Tomorrow: Giving Tuesday; “Surviving Criminal Justice in US..” Anthony Ray Hinton

Written by Victoria Ross on December 2, 2019. Posted in Recent Activities, Talking Peace News, Urgent Appeal

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Dear Friends,

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday! Please support the Western New York Peace Center – any day, and especially this Giving Tuesday – to help enable us to do even more organizing, collaborating, and energizing as we #Unite in #OneLove. Support our youth PeaceJams, marches, rallies, vigils, lobbying efforts, and campaigns.

Please remember to support our Friends of Democracy Now! in Buffalo campaign.

Democracy Now! gives vital news, and we need donations to help keep it on WBNY. Please contribute via the WNYPC – online or with a check sent (and made out) to WNY Peace Center, 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, and write in the memo line: Friends of Democracy Now! in Buffalo (or in a note in the online submission).

Of course, your donations – for Democracy Now! or for the WNYPC itself – are fully tax-deductible.

Just fyi, if you haven’t already seen it, the WNY Peace Center was appointed one of the 3 community groups to nominate a representative to the new Corrections Advisory Board. Congrats to Heron Simmonds, our representative to the Board; to April Baskin, Co Leg Chair who led the initiative; and to the legislators who voted it in. Please also call your County Legislator (see wnypeace.org/getInvolved/govtContacts) and urge them not to approve an increase in funding for the Sheriff’s Department. They have not yet used their funds for decent medical and mental health care. You can also use what SURJ organized at the bottom of this email. Many thanks to SURJ and all!

Please make a special point of going Weds, 12/4, to No More Deaths and Maltreatment, Erie County Holding Center Vigil, 4-5:30pm, Delaware btwn Church & Eagle. We are hoping to make our point even “pointy-er” re the lethal mismanagement by the Sheriff’s Department. Also please do call Gov Cuomo (518-474-8390) and urge him to recall Sheriff Howard for his terrible performance of his duties.

This week also sees:

– Tuesday, 12/3, Former Death Row Inmate and Exonoree Anthony Ray Hinton, 7pm (doors open 6:30pm), Montante Center.
– Thurs, 12/5, Environmental Justice Taskforce Mtg, 6-7:30pm, At Isaías González-Soto Branch Library (formerly Niagara Branch), 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo NY.

Read below and/or on our website at wnypeace.org for more info.

We are excited to have a new WNY Peace Center – Buff State Chapter brewing! Welcome, student organizer Toby Brisson, and many thanks, faculty advisor Prof. Mike Niman, author and commentator extraordinaire!

If you haven’t already, please sign the WNY Youth Climate Council’s petition to Buffalo Common Council to declare a Climate Emergency! Please
Sign Now
(if link doesn’t come through, you can go to our website wnypeace.org, select Get Involved; and it’ll be immediately under Current Campaigns!)

As always, more below, and lots more at wnypeace.org, and on our facebook page, twitter (@wnypeace), and Instagram (wnypeace)!

Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.

#Unite! #OneLove
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Events this week:

“Surviving Criminal Justice in America,” – Anthony Ray Hinton

December 3 @ 7:00 pm

At the Montante Center at Canisius College. Death Row Survivor and NYTimes Best-Selling Author, Anthony Ray Hinton speaks. Doors open at 6:30pm. Signed copies of Anthony Ray Hinton’s book The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life, Freedom, and Justice will be available for sale. Free and open to the public • Parking available in

Environmental Justice Taskforce Mtg

December 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

At Isaías González-Soto Branch Library (formerly Niagara Branch), 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo NY *Hazardous Materials Transportation and Citizen Science: Shipping by Rail; by Michael Ziolkowski. Associate Professor of International Business, Brockport State University of New York.Formerly, Michael worked in Logistics for Ingram Micro, Inc; and *Overview of Our Four 24-hour-long Trainspotting Efforts in 2019, by Charley Bowman, Chair, Environmental Justice Taskforce of the WNY Peace Center.

Saturday Academies at Lafayette Community School

December 7 and 14 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm

Free activities for the whole community! Join the WNY Peace Center for a Peace Jam (from 10am). Includes free breakfast and lunch.

