FLEE
North Park Theatre 1428 Hertel Avenu, Buffalo, NY, United StatesThrough the week of 2/4 - 2/10, at various show times, the North Park Theatre will be showing FLEE, a movie told mostly through animation, based on the true story of the extraordinary journey of Amin as a child refugee from Afghanistan. FLEE tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a […]
JFMF: Excluded No More Call-In Day
Facebook LivestreamJoin Justice For Migrant Families for #ExcludedNoMore Call-In Day! The Excluded Worker Fund has failed to reach many vulnerable workers in Upstate and Western New York during the pandemic. They ask you to join in contacting our state representatives and urge them to replenish this fund so that New York State residents that have been […]
Peace with Russia – WNY
Bidwell Park (at Elmwood Ave) Elmwood & Bidwell, Buffalo, United StatesJoin the WNY Peace Center and Women In Black for a vigil (signs welcome!) to demand an end to the drumbeat of war with Russia over Ukraine! As part of a national CODEPINK Day of Action events around the country to resist the normalization of war and demand that not a single bullet or […]
WNYPC Membership Meeting
Zoom Meeting NYAs we carry forth into the year ahead, we know great opportunity and potential progress await us. The WNY Peace Center is offering the opportunity for its members to be a part of deciding our course of action for 2022. Please join us in our aspiration to promote peace through justice at home and abroad! […]
Parole Justice Is Racial Justice Advocacy Day
Zoom Meeting NYThe People's Campaign for Parole Justice is hosting Parole Justice Is Racial Justice Advocacy Day centering Black History. Gather via Zoom for rallies, legislative meetings, and a press conference to pass Elder Parole (S15A/A8855) and Fair & Timely Parole (S7514/A4231A) in 2022.
SURJ Buffalo Action Hour
Zoom Meeting NYCome take action with us! This SURJ Buffalo Action Hour is the chance to come together and learn more about decarceration and abolition, and then take action to support important Black and People of Color-led campaigns for policies seeking to create deeply needed change in the criminal legal system. We'll call and email decision makers, […]
Missile defense: a forgotten program that is fomenting a global nuclear arms race
Zoom Meeting NYMissile defense has a strong linkage with the weapons in outer space. Missile defense has largely fallen off the agenda of the peace movement as a fait accompli. However, drawing from his experience as a Congressional staffer and as a Senior analyst for the Government Accountability Office, Subrata Ghoshroy will argue that it is not so. Both […]
Talking Peace taping: 1619 Project
Facebook LivestreamHour 1 of this week's live taping of Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center. Featuring scholar, author, teacher, Eye-on-History columnist Dr. Eva Doyle; Deidra EmEl, Executive Director, WNY Peace Center; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator. Discussion: What is the 1619 Project, and how has it changed our national conversation(s)? How did enslavement […]
Talking Peace taping: Afghan Crisis Intensifies
Facebook LivestreamHour 2 of this week's Talking Peace taping features Mohammad, an Afghan refugee recently arrived in WNY; Sameria Mbili, Student Organizer, Peace Action Canisius College; Sarah Kirschner, WNYPC Intern from Fordham MSW program; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator. Discussion: Afghanistan's economic shutdown (money supply frozen by US in NYC) famine worsening; children starving, for […]
Beyond the Knife: Anti-Racism & Health Equity
Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences 955 Main Street, Buffalo, NY, United StatesA continuing conversation about surgery's role in fighting systemic racism featuring Keynote Speaker: Deirdre Cooper Owens, PhD "What History Reveals in Our Understanding of U.S. Medicine" With Special Guest Speaker India Walton A Panel discussion to follow Alumni, Faculty, Residents, Students and Community are invited to join us! Register here. About our […]
COI/NMP Book Dialogue: The Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Zoom Meeting NYJoin The COI Cultural Center on Zoom for their NMP program's weekly book dialogue on The Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paolo Frierre. Please note that this is a faith-based discussion but all are welcome. Register here.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Not “A Nation of Immigrants”
Zoom Meeting NYCleveland Peace Action hosts acclaimed historian and author, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz for a virtual discussion of her 2021 book, Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will be joined in conversation with Detroit-based activist and writer Frank Joyce. Q and A with the audience will follow. […]
