716-332-3904 2/14/2020
Dear Friends,
If you haven’t already heard our big news, Rev. Dr. Cornel West will keynote the WNY Peace Center’s Annual event Monday, November 9, 2020! That’s the Monday after the election of a lifetime! Our Beloved Brother Cornel will help us navigate from wherever we’re at, at that point. We couldn’t be more excited and grateful! Save the date! And of course, more details to follow …..
We’ll soon be snail-mailing reminders about re-upping – or becoming – a member of the WNY Peace Center. As a recipient of this Weekly News/Weekly Update, you know how hard we work and how much we offer the community through our rallies/marches/coffee houses and all kinds of events, campaigns, collaborations, coalitions, website, social media, and much more.
Moreover the vast majority of our offerings are free to you and all the community (while actually costing us to do it). This is your chance to make sure it all keeps happening – we need your support to ensure it does! So you can donate/become a member at wnypeace.org. Or wait for the mailing …. Either way, we can’t do it without you! Thanks in advance.
Please see much more below, including great events this week, regularly scheduled events & vigils, and more at wnypeace.org, and on our Facebook page, Twitter (@wnypeace), and Instagram (wnypeace)!
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#Unite! #OneLove
Events this week:
Vigil Protest of VERY Dangerous Radioactive Liquid over Peace Bridge
February 14 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Environmental Justice Taskforce – Vigil to Protest the Shipments of VERY Dangerous Radioactive Liquid from Canada coming over the Peace Bridge. Every Friday 2-3pm, Front Park at Vermont & Busti, Buffalo. Signs welcome and also usually available.
Women In Black – Nonviolence vigil
February 15 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
At Bidwell and Elmwood. Saturdays, Noon-1pm. Signs also available. (And you don’t need to be a woman or dress in black!)
Riverside Salem
February 16 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
At Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage & UCC/DC, 3449 West River Road, Grand Island, NY 14072. – Various progressive spiritual activist and naturalist programs, Sundays, 4-6pm followed by a pot-luck.
Talking Peace w WNYPC, WBNY 91.3FM
February 17 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Call-in radio show with Vicki Ross hosting. Also streaming on-line at wbny.buffalostate.edu. Special Presidents’ Day show with League of Women Voters’ Barbara Gunderson. Re Voter Registration (apps?!), Electoral College, Impeachment, more.
WNY Poor People’s Campaign General Meeting
February 17 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
At Raq’s Solidarity, 322 Amherst Street, Buffalo 14207. Join the WNY Poor People’s Campaign to learn more about what we’re working on and how you can get involved! No worries potluck! Please bring a snack or drink to pass. For more information contact Sara Palmer at 716-427-4933 or saraleepalmer02@gmail.com
BULYPNY Black Restaurant Week
February 18 – February 23
February 18th – 23rd; please visit https://bulypny.wixsite.com/blackrestaurantweek/copy-of-2019-participating-restaura for participating restaurants. Visit a participating restaurant for breakfast, lunch, or dinner; then purchase a meal from their special Restaurant Week menu. The vision is to empower and highlight the great minority-owned restaurants here in Buffalo, NY. Organized by Buffalo Urban League Young Professionals.
Nekanehsakt
February 18 @ 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Avenue, Buffalo 14213. Indigenous support group/allies (including Indigenous Women’s Initiatives, WNYPC). Every 1st & 3rd Tuesdays. Come help plan support for Indigenous rights, people, and the planet. Learn about – and help with – the NuclearFree Peace On and With the Earth Month (April), and the Walk For Life, Walk For Water, Walk for Mother Earth (April 3-26). See more on our website – or just come to the meeting!
Resist Militarism! Taskforce Meeting
February 19 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
At Isaías González-Soto Branch (formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201. Come be part of grounding the drones and ending the wars. Planning is in process for event(s) in Niagara Falls, with PeaceAction Niagara University and more; for moving toward having monuments for Peacemakers not just warmakers; retracting the AUMF, and more. All are welcome!
