WESPAC 2021 Dinner Journal_SPREAD (2)
Fight Forward for a Just Recovery!
Invitation to Rally for the New York Public Banking Act (S.1762-A/A.5782) RALLY! Fight Back Against Wall Street, Fight Forward for a Just Recovery! Dear friends and supporters of WESPAC, Across New York, communities are calling for local public banks to help lead a...
Skills to keep in mind for navigating controversial conversations
Skills to keep in mind for navigating controversial conversations We can all become better listeners. Our educational system is derived from a Eurocentric system which values, the thoughts and opinions and life experiences of those who are in dominant positions in...
Message from the Westchester Youth Alliance!
Dear Social Justice Forum Participant, We were so pleased to have you join our Racism Workshop last Wednesday, March 24th led by the Westchester Youth Alliance and Peekskill Youth NAACP. It was a completely youth-planned, led, and hosted event and we are so proud of...
An Open Letter to Officials of the United States Government and Members of the Congress
https://www.antiwar.com/blog/2021/03/31/an-open-letter-to-officials-of-the-united-states-government-and-members-of-the-congress/
Affordable Housing Crisis
Dear Nada, I am one of the organizers of a three-part webinar series on affordable housing in Westchester. Attached is a flyer for the series, below is the line up for each panel, as well as a link to the registration page. The first panel is this coming Wednesday,...
Request for Help from Veterans for Peace
Important message from Veterans for Peace, NYC: Veterans For Peace NYC Chapter 34 is initiating a project to inform veterans,the public and especially elected officials about specific threats to veterans healthcare and what concrete actions can be taken now to address...
HOW TO ENGAGE IN PRODUCTIVE DIALOGUE WHEN THERE IS CONTROVERSY AND POLARIZATION
PLEASE JOIN US FOR OUR FINAL PROGRAM OF THE SOCIAL FORUM SERIES ON MARCH 31ST at 7pm MOVING BEYOND POLITICS AND POSITIONS – HOW TO ENGAGE IN PRODUCTIVE DIALOGUE WHEN THERE IS CONTROVERSY AND POLARIZATION Name an issue and there are multiple opinions and strong...
Ban Weaponized Drones
Why I support a treaty to ban weaponized and surveillance drones Mar 25, 2021 by Jack Gilroy Opinion Justice Media Predator drone RESIZE.jpg An MQ-1 Predator drone prepares to launch for a night flight mission over southeastern Iraq in July 2009. (Wikimedia...
Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism
https://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
WESPAC on Facebook
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
Come out on Sunday and support the Yonkers Sanctuary Movement!
Celebrating Community, Art, Music & Our Shared Commitment to JusticeThursday, November 12, 2026 at 6:00 PMWESPAC Foundation77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2WWhite Plains, NY 10607Dear WESPAC Friends, Members, and Community Partners,We warmly invite you to join us for WESPAC’s Annual Meeting of Members, an evening of community, reflection, inspiring art, live music, and renewed commitment to building a more just, peaceful, and compassionate world.At a time when our collective voices, creativity, and solidarity matter so deeply, we look forward to gathering with old friends and new, sharing a meal, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities before us, and celebrating the extraordinary power of ordinary people to shape history. Full details at www.wespac.org