US prisons may be largely hidden from sight, but their environmental toxicity spreads far beyond their walls.
Source: America’s Toxic Prisons: The Environmental Injustices of Mass Incarceration
Kicking off our fall Palestine series at the WESPAC office last night with Dabke instructor Moe Atari:
WESPAC intern Arismel giving a presentation about Haitians in Dominican Republic at WESPAC office:
We are happy to share this op-ed published yesterday by our friend Betty Lyons (Onondaga Nation), who is the President & Executive Director of the American Indian Law Alliance. We know that yesterday, and everyday, is #IndigenousPeoplesDay.
Betty says: "We know that supposed discovery of the so-called New World has had its greatest negative impact on the tens of millions of indigenous peoples who lived here. For those of us who are their descendants, we survived, now thrive and will not back down. We will continue to assert our inherent right to self-determination and sovereignty among all other nations of the world.
Again, we say: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day."
American Indian Law Alliance
"This is not Columbus Day" op-ed by Betty Lyons (Onondaga Nation) in the New York Daily News today."We know that supposed discovery of the so-called New World has had its greatest negative impact on...
We are very pleased to be sending a member of our local WCPR coalition, Kathy Kaufman, to represent us at the annual NACOLE conference, a leader in the professional civilian oversight of local law enforcement. There are many important presentations that she will attend and report back to the Westchester County Community later in October. Topics ranging from: less lethal policies and tactics, implicit bias, police unions,
assessing institutional culture, public access to police records,
trans-nationalizing civilian oversight, achieving data driven correctional oversight (we talk about data driven results in the monthly results based accountability group), anatomy of police community relations
hashtag#metoo and law enforcement, law enforcement and the homeless. www.nacole.org/2018_annual_nacole_conference
2018 Annual NACOLE Conference
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Non-profit professional association of Civilian Oversight of Law Enforcement agencies, practitioners, and supportersThank you, Charles Bell, for this footage and for all those who came out this morning:Nada Khader of WESPAC Foundation speaks about ending US support for the Saudi coalition-led war in Yemen, at demonstration in White Plains, NY on September 2...
