http://rinf.com/alt-news/breaking-news/emergency-manager-throws-detroit-into-bankruptcy/51503/
White Plains March for Trayvon Martin and Local Police Accountability
Scores of people gathered to march for justice for Trayvon Martin and for local police accountability. Participants gathered at the Slater Center after the march for a community meeting. Full story at...
Stand with Prisoners
Take Action: Stand with Prisoners From Palestine to California, prisoners are organizing to end torture in prison and prison as a form repression of popular movements and poor communities of color. Included in this action alert are three opportunities to support...
Prisoner Hunger Strike Solidarity
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Letter from Rabbi Alissa Wise
I was in 5th grade when I learned about the Trail of Tears and the forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of Native Americans. I’m not sure what Mrs. Gary, my teacher, expected us to think or feel - but the lessons I learned were about unthinkable horror,...
153 Groups Sign Solidarity Letter
Thank you very much to all those that signed the statement. It's a really great list of 153 signatories from 24 different countries! The final statement and list of signatories is below and at http://www.bdsmovement.net/2013/150-orgs-stand-french-repression-11117....
The Snowden Case
David Bromwich London Review of Books July 4, 2013 Most Americans who know anything about the National Security Agency probably got their mental picture of it from a 1998 thriller called Enemy of the State. A lawyer (Will Smith), swept up by mistake into the system of...
Developing a Social Justice Curriculum for Educators
No FBI Use of Drones for Domestic Surveillance!
A Vigil in front of the White Plains FBI office to say NO to FBI Drone Surveillance Westchester residents are concerned about the increasing monitoring of ordinary people by our government, and the corporations that work with the government to mine data collected...
Syrian War comes to Lebanon
Juan Cole Informed Comment June 24, 2013 PressTV has video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m-PPZmQ8ZUM The Syrian civil war spilled over onto Lebanon dramatically on Sunday and again on Monday morning when violent clashes broke out...
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