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.
Dear Friends,
Today – THURS, NOV 8 – we hope to see you at:
– PUSH’s Annual Fundraising Breakfast, 8-9am, Temple Beth Zion, Delaware and Barker:
– Defend ICWA Rally, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm, Niagara Square, Buffalo, NY.Rally to raise awareness and defend the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). On the 40th Anniversary of the federal law passed in 1978 to recognize Native American children as citizens of their Native Nations. This right is being attacked in courts as race-based and therefore unconstitutional.
– NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW MARCH! Nationwide protest, as Trump forced Jeff Sessions to resign yesterday, & appointed Matthew Whitaker Acting Attorney General, who has publicly admitted he’s against the Mueller investigation. Meet on the east side of Bidwell Park at Bidwell & Elmwood in Buffalo. We will march down to W. Ferry and back. All are welcome!! Bring signs, please!! https://www.facebook.com/events/268689047326455/
– Interfaith Anti Violence Prayer Service, 6:30pm . prayer vigil to honor those we have lost to acts of domestic terrorism. Bethany Baptist Church (2002 Forest Ave., Niagara Falls NY 14301) For more information or to RSVP please call or text 716-264-3922 or reply to this email.
And TOMORROW IS OUR 51st ANNUAL DINNER!! WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE! 5-8:30pm at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.
Come out to hear Kathy Kelly, honor Betty Jean Grant and LASC, and celebrate, support, and connect for another year of activism and progress for a culture of justice and peace!
A limited number of tickets will be available at the door. Our Annual Dinner tickets are $60pp/$30student/lowincome. We will also be able to accommodate more people to come in for the keynote and awards portion only. Those who wish to attend the keynote speaker and award ceremony only can purchase tickets starting at $20, for entry to the event at 7pm.
Free parking is available at the Fernbach Ramp, one block south of the Convention Center (117-123 Franklin St.). The doors open at 5pm with a social hour, vendors, raffles and auctions. The dinner and program will begin at 6pm.
We hope to see you today – virtually all day long- and tomorrow at the Dinner!! Hasta luego! Si, se puede!
For more information, visit wnypeace.org, call us at 716-332-3904, or email us at annualdinnerorders@wnypeace.org.
COME CELEBRATE 51 YEARS OF PEACE THROUGH JUSTICE WITH US!!!
#UniteTheStruggles #ActivistAndCommunitySelfCare #Celebrate!! #PeaceThroughJustice #KathyKelly #WNYPeaceCenterAnnualDinner
716-332-3904 716-931-3520 8/5/18
Dear Friends,
May today be a day of justice and peace, courage, joy, and blessings. That will give us strength as we #UnitetheStruggles.
Today you can life up your spirits by going to Riverside Salem for a Jam Session, (4-6 pm, 3449 West River Road, Grand Island; followed by a no worries potluck).
Tomorrow there’s a 10-1pm gathering at Campbell Student Union, Buffalo State College, for the National Stop The Violence Alliance. All are welcome. Followed directly by our radio show at Buff State’s wbny.com, where Jim Anderson has assembled a host of national and international experts on Japan and Nuclear Issues. Come find out more about National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug 7.
Then tomorrow (yes still Monday 8/6) there’s a Poor People’s Campaign Voter Registration Training at Planned Parenthood (Main & Amherst) at 6pm (over by 7pm). #PowertothePolls. This’ll help us with this critically important task! Again as usual, all are welcome!
Last but not least, come celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day on Thursday, August 9, from 2-8:30pm, and help us focus on a NuclearFree Future! We are always grateful to collaborate with the Indigenous Women’s Initiatives, who lead organize this fantastic event every year.
Come celebrate 11 years of the UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples, with native/indigenous exhibits, films with audience discussions, foods (including no worries potluck!), singing, dancing, craft vendors, interfaith prayer service and a Japanese Lantern Ceremony at dusk.
Go to wnypeace.org to see our calendar for more details and events! as
well as the rest of this post on the home page.
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
