BACKYARD BEEKEEPING WORKSHOPS Sunday January 16th Emanuel Lutheran Church 197 Manville Rd. Pleasantville $20 Per Person Per Workshop Bee Workshop #1: 4-6 PM BACKYARD BEEKEEPING THE NEXT STEP: ASSEMBLING YOUR HIVE AND GETTING READY FOR SPRING Join Doug DeCandia...
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].
32 people displaced for fracking industry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21-s2cNF14I
From our local farmer
Sept. 6, 2010 Good Evening Everyone, After a few days of humble reflections, beautiful weather, and heart-warming sustenance, I think it is a bit safer to say that a change in season is about us, that the soft kisses of Autumns winds with soon be a part of our...
Fukushima Awareness Week
Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition
Calendar of Events for Fukushima Awareness Week
This detailed calendar of events is an overview of the different events planned from March 4 through March 31. A complete and updated list of events is maintained at www.RadiationTruth.org. Do post and distribute the attached flyer for March 11 as widely as possible.
Horton’s Mill Community Garden
I wanted to share these photos with everyone from last Saturday:http://www.flickr.com/photos/nirainjana/sets/72157623846957198/show/A big thank you to Alex, all the Pace students, Luis Sr and Luis Jr and Isa who came out to help! We created three circular beds and...
Promote Safe Energy, Ban Fracking
WESPAC is convening this gathering in collaboration with Dr. Fran Delahanty's class at Pace University. Please forward widely to those who may be interested:
April 10th, 2012 from 12:30pm to 2:30pm in Butcher Suite, Kessler Center at Pace University in Pleasantville, New York
Why Compost?
Laurie Evans –Director of Westchester SAFE (Seeking Alternatives for the Environment) Why compost? As an environmental health advocate, I often ask myself, what can I do personally to conserve resources? What daily actions can we easily...
Response to State of the Union
PLEASE CONTACT ALEX TO SIGN ON:
February 2012
President Barack Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Growing Power
Growing Food & Justice for All: How Westchester can play a role in the growing food justice movement and create a sustainable future In late October of 2009 a few WESPAC members went to Will Allen’s second “Growing Food & Justice for all...
March for a nuclear free world
March 11, 2012 is the 1 year anniversary of Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and disaster at the Nuclear Power Plants at Fukushima-Daiichi. It is still out of control. It is affecting all of us. When it comes to Nuclear Power the whole world is our back yard. Please watch this short Youtube:
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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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