WESPAC promotes Economic Justice through promoting fair trade year round and helping to organize the annual Margaret Eberle Fair Trade Festival in White Plains. We also partner with the Wassaic Community Farm CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) http://wassaiccommunityfarm.com. WESPAC is an active member of the Hudson Valley Fair Economy Coalition that meets monthly at the Union Hall in Port Chester, and we have taken a lead role in promoting a public bank for the State of New York. To get involved, please contact the office at 914.449.6514 or by email at [email protected].
Please support WESPAC’s 2015 Membership Drive!
Responding Locally to the Refugee Crisis
Refugees: A Call to Action by the Westchester, Rockland and the Hudson Valley Community
As the tides of refugees from war in the Middle East literally wash ashore in Europe, we are witness to human tragedy of unfathomable proportions. In a world where governments wage wars that result in the displacement of tens of millions of people, we as human beings face a responsibility and a real opportunity to do the right thing. We welcome the tired, the poor the hungry and endangered to our country and community. We cannot be witness and not take action. All around the country, municipalities and local communities are calling for the United States of America to open wide the doors to the refugees, and are ready to welcome refugee families into their communities. We in the Westchester, Rockland and Hudson Valley Community join in the call for action to save and welcome refugees as follows:
WESPAC Open House and Prisoner Writing
We are writing to invite you all to see our new space located on the fourth floor of the Westchester Arts Council building in downtown White Plains at 31 Mamaroneck Avenue on Monday, July 20th from 1pm to 5pm. We will be joined by high school students who are engaging...
Report Back from Cuba
Felice and Yoram Gelman are currently visiting Cuba with Code Pink. Mindy Gershon and Dave Lippman traveled to Cuba in January with a delegation studying the new wave of non-agricultural cooperatives. They bring a multimedia presentation on the promises and...
Womyn in the Movement
Workforce Housing Coalition Letter to Mr. Thomas F. Prendergast
Workforce Housing Coalition c/o 75 South Broadway-Suite 340 White Plains, NY 10601 (914) 683-1010 www.workforcehousingcoalition.org Monday, February 23, 2014 Mr. Thomas F. Prendergast Chairman Metropolitan Transportation Authority 347 Madison Avenue New...
Trans Pacific Partnership Action required
Message from Joe Mayhew: TPP Coalition Partners As expected President Obama's State of the Union and even the Republican rebuttal have made it clear they are full steam ahead on trying to FAST TRACK the TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP the worst trade deal for...
Racial Bias, Even When We Have Good Intentions
By Sendhil Mullainathan- professor of economics at Harvard The deaths of African-Americans at the hands of the police in Ferguson, Mo., in Cleveland and on Staten Island have reignited a debate about race. Some argue that these events are isolated and that racism is a...
Community Speak Out, Saturday, December 20th at the Slater Center
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We are pleased to announce the launch of a new dedicated Annual Awards page on the WESPAC website.![]()
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For more than fifty years, WESPAC has honored individuals and organizations whose leadership, vision, and commitment have helped advance peace, justice, human rights, environmental sustainability, and dignity and freedom for all. Our Annual Awards Gala has become an important opportunity to celebrate the people and movements working to create a more just and compassionate world.![]()
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The new webpage serves as a central location for information about our Annual Awards program, including details about current and past honorees, event materials, photographs, and our Awards Journal. We hope it will help preserve the history of this important tradition while highlighting the inspiring work of those we have been privileged to recognize.![]()
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We invite you to visit the page and explore the 2026 Awards Journal, which features this year's honorees and many of the community partners who work alongside WESPAC in advancing progressive social change.![]()
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Thank you for your continued support of WESPAC and our shared commitment to building a more peaceful, equitable, and sustainable future.![]()
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WESPAC Annual Awards! WESPAC Annual Awards Celebration For more than five decades, WESPAC has celebrated and honored individuals and organizations whose courage, vision, and dedication have helped adv...
We went today to Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center in New Jersey to show our solidarity to those incarcerated and to their families. There have been people on hunger strike since last Friday and the community is out in front in support around the clock: