indigenous rights
SURJ Abolition Action Hour
Zoom Meeting NYJoin Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)'s monthly Action Hours to take action together to close jails and detention centers, defund police, invest in communities, and protect Indigenous rights to land and water. You'll receive education and training in community, and then be supported to participate in frontline racial justice campaigns. (If you can't make […]
“Sacred America: Breaking 500 Years of Silence”
Niagara Falls Public Library 1425 Main St, Niagara Falls, NY, United StatesSpeaking engagement at the Niagara Falls Public Library. Following a brief Invocation by Chief Bear Cross, Chase Iron Eyes will discuss the power of Indigenous culture, sovereignty and lessons from Standing Rock. This event will be free and open to the public.
Niagara Falls’ 1st Annual Indigenous Peoples Day Celebration
Niagara Falls, NY11-11:15 AM: Official press conference at the Veterans Monument at Hyde Park (3200 Pine Ave, Niagara Falls 14301). Chase Iron Eyes will briefly speak on the history of Wounded Knee and plight of the Lakota People. Media Interviews will follow. 2-4 PM: V.I.P. Meet & Greet with Chase Iron Eyes and Chief Bear Cross at […]
Webinar: End Militarism to Stop Climate Change
Zoom Meeting NYCommunities across the U.S. and across the world have been devastated by military occupation, war, and state-sanctioned police violence. The U.S. military is also the single largest consumer of fossil fuels in the world and has served as the enforcer of the occupation of Indigenous sovereign lands while upholding violent resource extraction across the world. […]
STOP LINE 3
US Army Corps of Engineers - Buffalo District 1776 Niagara St, Buffalo, NY, United StatesDecember 14 marks the 1 year anniversary of the start of construction on Enbridge's tar sands oil pipeline 3. Rushed construction has caused permanent environmental damage, threatening drink water for millions of people. Enbridge, a Canadian company, has already been fined $3.32 million for failure to follow environmental laws. We are calling on Army Corps […]
Empowering First Nations & Indigenous Communities: Overcoming the Ecological & Humanitarian Threats of the Nuclear Fuel Trajectory & Nuclear Weapons
Zoom Meeting NYThis Zoom event will provide an opportunity for Indigenous and First Nations leaders, nuclear experts, policymakers, and youth activists to share their knowledge, voice their opinions, and unite. Register here.
Western NY Drilling Defense Meeting: Bitcoin Mining Issues in New York State
Zoom Meeting NYSpecial Guests: Yvonne Taylor, Co-founder of Seneca Lake Guardian The Honorable Austin J. Tylec, Mayor of North Tonawanda, NY Over the past 4 years, computerized bitcoin mining has taken hold in unused power plants across NY State such as Somerset Coal plant, Fortistar Plant in North Tonwanda and the Greenidge Plant on the shores […]
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: Not “A Nation of Immigrants”
Zoom Meeting NYCleveland Peace Action is hosting acclaimed historian and author, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz for a virtual discussion of her 2021 book, Not "A Nation of Immigrants": Settler Colonialism, White Supremacy, and a History of Erasure and Exclusion. register on Zoom Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz will be joined in conversation with Detroit-based activist and writer Frank Joyce. Q and A with […]
Talking Peace Radio: Nuclear Dangers
Facebook LivestreamFeaturing Agnes Williams, Indigenous Womens Initiatives founder and leader; Diane D'Arrigo, Nuclear Information and Resource Service, Radioactive Wast Project Director; with host Vicki Ross, WNYPC Board Chair, PANYS Upstate Chair. Remembering US' devastating Hiroshima & Nagasaki; Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT); Indigenous suffering; West Valley clean-up action plan (urging Gov. Hochul to ensure full enclosure […]
Talking Peace Radio: Indigenous People’s Day
Facebook LivestreamFeaturing Kelly Maracle, Mohawk/Seneca, Bear clan, water protector and land defender, Shell River 7; Vicki Ross, WNYPC Board Chair, PANYS Upstate Chair; and more. UN-declared International Day of World Indigenous People; Indigenous rights and sovereignty (Shell River 7, +++); protecting Mother Earth and the Waters (Water Walk, ceremonies). Taped and live-streamed on Facebook, YouTube & Twitch; […]
Talking Peace Radio: Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki for a Nuclear-Free Future
Facebook LivestreamJoin us for another taping of Talking Peace Radio! On "Remembering Hiroshima & Nagasaki for a Nuclear-Free Future" featuring Jim Anderson, President of Peace Action NYS, Steering Committee Member of Peace Action ( joining us from Japan, where he's working with the Hibakusha and community of Hiroshima/Nagasaki); Martha Hennessy, Kings Bay Plowshares, Catholic Worker, granddaughter of Dorothy […]
LASC: Rejecting the ‘Doctrine of Discovery’
Canisius College-Science Hall 2001 Main St., Buffalo, United StatesJoin LASC for its October Peace Coffeehouse featuring Dr. Agnes Williams and Audrey Mang on rejecting the 'Doctrine of Discovery' that justified colonization.
