SURJ Buffalo’s Celebratory Year-End Meeting
Elaine M. Panty (Riverside) Branch Library 820 Tonawanda Street, Buffalo, NY, United StatesJoin SURJ for their final meeting of 2021. SURJ plans to celebrate and look back on the ways we've grown over the last year! We're also looking ahead and talking about the plans for the year(s) to come! RSVP here. There's an Orientation beforehand, beginning at 1p, for all people who are interested, new […]
LASC Peace Coffeehouse: Border Justice Issues in WNY
Canisius College-Science Hall 2001 Main St., Buffalo, United StatesPanel discussion with Justice for Migrant Families on local immigration issues - highlighting the Batavia Detention Center, essential Farm Workers, & Dreamers. Co-Sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the Immigrant & Refugee Justice taskforce of the WNYPC. This is the November L.A.S.C. Peace Coffeehouse. Join us the fourth Monday of each month from […]
Webinar: The Complex Motivations & Costs of Central American Migration
Zoom Meeting NYThe United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Organization of American States (OAS) will hold a virtual event for the launch of a new report from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), the WFP, and the Civic Data Design Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the factors that drive people in El Salvador, […]
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
Women's rights activists have observed 25 November as a day against gender-based violence since 1981. This date was selected to honour the Mirabal sisters, three political activists from the Dominican Republic who were brutally murdered in 1960 by order of the country’s ruler, Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961). On 20 December 1993, the General Assembly adopts the […]
Global 16 Days / Orange the World!
The UN Secretary-General’s UNiTE by 2030 to End Violence against Women campaign (UNiTE campaign), managed by UN Women, is a multi-year effort aimed at preventing and eliminating violence against women and girls around the world. It calls on governments, civil society, women’s organizations, young people, the private sector, the media, and the entire UN system […]
“Don’t Look Away” Vigil: Ban the Killing by Drones of Innocent People!
Bidwell Park (at Elmwood Ave) Elmwood & Bidwell, Buffalo, United StatesAll are welcome. Sponsored by the Resist Militarism Taskforce of the WNY Peace Center. "Studies of our drone strikes have suggested that maybe eight out of 10 times we are hitting the wrong target, we have killed thousands of civilians." - Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), September 21, 2021. Read more here. ...among the dozens of […]
Universal Human Rights Month
December is Universal Human Rights Month. This month and every month to follow, people all across the globe are encouraged to come together and stand up for equality, justice, and the dignity of all humans. December is a time to honor the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, an international document stating the basic rights and fundamental freedoms […]
Unfrack NYS Homes and Buildings Town Hall
Zoom Meeting NYNY has set important goals to lead the way on climate. Now we need to be sure real action happens to get off fossil fuels. Please join us for this exciting event to learn what's happening and how you can help! Renewable Heat Now is a coalition of groups from across NYS working to electrify our homes […]
ROCLA & LASC: Central America’s Forgotten History
Zoom Meeting NYJoin ROCLA & LASC for Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence and the Roots of Migration – a discussion with Aviva Chomsky. Join ROCLA's mailing list here to be sent the Zoom details. Aviva Chomsky has published numerous books on Latin American history, labor and migration, co-edited several anthologies, and has been active in Latin […]
AAPF Webinar: When Pandemics Don’t End
Zoom Meeting NYThis World AIDS Day, the African American Policy Forum, together with the Williams Institute at UCLA will bring leading thinkers and advocates from the HIV/AIDS community—both within the United States and beyond—to discuss the perilous intersection of criminalization and HIV. AAPF's Senior Research Fellow Kevin Minofu will moderate the conversation; he will be joined by […]
Environmental Justice Taskforce / WNY Drilling Defense Meeting
Zoom Meeting NYThis month's topic: Winter Weather Prognostications by Jack Kanack, CEO of Weather Medic. Weather expert Jack Kanack will present his thoughts about the severity of the upcoming winter season, and the role of teleconnections play in influencing our weather. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81351321348?pwd=bW83OHRvbHEwNDl6akkwSkpMNXgxZz09 Meeting ID: 813 5132 1348 Passcode: Weather One tap mobile +16465588656,,81351321348#,,,,*1600709# US […]
Christmas Concert – Nan Hoffman & Friends
Please join Riverside Salem for a Christmas concert with Nan Hoffman and friends, to take place at Island Presbyterian Church, 1822 Huth Rd, Grand Island. Masks required; vaccination preferred.
