716-332-3904 11/4/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
Next to the last chance to buy tickets for the WNYPC 52nd Annual Dinner! Tomorrow is the last day for dinner orders (except for a handful of extra tickets available at the door), and today is the very last day for ads.
Tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/5) we have a basket-making party – you can bring items for silent auction, or basket(s), to the WNYPC at 1272 Delaware, from Noon on, til 7pm.
If you are unsure, please do check out the viral clip of keynote Medea Benjamin (on the Real News Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peJGmeg6ZE8.). And we all need to hear “No Green New Deal Without Peace; Growing Our Peace Through Justice Economy” in these critical times!
Don’t miss
-Drea D’nur, star singer extraordinaire, and the WNY Resistance Revival Chorus (of which Drea is former Artistic Director), sing and receive the Alt-imate Activist Award (yes, Wayne to be there, too ; ) or
-Valentino Dixon, who’ll get the Emerging Leaders Award! If you haven’t met or heard him speak, or seen his art, you shouldn’t miss this opportunity.
-Peace Action Canisius College, winners of the Don Shaffer Student Peacemakers’ Award, and
-updates and representatives of many initiatives, our taskforces, and our new WNY Peace Center Medaille Chapter (thank you, Taria Peeler!)
So we hope you’re coming to the 11/8, 5-9pm Dinner with our friends at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center! The menu options: chicken caprese, eggplant rollatini, and vegan paella will all available as you buy your ticket online at wnypeace.org ) 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.)
You can still donate on the website towards student/ltd income tickets; and/or drop items off at the WNYPC at 1272 Delaware Ave (entrance & pkg round back behind the building).Please contact Nicole (thanks so much, Nicole!) at assistant@wnypeace.org with any questions.
Of course – tomorrow/Tuesday is Election Day! Don’t forget to vote!
And the next day is the regular Weds 4-6pm NO MORE! [Deaths, maltreatment] Vigil and protest at the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC, on Delaware between Church & Eagle). Please bring signs – and donations for Joseph Bialkowski’s family (or go here: https://donate.keela.co/black-love-resists-in-the-rust-just-resisting/holding-center-deaths 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.
As always, more below, and still 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:
Talking Peace w WNYPC on WBNY 91.3FM
November 4 @ 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. Peace Action Canisius College chapter’s president, Emyle Watkins will be a special guest.
Basket-making Silent-Auction-organizing for Annual Dinner
November 5 @ 5:00 pm
At the WNYPC/NRC Building, 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY 14209 entrance and parking round back. Come join us as we put together basket, organize items for the silent auction, and revel in the anticipation of a great Annual Dinner with keynote and shero Medea Benjamin!! Plus get an idea of which things you want to bid on – or drop some things off you’d like to donate!
Buffalo Nekanesakt
November 5 @ 6:30 pm
Indigenous support group/allies. 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm. At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Ave. All are welcome!! The group will have completed a number of trainings to help people understand the experiences of Indigenous peoples. Come ahead to help with the next projects!
Voter Registration Drive
November 6 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
At Canisius College, tabling outside Bowhuis Library. Organized by PeaceAction Canisius College with USA Justice and Young Americans for Freedom Club,
LWV Hot Topic Luncheon: “Wind Works” with Ellen Banks
November 6 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm
Nov 6th. Ellen Banks, Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Conservation Chair, will present “Wind Works” on the possibilities of off-shore wind farms in the Great Lakes at the Clarion Hotel in Dunkirk, 30 Lake Shore Dr. E, Dunkirk, 14048. Meet & Greet at 11:30, Optional lunch at Noon, Presentation at 12:30.
No More Deaths! – Vigil at Erie Co Holding Center
Weds, Nov 6 @ 4:00 pm – 6 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.
Environmental Justice Taskforce
November 7 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
At the Isaías González-Soto Branch (formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201. Come out to learn about the bomb trains, and bomb train watch; No NAPL efforts; nuclear waste transport (liquid and solid over the Peace Bridge and hundreds of miles of highways and byways, creating a gigantic public health hazard); and more.
No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge
November 8, 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.
52nd Annual Dinner with Medea Benjamin
November 8 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us to celebrate our 52nd Annual Dinner, with special guest, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years!
