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06/16/2026

Dear Friends,

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new dedicated Annual Awards page on the WESPAC website.

For more than fifty years, WESPAC has honored individuals and organizations whose leadership, vision, and commitment have helped advance peace, justice, human rights, environmental sustainability, and dignity and freedom for all. Our Annual Awards Gala has become an important opportunity to celebrate the people and movements working to create a more just and compassionate world.

The new webpage serves as a central location for information about our Annual Awards program, including details about current and past honorees, event materials, photographs, and our Awards Journal. We hope it will help preserve the history of this important tradition while highlighting the inspiring work of those we have been privileged to recognize.

We invite you to visit the page and explore the 2026 Awards Journal, which features this year's honorees and many of the community partners who work alongside WESPAC in advancing progressive social change.

Thank you for your continued support of WESPAC and our shared commitment to building a more peaceful, equitable, and sustainable future.

In solidarity,

Nada

WESPAC Annual Awards! WESPAC Annual Awards Celebration For more than five decades, WESPAC has celebrated and honored individuals and organizations whose courage, vision, and dedication have helped advance peace, social and economic justice, environmental sustainability, human rights, and a world roo...

05/29/2026

We went today to Delaney Hall ICE Detention Center in New Jersey to show our solidarity to those incarcerated and to their families. There have been people on hunger strike since last Friday and the community is out in front in support around the clock:

05/26/2026

oin us this Friday in Van der Donck Park in Yonkers at 4 p.m. as part of the New York for All Coalition’s coordinated statewide day of action!!! All across New York we are coming together with one message: Finish the Job. pass NY4All.
While the recently negotiated budget package made important progress and advanced some critical protections, the core problem of collusion between local/state law enforcement and ICE/CBP remains unsolved. Families should not fear that a traffic stop, routine interaction or call for help could lead to detention, deportation, or family separation.
Join us to raise your voice with New Yorkers all across the state to demand that our leaders finish the job by enacting clear protections that fully prohibit collusion in all its forms.

Bring your signs, your voice, and your commitment!

05/22/2026

Bees at The Battery:

How a Thriving Urban Pollinator Habitat was Created at the Tip of Manhattan

Establishing pollinator-friendly habitats.

05/08/2026

Huge congratulations to Jackie Agudelo and the United Community Center of Westchester! They are back up and running!!!

05/04/2026

Please join us as we celebrate 52 years of WESPAC on Sunday, June 7th at noon at Fairways at Dunwoodie in Yonkers, New York! This year we honor the outstanding work of the Lower Hudson Valley Democratic Socialists of America and the Indivisible Chapter NYCD15/16! Zephyr Teachout, our guest speaker, will join us to help us celebrate our honorees!

Please consider taking out an ad that will be used in an improved digital format to support the environment and to generate more exposure for both our honorees and for WESPAC! We will use our awards journal after the event as a follow up and to generate additional funds for our crucial social justice work!

Tickets can be purchased here:
https://donorbox.org/events/932275/steps/choose_tickets

04/28/2026

2026 Social Forum

04/28/2026

04/28/2026

Join us on April 30th.

Learn from the NCYLU Policy TOOLKIT how to ensure our schools are safe places to learn for all students, every day.

Since January 20, 2025, our schools are no longer considered sensitive locations regarding ICE operations (neither are hospitals nor places of worship).

All of our schools are impacted, and any one of us can attend the training to learn how to help keep our schools safe places to learn.

School staff, concerned parents and neighbors, clergy, and hospital workers — everyone is invited. We will focus on addressing school board policies. Please sign up and bring a friend.

Together, we will make our schools safe places to learn.

RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeFe5VEjzTPGs6D6ryyf4o-bqIn-36_I2EwlSRS6sumk1-HzQ/viewform?usp=header

Marni Rabin-Marron

Pronouns: She/Her

[email protected]

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Mobile: (914) 312-5844 (Text/FT only)

The location of the training, along with additional details and background of the training, will be shared with you after you submit an RSVP. Please share this training opportunity with others who live in Westchester! Why THIS training NOW? Because, we... 1) See students and families in our communit...

04/27/2026

Rights of Nature Discussion

1 – 2 pm ET May 13th webinar on Rights of Nature. Save the Date flyer is attached. We are hoping that many of our environmental leaders and friends can participate. Let me know if you have questions. Spread news of event with your networks. Thanks, Carol



Carol De Angelo, SC

Director of Office of Peace, Justice and Integrity of Creation

Sisters of Charity of New York

6301 Riverdale Avenue

Bronx, NY 10471