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TONIGHT!! The Sierra Club Niagara Annual Awards Dinner – Tickets Still Available!

716-332-3904 4/10/19 wnypeace.org

Friends,

We hope you have enjoyed the awesome week we have just had! From paying homage to Dr. King on the 51st anniversary of his historic sermon, ‘I’ve been to the mountaintop’ (a day before his assassination) and of the Poor People’s Campaign, to the National Day of Action for democracy transparency and ending corruption, to the work the Sister Karen Center is doing to continue the fight for social justice, to the beginning of our 11-week PeaceJam Leaders After School program, it has truly been a week towards peace and justice.

And those were just to name a few of the programs last week! More were on the calendar.

TONIGHT!! We hope you will join Sierra Club Niagara to honor a year of accomplishments, hard work and passion for the planet from our volunteers and our award winners. This year we are celebrating our eco-heros with a plant based meal catered to perfection. We have priced our dinner below costs but if you want to come and it’s too costly please contact us at niagarasierra@gmail.com. We will work something out. The venue is handicapped accessible and on a bus route. Hope to see you for a great evening with friends! To purchase tickets! Go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sierra-club-niagara-group-annual-awards-dinner-tickets-57939186667?aff=eac2.
For more information: niagarasierra@gmail.com
For info on our group, go to our website at niagarasierra.com

Our PeaceJam Leaders After School program began on Tuesday, April 9 and will continues on Tuesdays for 11 weeks (through 6/25), 3-5pm (except when school is out) at the CAO Rafi Green Center, 1423 Fillmore Avenue, Buffalo, NY. Parents are welcome to register their children for this program. wnypeace.org.

**We have extended the deadline to receive Board nominations for the WNY Peace Center. Please forward any suggestions to nominations@wnypeace.org. Thank you.**

As usual, this week brings us new opportunities to work towards peace through justice!

Events this week:

Sierra Club Niagara Group Annual Awards Dinner
April 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
At the Unitarian Universalist Church, W Ferry & Elmwood. This year the Sierra Club Niagara Group is celebrating our eco-heros with a plant based meal catered to perfection. We hope you will join Sierra Club Niagara to honor a year of accomplishments, hard work and passion for the planet from our volunteers and our award winners.

“Beyond Plastics” – Judith Enck (Plastic Pollution Lecture)
April 11 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Jacobs School of Medicine, UB Downtown, 955 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203. PLASTIC POLLUTION: The Need to Move Beyond Single-Use Plastic Packaging. A lecture presented by Judith Enck, former EPA Regional Administrator. How to curb plastic pollution through policy changes and consumer changes. Free to all.

Refugee Health Summit
April 13 @ 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
6th Annual. At the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, 955 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203. The event unites providers, resettlement agencies, researchers, students, local leaders, and community members to highlight innovative university-community partnerships that have resulted in research, programming, and solutions to help improve health and wellbeing of our local refugee community.

WNYPC Fund-raising/Dinner Committee Mtg
April 15 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
At the WNYPC/NRC Bldg (1272 Delaware, entrance & pkg round back behind building). Will review info re previously proposed candidates, getting ready to send interest letters with info re how they want such requests to come in; what they generally want or expect at such speaking engagements, esp eg re honorarium, etc.; any other info.

24 Hour Bomb Train Watch
April 16 @ 7:00 pm – April 17 @ 7:00 pm
We need 2 more volunteers to fill One Idyllically-Timed 3-hour-long shift (see ?? below). Send an email to me if you can help out: CandABowman@protonmail.com. Thanks. Wednesday 4 AM – Wednesday 7 AM: ?? and ??.

Earth Day Train Talk
April 17 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
The Buffalo History Museum, One Museum Court, Buffalo, (Nottingham Terrace and Elmwood Avenue; Lots of free parking). Local environmentalist and life-long rail-fan Walter Simpson will present his new information-packed, beautifully illustrated book.

Many more events on the website!

