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. […]
Love to Afghanistan – WNY
Bidwell Park (at Elmwood Ave) Elmwood & Bidwell, Buffalo, United StatesJoin the WNY Peace Center and Women In Black for a vigil (signs welcome!) in solidarity with the long-suffering people of Afghanistan, now facing the worst crisis ever! After 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the Afghan people are suffering more than ever. Hunger could kill more now than in 20 years of war. We […]
International Relations & Militarism Today
Zoom Meeting NYBy any measure the pain and suffering caused by 21st century imperialism is staggering. Millions of people, mostly in the Middle East and South Asia, have died or been displaced by the war on terrorism initiated in 2001. These figures include the untold thousands who have died directly from war and violence in Libya, Syria, Yemen, […]
How U.S. Sanctions Starve Afghans
Zoom Meeting NYJoin Grannies for Peace and special guests Kathy Kelly and Phyllis Bennis for a Valentine's Day Webinar on how we can move from a place of love to end this continuing war. Hosted by World Beyond War: a global movement to end all wars. Register here.
