WNY Peace Center's Weekly News October 13 2011
Peacemakers,
The Weekly News is getting larger and larger every month...this is a good thing because it demonstrates we live in a vibrant community with many people paying attention. At the same time, it's a bad thing because we have to scroll through our inBox to find items of interest.
What we do now is send text formated email. This is OK until the length of the email weghs down the inbox on your email client.
So we'll try something different for the next few weeks. Each week, the Peace Center will send you the Table of Contents of the Weekly News. You can scan the table and identify items of interest. You can then go to www.BuffaloActivist.org to read the details about that item.
At some point there may be a direct link in the Table of Contents to the item of interest on BuffaloActivist.org, but that requires more effort than we can now supply. Volunteers anyone?
In the meantime, you can use your "Search" function in your web browser to find the item of interst on BuffaloActivist.org, and you'll have less stuff to wade through on your inBox.
www.BuffaloActivist.org is part of the WNY Peace Center's website: www.WNYPeace.org
Let's see how that works for a while.
Peace,
Charley
Congratulations to Women in Black - Buffalo! Each week at noontime on
Saturdays, they have continually occupied the space at Elmwood and Bidwell on a weekly basis, starting October 13, 2001.
You don't have to wear black, you don't have to be a woman, you don't have to be a Buffalonian, and you don't have to hold a sign. Please do stand with WIB-Buffalo when you can. Saturdays, noontime to 1 PM.
***The Buffalo Activist, a publication of the WNY Peace Center.
We invite members and friends of the WNY Peace Center to submit articles to the Buffalo Activist. Please submit your articles by October 15. We especially welcome articles from people who experienced Occupy Freedom Square in Washington DC, Wall Street, and Occupy Buffalo spreading across the land. Send your contribution to Director@wnypeace.org.
Please keep it short: 300-400 words.
Thank you.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
* Peace Center Matters
Call for suggestions to increase Peace Center membership
WNY Peace Center's Annual Dinner, Saturday, November 5
WNY Peace Center with: The People of Peace at Pilgrim-St. Luke’s United
United Church of Christ Nov 19th, present the WNY Peace Fair
WNY Peace Center's Coordinating Board of Directors meetings
The WNY Peace Center t-shirts and bumper stickers
and DVD of Noam Chomsky's May 12th Lecture
Starting Sept. 27: PeaceJam Buffalo
* WNY Peace Center Taskforce Events and News
*** New: Global Economic Justice Taskforce-
First meeting October 16 4:00PM SPOT Coffee on Elmwood Ave. Buffalo.
*** Prison Action Taskforce
*** Latin American Solidarity Committee
LASC Coffeehouses: third Monday of each month
LASC Organizing Meetings- new: First WEDNESDAY of each month-
* Riverside-Salem: Sundays at the Cottage program schedule for October
* Legislative Work and Urgent Action Calls
Chiapas Rural Cities
No more Free Trade Agreements!
* Allies in Peace and Social Justice an open bulletin board,
including items which haven't come through the Peace Center
Coordinating Board or Taskforces
* List of Regular Events and Other items
ANNOUNCEMENTS THIS ISSUE (see details): From: "Lori Wallach, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch" Call congressional reps to vote 'no'
New PBS Series "Women,War and Peace" Starts October 11 Burning Books : Events and Films Showing and talk on COINTELPRO 101 film, Oct. 13
Talking Leaves Events Oct 13-28 8th annual World on Your Plate, Oct 14 and 15 International Festival of Poetry of Resistance, Toronto, Oct. 14-16
'Human Needs, Not Corporate Greed' Oct 15,sat Buffalo ed.
Benefit for Sister Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence, Oct. 15
Roger Cook retirement Party from WNYCOSH, Oct 16th
Film “Moñsenor: The Last Journey World Food Day-Daemon -Oct 16th of Oscar Romero” on Monday, October 17th
LASC Coffeehouse: Guatemala, Oct. 17
Film- Buffalo International Film Fest-Cultures of Resistance Oct 18
Talking Leaves Events Oct.13-28
Freedom Bowl at VIVE, October 22
Voice Buffalo, October 23
Milton Rogovin -short films @ Buffalo Film Fest,Oct 23
Pax Christi-Bufalo Catholic Worker Annual retreat, Oct.28,29 see website correction info.
