716-332-3904 1/19/19
Dear Friends,
Just another email to make sure you got the news that THE WOMEN’S MARCH – BUFFALO/WNY IS POSTPONED due to the snow, cold, and high winds (especially in Niagara Square). (We didn’t schedule it for today like other marches in order to enable people to attend WMs in DC or Seneca Falls, and still come to ours! The weather dictated otherwise.) The movement is ongoing – see previous email, please.
You can put whatever energy you wanted to use for the March to contacting Senator McConnell at (202) 224-2541 or on a form on his website, ie, at https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/
index.cfm/contact?p=ContactForm and tell him he needs to get people paid again for their work. Our federal workers are hurting and need their paychecks – at our four international bridges, in airports, … everywhere federal workers are not getting paid!
And you can tell he-who-shall-not-be-named in the White House the same thing at 202-456-1111, or https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Hopefully we can go to the “Follow His Footsteps” MLK Celebration tomorrow 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, at Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NY 14201, as the plows will have had more time, and it is indoors!
Lastly, you can – as we will – contemplate the importance of #womenswave and #UnitetheStruggles; of Equity, Freedom from Violence, and Reverence for the Environment; and pray or put your concentrated attention and intention to the strength of will we need to support Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love for each other and for all the Creation.
We hope to see you Saturday 1/26
– at Women In Black Noon-1pm at Bidwell&Elmwood;
– at Rebellion Day 1 – Extinction Rebellion, US, 1pm at Bidwell&Elmwood;
– at the WNY Peace Center quarterly Membership meeting, 2-4pm at 1272 Delaware Ave (entrance & pkg round back of bldg; all can attend but only members can vote).
Please mark your calendars for Monday, 1/28, when the LASC Coffeehouse, 7-9pm at the lounge of the Science Hall of Canisius Col (Main & Jefferson), will have Canisius students reporting on their experiences in working on current immigration issues, both on the US/Mexico border and at the Batavia Detention Facility. It’s sure to be a compelling presentation!
See more listings on the website (wnypeace.org) and in previous email posts.
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#UnitetheStruggles #womenswave
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Hi, dear Friends! We are postponing the Women’s March – Buffalo/WNY due to expected bad weather (snow and extreme wind chill, especially in the Square). Safety first!! We are about alleviating suffering, not causing it!
The Women’s March is an outgrowth of the work we’ve been doing all along, and this year more than ever, we’d already planned to keep the momentum going throughout the year, with
- discussions of controversial subjects (including the nature of the Women’s Movement – how it is now and how we want to improve it);
- ongoing work on our local goals
- and of course – the actual Women’s March, being postponed to a date to be determined.
We appreciate you all so much, and of course we’ll keep working together!! Looking forward to our next ….
#WomensWave #UnitetheStruggles
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and Love. Vicki
716-332-3904 1/15/19
Friends,
Our Women’s Equity (unisex) T-shirts are available in time for the Women’s March! (full picture available inside post). T-shirts will be available as membership gifts, or on a sliding scale of $15-25 for those who are already members. We will have them available for purchase or pickup at our Poster-Making party, right before the march, Sunday, 1/20/19, 12-1pm, WNY Peace Center, 1272 Delaware Avenue, parking and entrance at the back of the building.
Women’s March-Buffalo/WNY 2019 is this Sunday! There will be a traditional indigenous thanksgiving (Gnohnyoh) at 1:15pm at Niagara Square. The rally will begin at 1:30pm. The march will follow. Visit wnypeace.org for more information. We are asking everyone to bundle up, and put your health and safety first. We anticipate that we will have a shorter rally and march due to the weather. Please stay tuned to wnypeace.org for any changes to the march, but we anticipate that we will STILL BE MARCHING! Many have asked why we’re having the march on Sunday, and that is to complement and not replace the national march, which is very important. The national march in Washington, D.C. and the march in Seneca Falls will occur on Saturday, January 19. We lift up women’s rights everywhere, and our local goals that WNY planning committee has developed as well! See you Sunday!
There will be a Women’s March-Buffalo/WNY press conference at City Hall/Niagara Square, this Thursday, 1/17/19 at 12noon. See you there.
The Poor People’s Campaign of WNY presents And The Beat Goes On – the Poor People’s Campaign 51 Years Later, a cultural arts and education event at Raqs Solidarity, 322 Amherst St., this Wednesday, 1/16/19, 6-8 pm. All are welcome.
Partnership for the Public Good will unveil its 2019 Community Agenda this Friday, 1/18/19, 2pm, at the Frank E. Merriweather library, 1324 Jefferson Avenue, Buffalo, NY.
The Indigenous People’s March will also occur on Friday, January 18, 2019 at LaSalle Park. This is a sister march to the annual Indigenous People’s March in Washington, D.C.
Join us after the Women’s March for a commemoration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Kleinhans Music Hall, 6pm. Free and open to the public.
More events on the website. wnypeace.org.
Many thanks, peace, solidarity, and yes – Love
#WOMENSWAVE
We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
