716-332-3904 2/1/19
Friends,
We will have Special Guest Medea Benjamin of Code Pink – on Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center!! Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Monday, 2/4, 1-3pm. She will be speaking with us about Venezuela, Iran, Yemen (including National Day of Action to Stop US in War on Yemen). This is a call-in show! To hear streaming on line, please go to wbny.buffalostate.edu.
Also, Join us for a National Day of Action to Stop U.S. in the War in Yemen! Please make a plan to call/write your Rep and two Senators to demand they support the Yemen War Powers Resolution. What you can do now:
- Make a note to call your members of Congress on Mon., Feb. 4. Capitol Switchboard: 1-202-224-3121. Tell your members of Congress, “Please co-sponsor the Yemen War Powers Resolution if you have not already.”
- Share this info with your contacts and encourage them to get involved prior to the day of action.
With US military support, the Saudi/UAE-led Coalition has blockaded the ports of Yemen and cut off the flow of food, fuel, medicine, and clean water. This has pushed 16 million people to the brink of famine and caused 1.2 million cases of cholera, making the worst current humanitarian crisis on the planet. Congress has not authorized this war and it’s time they reassert their Article 1 War Powers to end this suffering. If we get this right, we can help end the war!
It is with great sadness that the family of Linda J. Kuechler announces her sudden and unexpected passing on Thursday, January 3, 2019, at the age of 69 years. Linda was a former board member and treasurer for the WNY Peace Center, and she helped us with our books for many years. She was a tremendously kind, dedicated, and hard-working woman, and she will be sorely missed! A visitation will be held in the parlor of Rosary Hall at Daemen College, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, NY. Linda’s family will be present to welcome friends, faculty, students and staff who wish to pay their respects and reflect on the memories of an incredible woman.
Many thanks, peace, solidarity, and yes – Love
We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
UPCOMING EVENTS:
World Hijab Day
February 2 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm
Walden Galleria Mall and Eastern Hills Mall. Muslims and Non-muslims are invited to wear and experience the Hijab for a day. Sponsored by WNY Muslims. Volunteers Needed! Contact wnymuslims.org (or call 716-932-4386) for more information. Better awareness. Greater diversity. Impactful service.
Canvassing for the Poor People’s Campaign
February 2 @ 11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Raqs Solidarity, 322 Amherst St., Buffalo, NY. Join us as we bring news of the Poor People’s Campaign into our communities! Dress warmly, as this will be an outside event. Visit the Poor People’s Campaign-WNY on facebook to stay up to date on this event. https://www.facebook.com/wnypoorpeoplescmpgn
Citizens Lobbying Workshop
February 9 @ 9:45 am – 12:00 pm
How to make elected officials hear your voice! Harlem Road Community Center (4255 Harlem Rd., Amherst, NY 14226) Training conducted by Ann Converso, LWVBN Legislative Advocacy Chair. Letters to the editor, phone calls, petitions, personal visits … what are the best ways to make yourvoice heard? Come and find out from our experienced community activist. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public! Reservations required. RSVP by Tuesday, February 5, online at www.lwvbn.org, via email to lwvbn@lwvbn.org, or by calling 716-986-4898.
No hate, no fear as we are #StillResisting. Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
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716-332-3904 1/28/19
Friends,
Greetings for Peace and Justice!
We hope to see you TONIGHT at the Latin American Solidarity Committee Coffeehouse, Canisius College Science Hall, 7-9pm. There will be a report on activism at the US/Mexico border and the Batavia Federal Detention Facility, with local group Justice for Migrant Families.
Thank you to everyone who is making their voice heard on the crisis in Venezuela! Continue to contact your congress members and stand up for our community members abroad.
As we start a new year inspired and renewed by the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other peace and justice activists, we honor them for what they have taught us, and continue to teach us today. Dr. King lived honestly, authentically, and spoke out against the injustices plaguing this nation. Looking at our world and our part in it with a critical and mindful viewpoint helps us to continue to do our part to change things.
Thank you to everyone who attended the Poor People Campaign’s cultural event ‘And The Beat Goes On: the Poor People’s Campaign 51 Years Later, as well as the MLK events at Kleinhans and Johnnie B. Wiley and across the region.
The Racial Justice Taskforce is looking for people to participate in a 19 day Ma’at Memorial to India Cummings. Email Heron Simmonds at heronimousphunk@gmail.com if you’re interested. https://www.facebook.com/events/
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We survived the cold, but had to postpone the Women’s March-Buffalo/WNY! The planning group is in the stages of confirming future dates for Women’s March-Buffalo/WNY 2019, and for community events addressing the Women’s March and the women’s movement. Stay tuned to wnypeace.org and to our weekly news, event calendar on our website, and facebook for upcoming details and events.
Prisoners Are People Too will also have their monthly meeting tonight at the CAO Rafi Green Center, 1423 Fillmore Avenue, 7-9pm.
Finally, we had a very productive quarterly membership meeting on Saturday! Thank you to all who came out and made their voices heard in celebration of the WNY Peace Center and helping to shape and guide the future of this awesome organization.
More events on our calendar!
Many thanks, peace, solidarity, and yes – Love
We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
716-332-3904 1/19/19
Dear Friends,
Just another email to make sure you got the news that THE WOMEN’S MARCH – BUFFALO/WNY IS POSTPONED due to the snow, cold, and high winds (especially in Niagara Square). (We didn’t schedule it for today like other marches in order to enable people to attend WMs in DC or Seneca Falls, and still come to ours! The weather dictated otherwise.) The movement is ongoing – see previous email, please.
You can put whatever energy you wanted to use for the March to contacting Senator McConnell at (202) 224-2541 or on a form on his website, ie, at https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/
index.cfm/contact?p=ContactForm and tell him he needs to get people paid again for their work. Our federal workers are hurting and need their paychecks – at our four international bridges, in airports, … everywhere federal workers are not getting paid!
And you can tell he-who-shall-not-be-named in the White House the same thing at 202-456-1111, or https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
Hopefully we can go to the “Follow His Footsteps” MLK Celebration tomorrow 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm, at Kleinhans Music Hall, 3 Symphony Circle, Buffalo, NY 14201, as the plows will have had more time, and it is indoors!
Lastly, you can – as we will – contemplate the importance of #womenswave and #UnitetheStruggles; of Equity, Freedom from Violence, and Reverence for the Environment; and pray or put your concentrated attention and intention to the strength of will we need to support Unarmed Truth and Unconditional Love for each other and for all the Creation.
We hope to see you Saturday 1/26
– at Women In Black Noon-1pm at Bidwell&Elmwood;
– at Rebellion Day 1 – Extinction Rebellion, US, 1pm at Bidwell&Elmwood;
– at the WNY Peace Center quarterly Membership meeting, 2-4pm at 1272 Delaware Ave (entrance & pkg round back of bldg; all can attend but only members can vote).
Please mark your calendars for Monday, 1/28, when the LASC Coffeehouse, 7-9pm at the lounge of the Science Hall of Canisius Col (Main & Jefferson), will have Canisius students reporting on their experiences in working on current immigration issues, both on the US/Mexico border and at the Batavia Detention Facility. It’s sure to be a compelling presentation!
See more listings on the website (wnypeace.org) and in previous email posts.
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#UnitetheStruggles #womenswave
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Many thanks, peace, solidarity, and yes – Love
We shall overcome #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 BROADCAST MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8AM-9AM (LIVE) ON WBNY 91.3FM. Hear it over the radio or streaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu.
