WNY Women’s March 2021 (Zoom)
On Zoom – register in advance here. The WNY Women’s March 2021 will include breakout rooms with special discussion topics, and will feature guest speakers, music, and more! After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Schedule:
1:55pm: Drumming intro (pretaped drums only) – from Serless Adams & Roc Da Mic, PeaceJamming at Little Africa Culture Club
2pm Gnonyoh (Indigenous Thanks-giving opening by Laticia McNaughton Pattison)
2:05 Introduction – Vicki Ross (including values, reminders, agenda)
2:10 Drumming intro (pretaped drums only) – from Serless Adams & Roc Da Mic, PeaceJamming at Little Africa Culture Club
2:13 Spoken Word – Confident Girls Mentoring Program
2:15 Introductions to Facilitators and Breakout Sessions:
Themes include positive goals as the opposite of Dr. King’s triple(/quadruple/quintuple) evils of society:
- Women in Universal Solidarity (antidote to Racism/Bigotry), with Franchelle Parker, Director of Open Buffalo, WNYPC Board Member;
- Women in Peacemaking, (antidote to Militarism/Violence), with Marie Schuster, WNYPC Board Chair, co-chair Resist Militarism! Taskforce and Poet Jillian Hanesworth;
- Women in Cooperative Economics (antidote to Materialism/Rampant Capitalism/Poverty), with Deidra EmEl, WNYPC Coordinator, Economic Justice Taskforce Chair;
- Women in Sustainability (antidote to Environmental Degradation), with Agnes Williams, Seneca, leading Indigenous Women’s Initiatives
- Women in Reverence for Life (antidote to Nationalism/Religious Nationalism), with Talia Rodriguez, WNYPC Gender Justice Taskforce Chair and Associate Dir. of West Side Promise Neighborhood, and Gabrie’l Atchison, Episcopal Diocese of WNY.2:35pm Breakout Session – Discussion
Intros by Facilitators, Special Guest Speakers (incl notetaker/report back plan).
Exploration of:
- Presenting issues
- Goals and objectives (more specific goalsl)
- Obstacles – support for the “evil”
- Strengths, Resources, Allies
- Tactics and Strategies for Change
- Next Steps
3:25pm Return to Larger Group; Report backs by each group
3:45pm Next Steps
3:50pm Communal Music – People Power from Serless Adams & Roc Da Mic, PeaceJamming at Little Africa Culture Club, with Jalonda Hill and Kwame Bell.
3:55pm Indigenous Closing – by Laticia McKnaughton Pattison
Get your pink WNYPC t-shirt in time for the Women’s March by becoming a WNYPC Member!
The Women’s March of Buffalo/WNY, opposed to all forms of oppression, seeks to increase equity and equality for women and all oppressed people by ensuring structural and systemic changes in our local government, local businesses and organizations, and within society at large in order to guarantee a woman’s right to health, safety, and freedom from violence. We seek this regardless of racial, economic, or citizenship status; and value the dignity and humanity of women of color, women with disabilities, and lgbt/queer and gender non-conforming people, and everyone’s equal place in the movement and in society.
We’re so grateful for our allied cosponsors:
SEIU/1199 Main St. Office, WNY Area Labor Federation,AFL-CIO, Activists of Buffalo, Bee Social, Ain’t I a Woman Campaign, Allies for Black Justice, Black Love Resists in the Rust, Brothers Doing Better, Buffalo Chapter of the Association of Black Social Workers, Buffalo State Center for Health and Social Research, Burning Books, Bury The Violence, Center for Inquiry, CEJ Buffalo, Citizen Action Of Western New York, Citizen Coalition for Wildlife and the Environment, ConNectCommunity Health Worker Network of Buffalo, Concerned Clergy of WNY, Confident Girl Mentoring Program, Inc., Daughters of Creative Sound, El Buen Amigo & LACA Non-Profit, Food For All, Free the People, Global Justice Ecology Project, Hispanic Heritage Council of Western New York Inc., Hispanic Women’s League, Inclusive Theater of Western New York, Indigenous Women’s Initiatives, Interfaith Peace Network of WNY, Jewish Voice for Peace – Buffalo, Muslim Public Affairs Council – MPAC, NAACP Buffalo Branch, National Federation of Just Communities, Nekanesakt/Buffalo Supports Standing Rock Water Protectors, [New Yorkers Against Gun Violence – WNY ->] Gun Sense NY, NYSUT SRPs, New York Civil Liberties Union -WNY, Open Buffalo, Organize for Action WNY, Peace Action New York State, Peace Action Niagara University, Peacejam Buffalo, Poor People’s Campaign- WNY, Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York, PUSH Buffalo, Pretty As A Daisy Mentoring & Enrichment Program, Queen City Workers’ Center, Rahama, Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage, Roc Da Mic, Sierra Club Niagara Group, Sister District for Western New York, a NYPAN Chapter, StandUp WNY, Stop The Violence Coalition – Buffalo, Stronger Together WNY, Corp., The Subversive Theatre Collective,Showing Up For Racial Justice (SURJ)–Buffalo, NY, Survivor Activists of Domestic Violence, UB Gender Institute, Ujima Co, Inc., Veterans for Peace #128, We Are Women Warriors, Women Against Violence Everywhere (WAVE Buffalo), We Exist Coalition- Buffalo NY, Wild Spirit Education, WNYmedia Network, WNY Women’s Foundation
More on themes and special guests:
- Women in Universal Solidarity (antidote to Racism/Bigotry), with Franchelle Parker, Director of Open Buffalo, WNYPC Board Member;
- Women in Peacemaking, (antidote to Militarism/Violence), with Marie Schuster, WNYPC Board Chair, co-chair Resist Militarism! Taskforce and Poet Jillian Hanesworth;
- Women in Cooperative Economics (antidote to Materialism/Rampant Capitalism/Poverty), with Deidra EmEl, WNYPC Coordinator, Economic Justice Taskforce Chair; special input from Holly Nowak of Coalition for Economic Justice, Poor People’s Campaign, and Elyse Kemp of Ain’t I a Woman Campaign;
- Women in Sustainability (antidote to Environmental Degradation), with Agnes Williams, Seneca, leading Indigenous Women’s Initiatives;
- Women in Reverence for Life (antidote to Nationalism/Religious Nationalism), with Talia Rodriguez, WNYPC Gender Justice Taskforce Chair and Associate Dir. of West Side Promise Neighborhood, and Gabrie’l Atchison, Episcopal Diocese of WNY.
Please check back here and on WNYPC social media accounts for further details as they are announced. Interested in being a co-sponsor? Email assistant@wnypeace.org.