WNY Peace Center

01/04/2021

In preparation for this year's virtual #WomensMarch WNY, we'd love to hear from you! Please comment below or feel free to email [email protected] with your thoughts.

01/04/2021

If you're tuned into #TalkingPeace on WBNY right now, you'll hear guest Bill Jungels mention his film 'Maya Faces in a Smoking Mirror'. You can watch it on YouTube - a great way to prep for his full presentation on Wednesday!

Watch the film here: http://ow.ly/QbO850CZDNv

ROCLA/LASC event details here: http://ow.ly/nGDb50CZDNw

01/04/2021

In preparation for this year's virtual #WomensMarch WNY, we'd love to hear from you! Please comment below or feel free to email [email protected] with your thoughts.

01/03/2021

The WNYPC supports the CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair). This is a relatively new law (passed summer 2020 in NYS) that prohibits race-based hair discrimination, which is the denial of employment and educational opportunities due to hair texture or protective hairstyles - including braids, locs, twists, or bantu knots.

To learn more about this act and support its implementation around the nation, please visit thecrownact.com

#RacialJustice

01/03/2021

ON THE LINE: FFI's Hotline Leader Talks About Connecting with People in Detention

"In 2013, Freedom for Immigrants launched its National Immigration Detention Hotline. Featured on the TV show Orange Is the New Black, the hotline receives between 600 and 14,500 calls per month in a variety of languages and relies on the services of multilingual volunteers across the nation.

The hotline monitors reports of abuse, connects detained people with family members, provides advocacy, and enables people in detention to share their stories.

[...] 'I think a part of the reason why the hotline is so powerful is because of the bravery of people inside who are able to call and report the things they're going through'."

#ImmigrantRefugeeJustice #PrisonersRights

"I think a part of the reason why the hotline is so powerful is because of the bravery of people inside who are able to call and report the things they’re going through."

01/03/2021

L.A.S.C. wny

7 PM, Wed. Jan 6, 2021. “Update on Chiapas and the Zapitista’s Continuing Struggles” Bill Jungels and Tom Potts reporting on Chiapas, COVID, dental projects, and autonomous communities there. No need to register in advance, publicity & link to join meeting at:

https://rocla.org/events/update-on-chiapas-and-the-zapatistas-continuing-struggles/

Or Zoom (Meeting ID: 861 3900 6249 and Passcode: 217290).

Bill and Tom have both spent many years in Chiapas, Mexico’s southernmost state, where most inhabitants are impoverished indigenous Maya. They will discuss their in-depth knowledge of the 20-year-old Zapatista movement and the situation of the indigenous Maya of Chiapas. Bill and Tom are both longtime members of the Latin American Solidarity Committee of the WNY Peace Center (LASC), who have been immersed in visiting and volunteering in Chiapas for many years.

As a documentary filmmaker, Bill recently co-produced “Maya Voices in a Smoking Mirror,” the culmination of his 15-year focus on Maya struggles in Chiapas.
Tom is a dentist who founded a clinic in Chenalhó, Chiapas, with the help of a Tsotsil Maya committee. Each year, he volunteers there for 2 months. Tom will share the insights he has gained through his 25 years of volunteering in Chenalhó, and in particular the situation he found there during his recent stay.
A collaborative virtual presentation of the Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA) and the Latin American Solidarity Committee (LASC)

01/03/2021

Trump is torching his own party and its leaders on his way out of power

This is a cult, complete with blind faith in leader, an authoritarian, etc. (see http://cultresearch.org/help/characteristics-associated-with-cults/)

#GangstaInChief #HeDoesntCareDoYou

This is self-inflicted, self-focused — and dangerous for the Republican Party.

01/03/2021

Elon Musk (Space X) Has Gone Nuts - World Beyond War . . .

Gee, of course we couldn’t immediately tell which out-of-control spoiled child you were talking about! #TimesUp #MightIsntRight

Please #TaxThe1Percent - very heavily.

It is time for the adults in the room to sit the out-of-control and spoiled child down and inform him that he does not own the universe. No, Elon, you are not going to be the master of Mars.

01/03/2021

Let’s reclaim ‘Akshat’

May the circle be unbroken....

#EnvironnmentalJustice #EconomicJustice #sustainability

We call rice ‘Akshat’ -- the permanent, everlasting, unbroken, undamaged, whole. India is the centre of diversity of rice. From one wild grass Oryza Sativa, Indian peasants evolved 200,000 rice varieties that are nutrition-rich and climate-resilient. We grow black and red, purple and white rices...

01/03/2021

In DC and everywhere, break the silence and spread the truth. Trump Lost! Fascists Get Out!

These armed and delusional people are truly dangerous! #DomesticTerrorism combined with a diet of pure propaganda... the #FourthReich!

