PPG Workshop: Erie County Budget
Zoom Meeting NYBudgeting is one governmental process that is typically opaque to the public. Erie County’s 2021 adopted budget is over $1.6 billion dollars, funding many activities that are critical to community including housing, childcare, health, and mental health. At this workshop, learn more about what makes up the county budget and what spending changes are proposed […]
WNYPC 54th Annual Dinner ft. Kings Bay Plowshares 7!
Buffalo Niagara Convention Center 153 Franklin St, Buffalo, NY, United StatesJoin the WNY Peace Center to celebrate our 54th Annual Dinner featuring the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 with special guest Mark Colville! This is our major fundraising event and the proceeds make it possible for the WNY Peace Center to continue its work. Most importantly, come to the dinner and bring your friends for a […]
Union of Black Episcopalians (UBE) Sunday Brunch
Five Loaves Farmhouse 1172 West Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesSunday Brunch is sponsored by the Bishop Holly Chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians. We want to thank everyone who supported our organization in 2021. Let us know if you can attend, and if you have any dietary concerns! RSVP here. Please bring cash (or a check made payable to 'Mosaic 659 Foundation') to […]
Film viewing: The Story of Plastic
At Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage, 3449 West River Rd, Grand Island. See the short documentary -- The Story of Plastic -- and join in the discussion after the film. One of the things we might consider is making a pledge to stop buying or using plastic as a community or personally. A microphone is being […]
Neo-Dictatorship in El Salvador & Building Solidarity with the Resistance
Zoom Meeting NYRESCHEDULED FROM 11/4. Join ROCLA and LASC for David Grosser on Neo-Dictatorship in El Salvador & Building Solidarity with the Resistance! Zoom Meeting ID: 87301247575 Passcode: 690635
39th Annual Multifaith Thanksgiving Celebration
On zoom. Join the NRC's and NFJC's 39th Annual Multifaith Thanksgiving Celebration. Join virtually bit.ly/ThanksBuffalo21 For more information email nrc@religiousnet.net
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 […]
