racial justice
Study & Stuggle: Abolition Must Be Green
Zoom Meeting NYA conversation about centering climate justice, land, food sovereignty, and fighting environmental racism in the struggle for abolition. About this event Study and Struggle organizes against criminalization and incarceration in Mississippi through mutual aid, political education, and community building. We provide a bilingual Spanish and English curriculum with discussion questions and reading materials, as well as financial support, to […]
Expanding Pathways to Citizenship Vigil
Sen Schumer's office, out front 130 South Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, New YorkAt Senator Schumer's Office, 130 South Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo 14202. Join the New York Immigration Coalition, Justice for Migrant Families, ACCESS of WNY and allies - including the Immigrant & Refugee Justice (IRJ) Taskforce the WNY Peace Center - for a vigil demanding that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer keep his promises to our communities […]
Celebration for Cariol Horne, John Walker & Darryl Boyd of the Buffalo 5
Johnnie B. Wiley Amateur Athletic Sports Pavilion 1100 Jefferson Ave., Buffalo, NY, United StatesLast year Cariol’s Law was passed and within a year Cariol’s pension is reinstated. The murder conviction of John Walker and Darryl Boyd of the Buffalo 5 has been overturned! Come join us to celebrate as we continue to move our community forward.
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. […]
SURJ Buffalo’s Celebratory Year-End Meeting
Elaine M. Panty (Riverside) Branch Library 820 Tonawanda Street, Buffalo, NY, United StatesJoin SURJ for their final meeting of 2021. SURJ plans to celebrate and look back on the ways we've grown over the last year! We're also looking ahead and talking about the plans for the year(s) to come! RSVP here. There's an Orientation beforehand, beginning at 1p, for all people who are interested, new […]
Webinar: The Complex Motivations & Costs of Central American Migration
Zoom Meeting NYThe United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) and Organization of American States (OAS) will hold a virtual event for the launch of a new report from the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), the WFP, and the Civic Data Design Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the factors that drive people in El Salvador, […]
AAPF Webinar: When Pandemics Don’t End
Zoom Meeting NYThis World AIDS Day, the African American Policy Forum, together with the Williams Institute at UCLA will bring leading thinkers and advocates from the HIV/AIDS community—both within the United States and beyond—to discuss the perilous intersection of criminalization and HIV. AAPF's Senior Research Fellow Kevin Minofu will moderate the conversation; he will be joined by […]
Human Rights Day
Human Rights Day is observed every year on 10 December — the day the United Nations General Assembly adopted, in 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR is a milestone document, which proclaims the inalienable rights that everyone is entitled to as a human being - regardless of race, color, religion, sex, language, […]
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 […]
Black Women & Political Power
Frank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Library 1324 Jefferson Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesApril Baskin, India Walton, Crystal Peoples-Stokes, Betty Jean Grant, Kimberly Beatty, and Sharon Belton-Cottman have been invited to participate in a panel discussion on the topic “Black Women & Political Power” at the Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson from 7-9 p.m. on Ujima – Collective Work & Responsibility Tuesday, December 28 . In the Challenger's final […]
National Slavery & Human Trafficking Prevention Month
In 2011 President Barack Obama issued a Presidential Proclamation, designating each January to be National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. The anniversary of this proclamation became known as National Human Trafficking Awareness Day. Slavery was officially abolished in the USA by the Thirteenth Amendment in December 1865 however sadly human trafficking is growing at […]
PeaceJam Honoring Desmond Tutu
Social MediaFor 25 years Desmond Tutu has been an integral part of the PeaceJam Family, and he will be greatly missed. His memory and legacy will live on in the hearts of PeaceJam youth, Nobel Laureates and global community who have been profoundly inspired by his extraordinary spirit, compassion, wisdom and joy. A memorial service will […]
