716-332-3904 8/5/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
After a weekend of mass shootings, a week of deaths in the Erie Co Holding Center, two years of criminal leadership following centuries of white supremacy, we join in Truth and Love to work for radical change. Andare …. Si, se puede! …. Harambe!
Today, after two more deaths at the Erie County Holding Center bringing it to 26 over Sheriff Howard’s abominable administration, please come out at 5:15pm (-6:30pm) to the facility (at Delaware & Eagle) to stand up for dramatic change.
Don’t forget our radio show today on WBNY 91.3FM, from 1-3pm. We’ll focus on the above, the mass shootings over the weekend, Camp Peaceprints and creating a culture of peace and diversity, and the WNY Nuclear and Indigenous issues (see more below). Agnes Williams, Seneca, will be with us for the whole show, and we’re excited to have Diane D’Arrigo of Nuclear Info & Resource Service (NIRS), in DC, also joining us! (You can get it streaming online at wbny.buffalostate.edu as well.)
Again, you are welcome to join us for the Nuclear Free &
Indigenous Press Conference on August 6 at 1 pm at the Japanese Gardens (behind
the Buffalo History Museum), 74 years after the catastrophic US war crime of
the bombing of Hiroshima. Learn about nuclear waste trucked over the Peace
Bridge, nuclear waste pollution in WNY (especially West Valley – still not
cleaned up!), nuclear weapons, the Kings Bay Plowshares 7, prior free and
informed consent, indigenous invisibility, and care for the Earth.
Following this event, on Friday, August 9 at 3 pm, please be
sure to come celebrate United Nations’ Indigenous Peoples’ Day and commemorate
lives lost to war and nuclear development on August 9, 3-9 pm at the Buffalo
History Museum, 1 Museum Court in Buffalo. Experience Haudenosaunee (Iroquois)
arts, crafts, singing, dancing, and foods. Hear keynote speaker Alyssa Mt
Pleasant, PhD on Buffalo Creek proposed cultural corridor; Jil St Ledger-Roy,
Esq on Standing Rock Natural Law; Kelly Maracle Water Protector on 202
International Water Sowers Conference; Diane Hinman, Esq on Alaska National
Wildlife Refuge ANWR film; and more. An Interfaith service commemorating the
victims of the nuclear bombings will include Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish,
Muslim, and Sikh perspectives and/or prayers, followed by the Lantern Ceremony
on Lake Muir at dusk organized by Martin McGee Productions. Admission is free!
Bring a dish of food to share if you wish. Come on out and join us for a very
special day!
Don’t forget to call our congressional reps (202-224-3121) and urge them to stop US military threats and/or aggression against Yemen, Iran, Venezuela, and so many more peoples and places. See more under Resist Militarism below.
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
Events this week:
Talking Peace w/ WNYPC on
WBNY 91.3FM
August
5 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Radio
Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays, 1-3pm. Call-in show! Go to wbny.buffalostate.edu
to hear streaming online. Today: current events – local, national, and
international. With Special guests Agnes Williams, Seneca, and Diane D’Arrigo,
Nuclear Info & Resource Service. Vicki Ross hosting. Call-in show.
Demand Action at
the Holding Center
August
5 @ 5:15 pm – 6:30 pm
Come on out today August 5!! It is past time for change in that sick
building with criminal maltreatment and death the result of Erie County
Sheriff’s Office policies and practices.Join us outside the Erie County Holding
Center at 121 W Eagle Street, in downtown Buffalo, as we rally with our
partners from SURJ and Black Love Resists in the Rust, Citizen Action, BARC,
and more.
Nuclear-Free & Indigenous Press Conf
August 6
@ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm
At the Japanese Gardens, behind the Buffalo History
Museum (at 1 Museum Court in Buffalo, New York, just east of Elmwood Avenue and
off of Nottingham Terrace, north of the Scajaquada Expressway, in the northwest
corner of Delaware Park). Come out to support a nuclear-free future, with
respect and equality for Indigenous people(s).
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
716-332-3904 716-931-3520 7/19/1
Dear Friends,
Our friends at SURJ have called for another vigil today at 5:30 in front of the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC, Delaware & Church) in response to the Commission of Corrections Medical Review Board determination that India Cummings tragic death 2 ½ years ago was homicide due to extreme medical neglect by the Sheriff’s Department.
The Justice & Opportunity group of Open Buffalo is not having its regular meeting today (normally at the Rafi Greene CAO Masten Resource Center) to encourage people to go to this vigil.
Please note that the WNYPC regular Wednesday Vigil at 4-5pm outside the Holding Center is ongoing – happening every Wednesday. Please bring signs! We continue to hope Monroe County pathologist Scott LaPoint will restate that based on the investigation done.
Don’t miss Haudenausaunee Grandmother Norma Jacobs, Wolf Clan of Cayuga Nation, this Sunday at RS Environmental Sanctuary/Cottage (3449 West River Road, Grand Island, NY 14072, 4-6 pm, followed by potluck). All are welcome. This is a rare opportunity to be inspired by her wisdom and love. In these troubling times, we must take these opportunities more than ever to counter the lies and misdeeds prevailing in many arenas. Remember Dr. King said “.. Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love will have the final word in reality. That is why good temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.” Come hear and work so we can do as originally instructed for the good of all to the Seventh Generation.
So hear too Kathy Kelly, Co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, renown peace activist and Nobel Prize Nominee, on Saturday, July 21, the Global Days of Listening (7:30am-10:30am livestreaming) with the Afghan Peace Volunteers (go to globaldaysoflistening.org/); on a recording of her recent talk in Syracuse upstatedroneaction.org, and/or at Focus on Yemen, July 30, 7pm at Burning Books).
Also this Saturday:
– Celebrate/Honor Iris Alexander at 11am at Bidwell & Elmwood. We’ll celebrate the installation of a bench honoring Iris right by her beloved Women In Black (to be followed by same). Light refreshments; music – and all – welcome! Iris was a local legend – let’s remember and inspire each other with her example!
– If you missed the Stars under Stars fundraising events of our Latin American Solidarity Committee – come out this or next Saturday at 7:30pm for discussion, networking, information, and inspiration. This week focuses on Guatemala, and will be at Terry and Mary Bisson’s, 372 Voorhees Ave. (El Norte). BYO lawn chair and any refreshments you’d like, too!
Go to wnypeace.org to see our calendar for more details and events! as well as the rest of this post.
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
