716-332-3904 9/18/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
Get ready for the Week for the Future – and especially Friday’s rally! With our youth and young adults – and older adults – stepping into high gear, please pace yourself while helping to spread the word.
Today, please join us for Resist Militarism! Taskforce meeting at Isaías González-Soto Branch (formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201; 5-6:30pm. We desperately need to stop the militarism at home and abroad that makes us more unsafe and unwell (the US military is the world’s #1 polluter).
Tomorrow – Thursday, Sept 19 – we hope you can:
– support wind energy either by coming out to the Erie County Legislature on at 1-2:30pm; and/or to call your county legislator (either today or tomorrow) to urge him or her to support Wind Energy and oppose the anti-wind resolution. More info below.
– come out to a rally 4-6pm at 65 Court St. for Gov Cuomo to sign the Wage Theft Bill that he’s holding up, which stops employers from hiding assets from employees. You can also call his office
We very much hope you’ll join us this Friday for the Youth Climate Strike/#Unite/Int’l Day of Peace, 2-5pm at Niagara Square. We remind you that the rally will support the youth and climate emergency action, #unite us, and inspire us! Enjoy and collaborate with the eloquent (and brief) speakers, and the super music with PeaceJam, Roc Da Mic, Tom Makar, and the Resistance Revival Chorus. (And again, Ismail Johnson, Presente!) And join in sharing snacks, too!
As you probably know, the Youth Climate Strike is called upon the verge of the UN Climate Change Summit. The US Military is the biggest polluter in the world. Anyone who goes to NYC for that should also know the US War Machine and Imperialism will be changed by many surrounding events. For more info, go to https://www.peoplesmobe.org/.
Later Friday, you could:
– stay after the rally for a vigil for the victims of Hurricane Maria, organized by PUSH;
– go to Brothers Doing Better’s fun(d)raiser – yes this event open to all – at 6-10pm at Pilgrim St Luke’s, at Richmond & W Utica;
– attend the opening night of Ujima’s production of Pipeline, at the former school #77, about the school to prison pipeline (running thru Oct 13);
– go see the stunningly apt Subversive Theatre production of Catch-22, adapted for the stage by Joseph Heller himself. (WNYPC, as sponsor of the production, will be facilitating a brief discussion after the play on Saturday, Sept 21, and Friday, Sept 27 – come join us! Again, catch a showing any Thurs, Fri, and/or Sat from now till the end of the month, at 7:30pm 255 Great Arrow Avenue on the third floor.
At our 52nd Annual Dinner on Nov. 8, Medea Benjamin of Code Pink will keynote on “Growing Our Peace Through Justice Economy)! See our website for more info.
Lastly, the WNY Peace Center is still accepting applications for the Assistant position. If you are interested, please see the posting at the end of this email.
Please go to our website (wnypeace.org) calendar for plenty more listings, campaigns in the website posts, and info on our facebook page.
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#Unite! #OneLove
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Events this week:
Resist Militarism! Taskforce
September 18 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
At Isaías González-Soto Branch (formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201– regular monthly planning meeting third Weds of the month. We will be discussing actions for Armistice Day and developing our strategic plan as a Taskforce into the next year! Hope to see you there!
Support Wind Energy to Erie Co Leg
September 19 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm
At Erie County Hall 92 Franklin Street 4th Floor Legislative chamber. Give Wind Energy a Chance! The Erie County Legislature is considering a hostile anti-wind resolution sponsored by Legislators Dixon and Mills and supported by Chris Collins to preemptively oppose wind development “along the shores of Lake Erie”. Come testify, or if you can’t, please contact your county legislator to ask him/her to oppose the anti-wind energy resolution. If you don’t know who that is from the map below, please call Mr. Meyers who chairs the Energy & Environment Committee, and/or Legislature Chair Ms. April Baskin.
