latin american solidarity
Events
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ROCLA & LASC: Central America’s Forgotten History
FeaturedZoom Meeting NYJoin ROCLA & LASC for Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence and the Roots of Migration – a discussion with Aviva Chomsky. Join ROCLA's mailing list here to be sent the Zoom details. Aviva Chomsky has published numerous books on Latin American history, labor and migration, co-edited several anthologies, and has been active in Latin […]
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JFMF Press Conference: Crisis at the Northern Border
8204 Park Rd, Batavia, NY 14020 8204 Park Rd, Batavia, NY, United StatesThe crisis at the southern border has turned into the crisis at the northern border due to the federal policies of the Biden administration. ICE has been releasing immigrants en masse from the Batavia Federal Detention Center, mainly from Central America and Haiti at the southern border, in a process that further traumatizes them and […]
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CELEBRATING FAIR TRADE WITH SOLIDARITY NEWS ACROSS ALL BORDERS
FeaturedEl Buen Amigo 114 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY, United States7-9 pm Monday, December 20, 2021 El Buen Amigo, 114 Elmwood Ave. Music and refreshments welcome! LASC is the Latin America Solidarity Committee, a taskforce of the Western New York Peace Center.
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ROCLA: The Nicaraguan People Are Speaking, Will We Listen?
FeaturedZoom Meeting NYOn Zoom - meeting details here. Becca Mohally Renk has lived and worked in Nicaragua with the Jubilee House Community and its project there, the Center for Development in Central America, for the past 20 years. In her work in sustainable community development with the JHC-CDCA, Becca has focused on health care, worker-owned cooperatives, at-risk teenage […]
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LASC Peace Coffeehouse: For & From Haiti
FeaturedCanisius College-Science Hall 2001 Main St., Buffalo, United StatesJoin the Latin American Solidarity Committee (#LASCwny) of the WNY Peace Center for our January Peace Coffeehouse. Featuring local activist Katherine Mang on her micro-lending program, Mother's Club-Haiti (mclubsth.org), offering hope to rural Haitian families. LASC Peace Coffeehouses are in person with social distancing and masks required. At Canisius College Science Hall, Main and […]
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Way Forward in Haiti Mtg w/Asst. Sec. of State, Brian Nichols
Zoom Meeting NYRev. Dr. M. Bruce McKay, long-time friend of the Western New York Peace Center, is now Senior Organizing Consultant for Faith in Action - Northeast Region. They are sponsoring the "Way Forward in Haiti" Meeting to ask Assistant Secretary Nichols to take specific steps to change U.S. policy toward Haiti: to support civil society plans […]
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ROCLA/LASC: Witness at the Border
Zoom Meeting NYJoin the Rochester Committee on Latin American (ROCLA) and Latin American Solidarity Committee of the WNY Peace Center (LASCwny) tonight for: #WitnessAtTheBorder featuring Joshua Rubin. Joshua Rubin, a software developer from Brooklyn, New York, is a member of the leadership team for Witness at the Border. He was a witness at the Tornillo, Texas […]
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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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LASC Peace Coffeehouse: West Side Promise
FeaturedCanisius College-Science Hall 2001 Main St., Buffalo, United StatesFeaturing Talia Rodriguez, JD - WNYPC Gender Justice Taskforce Chair and Associate Director, West Side Promise Neighborhood - on leadership development in Buffalo’s Latinx and immigrant populations. Please note, LASC Peace Coffeehouses are in person with social distancing and masks required.
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Webinar: May Day International Brigade of Voluntary Work & Solidarity with Cuba
Zoom Meeting NYJoin us for a webinar to learn more about the May Day international brigade to Cuba, organized by Massachusetts Peace Action and July 26 Coalition. You will hear firsthand from Cuban youth and past Brigade leaders, learn about the victories of the revolution and impacts of the US Blockade, and learn how to join the […]
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LASC Peace Coffeehouse: A new moment for Honduras: Solidarity after elections
FeaturedCanisius College-Science Hall 2001 Main St., Buffalo, United StatesMonday March 28, 7:00-9:00pm A new moment for Honduras: Solidarity after elections. Canisius College Science Hall, near Main and Jefferson and the metro. Street parking on Main or in parking lot by the M&T bank. Karen Spring has worked in Honduras for over 12 years as human rights defender & researcher, especially with the Honduras Solidarity […]
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ROCLA-LASC: Honduras & US Imperialism Today
FeaturedZoom Meeting NYJennifer Atlee – worked in Central America since 1984 in the areas of human rights, trauma and recovery and U.S. policy with Witness for Peace, the Guatemalan Church in Exile, and Nicaraguan Ministry of Social Welfare, AFSC (Quakers), and the Quixote Center. She is the Coordinator of the Nicaragua – United States Friendship Office of the Americas and […]
