WNY Peace Center

WNY Peace Center The WNY Peace Center: Waging Peace Since 1967 The WNY Peace Center, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit membership organization dedicated to the promotion of peace through justice at home and abroad.

The organization works to achieve its purpose through task-forces created to address particular issues and areas. For nearly four decades, the Peace Center has proudly established itself as a force for progressive social change in Western New York and beyond. The organization came into existence in 1967, formed in opposition to the Vietnam War as a chapter of Dr. Martin Luther King’s Clergy and Laity Concerned.

Operating as usual

09/19/2021
Please join us on the livestream today!! Medea Benjamin, Chris Hedges, Poet Jillian Hanesworth and much more!! Don’t mi...
09/19/2021
Rising Together | New York | Rally

Please join us on the livestream today!! Medea Benjamin, Chris Hedges, Poet Jillian Hanesworth and much more!! Don’t miss this great opportunity to #Unite!!!!

risingtogether.info A Celebration in the Struggle for Justice, People, and Planet! SUNDAY, September 19, 2021 Thomas Paine Park (Foley Square) NYC LIVE and globally broadcast on Pacifica and social media.

Thanks Mike Desmond of WNED WBFO Studios for coming out to our memorial!! Ten of the Ahmadi family, including 7 childre...
09/17/2021
Peace activists protest at Niagara Falls airbase over Afghanistan drone attacks

Thanks Mike Desmond of WNED WBFO Studios for coming out to our memorial!! Ten of the Ahmadi family, including 7 children (of which 3 were toddlers) were assassinated by US killer drones. The “over the horizon” hellfire missiles were “precise” yet completely mistaken- they mistook the water the dad - an aid-worker - was bringing home, for bombs. Tragic… and typical.. Drone operators suffer more PTSD and Moral Injury than “boots on the ground.” #bankillerdrones

Peace activists were again outside the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station Thursday, protesting what they say is an airbase command center for drones carrying out attacks around the world.

09/15/2021

https://fb.watch/82eLlUUxJg/
Talking Peace with the Interfaith Peace Network
Rising Together! w/SB Workers United & Resist Militarism! With zool Zulkowitz, Main Organizer of Rising Together!, and Veteran For Peace; James Skretta, Organizer with SB Workers United; Russell Brown, Co-Chair of WNY Peace Center's Resist Militarism! Taskforce; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Human Rights & Peace Education Chair, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.
Topics discussed: values we bring ….Rising Together! overview (incl NYC 9/19 event) …. Starbucks workers' campaign ….Resist Militarism! overview and Memorial to Family - Victims of US Drone (9/16 @NiagFalls Air base, 10405 Lockport Rd) ….how our issues and solutions are connected ….ways to get involved

09/12/2021
09/12/2021
09/12/2021

On WNY Muslims Diversity Cruise

Join the movement of movements as we engage and build a network of #Whistleblowers for #JusticePeopleAndPlanet !!! List ...
09/11/2021

Join the movement of movements as we engage and build a network of #Whistleblowers for #JusticePeopleAndPlanet !!! List your group as a cosponsor and list your demands!
https://www.risingtogether.info/?fbclid=IwAR0Z4CVORBQlxWkYSE9ydBhui3niUch4ygI6Krlz__zt9KmdpIn-EKY9rfM

Join the movement of movements as we engage and build a network of #Whistleblowers for #JusticePeopleAndPlanet !!! List your group as a cosponsor and list your demands!
https://www.risingtogether.info/?fbclid=IwAR0Z4CVORBQlxWkYSE9ydBhui3niUch4ygI6Krlz__zt9KmdpIn-EKY9rfM

Honor Them With Peace and Compassion!! Never Forget 9/11 & the 20 Year War On Terror. Starting in 20 minutes http://ow....
09/11/2021

Honor Them With Peace and Compassion!! Never Forget 9/11 & the 20 Year War On Terror. Starting in 20 minutes http://ow.ly/aDZQ50G8iYu

Honor Them With Peace and Compassion!! Never Forget 9/11 & the 20 Year War On Terror. Starting in 20 minutes http://ow.ly/aDZQ50G8iYu

Today at 3pm, don't miss our S/Heros as they help us learn from the past (and present) how to - and how not to - grow th...
09/11/2021