• District No. 1: Hon. Howard J. Johnson, Jr.
o Phone: 842-0490; Howard.Johnson@erie.gov
• District No. 2: Hon. April N.M. Baskin (Chair of the Legislature)
o District Office: 792 – Phone: 895-1849; April.McCants-Baskin@erie.gov
• District No. 3: Hon. Lisa Chimera
o Phone: 832-0493; Lisa.Chimera@erie.gov
• District No. 4: Hon. Kevin R. Hardwick
o Phone: 858-8672; Kevin.Hardwick@erie.gov
• District No. 5: Hon. Thomas A. Loughran
o Phone: 836-0198; Thomas.Loughran@erie.gov
• District No. 6: Hon. Edward A. Rath, III
o Phone: 858-8676; Edward.Rath@erie.gov
• District No. 7: Hon. Timothy Meyers
o Phone: 833-3054; Timothy.Meyers@erie.gov
• District No. 8: Hon. John Bruso (Majority Leader)
o Phone: 858-8856; John.Bruso@erie.gov
• District No. 9: Hon. Lynne M. Dixon
o Phone: 858-8671; Lynne.Dixon@erie.gov
• District No. 10: Hon. Joseph C. Lorigo (Minority Leader)
o Phone: 858-8922; Joseph.Lorigo@erie.gov
• District No. 11: Hon. John J. Mills
o Phone: 858-8850; John.Mills@erie.gov
Support the NYS SWEAT Bill – No Wage Theft!
September 19 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
At NYS Dept of Labor Bureau, 65 Court St, Buffalo. Please come out and/or call Gov Cuomo – 518-474-8390 – to get him to sign this bill!! >Wage theft is a huge issue for NYS workers: we lose $1 Billion > annually to wage theft– more than any other kind of theft combined
Catch-22
Thurs, Fri, Sat through Sat. Sept 28, 7:30pm
With brief post-performance discussions on Sat, 9/21, and Fri, 9/27.
At Subversive Theatre’s Manny Fried Playhouse, 255 Great Arrow Ave, Buffalo (3rd Floor). Don’t miss this superb play (created by original author Joseph Heller!) that provides compelling and alarming insights into today’s bizzaro political climate, where lies are “alternative facts” and climate change is a theory. Compelling and captivating, you won’t forget it! Great performances that will spur us on! Tickets are $30 general admission or $25 for students, seniors, and Subversive Theatre members. As always, admission for all Thursday shows is pay-what-you-can. Purchase tickets online at www.subversivetheatre.org or call 716-462-5549. Where else but at… SUBVERSIVE THEATRE: where DISSENT takes center stage!
Youth Climate Strike & Int’l Day of Peace
September 20 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
In Niagara Square. Buffalo Youth Climate Strike is hosting a rally with the WNY Peace Center and we would like you to be there! Bring friends and family, signs, and energy and let’s make our voices heard! Agenda: Gathering 2-2:30pm Climate Strike 2:30-3:30pm #UniteTheStruggles/#UniteTheVisions – Interconnectedness 3:30-4:30pm Celebration of International Day of Peace 4:30-5pm Please go to https://actionnetwork.org/events/buffalo-youth-climate-strike-2?source=direct_link&
to register. There will be excellent musical jamming – bring your instrument if you play. Also, please bring signs – and friends! Spread the word, and see you there! Si, se puede! We shall overcome! Please go to our website listing for this event for a list of cosponsors (now including Indigenous Women’s Initiatives!) and the Week for the Future events!
Global [youth Peru] Leadership Adventure talk
September 22 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
At Riverside-Salem, 3449 West River Road, Grand Island, NY 14072. Maddy Buisch will tell us about her experience with Global Leadership Adventure (GLA) this past summer. GLA is a company that creates programs for high schoolers to volunteer, travel and learn about other cultures. Her trip in Peru was called Foundations of Global Health
Press Conf: Support Outer Harbor Park!
