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WESPAC December 2022 Newsletter
Hello, all! If you missed it over email, here is the December 2022 WESPAC Newsletter. Enjoy! WESPAC December 2022 Newsletter!
Please support local artisans and craftspeople this holiday season!
Enjoy this special edition of the WESPAC newsletter dedicated to our local artisans and craftspeople! Holiday Newsletter
We need your help to make a big splash to get Clean Slate done!
Greetings, all! The Clean Slate Act (S.1553D - Myrie / A.6399C - Cruz) has a powerful and diverse array of support throughout the state, including from both Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams, as well as from New York’s major unions, business leaders like JP...
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BOYCOTT: A FILM REVIEW
The new film “Boycott” (directed by Julia Bacha, Just Vision Films) was screened as part of the Voices From The Holy Land Online Film Salon series. A chilling account of laws passed in 33 states intended to silence boycott and other nonviolent measures aimed at...
Support Asylum Seekers sent to NY by Texas and Florida!
From the NYIC: Today President Biden is visiting New York. He has arrived when the state is being used by politicians in Texas and Florida to score political points by abusing and misleading asylum seekers. We need the president to show leadership in addressing the...
Why We Support Public Banking
Hello all! With a public bank, we can ensure that our public dollars work for the public good. Instead of lining private pockets, our money would build community wealth.That’s why we’re part of the @PublicBankNYC coalition.Check out this great new video produced by...
We have derailed the Dirty Deal!
From: Thomas Meyer, National Organizing Manager (He/Him) | Cell: 360-460-7397 Food & Water Action and Food & Water Watch Huge news: Senators Manchin and Schumer just WITHDREW the permitting deal that would have forced approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline,...
Judy Roth’s Reflections from Israel-Palestine, Summer 2022
From Extend: Judy Roth, an Extend board member, is a mental health practitioner committed to the need for reckoning with historical and current calamities. Below she shares her reflection on a visit to Israel-Palestine earlier this summer. –I walk with my kids in...
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Palestinians may be banned from flying their flag under an apartheid government, but we can still proudly do it at my office. I’m proud to be a Palestinian American and I want the Palestinian people to know that not all Americans support apartheid. No one can erase our existence.
📺📰: #CommunitiesNotCages was on local news all across New York featuring our advocacy day in Albany yesterday. "Advocates rallied in Albany to call on Governor Hochul and the legislature to pass the Eliminate Mandatory Minimums Act, Second Look Act, and Earned Time Act."
RIGHT NOW: Hundreds of us are gathered in Albany to demand passage of the Eliminate Mandatory Minimums, Second Look Act and Earned Time Act.
We need #CommunitiesNotCages.
Good news! A bill was just approved by the Senate Committee on Children and Families that would prevent cops from interrogating youth w/o giving them a lawyer first. Thx to Senators @jamaaltbailey & @JabariBrisport. Now, on to the Codes Committee! Stay tuned. #HowABillBecomesLaw