Today at 3pm, don't miss our S/Heros as they help us learn from the past (and present) how to - and how not to - grow the #BelovedCommunity and #CultureOfPeace that we all need!! #ResistMilitarism #DefundThePentagon #BeTheChange

http://ow.ly/xiUz50G8h39

Today at 3pm, don't miss our S/Heros as they help us learn from the past (and present) how to - and how not to - grow the #BelovedCommunity and #CultureOfPeace that we all need!! #ResistMilitarism #DefundThePentagon #BeTheChange

http://ow.ly/xiUz50G8h39

A CIA Drone Analyst Apologizes to the People of Afghanistan
09/11/2021
A CIA Drone Analyst Apologizes to the People of Afghanistan

A CIA Drone Analyst Apologizes to the People of Afghanistan

As the United States ends a 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, a former intelligence analyst for the CIA’s drone program offers an apology to the people of Afghanistan “from not only myself, but from the rest of our society as Americans.” During deployments to Afghanistan, Christopher Aaron sa...

Join WNY Muslims this Sunday, 3:30-6pm for Diversity Cruise 2021, as special time to make friends and enjoy the beauty! ...
09/11/2021

Join WNY Muslims this Sunday, 3:30-6pm for Diversity Cruise 2021, as special time to make friends and enjoy the beauty! (& support @wnymuslims!)

http://ow.ly/r81z50G89Bj

Join WNY Muslims this Sunday, 3:30-6pm for Diversity Cruise 2021, as special time to make friends and enjoy the beauty! (& support @wnymuslims!)

http://ow.ly/r81z50G89Bj

Borders & Migrations is hosting a Town Hall on Tuesday, September 14 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. on the current situation invo...
09/10/2021
Borders and Migrations - Afghans and the Legal Challenges of Resettlement

Borders & Migrations is hosting a Town Hall on Tuesday, September 14 from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. on the current situation involving the Afghan resettlement crisis after the U.S. withdrawal. The event is free and open to the public, and will also be live streamed.
The event will be in the Science Hall Commons at Canisius College. For those interested in participating via the live stream, the link can be found on youtube
c.anisi.us/AfghanResettlement

September 14th, 6-8pm ESTDirect any messages to our panelist in the livestream YouTube chat, or via our chat line at (716) 249-6816.SPEAKERS:Kelsey Hatfield,...

ROCLA-LASC just announced a timely zoom presentation: HAITI SINCE DUVALIER AND NOW WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15,...
09/10/2021
Haiti Since Duvalier and Now | Rochester Committee on Latin America

ROCLA-LASC just announced a timely zoom presentation:
HAITI SINCE DUVALIER AND NOW
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2021 7:30 PM EST
SPEAKER: Amy Wilentz teaches at the University of California at Irvine, and is the author of Farewell Fred Voodoo: A Letter From Haiti (2013) and The Rainy Season: Haiti Since Duvalier (1990). She won the 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for memoir for Farewell, Fred Voodoo, and has written for The New York Times,The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Politico, The London Review of Books, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications.
There will be time for Q+A and discussion. The link below tells how to receive Zoom passcode for this event!
https://rocla.org/events/haiti-since-duvalier-and-now/

Haiti Since Duvalier and Now A Zoom presentation sponsored by ROCLA & LASC (and supporters like you!) - Wednesday September 15 - 7:30pm ET

09/09/2021

Attica 50 years

Please come out tomorrow #attica #atticaisallofus
09/08/2021

Please come out tomorrow #attica #atticaisallofus

Tomorrow at 5PM, MLK Park. Will feature speakers from Queen City Workers’ Center, Buffalo DSA, Justice for Migrant Families, WNY Peace Center, Prisoners Are People Too, Cleveland Jail Coalition, Prisoners Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party, & more! There will be food!

Abolish police, ICE, and prisons!

