Please note that the Women’s March event scheduled for Saturday is being transformed – please use that time to support our Burmese sisters and brothers as they protest and rally against the violence going on in their country.
10:00 am – 12:00 pm at Bidwell and Elmwood
Meanwhile, please support other Women and Women’s Events here, join our Gender Justice Taskforce by contacting Chair Talia Rodriguez (Rodriguez, Talia E <gender@wnypeace.org>), or join us at our next Gender Justice Taskforce meeting on April 10th.
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Peace, thanks, solidarity, and yes – love!
Sunday, January 24th, 2021
We trust you are reading this after tonight’s Bills game (hopefully celebrating a good outcome!). We hope you are feeling a bit revitalized this week with Trump now (finally) out of office and nuclear weapons becoming officially illegal under international law. However, we know there is still plenty of work ahead of us – including some very important initiatives this week.
Tomorrow is “World Says No to War on Yemen” Global Day of Action. People around the world are called upon to protest – just says after the U.S. presidential inauguration and one day before Saudi Arabia’s ‘Davos in the Desert’ Future Investment Initiative.
- Join the Stop the War Coalition, CODEPINK, Action Corps, Yemeni Alliance Committee, and other partner organizations/groups on Zoom and/or Facebook at 2pm EST for the livestreamed international rally. Hear from Dr. Cornel West, Danny Glover, Jeremy Corbyn, Aisha Jumaan, and other guest speakers to discuss the crisis in Yemen and actions that can be taken to stop the war. Use this action toolkit to participate and promote this important cause! #YemenCantWait
- If you missed last week’s Talking Peace live-taping, you can catch it airing on WBNY 91.3 FM tomorrow at 1pm. ED Vicki was joined by Aisha Jumaan, President of the Yemen Relief & Reconstruction Foundation, and Kawthar Abdulla, Leader Organizer, Yemeni Alliance Committee’s NYC Chapter. Tune in for a discussion on the current situation in Yemen and the involvement of external actors – including, especially, the US; personal stories and current needs; tomorrow’s International Day of Action, and what you can do to help!
On Tuesday at 6:30pm EST, join Winona LaDuke, Co-founder of Honor the Earth as she speaks about the fight to stop Line 3 and a just transition from the current fossil fuel economy. Line 3 is a proposed pipeline expansion to bring nearly a million barrels of tar sands per day from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. It was proposed in 2014 by Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline company responsible for the largest inland oil spill in the US. Enbridge seeks to build a new pipeline corridor through untouched wetlands and the treaty territory of Anishinaabe peoples, through the Mississippi River headwaters to the shore of Lake Superior. For more details and how to register, see below.
Lastly, we’d like to remind you that the WNY Peace Center’s first 2021 Quarterly Membership Meeting is just one week away! We will look back at 2020 – with an overview of some our successes, plus plans for this year. We have some important announcements, so please plan to join us on Zoom (full details below).
Please see details and much more – including special and regularly scheduled events this week (LASC planning meeting tomorrow!) – plus campaigns, fundraisers, and more at wnypeace.org, on our Facebook page, Twitter (@wnypeace), and Instagram (@wnypeace)!
Peace, thanks, solidarity, and yes – love!
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On Facebook Live. Tune in for the WNYPC’s weekly taping of #TalkingPeace! With host Vicki Ross, WNYPC Executive Director. Recorded by #ThinkTwiceRadio: Home of the Future! Featuring:
1st hour: Mark Colville, Kings Bay Plowshares 7 – of the Amistad Catholic Worker, New Haven, Connecticut; Emily Rubino, Director of Policy & Outreach, Peace Action NYS
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- 1/22/21: Enter Into Force (EIF) day for the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW)
- what that means to the US and other (nuclear-armed) non-ratifiers
- Catholic Workers, KBP7
- Nuclear Weapons as a gun to the World’s head
- action steps: Back from the Brink campaign; call Congressional Reps
2nd hour: Aisha Jumaan, President of the Yemen Relief & Reconstruction Foundation; Kawthar Abdullah, Lead Organizer NYC Chapter of Yemeni Alliance Committee
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- current situation in Yemen
- International Day of Action for Yemen on 1/25
- involvement of external actors including especially US
- current needs [including personal stories]
- what people can do to help (including urging Biden to rescind Trump Admin’s designation of Houthis as a terrorist group)
- opportunities on 1/25