In DC and everywhere, break the silence and spread the truth. Trump Lost! Fascists Get Out! via Refuse Fascism

Trump's unprecedented attempt to overturn the election is fascist and must be opposed!

01/03/2021

Public Citizen on Twitter

#EconomicJustice is a virtual unknown in this country. We need to go back to the tax codes of the mid-20th century when the billionaires’ income tax rate went up to 90%.

#TaxTheRich #TaxThe1% (which started going up during the Great Depression)

https://twitter.com/Public_Citizen/status/1344406108559970304

“https://t.co/DPnVwP8mFv”

01/03/2021

In preparation for this year's virtual #WomensMarch WNY, we'd love to hear from you! Please comment below or feel free to email [email protected] with your thoughts.

01/02/2021

Biden’s International 'Summit for Democracy' Not a Very Good Idea

Biden’s International 'Summit for Democracy' Not a Very Good Idea

Democracy is in disrepair. Over the past four years, President Donald Trump has mocked its rules and norms, accelerating the decay of democratic institutions in the United States. We are not alone: a global reckoning is under way, with authoritarian leaders capitalizing on broken promises and failed...

01/02/2021

RSN: Execution Will Mark MLK's Birthday

RSN: Execution Will Mark MLK's Birthday

Koeppel writes: Shakespeare got it right. Something is definitely rotten, but not in Denmark. The decay is made in America and engulfs the fortress at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

01/01/2021

In preparation for this year's virtual #WomensMarch WNY, we'd love to hear from you! Please feel free to comment below or email [email protected] with your thoughts.

01/01/2021

Speaking of the work ahead, we are sooo excited to announce this year's #WomensMarch WNY is ~2 weeks away! Due to the current public health crisis, this will be a virtual event on Zoom. Please visit http://ow.ly/cwtg50CY7Sn for full details and to register!

01/01/2021

We hope that you are able to get some rest in this New Year’s Day, as we have a lot of work ahead of us this year!

Best wishes from the WNY Peace Center for a happier, healthier 2021!

01/01/2021

Top 10 Questions for Antony Blinken

Top 10 Questions for Antony Blinken

Before Antony Blinken can become Secretary of State, Senators must approve. And before that, they must ask questions. Here are some suggestions for what they should ask. 1. Second to the war on Ira…

01/01/2021

After GOP Repeatedly Blocked Vote on $2,000 Checks, 41 Democrats Joined McConnell to Advance $740 Billion Pentagon Bill

After GOP Repeatedly Blocked Vote on $2,000 Checks, 41 Democrats Joined McConnell to Advance $740 Billion Pentagon Bill

"The sheer scale of Wednesday's Democratic surrender was truly a sight to behold. And it probably ended the chance for more immediate aid to millions of Americans facing eviction, starvation, and bankruptcy."

12/31/2020

New Info About GA Sen. Kelly Loeffler’s Conflicts of Interest Emerge as She Heads to Runoff Next Week

Important info comes from our dear friends, the stellar journalists, truth-tellers at Democracy Now! (streaming live 8-9am M-F, at wbny.buffalostate.edu).

Georgia Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler faces fresh charges that she and her husband personally benefited from regulatory decisions she made as a lawmaker. Mother Jones reports that, while serving on the Senate’s Subcommittee on Commodities, Loeffler took several actions that impacted the Fortun...

12/31/2020

Be A King on Twitter

Here’s to #LovePower in the #NewYear! Get on the #LoveTrain!

In #UnarmedTruth and #UnconditionalLove - thank God for beloved Rev. Dr. King!

Be a #LoveWarrior! (see The Tight Rope Podcast on #Patreon )

https://twitter.com/BerniceKing/status/1343784135643561984

““Power without love is reckless and abusive...love without power is sentimental and anemic.” ~MLK”

12/31/2020

Ring out, Wild Bells - A New Year's song

This offered for the New Year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dbnsIydaYYg&feature=youtu.be

lyrics by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, music by Alana LevandoskiTennyson wrote a requiem for his friend Arthur Henry Hallam entitled In Memoriam. This poem is a pa...

12/31/2020

Opinion | What Biden and Harris Owe the Poor

Economic recovery requires #EconomicJustice. We cannot afford to have the three richest in the country own as much as the bottom half; this is dysfunctional, unjust, violent and violates fundamental #HumanRights.

#PredatoryCapitalism

They must reject the politics of austerity and fulfill their commitment to policies that address human needs.

12/31/2020

Trump uses photo of wrong medal to falsely imply he received Nobel Prize

The only prize(s) Donald J. Trump deserves are his treason, emoluments, and high crimes & misdemeanors convictions.

Also definitely a booby prize, as well a a dodo award (from our lips to God’s ears...).