September 23 @ 10:00 am – 10:30 pm
“Buffalo’s Outer Harbor: the Right Place for a World-Class Park.” Bell Slip (Fuhrmann Blvd, just past the first exit off Route 5 (heading west from Buffalo). Please come out to support the initiative. All are welcome.
LASC Peace Coffeehouse: Mayan Guatemala, past & present
September 23 @ 7:00 pm
At Canisius College Science Bldg Lounge, cnr Main @Jefferson. Speaker Marilyn Anderson, with an update on the complex picture of Guatemala today: past conflicts, refugees and mass migration, the environmental situation,and the changing role of Mayan peoples and their traditional belief system. With photographs and pictures form her many years of work there
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. Guests this week include Eve Everette of the Anne Frank Project; and Marilyn Anderson, speaker at Mayan Guatemala
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 – Wednesdays 4-5:30pm protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). All are welcome. Please bring signs.
Resist Militarism! Taskforce – regular monthly planning meeting third Weds of the month, 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.
Vigil for Victims of ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, 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! This week runs 2-5pm (see above!)
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)
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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And remember to tune in: DEMOCRACY NOW! IS NOW BEING BROADCASTMONDAY-FRIDAY, 8AM-9AM (LIVE) ON WBNY 91.3FM. Hear it over the radio or streaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu.
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716-332-3904 9/6/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
We at the WNY Peace Center are still open for applications for the Assistant position. If you are interested, please see the posting at the end of this email.
Lots is going on as always. Please pace yourself! We hope to see you at one or some of the following highlighted events:
Tonight is the opening of Subversive Theatre’s Catch-22, adapted for the stage by Joseph Heller himself. We as the proud sponsor of the production will frequently be tabling there – come join us for a vital and insightful production. It’ll be running every Thurs, Fri, and Sat from now till the end of the month, at 7:30pm 255 Great Arrow Avenue on the third floor.
We also hope to see you tomorrow:
– at the Jefferson Avenue Arts Festival, 10am-7pm. Come out for a wonderfully community-growing event – and please visit us tabling somewhere between East Ferry and East Utica! Come see our new bumper stickers!
– at the #ElPasoFirme action against white supremacy 6pm at Bidwell & Elmwood, organized by Buffalo IAC, Workers World, Buffalo Antiwar, & more.
– Rahama’s fundraiser with Imam Zaid Shakir, 5pm at Classics V Banquet Hall, 2425 Niagara Falls Blvd, Amherst.
– or of course at Subversive Theatre’s Catch-22 production.
Lou DeJesus of PUSH Green will join us Talking Peace with the WNYPC on Monday. Tune in 1-3pm, at 91.3FM, streaming on line at wbny.buffalostate.edu.
Save the date: Saturday, Sept 14, we’ll see 18 years of the Authorization of the Use of Military Force. Terrible supposed kill license! Times up! Please join us at 2pm at the Buffalo & Erie Co Naval & Military Park. Check website for more info on this next week.
Don’t forget the Youth Climate Strike/#Unite/Int’l Day of Peace coming up on Sept 20, 2-5pm at Niagara Square, with a whole Week for the Future. Again, more to follow.
Also re the Annual Dinner on Nov. 8 with Medea Benjamin of Code Pink!
Tickets available on the website. Please let us know (see above) if you
are interested in volunteering to help get raffle baskets, auction items,
etc., together.
Please go to our website (wnypeace.org) calendar for more listings, campaigns in the website posts, and info on our facebook page.
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#Unite! #OneLove
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Events this week:
Catch-22 (Subversive Theatre)
September 6-28, every Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 7:30 pm
Subversive Theatre unapologetically presents CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller September 6th – 28th (and we at the WNY Peace Cente are proud to sponsor this superb version of a truly compelling piece). At Subversive’s home venue, the Manny Fried Playhouse at 255 Great Arrow Avenue on the third floor of North Buffalo’s historic Great Arrow Building. (Kicking-off Subversive’s 17th season of radical theatre, part of Curtain Up 2019.)
