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We have been a leading force for progressive social change in Westchester County, New York, since 1974.  We have been educating, agitating and organizing for a more just and peaceful world, an end to militarism and racism and a more fair economy that works for all.

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Statement from the NYS Community Equity Agenda

The 50+ member organizations of the NYS Community Equity Agenda, representing hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers statewide, made the following statement responding to the Trump Administration’s assault on the Consumer and Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)—and...

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Plastic Waste Trade Watch

  Plastic Waste Trade Watch January 2025     Plastic Waste Trade Watch is a monthly review of information on the international trade in plastic waste. It is produced by Basel Action Network's (BAN) Plastic Waste Transparency Project, which undertakes campaigns,...

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A Long Island Public Bank

OPINIONCOMMENTARYGUEST ESSAYS Affordability solution: a Long Island public bank   A bill under consideration would help tackle the affordability crisis by creating a framework for municipalities to charter public banks.Credit: Getty Images/Fly View Productions...

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The Forgotten Occupation: Jim Crow goes to Haiti

Filmmaker Alain Martin frames the forgotten history of his country’s brutal occupation at the hands of the United States as an epistolary that finds him penning a letter to his deceased grandfather about the subject. He confesses to Brunel Martin, the grandfather in...

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2025 Athena Film Festival!

Special Discount Tickets Available for the 2025 Athena Film Festival Our friends at Athena Film Festival just dropped their 2025 lineup, and we are PUMPED! Taking place during Women’s History Month from March 6 - 9, 2025 at NYC’s Barnard College, Athena challenges...

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They Called me a Lioness

Librarians and Archivists with Palestine is proud to announce They Called Me a Lioness: A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri as our pick for the 2025 “One Book, Many Communities” international reading campaign!  In this memoir, Ahed...

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Toolkit for the Movement

Toolkit for the Movement: Guides for community defense  Recent years have seen our community and movement partners on the frontlines wracked by COVID-19, ongoing systemic anti-Black racism, accelerating climate disasters, and growing authoritarian repression, which...

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A Land for All Presentation at WESPAC

We had a wonderful evening at WESPAC last night with Professor Oren Yiftachel who presented A Land for All.   A Land for All is a shared movement of Israelis and Palestinians who believe that the way towards peace, security and stability for all passes through two...

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From Social Workers Against Solitary Confinement

The documentary The Strike will premiere on PBS Independent Lens on Monday, February 3rd (next week!). It will be available for free streaming on the PBS YouTube channel starting on February 3rd, and it will be available on PBS Independent Lens, PBS YouTube, and PBS...

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It is with pain in my heart that I announce the passing of Baba Surya. He passed away peacefully in his sleep yesterday at the age of 91 years. He was a fixture at the WESPAC office for many years when we were located at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. location in downtown White Plains. Below you will find some information about his life. I will share additional photos on our website and s ... See MoreSee Less
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"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."

Today, more starving Palestinians were lured into “aid distribution sites”.

They went in hope that they might find a bag of flour.

They were gunned down and murdered instead.

What utter inhumanity. End all arms sales to Israel, now.

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant.

This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

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