Above photo: Mom being searched & crying child @ border; John Moore/Getty Images
716-332-3904 716-931-3520 6/27/18
Dear Friends,
Please join us for the Families Belong Together Rally & March at 10am Saturday, June 30. Rally at Niagara Square, with Music and Speakers; then march up to ICE at Delaware North, 250 Delaware Ave. (cnr w Chippewa). Please wear yellow (color for amnesty)!! Signs are welcome. And all are welcome!! Asylum is a human right. #familiesbelongtogether; #SiSePuede. See wnypeace.org/familes-belong-together-rally-and-march/ Continue supporting immigrants & refugees at Taste of Diversity and the Burmese Water Festival on Grant from
Many thanks to the many who’ve joined us for the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival. Thousands have been active in NYS and the US (and internationally). There’re have also been over 100 arrests over the period in Albany, with many more nationally and in DC. Meanwhile the campaign has only just begun. Join us for the Celebration For Change: a Poor People’s Campaign Event Thurs, July 12, 5:30 til 7:30pm at MLK Park. Music will include a Community Jam Session with Ismail & Co, food (hot dogs and potluck), and great information and inspiration from supporting groups. #UnitetheStruggles.
Also, if you haven’t already, please register for the Poor People’s Campaign: a National Call for Moral Revival, at https://www.actionnetwork.org/events/new-york-delegation-poor-peoples-campaign-global-day-of-solidarity-and-mass-rally-in-dc
Lastly don’t forget to sign your 8 to 13 year olds for Camp Peaceprints, now in its 11th year, July 16-27, M-F 10am-3pm; with swimming (4 times); field trips to new Underground Railroad Museum in/and Niagara Falls, as well as Tifft’s Nature Preserve. We’ll also meeting with Mayor Brown. Sign them up with registration form accessible at wnypeace.org/education&humanrights
IF YOU ARE A LIFEGUARD AND ARE WILLING TO WORK 1-2PM ON TUES & THURS, IE, JULY 17, 19, 24, & 26, PLEASE CONTACT US AT 716-931-3520 (CALL OR TEXT)!
Many Thanks, Peace, Solidarity, and yes Love.
See our calendar for more details! as well as the rest of this post (click below).
#UniteTheStruggles #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
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/.
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 6/12/18
Dear Friends,
Coming up on Week 6 of the 40 Days of Action kicking-off the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival, there’s a lot going on! Last week some 31 people were arrested at an exclusive club where legislators are wined and dined. We need to change our system to serve the people, all the people, not just those bringing bags of money. Please join us:
– Mon, June 18, A New Unsettling Force: Confronting the Distorted Moral Narrative. Contact Vicki, 716-931-3520; victoryross9@gmail.com to carpool from Buffalo to Albany this week.
– Sat, June 23 – Bus trip to DC (yes DC – not Albany! ;-), Register today to ensure you save your seat on the bus! Sign up at https://goo.gl/n6jyUh and also please register at https://www.actionnetwork.org/events/new-york-delegation-poor-peoples-campaign-global-day-of-solidarity-and-mass-rally-in-dc
A watch party for those who don’t get a seat on the bus – or can’t go is TBA next week when the bus is filled!
Many thanks to those who joined us today at a Planning Meeting for the next Poor People’s Campaign Event: Celebration for Change! It will help us continue to #UnitetheStruggles. Watch for details soon.
Don’t forget the Radical King Reading Group tomorrow, Weds, 6/13, 6-8pm at the WNYPC/NRC Building, 1272 Delaware Ave (entrance & pkg round back behind building).
Also come on out to Juneteenth at MLK Park this weekend! The Parade starts at Genesee & Moselle at 11am on Saturday. Hope you’ve been enjoying the Sankofa Days leading up to it. The weekend will be a time to remember! The WNY Peace Center will also be tabling – come out and see us, and revel in the arts, culture, food, music, and many beautiful items for sale (clothes, jewelry, musical instruments, carvings, more).
A partial victory: the NYS Assembly passed the vitally important HALT Act (Humane Alternatives to Long-Term Solitary Confinement; crucial to stop torture in this state, and relieve the people of color and young people disproportionately affected by barbaric solitary confinement). Please call your state senator and urge them to support S-4784A.Parker.