Deadline for Peace Action of New York State raffle, October 28
William Sloane Coffin Award to, Congresswoman Barbara Lee , Oct 28
showing Immersion El Salvador Film and concert, Canisius, Oct. 29 NYC
Tribute to peace/music educator Consuela Lee, Oct.29
Trial date for the Hancock 38, near Syracuse, Nov. 1
SOA Watch vigil, Fort Benning, Georgia, November 18-20
OTHER ITEMS at the end:
MEDIA:
Websites--Zines--E-Papers{some nostalgia} and "Occupy Wall Street Journal" etc
People Inc-Oct 13 Film Fest
Museum of Disability: War and Disability
Information on anti-bullying efforts
From MaryAnne Coyle:The Beehive Collective{Graphics}
BailoutthePeople.org-Help those arrested in NYC Job opening at CEJ
Holy Trinity "conversations with community leaders" schedule
Peace Action of New York State raffle background
Helen Caldicott speaking in Binghamton
Pax Christi -Bufalo Catholic Worker Annual retreat info
Move To Amend info
Burning Books (west side activist center) info
Background info on Morgan Dunbar and free speech at Canisius
Article on court case of peace activists in Buffalo
Canada and Cuba and the US -- 4 Items from Dave Thomas
Dr Estevez talk on relief efforts in Haiti at Brock U.
Release from prison _One of the Cuban Five and Petition Drive
1. Peace Center Matters:
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WNY Peace Center's Annual Dinner, Saturday, November 5, 2011: Doors
at 5:30! Dinner: 6:30!
Speakers: Cindy Sheehan and S.Brian Willson.
Buffalo Niagara Convention Center.
Purchase tickets via PayPal (or snail-mail check).
Go to:http://WNYPeace.org/AnnualDinnerFolder/AnnualDinner.php
Purchase ad space in our dinner program booklet: Go to:
http://WNYPeace.org/AnnualDinnerFolder/AnnualDinner.php
If you did not receive an invitation-or for more info.
www.wnypeace.org click on Annual Dinner Tickets
Also,fear of parking? Go to Fernbach Ramp on Franklin St.
for -free- parking on Nov 5th
FYI--each of our dinner speakers has a website:www.brianwillson.com
and cindysheehanssoapbox.com
Also, S.Brian Willson's new book:"Blood on the Tracks" is available. Cindy Sheehan has
a few books including "Peace Mom" and more recently "Myth of America II"which is only available online at the website.
Additionally, S.Brian Willson is publishing a book tour blog which will probably include some of his stay in the WNY area.
*** The WNY Peace Center's Coordinating Board of Directors meets 4th Monday every month. The next meeting is scheduled for 6:30 PM, Monday, October 24, 2011 at the Network of Religious Communities, 1272 Delaware Ave. Buffalo NY. All are invited to attend.
*** The Coordinating Board of Directors has noted there will be some openings for those who might be interested in joining the Board for the 2012 calendar year. The nominating cmte will soon begin working. It's not too early to start thinking about this opportunity!
***There will be an announcement soon concerning the next membership meeting-probably early/mid november.
*** The WNY Peace Center has t-shirts and bumperstickers. T-shirt prices are: $20 for white and $25 for green. WNY Peace Center Bumper Stickers: $2 WNY Peace Center Tote Bags: $10 If you would like to purchase one please contact us at facebook@wnypeace.org
*** DVD of Noam Chomsky's May 12th Lecture can be ordered from the Peace Center website for $25. All proceeds from the sale of this DVD will be used to support the WNY Peace Center. Professionally produced by Martin McGee Productions.
*** Starting Sept. 27: PeaceJam Buffalo
Tuesdays (Ongoing) 4-5:30pm, St. Mary's School for the Deaf, 2253 Main
St,
PeaceJam Buffalo, afterschool program for youth 14 and up, with
curriculum by Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in social justice,
leadership, and community change. Includes service learning project.
Community Service credits available. Part of an international movement.
More info: Victoria Ross 884-0582 victoryross@verizon.net
*** PEACE FAIR
Saturday, November 19,2011 from 11 AM - 3 PM
The Catholic Academy of West Buffalo 1069 Delaware Ave Buffalo
The Peace Fair is being held to provide a setting for education and
involvement regarding issues of peace and justice. We are inviting
groups, individuals, merchants and cultural organizations to set up informational centers, displays and vending tables.
This is a great opportunity for all participants to connect with holiday shoppers seeking to use their purchasing power to support the local economy. Moreover, the shoppers will also be learning about local organizations committed to peace and justice in the WNY area. These shoppers will be able to reduce their impact on the environment by making a majority of their holiday purchases in one place. Beyond supporting local businesses and organizations, the event will also provide children’s activities. There will also be a light lunch for sale.
Venders and crafters may purchase a table for only $10.00, and informational tables for non-profit organizations are $5.00. Please respond ASAP!