ECHC Vigil: NO MORE Deaths!
February 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
At the Erie Co Holding Center, Delaware between Church & Eagle Sts, Buffalo. Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce Vigil/protest Wednesdays 4-5:30pm at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). The ECHC has significantly higher deaths than similar facilities. The Sheriff’s Dept has misreported, and been determined to have committed homicide by medical neglect per the DOJ! The Sheriff’s Administration is a Public Health Emergency!! All are welcome.
**Please bring signs. **
Also please call Gov Cuomo at (518) 474-8390 to urge him to remove Sheriff Howard as he clearly is not up to the job.
Immigrant & Refugee Justice (IRJ) Taskforce Mtg
February 20 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
At SPoT Coffee, 227 Delaware Ave. Join us every third Thursday from 6:00 – 7:00 PM for an IRJ taskforce meeting to discuss topics relevant to immigrant and refugee communities. We currently meet at SPoT Coffee just after and across the street from our weekly vigil (5-6pm) at Delaware North.
Global Days of Listening Call – APV streaming online
February 21 @ 10:30 pm – February 22 @ 10:30 pm
At http://globaldaysoflistening.org/. The Afghan Peace Volunteers will have their regular monthly international call. You can listing to it streaming on-line. You can also sign up for another month, especially if you are part of a group. Global Days of Listening has included many great peace, justice, climate, and especially nonviolence advocates and activists from all over the world. Don’t miss the call and/or the inspiration!
Peace Coffeehouse: Bolivia and struggles against corporate tactics
February 24 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Jim Schultz, on ways of resistance to corporations, from the Cochibamba Water Revolt in Bolivia to the present. 7pm – 9pm at Canisius College – Science Hall. Jim Schultz, author and executive director of the Democracy Center for 25 years, has worked with citizen activists on five continents, from indigenous communities in Bolivia to senior leaders in the United Nations. https://democracyctr.org/author/jim_shultz/. Event Sponsored by WNY Peace Center http://wnypeace.org/ and its taskforce, the Latin American Solidarity Committee
LAST DAY Today and Tomorrow! For Future Generations: A Plastic Pollution Study of Lake Erie’ Opening
At CEPA Gallery, 617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203. Opened January 17, 2020; exhibit is up through February 15, 2020. Artist Alexis Oltmer (b.1990) has spent 3 years creating For Future Generations : A plastic pollution study of Lake Erie, an environmental and conceptual body of artwork which elevates plastic pollution imagery.
REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS not already listed above:
The Environmental Show, with Jack Kanack, John Cunningham and Charley Bowman. Radio show every Monday at 9 AM – 10 AM on WBNY 91.3 FM. Also streaming online at wbny.buffalostate.edu.
Interfaith Peace Network – First and third Thursday of each month at 9:15am. Located at 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY 14209 entrance and parking round back.) Breakfast potluck, and discussion.
Environmental Justice Taskforce Mtg, every first Thursday of the month, 6-7:30pm. At Isaías González-Soto Branch (formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201. Regular monthly meeting. Come learn, help plan and organize to move ourselves on to Renewable energy and off fossil fuels. Bomb train resistance, No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge and on public highways etc. also often included
End ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, vigil in front of the ICE building on the corner of (@250) Delaware and Chippewa. Bring your signs and spirit of Solidarity. We will not stay silent! Taskforce meeting hosted at Spot Coffee across the street from the vigil location on the third Thursday of the month. (2/20/20 from 6-7pm) #EndICETerror #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishICE #CLOSETHECAMPS #NeverAgainIsNow.
Stop The Violence Coalition – 1st and 3rd Fridays of the month; 6pm, United Way Building, Delaware and Summer Sts.
Of note: Little Africa Culture Club, 356 S. Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY. African Drumming Sundays, 12-2pm.
We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
More listings on calendar and in previous email posts.
