Westchester Disabled On The Move’s Annual Meeting: A Community Conversation Around The Stigmas Facing People With A Mental Health Diagnosis
Every year Westchester Disabled On The Move has an annual meeting focused on a topic important to people with disabilities. This year that topic will be the issues and stigmas facing people with mental health diagnoses. On June 20th from 1:00-5:00 p.m. we are going to host a community conversation about these problems and solutions for overcoming […]
Alternatives to Violence Project – Conflict Resolution Training
The Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) is looking for peacemakers who want to become AVP conflict resolution workshop facilitators. We are working to create peace in our communities and in our prisons. The next Basic Workshop will be held at Purchase Quaker Meetinghouse near the Westchester airport on June 22-24, 2018. A flyer is attached. AVP in […]
Author Talk at WESPAC: Deep Denial by David Billings
Meet David Billings, Author of "Deep Denial: The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life", Friday June 22 at 7:30pm. "Deep Denial," part popular history and part personal memoir, documents the 400-year racialization of the United States and how people of European descent came to be called white. Author David Billings focuses primarily on […]
Public Hearing on Westchester County Airport
Dear concerned fellow residents and Westchester neighbors, Join us at a public hearing on Westchester County Airport operations led by County Executive George Latimer and his administration. Monday June 25th 7PM - until the last speaker is finished West Harrison Senior Center 251 Underhill Ave, West Harrison Airport operations includes topics like: […]
Caravan to the Borderlands
Caravans to the Borderlands: A Movement that Grounds Us to Struggle in These Critical and Urgent Times “We were not meant to survive. Therefore, we might as well speak.” Audre Lorde With Chief Justice Kennedy’s resignation and a looming Republican death blow to our bodies and lives, the future of democracy, and human and civil […]
Rally to Save the Supreme Court of the United States
#SaveSCOTUS - Save the Supreme Court of the United States Senator Chuck Schumer's District Office 1 Park Place Peekskill, NY 10566 Tuesday, July 10, 11 AM Indivisibles are showing up at Senate District Offices throughout the country during the senate's recess to demand our senators protect our democracy— our choice, our affordable health care, our rights— and […]
What’s the Buzz with Honeybees?
Date:Wednesday, July 11, 2018 at 7:00pm Title : What's the Buzz with Honeybees? Greenburgh Nature Center Location: 99 Dromore Road, Scarsdale Details: Beekeeper and Director of Education at Greenburgh Nature Center,Greg Wechgelaer, will present the basics of bees. Why are honey bees critical players in our lives and the global economy? Get close to actual honey bees using the GNC observation hive and […]