Action Alert! A Vital Bee Research Lab is Facing Imminent Closure Due to Federal Budget Cuts Here's a Quick and Easy Way You Can Help Today The US Geological Survey Bee Lab, led by eminent wildlife biologist Sam Droege, is facing imminent closure due to federal budget...
The Water Act
https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2025/05/13/water-act-reintroduction-trump/ Thank you again for your support of the WATER Act! Sen. Sanders and Reps. Watson Coleman and Khanna have just reintroduced the legislation to fully fund our water infrastructure. Please...
Veterans Fast for Gaza
This event starts on May 22, 2025: Name: "Veterans & Allies Fast for Gaza" Organized by Veterans For PeaceDuration: Core fasters will fast for 40 days. 250 calories/day to approximate what people in Gaza have. Who: Anyone who agrees with the two...
How to take out an ad for the 2025 Dinner Journal!
Deadline is Friday, May 23! Dear Friends of WESPAC, On Tuesday, June 10th at 5:45pm, WESPAC friends and members will be gathering in person at Red Hat on the River on the Hudson River waterfront in honor of WESPAC's 51st Anniversary. WESPAC will be...
From Pollinator Pathway Newsletter!
Spring has arrived and so have the pollinators! Cued by warmer temperatures and longer days, early native pollinators like Unequal Cellophane Bees have started to emerge from winter diapause in the Northeast. On sunny days you may see a Mourning Cloak, one of the few...
OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF WESTCHESTER, THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND THE ADL
OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF WESTCHESTER, THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND THE ADL Dear All, In a recent issue of its “Anti-Semitism Briefing” on WESPAC, the ADL describes WESPAC as an organization that does good in the world, serving to support equity and social justice and...
Animal Footnotes: Stories from Turtle Island
"Our current predicament requires more love, more accountability, and more solidarity for the benefit of our collective futures." — Kyle T. Mays Perhaps the animals can show us the way... STRENGTH IN NUMBERS In these dire times, the wisdom of wildlife encourages us...
Correctional Association NY Data Exposes Need for Transparency
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* March 17, 2025 Contact: [email protected] Sunshine Week: CANY Data Update Exposes Need for Transparency Visualized Data Shows Sharp Increase in Prison Deaths, Changes in Population Under Custody New York, NY – In...
Major Underground Electric Transmission Project
For those concerned about this major underground electric transmission project: On behalf of The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and New York Transco, we want to make you aware of the upcoming Propel NY Energy Community Information Sessions in Westchester...
Raising Our Voices – From Nancy Kricorian
As many of you know, my spouse James teaches at Columbia University, which has again been much in the news. Things have been moving so fast that it’s hard to keep up with a situation that grows ever more dire. On Friday, March 7 when the Horsemen of the...
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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