Please scroll down for details about this year's honorees and keynote speaker: 2015 Honoree Howard Horowitz has been a WESPAC activist since its founding in the 1970s, having served on the WESPAC Foundation Board and as Chairperson. A current focus of his work is...
Film Screening with Israeli Director at WESPAC
Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Lia Tarachansky Monday, March 30th, at 6:30pm Mapleton Conference Center Good Counsel Campus (next to Pace Law) 52 North Broadway White Plains, NY 10603. In By the Side of the Road, former West Bank settler Lia...
Womyn in the Movement
Phyllis Bennis at WESPAC’s Annual Meeting
The Freedom Bus
Every year, The Freedom Theatre organizes an incredible Freedom Bus ride in Palestine. Using interactive theater and cultural activism, the ride raises awareness and builds alliances throughout occupied Palestine and beyond. Palestinian actors and musicians invite...
Workforce Housing Coalition Letter to Mr. Thomas F. Prendergast
Workforce Housing Coalition c/o 75 South Broadway-Suite 340 White Plains, NY 10601 (914) 683-1010 www.workforcehousingcoalition.org Monday, February 23, 2014 Mr. Thomas F. Prendergast Chairman Metropolitan Transportation Authority 347 Madison Avenue New...
Clean Water Network: This rule isn’t about mud puddles or bird baths.
Polluters from Big Ag, to developers, to the oil and gas industry have a vested interest in rolling back protections to our waterways. Because when loopholes in the Clean Water Act remain open, many of them can continue to dump into our streams and pave over our...
The Passing of Tonya Gonnella Frichner
Tonya Gonnella Frichner, Esq. Gowanahs, Snipe Clan name, a citizen of the Onondaga Nation, Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, Haudenosaunee. Ms. Gonnella Frichner, the eldest of eight children of Henry and Maxine Nolan Gonnella. A global indigenous leader and President...
Report on Drone War Visit to Schumer’s Office
Report to Upstate Coalition to Ground Drones and End the Wars Visit to Charles Schumer’s Peekskill Office – February 10, 2015 By Nick Mottern On the afternoon of February 10, after three snow postponements, Kwame Madden and I met in the Peekskill, NY...
Sekou Odinga comes to Westchester
WESPAC on Facebook
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!
Celebrating Community, Art, Music & Our Shared Commitment to JusticeThursday, November 12, 2026 at 6:00 PMWESPAC Foundation77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2WWhite Plains, NY 10607Dear WESPAC Friends, Members, and Community Partners,We warmly invite you to join us for WESPAC’s Annual Meeting of Members, an evening of community, reflection, inspiring art, live music, and renewed commitment to building a more just, peaceful, and compassionate world.At a time when our collective voices, creativity, and solidarity matter so deeply, we look forward to gathering with old friends and new, sharing a meal, reflecting on the challenges and opportunities before us, and celebrating the extraordinary power of ordinary people to shape history. Full details at www.wespac.org