Celebrate fair trade & justice with LASC at El Buen Amigo

December 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

CELEBRATING FAIR TRADE & WORKING FOR JUSTICE WITH SOLIDARITY NEWS FROM ACROSS ALL BORDERS 7-9 pm Monday, December 16 El Buen Amigo, 114 Elmwood Ave. Music and Refreshments welcome El Buen Amigo (the Good Friend) opened on Elmwood in 1989 as part of the Latin American Cultural Association. They deal directly with crafts people, cooperatives and small family businesses, and returns profits to the artists and their communities. Everyone welcome to our party. With reports on Chiapas and political developments in Mexico from Tom Potts and Bill Jungels, and other solidarity news.

www.elbuenamigo.org WNY Peace Center: www.wnypeace.org
& its taskforce, the Latin American Solidarity Committee: www.lascwny.org

Resist Militarism! Taskforce Mtg

December 18 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

At Isaías González-Soto Branch Library (formerly Niagara Branch), 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo NY. Discuss, among other things, a possible spring action at the NF Air Force base in response to the “Warheads on foreheads” article in the Buffalo News this fall (focus on making action plans more concrete).

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REGULARLY SCHEDULED EVENTS in the One Struggle, One Vision, One Love:

Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center Radio Show on 91.3FM, WBNY. Mondays, 1-3pm. Call-in show with Vicki Ross hosting. Also streaming on-line at wbny.buffalostate.edu. On 12/9, special Human Rights program with Andrea O’Suillibain, Director, Partnership for the Public Good, to celebrate 12/10 UN Human Rights Day.

Buffalo Nekanesakt. Indigenous support group/allies. 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 6:30-8pm. At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Ave. All are welcome!! Reading group for the Great Law of Peace meets on the last Tuesday of the month.

Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce – NO MORE Deaths! Vigil/protest Wednesdays 4-5:30pm at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). Another Death! 4 in 2 ½ months! The Sheriff’s Administration is a Public Health Emergency!! All are welcome. Please bring signs.

Resist Militarism! Taskforce – Regular monthly planning meeting third Weds of the month, Nov 20; 5-6:30pm. at Isaías González-Soto Branch (formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201.

Interfaith Peace Network, 1st and 3rd Thursdays of the month, 9:15am at 1272 Delaware Ave, Buffalo NY 14209 entrance and parking round back.) Breakfast potluck, planning/publicizing, & discussion.

End ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, vigil in front of the ICE building on the corner of (@250) Delaware and Chippewa. Bring your signs and spirit of Solidarity. We will not stay silent! #EndICETerror #FamiliesBelongTogether #AbolishICE #CLOSETHECAMPS #NeverAgainIsNow

Buffalo Youth Climate Strike – all are welcome 2-3pm at Niagara Square for a youth-led rally to stand up for People and the Planet, and radical change to mitigate and avert climate catastrophe. Bring signs! See you there!

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. Signs welcome and also usually available.

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

Women In Black – Nonviolence vigil, Bidwell and Elmwood. Saturdays, Noon-1pm. Signs also available. (and you don’t need to be a woman or dress in black)

Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage & UCC/DC – Various progressive spiritual activist and naturalist programs, Sundays, 4-6pm followed by a pot-luck. 3449 West River Road, Grand Island, NY 14072.

Of note: Little Africa Culture Club, 356 S. Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY. African Drumming Sundays, 12-2pm.

We shall overcome #Unitethestruggles #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver

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From SURJ, a WNYPC ally:
Dear SURJ Family,

We are deeply grateful to the many of you who turned out to the Public Hearing to demonstrate our opposition to the Sheriff Office’s proposed budget for 2020. With powerful and collective voice and presence, we made it clear that it is unacceptable for the Erie County Legislature to approve a $11 million increase for the Sheriff.

On Thursday, December 5th, the Erie County Legislature will hold their annual vote on the 2020 County budget. Before then, we want to magnify our voices – and we need each of you to make that happen.

From Monday, December 2nd through Thursday, December 5th (before Noon), we are asking each of you to take 10 minutes to call your legislator. We want to make it clear that a 9% increase to the Sheriff’s budget is nothing short of negligent and a continuation of their usual silence in the face of deaths and scandal in the jails.

Below are outlined steps for making calls. Please be sure to fill in the form at the end.

1. If you’re not sure, find out who your legislator is:

First, go to the Erie County Board of Elections “Voter Lookup”
Type in your information and click ‘search.’
On the next page, under ‘Voter Information,’ click on the green box that says ‘View Your Public Officials.’
Scroll down to the segment titled ‘Erie County Legislators.’

