Remembering Rev Dr King tomorrow; #TruthandLove; #UnitetheStruggles

Written by Victoria Ross on April 3, 2018. Posted in Uncategorized

Dear Friends!            716-332-3904; 716-931-3520         4/3/18

This will be another big week. First, Asalam Alaykum – Peace Be With You; and Happy Love A Muslim Day!! We love loads of Muslims – and appreciate the tremendous compassion, generosity, and devotion of their faith. We stand with them – for Love and against Hate!

Also tomorrow, since it’s 50 years since Rev. Dr. King was assassinated, we’ll be remembering him and working to awaken his spirit in us and around us! Please join us tomorrow – here are just two of the numerous events tomorrow (more on website):

-The Radical King Book Club Meeting@ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm; 420 Connecticut (first meeting). Don’t miss what promises to be a transformational experience of study and inspiration, led by Heron Simmonds, Racial Justice Taskforce Chair for the WNYPC; and then

– Readings from I am a Man, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm, At the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology, theater students from Buffalo State will perform select readings from the play I am a Man by Oyam O for high school students and the community. This play is about the Sanitation Worker’s strike – powerful and moving, about the last times of Rev Dr King. The interactive experience with students will help us awaken his spirit in us, in these challenging days!!

And there’s another special gathering at Burning Books (420 Connecticut Ave) on Friday, April 6, from 7-9pm: Black Panther Party 21 50th Anniversary. Sekou Odinga, dequi kioni-sadiki and Matt Meyer coming speaking about from Black Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions- The history of the Black Panther Party 21 from resistance and national and international movement building to COINTEL PRO, exile, mass incarceration, political prisoners and targeting of Black liberation

And the following day, Saturday, April 7,  1:30 pm – 3:15 pm, Students For Action will hold: Town Hall Meeting For Our Lives. Come out and support our students who want to meet their representatives, and/or their opponents – and unfortunately there are those who won’t show. At St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral, Buffalo 139 Pearl St. Come see these fantastic young people: they are not “radical partisans” but rather concerned, intelligent young men and women worried about their futures and their communities. They are leading the charge to make real change. #NeverAgain!

With the courage and persistence of young people – and all people – to #unitethestruggles and #stoptheviolence, real change is possible! Si, se puede!

Again, please go to our website wnypeace.org and facebook page for more events and campaigns, with new ones cropping up all the time! (Keep checking  😉    We’re all in this together and  We shall overcome – Together!/Harambe!!

#unitethestruggles

Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, Justice, and yes Love.

#PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver

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Below are
– more event listings (see also calendar & facebook page);
– Taskforce items and campaigns; and
– regularly scheduled events – all in that order.
And be sure to go to wnypeace.org/calendar for more event listings – there’s plenty more and additions are frequent! …..

No hate, no fear as we are #StillResisting.  #UnitetheStruggles !
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.    #loveisloveBUF   <3

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EVENT LISTINGS

D District Community Police Meeting

April 4 @ either 11am or 6pm (call 716-851-4413 for time)

This is a chance for community members to meet with the district chief and community police officers with the Buffalo Police Department. “D” District Call for a time (11am or 6 pm: 716- 851-4413) 699 Hertel Avenue Temporary: 205 Esser Avenue

The Radical King Book Club Meeting

April 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

On April 4th 5 pm – 6:30 pm @Burning Books  420 Connecticut St, Buffalo, NY 14213 Join The Radical King Book Club Meeting for the first event of discussing the book The Radical King by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Author), Cornel West (Editor) “The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class

Readings from I am a Man

April 4 @ 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm

At the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology, Wednesday April 4th 6:30pm-8:30pm. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King Jr.  THA 106 students from Buffalo State will be performing select readings from the play I am a Man by Oyam O. This play is about the Sanitation Worker’s strike – powerful and moving, about the last times of Rev Dr King. The interactive experience with students will help us awaken his spirit in us, in these challenging days!!

Black Panther Party 21 50th Anniversary

April 6 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Please don’t miss amazing upcoming event! Sekou Odinga, dequi kioni-sadiki and Matt Meyer coming speaking about from Black Panther 21 to 21st Century Revolutions- The history of the Black Panther Party 21 from resistance and national and international movement building to COINTEL PRO, exile, mass incarceration, political prisoners and targeting of Black liberation.

No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge

April 6 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join us every Friday from 2 PM to 3 PM at the corner of Busti Ave and Vermont St. in Buffalo NY. Vigil against the shipment of high level LIQUID radioactive spent fuel from Chalk River Ontario to Aiken South Carolina. If any of it spills out, it will be next to impossible to clean
TASKFORCE ITEMS AND CAMPAIGNS

ECONOMIC JUSTICE TASKFORCE

Join the Poor People’s Campaign – WNY. More info coming, and see more on NYS at NYS Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival

Please call our state senators to 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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EDUCATION & HUMAN RIGHTS TASKFORCE

PEACEJAM has started at Lafayette HS Community School Saturdays 10:30-11:30am, April 14 & 28, and May 12. Come for Inspiration, Education, and Action. Buff State Kinesthetic Learning students doing a special exercises with the teens and community. All are welcome.

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ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE TASKFORCE

The Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter has provided the Easiest one-click way to get your comments in before April 23 deadline regarding West Valley Nuclear Waste Site Scoping Hearings.

They even WROTE the informed and complete comment (which you can change if you like) which reflects Sierra Club’s Official Statement.

