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  • ROCLA & LASC: Central America’s Forgotten History

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    Zoom Meeting NY

    Join 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 States

    The 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 […]

  • CELEBRATING FAIR TRADE WITH SOLIDARITY NEWS ACROSS ALL BORDERS

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    El Buen Amigo 114 Elmwood Ave, Buffalo, NY, United States

    7-9 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.

    Free

  • ROCLA: The Nicaraguan People Are Speaking, Will We Listen?

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    Zoom Meeting NY

    On 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

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    Canisius College-Science Hall 2001 Main St., Buffalo, United States

    Join 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 NY

    Rev. 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 […]

  • ROCLA/LASC: Witness at the Border

    Zoom Meeting NY

    Join 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 […]

  • Free Alex Saab Webinar

    Zoom Meeting NY

    Alex 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 […]

  • LASC Peace Coffeehouse: West Side Promise

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    Canisius College-Science Hall 2001 Main St., Buffalo, United States

    Featuring 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 NY

    Join 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 […]

  • LASC Peace Coffeehouse: A new moment for Honduras: Solidarity after elections

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    Canisius College-Science Hall 2001 Main St., Buffalo, United States

    Monday 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 […]

  • ROCLA-LASC: Honduras & US Imperialism Today

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    Zoom Meeting NY

    Jennifer 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 […]