In a newly released, weird, self-promotional propaganda video, Donald Trump seems to suggest that he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his foreign policy work. Not only was he not so honored, but Trump's video uses an image of the wrong medal in making the false boast.

12/31/2020

GOP senator to delay affirming Biden victory

Senator Josh Hawley where is your integrity?

Accepting election results despite your not liking them is a precondition of a #democracy. Moreover #ElectionInterference is a federal offense.

We hope you are duly charged for your abominable threats. #accountability

Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said Wednesday he will object when Congress counts the Electoral College votes next week, which will force lawmakers in both the House and Senate to vote on whether to accept the results of President-elect Joe Biden's victory.

12/31/2020

Governor, please release our husbands: Loved ones of inmates ask for Christmas mercy

Let’s #GetItDoneIn2021! #ReleaseOurElders #LetThemGo #HALTsolitary

#PrisonersRights

2020 has been a year that most of us would prefer to forget. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives in ways we never imagined. Protests and public outcry in 2020 emphasized the importance of listening and responding to those directly impacted by racial injustice. We are those people. As four Bl...

12/31/2020

Louisville Police To Fire 2 More Officers Involved In Death Of Breonna Taylor

#Accountability is desperately needed!

#BlackLivesMatter #StopStateViolence #RacialJustice

One officer wasn't at the raid but applied for the search warrant with misleading information. The move comes months after the department fired another detective.

12/31/2020

DOJ Will Not Pursue Criminal Charges Against Officers Who Killed 12-Year-Old Tamir Rice in 2014

How can officers of the peace shoot down a child with no hesitation and not have repercussions!?! What about talking? What is the message to other officers?

#accountability #ReverenceForLife #BlackLivesMatter

The Justice Department says it will not pursue criminal charges against the officers who killed Tamir Rice in 2014. Tamir Rice was just 12 years old when then-Cleveland police officer Timothy Loehmann fatally shot him and claimed he thought Rice’s toy gun was real.

12/31/2020

The Radical Imagination | Imagining How We Wrestle with Death, Dogma and Domination

Good morning! Here’s your daily bread - spiritual nourishment from Dr. Cornel West.

(The full transcript from our evening with him, “...like a jazz orchestra!”, will be available soon, full of inspiration and insights as always! )

🙏🏽✊🏽✨💖🌎🎼🎹🎷🖖🏼🙌🏾🏔💕💙💜

In this episode, host Jim Vrettos interviews Professor Cornel West about his early writings and thoughts in his career as a philosopher.For more information ...

12/31/2020

If you tuned in to the #TalkingPeace taping last night, you heard about Bill Jungel's film, 'Maya Faces in a Smoking Mirror'. You can watch the full film on YouTube here: http://ow.ly/yPkG50CXzzD

...and be sure to join us for the #LASC/#ROCLA event next week for more on Chiapas and the Zapatistas' continuing struggles - featuring Bill and Tom Potts. Register here: http://ow.ly/P8u750CXzzB

#LatinAmericanSolidarity

12/31/2020

We are so ready to say goodbye to 2020! Wishing you all a safe and happy New Year’s Eve from the WNYPC!

12/31/2020

Petition: #ForceTheVote on Medicare for All Now

Please join us for this important initiative! In this pandemic, #Medicare4All is as important as it can be! Sign the petition here: forcethevote.org

And check out last night's #ForceTheVote Town Hall on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fP8JRdVHis

We’re all in this together! #peoplefirst ❤️ #healthcare 💕💜

We demand that every progressive in Congress refuse to vote for Nancy Pelosi until she publicly pledges to bring Medicare for all to the floor of the House for a vote in January!

12/31/2020

Think Twice Radio

Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center
On this show Vicki Ross talks with Heidi Jones, Esq., about the links between anti-maskers movement and white supremecists in Western New York.
https://fb.watch/2IVvNswrWd/

On this show Vicki Ross talks with Heidi Jones, Esq., about the links between anti-maskers movement and white supremecists in Western New York.

12/31/2020

Think Twice Radio

Talking with the WNY Peace Center
On this show Vicki Ross talks with Bill Jungels and Talia Rodriguez about Chiapas Mexico and the Zapatistas continuing struggle, indiginous women and women's march.
https://fb.watch/2IRjUJYupK/

On this show Vicki Ross talks with Bill Jungels and Talia Rodriguez about Chiapas Mexico and the Zapatistas continuing struggle, indiginous women and women's march.

12/30/2020

Depew teacher who helped memorialize Cleve Hill classmates dies of Covid-19

Deep condolences to his family and many thanks for Dick Odien and his years of care and love for his students and the community.

Dick Odien, a beloved Depew teacher, coach and stage manager for musicals, died Dec. 21 after being diagnosed with Covid-19.