716-332-3904
7/20/19 wnypeace.org
Dear
Friends,
Tomorrow,
July 21st, is the Afghan Peace Volunteers’ Global Day of Listening. You can
hear it streaming on line at http://globaldaysoflistening.org/
Please join the call at any time – running 7:30am-10:30am EDT (Eastern Daylight
Time). Participants will include Camp Peaceprint participants at ~9:30am and
Caravanistas from the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan at ~9:50am.
Camp Peaceprints invites you to join our
children and youth for a short (youth-led) rally this Wednesday, July 24, at
10:30-10:45am at Niagara Square! and will Children know that #FamiliesBelongTogether;
and as always we’ll work to #UnitetheStruggles since wars, racism, and climate
catastrophe drive people from their homes. You’re sure to be inspired by the
signs the youth make (and please make and bring your own)! US Youth Climate
Strike Buffalo leader Ilyas Kahn will also be joining – and inspiring – us! Don’t
miss it!!
Drivers are still needed for swimming – and you can swim with us too!: 12:20pm Tuesdays
to JFK Public Pool (at Hickory off of Clinton; opposite St. Columba Brigid) and
especially (also 12:20pm) Fridays to Buff State Pool, in the northwest corner
of the campus! We’re done by 2:30pm (camp ends at 3pm).And we welcome any more
adult volunteers (daily through July 26, 9:30am-3:30pm at St. Mary’s School for
the Deaf, 2253 Main – call 716-931-3520.
Continue to support the Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign. It is a global campaign which highlights actions that individuals and organizations can take to cut nuclear weapons budgets, end investments (by their city, university, religious institution, bank, pension fund or government) in nuclear weapons, and shift these budgets and investments to peace and sustainability. To endorse the campaign, please send your supporting quote plus a photo of yourself to Move the Nuclear Weapons Money <info@nuclearweaponsmoney.org?subject=Endorsing%20quote%20for%20Move%20the%20Nuclear%20Weapons%20Money%20campaign>*. We will turn your quote into a meme for social media use.
Of
note, please join us for a press conference on Nuclear and Indigenous Issues on
August 6, 1pm at the Japanese Gardens behind the Buffalo History Museum. All
are welcome. We also hope you’ll join us for a celebration of UN-declared
Indigenous People’s Day on August 9, 3pm at the Buffalo History Museum. The
dates are those of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki respectively. We must
learn from Indigenous wisdom as well as from our mistakes. Please join us. Nya
weh to Indigenous Women’s Initiatives and Nekanesakt, our partners in these special
days.
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
Events this week:
Adult
Volunteers Welcome at Camp Peaceprints
MF
July 15 @ 10:00 am – July 26 @ 3:00 pm
CAMP
PEACEPRINTS is a summer camp designed to introduce youth to social justice,
while providing them with peaceful conflict resolution skills and exposure to a
broader community. It is a two-week long alternative education program for
participants ages 8 – 13, with older youth serving as Youth Assistants, running
Monday through Friday, 10am – 3pm. CAMP IS FULL – but adult and older teen
youth assistants are welcome. Please call 716-931-3520.
Camp Peaceprints Families Belong Together Protest
July
24 @ 10:30 am – 10:45 am
Niagara
Square
Join
Camp Peaceprints in Niagara Square for the Families Belong Together protest.
Signs are encouraged!
Come, sing movement songs!
July 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Thursday,
July 25, 2019 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM at Raqs Solidarity – A Community Space 322
Amherst Street, Buffalo, New York 14207 https://www.facebook.com/raqs322/ Join us singing movement songs with the Poor People’s
Campaign, the Civil Rights Movement, the Disability Rights Movement, the Union
Movement, and the Women’s’ Rights Union along with others.
We
shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
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REGULARLY
SCHEDULED EVENTS in the One Movement, One Struggle:
Riverside-Salem
UCC/DC – Progressive program followed by potluck. Sundays, 4-7pm. Environmental
Cottage, 3449 West River Road, Grand Island. All are welcome. This week, screening
of From Paris to Pittsburgh; which celebrates how Americans are demanding and
developing real solutions in the face of climate change.
Talking
Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays, 1-4pm.
Call-in show! Go to wbny.buffalostate.edu. Upcoming Jim Anderson hosting, sure
to be an exciting show, with Jim just having returned from the Justice Works
conference!
