Thank you to all the volunteers who helped WESPAC move in to our new location at Good Counsel: Steve, Art, Fareed, Aly and Dan. We are just about good to go now in White Plains. Art and Aly were fasting Ramadan (no water) on a very hot day, carrying boxes...
WESPAC supports the work of the Progressive News Network which is a group of people in Westchester County committed to Community-produced independent media for peace and social justice in Westchester County, NY: progressivenewsnetwork.blogspot.com/
Call for Community Action
CALL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION Based on concerns about the treatment of Peekskill City employees and residents of Bohlmann Towers The Cortlandt Peekskill Anti-Racism Collaborative (CPARC) is organizing around two initiatives intended to raise awareness and invite...
America’s Endless Wars
America's Endless Wars Are Destroying this Great Nation Can we stop the train before it crashes? Probably not. Terrence McNally and Andrew Bacevich AlterNet September 6, 2010 Andrew Bacevich speaks with a fairly unique mix of experience, authority, passion and wisdom...
Rev. Lucius Walker Jr.
New York Times September 11, 2010 Lucius Walker, Baptist Pastor for Peace, Dies at 80 By DOUGLAS MARTIN The Rev. Lucius Walker, a Baptist minister who gained national attention with calls for reparations for the descendants of slaves and with repeated violations of...
Protest John Hall Sunday
Please contact Kwame Madden at (914) 469-2222 if you can join him this Sunday evening in Peeskill (See below) to protest John Hall’s continuing support for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. Gather at the Colonial Terrace at 5:15 pm. It is extremely important...
Oct. 2 Buses to Washington, DC
A big thank you to Andrew Courtney who did some investigation to find these buses. The bus coordinator would like WESPAC to give her names of the WESPAC folks early next week. NYSUT members have the first priority in reserving seats, but there should be...
FBI Raids on Peace Activists
This morning 9/24 the FBI began carrying out raids on the homes of antiwar activists in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Chicago and Mich. alleging connections with terrorist organizations, mentioning in the warrant the FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and the...
Protest FBI Raids on Activists’ homes
From the International Action Center: Emergency Actions to Support Anti-War and International Solidarity Activists Stop FBI Raids and Harassment We denounce the Federal Bureau of Investigation harassment of anti-war and solidarity activists. The...
From Tracy Breneman about Peekskill
To local media professionals, I echo the message you received this morning from Mr. Edler about opportunities in Peekskill for transformative leadership. Please recognize that as a member of the media you don't merely report news; you have the power to...
More on FBI Raids
United National Antiwar Committee http://www.nationalpeaceconference.org UNAC, P.O. Box 123, Delmar, NY 12054; Ph. 518-281-1968 or 518-227-6947 [email protected] Antiwar movement under attack! Defend victims of FBI/government raids, seizures...
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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