Beautiful article in NY Times about Doug's work: Westchester Food Bank Looks to Local Gardens to Fill Bags for Hungry Westchester is among one of the wealthiest counties in the country, but with 200,000 residents at risk of hunger, a food bank is seeking local...
WESPAC Foundation supports Environmental and Food Justice with a separate listserv used for promoting upcoming events and discussion. WESPAC opposes fracking and two of our members have produced a documentary that highlights Indigenous Peoples’ perspectives on fracking: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdwCKzqVRdQ. We have cultivated an extensive cooperative network of food justice activists around the county who seek to expand access to fresh, local food. We also partner with the Wassaic Community Farm CSA (Community Supported Agriculture): http://wassaiccommunityfarm.com. To get involved or for more information, please contact the office at 914.449.6514 or by email at [email protected].
Farmworker Justice at WESPAC
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Black and Afro-Indigenous Farmers Share 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize
Black and Afro-Indigenous Farmers Share 2015 Food Sovereignty Prize September 1st, 2015 In this moment when it is vital to assert that Black lives matter, the U.S. Food Sovereignty Alliance honors Black and Afro-Indigenous farmers, fishermen, and stewards of ancestral...
WESPAC Herbal Tincture Workshop
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...
Nature Walk with local farmer Doug DeCandia
Welcome to Black and Latino Farmers Immersion
http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/welcome-to-black-and-latino-farmers-immersion
Your Help Needed to Ensure a World Class Cleanup of Hudson River PCBs!
Attached please find a fact sheet on the Hudson River PCB Remediation and a resolution addressing the need for a more thorough removal of PCBs contamination from the Hudson River. If adopted, your organization will call upon General Electric (GE) to enter into a...
El Salvador Farmers Successfully Defy Monsanto
Dahr Jamail Truthout March 23, 2015 Farmers drive through the "coffee lands" of El Salvador, November 6, 2013. Photo: Stuart The perils of ingesting food that has any contact with a Monsanto-produced product are in the news on nearly a weekly basis. As Dr. Jeff...
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November 19th marks the tragic police killing of Mr. Kenneth Chamberlain, Sr. Kenneth his son will open up the community forum with welcoming words and thoughts on this current moment:Please save the date and help us share widely!Our current slate of confirmed panelists includes: - Deputy Commissioner of Public Safety for the City of White Plains Joseph Castelli (Commissioner Hardy is already committed to another panel that evening)- Peekskill Police Chief Adam Renwick - Omar Lopez (Deputy Mayor and CCRB Chairman, Ossining) - Dennis Adams (CCRB Chairman, Peekskill) - Jay Buckiewicz (Secretary CCRB, Peekskill)Invited but not yet confirmed - City of Yonkers Public Safety Commissioner and Westchester County Public Safety CommissionerWe will have light refreshments from 6pm to 6:15pm and then we will head to the auditorium: @followers
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
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