Dear Friends,
As you know, the WNY Peace Center is celebrating its 50th year, and our Annual Dinner will be even more special than usual. We’re exciting to announce – and confirm the leaks 😉 – that our keynote speaker will be the trail-blazing beacon of Democracy Now!,
************ AMY GOODMAN!!!! **************
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on over 1,400 public television and radio stations worldwide.
Amy has won many awards. The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard honored Goodman with the 2014 I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence Lifetime Achievement Award. She has co-authored 6 NYTimes best-sellers. The Independent of London called Amy Goodman and Democracy Now! “an inspiration,” and we do too!!
The 50th Annual Dinner will be held on Friday, Nov. 3, this year (a bit earlier than usual due to Ms. Goodman’s schedule). Doors will open at 5pm, at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.
We’ll appreciate your
– buy a ticket, or even a table;
– renew your membership to get a discount on your ticket;
– contribute toward the student/ltd income tickets; and/or
– book a vendor table.
Please also email wnypcvolunteers@wnypeace.org for info about putting ads, messages, and mementos in the program book.
Dear Friends, 50th year 716-332-3904; 716-931-3520 8/15/17
Please join us tomorrow, Weds, Aug 16, 5-6pm, at Not Here, Not Ever: Coming together in response to violence in Charlottesville. Sponsored by Co Exec Mark Poloncarz and Common Council President Pridgen, WNY Peace Center, and more at Durham Memorial AME Zion Church, 174 E Eagle St., Buffalo. Stand together to denounce violence, racism and bigotry and to commemorate the lives lost in Charlottesville, VA.
The hate and violence exhibited by racist white supremacist groups over the weekend – and the “excusiology” of Donald Trump – also make the Sept 16, 4th Annual Peace-Justice-Nonviolence Festival & Walk more important than ever! Add your other group(s) to the 150 partners by contacting Tom Casey
Dear Friends, 50th year 716-332-3904; 716-931-3520 8/11/17
As megalomaniacs nuke-rattle over North Korea, Guam, and more; without sense and without reverence for life, please join us tomorrow:
No Nukes Vigil: Sat, Aug 12, 1-2pm. Bidwell Park, Bidwell Pkwy & Elmwood Ave, Buffalo. Come stand against war and war-mongering; and stand for a peaceful and Nuclear Free Future. Signs welcome; some on hand. (Directly follows Women In Black Nonviolence vigil, Noon to 1pm every Sat, same spot.) Sponsored by the Interfaith Peace Network and the WNY Peace Center.
Also, please continue to STOP The Attempts to repeal and/or de-fund the Affordable Care Act (ACA, aka Obamacare) by calling our US senators and reps. And call our state senators and 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
We’re so excited about our Sept 16, 4th Annual Peace-Justice-Nonviolence Festival & Walk! Currently sponsored by 150 groups! To sign your group up as a partner, contact Tom Casey caseytpc@aol.com; as a sponsor ($), contact Paul McQuillen wnycoalition.paul@gmail.com; as a tabler, Sr. Maureen Harris maureenharris14301@yahoo.com. We’ll start at 11am with tabling and Special Children & Youth Workshop