57th District
Catharine Young (R) 716-372-4901
59th District
Patrick M. Gallivan (R) Elma 716-656-8544
60th District
Chris Jacobs (R) Buffalo 716-854-8705
61st District
Michael H. Ranzenhofer (R) Williamsville (716) 631-8695
62nd District
Robert Ort (R) Lockport 716-434-0680
63rd District
Timothy M. Kennedy (D) Buffalo NY 826-2683
There will also be a JUNETEENTH STATEWIDE PROTEST TO #FREEnewyork. Join us at Lafayette Square at 5:30 PM. On June 19th, at jails and courthouses across the state, we will lift up the voices of directly impacted people and call out urgent injustice: Mass pretrial incarceration. Guilty until proven innocent. A price on our freedom. With Juneteenth actions in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse, Albany, NYC, the Hudson Valley, and Long Island, we will shift the landscape in New York State and win real change. The time is now. With the power of collective voice, we will:
Demand accountability from Governor Cuomo and NYS’s elected leaders. Demand emancipation from a racist and discriminatory pretrial system. Demand complete overhaul of bail, discovery and speedy trial laws.
Lastly, come on out to help us prepare for Voices from Yemen as part of the Infringement Festival. Yemen is having a humanitarian tragedy and collapse with a blockade and bombing, all courtesy of war crimes by the Saudi regime with US aiding and abetting. Let’s get this story out there! The Resist Militarism! Taskforce and Veterans For Peace #128 will meet at the Niagara Porter Library at 5:30-7pm on Weds, June 20. See you there as well!
#UnitetheStruggles
Many Thanks, Peace, Solidarity, and yes Love.
See our calendar for more details! as well as the rest of this post (click below).
#PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
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/.
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
Dear Friends! 716-332-3904; 716-931-3520 5/22/18
We were energized by the many expressions of solidarity and determination by all who came out to the March For Gaza! Thanks so much to all who came out (some over 100 of you!) and to UB Students for Justice in Palestine who did such a wonderful job of collaborating and coordinating! Many special thanks to Jewish friends who have shared their own anguish over what is going on in Israel/Palestine! May all be reminded of the Truth and Love at all of our foundations!
Poor People’s Campaign:
Please join us on Tues, May 29, for a memorable opportunity for solidarity to STOP MILITARISM – including USA military aggression as well as militarization of the police and more:
Tues, May 29 Bus to Albany, leaving at 3:45 from UB South Park & Ride. RSVP at bit.ly/nyppcweek3. Stop Militarism, the War Economy, state-sponsored violence. Coming back midnight or later if need be, waiting til those who risked arrest are free. You can also let us know in the office (332-3904; office@wnypeace.org). It will be a memorable and meaningful day!!
Come to our Re-Launch & Watch Party that will include a re-launch of the #LoveisLove Campaign, June 3 @ 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm. At Rafi Greene CAO Masten Resource Ctr; 1423 Fillmore Ave). Feed two birds with one crumb: come out to get a #LoveisLoveBUF sign (“In Our America: No Human is Illegal; Women are In charge of their own bodies; Black Lives Matter; etc Lawn sign), and stay for a Watch Party to share with Rev Barber and those in DC heading up the national and international campaign! We’re all in this together!
As for June 4-5, please join the Poor People’s Campaign – Health & Environment: Trip to Albany June 4 @ 5:00 am – June 5 @ 10:30 pm TWO DAY EVENT in ALBANY, NY (you can go for either or both; if both, please register for both buses. See below.) Let’s stand up and speak up together for a right to health and a healthy environment; let’s send a strong message to albany legislators and make a real impact – attend both days! If you are attending both days, it is important that you register in two places – register both HERE for June 4th and ALSO HERE for June 5th to get a seat on the bus TO ALBANY on Monday morning June 4th and on the bus BACK TO BUFFALO on Tuesday evening June 5th. There are only 5 days left to register (register by May 29th) for the Healthcare is a Human Right Day of Action in Albany on Tuesday, June 5th! (will include lobbying legislators to pass the New York Health Act).
June 11 & 18 in Albany, and June 23 in DC are still tbd.
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The University, Community, & Gov’t Partnerships Conference is Weds-Fri June 13-15: Rose Bente Lee Ostapenko Ctr for Race, Equality & Mission; to register go to:niagara.edu/niagara-university-partnerships-for-race-and-equality/. Stacey Smith and Vicki Ross’s Friday workshop will examine when “partners” especially the government, eg police, are one’s change focus instead.
#UnitetheStruggles
Many Thanks, Peace, Solidarity, and yes Love.
See our calendar for more details! as well as the rest of this post (click below).
PTS&L
