Forum On The Minimum Wage April 13, 2016 at 7:00 PMat the White Plains YCWA (515 North Street) A Discussion Of The Challenges Of Lifting Working Americans Out Of Poverty & Other Effects Of Changing The Minimum Wage Featuring:Ron Deutsch, Executive Director of the Fiscal Policy InstituteAmy Vitacco, Working Families PartySponsored By (list in formation): White Plains […]
JOIN THE STOP DRONE KILLING CHURCH VISIT – APRIL 17 2016 Dear WESPAC Colleagues: Over 6,000 people have been killed by U.S. drone attacks since they began in 2001 in Afghanistan. This estimate from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism is really an under-estimate because it includes only those attacks in Afghanistan since the beginning of 2015 and […]
Celebrating New Partnerships and FriendsJoin us as we prepare community gardens, composting bins, neighborhood cleanup and more Sunday, April 17th, from 10am to 3pm First Seventh-day Adventist Church of White Plains 180 Juniper Hill Road Greenburgh, NY 10607 Join local farmer Doug DeCandia, DIG Farm, WESPAC, the First Seventh-day Adventist Church of White Plains and […]
Are you, or do you know, a high school student who wants to learn about (or learn more about) social and political issues affecting teens- and what you can do about them?Then you should apply for the Westchester County Youth Council's (WCYC) Youth Action Training from April 22nd-24th in White Plains! Totally free and youth […]
WESPAC members will be going up to Beacon to support this on Saturday, April 23rd: 5-Day Hunger Vigil and Rallies to Mark Year Anniversary of Samuel Harrell Murder ________________________________________________________________________ Ideal media coverage: Saturday, 4/23, 2-4pm for the Beacon, NY, rally; or Monday, 4/25, 4-6pm for the NYC rally; or anytime that Monday at the vigil […]
I am a co-chair of the Outreach Committee of the Scarsdale Congregational Church (SCC) and also the co-chair of the SCC’s Interfaith Coalition Against Gun Violence (ICAGV) (our previous name was the SCC Task Force Against Gun Violence). The ICAGV is hosting a screening of a new documentary, “Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the […]