The event, Nov 8, 5-9pm at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, is not to be missed. Not only is Medea and her perspective vital for people and the planet (more on Medea directly below), but we will also be giving out three very important awards:
— The WNY Resistance Revival Chorus, with former Artistic Director Drea D’nur, a wonderfully committed & progressively-minded women’s chorus, will be getting the Alt-imate Activist Award (named for WNY Peace Center lifelong stalwart member, organizer, and activist, Wayne Alt);
— Valentino Dixon will receive the Emerging Leaders Award! As most of you know, Valentino was just released when exonerated after 27 years of outrageous, unjust incarceration.
– Peace Action Canisius College, another PeaceAction group (along with the WNYPC) will be getting the Don Shaffer Student Peacemaker Award. The group is dedicated and creative; collaborates with us for the LASC organized monthly Peace Coffeehouses; and richly deserves this award for all their dedication!
You can still get your ticket on line at
http://wnypeace.org/wp/52nd-annual-dinner-with-madea-benjamin/
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!
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.
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– Taskforce items and campaigns.
– Regularly scheduled events.
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716-332-3904 10/22/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
Our/Your WNY Peace Center 52nd Annual Dinner is just 17 days away! Please get your tickets (easy to order on the website – including the 3 menu options [yes we do have vegetarian after all – it’s Eggplant Rolatini. Please see website ;).
CodePink’s Medea Benjamin will illuminate: No Green New Deal Without Peace; Growing Our Peace Through Justice Economy. The WNY Resistance Revival Chorus will sing and receive the Alt-imate Activist Award; and Valentino Dixon the Emerging Leaders Award! !
Also come on out anytime between 10:30am and up to 8:30pm Thursday, 10/24, if you’d like to help with dinner outreach! You can also drop off any donations for silent auction or baskets at that time. We’d really appreciate it! We’ll have people make outreach calls. All happening at the WNYPC at 1272 Delaware Ave (entrance & pkg round back behind the building).
Please contact our newest staffperson, Nicole (thanks so much, Nicole!) at assistant@wnypeace.org with any questions. If you prefer to make calls from home, you can also contact Nicole for a list of names and numbers with a guideline script.
This will be another big week, as follows:
– tomorrow, Weds, at 4-6pm, NO MORE! [Deaths, maltreatment] Vigil and protest at the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC, on Delaware between Church & Eagle). Correction: there’ve been 4 deaths in the Sheriff’s custody in 2 ½ months. Please bring signs – and donations for Joseph Bialkowski’s family to pay the funeral home for his ashes (it is the height of irony that tho the Sheriff’s Dept. was responsible for his death the family is responsible for his ashes. We hope you will join us in this fundraising: either by bringing a donation to the vigil and or by clinking on the link to give $30 TODAY.
– Thursday, 10/24, from 7-9pm, we’re excited to invite you to a screening of Great White Hoax, and a Discussion; At Buffalo State, in Upton Hall 230 – Free Admission. The film is on Donald Trump and the politics of race and class in America; featuring Tim Wise; called “Timely and necessary” by Van Jones. The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Dorothea Braemer featuring Professor Mike Niman and Community Activist and former Canisius College Professor Heron Simmonds. Sponsored by Buffalo State’s Communications Dept; and its Office of Equity and Campus Diversity, SURJ, and the WNY Peace Center.
– Monday, 10/28, from 7-9pm the Peace Coffeehouse will feature “The Journey of Puerto Rico, a colony of the USA” with local poet and activist Albert O. Cappas, as well as Christian Parra. The history, current situation, and prospects for this unincorporated territory (read de facto colony) with its magnificent and unique culture will be explored.
See more below, and even more on our website!
Lastly, again, please join our Friends of Democracy Now! in Buffalo campaign. To keep it on WBNY, we must raise funds. You can 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.
Please go to our website (wnypeace.org) calendar for plenty more listings, campaigns in the website posts, and info on our facebook page.
