Our new home will be 52 North Broadway in White Plains, on the campus of Good Counsel and adjacent to the Pace Law School.  Free parking, wheelchair accessible and public transport accessible.

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Two WESPAC volunteers, Tracy Basile and Scott Halfmann, were recipients of a WCF and Elias Foundation grant which enabled Them to attend the course “Reel Change for Nonprofits” taught by Theresa Dawson at the Media and Arts Lab at Jacob Burns Film Center. Through this course they produced the 12-minute documentary The Unfractured Future about hydrofracking in New York in which Native American voices are brought to the forefront of this urgent issue. 

The New York State Senate took a bold step late last night to ensure that risky new gas drilling techniques will not move forward until the state has properly evaluated environmental and public health threats.

In light of many incidents of drinking water contamination, dead livestock, and catastrophic explosions, Senators in both parties voted to instate an 11-month moratorium on the controversial practice of drilling known as hydraulic fracturing or fracking. The moratorium (S8129B/Thompson) passed by a strong majority in a vote of 48 to 9, with overwhelming bipartisan support. Senate Minority Leader Dean Skelos led eighteen other Republicans in voting for the legislation.

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