Talking Peace w/the WNYPC – Just Transition Challenges

On WNYPC and Think Twice Radio Facebook Livestreams. An Earth Day Special. With Paul Winnie, Seneca (Tonawanda); Keilka Salabury, Community Activist; Ellen Banks, Niagara Sierra Club Executive Committee Member and Atlantic Chapter Delegate; Agnes Williams, Seneca (Cattaraugus), Indigenous Women's Initiatives; and host Vicki Ross, WNYPC Executive Director, and Interfaith Peace Network Peaceful Conflict Resolution Consultant. […]

Talking Peace w/the WNYPC – Just Policing/Accountability

On WNYPC and Think Twice Radio Facebook Livestream. With Cariol Horne, lead organizer and inspiration for Cariol's Law; Kartika Carr, VOICE Buffalo Organizer; De'Jon Hall, Police Advisor Board member/advisor; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Executive Director, and Interfaith Peace Network Consultant. (The session audio will be broadcast on WBNY 91.3FM on Monday, 1-2pm; and then go […]

PeaceJam

Zoom Meeting NY

On Zoom – register here. WHO: youth ages 8+ WHERE: on Zoom WHEN: 4 to 5 PM on Thursdays, Feb 25th through Apr 29th WHAT: “Inspiration, Education, and Action” includes a Global Call to Action service-learning project learning goals: solidarity, social justice, peaceful conflict resolution, integrity, lives of the Laureates, and more activities: mindfulness, deep […]

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Alliance of Families for Justice – WNY Mtg

On zoom. Second meeting of our Alliance of Families for Justice (AFJ) Western New York Region meeting, taking place Friday, April 23rd at 6:00pm via Zoom. As you might be aware, the Alliance of Families for Justice (AFJ) is an amazing non-profit organization based in Harlem, NY, founded by Soffiyah Elijah, a brilliant attorney, organizer, and […]

Challenging Conversations

Zoom Meeting NY

Saturday, April 24th, 9:30 am -Noon Zoom Webinar (Register here to receive a Zoom invitation - https://forms.gle/AVoUPBbpMgEgM7Aa8) Our program is a gathering for white people of faith who are aligned with the causes of racial and economic justice.  How can we deepen our commitment? How can we share our new understanding with members of our own families and […]

Riverside Salem: Discussion re Policing

On zoom. Join RS for a discussion about policing. Below are a few articles on the history of policing and some conclusions about how we got where we are. Feel free to bring your own knowledge of the subject to the discussion. Everyone is welcome. https://www.insider.com/history-of-police-in-the-us-photos-2020-6 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/long-painful-history-police-brutality-in-the-us-180964098/-- Cathy Rieley-Goddard (she/her) is inviting you to a […]

60th Anniversary: Cuba’s Successful Literacy Campaign!

Online webinar. The Che Guevara Volunteer Work Brigade Celebrates! REGISTER ONLINE AT: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Flk9h6PISY2lc3EJ9qZcdA April 2021 marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban literacy campaign, which eradicated illiteracy on the island in just 8 months. This impressive accomplishment was carried out by the massive mobilization of 308,000 volunteers, many of them students and young women, who […]

Talking Peace – WNYPC Thru the Years.

Livestreaming on Facebook (Here , also on Think Twice Radio facebook page). With Wayne Alt, a initial/founding member of WNYPC, and longstanding volunteer; Maxine Insera, WNYPC and Latin American Solidarity Committee volunteer; Deidra EmEl, currently Office Mgr/Coordinator of WNYPC and incoming WNYPC Executive Director; and Vicki Ross, current WNYPC Executive Director {til June 1}, and […]

Talking Peace – Honor Mother Earth/#StopLine3

Livestreaming on Facebook (Here , also on Think Twice Radio facebook page). With Lor Seneca of and with Onondawa'ka Water Protectors; Nate Buckley, of Nekanehsakt, and For the Love of Trees; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Executive Director, and Interfaith Peace Network Consultant. what is Honor the Earth and what is their Mother's Day event? why […]

Deconstructing the Idolatry of White Supremacy

On zoom or in person, with masks and physical distancing. Deconstructing the Idolatry of White Supremacy: Embracing a Trinitarian Identity as Solidarity With Others, with SimonMary A. Aihiokhai, Ph.D. Register in Advance Grounding our identity in the Trinitarian vision allows us to see ourselves as a creatures radically defined by webs or relationships. This talk […]

PeaceJam – Ending Racism & Hate (Youth Presentation)

Hybrid event: gathering of the PeaceJam Group in person (for the group at 4pm - call 716-931-3520); and sharing a Presentation of the PeaceJam Buffalo group of children and youth on a Facebook Livestream (5pm). Their Global Call to Action project will explore the theme of Ending Racism and Hate, through poems, essays, and art, […]