BO LIPARI: How New Yorkers Can Ensure That Our Paper Ballots Are All Counted This Fall! Software engineer Bo Lipari, founder of New Yorkers for Verified Voting, spoke at the Riverfront Library in Yonkers on Thursday, June 3rd, 2010, about the...
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From Felice
Thoughts on the US Social Forum Submitted by Felice Gelman This is huge! Thousands of people, cavernous spaces in the Cobo Hall convention as well as events scattered rather widely around the city of Detroit – offering the opportunity for very...
WESPAC @ Albany National Peace Conference
For those of you planning to attend this national conference at the end of the month in Albany http://nationalpeac econference. org/Home_ Page.html, our friend Stanley Heller wrote an informative article about the same conference that was held two years ago in...
Schedule at Albany Peace Conference
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Olympia Food Coop first in US to boycott Israel
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On the passing of Lenny Ruderman
Over the years, the decades, Lenny Ruderman was a regular at our WESPAC demos and vigils and rallies at the Fountain in White Plains. I see him at one end of Margaret Eberle's banners. I think of him there during the days of...
Guantanamo Solidarity Statement
Presented at the July 23-25, 2010 National Anti-War Conference, Albany, New York Shortly after taking office President Obama signed an executive order promising to close Guantánamo within a year. Not only has he broken his promise by indefinitely...
From Ralph Poynter: Write on Behalf of Lynne Stewart
From Ralph Poynter, Lynne Stewart's husband, write to Federal Bureau of Prisons today, please. Friends: Please consider writing a letter of request/encouragement that the Federal Bureau of Prisons assign Lynne Stewart to the Federal Correctional Institute for...
Jalal’s Aunt
Joycelyn Leona Satchell died peacefully from breast cancer on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 at Calvary Hospital in Bronx , New York at the age of 57. She resided with her partner Nadine Lugo in Cortlandt Manor, New York. The eldest daughter of the...
From Karen Hall – dogs need help
This email concerns peace and justice for 46 dogs that were just rescued from a hoarder. I attached the newspaper article detailing the situation. My daughter, Kerry, and her boyfriend, Matthew, both certified dog trainers, work at the Kingston...
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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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