Tickets for 11/8 Annual Dinner; Help wOutreach Thurs.. ECHC Vigils Continue
716-332-3904 10/22/19 wnypeace.org
Dear Friends,
Our/Your WNY Peace Center 52nd Annual Dinner is just 17 days away! Please get your tickets (easy to order on the website – including the 3 menu options [yes we do have vegetarian after all – it’s Eggplant Rolatini. Please see website ;).
CodePink’s Medea Benjamin will illuminate: No Green New Deal Without Peace; Growing Our Peace Through Justice Economy. The WNY Resistance Revival Chorus will sing and receive the Alt-imate Activist Award; and Valentino Dixon the Emerging Leaders Award! !
Also come on out anytime between 10:30am and up to 8:30pm Thursday, 10/24, if you’d like to help with dinner outreach! You can also drop off any donations for silent auction or baskets at that time. We’d really appreciate it! We’ll have people make outreach calls. All happening at the WNYPC at 1272 Delaware Ave (entrance & pkg round back behind the building).
Please contact our newest staffperson, Nicole (thanks so much, Nicole!) at assistant@wnypeace.org with any questions. If you prefer to make calls from home, you can also contact Nicole for a list of names and numbers with a guideline script.
This will be another big week, as follows:
– tomorrow, Weds, at 4-6pm, NO MORE! [Deaths, maltreatment] Vigil and protest at the Erie County Holding Center (ECHC, on Delaware between Church & Eagle). Correction: there’ve been 4 deaths in the Sheriff’s custody in 2 ½ months. Please bring signs – and donations for Joseph Bialkowski’s family to pay the funeral home for his ashes (it is the height of irony that tho the Sheriff’s Dept. was responsible for his death the family is responsible for his ashes. We hope you will join us in this fundraising: either by bringing a donation to the vigil and or by clinking on the link to give $30 TODAY.
– Thursday, 10/24, from 7-9pm, we’re excited to invite you to a screening of Great White Hoax, and a Discussion; At Buffalo State, in Upton Hall 230 – Free Admission. The film is on Donald Trump and the politics of race and class in America; featuring Tim Wise; called “Timely and necessary” by Van Jones. The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Dorothea Braemer featuring Professor Mike Niman and Community Activist and former Canisius College Professor Heron Simmonds. Sponsored by Buffalo State’s Communications Dept; and its Office of Equity and Campus Diversity, SURJ, and the WNY Peace Center.
– Monday, 10/28, from 7-9pm the Peace Coffeehouse will feature “The Journey of Puerto Rico, a colony of the USA” with local poet and activist Albert O. Cappas, as well as Christian Parra. The history, current situation, and prospects for this unincorporated territory (read de facto colony) with its magnificent and unique culture will be explored.
See more below, and even more on our website!
Lastly, again, please join our Friends of Democracy Now! in Buffalo campaign. To keep it on WBNY, we must raise funds. You can 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). We need to keep DEMOCRACY NOW! BROADCAST Live MONDAY-FRIDAY, 8AM-9AM (LIVE) ON WBNY 91.3FM. and streaming live at wbny.buffalostate.edu.
Please go to our website (wnypeace.org) calendar for plenty more listings, campaigns in the website posts, and info on our facebook page.
Peace, Thanks, Solidarity, and yes Love.
#Unite! #OneLove
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Events this week:
No More Deaths! – Vigil at Erie Co Holding Center
Weds, Oct 23 @ 4:00 pm – 6 pm
Yet ANOTHER DEATH – 4 in 4 months! Sheriff Howard is (yet another) elected official who needs to be impeached. Please join with the WNYPC’s Prisoners’ Rights Taskforce at this regular Wednesday vigil at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). Come ahead – All are welcome. Grieving families will be joining us, and people with related lived experience are more than welcome! Please, too, bring signs. Cosponsored by Voice Buffalo, Brothers Doing Better, Prisoners Are People Too, Buffalo AntiRacism Coalition (BARC), and more.
