716-332-3904 5/28/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
Please join the community at the public hearing on a Corrections Specialist Advisory Board, Wednesday, May 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Old County Hall, 92 Franklin St., 4th floor. This will be a public hearing on April Baskin’s legislation to establish a corrections specialist advisory board, in order to begin serious oversight into our correctional system, including the Erie County Holding Center.
We will have a mixer and fundraiser for the WNY Peace Center this Friday at Resurgence Brewing Company! Join us at 5:30 – 7:30pm, 1250 Niagara St.
This week is Buffalo Pride! Visit us at our table in the community tent at the Pride Festival – Sunday, June 2, 1-7pm. Complete list of Pride events at Buffaloprideweek.com.
More events on the website and the previous weekly news.
No hate, no fear as we are #StillResisting. Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
Events this week:
Town Hall: Protecting Homeowners from Steep Tax Increases
May 29 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
PUSH Buffalo, 429 Plymouth Avenue, Buffalo, NY. Join us at this town hall meeting to learn more about proposed solutions, to voice your concerns, and to learn how you can help turn these solutions into realities! Home prices in some neighborhoods have risen dramatically in recent years.
Public hearing: Corrections specialist advisory board
May 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Old County Hall, 4th Floor (92 Franklin St, Buffalo, NY 14202). Public hearing on April Baskin’s legislation to establish a corrections specialist advisory board to oversee Sheriff’s Department operations, including but not limited to Erie County Holding Center.
Peace & Pints @Resurgence
May 31 @ 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Join the WNY Peace Center for happy hour! (1250 Niagara St, 14213 – across from Sugar City). Chat with members and Taskforce Chairs about how to get involved in local peace actions.
SKATE Don’t HATE!
June 1 @ 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
In Martin Luther King Park, Free ‘ Outdoor Skate for the ENTIRE family, to spread a message of PEACE & LOVE, before we head into the summer months, where gun violence increase, and our young people are murdered at an even higher rate. Free breakfast and lunch, Science Museum admission, swimming 10am-1pm for Saturday Academy participants. For everyone else, there will be Free skate rentals, performances, messages from community leaders and peers, 3 local dj’s, ladies clothing giveaway, Poster contest, vendors/concession stand. https://www.wnypeace.org/event/skate-dont-hate/
Bury the Violence Memorial Walk
June 2 @ 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
6th Annual. At Delaware Park, Ring Road. To memorialize loved ones taken by violence. Gather at 8am, start walking at 8:30am.
PeaceJam Leaders (afterschool group; 10-14 yr olds)
June 4 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
At the Rafi Greene CAO Masten Resource Center, 1423 Fillmore Ave, Buffalo 14211. Come be part of an exciting newly forming PeaceJam leaders group for 10-14-year-olds. PeaceJam is national and international, with 13 Nobel laureates on the Board who all had major impact on the curriculum. Youth-led, adult-assisted program uses inspiration, education, and action.
More events on the website and the previous weekly news.
Many thanks, peace, solidarity, and yes – Love
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716-332-3904
5/22/19 wnypeace.org
Dear
Friends,
We want to remind you about the press conference and rally to Free Jerome Wright tomorrow at Lafayette Square tomorrow at 5:15pm. Main & Court Sts., Buffalo, NY.
From the organizers: “Jerome Wright, organizer for the statewide #HALTsolitary campaign, has been in jail for over 6 months, awaiting adjudication of trumped-up charges of violating parole rules. FREE JEROME. Solitary confinement in New York is torture, inflicted on thousands of people. Pass the Humane Alternatives to Long-Term (HALT) Solitary Confinement Bill to end this abuse. Parolees are treated like serfs, told to follow any rule their parole officer lays down, and sent back to prison for years if they don’t, after an unfair hearing. Let’s have legislation providing justice for people on parole. #FreeJeromeWright #HALTsolitary #JusticeForParolees”
Also, we will have a Talking
Peace Memorial Day show on our regular radio show, Monday, 1-3pm, wbny. – 91.3
or wbny.buffalostate.edu. There will be a representative from the Kings Bay
Plowshares, as well as Heron Simmonds, who has served as our Racial Justice
Taskforce chair and board member.
The Racial Justice Taskforce
meeting will be Sunday, 1-2:30pm, Little Africa Culture Club, 356 S. Elmwood
Avenue, Buffalo, NY.
Lastly, but certainly no small
matter, please join the community at the public hearing on a Corrections Specialist
Advisory Board, Wednesday, May 29 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, Old County Hall, 92
Franklin St., 4th floor. This will be a public hearing on April Baskin’s
legislation to establish a corrections specialist advisory board, in order to begin
serious oversight into our correctional system, including the Erie County
Holding Center.