All proceeds from the event will support the WNY Peace Center and the work & programs of the People of Peace at PSL. Admission at the door: $1.00
Please mail your reservation to Pilgrim-St. Luke’s UCC, 335 Richmond Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, and a check made out to “Pilgrim – St. Luke’s UCC”
For further questions or information, please contact Rev. Phil Smith at ( 716) 885-9443, or Marianne Rathman at 885-9443 or email:
2. WNY Peace Center Taskforce Events and Items:
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New Task Force of the WNY Peace Center
Global Economic Justice Task Force,
Chair: Eric Gallion
email: egallion@verizon.net Eric's phone: 826-3776 or 310-4292.
When: Sunday October 16, 2011 at 4 P.M.
Where: Spot Coffee, 765 Elmwood Ave (at Cleveland Ave), Buffalo, NY
Description of the Task Force:
In the US and globally the interests of corporations and the wealthy are taking precedence “...to the detriment of the needs of the vast majority of the people of the world..." resulting in extreme poverty and exploitation, wars and environmental degradation.
This task force would explore these issues, and develop educational and direct action plans to confront them. Possible activities may include: developing and distributing educational materials, hosting movie nights of relevant movies, demonstrations and street theater, letter-writing
campaigns, etc.
You are welcome to join, and participate on any level. The group will develop plans and actions using a consensus model.
LASC Coffeehouses: third Monday of each month
Mon. Oct 17 Coffeehouse: Guatemala, Mayan opposition to Canadian gold mining
October Co-Sponsor Indigenous Women's Initiative
Mon. Nov 21, 7 PM. Coffeehouse/Film at Hallwalls: "Will the Real Terrorist Please Stand Up" This new documentary chronicles half a century of hostile US Cuba relations by telling the story of the Cuban five, intelligence agents sent to penetrate Cuban exile terrorist groups in Miami and now serving long prison sentences. The film highlights decades of assassinations and sabotage at first backed then ignored by the very government that launched a war against terrorism. In the film, viewers see leading terrorists, now in their 80s, recounting their deeds, and Cuban state security officials explaining why they infiltrated agents into violent Miami exile groups. The film, featuring Danny Glover and 84 year old Fidel Castro in key scenes, raises and tries to answer the question: what did Cuba do to deserve such hostile treatment? It traces key events from the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis, through multiple assassination attempts on Fidel Castro s life. This documentary reveals a story of violence that also echoed on the streets of Washington DC, New York and especially Miami where Cuban American critics of the bombers and shooters also wound up dead.
Mon. Dec 19 Coffeehouse Celebration at El Buen Amigo
LASC Organizing Meetings- new: First WEDNESDAY of each month-
at 1272 Delaware Ave,Network of Religious Communities-7PM--
Everybody ivited to participate
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3. Riverside-Salem UCC/DC
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Sundays at the Cottage, 4-6 p.m., 3449 West River Rd., Grand Island, NY more info: June License 773-1426; jlicence@buffalo.edu http://www.riversidesalem.org/
Program Schedule for October:
* Oct. 16 World Food Day: bring a dish, a recipe, a donation for Loaves & Fishes; GMO update and discussion with Eveline Hartz.
* Oct. 23 VOICE-Buffalo Meeting [4 p.m., place TBA- info: Marge Neal, 634-9712]; work day on cottage & straw-bale for those not attending the VOICE meeting.
* Oct. 30 [Hallowe'en] Scary Stories: Fracking ("Gasland" DVD+updates)
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4. (Legislative) Work to Do
legislator contacts: <http://wnypeace.org/join/lobby.php
See LASC website <www.lascwny.org for letter campaign around indigenous resistence to a government imposed "Rural Cities" project in Chiapas, Mexico.
5. Allies in Peace and Social Justice Announce: (including items which haven't come to us through the Peace Center Coordinating Board or Taskforces)
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President Obama sent Bush’s NAFTA-style trade deals with Korea, Colombia and Panama to Congress for approval. Votes are expected on all three pacts next week. Tell your representative to vote NO on the NAFTA-style dea Every member of Congress is aware of the growing groundswell of public discontent. This is a time when raising your voice can deliver. Call until you get a committment your representative will oppose each of the agreements — Korea, Colombia and Panama.
Unite with civil-society, labor and community groups from across the spectrum to stop the NAFTA expansion. All you need is one phone number to be connected to your representative: 1-800-718-1008.
Starting now and until he or she commits to oppose all three, dial
1-800-718-1008 and tell your representative to vote against the three unfair deals.
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PBS series
"Women, War and Peace" which begins Tuesday, Oct. 11th and continues for 5 weeks, ending Nov. 8th. The November 1st episode is on Colombia. The producers of this series are also touring the U.S. conducting community discussions.
