Upcoming Food Justice Events Healthy Food is a Human Right! What is Food Justice? Food Justice is communities exercising their right to grow, sell, and eat healthy food. Healthy food is fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate, and grown locally with care...
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].
Vigil Against Keystone XL
On Monday, join fellow activists in your community for an important vigil against Keystone XL. In Westchester, Lisa Moir is organizing a vigil at 7pm tomorrow, Monday, February 3rd, in front of the Blue Pig Cafe in Croton-on-Hudson locate at 121 Maple Street in...
Don’t turn NY into transit route for fracked gas
http://www.lohud.com/article/20140201/OPINION/302010017/Don-t-turn-N-Y-into-transit-route-fracked-natural-gas Don't turn N.Y. into transit route for fracked natural gas The Algonquin Incremental Market project is a plan by Spectra Energy to convey an additional 300...
Comments Needed to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Dear Friends, Our wonderful colleagues at Sierra Club - Atlantic Chapter have simplified an important opportunity for you to submit comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regarding the proposed Spectra Algonquin Incremental Market (AIM) project...
Farm Bill Cuts Funding for Hunger
Statement by Mark Dunlea, Hunger Action Network of NYS, On House Passage of Farm Bill Farm Bill Cuts Funding for Hunger; Favors Agribusiness and Unhealthy Foods; Environmentalists Lose The last time the Farm Bill passed in 2008, House Speaker leader Nancy Pelosi...
WESPAC helping to fill a bus from White Plains!
WESPAC Letter to EPA in support of Ramapough
Statement of Support Submitted to the EPA on November 9, 2013 in support of a total cleanup of Ringwood, NJ Superfund Site, home of the Ramapough Nation. We come before you tonight on behalf of WESPAC, a 500-member strong Westchester-based non-profit organization...
Fracking Impact Hits Close to Home
Fracking Impact Hits Close to Home … and new pipeline project looms Increasing Radon Levels Alert for NY, CT & New Jersey BY ELLEN WEININGER Agrowing number of people are beginning to comprehend the health and environmental impacts of hydrofracking, or shale gas...
Politics of Hunger
The Strange Politics of Southern Hunger October 19, 2013 By Sue Sturgis Sue Sturgis's ZSpace Page / ZSpace Date on which the Republican-controlled U.S. House, led by majority leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), voted to make deep cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition...
Emergency Plans won’t protect Residents from Radiation
Former NRC Chair: Emergency Plans Won't Protect Residents from Radiation Indian Point Should Be Closed By Roger Witherspoon http://spoonsenergymatters.wordpress.com/ The former head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said yesterday that emergency plans...
WESPAC on Facebook
All are welcome and please share widely. We have several new people to WESPAC this summer. This gathering on September 16th would be a lovely introduction to the broader social justice community: @followers
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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: