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 6/14/18
Dear Friends,
***We have a free bus going to Albany for Week 6 of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival! ***Please join us:
– Mon, June 18, A New Unsettling Force: Confronting the Distorted Moral Narrative. Contact Vicki, 716-931-3520; victoryross9@gmail.com to get on the Bus from Buffalo to Albany, gather 6:30am at 265 W Ferry St, Buffalo NY 14213 by the Family Dollar at West Plaza; leaving 7am Sharp! (Estimated return: back between 9-11pm.)
Equally exciting:
– 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
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 on Sat, June 23, for those who don’t get a seat on the bus – or can’t go – will be at 10am-1pm at the WNY Peace Center Table at the World Refugee Celebration at LaSalle Park. Please come out to that event 8am-8pm (soccer games, children’s activities, entertainment, food, and most of all Caring for People and the Planet! (Somebody’s Hurting Our People [that’s right] and it’s gone on far too long – and we won’t be silent anymore! [Poor People’s Campaign song ;])
Celebration for Change!: a Poor People’s Campaign Event is slated for Thurs, July 12, 5:30 to Dusk at MLK Park. Music, food, and #UnitetheStruggles. Please pencil it in and watch for details soon. And/or come to a planning meeting Tues, 6/19, 3:15pm at WNYPC/NRC (1272 Delaware Ave, entrance & pkg in back).
See you at Juneteenth at MLK Park this weekend! We’ll be near the Rev Dr Martin Luther King head. See the Parade on Saturday (starting at Genesee & Moselle 11am) and enjoy music, community, arts, culture, food, and vendors with great clothes, jewelry, musical instruments, carvings, and more.
We’ll also recognize JUNETEENTH at the 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 to stop: Mass pretrial incarceration. Guilty until proven innocent. A price on our freedom.
And don’t forget the Resist Militarism! Taskforce and Veterans For Peace #128 meeting at the Niagara Porter Library at 5:30-7pm on Weds, June 20. Help us prepare for Voices from Yemen as part of the Infringement Festival. The magnitude of the crisis is horrific (and even worse than last time we wrote, as Saudi’s have stepped up the bombing). Other antiwar events, campaigns and strategies are also on the agenda. Come on out and let’s make change!
#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
716-332-3904; 716-931-3520 5/31/18
Dear Friends!
Please join us tomorrow for #FamiliesBelongTogether Rally, at Noon at US Customs & Immigration – 130 Delaware Ave; later walking to ICE Offices at 250 Delaware (Delaware North Bldg) and return. We need to raise our voices against they key actors who are carrying out Trump’s family separation order: ICE and U.S. Attorneys. ICE apprehends and separates families while US Attorneys enforce the separation in legal proceedings.
Also please join us this Sunday, June 3 (at 5:30 pm to 8pm) for the Re-Launch of #LoveisLoveBUF & PPC Watch Party. (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 Rev Barber and the Poor People’s Campaign inspiration, education, and action!
Tonight’s Tent of Abraham gathering will also be very special, if you can make the walk portion, go to North Presbyteran, North Forrest, Williamsville, at 5:30pm step-off; otherwise you can go straight to the Islamic Society of the Niagara Frontier, Heim Road, Getzville, for 7:30pm.
Announcing again:
–The WNY Peace Center is hiring an Assistant Director!
Assistant Director: A great opportunity for someone who cares about “Peace Through Justice at Home and Abroad” (our mission). Approximately 10 hours/week (good room for growth!) at $15/hour. Candidates should be detail oriented, have good communication and computer skills, and a cooperative spirit. Weekend and evening hours are not unusual. (Some college preferred but not required.)
Duties include:
Work closely with the Executive Director, as variously directed, on:
–Communicating with the staff, board, and members;
–Assist in media and publicity outreach, including press releases, media advisories and follow-up;
–Planning and promoting WNYPC’s 51st Annual Dinner (Nov. 10)
–Participate in designing, publicizing and implementing strategic campaigns (again, includes Annual Dinner);
–Assist in planning, publicizing and executing meetings, speakers, fundraisers, rallies and other events;
–Assist in fundraising through grant-writing, membership appeals and events;
–Conduct research on legislation, grants, social issues and potential services;
–Assist in outreach and work with other peace and justice organizations;
Assisting the Office Manager as needed (answering phones; fielding requests; helping with mailings, office publications etc.)
Working cooperatively with above staff, board, taskforces, membership, allies and the general public.
Please send resume to: victoryross9@gmail.com.
You can also go to Albany on June 4/5 for a day or even two with Poor People’s Campaign, focusing on Health care and Environmental Justice; and NYS for Health lobby day on June 5. See NYSPPC Week Four
#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