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#Unite! #OneLove
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Events this week:
No More Deaths! – Vigil at Erie Co Holding Center
Weds, Oct 23 @ 4:00 pm – 6 pm
Yet ANOTHER DEATH – 4 in 4 months! Sheriff Howard is (yet another) elected official who needs to be impeached. Please join with the WNYPC’s Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce 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), and more.
Film: The Times of Harvey Milk
October 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St, Buffalo. The Times of Harvey Milk is a 1984 American documentary film. A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people
Kings Bay Plowshares Trial (Brunswick, GA)
October 21 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm ongoing at least through the week
The trial for these wonderful and courageous, loving activists, our friends Carmen Trotta, Clare Grady, Liz McAlister, Mark Coville, Martha Henessey, Patrick O’Neil, and Steve Kelly will be in Brunswick, GA, where they are each facing up to 25 years for their vital witness to publicize the nuclear timebomb, threat, and usurping of resources. All are welcome to come and support them during their trial. It will begin with jury selection at 9 a.m. on Monday October 21 at the federal court house downtown. For more info on their action, etc. just click here.
Great White Hoax: Screening & Discussion
October 24 @ 7:00 pm
At Buffalo State, in Upton Hall 230 – Free Admission. The film is on Donald Trump and the politics of race and class in America; featuring Tim Wise; called “Timely and necessary” by Van Jones. The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Dorothea Braemer featuring Professor Mike Niman and Community Activist and former Canisius College Professor Heron Simmonds. Sponsored by Buffalo State’s Communications Dept; and its Office of Equity and Campus Diversity, SURJ, and the WNY Peace Center.
I.C.E off Our Buses Rally
October 25 @ 2:30 pm
A the downtown bus terminal on North Division and Ellicott. Organized by International Workers Solidarity Network – Buffalo. Greyhound collaborates with ICE, DHS, and CBP, allowing their agents to board buses and interrogate passengers without a warrant, subjecting them to unnecessary delays and detainment. Buses are for transportation, not deportation!
Prayer Vigil for Kashmir
October 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
At Westminster Presbyterian Church, 724 Delaware Ave, Buffalo 14209. Cosponsored by Interfaith Peace Network, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Riverside Salem UCC/DC, Westminster Presbyterian, the WNY Peace Center and many more. Dr. Khalid Qazi of MPAC just got back from Kashmir and his experience is encapsulated as follows: https://news.wbfo.org/post/back-six-week-nightmare-visitor-kashmir-details-ongoing-lockdown https://buffalonews.com/2019/10/12/viewpoints-six-weeks-in-the-worlds-biggest-open-air-prison/
Peace Coffeehouse: The Journey of Puerto Rico, a colony of the USA
October 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
At Canisius College – Science Hall (convenient parking on Main near Delavan). Speaker Alberto O. Cappas (Poet, Writer, Publisher, and Community Activist; Co-publisher of the Buffalo Latino Village) on colonialism, Puerto Rico and the current political climate. Sponsored by PeaceAction-Canisius, and www.lascwny.org/ and WNY Peace Center http://wnypeace.org/ Free and open to the public.
(WNYPC) Gender Justice Taskforce Mtg
October 28 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm
At the Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson (at E Utica), Buffalo. Come out to discuss the Women’s March, intersectionality, and much more. All are welcome!
52nd Annual Dinner with Medea Benjamin
November 8 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us to celebrate our 52nd Annual Dinner, with special guest, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years!
The event, Nov 8, 5-9pm at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, is not to be missed. Not only is Medea and her perspective vital for people and the planet (more on Medea directly below), but we will also be giving out two very important awards:
— The WNY Resistance Revival Chorus, a wonderfully committed & progressively-minded women’s chorus, will be getting the Alt-imate Activist Award (named for WNY Peace Center lifelong stalwart member, organizer, and activist, Wayne Alt);
— Valentino Dixon will receive the the Emerging Leaders Award! As most of you know, Valentino was just released when exonerated after 27 years of outrageous, unjust incarceration.
http://wnypeace.org/wp/52nd-annual-dinner-with-madea-benjamin/
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.
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 – Wednesdays 4-6pm protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). Another Death! 4 in 4 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.
Vigil for Victims of ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, 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! This week runs 2-5pm (see above!)
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, Jim Antal’s book.
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 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).