2. Find your legislator’s phone number:

District 1: Howard Johnson, 842-0490

District 2: April Baskin, 895-1849

District 3: Lisa Chimera, 832-0493

District 4: Kevin Hardwick, 858-8672

District 5: Thomas Loughran, 836-0198

District 6: Edward Rath III, 858-8676

District 7: Timothy Meyers, 833-3054

District 8: John Bruso, 858-8856

District 9: Lynne Dixon, 858-8671

District 10: Joseph Lorigo, 858-8922

District 11: John Mills, 858-8850

3. Call your legislator! We recommend calling within business hours (9a to 4:30p) and using this script:

My name is ________________ and I am a constituent of Legislator ________________. I’m calling because I am very concerned about the proposed $11 million dollar increase to the Sheriff’s 2020 budget. Despite at least 30 deaths in the County jails, as well as numerous investigations and lawsuits due to inhumane conditions, the legislature has consistently voted to approve increased funds for the Sheriff’s Office.

I’m asking Legislator ______________ (1) to deny the proposed budget increase and (2) make a public statement against the shameful conditions of the Erie County Holding Center.

Optional: Ask for a written response from the legislator.

4. Fill in this form after you’ve made your call!

In power and gratitude,

SURJ Buffalo

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Si, se puede! We shall overcome. #Unite

Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.

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Below are

– more event listings (see also calendar & facebook page); and

– Taskforce items and campaigns.
– Regularly scheduled events.

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COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

* ECONOMIC JUSTICE

The WNY Poor People’s Campaign meets 2nd Mondays, 6pm at Raqs Solidarity, 322 Amherst St., Buffalo, NY.

* EDUCATION & HUMAN RIGHTS

New York State’s Dignity for All Students Act (aka DASA or The Dignity Act) seeks to provide the State’s public elementary and secondary school students with a safe and supportive environment free from discrimination, intimidation, taunting, harassment, and bullying on school property, a school bus and/or at a school function. More information at: http://www.p12.nysed.gov/dignityact/

BOE Meetings

Board of Education meetings begin at 5:30 pm and are held in room 801 at City Hall, unless a venue change is previously announced. These sessions are open to the public. A schedule of upcoming board of education meetings can be found at https://www.buffaloschools.org/Page/85931.

More information on Buffalo Public Schools can be found at https://www.buffaloschools.org.

* ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Environmental Justice Taskforce Mtg

December 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

Climate Emergency Petition

Please sign on to the WNY Youth Climate Council petition to the Buffalo Common Council to declare a Climate Emergency. They want to get as many signatures as possible on paper or on the internet! So all are wanted (not just the young people!) to sign on and to help make a difference here in Buffalo. The online petition is here:

Sign Now

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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Two courageous activists were arrested for their work to prevent the outrageously destructive DAPL pipeline. Check it out Here: https://theintercept.com/2019/10/04/dakota-access-pipeline-sabotage/
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Action Alert re Stone Dam Road Pipeline: go to wnypeace.org/environmental-justice/

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– NAPL/Northern Access Pipeline (proposed to take fracked gas from PA through WNY) is looming again, as the fossil-fuel-profiteers never give up!!

However, si, se puede! Please call our representatives and senators to urge them to stop NAPL! SeeNorthern Access Pipeline Information for more info.

*GENDER JUSTICE

The Women’s March is coming up, and the Gender Justice Taskforce continues organizing. Please see our taskforce page on the wnypeace.org website. The Chair is Denise Robinson.

* IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE JUSTICE

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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Vive la Casa, shelter for people awaiting documents and/or sanctuary, still desperately needs personal hygiene products and of course, CASH. The recent large influx of refugees has put the facility under real stress. Please give generously.

jrchc.org/vive

(Checks to Jericho Road/VIVE) 50 Wyoming St., Buffalo, NY 14211, 892-4354.

* LATIN AMERICAN SOLIDARITY

Celebrate fair trade & justice with LASC at El Buen Amigo

December 16 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm

www.elbuenamigo.org WNY Peace Center: www.wnypeace.org
& its taskforce, the Latin American Solidarity Committee: www.lascwny.org

Sponsored by Peace Action-Canisius, www.lascwny.org/ and WNY Peace Center http://wnypeace.org/ Free and open to the public

January Coffeehouse – Jan. 27, Rev. Nancy Rosas, Sanctuary for refugees in Buffalo; 7pm at Canisius College Science Lounge.

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Latin American Solidarity Committee website: http://www.lascwny.org/ Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/pages/LASC-wny/143873822377380/

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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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Other Latin American Solidarity news:

Invest in the children of farmworkers! A donor has agreed to match gifts given through Rural and Migrant Ministry board members through the end of the year. Contact the Rural and Migrant Ministry for more details. www.ruralmigrantministry.org.

Venezuela Sanctions Petition

People are suffering mightily, including with a breakdown to their water system. 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!