Please share this with as many members of your groups as possible.

https://www.addup.org/campaigns/west-valley-deserves-a-full-clean-up—comment-on-the-seis-today

For more info, you can contact Lia Oprea, WECAP, Cell: 310-770-3288
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No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge

March 23 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Join us every Friday from 2 PM to 3 PM at the corner of Busti Ave and Vermont St. in Buffalo NY. Vigil against the shipment of high level LIQUID radioactive spent fuel from Chalk River Ontario to Aiken South Carolina. If any of it spills out, it will be next to impossible to clean.
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Action Alert re Stone Dam Road Pipeline: go to wnypeace.org/environmental-justice/

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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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IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE JUSTICE TASKFORCE

Access is Equity: Why Licenses Matter in NY

April 4 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Justice for Migrant Families WNY invites you to Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Street in Buffalo, to come hear about the statewide campaign to increase Driver’s License access. Members of the Alianza Agrícola will speak on why they and other dairy workers are organizing for driver’s license access.
Calls are still needed to your NYS Assembly Members to 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 come out to above mentioned event, or go to
https://www.facebook.com/GreenLightNY/; Green Light Petition

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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LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE (LASC)

CONGRATULATIONS TO BILL JUNGELS and CHRISTINE EBER!!!
The Las Cruces International Film Festival bestowed its “Best FeatureDocumentary” award on Maya Faces in a Smoking Mirror, a feature length documentary directed by Bill Jungels, Co-Produced by Bill Jungels and Christine Eber and shot in Chiapas, Mexico. The documentary looks at how young Mayas are preserving or recovering their Maya identity and resisting the global forces that threaten this identity. Just as preserving native seed stocks helps us all survive in a world of vulnerable monocultures, the preservation and adaptation of traditional human cultures offers us all models that may help us survive as a species. The documentarypremiered in September of 2017 at Hallwalls.

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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—Go to hispanicheritagewny.org for a full report on ways to help.
We also recommend:

Mutual Aid Community Soup Kitchens Paypal address:  cdpecpr@gmail.com run by Giovanni Roberto, friend of MaryAnne Grady Flores (UpstateDroneAction.org and Puerto Rico activist].

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

Chenalhó, Chiapas—Humanitarian crisis
This article in the National Catholic reporter gives a brief overview of the situation.
https://www.ncronline.org/news/world/enough-deaths-mexican-clergy-reiterate-chiapas-crisis

If you would like to help, go to weaving-for-justice.org

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PRISONER’S RIGHTS TASKFORCE

Join us in promoting the H.A.L.T. Solitary Confinement campaign. Please call your State Senators and Congresspersons and ask them to cosponsor and vote for the bills A. 3080 / S. 4784.
Ways you can help:
RSVP for the upcoming Advocacy Day, March 13, to demand passage of the HALT Solitary Confinement Act: https://goo.gl/z22oVf

Sign the petition to support the HALT Solitary Confinement Act: https://goo.gl/HLwqbK

Encourage your organization to endorse the HALT Solitary Confinement Act: https://goo.gl/forms/FM2F6DZAcPZp1co32

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RACIAL JUSTICE TASKFORCE

The Radical King Book Club Meeting

April 4 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

On April 4th 5 pm – 6:30 pm @Burning Books  420 Connecticut St, Buffalo, NY 14213 Join The Radical King Book Club Meeting for the first event of discussing the book The Radical King by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Author), Cornel West (Editor) “The radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people…”
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THE CARIOL HORNE WHISTLEBLOWER FUND
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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Join the #BuffaloLLEP movement. It’s easy.

Join the hundreds of Buffalonians who make up the #BuffaloLLEP movement, asking Mayor Byron Brown to make low-level marijuana arrests Buffalo’s lowest level enforcement priority (LLEP).
People across the U.S. recognize what a destructive failure the 40-year “war on drugs” has been. In Buffalo, the news hasn’t sunken in yet, though, as those living in communities of color & low-income areas are still disproportionately targeted by law enforcement for marijuana arrests. Join the #BuffaloLLEP movement to stop these unfair & harmful enforcement tactics!
Learn more.
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Each Police District has a Chief and Community Police Meeting. We encourage people to go to them and communicate freely on issues of concern. See wnypeace.org calendar for listings.

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RESIST MILITARISM! TASKFORCE

End US Wars at Home and Abroad

April 15 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm

End the Wars at Home and Abroad! The time is now to return to the streets to make our voices heard. Join us on April 14-15 for united, nationally coordinated regional mobilizations to challenge the war makers and defend humanity. The future is in our hands! We’ll meet in Niagara Square and march down to Naval Park.
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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.

If you’d prefer to send an email to your senators, you can do so here.
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Our tax dollars are funding massive civilian casualties and the world’s largest humanitarian crisis in Yemen. The U.S. military is providing midair refueling to warplanes, sharing intelligence for targeting assistance, and selling U.S. bombs to the aggressors. U.S.-supported airstrikes target schools, hospitals, and water and sanitation infrastructure. As a result, millions of Yemeni people are on the brink of starvation and are facing the fastest-growing cholera crisis ever documented.

Every day that the war on Yemen continues, America is complicit in aiding war crimes. Call your U.S. Senators today at 1-833-786-7927 and urge them to stop fueling war on Yemen!

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REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS in the One Movement, One Struggle

Riverside-Salem UCC/DC Sunday. Progressive program 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. Jim Anderson & Vicki Ross co-hosting. Call-in show! Go to wbny.buffalostate.edu or http://tunein.com/radio/WBNY-913-s27549/.

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

Interfaith Peace Network
1^st and 3^rd Thursdays of the month, breakfast pot-luck **9:30-11am**, 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. Email Charley Bowman renewableenergy@wnypeace.org with your phone number for him to call and let you know whether (weather 😉 the vigil will take place that particular Friday. Or just show up and bring your own sign if you’re not sure others will be there!!

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. Signs also available. (and you don’t need to be a woman or dress in black 😉

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