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Talking Peace taping: The New Sheriff & Admin
FeaturedFacebook LivestreamWith Alia Williams, VOICE Buffalo Live-Free Movement Building organizer; Rabbi Jonathan Freirich, VOICE Buffalo Board Member; Imam Myles Carter, Chaplain at Erie Co Correctional Facility at Alden; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator. Discussion: the new Sheriff, John Garcia, has hired the old Sheriff (Buffalo News Editorial) under whose watch 32 died Timothy Donovan, […]
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Free Alex Saab Webinar
Zoom Meeting NYAlex Saab is a Venezuelan diplomat the US government has illegally seized and imprisoned for what the US considers “violation” of the illegal US economic warfare on Venezuela. He was in fact assisting Venezuela in legally working around the US blockade on his country by finding the means to import food, medicine, and materials for […]
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JFMF: Excluded No More Call-In Day
Facebook LivestreamJoin Justice For Migrant Families for #ExcludedNoMore Call-In Day! The Excluded Worker Fund has failed to reach many vulnerable workers in Upstate and Western New York during the pandemic. They ask you to join in contacting our state representatives and urge them to replenish this fund so that New York State residents that have been […]
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Parole Justice Is Racial Justice Advocacy Day
Zoom Meeting NYThe People's Campaign for Parole Justice is hosting Parole Justice Is Racial Justice Advocacy Day centering Black History. Gather via Zoom for rallies, legislative meetings, and a press conference to pass Elder Parole (S15A/A8855) and Fair & Timely Parole (S7514/A4231A) in 2022.
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Missile defense: a forgotten program that is fomenting a global nuclear arms race
Zoom Meeting NYMissile defense has a strong linkage with the weapons in outer space. Missile defense has largely fallen off the agenda of the peace movement as a fait accompli. However, drawing from his experience as a Congressional staffer and as a Senior analyst for the Government Accountability Office, Subrata Ghoshroy will argue that it is not so. Both […]
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Talking Peace taping: 1619 Project
FeaturedFacebook LivestreamHour 1 of this week's live taping of Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center. Featuring scholar, author, teacher, Eye-on-History columnist Dr. Eva Doyle; Deidra EmEl, Executive Director, WNY Peace Center; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator. Discussion: What is the 1619 Project, and how has it changed our national conversation(s)? How did enslavement […]
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Talking Peace taping: Afghan Crisis Intensifies
FeaturedFacebook LivestreamHour 2 of this week's Talking Peace taping features Mohammad, an Afghan refugee recently arrived in WNY; Sameria Mbili, Student Organizer, Peace Action Canisius College; Sarah Kirschner, WNYPC Intern from Fordham MSW program; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Community Coordinator. Discussion: Afghanistan's economic shutdown (money supply frozen by US in NYC) famine worsening; children starving, for […]
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Love to Afghanistan – WNY
FeaturedBidwell Park (at Elmwood Ave) Elmwood & Bidwell, Buffalo, United StatesJoin the WNY Peace Center and Women In Black for a vigil (signs welcome!) in solidarity with the long-suffering people of Afghanistan, now facing the worst crisis ever! After 20 years of war in Afghanistan, the Afghan people are suffering more than ever. Hunger could kill more now than in 20 years of war. We […]
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International Relations & Militarism Today
Zoom Meeting NYBy any measure the pain and suffering caused by 21st century imperialism is staggering. Millions of people, mostly in the Middle East and South Asia, have died or been displaced by the war on terrorism initiated in 2001. These figures include the untold thousands who have died directly from war and violence in Libya, Syria, Yemen, […]
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How U.S. Sanctions Starve Afghans
Zoom Meeting NYJoin Grannies for Peace and special guests Kathy Kelly and Phyllis Bennis for a Valentine's Day Webinar on how we can move from a place of love to end this continuing war. Hosted by World Beyond War: a global movement to end all wars. Register here.
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UB Distinguished Speaker Series: Nikole Hannah-Jones
Center for the Arts University at Buffalo 103 Center for the Arts, North Campus, Buffalo, New YorkPulitzer Prize-Winning Creator of "The 1619 Project" | New York Times Magazine Staff Writer| ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMEMORATION KEYNOTE SPEAKER Nikole Hannah-Jones is a MacArthur Genius for “reshaping national conversations around education reform.” This is but one honor in a growing list: She is the creator of the New York Times Magazine’s “The 1619 […]
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COI Cultural Center: Medical Racism Documentary
FeaturedFrank E. Merriweather, Jr. Branch Library 1324 Jefferson Avenue, Buffalo, NY, United StatesJoin the COI Cultural Center's NMP Program on World Social Justice Day for a documentary and discussion about medical racism.