– Cuba—IFCO/Pastors for Peace (same address) Phone: 212-926-5757. Please give generously – the situations continue to be terrible for many!!

-Chenalhó, Chiapas—

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

* PRISONERS’ RIGHTS

VIGIL Wednesdays 4-5:30pm – NO MORE! [Deaths, Brutality, etc!] Weekly protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). All are welcome. Malpractice and maltreatment under the current administration. Deaths at Erie Co Holding Center now at least 28 over Sheriff Howard’s tenure – outrageous!! Please bring signs. Vigil with concerned citizens as well as family members of victims of the maltreatment perpetuated in this system.

Joseph Bialaszweski died on July 26, 2019 after being found unresponsive days earlier in a cell at the Erie County Holding Center in downtown Buffalo. Joseph’s body was taken to a local funeral home for cremation and his loved ones were instructed to pay $900 to recover the ashes, a steep price for an already grief stricken family who have been given very little information about their son’s death.

Monica Lynch, sister to Connell Burrell who also died in the Erie County Holding Center just days later on August 2, 2019, heard about this gross injustice and decided to take action. She has been raising funds so that the Bialaszewski family might have some sense of closure after this unconscionable series of incidents. The two families have become acquainted through local rallies and speak outs as part of a greater effort to raise awareness about the 28 deaths that have occurred in Erie County jails under Sheriff Tim Howard and the egregious manners with which prisoners are treated while in custody.

Local officials, including the Erie County Legislature, have chosen silence while human beings like Robert, Joseph and Connell are locked in cages and subject to violence and mistreatment under a system that targets people of color and poor folks.

We hope you will join us in this fundraising: either by coming to the vigil and bringing a donation or by clinking on the link to give $30 TODAY.

Lastly please call Gov Cuomo at (518) 474-8390 to urge him to remove Sheriff Howard as he clearly is not up to the job.

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Please join us in promoting the H.A.L.T. Solitary Confinement campaign: 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

Save the date: Jan 21, lobby trip to Albany to get HALT passed.

* RACIAL JUSTICE

Monthly meetings announced on our website calendar.

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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.

We are glad that Mayor Brown has made marijuana arrests the lowest law enforcement priority, so people are no longer being arrested for small amounts of marijuana! Thank you, Mayor Brown!! This will go a long way to improving racial justice!

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!

Resist Militarism! Joint Meetings with Veterans For Peace #128, are 3rd Wednesdays of the month, 5-6:30pm. November 20. At Isaías González-Soto Branch Library (formerly Niagara Branch Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201).

Next Meeting: 12/18.

Resist Militarism! Taskforce Mtg

January 8, 2020 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm

At Isaías González-Soto Branch Library (formerly Niagara Branch), 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo NY. Discuss ideas for what an interactive memorial in Buffalo that acknowledges all victims of war could look like. All are welcome!

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Stand Up for Global Peace

The world is facing a 25-year peak in violent conflict. It is the main cause of human suffering today – trapping millions of civilians in conflict and uprooting 66 million people from their homes. According to the Institute for Economics and Peace, violence containment costs the world $14.3 trillion each year. There must be another way.

Over the past two years, a coalition of peacebuilding, humanitarian, and faith-based organizations have drafted a bill that would address the root causes of violence and fragility. The resulting legislation has been introduced in both the House and Senate as the Global Fragility Act (H.R. 1580/S.727). This bill would require the U.S. government – in collaboration with civil society – to develop a 10 year strategy to enhance stability and to reduce violence and fragility around the world.

We know that too much foreign assistance and Pentagon spending is spent on treating the symptoms of violence instead of its causes. By passing this law, the U.S. will be able to more effectively prevent violence around the world and reduce its enormous cost on families.

Today, hundreds of faith advocates will lift up the Global Fragility Act as part of their lobby day ask for the annual Ecumenical Advocacy Days. It is important for YOU to add your voice as well. Together, we CAN build a more Just and Peaceful World for All! Take action today to support the Global Fragility Act of 2019! https://p2a.co/Mc4rH0c

For more information: Global Fragility Act

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Know about the King’s Bay Plowshares? 7 courageous and compassionate Catholic Workers who were just found guilty after their trial this past week, facing potentially 25 years each. They 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”. Now is the time to write letters to Judge Lisa Godbey Wood regarding her sentencing of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7. We are collecting letters, especially from those who know the defendants, testifying to their character and the good work that they are doing in their communities which will not be done if they are serving long terms in prison. These letters are not the forum to criticize the law, the legal process or government policies. Rather it is the place to point out positive things about the defendants that should mitigate a harsh sentence.

