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Free the People State Working Group Meeting

The Free the People state working group meets on the first and third Fridays of each month. For more information, please contact Tanvier Peart at tanvierpeart@gmail.com.

PCPJ Virtual Advocacy Day

Join the People’s Campaign for Parole Justice on January 11 for a virtual advocacy day. We’ll gather via Zoom for rallies, legislative meetings, and a press conference. Please join us to support the movement to pass the Elder Parole and Fair & Timely Parole bills in 2022!

 

Constituents Needed

PCPJ has meetings scheduled with Senator Ryan (11:30 AM) and Assemblymember Monica Wallace (11:30 AM). There are potential meetings with Senator Kennedy and Assemblymember Rivera.

Could you please help us get more of these legislators’ constituents signed up for the day?

Talking Peace taping: The Carceral System

With Community Activists – Jerome Wright, CAIC (Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement), VOICE Buffalo; Monica Lynch,  & Sister of Connell Burrell, died from medical malpractice at the Erie Co Holding Center; Myles Carter, Imam at Erie’s Alden carceral facility, former Erie Co Sheriff Candidate; Deidra EmEl, Executive Director of the WNY Peace Center; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.

    • values we bring
    • what’s with the carceral system – who? what? where? when? how? why?
    • thru the lens of human rights
    • areas for growth and learning
    • ways to support and get involved, including both locally and generally

 

The show is taped for just under an hour by Think Twice Radio: Home of the Future (thanks to Richard Wicka, our wonderful producer). The Zoom recording, livestreamed on Facebook during the taping, will air on WBNY 91.3FM on the following Monday (1/10) at 1pm EST. After airing, you can also find the video archived on the WNY Peace Center YouTube channel.