#REJECTKavanaugh

Written by Victoria Ross on September 4, 2018. Posted in Uncategorized

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Hello friends,

Today, hearings begin for Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court nominee.

An unindicted co-conspirator should not be allowed to choose a judge for

the highest court in the land. US Supreme Court judges make decisions that

affect generations.

Please call our senators, Schumer and Gillibrand to demand that they

reject Kavanaugh as Supreme Court judge.

In addition, please also call the following congresspersons to demand that

they reject Kavanaugh as Supreme Court judge:

Lisa Murkowski (AK) (202)-224-6665

Jeff Flake (AZ) 202-224-4521

Lindsey Graham (SC) (202) 224-5972

Susan Collins (ME) (207) 622-8414

Bob Corker 202-224-3344

We must #UnitetheStruggles. The time is now, and we are the people we’ve

been waiting for. Crisis = Opportunity.

#REJECTKavanaugh

www.elections.ny.gov/district-map/district-map.html

Don’t forget Weds, Sept 5, is the last session of the inspiring and

thought-provoking Radical King Reading Group, at 6-8pm at the WNYPC/NRC,

1272 Delaware Ave (entrance & pkg round back behind building). Come help

decide what’s next!

And there are numerous events this Thursday, and we have a weekend full of

events, including:

Saturday, 8/8:

Jefferson Avenue Arts Festival, September 8 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice, September 8 @ 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm

We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove

The time is now, and we are the people we’ve been waiting for. Crisis = Opportunity.

See our calendar for more details and events!

And remember to tune in: DEMOCRACY NOW! IS NOW BEING BROADCAST

MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8AM-9AM (LIVE) ON WBNY 91.3FM. Hear it over the radio or streaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu or http://tunein.com/radio/WBNY-913-s27549/.

#UniteTheStruggles #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver #LoveisLoveBUF

Below are
– more event listings (see also calendar & facebook page);
– Taskforce items and campaigns; and
– regularly scheduled events – all in that order.

No hate, no fear as we are #StillResisting. Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.

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EVENT LISTINGS

Thursday, 8/6:

– Candidates Forum, 6-7:30pm, organized by NAACP, cosponsored by WNYPC & others, at the Central Public Library;

– The Environmental Justice Taskforce (of the WNYPC)/WNY Drilling Defense Mtg, 6-7:30pm; at the Niagara Porter Public Library;

– the Police – Community Speakout Series – last of the three scheduled by the Police Advisory Board, 7-8:30pm at the Gloria J. Parks Community Center, 3242 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14214; and last but not least

– Film showing: Battle of Algiers (1966); at Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St., Buffalo, NY 14213. This classic, critically acclaimed film is based on events during the Algerian War against the French government, and was required viewing for many recruits of the Black Panther Party. Presented by Veterans for Peace and the Resist Militarism Taskforce of the WNY Peace Center.

Friday, 8/7:

2nd Annual North Buffalo Flashlight Walk

September 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Starting at North Park Academy, 780 Parkside Ave, Buffalo, NY 14216 https://www.facebook.com/events/678143312540313/ Last August’s happenings in Charlottesville, Virginia were upsetting and unsettling to Americans across the country. This get together was developed to get our friends, family and neighbors together for a “flashlight walk” in our beautiful and welcoming North Buffalo neighborhood, to celebrate and stand up for the beauty of diversity, and the importance of fighting against racism and discrimination in our community.

Saturday, 8/8:

Jefferson Avenue Arts Festival

September 8 @ 10:00 am – 6:00 pm

Jefferson Avenue, E. Utica to E. Ferry The Jefferson Avenue Arts Festival is a celebration of Art, Culture, and Community. Jefferson Avenue is a symbol of the Eastside Buffalo, New York renaissance. Join us for live music, food vendors, art/merchandise vendors, and kids activities.

Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice

September 8 @ 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm

@ Canalside. Buffalo residents and visitors will join thousands of rallies held in cities and towns around the world to demand our local leaders commit to building a fossil free world that works for all of us. We will rise for our planet, our livelihoods, and our communities. WE RISE for the end of discrimination and degradation, and the birth of just communities, jobs, and quality of life!

Sunday, 8/9:

Run/walk/bike/roll/skate in Solidarity w/Political Prisoners

September 9 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

(A non-competitive run/walk/bike/roll/skate organized to generate solidarity and support with political prisoners here in the United States.) Meet near Ashkers Juice stand in Delaware Park, Buffalo. And/or sign up as a sponsor on paypal (see below).

WNYMuslimsDiversity Cruise

September 9 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Erie Basin Marina, 329 Erie Street, Buffalo, NY 14202. WNYMuslims welcomes you to join us aboard the Diversity Cruise! Spend some time on the water and explore the diversity that surrounds Western New York. The tour is full of fun, music and food. Boards at 3:30pm, leaves at 4:00pm.

And please put these on your calendar

– Sept 13 – NYS PRIMARIES. Please exercise your right to VOTE. It’s one of your most powerful tools for change.

– Sept 15 – Being Church, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm, Episcopal Diocese of WNY, 1064 Brighton Rd., Tonawanda, NY 14150.

