by Nada Khader | May 31, 2013 | Communities & Focus Areas, Movement Building
Come and hear Bronx public school teacher Ayesha Hoda, who developed her activist roots at WESPAC, and Hany Massoud, Democracy Now! Producer, talk about their direct action program for youth, Justice by the Pen. Sign up for the event on facebook:...
by Nada Khader | May 22, 2013 | Communities & Focus Areas, Environmental and Food Justice
Westchester and Rockland Counties sent a bus to join in the rally, New York Crossroads: Say No to Fracking and Say Yes to Renewable Energy in Albany on Monday, June 17th. Several thousand people attended the successful event which called for the New York Senate to...
by Nada Khader | May 22, 2013 | Director's Blog
Hi Nada – We are showing Gasland Part II on Sunday, June 9th at 7:30 pm. The film will be followed by a Q&A with actress, activist Debra Winger. This will be a free community event. We would be happy to set aside 10 tickets for WESPAC. I would need the names of...
by Nada Khader | May 22, 2013 | Economic and Human Rights
An Econ-Atrocity/Econ-Utopia, brought to you by the Center for Popular Economics. Our EA/EUs are user friendly briefs on the bad (econ-atrocities) and the good (econ-utopias). Austerity comes to America by Gerald Friedman Professor of Economics, University of...
by Nada Khader | May 19, 2013 | Director's Blog
I am writing to ask if you have any gardening tools at home that you are not using. There will be a new teaching garden set up at the Mount Vernon Boys and Girls Club this summer and they have asked WESPAC for assistance. Do you have a wheel barrow, gardening gloves,...