Buffalo DSA
Justice For Migrant Families
Queen City Workers' Center
WNY Peace Center
Prisoners Are People Too, Inc.
Prisoner Solidarity Committee of Workers World Party

09/07/2021
Talking Peace with the Interface Peace Network

https://fb.watch/7THU92y6FF/
Talking Peace with the Interface Peace Network
PeaceAction NYS on the Move! With Emily Rubino, Executive Director of PeaceAction NYS (PANYS); Jim Anderson, President of PANYS; and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Human Rights & Peace Education Chair, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.
values we bring
PANYS overview
current campaigns
student chapters
ways to get involved

Come on out to NYC September 19 for a truly special time- and/or sign your group up to cosponsor, and share your demands...
09/07/2021
Rising Together | New York | Rally

Come on out to NYC September 19 for a truly special time- and/or sign your group up to cosponsor, and share your demands!! #DefendTheSacred #anotherwayispossible. #belovedcommunity

risingtogether.info A Celebration in the Struggle for Justice, People, and Planet! SUNDAY, September 19, 2021 Thomas Paine Park (Foley Square) NYC LIVE and globally broadcast on Pacifica and social media.

09/01/2021
Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center

https://fb.watch/7LM_k2R9e4/
Talking Peace with the WNY Peace Center
Celebrating Labor in WNY. With Denise Abbott, Buffalo AFL-CIO Central Labor Council President, Buffalo Labor Day Parade organizer (and w/CWA#1168); and Vicki Ross, WNYPC Human Rights & Peace Education Chair, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.
Values celebration and thanks
Buffalo Labor Day Parade and party, Monday 9/6 mid-day
Importance of labor movement for Economic Justice
Life's journey to get to this point
How can people help ensure labor is treated fairly?

Please come out tomorrow to celebrate the wonderful life of our dear friend, compadre, and stalwart comrade, Robert Murp...
08/21/2021
Robert Joseph Murphy (Bob)

Please come out tomorrow to celebrate the wonderful life of our dear friend, compadre, and stalwart comrade, Robert Murphy!! Bob Murphy, Presente!!! We love you, Bob!!! 🙏🏽💙🎶🌱🌳🌎🌹💕💖✨❤️💜

This page celebrates the life of Robert Joseph Murphy (Bob). Share your stories and memories here. Click on the heart to let us know you were here and to receive email updates. Thank you for contributing to this lasting memorial.

08/20/2021
08/19/2021
Talking Peace with the Interfaith Peace Network

https://fb.watch/7toO5jOa7G/
Talking Peace with the Interfaith Peace Network
For a NuclearFree Future: Worldwide. With Tom Casey, leading Pax Christi WNY; and Vicki Ross, WNY Peace Center Human Rights & Peace Education Chair, and Consultant for the Interfaith Peace Network.
Topics Discussed: What are key values that come to mind in approaching our topic?....What is the status of the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons worldwide? in the US?....What is the current status and plan in US plan re Nuclear Weapons, including the new generation planned?....How do we all pay from the existence of nuclear weapons?....What are some groups, sources of information, ways people can work for a NuclearFree Future?

Please follow/cosponsor/support this #celebration of #JusticePeopleAndPlanet!! #unite!! Rising Together | New York | Ral...
08/18/2021
Rising Together | New York | Rally

Please follow/cosponsor/support this #celebration of #JusticePeopleAndPlanet!! #unite!! Rising Together | New York | Rally http://ow.ly/qMvH30rRpzh

risingtogether.info A Celebration in the Struggle for Justice, People, and Planet! SUNDAY, September 19, 2021 Thomas Paine Park (Foley Square) NYC LIVE and globally broadcast on Pacifica and social media.

08/18/2021

Buffalo 5 Exonerated!! Thanks so very much to the Judge, to Betty Jean Grant and @Sherry Sherrill who supported so well, and to DA Flynn for recognizing the truth!!!

08/15/2021

We have learned nothing.

08/13/2021

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The WNY Peace Center works for peace and justice at home and abroad. We bring these words to life through the actions of taskforces. These taskforces are initiated by our membership, and approved by the Coordinating Board of Directors. Taskforces include: Economic Justice; Education & Human Rights; Environmental Justice; Gender Justice; Immigrant &; Refugee Justice (IRJ); Latin American Solidarity Committee (LASC); Prisoners' Rights; Resist Militarism!; Racial Justice Social media policy (please refer to these guidelines when posting/commenting on the WNY Peace Center FB page): "Avoid hostile or harassing communications in any posts on the Western New York Peace Center page. Harassment is any offensive conduct based on a person's race, s*x, gender, gender identity, national origin, color, disability, age, s*xual orientation, veteran status, marital status, religion or any other status protected by law. Hostile, rude, overly frequent, and/or harassing posts can result in a person's being blocked from the WNY Peace Center page. We want to keep the discussion productive and focused on the issue being raised. We hope the page and associated pages can be used for healthy and positive dialog on our many issues, topics and visions."

