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WESPAC Community Self Reliance
Video clip from WESPAC’s Food Justice Community Self Reliance celebration:
We’re all feeling good & gathered at our community self reliance celebration with delicious food from Giovanni “Chef D’Amour” with Break Bread not Hearts pic.twitter.com/5XBTr1TCTs
— WESPAC Foundation (@WESPAC_NY) February 26, 2016
Remembering Zelle Andrews
Richard Liebson, [email protected] 4:26 p.m. EST February 12, 2016 White Plains resident died February 2 WHITE PLAINS - A memorial service has been scheduled to celebrate the life of Zelle Andrews, a lifelong human rights activist who served as Westchester County's...
WESPAC Intern Attends Local Conference
Imani McCalla is a Journalism Major at SUNY Purchase and has been interning this semester at WESPAC. She recently attended the Westchester MLK Institute's annual conference on Ending Violence, Building Hope and took the time to write an article about her experience....
Celebrating Our Community Self-Reliance
Evening of Political Prisoner and Trans Prisoner Support at WESPAC
A group gathered the evening of Tuesday, January 26, 2016, focused on supporting parole for Herman Bell as well as for the First International Day of Action in Solidarity with Trans Prisoners. We wrote birthday cards to former Black Panther Herman Bell...
NY Wants to Tell You What You Can and Cannot Boycott
It is very disappointing that our local NYS Assembly Member David Buchwald is a co-sponsor of A8220. I am trying to set up a meeting with him. If you are in his district and would be willing to attend this meeting, please let me know. In the meantime, please do be in touch with your state representatives on this free speech matter. The NY State Senate passed a bill last week that will create a blacklist of individuals and institutions that are engaged in a boycott of a U.S. ally. 55 NY state senators voted in favor and 6 senators voted against
These six NYS Senators who voted against are all African American and Latino.
100% Renewables Now NYS
100% Renewables Now NYS Written by Mark Dunlea Jan. 14, 2016 www.gelfny.org Hundreds of climate change activists rallied in front of the state Capitol on Wednesday, then flooded the hallways to make sure legislative and political leaders understand that more is needed...
WESPAC 2015 Annual Report
Refugees: A Call to Action by the Westchester, Rockland and the Hudson Valley Community
As the tides of refugees from war in the Middle East literally wash ashore in Europe, we are witness to human tragedy of unfathomable proportions. In a world where governments wage wars that result in the displacement of tens of millions of people, we as human beings face a responsibility and a real opportunity to do the right thing. We welcome the tired, the poor the hungry and endangered to our country and community. We cannot be witness and not take action. All around the country, municipalities and local communities are calling for the United States of America to open wide the doors to the refugees, and are ready to welcome refugee families into their communities. We in the Westchester, Rockland and Hudson Valley Community join in the call for action to save and welcome refugees as follows:
Would you like to sit with WESPAC members at MLK Breakfast?
Please let the WESPAC office know if you would like to attend this breakfast and sit at the WESPAC table: Greetings Friends of Slater Center: On Monday, January 18th we will commemorate the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King at our annual unity breakfast. Come hear...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: WESPAC Food Justice with Ruby Olisemeka. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.WESPAC on Twitter
Living theater poses crucial questions about consequences of war and potential to abolish it. WorldBEYONDWar
@POTUS Funding, enabling and arming a genocide for more than a year is also unforgivable. #ArmsEmbargoNow
“The Democratic Party really underestimated the extent to which lots of people in this country are in crisis.”
Watch @KeeangaYamahtta and others in our expanded two-hour broadcast, live at http://democracynow.org.
The Muslim ban is real, and it just happened to me at Harris's rally today in Royal Oak, MI. They kicked me out without any reason, even after I received confirmation to attend and passed a security clearance at the gate. After I was seated, they called me and asked me to leave…
A win in the courts! For the first time, a federal court has confirmed what Palestine Legal & partners have long asserted: applying the distorted IHRA definition of antisemitism to student speech at public unis is unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination: https://www.cair.com/press_releases/breaking-cair-obtains-federal-court-ruling-against-texas-unconstitutional-crackdown-on-student-criticism-of-israel/