WEST POINT ANTI-WAR PROTEST SET FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 26 A “Stop the U.S. Colonial Wars” protest will be held Monday, September 26, 2016 at 11 a.m. at the West Point United States Military Academy’s Thayer Gate in downtown Highland Falls, NY. The protest is in solidarity with an anti-war protest being held the […]
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Every year, Westchester County sets priorities through the budget it adopts by deciding what to pay for and how to pay for it. The Keep Westchester Thriving coalition believes that public priority setting is an essential phase of the budget-making process. This interactive forum, which will be moderated by Laura T. Rossi, Esq., Executive Director […]
Contact: Emily BrownEvent Co-coordinator347-850-2283145 E. 23rd St. #11-JNew York NY 10010 6/15 Green, a community garden located at 6th Avenue and 15th Street in Park Slope, will hold its annual Harvest Fair on Saturday, October 1, 2016, starting at 11:00 a.m. and running until dusk. The rain date is Sunday, October 2. Admission is free, and […]
CIW representatives will be speaking in White Plains at the Presbyterian Church (39 North Broadway) on Monday, October 17th at 7pm about the Wendy's Boycott. Details to follow.
WESPAC will convene a meeting for area high school students interested in working on social justice on Tuesday, October 18th at 4:30pm at the WESPAC office located at 31 Mamaroneck Ave on the fourth floor in downtown White Plains. Contact [email protected] for details.
18th Annual Henry Schwarzschild Memorial Lecture Wednesday, October 19, 2016 at 7:00 pm Reid Castle at Manhattanville College Purchase, NY Ending Police Abusive and Discriminatory Policies Robert Gangi Director of the Police Reform Organizing Project Robert Gangi served as Executive Director of the Correctional Association (CA) for over 29 years and founded the Police […]
It Could Happen To You, WESPAC, and The Jeffrey Deskovic Foundation for Justice PRESENTS “WHY NEW YORK STATE NEEDS A COMMISSION ON PROSECUTORIAL CONDUCT” Thursday, October 20th, 2016 6:15pm -7:30pm Riverfront Library, 4th Floor, One Larkin Center, Yonkers, NY, 10701 Join moderator Jeffrey Deskovic, M.A., who served 16 years prior to being exonerated by DNA; […]
The WESPAC Public Banking Committee will meet at 1pm on Friday, October 21st at the WESPAC office.
THE INEQUALITY OF OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM Richard D. Wolff, economist Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Visiting Professor at the New School University NYC; Host of the radio show “Economic Update” (Pacifica) on WBAI; Co-founder of "Democracy at Work"; Author of Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism Sunday, October 23rd, 2016, 11:30am Community […]
Please visit the Facebook event for all details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1050504448396773/. She will be speaking about her new book: Kingdom of the Unjust: Behind the US - Saudi Connection Monday, October 24th at 6:30pm at 31 Mamaroneck Avenue on the fourth floor in downtown White Plains. Copies of Medea Benjamin's book will be available for purchase and […]
I'm emailing to invite WESPAC to promote another rally next week, to Stop the Spectra AIM Pipeline on Wednesday, October 26. The action will take place in front of the Office of Senator Schumer in Manhattan on 780 3rd Avenue (between 48th and 49th Streets) from 9:00am to 10:00am. We are calling on Senator Schumer to take urgent action to appeal to President […]
We know Governor Cuomo’s plan to tax New Yorkers’ utility bills to bail out old, unsafe, unprofitable nuclear plants is a big mistake. If the governor gets his way, he’ll take $7.6 billion from hard working New Yorkers and hand it over to subsidize dangerous, inefficient nuclear plants owned by a wealthy Chicago-based corporation. We […]
The Westchester Coalition for Police Reform will be hosting a guest speaker from http://changethenypd.org/ Communities United for Police Reform at our October 27th monthly meeting at the Thomas H. Slater Center in White Plains, New York.
Tuesday, November 1st from 6pm to 8pm at Sarah Lawrence College (in the Ester Raushenbush Library Pillow Room) with David Billings presenting his new book: Deep Denial - The Persistence of White Supremacy in United States History and Life . David Billings, core trainer with the People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, and master storyteller, lays it […]