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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Today: #ReleasetheReport 5pm; Poor People’s Campaign 6:45; call Assemblyperson

716-332-3904             wnypeace.org      April 4, 2019

Dear Friends,

Please join us today:

-at 5pm for #ReleasetheReport National Day of Action, at Bidwell & Elmwood. #NobodyisAbovetheLaw!;
-at 6:45pm to welcome the Poor People’s Campaign National Emergency Freedom School Bus Tour, at Broderick Park where so many crossed (or died trying) on the Underground Railroad;
-calling our State Assemblypersons to support the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act, Assembly Bill 2750 (see wnypeace.org/getinvolved/organizing-in-wny/ for phone numbers of your assembly person. Calls are important right through until they vote which is expected to be say Tuesday of next week.
– remembering Rev. Dr. King, his work (which the Poor People’s Campaign was his last effort), his sacrifice, and his Truth and Love. #UnitetheStruggles.

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!

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 4-5:30pm 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.

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)

National Day of Action this Thursday, 4/4!! Poor People’s Campaign National Emergency Van Tour Kickoff here in Buffalo!!

716-332-3904 4/2/19 wnypeace.org

Friends,

This Thursday, there will be a National Day of Action on Thursday, April 4, to demand that Attorney General William Barr #ReleaseTheReport since he has failed to meet the deadline set by Congressional leaders of Tuesday, April 2. Barr has offered an alternate timeline for a redacted version of the report—but we deserve the full report and Congressional leaders and the American people expect it now. Meet us at 5pm on Thursday!

On 4/4/19, we will welcome the Poor People’s Campaign’s National Emergency Van Tour and commemorate 51 years since Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. started the first Poor People’s Campaign, since his participation in and support of the sanitation workers’ strike, and since Dr. King’s last sermon, ‘I’ve been to the mountaintop’. It is also 51 years, to the day, of his assassination. Join us at the foot of Ferry (West Ferry St., Broderick Park) at the Harriet Tubman Historical Plaque at 6:45pm to meet Poor People’s Campaign members from across the state. We’ll spend some time learning about the rich abolitionist history of Buffalo and New York State! Learn more about other tour stops here!

On Sunday, April 7 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm, Sister Anita Baird will speak on the topic, “Justice is JUST US”
At St. Columba-Brigid Church, 75 Hickory St, Buffalo. Acclaimed and inspired preacher Sister Anita has won the 2018 LCWR Oustanding Leadership Award; is the founder of the Archiocese of Chicago’s Office for Racial Justice; and also earned the Harriet Tubman “Moses of Her People” Award. Followed by reception. Fundraiser for the SSJ Sr Karen Klimczak Center. http://www.sisterkarencenter.org.

Sunday, 4/7 is also the deadline to purchase tickets for the Sierra Club dinner on 4/10! Get your tickets today. Sierra Club Niagara Group Annual Awards Dinner
April 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
At the Unitarian Universalist Church, W Ferry & Elmwood. This year the Sierra Club Niagara Group is celebrating our eco-heros with a plant based meal catered to perfection. We hope you will join Sierra Club Niagara to honor a year of accomplishments, hard work and passion for the planet from our volunteers and our award winners. Deadline to purchase tickets is Sunday, 4/7.

Our PeaceJam program will begin on Tuesday, April 9 and will continue on Tuesdays for 11 weeks, 3-5pm (except when school is out) at the CAO Rafi Green Center, 1423 Fillmore Avenue, Buffalo, NY. Parents are welcome to register their children for this program. wnypeace.org.

**We have extended the deadline to receive Board nominations for the WNY Peace Center. Please forward any suggestions to nominations@wnypeace.org. Thank you.**

As usual, this week brings us new opportunities to work towards peace through justice!

Events this week:

School Board Candidates Forum
April 2 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
At Lafayette High School, VOICE-Buffalo’s Criminal Justice Task Force and the Buffalo Immigrant Leadership Team (BILT) will take collective action to hold Buffalo Public School Board Candidates accountable to the needs of the people. VOICE-Buffalo and BILT are inviting Candidates to answer questions about community concerns about commitments to English Language Learner students to raise the ELL graduation rate and to reduce the number of school suspensions in Buffalo Public Schools. Please join us for an evening of collective action and dialogue around these critical issues.

