Dear Friends at WESPAC, The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is back! . This year, we are screening a film, NAILA AND THE UPRISING, about the courageous Palestinian women activists who played a pivotal role in the first Intifada, that I thought would be of interest to you and your community at WESPAC (and beyond!). I hope you can […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