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And don’t forget to support it to keep it on the air: donations should go to the WNY Peace Center with a memo to us (on the check or with a note on the on-line contribution) the Friends of Democracy Now in Buffalo! Many Thanks!
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One Struggle, One Vision, One Love!!
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716-332-3904 11/8/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
The WNYPC 52nd Annual Dinner is sold out! There will not be any extra tickets available at the door (no scalpers either, we’re guessing 😉 It’ll be an excellent evening, and if you’re missing it, just make sure to get your ticket(s) earlier next year!
And for those of you who are coming, we’ll have a wonderful evening with Medea, Valentino, the WNY Resistance Revival Chorus (and hopefully Drea is coming), Peace Action Canisius College, and many friends and kindred spirits.
Be sure to come early ie at 5pm with some money so you have a chance participate in an especially great basket raffle (20-something great possibilities) and an exciting silent auction. And to buy one of Medea’s informative and insightful books. Plus visit with others.
Don’t forget: free parking at the Fernbach ramp. (Again,l rather than an actual physical ticket your name(s) will be listed for check-in.)
We have two big events this week
– Armistice Day on Monday (please meet us at 10:30am at the Buffalo and Erie Co Naval and Military Park, at the Anchor). The day was meant to honor the peace, and the many victims of war.
– Bail Reformed? What the New Law Means for Erie County, Weds, Nov 13, 6-7:30, At the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library, 1423 Jefferson Ave (@ E Utica), Buffalo, New York. The WNY Peace Center will host a community discussion to break down the New York State criminal justice reform bill that passed, changes to cash bail beginning January 1, 2020, and what this reform means for the community. The evening will commence with a panel discussion followed by a Q&A. Panel participants include the office of Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, Vera Institute of Justice, Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, The Partnership for the Public Good, VOICE Buffalo, and others.
There are big doings at the County Legislature, too. Please come out to Old County Hall, 92 Franklin, 4th floor, on Weds, at 10-10:30am to hear the Sheriff’s explanation of an 11% increase in their budget. (We need to “Move the Monday” from “Fear, Inc.” [efforts to intimidate, control, and worse] to life-sustaining efforts!)
Also on Nov 14, at about 2:30pm, Old County Hall, 92 Franklin, 4th floor, the Erie Co Leg Public Safety Committee will cover Legislator Baskin’s Resolution for the Corrections Advisory – for which we have nominated Heron Simmonds. Please come out to support!
And please sign on to the WNY Youth Climate Council’s petition for declaring a Climate Emergency! Please !
Sign Now
(if link doesn’t come through, you can click on “Read More” on this posting – it’ll be under Environmental Justice!) They’ll be submitting it to the Buffalo Common Council in about a week.
Again, please don’t forget to support our Friends of Democracy Now! in Buffalo campaign. Democracy Now! gives people the info needed to build a movement/ #unite, and we need the funds to keep it on WBNY. Please contribute via the WNYPC – online or with a check sent (and made out) to WNY Peace Center, 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, and write in the memo line: Friends of Democracy Now! in Buffalo (or in a note in the online submission). We need to keep DEMOCRACY NOW! BROADCAST Live MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8AM-9AM (LIVE) ON WBNY 91.3FM. and streaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu.
As always, more below, and lots more at wnypeace.org, and on our facebook page, twitter (@wnypeace), and instagram!
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#Unite! #OneLove
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Events this week:
Women In Black
November 9 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Nonviolence vigil, Bidwell and Elmwood. Saturdays, Noon-1pm. Signs also available. (and you don’t need to be a woman or dress in black!)
Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage
November 10 @ 4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage & UCC/DC – Various progressive spiritual activist and naturalist programs, Sundays, 4-6pm followed by a pot-luck. 3449 West River Road, Grand Island, NY 14072. This week Session 3 (of 3) on Jim Antal’s book, Climate Church Climate World.