Border week-Canisius: a photo-legacy of César Chávez
April 2 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
April 2nd 7:00 – 8:30 pm: César Chávez, A Legacy Stranczek Commons, Science Hall, Canisius College (parking along Main Street near Delevan) Join Pulitzer-Prize winning photographer José Galvez as he explores César Chávez, the farm workers’ movement, and his own personal cultural revolution. Free and open to the public. http://blogs.canisius.edu/border/borderweek2019/

Combatting White Supremacy Terrorism and Gun Violence,
April 3 @ 7:15 pm
Organized by UB’s Amnesty International Student Activist Group. Keynote address by Mr. Qasim Rashid, a human rights attorney, best-selling author, former Harvard University Fellow of Islamic Studies, Current Truman National Security Fellow, Black Lives Matter Advocate. University At Buffalo, North Campus, 201 Natural Sciences Complex, Buffalo, NY 14228.

Remembering Rev. Dr. King – in Truth and Love
April 4 @ 12:00 am – 11:59 pm
This week is the anniversary both of Rev. Dr. King’s ground-breaking and iconic Beyond Vietnam speech (link to text and audio of speech) at Riverside Church, NYC; as well as of his being murdered in Memphis, TN, where he went to support the Sanitation Workers’ strike.

Rally to Demand the full release of the full Mueller report
April 4 @ 5pm
Elmwood Avenue and Bidwell Parkway, Buffalo, NY.
Demand that Attorney General William Barr #ReleaseTheReport since he has failed to meet the deadline set by Congressional leaders.

Border week-Canisius: migrant Farm Labor in WNY – film and discussion
April 4 @ 5:30 pm – 8:30 pm
April 4th 5:30 – 7:30 pm: “After I Pick the Fruit.” Film Screening and Reception Stranczek Commons, Science Hall, Canisius College (parking along Main Street near Delevan) Free and open to the public. 7:30 – 8:30 pm: Panel: (Im)migrants and Farm Labor in WNY Stranczek Commons, Science Hall, Free and open to the public.

Poor People’s Campaign: Nat’l Emergency Freedom School Bus Tour Kickoff!
April 4 @ 6:45 pm – 7:30 pm
Join us at the foot of Ferry (West Ferry St., Broderick Park) at the Harriet Tubman Historical Plaque to meet Poor People’s Campaign members from across the state. We’ll spend some time learning about the rich abolitionist history of Buffalo and New York State! Learn more about other tour stops here!

The Kairos Blanket Exercise- Witness to Injustice-Train the trainer
April 6 @ 9:00 am – April 7 @ 5:00 pm
More details to be determined, but if you are interested, visit www.nacswny.org, or call Native American Community Services at (716) 874-4460 for more information. The Blanket Exercise is based on participatory popular education methodology and the goal is to build understanding about our shared history as Indigenous and non-Indigenous Peoples.

Sr Anita Baird, DHM: “Justice is JUST US”
April 7 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm
At St. Columba-Brigid Church, 75 Hickory St, Buffalo. Acclaimed and inspired preacher Sister Anita has won the 2018 LCWR Oustanding Leadership Award; is the founder of the Archiocese of Chicago’s Office for Racial Justice; and also earned the Harriet Tubman “Moses of Her People” Award. Followed by reception. Fundraiser for the SSJ Sr Karen Klimczak Center.

Film Screening – “Paris to Pittsburgh”
April 8 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Daemen College, Schenck Hall, Room 107. “Paris to Pittsburgh” – Free public film screening on Monday, April 8 at 7pm, Info-contact byoung@daemen.edu. “Paris to Pittsburgh shines a light on the many forgotten communities and people who have been affected by climate change in our country, as well as solutions for how we can fight back.

Sierra Club Niagara Group Annual Awards Dinner
April 10 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
At the Unitarian Universalist Church, W Ferry & Elmwood. This year the Sierra Club Niagara Group is celebrating our eco-heros with a plant based meal catered to perfection. We hope you will join Sierra Club Niagara to honor a year of accomplishments, hard work and passion for the planet from our volunteers and our award winners. Deadline to purchase tickets is Sunday, 4/7.

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.

***********
More listings on calendar and in previous email posts.

To subscribe, write to weeklynews@wnypeace.org with “subscribe” in subject line.
To unsubscribe, write to weeklynews@wnypeace.org with “unsubscribe” in subject line. (Sorry for occasional delays!)
Please submit possible listings for consideration to weeklynews@wnypeace.org.

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.