A deadly serious comedy of explosive proportions, CATCH-22 is an anti-war, anti-authority, anti-stupidity masterpiece. This stage adaptation of Joseph Heller’s incendiary 1961 Novel was crafted by Heller himself back in 1971, but couldn’t be needed more in Trump’s America. With its bizarre blend of farce, wry jibes, and Keystone Cops silliness amidst a whirlwind of death, destruction, and betrayal, this smirkingly ironic World War II tale offers audiences a beautiful way to laugh and cry at the evils of our world all at once.
This rendition is sponsored by the Western New York Peace Center and is directed by Subversive Theatre’s Founder and Artistic Director Kurt Schneiderman*. Up and coming young star Connor Maxwell heads up the cast as the Kafka-esque anti-hero “Yossarian” opposite Jack Agugliaro* as “the Chaplain”, Jacob Chester Sauer* as “Major Major”, Lawrence Rowswell* as “Doc Daneeka”, John Kehoe as “Colonel Cathcart”, and Leon Copeland, Jr* as “Milo Minderbinder.” The ensemble also features J. Tim Raymond*, Mikyla Fisher, Shakora Purks, Jessie Miller, Bryan Figueroa*, Andrew Zuccari, Leonardo LiPomi, and Michael Mottern*.
CATCH-22 runs September 6th – 28th with performances Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30pm. Tickets are $30 general admission or $25 for students, seniors, and Subversive Theatre members. As always, admission for all Thursday shows is pay-what-you-can. Purchase tickets online at www.subversivetheatre.org or call 716-462-5549. Where else but at… SUBVERSIVE THEATRE: where DISSENT takes center stage!
Jefferson Ave Arts Festival
Sat, Sept 7 @10am-6pm
On Jefferson between E Utica & E Ferry. Enjoy visual arts, crafts, live music, vendors, and youth activities. Last but not least, please come find us tabling – we might even have a new lawn membership sign you might want! Anyway, don’t miss this great community gathering!
Rahama Fundraiser w Imama Z Shakir
Sept 7, 5pm
At Classics V Banquet Hall, Imam Zaid Shakir is co-founder of Zaytuna College, professor of law, theology, political science, among other subjects. Presaile tickets $55 (adults) and $35 (students). Come support Rahama’s transitional housing program and other supportive services for survivors of domestic violence.
#ElPasoFirme Action against white supremacy
September 7 @ 6:00 pm
At Bidwell & Elmwood, Buffalo. A call went out from El Paso to stand in solidarity Sept 7 w/our sisters and brothers who were victims of the racist massacre, and all who are targeted by Trump’s white supremacist anti-migrant and anti-people of color fascist rhetoric. Organized by Buffalo IAC, Workers World, Buffalo AntiWar, and more.
Born on the Move
September 10 @ 7:00 pm
At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St, Buffalo. Mike Africa Jr. speaks.
18 years of the AUMF
September 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
At Buffalo & Erie Co Naval & Military Park. After 18 years of murderous atrocities supposedly okayed by the Authorization for the Use of Military Force, passed by Congress right after 9/11 and used since then as allowing unlimited war-making – enough is way way way too much!! Come recognize the many lives lost and/or wrecked, and what we can do about it!
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 hosting. Go to wbny.buffalostate.edu. Special guest Lou DeJesus, PUSH Green.
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 – Wednesdays 4-5:30pm protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). All are welcome. Please bring signs.
Resist Militarism! Taskforce – regular monthly planning meeting third Weds of the month, at Niagara Porter Library, 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.
Vigil for Victims of ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, 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)
Of note: Little Africa Culture Club, 356 S. Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY. African Drumming Sundays, 12-2pm, Peace and Love Jam session (in honor of Ismail Johnson) Wednesdays, 8pm.
We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
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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 or streaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu.
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WNY Peace Center Assistant Job Description
The WNY Peace Center seeks a highly organized person who is passionate about peace and social justice issues to serve as an assistant working for our mission of “Peace Through Justice at Home and Abroad.”