Armistice Day
November 11 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am
Reclaim Armistice Day as a somber day to remember all victims of war and be called to work for peace. We will gather at the Buffalo Naval Park at the Anchor (Marine Drive & Erie St.) at 10:30am. Please join us! Signs welcome. (Get white poppies at the WNYPC Annual dinner on Nov 8 – see separate listing)
Talking Peace w WNYPC on WBNY 91.3FM
November 11 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays, 1-3pm. Call-in show with Jim Anderson and Vicki Ross co-hosting. Also streaming on-line at wbny.buffalostate.edu. Special Armistice Day edition with Russell Brown, WNYPC Board (Co-)Chair, and Veterans for Peace Ch 128 President. Resist Militarism!
No More Deaths! – Vigil at Erie Co Holding Center
Weds, Nov 13 @ 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm – 4 DEATHS in 2 ½ months! Sheriff Howard is (yet another) elected official who needs to be impeached. Please join with the WNYPC’s Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce and our many allies at this regular Wednesday vigil at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). Come ahead – All are welcome. Grieving families will be joining us, and people with related lived experience are more than welcome! Please, too, bring signs. Cosponsored by Voice Buffalo, Brothers Doing Better, Prisoners Are People Too, Buffalo AntiRacism Coalition (BARC), Black Love Resists in the Rust, SURJ, and more. Also please call Gov Cuomo at (518) 474-8390 to urge him to remove Sheriff Howard as he clearly is not up to the job.
Bail Reformed? What the New Law Means for Erie County
November 13 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
At the Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Library, 1423 Jefferson Ave (@ E Utica), Buffalo, New York. The WNY Peace Center will host a community discussion to break down the New York State criminal justice reform bill that passed, changes to cash bail beginning January 1, 2020, and what this reform means for the community. The evening will commence with a panel discussion followed by a Q&A. Panel participants include the office of Erie County District Attorney John Flynn, Vera Institute of Justice, Legal Aid Bureau of Buffalo, The Partnership for the Public Good, VOICE Buffalo, and others.
Erie Co Leg Public Safety Com – Corrections Advisory Bd Res’n
November 14 @ 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm
At Old County Hall, 92 Franklin, 4th floor, the Erie Co Leg Public Safety Committee will cover Legislator Baskin’s Resolution for the Corrections Advisory – for which we have nominated Heron Simmonds. Please come out to support!
No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge
November 15, 2-3pm
At the corner of Busti Ave and Vermont St. in Buffalo NY. Vigil against the shipment of high level LIQUID radioactive spent fuel from Chalk River Ontario to Aiken South Carolina. If any of it spills out, it will be next to impossible to clean>
Transforming Transportation – Panel
November 18 @ 10:30 am – 12:30 pm
UB South Campus, Hayes Hall 402. This is a Sierra Club panel discussion that will dig in to the needs of our community, environmental justice as well as the CLCPA and the study that was just presented by the Atlantic Chapter of the Sierra Club, Transforming Transportation. Parking available at St. Joseph’s University Church; or the Park & Ride.
Peace Coffeehouse: Cuba & the US: Friendshipment Caravans
November 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
At Canisius College – Science Hall (convenient parking on Main near Delavan) Cuba and the United States: Friendshipment Caravans Speakers Vicki Ross and Marie Schuster: a report on their experiences with the Pastors for Peace Caravan which visited Cuba this July, organized by the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO). With IFCO, they challenged the travel restrictions imposed by the United States, which try to stop us from seeing the truth of Cuba for ourselves. Come learn about Cuba-US bilateral relations, reject the new activation of titles III and IV of the Helms-Burton Act, and call for the end of the US blockade against Cuba.
