WESPAC Foundation supports the work of the Anti-Racist Alliance which is the lead group in Westchester that explores the ongoing harm of institutionalized and systemic racism in our country today. We have honest discussions in a mixed group of how white privilege impacts both people of color and white folk in Westchester County in the form of excessive police force, access to quality education, employment and housing and many other areas. We listen to the range of experience that people of color have to endure in a society that continues to disproportionately benefit white people . For more information, visit antiracistalliance.com
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...
Welcome to Black and Latino Farmers Immersion
http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/welcome-to-black-and-latino-farmers-immersion
WESPAC Awards Dinner – Sunday, April 26th at 5:30pm
Please scroll down for details about this year's honorees and keynote speaker: 2015 Honoree Howard Horowitz has been a WESPAC activist since its founding in the 1970s, having served on the WESPAC Foundation Board and as Chairperson. A current focus of his work is...
Sekou Odinga comes to Westchester
WESPAC Delegation to Participate in Anti-War Intervention
Hello everyone, Nick Mottern is part of the core organizing for this important anti-war intervention in Washington, DC. We are organizing a WESPAC delegation to go down and participate, and we will coordinate transportation for folks. Please let us know if you can...
When bigotry is confused with blasphemy
When bigotry is confused with blasphemy The need to recognise historical trauma when discussing Charlie Hebdo and why publishing insulting pictures of the Prophet is not equivalent to depicting the Pope in a bikini. Chloe Patton Mondoweiss January 12, 2015 Newspaper...
Peaceful Resistance Training at WESPAC
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...