Happy Valentines’ Day: Rev. Dr. Cornel West!! coming to us 11/9/20!!

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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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The time is now, and we are the people we’ve been waiting for!

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.  
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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Impeachment Rally Tues 5pm (Bidwell & Elmwood); Celebrate Sunday & Monday (RS & LASC)

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Dear Friends,

Please join us on Tuesday 5pm at Bidwell & Elmwood for an Impeachment Rally on the eve of the historic vote. We have seen the criminal behavior in the White House (and previously) and have been calling for this since the 7/2/17 Impeachment Rally. Come on out and dress warmly! Signs welcome to this family event we’re cosponsoring with MoveOn. Maybe some will see the light who haven’t already. This is the opposite of a partisan issue!

Also, please call our Senators and urge them not to vote in favor of the NDAA. Virtually all the excellent amendments we and other allies were striving for were not included. The Bill is a huge boondoggle to militarism and will of course cause more security problems. “This bill authorizes $738 billion in Pentagon dollars with almost nothing to constrain the Trump administration’s erratic and reckless foreign policy,” we and our allies said in a statement. “It is a blank check for endless wars, fuel for the further militarization of U.S. foreign policy, and a gift to Donald Trump.”
 
It should not be passed!! Please take a moment to call:
-Senators Kirsten Gillibrand – (202) 224-4451, or locally (716) 854-9725; regional rep Austin Ponce; and
-Senator Chuck Schumer – (202) 224-6542, or locally (716) 846-4111; regional rep Jordan Nicholson.

Again, a lot is going on besides the holiday rush, so – don’t get overwhelmed! And don’t miss some of these great events:

– Christmas in the Woods, 4-7pm, singalong and potluck at Riverside Salem on Sunday;
– Celebrate Fair Trade and Justice with LASC/WNYPC & El Buen Amigo at El Buen Amigo fair trade store, Mon 7-9pm at 114 Elmwood, Potluck-Presentation-More;
– Rally to get Cuomo to sign the SWEAT bill to stop employer theft of employee wages, Tues, 12-1:30pm at Lafayette Sq (btwn Main & Central Public Library) – or call Gov Cuomo at 518-474-8390;
– Nekanesakt’s Future Generations Ride Potluck, Tues at 6:30, at Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St – Potluck, presentation, and opportunity to support the annual Ride to Wounded Knee by Water Protectors who stood/ lived at Haudenosaunee Camp at Oceti during Standing Rock.

Again, please join us for a special vigil outside the Holding Center this coming Weds, 12/18, when we’ll be joined by Voice Buffalo and for a Radical Love Holiday Candle vigil at the usual 4-5:30 time frame in front of the Holding Center, remembering the many lives lost there, the shared suffering, and the determination to change all that! And here’s another reason/need to call Gov Cuomo (518-474-8390): pleae urge him to recall Sheriff Howard for his terrible performance of his duties.

We met for the Women’s March WNY planning. Save the Date!: the WM will be Sunday, January 19, on a Weekend of Action (with Women’s March DC and the Celebration of Rev Dr Martin Luther King weekend). We also have a snow date of Sunday, March 8 – International Women’s Day. Groups are welcome to bring a banner to march behind at the event 1/19/20.

TOMORROW 7pm: The UNAFRAID @BurchfieldPenney, re DACA, w/stellar panel

716-332-3904 11/14/18

Dear Friends,

Thank you to all who attended WNY PEACE CENTER’S 51st ANNUAL DINNER!! We so appreciate your continued involvement for peace and Justice, and your earnest support of the WNY Peace Center. For those who missed it, there’s always next year! In the meantime,
-individual membership,
-institutional/organizational membership,
-getting involved with the WNY Peace Center through our task forces and committees, and
-volunteering with the office
are all part of the continuing work we’re doing! Please consider getting involved or expanding your involvement with us. We’re all in this together!

Also, thank you to the many who came out for the #RuleofLaw march where approximately 1000 showed up on less than 24 hours’ notice.

Tomorrow at 7pm, we will be cosponsoring – along with Buff State and the Burchfield Penney Art Center, where the event will take place – a screening and discussion of the Award-winning Film: The Unafraid. THE UNAFRAID shows us what it means to grow up both American and undocumented in the United States. Winner of the Full Frame Film Festival 2018 Kathleen Bryan Edwards Award for Human Rights, THE UNAFRAID is a feature length documentary that follows the personal lives of three DACA students in their quest for education.Please join us for this poignant movie and great panel: Gabriela Quintanilla, Associated Western NY Coordinator for Rural & Migrant Ministry & Founder and Director of Adelante Student Voices; and Luis Jimenez & Servando Jiminez – both affiliated with Allianza Agrícola, the Worker Justice Center of New York. Our own insightful, informative, and engaging Prof. Mike Niman, syndicated columnist and Buff State Communications Professor, will facilitate.

On Friday, Winona LaDuke, Ojibwe, rural developmental economist, author,water protector, and former national VP candidate, will be on campus togive a lecture “The Need for Water Protectors,“ sponsored by UB’s Researchand Education in Energy, Environment, and Water initiative. **REGISTRATIONIS REQUIRED, and seating is limited.** FMI:https://www.buffalo.edu/renew/Lecture/Winona-LaDuke.html

See more at wnypeace.org – either ON our calendar for more details andevents, or the rest of the weekly update post! See you soon!
#UniteTheStruggles

EVENT LISTINGS
Regular Vigils:
Prisoners’ Rights protest/vigils at the Wednesdays 4-5:30pm, Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church).
Vigil for Victims of ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, ICE building on thecorner of Delaware and Chippewa.
No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge Vigil – Every Friday from 2 PM to 3PM at the corner of Busti Ave and Vermont St.

We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver

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 orstreaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu or

Below are

– more event listings (see also calendar & facebook page);

– Taskforce items and campaigns; and

– regularly scheduled events – all in that order.

No hate, no fear as we are #StillResisting. Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.