Letters should be sent to defense attorney Bill Quigley at the address below. He will compile them and distribute to various defendants’ attorneys for delivery to Judge Wood. The attorneys suggest it would be helpful to get these done by Thanksgiving or the week after in order to get processed and delivered. Sentencing may be in January or possibly February.

The best letters are simple, polite, and tell good things about the person you are writing in support of.

The suggested format is as follows:

Date

Sender’s Name

Sender’s Address

Judge Lisa Godbey Wood

c/o Bill Quigley

Loyola University New Orleans Law Clinic

Campus Box 902

7214 St. Charles Avenue

New Orleans, LA 70118

Regarding Sentencing of: Mark Colville [or] Clare Grady [or] Martha Hennessy [or] Fr. Steve Kelly SJ [or] Elizabeth McAlister [or] Patrick O’Neill [or] Carmen Trotta (or all seven of the Kings Bay Plowshares)

Dear Judge Wood,

Suggested outline for the letter:

– Explain who you are.

– Explain who you are writing about, how you know them, and what good they do for their community.

– Explain why the Judge should not send them to jail.

– Thank the Judge for reading your letter.

Valediction,

Signature

For more ideas and details for your letters, you are welcome to see the defendants’ biographies here.

Thank you for your attentiveness to the trial, your support for the defendants and their families, and your focus on the issue of the abolition of nuclear weapons.

As Fr. Steve Kelly says, “The nuclear weapons won’t go away by themselves.” We do this work together.

In solidarity,

The Kings Bay Plowshares 7 Support Team

Please Donate

Thanks to your support, we have mobilized thousands of people around the world to speak out for the abolition of nuclear weapons. Please help with expenses, housing, and supporting defendants’ families following the verdict and the upcoming sentencing.

Send checks to: Plowshares, PO Box 3087, Washington, DC 20010
Donate online: GoFundMe

EMAIL: Media: kbp7media@gmail.com

General: kingsbayplowshares@gmail.com

WEBSITE: www.kingsbayplowshares7.org

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/Kingsbayplowshares

TWITTER: https://www.twitter.com/kingsbayplow7

INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/kingsbayplowshares7

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkSCM4dxIJxAolsl2oMP72Q/

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Please call our Senators and Congresspersons to urge them to make sure that the final version of the National Defense Authorization Act includes the amendments passed by the House to . . .

repeal the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.

prohibit military force in or against Iran.

support an end to the Korean War.

prohibit support to and participation in the war on Yemen.

prohibit the sale of air-to-ground munitions, used in the conflict in Yemen, to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

prohibit funds from the Special Defense Acquisition Fund to aid Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates if such assistance could be used to conduct or continue hostilities in Yemen.

prohibit funding the transfer of weapons to Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates under the emergency authority of the Arms Export Control Act.

prohibit funding for missiles noncompliant with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty.

support extending the New START Treaty, and prohibit the use of funds to withdraw from New START.

require that the U.S. military provide Congress with the cost and the national security benefits of every foreign military base or foreign military operation.

require the EPA to designate all PFAS (chemicals with which military bases poison ground water) as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.

require the EPA to revise the list of toxic pollutants under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to include PFAS.

prohibit DoD funding to house any foreign nationals who are in the custody of and detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

study potential cost savings with respect to the nuclear security enterprise and force structure.

study cost increases for the W80-4 nuclear warhead life extension program and prevent $185 million from being obligated or expended until the study is completed.

prohibit the use of funds for an exhibition or parade of military forces and hardware.

prohibit the use of funds from being obligated or expended at properties owned by the President or that bear his name.

amend the current statutory prohibition on members of Congress contracting with the federal government to include the President, Vice President, and any Cabinet member.

codify a Department of Defense policy to report to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System service members who are prohibited from purchasing firearms.

If you’d prefer to send an email to your senators, please do so.

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#Unite #Loveislove #PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver

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The time is now, and we are the people we’ve been waiting for!

And remember to tune in: DEMOCRACY NOW! IS NOW BEING BROADCASTMONDAY-FRIDAY, 8AM-9AM (LIVE) ON WBNY 91.3FM. Hear it over the radio or streaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu.

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Si, se puede! We shall overcome. #Unite

Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.

Tomorrow: Giving Tuesday; “Surviving Criminal Justice in US..” Anthony Ray Hinton

Events this week: “Surviving Criminal Justice in America,” – Anthony Ray Hinton

* ECONOMIC JUSTICE

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* RESIST MILITARISM!

Events this week:

“Surviving Criminal Justice in America,” – Anthony Ray Hinton