NOON Newsletter 2025
Welcome to the NOON e-newsletter for February 2025. Enjoy, and please share widely! This poem was written for the candlelight vigil preceding the Onondaga Nation’s Land Rights hearing in Federal District Court, October 18, 2007. For Onondaga By Robin Wall Kimmerer...Toolkit for the Movement
Toolkit for the Movement: Guides for community defense Recent years have seen our community and movement partners on the frontlines wracked by COVID-19, ongoing systemic anti-Black racism, accelerating climate disasters, and growing authoritarian repression, which...Plastic Waste Trade Watch
Plastic Waste Trade Watch January 2025 Plastic Waste Trade Watch is a monthly review of information on the international trade in plastic waste. It is produced by Basel Action Network’s (BAN) Plastic Waste Transparency Project, which undertakes campaigns,...3 Climate Justice Working Groups Members Resign over Hochul’s retreat on climate
Governor Hochul has announced that she is further delaying her cap-and-trade-invest program to enact carbon pricing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to pay for climate action. And while in her state of the state she says she was allocating $1 billion for climate...Stop Toxic Food Production
TAKE ACTION: TELL YOUR LEGISLATORS TO PROTECT AMERICANS FROM TOXIC FOOD PRODUCTION PRACTICES Our government has propped up an industrial food and farm system that has harmed human health and the environment for far too long. Today, the largest agrochemical...WESPAC on Facebook
It is with pain in my heart that I announce the passing of Baba Surya. He passed away peacefully in his sleep yesterday at the age of 91 years. He was a fixture at the WESPAC office for many years when we were located at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. location in downtown White Plains. Below you will find some information about his life. I will share additional photos on our website and s
@followers A wonderful short documentary film from Wilder Nicholson that captures the essence of the 2025 Lower Hudson Valley Social Forum. This footage gives us hope and joy in these dark and challenging times. We need to continue building community as we navigate our way to brighter days. A huge thank you to the planning team and to all who participated: