Dear Friends! 716-332-3904; 716-931-3520 5/12/18
Happy Mothers’ Day Eve! Remember it was started by mothers who lost sons in the Civil War to protest war and its carnage. Read the proclamation by Julia Ward Howe (1870) here.
Join us for the historic Poor People’s Campaign kick-off trip to Albany on May 14 – Theme: “Somebody’s Hurting My People, & It’s Gone On Far Too Long!” (It’s also a great song!) Special attention will also be paid to child poverty, Women, LGBTQIA, people with disabilities, and the Green Light Program (especially important for immigrants and refugees; and which is also rallying in Albany). The bus leaves 4:30am from the LaSalle Metro/Park&Ride. Please contact kirk@cejbuffalo.org and register on line as well at
https://bit.ly/2G2F6cM
(there’s also a facebook event page fyi). And please text MORAL to 90975 to join the Campaign.
See our website including calendar for more details, as well as additional postings of our Weekly News homepage post:
– Sat May 12: Muslim Public Affairs Council Dinner, 6pm Hyatt Regency ($80; $40 for NRC/Students) – support this great organization & Millenials!
– Mon May 14: Poor People’s Campaign Kickoff in Albany; 4:30am sharp bus leaves LaSalle Sta NFTA Park&Ride, 3030 Main St, Buffalo 14214. Register at bit.ly/BuffaloPPC5-9
– Tues May 15: Honduran Musicians/Activists, 7-9pm; Latin American Solidarity Committee, Pilgrim-St Luke’s, 335 Richmond Ave (cnr W Utica);
– Tues May 15 sundown: Ramadan Mubarak to all our dear Muslim friends and families, on this the beginning of the holy and auspicious month of Ramadan!
– Sat May 19: WNYPC Annual Membership Meeting, 2-5pm, 1272 Delaware Ave (entrance & pkg round back behind bldg.) No worries snack-luck. Renew your membership on our wnypeace.org/membership, or just come ahead. All are welcome! (and members vote 😉
– Tues May 29: PPC bus to Albany with Veterans, War Economy and Stop Militarism themes.
– Weds-Fri June 13-15: Univ, Community, & Gov’t Partnerships, Rose Bente Lee Ostapenko Ctr for Race, Equality & Mission; Niagara University niagara.edu/niagara-university-partnerships-for-race-and-equality/
#unitethestruggles
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, Justice, and yes Love.
Dear Friends! 716-332-3904; 716-931-3520 3/6/18
We are so excited about the FreeNY campaign, working to right the injustices in the criminal “Just-us” system. Please join us on Weds, March 14 to bus to Albany (no payment needed) to lobby for Bail reform and more! The bus will leave on the morning of March 14, at 4am at PUSH office, 4:30 am at South Campus UB Park & Ride. We expect to have returned by ~4pm from Albany. Please call Heron Simmonds, the WNYPC Racial Justice Taskforce Chair and organizer for Voice Buffalo, for details and to reserve a seat on the bus. See you there!!
– Poor People’s Campaign event planning Thurs, March 8 at 4pm at the WNYPC (1272 Delaware Ave, entrance & pkg round back near bldg.) – plan for Sharing Stories event to build the Beloved Community and prepare for the Poor People’s Campaign national kick-off Mothers’ Day plus 40 days of Action.
– Native American Community Services social at Medaille College, Friday, March 9, 5-9pm.
– Major Progress Program: Benefit for the WNYPC by the Dooleys and Hearsay, at DHU Strand Theatre, 540 Oliver St., North Tonawanda. 5:30 doors open (and best time to come if you didn’t already buy your $10 tickets here). BYOB and potluck!! A real happening – don’t miss it!!
Again, please go to our website wnypeace.org and facebook page for info on more events and campaigns, including
– MARCH FOR OUR LIVES, WNY Local and bus(es) to DC, March 24 (bus funded by Mayor Brown).
– Women’s Ways ~ Peace Ways
– Resist Militarism
– West Valley Nuclear Waste: Clean-up NOW!
– and more!
#unitethestruggles We shall overcome – Together!/Harambe!!
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, Justice, and yes Love.
#PowerWITH-NOTPowerOver
Dear Friends! 716-332-3904; 716-931-3520 1/24/18
The #StillResisting Weekend was amazing!! Huge thanks to the 35 cosponsors for sharing, and to the ~5,000 who participated!!
We had
– a wonderful time with our friends Science Demands Action (/Buffalo March for Science) at great sign-making parties on Friday and Sunday, with scores of participants;
– a day to remember gathering and going on the #StillResisting Bus to Women’s March in Seneca Falls, the birthplace of the US Women’s Movement (on this 100th year after we women won the right to vote!). Many thanks to Maureen Milligan and the stalwart bus-full!! What a time!;
– 4,500-5,000 –yes!!- at the Sunday Women’s Solidarity March!! (police estimate). Not only was the turnout record-breaking, the Spirit and principles very evident, the speakers fantastic, and the support overwhelming, but the message also came through loud and clear – Equality, Empowerment and SOLIDARITY!!
Attendees and reporters seemed crystal clear the we were there to #UnitetheStruggles in Truth and Love.
