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Volunteers for Fair Trade Festival |
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By Nada Khader on
9/6/2007 10:00 AM
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A note from WESPAC Board member, Joan Indusi:
WESPAC Fdn.'s Annual Fair Trade Crafts Fair is Satuday, November 24, 2007, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm. Once again, it will be held in White
Plains at the Memorial United Methodist Church.
Our Fair Trade Crafts Fair has been very successful with many people
looking forward to this fun and interesting day. Last year we had over
1,000 people attending and we expect another good crowd.
As always, this fair is driven by the efforts of many volunteers. There
are opportunities to help before the event as well as on the day of the
event.
Here is a list of committees. (We need coordinators for each committee
as well as people who are interested in working on the committee. Also,
we are in need of volunteers to work for a few hours on the day of the
event.)
-Set-up (the night before and the mor ...
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Short Story Competition! |
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By Nada Khader on
2/25/2007 11:53 AM
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DEADLINE: MARCH 31, 2007 - 36 DAYS TO GO!
IMAGINE A SOCIETY IN WHICH...
...food, clothing, housing, education and medical care are guaranteed to everyone.
...most farms, banks, industries and services are run as cooperatives owned by the workers.
...there are no multinational corporations.
...different voices, languages and cultures are respected.
...there is self-sufficiency in food, medicines, clothing, housing, and local transport.
...the environment is protected and restored, all agriculture is organic, garbage is recycled and renewable energy is used.
...universal spirituality is valued, not religious dogmas or conflicts.
...leaders are selfless servants of the people.
Short story competition describing a futur ...
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WESPAC Director's family in Palestine being
broken up by Israeli Authorities |
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By Nada Khader on
12/5/2006 7:23 PM
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I have just learned that the Israeli authorities are breaking up my family in Ramallah. They are deporting my cousin's wife Anita from Palestine. It is extremely upsetting to us. Of course this has happened to thousands of Palestinians, but now the Israeli Apartheid system hits home.
How long will the United States keep supporting this inhumanity? How long will our tax dollars keep funding this monstrosity?
In deep sadness,
Nada Khader
WESPAC Foundation
Here is the letter from my cousin Ghassan Abdal ...
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September Blog entry to WESPAC members |
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By Nada Khader on
8/31/2006 5:35 PM
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Thank you, thank you, and thank you! Each one of you has made a contribution to WESPAC Foundation this year and each of you has allowed us to remain strong, vibrant and viable! We have had an extraordinarily busy Summer with each one of our board members and many individual members getting personally involved in efforts to promote social and economic justice both at home and abroad. These efforts are at the core of what WESPAC Foundation accomplishes by “thinking globally and acting locally” with your moral and financial support.
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June 22nd Update |
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By Nada Khader on
6/22/2006 11:50 AM
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I will be interviewing Toni Zeidan, Bob Robideau, and Barry Bachrach for a PNN Special this Saturday at 2pm. Toni Zeidan is the National Coordinator of the Leonard Peltier Defense Cte and Barry Bachrach is the lead attorney. Bob Robideau was one of the two men initially arrested for the death of two FBI agents at Wounded Knee but they were both found not guilty. (See information at the bottom here).
I will be in Missouri all of next week (June 26 through June 30) with limited access to e-mail. I will be back in the office on Monday, July 3rd and hope to see as many of you as possible marching in the streets on July 4th with WESPAC, No War and Code Pink!
Cheers, Nada
EXCERPT: Dino Butler and Bob Robideau were first apprehended and were taken to court. Leonard Peltier had escaped to Canada, knowing that he could not receive any fair justice in the U.S. judicial system. Dino Butler and Bob Robid ...
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Update on May 12, 2006, from WESPAC Director |
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By Nada Khader on
5/12/2006 11:29 AM
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This week has been a very interesting and productive one for us here at WESPAC. Our intern Lucas Michelen from Croton High School will be working with Per Scholas on organizing a computer and electronics pick up event in Westchester County for early June. This week WESPAC launched its solidarity group with Indigenous Peoples and part of our work will include a Turtle Island Book Club where we learn about Indigenous issues through the perspective of Indigenous Peoples. Our next meeting is May 31st at 7:30pm at the Chappaqua Public Library. We will start with Neither Wolf Nor Dog by Kent Nerbern.
WESPAC is now ready to accept online credit card contributions! We are thrilled with this development that will allow you to give more easily in support of our peace and justice work. Please do take advantage of this secure site hosted by activegiving.com who will be respon ...
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Appalling Response from Congresswoman Nita Lowey |
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By Nada Khader on
4/18/2006 11:08 AM
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Frank Brodhead drafted a letter that was sent to Congresswoman Nita Lowey on behalf of Concerned Families of Westchester, No War Westchester and WESPAC Foundation expressing our frustration about the ongoing occupation of Iraq by American military forces and the misuse of our tax-dollars and resources away from domestic needs such as healthcare, affordable housing, job creation, improving our public transportation systems etc and into illegal military activity.
Her response is totally inadequate, and she is infact telling her constituents to get ready and be prepared for a "pre-emptive" US strike on Iran. Her exact words in the letter dated April 5th, 2006:
"As you know, Iran presents one of the largest foreign policy challenges to our nation. It has pursued and ...
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