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Stop Toxic Food Production

by Nada Khader | Jan 17, 2025 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Movement Building, Progressive News Network

TAKE ACTION: TELL YOUR LEGISLATORS TO PROTECT AMERICANS FROM TOXIC FOOD PRODUCTION PRACTICES

Our government has propped up an industrial food and farm system that has harmed human health and the environment for far too long. Today, the largest agrochemical corporations have amassed excessive power and profits from this system at the expense of everyone else.

These corporations have used their outsized power to trap farmers in a system that is dependent on harmful chemical herbicides, pesticides, and synthetic fertilizers, and to convince the rest of us that this system is the only way to feed ourselves.

They then leverage government subsidies to keep this system in place. But we have the power to fight back and build a food and farm system that prioritizes health over excessive corporate profits. Our new policy handbook calls on Congress to use its authority to redirect resources and prioritize policies that support more resilient, sustainable farming methods — ones that eliminate toxic chemicals from our food supply.

 

In just a few clicks, you can tell your representatives to protect our nation’s health.

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WESPAC Foundation has secured the screening rights to make the documentary Who Killed Alex Odeh? available to our community for one day. This film is deeply personal to me. I was a high school student here in Westchester County at Horace Greeley when Alex Odeh, a Palestinian American civil rights leader and regional director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, was assassinated by a bomb planted at his office in Santa Ana, California, on October 11, 1985. I remember how deeply disturbing it was to learn of his murder, and I remain profoundly shaken by the fact that, more than four decades later, no one has been brought to justice. Even more troubling is the history of suspects who were able to leave the United States without facing prosecution. For me, Alex Odeh’s murder came to symbolize something that Palestinians have experienced for generations: a devastating sense that those who take Palestinian lives can do so with impunity. That failure of accountability has continued to haunt our people, culminating in the mass killing and destruction we have witnessed in Gaza over these past several years. When violence against Palestinians goes unpunished, it sends a dangerous message that Palestinian lives are somehow less worthy of protection, dignity, and justice. I hope our WESPAC community will take the time to watch this important film with me on December 2nd at 7pm at WESPAC, reflect on the decades of injustice it exposes, and recommit ourselves to the principle that every human life is sacred and that justice must never depend on one’s nationality, ethnicity, or identity.Wednesday, December 2nd at 7pm at WESPAC77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2WWhite Plains, NY 10607 ...

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Celebrating Community, Art, Music & Our Shared Commitment to JusticeThursday, November 12, 2026 at 6:00 PMWESPAC Foundation77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2WWhite Plains, NY 10607Dear WESPAC Friends, Members, and Community Partners,We warmly invite you to join us for WESPAC’s Annual Meeting of Members, an evening of community, reflection, inspiring art, live music, and renewed commitment to building a more just, peaceful, and compassionate world.At a time when our collective voices, creativity, and solidarity matter so deeply, we look forward to gathering with old friends and new, sharing a meal, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities before us, and celebrating the extraordinary power of ordinary people to shape history. Full details at www.wespac.org ...

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