gender justice
ROCLA: The Nicaraguan People Are Speaking, Will We Listen?
Zoom Meeting NYOn Zoom - meeting details here. Becca Mohally Renk has lived and worked in Nicaragua with the Jubilee House Community and its project there, the Center for Development in Central America, for the past 20 years. In her work in sustainable community development with the JHC-CDCA, Becca has focused on health care, worker-owned cooperatives, at-risk teenage […]
Human Trafficking Awareness Day
Human Trafficking Awareness Day is dedicated to raising awareness of sexual slavery and human trafficking worldwide. Today, there are between 21-30 million people enslaved in the world, more than at any time in human history. Every day, modern slavery can be recognized: children become soldiers, young women are forced into prostitution and migrant workers exploited in the workforce. Human Trafficking Awareness […]
Understanding Peace Prospects with Korea
Zoom Meeting NYUnderstanding Peace Prospects with Korea: Korean Peace Treaty Key to a Nuclear Free Northeast Asia. Join Peace Action NYS for an informative hour about the history of the conflict and the status of peace possibilities with North and South Korea. The hour will include a question-and-answer session. Speaker Hyun Lee is the U.S. National Organizer for Women […]
Social Justice Stitched Stories: Stitching Together Our Community Voices in the 21st Century Sewing Circle
Burchfield-Penny Art Center Buffalo State College, Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NYThis year-long initiative engaged local students and community members with Stitch Buffalo's refugee women artists, staff, and volunteers in a collaborative textile arts project. In a process facilitated by diversity and inclusion professionals, participants were guided through an examination of social justice issues (such as racism, discrimination, gun violence, socioeconomic and educational inequity, xenophobia, cultural […]
Virtual Film Screening: Naila & the Uprising
Zoom Meeting NYMetro DC DSA invites all community members to take part in our virtual film screening and discussion of ????? ??? ??? ????????, an inspiring and educational documentary about the key role of women in the first Intifada. The first Intifada was a key part of Palestinian resistance during an important historical moment in the struggle […]
FLEE
North Park Theatre 1428 Hertel Avenu, Buffalo, NY, United StatesThrough the week of 2/4 - 2/10, at various show times, the North Park Theatre will be showing FLEE, a movie told mostly through animation, based on the true story of the extraordinary journey of Amin as a child refugee from Afghanistan. FLEE tells the story of Amin Nawabi as he grapples with a […]
Talking Peace taping: Afghan Crisis Intensifies
Facebook LivestreamHour 2 of this week's Talking Peace taping features Mohammad, an Afghan refugee recently arrived in WNY; Sameria Mbili, Student Organizer, Peace Action Canisius College; Sarah Kirschner, WNYPC Intern from Fordham MSW program; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator. Discussion: Afghanistan's economic shutdown (money supply frozen by US in NYC) famine worsening; children starving, for […]
LASC Peace Coffeehouse: West Side Promise
Canisius College-Science Hall 2001 Main St., Buffalo, United StatesFeaturing Talia Rodriguez, JD - WNYPC Gender Justice Taskforce Chair and Associate Director, West Side Promise Neighborhood - on leadership development in Buffalo’s Latinx and immigrant populations. Please note, LASC Peace Coffeehouses are in person with social distancing and masks required.
Conversations about the Middle East: How Women Can Be Vital Agents of Peace & Change
Zoom Meeting NYJoin the Western New York Peace Center for a special panel discussion episode of Talking Peace Radio, featuring: Dr. Anita C. Butera, Assistant Professor, Canisius College; Dr. Zaher Wahab, Professor Emeritus, Lewis & Clark College; Dr. Sawsan Tabbaa, Clinical Associate Professor and Research Coordinator, Jacksonville University With host Vicki Ross, moderator Sameria Mbili, plus a […]
Webinar: Does 1199SEIU’s Settlement for Home Care Workers Signal a Historic High or Historic Low in Today’s Labor and Feminist Movements?
Zoom Meeting NYk before International Working Women's Day, 1199SEIU, one of the country's largest unions fighting for racial equality, announced "historic" settlement for their home care workers, many of whom worked many years of 24-hour shifts and were cheated of their pay. Though bringing $30 million to 120,000 workers, the settlement actually lets employers get away with […]
Talking Peace taping: Childcare Now!
Facebook LivestreamWith Vonetta Rhodes, WNY Childcare Action Team Leadership Representative, and mom; Maureen Milligan, Research Administrator at UB, Co-Chair of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee of her union (United University Professions); Deidra EmEl, WNYPC Executive Director, and mom; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator. Discussion: Values we bring What are childcare needs? What's happening […]
Webinar: Global Solidarity with Women & Gender-Oppressed Workers
Zoom Meeting NYThe Women and Oppressed Gender Caucus of Workers World Party is proud to host the "Global Solidarity with Women and Gender Oppressed Workers" webinar. The panel, discussing struggles and how they relate to an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist perspective, will include: Norma Pérez from A Call to Action on Puerto Rico and a former teacher Kisha James, […]
