WESPAC Open House and Prisoner Writing

by | Jul 13, 2015 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Criminal Justice, Director's Blog, Economic and Human Rights, Environmental and Food Justice, Movement Building, Racial Justice

We will be joined by high school students who are engaging in a Social Justice Intensive at Sarah Lawrence College under the tutelage of Professor Rebecca Johnson.  Several of you may remember Rebecca from the workshop she offered us entitled “Money for Our Movements”.  She is the founder of Cooperative Economics for Women and has vast expertise in community organizing, participatory action research, oral history and other forms of community history research. Her recent published works include: Lonesome Refugees (Callaloo, 2007); We Want To Be At The Table: Helping Environmental Groups Rebuild After Katrina (Environmental Support Center, 2006); The History of Charity (Grassroots Fundraising Journal Conference, 2006); New Moon Over Roxbury, Ecofeminism and the Sacred, Carol Adams, ed. (Continuum, 1993).

Jalal will lead us in prisoner writing, including highlighting the plight of political prisoner Rev. Joy Powell http://freejoypowell.org/ who is being held in solitary confinement here in the Bedford Women’s Prison as well as prisoner of war Robert “Seth” Hayes http://www.kersplebedeb.com/sethhayes/  who is not getting the medical attention that he very much needs.

Please let me know if you can bring a healthy snack to share (cut up fruit, veggies and dip, bean dip with crackers/chips, drinks etc).

That evening, Monday, July 20th, there will be a WESPAC Food Justice Do it Yourself workshop on making herbal tinctures.  Details to follow.

We are located at the corner of Martine Avenue and Mamaroneck Avenue in downtown White Plains (walking distance from the White Plains train station and accessible by many bus routes). 31 Mamaroneck Avenue on the fourth floor (wheelchair accessible).  There is only municipal parking available in the vicinity.  The City Center parking garage is a block away and costs $1 per hour payable by cash, credit card or phone app.  You can enter the parking garage from Main Street, South Broadway or Martine Avenue.
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