The WNY Peace Center is a non profit, member driven organization founded in 1956. Our nine taskforces focus on particular issue areas and we stress the interconnectedness of our issues, Uniting in the Struggle and Movement-Building. We provide many opportunities to learn about, reflect, and act constructively to address issues of concern to our membership. As a force for progressive change, the WNY Peace Center serves as an incubator for new ideas and the promotion of activism.
The Assistant Position is for approximately 15 hours/week including nights and weekend flexibility for events at $15/hour.
Candidates should be detail oriented, have great verbal and written communication skills, computer skills (QuickBooks knowledge is a plus), and a cooperative spirit. Experience in the non-profit sector and/or community organizing is prefered.
Candidates would be working closely with the Executive Director and Office Manager/Coordinator.
Expectations:
● Working cooperatively and communicating with staff, board, taskforces, membership, allies and the general public;
● Assist in media and publicity outreach, including press releases, media advisories and follow-up;
● Assist in planning and promoting the WNY Peace Center’s Annual Dinner and other fundraising events throughout the year including membership appeals and grant writing;
● Participate in designing, publicizing and implementing strategic campaigns;
● Assist in planning, publicizing and executing meetings, speakers, fundraisers, rallies and other events;
● Assist in outreach and work with other peace and justice organizations in WNY and nationally;
● Assisting the Office Manager (answering phones; fielding requests; helping with mailings, office publications etc.)
● Stay current on relevant legislation, grants, social issues and potential services;
● Assisting in other ways as needed and feasible.
Please send your resume and a cover letter to victoryross9@gmail.com by Sept 13. Thanks!
716-332-3904
8/29/19
wnypeace.org
Dear
Friends,
First, another announcement: The WNY Peace Center is looking to hire an
Assistant. If you are interested, please see the posting at the end of this
email.
We are excited to enjoy the special Woodstock on the Niagara this Labor *Sunday*, 2pm to 6pm and/or
thereabouts, at Roger & June’s, 1515 West River Road, Grand Island 14072.
There’ll be music – including 2-4pm Doug Yeomans & Friends
NY Woodstock Band; and 4-6pm Sol y Sombra Latin Jazz. This potluck outdoor
party is not to be missed! See more below in listings.
The Latin American Solidarity Committee will also meet at the Woodstock on the
Niagara celebration, 4pm.
We do also want to give you a heads up on bad but unsurprising news: the Court
denied the Kings Bay Plowshares’ (KBP) motion to dismiss, so the case will go
to trial in Georgia on Oct 21. The brave and beloved truth-tellers are facing
25 years for symbolic resistance to the nuclear madness/reign of terror. We
were blessed to interview Clare Grady, one of the KBP, in this past Monday’s
Talking Peace radio show. Look for that on our website soon.
This week we’ll interview Kurt Schneiderman on Labor Day and the new Catch-22
Subversive Theatre production. Tune in 1-3pm, at 91.3FM, streaming on line at
wbny.buffalostate.edu.
Don’t forget the Environmental Justice Taskforce session Sept 5, 6-7:30pm
Please go to our website (wnypeace.org)
calendar for more listings (this weekend ICE off our Buses; Elmwood Festival;
the Eid Carnival), campaigns in the website posts, and info on our facebook
page.
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#Unite! #OneLove
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Events this week:
Woodstock
on the Niagara (@June & Roger’s)
September
1 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm
At June
License & Roger Cook’s place, 1515 West River Road, Grand Island, NY 14072.
Celebrate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock. Potluck and outdoor party
including music (2-4pm, Doug Yeomans & Friends NY Woodstock Band; 4-6pm,
Sol y Sombra Latin Jazz). Enjoy the new West River Trail across the road, boats
at the river’s edge, bicycling, badminton, lots of gardens and
greenery, ponds, spots to sit and chat, great food (potluck; we’ll have a grill
with corn and one for other items), great people to meet & greet (often
“people’s music” in the back yard), memories of Woodstock!
