A VIGIL FOR CLIMATE JUSTICELET'S STOP the SPECTRA AIM project, the CPV Power Plant, CLOSE INDIAN POINTand move forward withTHE 2030 PLAN for a fossil-fuel free New York SUNDAY 7/10/2016 at 6:30pm4 Bittersweet Ln. Mount Kisco, NY 10549 WE GATHER AGAIN IN PRAYER TO SUPPORT GOVERNOR CUOMO ON HIS JOURNEY TO FIND THE COURAGE TO HALT THE […]
Food and Water Watch is organizing this bus to Philadelphia leaving from the North White Plains Metro North Train Station (free parking in North White Plains station on the weekends). Seats are filling up so book early if you want to go on the bus!Westchester Co. Bus to the March for a Clean Energy Revolution North […]
Beloved Community Cook-out is tomorrow, July 27 from 5:30-8:30 pm on the back lawn of First Baptist Church of White Plains (456 North Street, WP 10605). MLK Institute for Nonviolence is hosting this community event to give us an opportunity to play, relax, eat good food and have discussion about how we work for stronger, […]
Making Work Work For Families: A Forum on New York State Paid Leave and Minimum Wage IncreaseHosted by: NY State Assemblymember Shelley Mayer, NY State Senator and Democratic Conference Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins, and Westchester Women's AgendaNew York State recently enacted paid family leave and an increase in the minimum wage. Learn about the measures, how […]
WCPR will meet at the Thomas H. Slater Community Center at 6:30pm located at 2 Fisher Court in White Plains.
When we signed the Call to Action, we promised to take action on behalf of Syrian refugees and, as a result of the huge response to the Call to Action, THE MOMENT HAS ARRIVED! As you have probably already read in our latest newsletter, at least 10 refugee families (50 people) will be coming to […]
Jane Bloomer and myself will be hosting a public banking strategy session at WESPAC on Tuesday, August 2nd at 12 noon. This session is open to the public but RSVPs are required at [email protected]. Some of the benefits of a public bank are listed here: https://hubpublicbanking.org/learn-more-about-public-banking/benefits-for-towns-cities-and-municipalities-of-a-public-bank/ The bank can be established at the municipal, county, regional, state or […]
An Evening with Rev. Daniel Buford:What is Arbitrary Punishment? The Westchester Coalition for Police Reform and the Greenburgh Human Rights Commission will co-host Rev. Daniel Buford on Thursday, August 4 from 6:30 to 8:30 at the Thomas H. Slater Center (2 Fisher Court, White Plains) to discuss the perspective of human rights violations in cases of criminal […]
It is important to raise our voices to put pressure on decision-makers to break the siege of Aleppo, Syria. More than 300,000 remaining civilians are struggling to survive under extremely harsh conditions including air bombardment by the Assad regime, United States and Russia. These men, women, children and infants are vigilantly holding out for freedom, dignity, and justice despite air strikes, barrel bombs, starvation, a paucity of medical care, and […]