Kathy Kelly Tonight!! – Tues, Nov 14, 7pm, BuffState, Bulger ComCtr, Rm So 2

Written by Victoria Ross on . Posted in Recent Activities, Talking Peace News, Urgent Appeal

Dear Friends!                 716-332-3904; 716-931-3520         11/14/17

Don’t miss Kathy Kelly today!!! Kathy Kelly – writer, speaker, two-time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence vcnv.org – will speak 7pm at Buff State’s Bulger Communications Center, Rm South 2, 2nd floor. As a front-line activist, Kathy will inform and inspire!

Also today: Cariol Horne Court support, 9am, City Court, Judge Hannah’s courtroom, 50 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, NY 14202 Phone: 716-845-2600.

We send from our Board: An invitation to contribute to the Golden Jubilee Fund for Western New York Peace Center! (see other announcements/events/campaigns further below)

For 50 years the WNY Peace Center has worked for comprehensive justice, respect for all, and an end to war and violence, at home and abroad.

For the Golden Jubilee Anniversary this year, a generous donor has committed to match any donation of $100 or more, made during the months of November and December (up to a total of $5,000).

If you want to contribute to this Peace Center Golden Jubilee Fund,

please make a tax-deductable donation:

-by check, made out to WNY Peace Center, sent to
WNY Peace Center, 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209

with memo: for Jubilee fund

-by the Donate button on the upper right at
http://wnypeace.org/

(paypal or debit or credit card)

with note: for Jubilee fund

Sincerely,

Rev. John R. Long and Dr. Mary A. Bisson (WNY Peace Center Board Members)

The Western New York Peace Center was founded in 1967 by Buffalonians responding to the call by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr to end the Vietnam War as part of the social justice and racial justice movements. 

The WNY Peace Center continues in action: resisting militarism and war around the world, fighting unsustainable environmental policies, promoting economic and racial and prisoner justice, protecting immigrants and refugees, teaching peaceful conflict resolution, and working in solidarity with Latin America.

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Thanks for your consideration of the above! Hopefully the WNYPC can keep going another 50 years!

Join our Democracy Now!-in-WNY Campaign!! #DN!WNY Please call WBFO/WNED to let them know we need to have Democracy Now! broadcast in WNY!! Please fill out the Audience Services Contact Form. Or call Audience Services 716-845-7000 ext.343. Urge them to facilitate our getting the news we need.
-You’ll also want to sign up for their Daily Digest at https://www.democracynow.org/ (bottom of page) – in English and/or Spanish!
-Contact Marty McGee at martinbuffalo@gmail.com if you want to help on the committee.

Below are event listings; campaigns; and regularly scheduled events – all in that order. And be sure to go to our calendar at wnypeace.org/calendar for more event listings – they are there and new ones keep right on coming! …..

Celebrate Peace, not war; Nonviolence, not violence; Truth, not lies; and Love, not fear, nor hate.  #loveisloveBUF

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EVENT LISTINGS

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Tues, Nov 14, Kathy Kelly will speak!! “Breaking Every Chain: Unshackling Ourselves from Endless Wars.” 7pm Buffalo State College, Bulger Communications Center, Rm South 2, 2nd Floor. Don’t miss hearing Kathy! She’s been in and out of war zones – including Afghanistan, Gaza, and Iraq during Shock and Awe (the first outrageous onslaught) – and is a powerful and excellent speaker. Don’t miss this presentation!

Lots of events on the WNYPC calendar go to wnypeace.org!!

CAMPAIGNS

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THE CARIOL HORNE WHISTLEBLOWER FUND

Our Shero Cariol just got another award: The Eye on History Award – much deserved!! The Western New York Peace Center has created a fund for the purpose of supporting police officers who face reprisals from their department from choosing to strictly uphold their oath to protect and serve the community.  gofundme.com/cariol-horne-whistleblower-fund. The Peace Center has named this fund after Cariol Horne who saved the life of a citizen, but was fired just prior to earning her 20-year pension.  Our goal is to encourage good police officers in following their moral conscience if and when it conflicts with the infamous blue wall of silence ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence).
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As you know, people desperately need our help because of the devastation caused by “natural” disasters (read fossil-fuel-burning-generated Climate Catastrophe). You can contribute as follows:

Puerto Rico– Belle Center, 104 Maryland St. Bflo 14201
716-845-0485 (tax deductible).  Water, clothes, blankets, other supplies being collected for shipment; as well as $.