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Kathy Kelly reminded me that two years ago exactly today a drone strike in Afghanistan killed 30 workers harvesting Pine Nuts. So I researched this and wrote the following story. I am looking for someone with a good broadcast voice to narrate it today so that I can produce and release a video. Here is the narration: High in the mountains of Afghanistan, fall is the time to pick pine nuts. But collecting pinecones and plucking pine nuts is not easy. It is labor-intensive. On September 19, 2019, it was the second day of work. 200 people camped in Wazir Tangi in the Nangarhar province. It is a dense pine tree forest. They worked all day long. Tired, they slept amid their pine nuts and pinecones. They lit bonfires as it was getting chilly. But these mountains are dangerous places. They attract American drones. So they informed the governor about their plans days in advance. Governor even showed the letter to Reuter's news agency. But some people sitting far away in the USA. in Nevada or perhaps in Wisconsin. Surrounded by their monitors and keyboards in an airconditioned room decided to kill them. No one knows who the killers are. And no one knows why they kill. They just pushed a button. Just like in a video game. And the killer drone flying far above the pine trees bombed the workers. 30 Afghan civilians died that night, young and old. 40 others were injured. More perhaps died later. Here are stories of their loved ones. She is a mother who lost her children: "These poor people went to work with tattered clothes. They did not go for ISIS. They had no weapons. They killed these kids while they slept. Why do they kill our children? We gathered pieces of flesh to bury them. We want peace." He is Malik Khiali, her son was killed in the drone strike. "We do not want anything from America. We have just one demand. Leave Afghanistan. They are liars. They say they can see everything from their drones, even a needle. Why then they didn’t recognize workers were not fighters? They fly around all day and night. Didn’t they see they had no guns? Didn’t they see them harvesting pine nuts? We know they are playing games with us." This is Habiburahman. Two of his brothers and five cousins were killed by the killer drone that night: "Twelve of our family members went there for work. They spent the first day there harvesting pine nuts. But on the second night, the ruthless Americans bombarded them brutally. They had no connection with fighters. THey went there to work because we are poor. These graves behind me. Two of them are my brothers and five are my cousins." She is Kaynat, with a photo of her dad. "My dad went harvesting pine nuts. But the airplane bombarded and killed him. My little brother is crying for him all the time." US air force documents revealed that 90% of all drone victims are civilians. Daniel Hale leaked this truth about drones. In the meantime, killer Drones continue to kill. Sometimes they are in the news. But never in a headline. They are the other. Dispensable. In faraway lands.
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Have you or someone you know been traumatized by police brutality (either directly or indirectly)? If so please take a moment to fill out this survey. The mental health community is looking for ways to support victims of police brutality and we want to know what YOU want!
Please join us for our 2021 Gender Taskforce Meeting! -----> Feb 06th at 3:30 pm . . . . . . . . The Gender Justice Taskforce of the WNY Peace Center promotes respect, dignity, and justice for all genders. We fight for the equitable distribution of power, knowledge, and resources regardless of s*x, gender, s*xual orientation, class, race, or ethnicity. We will be meeting over zoom- information to follow.
Are there any MLK Day events planned?
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I just wanted to share something with you. I'm sixty five years old and just found out something that hit me to the core. One of my favorite sons, my brother who is sixty nine and a teacher was shocked when I told him what it was about. Well I tell you. I've been singing and dancing to the song Electric Avenue for decades, blissfully unaware it was about apartheid. What rock was I living under. I found out a few days ago and been having the song swimming in my head feeling like a complete uncaring idiot and crying to a joy that used to bring me so much joy. Will I ever feel the same way again. It's hard for me to write this. Embarrassing to the max, but I need to admit it. The end of apartheid was wonderful but there's just so much Injustice still in this world and there's still so much inequality. Sure there are laws on the books, but that doesn't change what's in people's heads. So much isn't taught in the school. So much that doesn't effect a certain tribe so to speak isn't even included in their thought process. Until everything and everyone cares about everyone everywhere, I'm afraid we still have so much farther to go.
Good morning, can you please let me know if tonight's seminar with Cornell West via Zoom is going to be recorded for those who cannot watch it live? Thank you.