
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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716-332-3904 11/4/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
Next to the last chance to buy tickets for the WNYPC 52nd Annual Dinner! Tomorrow is the last day for dinner orders (except for a handful of extra tickets available at the door), and today is the very last day for ads.
Tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/5) we have a basket-making party – you can bring items for silent auction, or basket(s), to the WNYPC at 1272 Delaware, from Noon on, til 7pm.
If you are unsure, please do check out the viral clip of keynote Medea Benjamin (on the Real News Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peJGmeg6ZE8.). And we all need to hear “No Green New Deal Without Peace; Growing Our Peace Through Justice Economy” in these critical times!
Don’t miss
-Drea D’nur, star singer extraordinaire, and the WNY Resistance Revival Chorus (of which Drea is former Artistic Director), sing and receive the Alt-imate Activist Award (yes, Wayne to be there, too ; ) or
-Valentino Dixon, who’ll get the Emerging Leaders Award! If you haven’t met or heard him speak, or seen his art, you shouldn’t miss this opportunity.
-Peace Action Canisius College, winners of the Don Shaffer Student Peacemakers’ Award, and
-updates and representatives of many initiatives, our taskforces, and our new WNY Peace Center Medaille Chapter (thank you, Taria Peeler!)
So we hope you’re coming to the 11/8, 5-9pm Dinner with our friends at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center! The menu options: chicken caprese, eggplant rollatini, and vegan paella will all available as you buy your ticket online at wnypeace.org ) Don’t forget: free parking at the Fernbach ramp. (Again,l rather than an actual physical ticket your name(s) will be listed for check-in.)
You can still donate on the website towards student/ltd income tickets; and/or drop items off at the WNYPC at 1272 Delaware Ave (entrance & pkg round back behind the building).Please contact Nicole (thanks so much, Nicole!) at assistant@wnypeace.org with any questions.
Of course – tomorrow/Tuesday is Election Day! Don’t forget to vote!
And the next day is the regular Weds 4-6pm NO MORE! [Deaths, maltreatment] Vigil and protest at the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC, on Delaware between Church & Eagle). Please bring signs – and donations for Joseph Bialkowski’s family (or go here: https://donate.keela.co/black-love-resists-in-the-rust-just-resisting/holding-center-deaths Cosponsored by Voice Buffalo, Brothers Doing Better, Prisoners Are People Too, Buffalo AntiRacism Coalition (BARC), Black Love Resists in the Rust, SURJ, and more. 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.
As always, more below, and still more at wnypeace.org, and on our facebook page, twitter (@wnypeace), and instagram!
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#Unite! #OneLove
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Events this week:
Talking Peace w WNYPC on WBNY 91.3FM
November 4 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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. Peace Action Canisius College chapter’s president, Emyle Watkins will be a special guest.
Basket-making Silent-Auction-organizing for Annual Dinner
November 5 @ 5:00 pm
At the WNYPC/NRC Building, 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY 14209 entrance and parking round back. Come join us as we put together basket, organize items for the silent auction, and revel in the anticipation of a great Annual Dinner with keynote and shero Medea Benjamin!! Plus get an idea of which things you want to bid on – or drop some things off you’d like to donate!
Buffalo Nekanesakt
November 5 @ 6:30 pm
Indigenous support group/allies. 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm. At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Ave. All are welcome!! The group will have completed a number of trainings to help people understand the experiences of Indigenous peoples. Come ahead to help with the next projects!
Voter Registration Drive
November 6 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
At Canisius College, tabling outside Bowhuis Library. Organized by PeaceAction Canisius College with USA Justice and Young Americans for Freedom Club,
LWV Hot Topic Luncheon: “Wind Works” with Ellen Banks
November 6 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Nov 6th. Ellen Banks, Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Conservation Chair, will present “Wind Works” on the possibilities of off-shore wind farms in the Great Lakes at the Clarion Hotel in Dunkirk, 30 Lake Shore Dr. E, Dunkirk, 14048. Meet & Greet at 11:30, Optional lunch at Noon, Presentation at 12:30.
No More Deaths! – Vigil at Erie Co Holding Center
Weds, Nov 6 @ 4:00 pm – 6 pm – 4 DEATHS in 2 ½ months! Sheriff Howard is (yet another) elected official who needs to be impeached. Please join with the WNYPC’s Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce and our many allies at this regular Wednesday vigil at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). Come ahead – All are welcome. Grieving families will be joining us, and people with related lived experience are more than welcome! Please, too, bring signs. Cosponsored by Voice Buffalo, Brothers Doing Better, Prisoners Are People Too, Buffalo AntiRacism Coalition (BARC), Black Love Resists in the Rust, SURJ, and more. 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.
Environmental Justice Taskforce
November 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
At the Isaías González-Soto Branch (formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201. Come out to learn about the bomb trains, and bomb train watch; No NAPL efforts; nuclear waste transport (liquid and solid over the Peace Bridge and hundreds of miles of highways and byways, creating a gigantic public health hazard); and more.
No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge
November 8, 2-3pm
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.
52nd Annual Dinner with Medea Benjamin
November 8 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us to celebrate our 52nd Annual Dinner, with special guest, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years!
The event, Nov 8, 5-9pm at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, is not to be missed. Not only is Medea and her perspective vital for people and the planet (more on Medea directly below), but we will also be giving out three very important awards:
— The WNY Resistance Revival Chorus, with former Artistic Director Drea D’nur, a wonderfully committed & progressively-minded women’s chorus, will be getting the Alt-imate Activist Award (named for WNY Peace Center lifelong stalwart member, organizer, and activist, Wayne Alt);
— Valentino Dixon will receive the Emerging Leaders Award! As most of you know, Valentino was just released when exonerated after 27 years of outrageous, unjust incarceration.
– Peace Action Canisius College, another PeaceAction group (along with the WNYPC) will be getting the Don Shaffer Student Peacemaker Award. The group is dedicated and creative; collaborates with us for the LASC organized monthly Peace Coffeehouses; and richly deserves this award for all their dedication!
You can still get your ticket on line at
http://wnypeace.org/wp/52nd-annual-dinner-with-madea-benjamin/
Women In Black
November 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Nonviolence vigil, Bidwell and Elmwood. Saturdays, Noon-1pm. Signs also available. (and you don’t need to be a woman or dress in black!)
Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage
November 10 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
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. This week Session 3 (of 3) on Jim Antal’s book, Climate Church Climate World.
Armistice Day
November 11 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Reclaim Armistice Day as a somber day to remember all victims of war and be called to work for peace. We will gather at the Buffalo Naval Park at the Anchor (Marine Drive & Erie St.) at 10:30am. Please join us! Signs welcome. (Get white poppies at the WNYPC Annual dinner on Nov 8 – see separate listing)
Talking Peace w WNYPC on WBNY 91.3FM
November 11 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
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 Armistice Day edition with Russell Brown, WNYPC Board (Co-)Chair, and Veterans for Peace Ch 128 President. Resist Militarism!
Bail Reformed? What the New Law Means for Erie County
November 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
At the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library, 1423 Jefferson Ave (@ E Utica), Buffalo, New York. The WNY Peace Center will host a community discussion to break down the New York State criminal justice reform bill that passed, changes to cash bail beginning January 1, 2020, and what this reform means for the community.
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