Dear Mayor Foster, Council members and City leaders, Thank you for listening and asking questions last night. We have a long way to go but it was an important step in the process. Councilman Schuder noted last night that you can't start at Step 15. I...
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Know Your Rights!
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 28, 2010* *New York*--The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and its Mass Defense Committee provides legal defense and educational resources to activists, including those subjected to the September 24 raids and grand jury subpoenas in...
WESPAC Rep needed at War Tax Resistance Gathering
WESPAC has been invited to send a rep to the Annual New England Gathering of the War Tax Resisters and Supporters that will take place in Cambridge, MA, the weekend of Nov. 5, 6th and 7th. You can find details at http://www.nwtrcc.org/Please let me know if you...
Laura Myerson’s WESPAC speech at FOR
Hello. Thank you for inviting WESPAC and me to participate in your meeting today. We only got back from Washington at one o’clock this morning, and I’m still in the process of sorting through my impressions of yesterday. More...
Joe Chamberlin has passed away
JOSEPH SCOTT CHAMBERLIN Joseph Scott Chamberlin, beloved and respected brother of Jill Chamberlin McCormack of Tallahassee, FL, Leslie Chamberlin Hunt of Sedona, AZ, and Wendy A. Chamberlin of Bridgehampton,...
From Lynne Stewart
Buried Alive, But Fighting On A Letter to Friends from Lynne Stewart In the best-selling Steig Larsson trilogy, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo,The Girl Who Played with Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest, the heroine, Lisbeth Salander, a hardwired,...
WESPAC to host rally and panel
For Immediate Release WESPAC Foundation part of Rights Working Group Coalition protesting recent FBI raids WESPAC Foundation is organizing a rally on Monday, October 18th 2010, from 5:30pm to 6:30pm in front of the White Plains FBI office to bring attention to recent...
From S.I.T. in Vermont
Dear Colleagues, After a successful first program in Kathmandu, the SIT Graduate Institute and the Conflict Transformation Across Cultures Programs, will offer the second annual Peacebuilding & Training program in Kathmandu. See details below. Please do pass along...
Daphna Thier on the Newburgh Four
http://socialistworker.org/2010/10/20/manufacturing-a-terrorism-case COMMENT: DAPHNA THIER Manufacturing a terrorism case The Newburgh 4 are facing life sentences after being convicted of plotting terrorist acts. But according to Daphna Thier, the case was built on...
Dec. 4th Fair Trade Festival
Hello everyone,I am writing to let you all know that the Margaret Eberle Fair Trade Festival will take place on Saturday, December 4th from 10am to 5pm in Asbury Hall at the Memorial United Methodist Church located at 250 Bryant Avenue in White Plains. There...
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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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