By Tarin Gonzalez 40 Years Later Today, as the world remembers those whose lives were taken during the terrorist attack in New York City, D.C. and flight 93 in 2001, there are millions of Chileans that remember their loved ones who were killed and tortured 40 years...
Media Coverage on the 24 Hour Encampment
We have received significant responses and media coverage from the Emergency Mobilization and 24-hour Encampment Against an Attack on Syria last Friday, September 6 - Saturday, September 7. Below is a partial list of media coverage: New 12 Westchester & News 12...
Excellent Interview with Congressman Opposed to Syria Attack
http://dontattacksyria.com/
Letter to Senator
Dear Senator Feinstein, Thanks very much for your thoughtful response and for taking the time to address specific issues. I am still quite distressed at some of the assertions in your letter that we know now are not factually correct. I urge you to look...
Open letter to Congress
An Open Letter to Congressman Jim Himes, 4th District, Ct. Dear Congressman Himes, The US plans to drop all the bombs carried by 1000 planes every day for a month. We are supposed to imagine that doing this will improve human rights in some way and, yet once again,...
Petitions delivered to Local Representatives
WESPAC members have delivered petitions with hundreds of signatures to Senators Schumer and Gillibrand and Congress members Lowey and Engels asking them to vote NO to authorization of US military strikes against Syria. This position reflects a broad consensus among...
Syria: Not in Our Son’s Name!
Syria: Not in Our Son’s Name! September 1, 2013 To the editor: Are we mad? Are we going to fire missiles at yet another country because our administration has been offended by the actions - “moral obscenity” in this case - of yet another sovereign nation? When...
To the Editor
The hypocrisy concerning Syria coming from a bellicose Washington and US media is frightening. Whence comes Washington ’s selective indignation when it comes to Syria? There has hardly been a dictator recently that we have not embraced. We armed our former friend...
To the Editor
To the Editor: We have about a week to stop our government from bombing Syria. With the political action focused in Congress, Rivertowns residents have a significant role to play. This is because our congressman, Eliot Engel, is a leading advocate of bombing and a...
To the Editor
To the Editor: Do we detect a pattern here? Rep. Eliot Engel supported George W. Bush’s rush to war in Iraq, which resulted in over one million casualties and two million refugees—based on jerry-rigged intelligence. Rep. Engel supported the invasion and...
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