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.
Justice for Migrant Families invites you to one or all of the following gatherings. Come meet great people and build community as we learn and resist together (posted by LASC).
Saturday, August 18: March in the Puerto Rican and Hispanic Day Parade with PUSH (look for the Orange and Black); we will bring out the butterflies to carry. 12:00, City Hall/ Niagara Square; step off 1:00
Monday, August 20: Two-part Training on court support and visitation teams at the Batavia federal detention center. Time/Location: Trinity Church (371 Delaware) from 5:30 – 7:30. 5:30-6 Court Support Training 6:15-7:30 Visitation Teams at Batavia: We will cover recent federal policies, confidentiality, detention center procedures, basic scenarios that might occur when you visit and resources. The need for visitors at the detention center is very high right now. We want to build a network of people from WNY who can make regular visits to people and support them as they go through a very difficult period of their lives. If you have any questions about this, please email back.
Tuesday, August 21st: Driver Licenses for All- Press Event Time/Location: Trinity Church (371 Delaware), 3 to 4 As the State Fair kicks off, we are gathering in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo to say: we need licenses for all immigrants NOW. And, for this Press Event, we need YOU: we need 30 people for this event to work well. Please RSVP! Reply via this email.
Wednesday, August 22nd: Immigration Forum: Education for Activism Time/Location: UURoc, Rochester, 6-9 Regional event to network and learn together- RSVP if interested. FB event here.
Sunday, August 26 2-4pm, “Rocktivism!” #JFMFrocks a campaign to bring awareness about our organization and undocumented issues in WNY. We hope you will join us at 50 Greenwood Place (garage) to wash and paint rocks, and take rocks home to start planting around the city! Visit the Facebook event page for more info
Thank you so much and in solidarity, Anne Marie and Jennifer volunteer, Justice for Migrant Families justiceformigrantfamilies@gmail.com
716-332-3904 716-931-3520 7/11/18
Dear Friends,
Don’t miss Celebration For Change!: a Poor People’s Campaign Event this Thurs, July 12, 5:30 til 7:30pm at MLK Park. Besides celebrating the 40 Days of Action and the many more to come as we #UnitetheStruggles, we’ll also celebrate NAACP President Rev Mark Blue’s birthday – a great partner in the Poor People’s Campaign: a National Call for Moral Revival!
Community Jam Sessions with Ismail & Co, and with the Women’s Resistance Revival Chorus will be great especially because, like in the movement, participation is key. Food – hot dogs; potluck; and a birthday cake – will be on hand as will information and inspiration from supporting groups. Come register to vote if you haven’t already, and get one of our #LoveisLove signs as a membership gift.
Our new Assistant Director, Silver Light – well-known locally as a hard-working dedicated organizer and activist – will also be there with Stacey Smith, UBSSW advanced level inter, both of whom are helping us #UnitetheStruggles. It’s not too late to cosponsor, that means to publicize and table, just let us know at 332-3904, silverlight143@ymail.com or staceysm@buffalo.edu.
We’re also excited about the Stars under Stars fundraising events of our Latin American Solidarity Committee – come out any or all of the next three Saturdays at 7:30pm for discussion, networking, information, and inspiration on issues in our hemisphere in Cuba, Guatemala, and Chile. This Saturday, July 14, it’s at 67 Lancaster Ave, on Cuba – especially re the GLBTQ communities in Cuba. BYO lawn chair and any refreshments you’d like, too!
Also, if you’d like to help us transport Camp Peaceprints children and youth to swim on Tues and Thurs, July 17, 19, 24, and 26, from 12:15 to 2:30, we’d love it, and you can stay and swim with us!!
Many Thanks, Peace, Solidarity, and yes Love.
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