Film: The Times of Harvey Milk
October 23 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
At Burning Books, 420 Connecticut St, Buffalo. The Times of Harvey Milk is a 1984 American documentary film. A true twentieth-century trailblazer, Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians elected to public office; even after his assassination in 1978, he continues to inspire disenfranchised people
Kings Bay Plowshares Trial (Brunswick, GA)
October 21 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm ongoing at least through the week
The trial for these wonderful and courageous, loving activists, our friends Carmen Trotta, Clare Grady, Liz McAlister, Mark Coville, Martha Henessey, Patrick O’Neil, and Steve Kelly will be in Brunswick, GA, where they are each facing up to 25 years for their vital witness to publicize the nuclear timebomb, threat, and usurping of resources. All are welcome to come and support them during their trial. It will begin with jury selection at 9 a.m. on Monday October 21 at the federal court house downtown. For more info on their action, etc. just click here.
Great White Hoax: Screening & Discussion
October 24 @ 7:00 pm
At Buffalo State, in Upton Hall 230 – Free Admission. The film is on Donald Trump and the politics of race and class in America; featuring Tim Wise; called “Timely and necessary” by Van Jones. The screening will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Dorothea Braemer featuring Professor Mike Niman and Community Activist and former Canisius College Professor Heron Simmonds. Sponsored by Buffalo State’s Communications Dept; and its Office of Equity and Campus Diversity, SURJ, and the WNY Peace Center.
I.C.E off Our Buses Rally
October 25 @ 2:30 pm
A the downtown bus terminal on North Division and Ellicott. Organized by International Workers Solidarity Network – Buffalo. Greyhound collaborates with ICE, DHS, and CBP, allowing their agents to board buses and interrogate passengers without a warrant, subjecting them to unnecessary delays and detainment. Buses are for transportation, not deportation!
Prayer Vigil for Kashmir
October 27 @ 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm
At Westminster Presbyterian Church, 724 Delaware Ave, Buffalo 14209. Cosponsored by Interfaith Peace Network, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), Riverside Salem UCC/DC, Westminster Presbyterian, the WNY Peace Center and many more. Dr. Khalid Qazi of MPAC just got back from Kashmir and his experience is encapsulated as follows: https://news.wbfo.org/post/back-six-week-nightmare-visitor-kashmir-details-ongoing-lockdown https://buffalonews.com/2019/10/12/viewpoints-six-weeks-in-the-worlds-biggest-open-air-prison/
Peace Coffeehouse: The Journey of Puerto Rico, a colony of the USA
October 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
At Canisius College – Science Hall (convenient parking on Main near Delavan). Speaker Alberto O. Cappas (Poet, Writer, Publisher, and Community Activist; Co-publisher of the Buffalo Latino Village) on colonialism, Puerto Rico and the current political climate. Sponsored by PeaceAction-Canisius, and www.lascwny.org/ and WNY Peace Center http://wnypeace.org/ Free and open to the public.
(WNYPC) Gender Justice Taskforce Mtg
October 28 @ 6:30 pm – 7:45 pm
At the Merriweather Library, 1324 Jefferson (at E Utica), Buffalo. Come out to discuss the Women’s March, intersectionality, and much more. All are welcome!
52nd Annual Dinner with Medea Benjamin
November 8 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Join us to celebrate our 52nd Annual Dinner, with special guest, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Medea Benjamin, the co-founder of the women-led peace group CODEPINK and the co-founder of the human rights group Global Exchange. She has been an advocate for social justice for more than 40 years!
The event, Nov 8, 5-9pm at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, is not to be missed. Not only is Medea and her perspective vital for people and the planet (more on Medea directly below), but we will also be giving out two very important awards:
— The WNY Resistance Revival Chorus, a wonderfully committed & progressively-minded women’s chorus, will be getting the Alt-imate Activist Award (named for WNY Peace Center lifelong stalwart member, organizer, and activist, Wayne Alt);
— Valentino Dixon will receive the the Emerging Leaders Award! As most of you know, Valentino was just released when exonerated after 27 years of outrageous, unjust incarceration.
http://wnypeace.org/wp/52nd-annual-dinner-with-madea-benjamin/
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.
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 – Wednesdays 4-6pm protest/vigils at the Erie County Holding Center (Delaware & Church). Another Death! 4 in 4 months! The Sheriff’s Administration is a Public Health Emergency!! All are welcome. Please bring signs.
Resist Militarism! Taskforce – Postponed: regular monthly planning meeting third Weds of the month, now date tba. at Isaías González-Soto Branch (formerly Niagara Branch) Library, 280 Porter Ave, Buffalo 14201; 5-6:30pm.
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.
Vigil for Victims of ICE Terror – Thursdays, 5-6pm, 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! This week runs 2-5pm (see above!)
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. This week, Jim Antal’s book.
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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