You must fill out this form and e-mail back to Roger at [email protected] by May 23rd if you would like to ride to Detroit in the WESPAC vans:
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.
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Film screening and speaker at the Yonkers Riverfront Library
Belly Dance classes starting up
WESPAC Foundation Presents Belly Dance Lessons with Norma Jean Barnes Register by June 1st, 2010 at [email protected] or call 914.449.6514 Classes – All Mondays in June from 7pm to 8pm At the WESPAC Loft in White Plains 255 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.,...
WESPAC at US Social Forum
June 22 to June 26th: WESPAC is sending a delegation to the second US Social Forum that will take place in Detroit, MI. Contact Roger if you would like to be part of the delegation at [email protected] . For details about the Second US Social Forum, visit: ...
Mark Dunlea on health care fight
Lessons from the health care fight - and future directions. by Mark Dunlea Once again America has failed to join the rest of the industrial world in achieving universal health care - though in the best Orwellian tradition, the Democratic Party and many...
WESPAC’s Spring 2010 Newsletter
WESPAC Foundation's Spring 2010 Newletter Click Here to download
Get on the Road with WESPAC’s Delegation
US Social Forum II: Get on the Road to Detroit with WESPAC's Delegation "One workshop really sticks in my head. It was by the Welfare Queens. They are amazing. They tell their stories in a way that will get anyone’s attention and keep it. They taught me to...
About our 2010 Honorees and Keynote Speaker
This year, the WESPAC Awards Dinner will take place at the Women’s Club in White Plains
Coordinators of WESPAC Yonkers Chapter
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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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