Catch-22
(Subversive Theatre)
September
6-28, every Thurs, Fri, Sat @ 7:30 pm
Subversive Theatre unapologetically presents
CATCH-22 by Joseph Heller September 6th – 28th (and we at the WNY Peace Cente
are proud to sponsor this superb version of a truly compelling piece). At
Subversive’s home venue, the Manny Fried Playhouse at 255 Great Arrow Avenue on
the third floor of North Buffalo’s historic Great Arrow Building. (Kicking-off
Subversive’s 17th season of radical theatre, part of Curtain Up 2019.)
A deadly serious comedy of explosive
proportions, CATCH-22 is an anti-war, anti-authority, anti-stupidity
masterpiece. This stage adaptation of Joseph Heller’s incendiary 1961 Novel was
crafted by Heller himself back in 1971, but couldn’t be needed more in Trump’s
America. With its bizarre blend of farce, wry jibes, and Keystone Cops
silliness amidst a whirlwind of death, destruction, and betrayal, this
smirkingly ironic World War II tale offers audiences a beautiful way to laugh
and cry at the evils of our world all at once.
This rendition is sponsored by the Western
New York Peace Center and is directed by Subversive Theatre’s Founder and
Artistic Director Kurt Schneiderman*. Up and coming young star Connor Maxwell
heads up the cast as the Kafka-esque anti-hero “Yossarian” opposite Jack
Agugliaro* as “the Chaplain”, Jacob Chester Sauer* as “Major Major”, Lawrence
Rowswell* as “Doc Daneeka”, John Kehoe as “Colonel Cathcart”, and Leon
Copeland, Jr* as “Milo Minderbinder.” The ensemble also features J. Tim
Raymond*, Mikyla Fisher, Shakora Purks, Jessie Miller, Bryan Figueroa*, Andrew
Zuccari, Leonardo LiPomi, and Michael Mottern*.
CATCH-22 runs September 6th – 28th with
performances Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays at 7:30pm. Tickets are $30
general admission or $25 for students, seniors, and Subversive Theatre members.
As always, admission for all Thursday shows is pay-what-you-can. Purchase
tickets online at www.subversivetheatre.org or call 716-462-5549. Where else
but at… SUBVERSIVE THEATRE: where DISSENT takes center stage!
Jefferson Ave Arts Festival
Sat, Sept 7 @10am-6pm
On Jefferson between E Utica & E Ferry. Enjoy visual arts, crafts, live
music, vendors, and youth activities. Last but not least, please come find us
tabling – we might even have a new lawn membership sign you might want! Anyway,
don’t miss this great community gathering!
Rahama Fundraiser w Imama Z Shakir
Sept 7, 5pm
At Classics V Banquet Hall, Imam Zaid Shakir is co-founder of Zaytuna College, professor
of law, theology, political science, among other subjects. Presaile tickets $55
(adults) and $35 (students). Come support Rahama’s transitional housing program
and other supportive services for survivors of domestic violence.
Environmental Justice Taskforce Mtg
Thurs, Sept 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
At Isaías González-Soto Branch Library
(formerly Niagara Branch Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201). Come plan
upcoming events and campaigns,
“bomb trains,” and what we can do to stop them, more. All are
welcome!!
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! Go to wbny.buffalostate.edu. Special guest on Labor Day: Kurt
Schneiderman, Subversive Theatre.
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 – Wednesdays 4-5:30pm protest/vigils at the Erie County
Holding Center (Delaware & Church). All are welcome. Please bring signs.
Resist
Militarism! Taskforce – regular monthly planning meeting third Weds of the
month, at Niagara Porter Library, 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.
Vigil for
Victims of ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, 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)
Of note: Little
Africa Culture Club, 356 S. Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY. African Drumming
Sundays, 12-2pm, Peace and Love Jam session (in honor of Ismail Johnson)
Wednesdays, 8pm.
We shall
overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
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