Sponsored by Peace Action-Canisius, and www.lascwny.org/ and WNY Peace Center http://wnypeace.org/ Free and open to the public
(WNYPC) Gender Justice Taskforce Mtg
November 25 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm
At the Merriweather Library meeting room, 1324 Jefferson (at E Utica), Buffalo. Come out to discuss the Women’s March, intersectionality, and much more. All are welcome! (light snacks provided)
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REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS in the One Struggle, One Vision, One Love:
Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays, 1-3pm. Call-in show with Vicki Ross hosting. Also streaming on-line at wbny.buffalostate.edu. Special Armistice Day edition with Russell Brown, WNYPC Board (Co-)Chair, and Veterans for Peace Ch 128 President. Resist Militarism!
Buffalo Nekanesakt. Indigenous support group/allies. 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm. At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Ave. All are welcome!! Reading group for the Great Law of Peace meets on the last Tuesday of the month.
Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce – NO MORE Deaths! Vigil/protest Wednesdays 4-5:30pm at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). Another Death! 4 in 2 ½ months! The Sheriff’s Administration is a Public Health Emergency!! All are welcome. Please bring signs.
Resist Militarism! Taskforce – Postponed: regular monthly planning meeting third Weds of the month, now date tba. at Isaías González-Soto Branch (formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201; 5-6:30pm.
Interfaith Peace Network, 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month, 9:15am at 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY 14209 entrance and parking round back.) Breakfast potluck, planning/publicizing, & discussion.
End ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, vigil in front of the 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
Buffalo Youth Climate Strike – all are welcome 2-3pm at Niagara Square for a youth-led rally to stand up for People and the Planet, and radical change to mitigate and avert climate catastrophe. Bring signs! See you there!
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)
Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage & UCC/DC – Various progressive spiritual activist and naturalist programs, Sundays, 4-6pm followed by a pot-luck. 3449 West River Road, Grand Island, NY 14072. This week Session 2 on Jim Antal’s book, Climate Church Climate World.
Of note: Little Africa Culture Club, 356 S. Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY. African Drumming Sundays, 12-2pm.
We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
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716-332-3904 716-931-3520 8/5/18
Dear Friends,
May today be a day of justice and peace, courage, joy, and blessings. That will give us strength as we #UnitetheStruggles.
Today you can life up your spirits by going to Riverside Salem for a Jam Session, (4-6 pm, 3449 West River Road, Grand Island; followed by a no worries potluck).
Tomorrow there’s a 10-1pm gathering at Campbell Student Union, Buffalo State College, for the National Stop The Violence Alliance. All are welcome. Followed directly by our radio show at Buff State’s wbny.com, where Jim Anderson has assembled a host of national and international experts on Japan and Nuclear Issues. Come find out more about National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug 7.
Then tomorrow (yes still Monday 8/6) there’s a Poor People’s Campaign Voter Registration Training at Planned Parenthood (Main & Amherst) at 6pm (over by 7pm). #PowertothePolls. This’ll help us with this critically important task! Again as usual, all are welcome!
Last but not least, come celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on Thursday, August 9, from 2-8:30pm, and help us focus on a NuclearFree Future! We are always grateful to collaborate with the Indigenous Women’s Initiatives, who lead organize this fantastic event every year.
Come celebrate 11 years of the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with native/indigenous exhibits, films with audience discussions, foods (including no worries potluck!), singing, dancing, craft vendors, interfaith prayer service and a Japanese Lantern Ceremony at dusk.
Go to wnypeace.org to see our calendar for more details and events! as
well as the rest of this post on the home page.
And remember to tune in: DEMOCRACY NOW! IS NOW BEING BROADCAST
MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8AM-9AM (LIVE) ON WBNY 91.3FM. Hear it over the radio or
streaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu or
http://tunein.com/radio/WBNY-913-s27549/.
#UniteTheStruggles #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver #LoveisLoveBUF
Below are
– more event listings (see also calendar & facebook page);
– Taskforce items and campaigns; and
– regularly scheduled events – all in that order.
And be sure to go to wnypeace.org/calendar for more event listings – there’s plenty more and additions are frequent! …..
No hate, no fear as we are #StillResisting. #UnitetheStruggles !
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love. #loveisloveBUF <3
