http://350.org/how-racial-justice-is-integral-to-confronting-climate-crisis/
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].
Makani Themba, The Praxis Project
4pm CT, Sat. August, 30, 2014, Makani Themba, ED, The Praxis Project, Food Fight All Lives Matter!. kkfi.org, 90.1 FM, KC, MO Local to Global Advocates for Justice: 4 pm CT Sat, August 30, 2014, Makani Themba, kkfi.org, 90.1 FM KC, MO Community Radio Food...
What Anti-Fracking Movement Brings to Climate Movement
From Dr. Sandra Steingraber: What the Anti-Fracking Movement Brings to the Climate Movement http://ecowatch.com/2014/08/24/steingraber-fracking-peoples-climate-march/
WESPAC Summer Potluck
WESPAC’s Friends of Turtle Island presents The Teachings of the Tree People Summer Monthly Potluck and Film: Monday night, July 21 @ 6 pm “The trees are our first teachers" featuring artist & Skokomish leader Bruce Miller (subiya) “You look up there and...
Leadership Development Opportunity for Young People, Students
Announcing the 2014 Encuentro: September 4-7; Immokalee, FL Summer is here and while Immokalee's tomato growing season has come to a close, SFA is taking some time to dive deep into our own organizational growth and development. Boot the Braids has only just begun,...
GMOs and David Buchwald
Assembly David Buchwald’s support for legislation to require the labeling of genetically modified foods is a clear indication that he is listening to his constituents. Westchester residents deeply support having this basic information about our food and cannot...
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...
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...
Online courses on learning more about worker owned cooperatives
Dear worker co-op friends and allies, Thank you for your ongoing support of TESA. We know that you may have already received an outreach letter from TESA today, and we wanted to follow-up further with our close allies, both individuals and organizations. We are...
Climate Disruption
http://truth-out.org/news/item/22002-the-march-of-anthropogenic-climate-disruption#.UwzKpdy71bM.email Dahr Jamail | The March of Anthropogenic Climate Disruption Monday, 24 February 2014 09:11 By Dahr Jamail, Truthout | News Analysis Last year marked the 37th...
WESPAC on Facebook
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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