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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].

Hitting the Streets for Justice

Stand Up for Justice: Fight Militarism, Racism and Occupation Thank you to Yoram for taking this footage.  Dave Lippman composed this excellent song that we sang along to before marching around White Plains: ...

Black on Black Crime

Black on Black Violence Black On Black Violence On the Rise San Francisco Bay View, Commentary, Larry P. Mitchell, Posted: Jan 16, 2004 Chuck, D. Tucker, LeRon J, D-Lou, Sycho D, Peter Lee, Bumper, Artie D, D. Posey, Rodney L, Eight Eight, P. Holms, Chicago, T....

WESPAC Hosts an Evening of Solidarity with IFCO

         On June 16th at 6pm, WESPAC will hold a solidarity potluck at the Mapleton Conference Center (52 North Broadway in White Plains located at Good Counsel) in support of the 25th annual Caravan to Cuba organized by the Interreligious Foundation for Community...

April 28th Roundtable on CSAs!

Join us at WESPAC on Monday, April 28th at 6pm for our monthly membership meeting as we invite CSA coordinators from our area to talk about the benefits of CSA membership.  Hazon, Lineage Farms, Stonelege, Sweet Freedom Farm and the Wassaic Community Farm will all be...

Chokwe Lumumba’s Vision for Mississippi

http://www.yesmagazine.org/commonomics/mississippi-capital-jackson-wrestles-economic-vision?b_start:int=0 yes! magazine After Death of Radical Mayor, Mississippi's Capital Wrestles With His Economic Vision Mayor Chokwe Lumumba implemented only the first steps of his...

WESPAC Intern to Present at Manhattanville

Tamadani Mkandawire has been interning at WESPAC this Spring and is also involved with the Eileen Fisher Leadership Institute.  She will be discussing "rape culture" at Manhattanville College:

How Co-ops helped produce foot soldiers for Civil Rights

How Co-ops Helped Produce Foot Soldiers for Civil Rights Colorlines March 10, 2014 http://colorlines.com/archives/2014/03/how_co-ops_helped_produce_foot_soldiers_for_civil_rights.html How Co-ops Helped Produce Foot Soldiers for Civil Rights Jessica Gordon Nembhard...

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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: ... See MoreSee Less
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