The Westchester Coalition against Islamophobia invites you to join in a discussion. Defending Constitutional Rights: Religious Freedom and Police Accountability  A lawyer and a community activist will address the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act (RLUIPA) and surveillance. RLUIPA is used to challenge local governments that seek to hinder the establishment of religious institutions. They will also examine profiling, […]

Sunday will be the closing of this 11 day walk commemorating the nuclear disaster at Fukushima:   What: Seventh Annual Commemoration of the Ongoing Disaster at Fukushima   When: March 11, 12:00 noon   Where: American Legion, Post 274 (Captain Oliver C. Chase Jr.)  936 McKinley Street, Peekskill NY   Fukushima and Indian Point: What’s In Our Future? […]

Dear Friend: Next week, on March 14th, we will be working with Just Leadership USA, Vocal NY, Latino Justice, Citizen Action, and other partner organizations to host a Lobby Day in Albany, where we will demand REAL criminal justice reform by asking our legislators to address the harms that our current pretrial system inflicts on […]

Agenda for Food Justice Committee Meeting,  March 13, 2018, at 7pm at WESPAC   Please be prompt!   Introducing The Mobile Community Café Initiative — The story of how we stumbled upon operating a not-for-profit food truck in Westchester County —     Tracy Basile, Brianne Brathwaite, Sonya Ennis Grant proposals —  update from Tracy The formation of […]

The WESPAC Middle East Cte will meet.

Saturday, April 7, 11:00, Black Women's March: Continuing the Legacy of Harriet Tubman Meet at the CVS parking lot, corner of Broadway and Route 119, Tarrytown, New York From the organizers: We March Out of Love, Care and Concern for Our People!!! March across the new Tappan Zee Bridge. Hundreds of people will be coming out to […]

New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement Tuesday, April 10th, 6:30pm to 8pm at WESPAC, 77 Tarrytown Road, Suite 2W, White Plains, NY 10607 We will be joined by Cynthia Williams, a 2015 Beyond the Bars of Justice Fellow at Columbia University, who spent time in a federal facility and who will speak about how […]

Date: Wednesday April 11, 7:00 pm Location: Greenburgh Nature Center 99 Dromore Road Scarsdale NY 10583 Title: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Restoration of Industrial Contamination Presenter: Chuck Stead, Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies, Ramapo College of New Jersey Details: Chuck Stead will present on traditional knowledge and its role in restoration of industrial contamination in the 21st Century. […]