WNY Refugee Film Festival: Seadrift
Zoom Meeting NYOn Zoom - register at tinyurl.com/SEADRIFT3. Journey's End WNY Refugee Film Festival's screening of Seadrift includes a director's talkback. JERS has a memorable evening planned with very special guest speakers: dir. Tim Tsai, program dir. of Ujima Company Inc. Maria Ta, and Refugee Congress CO delegate Nga V'u'ong-Sandoval. Questions or concerns? Contact: volunteer@jersbuffalo.org
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Zoom Meeting NYPlease note that the Women’s March event scheduled for Saturday is being transformed – please use that time to support our Burmese sisters and brothers as they protest and rally against the violence going on in their country. 10:00 am - 12:00 pm at Bidwell and Elmwood Meanwhile, please support other Women and Women’s Events […]
BTRU General Meeting
On zoom. To share the facts, stories, and plans to turn the ship around. Bus riders have sacrificed enough through this pandemic with multiple rounds of cuts--the last one being only a week before Congress gave NFTA-Metro another relief grant--this one amounting to $79 million. We demanded federal grants to offset the loss of fares […]
The Iran Nuclear Deal or No Deal
On zoom. Join at http://bit.ly/3x0aiSL . Grassroots organizations from across the country are joining together to present the most recent developments surrounding the JCPOA and what they may mean for the future of Iran and the rest of the Middle East. For those who care about preventing a future war as well as addressing […]
#StopLine3 & #NoDAPL Runners Solidarity Rally – NO PIPELINES!!
At Niagara Square, Buffalo NY. Come out - with masks and physical distancing - in solidarity with Indigenous runners/Standing Rock youth who have run from Lakota/Ojibwe/Anishinaabe territory to Washington DC to urge President Biden to #StopLine3 and #NoDAPL. Banners and signs are welcome. We'll have an opening Gnonyoh, speakers, and deep support for the environmental […]
Vigil Against Human Executions & Assassinations
On zoom: on Good Friday (and on April 20, when a State execution is scheduled to take place in Huntsville, Texas - see 4/20) - To show solidarity with others around the world who are against such executions and other forms of violence in our world. “Thou shalt not kill” (Torah, Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17, […]
Immigration under the Biden Administration
Zoom Meeting NYOn Zoom - register here. On the occasion of "Comunidades Visibles: The Materiality of Migration," join the Albright-Knox and Journey’s End Refugee Services for a free virtual conversation about changes to immigration policy under the Biden Administration. Hear from the organization’s legal team, resettlement director, and refugees to learn about the United States’ immigration process […]
Festival of Hope – KBP7, Mark Colville
On zoom. We invite you to celebrate the third anniversary of the King Bay Plowshares disarmament action with a Zoom Festival of Hope on Monday evening. It will be in the form of a webinar on the Codepink zoom platform and also livestreamed on the KBP Facebook and Codepink’s YouTube channel. For the KBP Facebook […]
Pass the CCIA Rally
At Niagara Square, Buffalo, with masks and physical distancing. Come out to make banners in support of the Climate & Community Investment Act! - key to a #JustTransition in NYS! Organized by PUSH, NY Renews, WNYPC cosponsors.
Climate and Community Investment Act (CCIA) and the THRIVE Agenda
Zoom Meeting NYOur rally on April 7th at 4pm in Niagara Square can be found here https://www.facebook.com/events/147342613974930 on Facebook and here on Action Network https://actionnetwork.org/events/push-for-the-ccia I have a Facilitator Guide here on outlook: April 7th PUSH for the CCIA.docx NY Renews has an outreach toolkit here https://docs.google.com/document/d/17egyoCzuXh_J3GXc2k6Zz-ciDi3A2Vs4ao_TJwZqLmU/edit?usp=sharing This week, NY Renews and One NY Indivisible are organizing a non-stop week of […]
LASC and ROCLA: talk by Nicaragua’s ambassador to the UN
On-line7pm, Wednesday, April 7, 2021 “Sanctions Kill: Nicaragua in the Era of US Sanctions.” Preregistration will be required to join the event – pre-register at https://rocla.org/events/sanctions-kill-nicaragua-in-the-era-of-us-sanctions/ LASC and ROCLA invite you to our continuing "zoom coffeehouse" series, linking communities across the hemisphere. We hope you can help us spread the news. We are honored to […]
Remote Sentencing of Kings Bay Plowshares Mark Colville
On telephone. Mark Colville is the last of the KBP7 to be sentenced. (Background info here: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/) As has been done in the previous sentencings a phone number has been provided by the court to listen to the proceedings. The court is scheduled to start at 10 am ET on Friday, April 9. Dial 1-888-684-8852, enter […]