– Sept 20 Peace Justice Nonviolence Festival, 5:30pm (tbd Niagara Sq)

– Sept 21 International Day of Peace celebration, 6-9pm, Unity of Buffalo Church

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TASKFORCES

ECONOMIC JUSTICE TASKFORCE

Please continue to support the Poor People’s Campaign. Current focus: Voter Registration and empowerment. Voter Registration, Mondays, 5:15pm – dark. Next Voter Registration canvass: Monday, Sept. 10, 5:15 pm, First Presbyterian Church.

EDUCATION & HUMAN RIGHTS TASKFORCE

ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE TASKFORCE

Thursday, 8/6: The Environmental Justice Taskforce (of the WNYPC)/WNY Drilling Defense Mtg, 6-7:30pm; at the Niagara Porter Public Library

Rise for Climate, Jobs, and Justice

September 8 @ 12:30 pm – 4:00 pm

No Nuclear Waste over the Peace Bridge

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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Note: Save the Date – Sept 8 for a big Climate Justice Event!!

Action Alert re Stone Dam Road Pipeline: go to wnypeace.org/environmental-justice/

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

Vigil for Victims of ICE Terror
Thursdays, 5-6pm, ICE building on the corner of Delaware and Chippewa. Bring your signs and spirit of Solidarity. We will not stay silent! #EndICETerror #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishICE

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Calls are still needed to your NYS Assembly Members to ask them to support NYS ASSEMBLY Bill #4050. IF SEAN RYAN IS YOUR ASSEMBLYPERSON, PLEASE CALL HIM! 716-885-9630! ALSO CO CLERK MICKEY KEARNS (716) 858-8785.

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.

LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY COMMITTEE (LASC)

Venezuela Sanctions Petition

After the attempted assassination of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, your help is requested. Please sign the petition to end US and Canadian sanctions: https://afgj.salsalabs.org/campaigntoendusandcanadasanctionsagainstvenezuela/index.html. The civilians and general populations are the ones to pay for this kind of foreign policy. The US government needs to stop penalizing the common people and destabilizing other countries. Please sign and share. Many thanks to Shontae Cannon-Buckley for her work on this issue!

Stand with Sen. Sanders: Rebuild Puerto Rico
The situation is still dire in Puerto Rico. Please go to the link below to see what you can do to Stand with Puerto Rico (and Sen Sanders).

https://act.credoaction.com/sign/sanders_puerto_rico?t=8&akid=26241%2E8770573%2Evra5l7

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As you know, people desperately need our help because of the continuing devastation caused by “natural” disasters (read fossil-fuel-burning-generated Climate Catastrophe) as well as other factors. 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

Run/walk/bike/roll/skate in Solidarity w/Political Prisoners

September 9 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

Wednesdays 4-5:30pm protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). All are welcome. Please bring signs.

Please join us in promoting the H.A.L.T. Solitary Confinement campaign. Please call your State Senators and ask them to cosponsor and vote for the bills S. 4784. (You can also thank the representatives who passed it in the Assembly!)
Other Ways you can help:

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

RACIAL JUSTICE TASKFORCE

Thursday, 8/6: Police – Community Speakout Series – last of the three scheduled by the Police Advisory Board, 7-8:30pm at the Gloria J. Parks Community Center, 3242 Main St., Buffalo, NY 14214

September 7 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

2nd Annual North Buffalo Flashlight Walk

WNYMuslimsDiversity Cruise

September 9 @ 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

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, and/or call your District and ask when & where the next Chief and Community Police Meeting will be held.

RESIST MILITARISM! TASKFORCE

Thursday, 8/6: Film showing: Battle of Algiers (1966); at Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St., Buffalo, NY 14213. This classic, critically acclaimed film is based on events during the Algerian War against the French government, and was required viewing for many recruits of the Black Panther Party. Presented by Veterans for Peace and the Resist Militarism Taskforce of the WNY Peace Center

Know about the King’s Bay Plowshares? 7 courageous and compassionate Catholic Workers who went to largest submarine base in the world Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary’s, Georgia on April 4th, 2018. They went to make real the prophet Isaiah’s command to “beat swords into plowshares”. Read their story at https://www.kingsbayplowshares7.org/ . Donate, help us organize on their behalf, and agitate and pray for their acquittal. They face very serious charges of up to a decade of prison time, just for reminding our government of the illegal and foolhardy nature of our nuclear weaponry.

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.
–support House Resolution 922 to define presidential wars not declared by Congress as impeachable offenses. These wars include wars of co-belligerency such as the US role in the atrocities in Yemen.

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 – Progressive program followed by potluck. Sundays, 4-7pm. Environmental Cottage, 3449 West River Road, Grand Island. Session on Bob Dylan.

Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays, 1-4pm. 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!!

Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce. Wednesdays 4-5pm protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). All are welcome. Please bring signs.

Interfaith Peace Network
Next meeting 9:15am, Thurs, Sept 6, at NRC, 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY 14209 (entrance and parking round back).

Environmental Justice Taskforce
Vigil to Protest the Shipments of VERY Dangerous Radioactive Liquid from Canada coming over the Peace Bridge. Fridays 2-3pm, Front Park at Vermont & Busti, Buffalo. Sign welcome and also usually available.

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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