Tune into this week’s taping of Talking Peace with the WNYPC! Hour two features:
#YemenCantWait! With Aisha Jumaan, Executive Director of Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation; Jehan Hakim, Chair of the Yemeni Alliance Committee; Muna Munassar, Access (Lackawanna, WNY); Deidra EmEl, Executive Director of the WNY Peace Center; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Human Rights & Peace Education Chair, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.
Discussion topics:
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- Yemen’s humanitarian disaster under blockade
- US arms sale(s) to and enabling of Saudi war crimes (challenged in Senate incl by Sen Schumer)
- need to press our elected reps to stop US arming and enabling
- ways to support and get involved
Tune in to the WNYPC FB Live for a taping of Talking Peace you don’t want to miss!
Featuring the Afghanistan Crisis with Kathy Kelly, Ban Killer Drones, World Beyond War; Ladaisha Williams, a WNY Emerging Leader, doing Afghan refugee support through Urban League Young Professionals Program; Deidra EmEl, Executive Director of the WNY Peace Center; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Human Rights & Peace Education Chair, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.
Discussion: Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis – including direct experience of fall of Kabul, escape of Basir Bita, Afghan humanitarian and refugee; US role (20 years occupation, current freeze on Afghan money supply); ways to support and get involved, including both locally and generally; need to press our elected reps (Congress, President, Sec. Blinken) to free Afghan Central Bank’s funds; give humanitarian relief; reduce Pentagon budget
#ImmigrantRefugeeJustice #ResistMilitarism #EconomicJustice
The Coalition for Peace Action (CFPA) invites you to a special CELEBRATION of 40 YEARS of PEACEMAKING on Sunday, December 12 at 2 PM. This will be a hybrid event; in person at Christ Congregation, 50 Walnut Lane, Princeton, NJ, OR virtually via Zoom (click your choice at the bottom of this page).
Hear about highlights of CFPA’s four decades of accomplishments, and comments from a range of previous and current leaders in CFPA’s peacemaking team. For those attending in person, the event will end with a celebratory toast.
All persons attending either in person or virtually must register by clicking the appropriate button below. All those attending virtually will receive the Zoom link after completing the form.
If registering below to attend in person, you are attesting to being fully vaccinated.* No unvaccinated children. All in person attendees must also wear their masks.
*You have received the required vaccine(s) and the recommended booster.
