The next WESPAC Members meeting will take place on Monday, June 6th at 7pm at the Mapleton Conference Center. We will have a special presentation on Indian Point with Marilyn Elie, Jeanne and Gary Shaw. All WESPAC Committees will have time to submit a...
WESPAC connects organizations, people and issues across all divisions, recognizing that we cannot win a better world if we stay divided. WESPAC promotes movement building through regular potlucks that bring people together to share food, knowledge and build relationships. WESPAC has developed a Speakers Bureau that can provide effective speakers on a variety of current social justice issues. WESPAC is an active member of a number of local coalitions including: the Hudson Valley Fair Economy Coalition, the Hudson Valley Community Coalition and the Westchester Coalition for Police Reform.
Help Staff the WESPAC Booth at Clearwater!
Spend the weekend with Jeanne, Don, Laura and Doug at the beautiful Croton-Point Park! All details about the festival at http://clearwaterfestival.org/
Directions to WESPAC Awards Dinner
CV Rich Mansion also known as the Women's Club is located at 305 Ridgeway in White Plains, NY 10605 http://www.womansclubofwhiteplains.org/directionstoourclub.html
Video footage and photos from April 9th
Courtesy of Stanley Heller with the Middle East Crisis Committee of Connecticut: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHUsjwbwD-A Photos courtesy of Andrew Courtney with WESPAC Middle East Committee:...
Westchester Activists in Grand Central April 9th
All out for April 9th! http://unacpeace.org Bring the war dollars home for jobs, education, healthcare and housing! Westchester activists are meeting at 11:30am at the information booth at Grand Central Station on Saturday, April 9th. We will...
WESPAC 29th Annual Awards Dinner
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Photos from March 19, 20 in Washington, DC
Courtesy of Andrew Courtney: https://picasaweb.google.com/andrewcourtney6/AntiWarDemoWashingtonDC31911?feat=email#
High School facebook page for April 9th
http://www.facebook.com/pages/April-9-High-School-Students-Against-War/173060246073315
Minutes of March 10 WESPAC meeting
Thirteen people (including two students) attended the meeting last night (March 10, 2011) at WESPAC to build March 19th and April 9th (Larry, Janet, Sky, Sara, Carolyn, Nicole, Ted, John, Chuck, Fioren, Nada, Joanne, Ellie). Chuck gave a brief update about March 19th...
Protestors Remain at Wisconsin Capitol
Police Allow Protesters to Remain at Wisconsin Capitol Feb 27, 2011 - 8:08 PM AP MADISON, Wis. -- The occupation of the Wisconsin Capitol by protesters fighting efforts to strip public workers of union bargaining rights carried on Sunday after police decided not to...
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
Come out on Sunday and support the Yonkers Sanctuary Movement!