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
On FB Live. Hosted by WNYPC Executive Director, Vicki Ross. So graciously taped by Think Twice Radio: Home of the Future!
First hour: featuring Clare Grady on
- Epiphany
- Catholic Workers/Plowshares
- Witness Against Torture
- Kings Bay Plowshares 7, nuclear weapons (including Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons)
Second hour: Agnes Williams, Seneca, Indigenous Women’s Initiatives; with Clare Grady
- Nuclear Waste/West Valley clean-up
- UN Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN DRIP)
- Prior Free & Informed Consent (to land use, etc)
- Environmental Justice/Care for Mother Earth
- People and the Planet
On WBNY 91.3 FM (or streaming at wbny.buffalostate.edu). Talking Peace host Vicki Ross, WNYPC Executive Director and co-host Talia Rodriguez, J.D., WNY Gender Justice Taskforce Chair with insights on peace and justice. At the moment, the show is being pre-recorded so graciously by Think Twice Studios!
- 1st hour with guest Bill Jungels: work of the Latin American Solidarity Committee (LASC); Bill’s work in Chiapas; LASC/ROCLA event on 1/6; Tom Pott’s work; Zapatistas; role of women in the struggle in Chiapas and here, Women’s March 1/16
- 2nd hour with guest Heidi Jones: White supremacists in anti-maskers’ clothing; recent events in WNY
