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How to take out an ad for the 2025 Dinner Journal!
Deadline is Friday, May 23! Dear Friends of WESPAC, On Tuesday, June 10th at 5:45pm, WESPAC friends and members will be gathering in person at Red Hat on the River on the Hudson River waterfront in honor of WESPAC's 51st Anniversary. WESPAC will be...
Animal Footnotes: Stories from Turtle Island
"Our current predicament requires more love, more accountability, and more solidarity for the benefit of our collective futures." — Kyle T. Mays Perhaps the animals can show us the way... STRENGTH IN NUMBERS In these dire times, the wisdom of wildlife encourages us...
Raising Our Voices – From Nancy Kricorian
As many of you know, my spouse James teaches at Columbia University, which has again been much in the news. Things have been moving so fast that it’s hard to keep up with a situation that grows ever more dire. On Friday, March 7 when the Horsemen of the...
From Pollinator Pathway Newsletter!
Spring has arrived and so have the pollinators! Cued by warmer temperatures and longer days, early native pollinators like Unequal Cellophane Bees have started to emerge from winter diapause in the Northeast. On sunny days you may see a Mourning Cloak, one of the few...
Correctional Association NY Data Exposes Need for Transparency
*FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE* March 17, 2025 Contact: media@correctionalassociation.org Sunshine Week: CANY Data Update Exposes Need for Transparency Visualized Data Shows Sharp Increase in Prison Deaths, Changes in Population Under Custody New York, NY – In...
Animal Footnotes: Stories from Turtle Island
Dear WESPAC members, WESPAC’s Friends of Turtle Island Committee is happy to announce the launch of Animal Footnotes—a new web blog about shifting away from a colonial mindset and experiencing what it means to live on Turtle Island together. At its core, Animal...
OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF WESTCHESTER, THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND THE ADL
OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLE OF WESTCHESTER, THE JEWISH COMMUNITY AND THE ADL Dear All, In a recent issue of its “Anti-Semitism Briefing” on WESPAC, the ADL describes WESPAC as an organization that does good in the world, serving to support equity and social justice and...
Major Underground Electric Transmission Project
For those concerned about this major underground electric transmission project: On behalf of The New York Power Authority (NYPA) and New York Transco, we want to make you aware of the upcoming Propel NY Energy Community Information Sessions in Westchester...
Job Openings – Community Organizer and Trainer Consultant
Proyecto Faro is looking for an organizing trainer ASAP as we are on a tight timeline and need to provide skills to parents organizing for educational justice in Rockland County. We are also looking to hire an organizer full-time so if any candidates for the full time...
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NEW: @andrewcuomo just conceded the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City to @ZohranKMamdani. Cuomo had universal name ID, a $25M PAC backing him and tons of institutional endorsements. Mamdani is a 33-year-old socialist. The magnitude of this can't be overstated.
BBC reports that any blocking of the Straits of Hormuz would have to be signed off by Iran’s National Security Council before it can happen. That sounds very democratic for a country which is supposed to be a tyranny, compared to say bypassing Congress to bomb a sovereign nation.
There's no overstating how extraordinary this is. The West has now lost political support from the whole of Asia, even Japan and South Korea.
A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to free Mahmoud Khalil immediately!
This is his story.
♻️⚡Must Watch
Professor Marandi of Iran🇮🇷 wrecks Piers Morgan shuts his propaganda mouth with cold, hard facts. Brutal. Beautiful.
"I'm happy to report I'm just fine. I lost a button. But I'm gonna sleep in my bed tonight, safe, with my family... At that elevator, I was separated from someone named Edgardo... Edgardo is in ICE detention and he's not going to sleep in his bed tonight."
Donald Trump and JD Vance are about to open up Iraq War 2.0, and Democratic leadership is just…nowhere to be seen?