Cuba———Alliance for Global Justice/Irma Relief, 418 W. 145th St.. New York, NY 10031(for tax deductible)
(Not tax deductible, IFCO/Irma Relief (same address) Phone: 212-926-5757

And Chiapas is in danger of more quakes.  You can donate, via Paypal, a Los Topos: donativos@brigada-rescate-topos.org

http://www.bbc.com/mundo/noticias/2014/09/140926_mexico_topos_terremoto_hr

Donations for Puerto Rico – we also recommend: Paypal address:  cdpecpr@gmail.com

The address above is for the Mutual Aid Community Soup Kitchens run by

Giovanni Roberto, friend of MaryAnne Grady Flores (UpstateDroneAction.org and Puerto Rico activist), feeding up to 1,000 meals a day in Cayay.

They have other community sites in other towns like Guaynabo and Caguas.

The Mariafund.org is another fund governed by many grassroots community groups.
Please give generously – the situations continue to be terrible for many!!

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Gender Justice Taskforce
If you believe that discrimination against all women should be eliminated please support enacting the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in the city of Buffalo. Follow this link for more information: https://cities4cedaw-buffalo.org/ and contact your district’s councilperson to urge them to support this ordinance too.
Darius G. Pridgen- Ellicott District- 716-851-4980
Christopher P. Scanlon- South District- 716-851-5169
David A. Rivera- Niagara District- 716-851-5125
Joel P. Feroleto- Delaware District- 716-851-5155
Richard A. Fontana- Lovejoy District- 716-851- 5151
David A. Franczyk- Fillmore District- 716-851-4138
Joseph Golombek, Jr.- North District- 716-851-5116
Ulysees O. Wingo, Sr.- Masten District- 716-851-5145
Rasheed Wyatt- University District- 716-851-5165

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Economic Justice Taskforce

Don’t forget to call your senators and congressperson to urge them to stop the proposed Tax Plan – it takes money from the middle and lower income people and give it to the wealthy and corporations. For more detail, go to Coalition for Human Needs at chn.org.

Please call our state senators and ask them to support The New York Health Act, the bill to guarantee health care to all New Yorkers, passed the NY State Assembly for the third consecutive year in 2017. Call now to help #PassNYHealth in the State Senate. Contact info is on our website
wnypeace.org/governmental-contact-info/). Learn more nyhcampaign.org

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Resist Militarism! Taskforce

See event listings above (Celebrate Armistice 11/11 @ 11am, Main & Church Sts, Buffalo; and Kathy Kelly at Buff State, Bulger ComCtr, Rm South 2, 2nd Fl, on Tuesday, Nov. 14, 7pm.)

Please call your Senators and Congresspersons to urge them to vote in favor and cosponsor if possible Senator Markey’s Bill # 200 and House Bill, Rep Lieu # 669, to Restrict First Strike with Nuclear Weapons.

And lastly, please sign on to Credo Action’s Stop Police Militarization petition here.

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Immigrant & Refugee Justice Taskforce

Retreat Nov. 10-12. See wnypeace.org calendar

Please call your NYS Assembly Members and ask them to support NYS ASSEMBLY Bill #4050. The GreenLight NY program restores access to drivers’ licenses to all community members, to avoid abusive immigration enforcement.  For more info, please go to
https://www.facebook.com/GreenLightNY/; Green Light Petition
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Vive la Casa, shelter for people awaiting documents and/or sanctuary, still desperately needs personal hygiene products and of course, CASH.
jrchc.org/vive
(Checks to Jericho Road/VIVE) 50 Wyoming St., Buffalo, NY 14211, 892-4354.
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Please support the Sanctuary Church, Pilgrim St. Luke’s UCC, (Utica and Richmond, Buffalo, NY 14222), with CASH to support the construction of showers.
For more info, call the Church at 716-885-9443, or go to http://pslucc.org/

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REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS in the One Movement, One Struggle

Riverside-Salem UCC/DC Sunday. Thanksgiving celebration for the life/friendship/spirit of Bobbi Grimm. Followed by potluck. Sundays, 4-7pm. Environmental Cottage, 3449 West River Road, Grand Island.

Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY
Mondays, 1-3pm. Vicki Ross hosting. W special guests incl Jay Egg, Geothermal Heating & Cooling. Go to wbny.buffalostate.edu or http://tunein.com/radio/WBNY-913-s27549/.

Buffalo Supports Standing Rock Water Protectors/Nekanesakt
1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month, 6:30-8pm. At Burning Books, 420 CT Ave. All are welcome.

Interfaith Peace Network
1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month, breakfast pot-luck 8-9:30am, NRC, 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY 14209 (entrance and parking round back).

Environmental Justice Taskforce
Protest the Shipments of VERY Dangerous Radioactive Liquid from Canada.
Fridays 2-3pm, Front Park, Buffalo.

Fridays – 1st and 3rd of the month; 6pm: Stop The Violence Coalition,
United Way Building, Delaware and Summer Sts.

Saturdays, Noon-1pm: Women In Black. Nonviolence vigil, Bidwell and Elmwood.

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Many thanks, peace, solidarity, and yes – Love. We shall overcome!!