WESPAC Foundation | A Peace & Justice Action Network

6 days ago

@ethicalnyc : Onondaga Nation territory is home to people who live according to their original instructions among the woods, waters, and hills of their ancestors. The Onondaga care for the land as a sovereign nation independent of the United States — including maintaining all the infrastructure and services that New York State provides to settler communities. That includes operating a highly trained volunteer Fire Department to respond to all fires and emergencies on the Nation’s land and to back up the volunteer fire departments in the surrounding settler communities.As land returns to the Nation as a result of centuries of advocacy and relationship-building, the need for critical land care services like the Onondaga Nation Volunteer Fire Department only grows.Fighting fires requires special training and equipment — and it’s expensive. In 2024 the Onondaga firefighters must raise $230,000 to cover ten protective suits that allow them to fight fires safely. Without any support from the state, feds, or county, Onondaga firefighters are relying on donations to meet this critical need. ... See MoreSee Less

2 weeks ago

Join our Liberation Book Club this Wednesday (10/09) at 7 PM! We meet at the WESPAC Office, 77 Tarrytown Road on the upper level, Suite 2W in White Plains, NY 10607 across the hallway from the State Farm Insurance. Please email Ainsley at [email protected] if you are interested in joining us. ... See MoreSee Less

2 weeks ago

For high school students only! Link to register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHyp2vgDk8045ol4kk4Gx7YPlpgcbMQRlECKzgkyDAhV4ExA/viewform ... See MoreSee Less

3 weeks ago

Tonight at the WESPAC Office (77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2W, White Plains, NY)! Please join us! ... See MoreSee Less

Rally at NYPA for Public Renewables!

3 weeks ago

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 23 AT NOON:A coalition of New Yorkers are rallying at the headquarters of the New York Power Authority, 123 MAIN ST, WHITE PLAINS to demand that Hochul build 15 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030. More at the link below:We're at the edge of climate disaster, & the burden of suffering will fall on the working class around the world. Meanwhile Kathy Hochul is set to roll back NYS carbon targets signed into law in 2019. The Climate Leadership & Community Protection Act of mandated carbon targets for NY State. The 2023 NY Build Public Renewables Act made it possible to bypass for-profit energy companies so that we can meet them. WE ALREADY HAVE THE LEGISLATION WE NEED TO MEET OUR CARBON TARGETS Kathy Hochul insists that private energy companies will take the lead in developing renewable energy production to meet our carbon targets. She also recently admitted that NYS WILL FAIL TO MEET THOSE TARGETS. But she's blocking enactment of the BPRA to protect her energy corp. donors from having to compete with cheap publicly produced renewable energy. Her solution is to roll back the targets. ... See MoreSee Less

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Five years ago, New York State passed landmark climate legislation that would quickly transition us off of fossil fuels, calling for the state to get 70% of its energy from renewable resources by 2030...

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WESPAC has been working for #peace & #socialjustice for 48 years. We work for a #progressive agenda for the planet & its peoples. [email protected]

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jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill ·

16 Oct

Journalist @AbubakerAbedW spent days speaking to the family of Shaaban Al-Dalou who was burned alive in the Israeli attack on Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah in Gaza early Monday. Today would have been Shaaban's 20th birthday. Please share his story:

WESPAC Foundation @wespac_ny ·

11 Oct

Dear all,

You can read about my experience a year ago at Horace Greeley High School and also the experience of the WESPAC Foundation Board President Howard Horowitz in this academic journal below:

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WESPAC Foundation @wespac_ny ·

21 Sep

I just signed a @theactionnet petition: No “waste-to-energy” incinerator in Sullivan. Sign here:

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Edward Snowden @snowden ·

17 Sep

What Israel has just done is, via *any* method, reckless. They blew up countless numbers of people who were driving (meaning cars out of control), shopping (your children are in the stroller standing behind him in the checkout line), et cetera. Indistinguishable from terrorism.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow ·

18 Sep

Israel's pager attack in Lebanon is a major escalation for which it will likely suffer no consequences, says journalist @RamiKhouri. "The U.S. and the Western world has allowed the right-wing israeli governments of the last 15, 20 years to do anything they want."