Call-in for Peace tomorrow (Tuesday, 3/26, 12:30-1:30pm)!!! LASC Coffeehouse TONIGHT!!
716-332-3904 3/25/19 wnypeace.org
Friends,
We are in the midst of Peace Action’s National Organizing Meeting, and we’re meeting with our congresspersons in the name of peace! We are demanding that our government put an end to endless wars and endless military spending, commit to building communities that work for all of us, and guide U.S. foreign policy away from war and towards sustainable peace. Please call Congressman Brian Higgins – 26th Congressional district– (202) 225-3306, or locally (716) 852-3501 to voice your concerns tomorrow (Tuesday, 3/26), preferably from 12:30-1:30pm to voice your concerns.
The LASC Peace Coffeehouse is tonight! 7-8:30pm, Canisius College Science Hall. James Jordan of the Alliance for Global Justice will speak on his continuing work for economic labor justice in Columbia, Venezuela, and throughout Latin America.
**We have extended the deadline to receive Board nominations for the WNY Peace Center. Please forward any suggestions to nominations@wnypeace.org. Thank you.**
Thank you to everyone who attended last week’s events Northern Access Pipelines speakouts! Thank you to everyone who attending Fly Kites Not Drones at LaSalle Park!
Save the Date: 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. Stay tuned to wnypeace.org and the weekly news for more information.
Also, tonight – Prisoners Are People Too Monthly Meeting, 7-9pm, CAO Rafi Green Center, 1423 Fillmore Avenue, Buffalo, NY. Open to the public. Please also see the poignant article by abolitionist Karima Amin, and information on the upcoming Prison Abolition Conference, in the body of this post (under Prisoners’ Rights).
As usual, this week brings us new opportunities to work towards peace through justice!
Events this week:
Think Indigenous: Richard Oakes & the Red Power Movement
March 25 @ 5:00 pm, 10 Capen (The Buffalo Room), UB. Talk by historian Prof. Kent Blansett, Univ of Nebraska, Omaha. As the University at Buffalo marks the anniversary of the Civil Rights Movement with exhibitions, installations, and programming centered on the theme “Revolution: Civil Rights at UB, 1960-1975
Labor Solidarity – Latin America
March 25 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
March Peace Coffeehouse, Canisius College Science Hall (pking on main near Delevan). James Jordan of the Alliance for Global Justice will speak on his continuing work for economic labor justice in Columbia, Venezuela, and throughout Latin America. Light refreshments. Jointly sponsored by PeaceAction – Canisius College, and the WNY Peace Center’s LASC/Latin American Solidarity Committee.
Prisoners Are People Too Monthly Meeting
March 25, 7:00 to 9:00pm
C.A.O. Masten Resource/Rafi Greene Center, 1423 Fillmore Avenue @ Glenwood.
Regular monthly meeting, open to the public. Please also see the poignant article by abolitionist Karima Amin, and information on the upcoming Prison Abolition Conference, in the body of this post (under Prisoners’ Rights).
Call-in to Cong. Higgins’ DC Office!!
March 26 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Please call Cong Higgins’ DC Office at 202-225-3306 to support PeaceAction/WNYPC positions (undo AUMF, re-do disarmament agreements, mammoth decrease in military funding, create PEACE DIVIDEND!!, more) while PANYS President Jim Anderson, WNYPC Exec Director Vicki Ross, and others are meeting with Cong Higgins.
Styrofoam Ban – Common Council hearing – Come out to voice your concerns
March 26 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
13th Floor, City Hall, 65 Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY 14202.
Community Development Committee meeting on this issue this coming Tuesday, 3/26 at 2pm in the Common Council chamber (13th floor in City Hall), and the Sierra Club Niagara Group is specifically invited to attend per the agenda item. Members of the public are asked to attend and discuss the pros and cons of a Styrofoam ban. Please come if you can to voice your support for this proposal. We have included 2 fact sheets on the waste and health issues that you can use as talking points, and a video for your review.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2098476837129562/
Poverty is a Human Rights Issue: Social Work and Economic Justice
March 27 @ 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
4th Annual Symposium UB School of Social Work
Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Room 1220
995 Main St, Buffalo NY 14203 (use entrance at corner of Main St. and High St.). This event is free and open to the public, though pre-registration is required. Visit eventbrite.com for more information.
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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