More events on the website and the previous weekly news.
Many thanks, peace, solidarity, and yes – Love
We shall
overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
No hate, no
fear as we are #StillResisting. Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
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Please
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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.
716-332-3904 wnypeace.org May 20, 2019
Dear Friends,
It certainly is a whirlwind! We are grateful for your help and support – we’re all in this together!! Please join us today:
-at 7pm for Peace Coffeehouse: Brazil in Crisis, with Darien Lamen, Rochester activist & educator, on prospects for organized resistance to a new ruling elite there. Darien has spent many years in Brazil, and is working on a documentary about the role of liberation theology in the struggle for land reform in Amazonia. Canisius College – Science Hall convenient parking on Main near Delavan; and
-at 1-3pm for Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio Show on WBNY 91.3FM (streaming at wbny.buffalostate.edu); for Fair Fines & Fees; upcoming Pro-Choice event(s) info; and Venezuela update, for which we *may* have a very special guest!!
Donations for support for those who were arrested occupying the Venezuelan Embassy should be sent to Popular Resistance (Kevin Zeese & Margaret Flowers’ group).
Tomorrow you could:
-plan to go to the Rally Day for Renewable Energy in Albany. Call Charley Bowman at 716-908-8227 if you want to go; OR
-call in to your legislators to have them support the NYS OFF Act (A.3565/S.5266) (see wnypeace.org/getinvolved/organizing-in-wny/ for phone numbers ;
-call your State Assemblyperson to support the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act, Assembly Bill 2750 of your assembly person.
-bring a child or teen to PeaceJam at the Rafi Greene Center, 1423 Fillmore, for inspiration, education, and action;
-come out at 6pm to Bidwell & Elmwood for a National/Global Solidarity Rally for Abortion Access;
-join us at Nekanesakt, 6:30pm at Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St, to support Indigenous peoples and the planet.
Wednesday, please
– come out to Burning Books at 7pm for: The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: An analysis of the use of unilateral coercive measures by the US and Canada against the Venezuelan people in the name of “Democracy.” Presented by members of the AFGJ Deligation – End US and Canada sanctions against Venezuela;
– don’t forget the 4-5pm vigil at the Erie County Holding Center, @Delaware & Church.
Which leads to
Thursday, May 23:
-an important press conference and rally to Free Jerome Wright, at Court & Main Sts/Lafayette Sq; Jerome was and is still unjustly imprisoned for alleged parole violations for ~6 months.
-Open Buffalo’s Sustainers’ breakfast, 8AM-9AM, 261 Swan St.
Don’t forget on FRIDAY to participate if at all possible in an ALL-DAY STRIKE General Strike to Support Planet, stop climate catastrophe, on Friday, May 24 @ 12:00 am – 11:59 pm. This all day work strike is to support Stop Climate Change: Sunrise Movement (students working to stop climate change).
And on Sunday, May 26, Riverside Salem will have a special Energy in Action (PUSH Green) workshop exploring renewable energy programs, home and small business energy efficiency programs and practical tips for saving money by conserving energy at home. 3449 West River Rd., Grand Island, NY 14072; 4-6 p.m. + potluck.Lou DeJesus has worked with PUSH Green for the past six years and is an extraordinary activist. Hope to see you there!
And
of course, as usual, pace yourself!!! None of us can do it all, and we’re all
in this together.
Below as a reminder too are regularly scheduled events.
****Peace, Justice, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love to You and to Us All! ****
Si, se puede! We shall overcome!!
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.
Talking Peace with the WNY
Peace Center Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays, 1-4pm. Call-in show! Go to
wbny.buffalostate.edu.
Buffalo Supports Standing
Rock Water Protectors/Nekanesakt. Indigenous support group/allies. 1st and 3rd
Tuesdays of the month, 6:30-8pm. At Burning Books, 420 CT Ave. All are
welcome!!
Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce –
Wednesdays 4-5:00pm protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware
& Church). All are welcome. Please bring signs.
Interfaith Peace Network
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 Delaware and Chippewa.
Bring your signs and spirit of Solidarity. We will not stay silent!
#EndICETerror #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishICE
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.
US Youth Climate Strike – On-going vigil at 2-3pm at Niagara Square, and/or in
front of Buffalo City Hall.
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)
Democracy
NOW!! Every morning M-F live on WBNY, 91.3FM. Go to wbny.buffalostate.edu to catch it streaming online.
#UnitetheStruggles!!!!
