Hi! I follow Maggie Doyne's blog every day. She's amazing -- happened to be traveling in Nepal when she was 19 and saw little girls breaking rocks by the road to make a living. She discovered that they were orphans, and decided to build a children's home. Now she's 24...
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Update from Phyllis
August 29, 2001Gayla Jamison, Producer-DirectorIn Our Son's NameLightfoot Films, Inc.www.inoursonsname.com I'm pleased to announce that Al Jazeera English is picking up a halfhourversion of my documentary, In Our Son's Name, to air September6-11 as part of their...
What has WESPAC been up to?
Dear WESPAC supporters, WESPAC has been very busy the past few months. The Food Justice Committee recently held a very successful food justice gathering. This meeting brought in many new people, who will be working to fight for access to good quality food...
December 10th Voting Rights Mobilization Underway
Dec. 10th Voting Rights Mobilization is Underway! www. stand4freedom.org Last week's meeting to get the NYC area organizing for the Dec. 10th Voting Rights Mobilization up and running was a big success. With over 80 people attending from a wide range of...
WESPAC member has film featured in Intl Black Man Film Festival
Andrew Courtney's "African Palestinian: Ali Jiddah" will be featured next week in the International Black Man Film Festival. Congrats, Andrew. By the way, for any one who has not seen it, it is a very interesting film and can be purchased online at...
Help Us Celebrate 14th Annual Margaret Eberle Fair Trade Festival
Hello everyone, WESPAC is delighted to be working with the Westchester MLK Institute for Nonviolence, the LOFT and the Memorial United Methodist Church (MUMC) this year to plan the 14th Annual Margaret Eberle Fair Trade Festival. This year the festival will take...
National Day of Action Against Guantanamo
Important - from Mike Levinson: HELLO! WITH FEW EXCEPTIONS GEORGE W. BUSH'S TORTURE AND DENTENTION REGIME has been more deeply institutionalized by the Obama Administration, and the failure to close Guantanamo is but one in a string of unkept promises. JOIN...
WESPAC Updates – Week of Jan. 29, 2012
WESPAC Updates -- Week of January 29, 2012 Reminder: WESPAC board member Sundiata Sadiq will be speaking at the Ossining Public Library on Wednesday, February 15th after a 6:30pm film screening of “Scarred Justice: The Orangeburg Massacre 1968.” We have...
WESPAC Panel at Left Forum
Register soon for the Left Forum to be held March 17th and 18th at the Pace University NYC Campus: http://www.leftforum.org/ . The WESPAC panel at the Left Forum has been accepted: The Worker Cooperative Movement and Grassroots Approaches to Ending Poverty Panel...
Fukushima Awareness Week
From WESPAC Board member Jeanne Shaw: Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition Calendar of Events for Fukushima Awareness Week This detailed calendar of events is an overview of the different events planned from March 4 through March 31. A complete and updated list of...
WESPAC on Facebook
November 19th marks the tragic police killing of Mr. Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. Kenneth his son will open up the community forum with welcoming words and thoughts on this current moment:Please save the date and help us share widely!Our current slate of confirmed panelists includes: - Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety for the City of White Plains Joseph Castelli (Commissioner Hardy is already committed to another panel that evening)- Peekskill Police Chief Adam Renwick - Omar Lopez (Deputy Mayor and CCRB Chairman, Ossining) - Dennis Adams (CCRB Chairman, Peekskill) - Jay Buckiewicz (Secretary CCRB, Peekskill)Invited but not yet confirmed - City of Yonkers Public Safety Commissioner and Westchester County Public Safety CommissionerWe will have light refreshments from 6pm to 6:15pm and then we will head to the auditorium: @followers
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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