Buffalo
Nekanesakt. Indigenous support group/allies. Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm. This Tuesday,
studying Kayanerenko:wa – the Great Law of Peace. At Burning Books, 420
Connecticut Ave. All are welcome!!
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. Will include update re Speaking
Verse to Power (Infringement Festival event July 29, 7-9pm at Burning Books),
and more.
Interfaith
Peace Network, August 8 (ltd summer sched), 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
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: West African Drumming Sundays, 12-2pm, Little Africa Culture Club, 356
S. Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY.
We
shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
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716-332-3904 7/16/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
Consider signing the petition to cosponsor S.1039, the Prevention of Unconstitutional War with Iran Act of 2019. The bill prohibits the U.S. from expending funds for war with Iran without express approval from Congress, as required by Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution. War or military action against Iran would result in the killings of large numbers of civilians, include a high financial bearing and subject the United States to international condemnation. A war with Iran would be devastating. This is not a conflict we can afford to begin. Sign the petition here: https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/letters/sign-and-send-a-petition-cosponsor-the-prevention-of-unconstitutional-war-with-iran-act-of-2019-s1039?detail=emailaction&link_id=0&can_id=b680b13b07403c67bb89e5c4e2420e97&source=email-sign-and-send-a-petition-to-your-us-senators-dont-fund-trumps-war-with-iran&email_referrer=email_579032&email_subject=sign-and-send-a-petition-to-your-us-senators-dont-fund-trumps-war-with-iran
Tomorrow, July 17th, join us at 5 pm for the monthly Resist Militarism meeting! We will be working on ways to Resist Militarism! Will include our Speak Verse to Power event on July 29 as part of the Infringement Festival; and more. At the Niagara Porter Library. All are welcome.
Camp Peaceprints is running! Camp Peaceprints, for children aged 8 to 13, uses the arts and educational experiences to get its participants involved in social justice and peacemaking, while still having fun. This is the Camp’s 12th year.! Drivers are needed for Tuesdays and especially Fridays camp for the swimming field trips! And we’re happy to have more adult volunteers (daily through July 26, 9:30am-3:30pm at St. Mary’s School for the Deaf, 2253 Main – call 716-931-3520. Please also join Camp Peaceprints for our Families Belong Together Protest, July 24 @ 10:30 am – 10:45 am, in Niagara Square. Children will be making their own signs in camp – and you can brings your own, too. Or just join us for the children’s experiencing activism first-hand!
Continue to support the Move the Nuclear Weapons Money campaign. It is a global campaign which highlights actions that individuals and organizations can take to cut nuclear weapons budgets, end investments (by their city, university, religious institution, bank, pension fund or government) in nuclear weapons, and shift these budgets and investments to peace and sustainability. To endorse the campaign, please send your supporting quote plus a photo of yourself to Move the Nuclear Weapons Money <info@nuclearweaponsmoney.org?subject=Endorsing%20quote%20for%20Move%20the%20Nuclear%20Weapons%20Money%20campaign>*. We will turn your quote into a meme for social media use.
Also coming up, come sing movement songs with us on July 25th at 6 pm at Raqs Solidarity! The Poor People’s Campaign, the Civil Rights Movement, the Disability rights movement, the Union Movement, the Women’s Rights Movement and so many others… they all have songs that go with them. Songs lay the basis for our understanding of politics, religion and our lives. Come and sing songs with the Poor People’s Campaign and share a potluck meal with us! All are welcome and welcome to bring the songs that move them! Questions email Kirk @ Kirk@cejbuffalo.org If people like it we will continue doing it!
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
Events this week:
Adult Volunteers Welcome at Camp Peaceprints
MF July 15 @ 10:00 am – July 26 @ 3:00 pm
CAMP PEACEPRINTS is a summer camp designed to introduce youth to social justice, while providing them with peaceful conflict resolution skills and exposure to a broader community. It is a two-week long alternative education program for participants ages 8 – 13, with older youth serving as Youth Assistants, running Monday through Friday, 10am – 3pm. CAMP IS FULL – but adult and older teen youth assistants are welcome. Please call 716-931-3520.
