Reclaiming Our Ancestors: Community Conversations on Racial Justice & Public History
UB Humanities Institute Conference. Location: Greenhouse Room, The Lafayette Hotel, 391 Washington St., Buffalo. Second day. 9:15 a.m. | Introductions: David Castillo, Director, UB Humanities Institute Welcome: Byron Brown, Mayor of Buffalo Session I: Routes of Cultural Memory Moderator: Carrie Bramen, Director, UB Gender Institute; Assoc. Professor of English Barbara McCaskill, Professor of […]
‘Black the Vote’: Buffalo NAACP GOTV Action
ACTION ALERT! Please see the opportunity below to work with #BuffaloNAACP. *** On Tuesday, November 3rd, VOTE LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDS ON IT! https://forms.gle/WhzMuXdw2YA3NAQp8 "It is our civic engagement duty to encourage every black person to #BlackTheVote. How can you, as a Buffalo NAACP member, help to do that??? We call for an immediate […]
Protect the Results Rally
Niagara Square Delaware Ave and Court St, Buffalo , NY, United StatesAt Niagara Square, Buffalo. Join us to Protect The Results! Say with one voice "Count The Votes!" Count Every Vote! Protect The Results! WNY Peace Center is cosponsoring along with Citizen Action, CWA, SURJ, CEJ, PUSH, 1199, VOICE, Open Buffalo, Buffalo Urban League and NYIC. Speakers will include County Legislature Chair April Baskin and Mayor […]
Festival of Hope
On Zoom. Join Kings Bay Plowshares members, Mark Colville, Clare Grady, Martha Hennessy, and Carmen Trotta, as they prepare to be sentenced. The festival will feature: * Diné/Navajo activist against nuclear colonialism Leona Morgan * Recently acquitted Resister to US warplanes at Shannon, Irish activist, Edward Horgan * Poor People's Campaign co-chair, Rev. Liz Theoharis […]
WNYPC presents An Evening with Dr. Cornel West!
Zoom Meeting NYCome for guidance and inspiration from one of the beacons of enlightened and inspiring peace and justice work, an American philosopher, political activist, social critic, author, and public intellectual. Brother Cornel is a beacon of Truth and Love, steeped in civil discourse and civil resistance, always speaking truth to power, and animated by an extreme […]
Reclaim Armistice Day!
At Buffalo & Erie Co Naval & Military Park (by Anchor), just north of Canalside. Join WNYPC's Resist Militarism! Taskforce & Veterans for Peace Chapter 128 in recalling the original spirit of the November 11th Holiday: To acknowledge the horrors of war and commit to Peace. We will gather, with masks and socially distanced, at […]
Organizing in Solidarity with Honduras after the US Elections
LASC and ROCLA will offer this zoom presentation on Honduras after the US Elections. https://rocla.org/events/organizing-in-solidarity-with-honduras-after-the-us-elections/ Karen Spring is a human rights activist and researcher and currently the Honduras-based Coordinator for the Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN). HSN focuses on the role of US and Canadian foreign policy in Honduras. Since the 2009 US-backed military coup, Honduras […]
New York Coalition For Open Government Meeting
We hope you can join us. The link to the Zoom meeting is posted below. Paul Wolf, Esq.,President, New York Coalition For Open Government, is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: NY Coalition For Open Gov Time: Nov 12, 2020 06:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87165479514?pwd=b2JtTEtnaGp2U1NZZnlTTm5CaU5TQT09 Meeting ID: […]
Gov, Sign the Bills Please! Press Conf
Please join us this week (November 16 - 20) for a Week of Action to demand that Governor Cuomo sign critical bills including the Protect Our Courts Act, the Drivers License Suspension Reform Act, the Contact Tracing Confidentiality Act, and the Proximity Bill. Each of these bills would play an important role in protecting Black, brown, poor, […]
Drivers License Suspension Bill Press Conference
On Zoom. Press conference calling on Governor Cuomo to sign urgent legislation, including Protect Our Courts Act, the Driver's License Suspension Reform Act, the Contact Tracing Confidentiality Act, and the Proximity Bill. All of these bills were passed by the New York State Legislature in July and would play an important role in protecting Black, […]
Erie Co Sheriff budget hearing
On Zoom. The Sheriff's Department budget hearing will be held tomorrow, 11/18 at 11:30 am on Zoom. The public can watch the hearing, where the Legislature will ask questions of the Sheriff's Department about their budget requests. Here is the log-in information: Topic: 2021 Departmental Budget Hearings Nov 18, 2020 10:00 AM Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88581328342?pwd=bkVETDNCR0xyM3IzLzM5VloxYitSQT09 Meeting […]
Resist Militarism! Taskforce Meeting
Join us at the taskforce meeting - debrief re Reclaim Armistice Day, new initiatives, more. On zoom: WNY Peace Center is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Resist Militarism! Taskforce Meeting Time: Nov 18, 2020 06:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Every month on the Third Wed, until Dec 16, 2020, 2 […]
