GENDA Know Your Rights Training
State of Exception: What role has local and international law played in the Occupied Territories?
https://www.thenation.com/article/noura-erakat-justice-for-some-book-review/
Social Activist reflects on Decades of Advocacy
https://highlandscurrent.org/2019/07/12/social-activist-reflects-on-decades-of-advocacy/
#FREEnewyork Townhall in Yonkers
From Katie Schaffer, Dear all, Thank you for joining us at the FREEnewyork Westchester Town Hall last night! It was powerful to share space and reflect on our collective work for decarceration and pretrial justice. Attached, you will find digital copies of:...
Conflict Resolution Facilitators Needed
Conflict Resolution Facilitators Needed at the Westchester County Jail On the weekend on May 31 to June 2, the first conflict resolution workshop was held for women at the Westchester County Jail. Nine women who had been accused or everything from misdemeanors to...
#FREEnewyork Town Hall
New No Nukes Video and Website
Hello everyone, WESPAC member Carolyn Perry has created a very powerful no nukes video and website. She has asked me to share widely with all of you. Please take a look: http://www.pleasestopit.org/
Gary Shaw’s Funeral Arrangements
Jeanne has asked me to inform the WESPAC Community that funeral arrangements for Gary Shaw will take place on Saturday, June 1st, from 2pm to 6pm at the Edward F. Carter Funeral Home located at 41 Grand Street in Croton, NY 10520. We extend our deepest...
Happy Birthday, Pete Seeger!
BYDICK FLACKSPETER DREIER Pete Seeger would have turned 100 today. Few figures in American history have lived as influential and deeply radical lives as he did. Let's celebrate him today. Pete Seeger performs in the Clearwater Benefit Concert Celebrating his ninetieth...
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