Resist Militarism/Vets for Peace #128 Monthly Meeting
July 17 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
Come out for the regular monthly meeting, working on ways to Resist Militarism! Will include our Speak Verse to Power event on July 29 as part of the Infringement Festival; and more. At the Niagara Porter Library (cnr of Niagara & Porter Sts). All are welcome.
Camp Peaceprints Families Belong Together Protest
July 24 @ 10:30 am – 10:45 am
Niagara Square
Join Camp Peaceprints in Niagara Square for the Families Belong Together protest. Signs are encouraged!
Come, sing movement songs!
July 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Thursday, July 25, 2019 at 6 PM – 7:30 PM at Raqs Solidarity – A Community Space 322 Amherst Street, Buffalo, New York 14207 https://www.facebook.com/raqs322/ Join us singing movement songs with the Poor People’s Campaign, the Civil Rights Movement, the Disability Rights Movement, the Union Movement, and the Women’s’ Rights Union along with others.
We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
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716-332-3904 7/13/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
Many thanks to all who joined together for extreme activism over the past two days to #CLOSETheCAMPS, share #LightsForLiberty, and #EndICEterror!!
Our best estimates put the total for 5 events on July 11-12 at 960 people. And nine yes 9 of them got arrested to make their point even pointier – we can’t have business as usual when children are being abused and neglected by the US Gov’t and its agents (read ICE and more) in our names!
Special thanks to a few individuals – the nine arrested, Jennifer Page and Juweria Dahir organizers and cohosts with us at the Bidwell Lights for Liberty, and the children who read at that vigil. Also of note, Congressman Brian Higgins has supported activism on the issue, and called out the administration on the illegal and immoral policies on immigration.
Sandra Steingraber, sustainability farmer, activist, and shero, came to Buffalo from her farm at the Finger Lakes, and was arrested (picture above – Thanks, Activists of Buffalo!!) at Buffalo protest in front of the DHS office. Sandra, who is a 59-year old biologist and author, stated,
“I’m risking arrest today because
I’m a biologist who knows that climate change causes crop failures that turn
farmers into refugees. I’m risking arrest today because my father fought Nazis
in Europe and taught me not to be a good German. I’m risking arrest today
because I’m a mother who knows that children are not criminals.”
-thanks to Whitney Arlene Crispell for the quote.
We encourage
all to contact all of our representatives – local, state, and especially
Congressional (Reps & Senators) to stress that this maltreatment of
refugees, immigrants and asylum-seekers must stop. It is contrary to the Declaration
of Human Rights, which is, under Article 6 section 2, the Supreme Law of the
Land, equal in force to the Constitution. #ClosetheCamps #Neveragainisnow!!
Feel free to call them every day! (Numbers are on our website, wnypeace.org,
under Get Involved; Organizing in WNY – Govt’l Contacts.) Top of Form
Bottom of Form
Also please come out to the regular weekly vigil 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
More events on the calendar and the previous weekly news. (Of note, Camp
Peaceprints starts on Monday. Please contact us if you can help bring children
swimming on Fridays, 12:30-2:30pm, 7/19 & 26. Call 716-931-3520.)
Many thanks, peace, solidarity,
and yes – Love
REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS in the
One Movement, One Struggle:
Riverside-Salem UCC/DC –
Progressive program followed by potluck. Sundays, 4-7pm. Environmental Cottage,
3449 West River Road, Grand Island. All are welcome. This week, Prof Mike
Ziolkowski on US Foreign Policy.
Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays, 1-3pm. Call-in show! Go to wbny.buffalostate.edu. Upcoming Jim Anderson hosting, with Jon Rainwater, Peace Action, National Exec Director, on current situation with Iran and victory in Congress, and more!
Buffalo Nekanesakt. Indigenous support group/allies. 1st and 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm; last Tuesday reading group re Kayanerenko:wa The Great Law of Peace. At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Ave. All are welcome!!
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. Will include update re Speaking
Verse to Power (Infringement Festival event July 29, 7-9pm at Burning Books),
and more.
Interfaith Peace Network, August
8 (ltd summer sched), 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
Youth Climate Strike – Fridays, 2-3pm in Niagara Square. All are welcome – youth and all ages – to register our concern for People and the (whole) Planet!
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: West African Drumming Sundays, 12-2pm, Little Africa Culture Club, 356
S. Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY.
We shall overcome
#Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
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previous email posts.
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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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