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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].
The Northeast Climate Confluence
For more info visit: www.ClimateConfluence.org
John Cusack PowerPoint Presentation
Environmentalist John Cusack gave a very informative presentation at WESPAC on June 9th, 2008. Below is his powerpoint presentation on environmental justice. The WESPAC Environmental Committee is planning a series of events with expert speakers and action campaigns....
Northeast Climate Confluence
The Northeast Climate Confluence
July 30 Aug 3rd, 2008
Epworth Camp & Retreat Center in High Falls, NY
www.climateconfluence.org
Hello,
The purpose of this letter is to tell you about the Northeast Climate Confluence and invite you to our next Westchester planning meeting at the end of June 2008 at the WESPAC space at 255 Martin Luther King Blvd in White Plains, NY.
Confluence: a mixing of different streams or weather patterns that flow together and become stronger, resulting in a series of storms.
The Northeast Climate Confluence is a week-long coming-together of movements, groups, and individuals to strategize for action, strengthen our relationships, and share ideas and skills. The same system that wages a daily war on our communities is poised to destroy our very life blood: the earth, the water, our food, and our culture. The power to stop this destruction already flows through our roots, and by combining our knowledge and energy we will create real solutions and decrease our dependence on the institutions that are attacking the planet and all life. The workshops at the Confluence will be organized into tracks with concrete goals. For example, one of the tracks will be a Northeast Disaster Relief Network track, which will, by the end of the Confluence, create a regional network made up of local organizations.
This event was conceived as a response to global warming – the disruption of the planet’s climate caused by industrial pollution that threatens all life on Earth. Global warming/global climate change is still a central focus, but we realize that we can’t simply talk about the issue of climate change and ignore the hundreds of other issues that it is deeply connected to. We are looking to address the political and social “climate” as well as the Earth’s changing climate. It is the combination of both that is already bringing us highly visible disasters like Hurricane Katrina, as well as hidden disasters like higher asthma and cancer rates, mass extinctions worldwide, and ongoing wars.
Water Warriors
Water Warriors Maude Barlow The Nation April 14, 2008 issue _____________________________________________________________________ Thousands have lived without love, not one without water. W.H. Auden, First Things First...
Two carbon-market millionaires take a hit
Two carbon-market millionaires take a hit as UN clamps down MoneyWeb ^ | 041408 | Jeffrey Ball Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 10:27:29 AM by Fred OXFORD, England -- Marc Stuart and Pedro Moura Costa have become multimillionaires in a booming new market...
Canada first to label bisphenol A as dangerous
Canada first to label bisphenol A as officially dangerous Would pave way for federal ban Martin Mittelstaedt The Globe and Mail (Canada) April 16, 2008 http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/16/8330/ Under normal use, bottles made of polycarbonate, like...
Local Environmentalists and Gas Prices
Hi Enviros - Did you all see this article? The link at the top should take you to the online version, complete with photos! - Fredrica ************************************************************* ...
WESPAC hosts environmental speaker
WESPAC will host the environmental educator and sustainability management consultant John L. Cusack, on Monday, 9 June, 2008, at 4:00 PM at the WESPAC office in Pleasantville, where he will give his presentation, “What We Can Do To Encourage Peace & Environmental Justice by Helping Stop Or Mitigate Global Warming and Climate Change”.
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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
Come out on Sunday and support the Yonkers Sanctuary Movement!