You can see when/where they will be on the website. www.pbs.org/women-war-peace/news
October 13-28, events at Talking Leaves Main Street store:Oct 25 Hallwalls 3158 Main St. (716) 837-8554 <http://tleavesbooks.com/events.htm *
* Thursday, Oct 13, 7 pm--well-known author, Syracuse native Diana Abu-Jaber, Birds of Paradise, reading and book signing for acclaimed new novel set in contemporary Miami during the late summer of Hurricane Katrina. Part of her national book tour.
* Saturday, Oct 15, 5 pm--Greg Lamberson, Cosmic Forces, reading and book signing for local occult horror mystery writer and film maker for the third entry in his Jake Helman Files series.+
Tuesday, Oct 18, 7 pm Main Street store--South Buffalo native Michael Maccalupo reading from his new novel, a coming of age story set in South Buffalo in the 1950s and 60s, Where the Road Begins
Wednesday, Oct 19, 7 pm, Main Street store--Chautauqua Writers' Festival Co-director Philip Terman in a poetry reading to celebrate his new collection The Torah Garden; retired Buffalo attorney Susan Nusbaum will also be reading.
Thursday, Oct 20, 7 pm, Main Street store--Oakfield psychologist Julie Caton reading from her first historical novel, White Heart, set in 18th Century Canada and Western New York.
Tuesday, Oct 25, 7 pm at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center--award winning novelist Hillary Jordan reading from her powerful and compelling new dystopian novel When She Woke, part of her national tour for this book.
Friday, Oct 28, 7 pm, at Main Street store--Tiff Holland reading from her award winning collection of short fictions, Betty Superman, introduced by Buffalo State Professor and fiction writer Kim Chinquee, the judge who chose Holland's book for its award.
Burning Books Events:
Thursday, Oct. 13, 7pm, COINTELPRO 101: Film screening and presentation by Producer and Former Political Prisoner, Claude Marks. Burning Books, 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo
"COINTELPRO is both a formal program of the FBI and a term frequently used to describe a conspiracy among government agencies - local, state, and federal - to destroy movements for self-determination and liberation for Black, Brown, Asian, and Indigenous struggles, as well as mount an institutionalized attack against allies of these movements and other progressive organizations."
Millions Against Monsanto - The Future of Food Film Screening and Discussion
$5 Suggested Donation 7pm, Sunday, October 16th,
The Assassination of Fred Hampton Presentation by Author Jeffrey Haas
7pm, Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Burning Books – 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo
My Name Is Allegheny County
7pm, Thursday, October 20th, Burning Books - 420 Connecticut Street, Buffalo $10 suggested donation
Oct. 16: World Food Day: Bring a dish, a recipe, a donation for Loaves & Fishes; GMO update and discussion with Eveline Hartz.
And we hope you will have been able to participate in World On Your Plate (Friday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m. at Daemen College, 4380 Main St., Wick Center, for "The Economics of Happiness" with panel discussion; Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. with keynoter Judy Wicks, 28 workshops to choose from in 4 sessions, organic vegetarian lunch, musical reception by Latin Jazz
Project-see www.worldonyourplate.org). Note that students are free with ID and preregistration, which can be done via the website or $25 to RSUCC (memo to WOYP) can be mailed to RS at PO Box 207, Grand Island, NY 14072-0207 or given to me before Friday noon; cost at the door is $30. There is a special Youth Workshop series (ages 10+), too.
Friday and Saturday, Oct 14 and 15: 8th annual World on Your Plate, Conference on Food and Sustainable Living, Damen College Wick Campus Center, 4380 Main St, Amherst NY
Friday night film, food and moderated discussion 7-9:30 p.m. Saturday Workshops, speakers, lunch, vendors, info. tables, and end of day party 8:30 am - 6 pm
Register online at <http://www.worldonyourplate.org/ and save $5! Only $25 online,
$30 at door includes all speakers, workshops, meals and end of day party!
Pre-registered students Free!
Featuring the Economics of Happiness, Keynote Judy Wicks. Also, amazing workshops, great meals Fresh Local Food from many sites, and presentations by Christina Abt, Wayne and Peg Alt, Dave Bauer, Sarah Bishop, Stephen Gareau, Eveline Hartz, Heather Hartz, Geri Hens, Mary
Hughes, Gladys Gifford, Jean Marie Gunner, Bill Jungels, Kelly Kowalski, Dave Lanfear, Margaret Mitchell MD, Ami Patrick, Lisabeth Abt Pieters, Carol Poliner, Melissa Rakvica, Ginny Riordan, Tom Rivers, Lynda Schneekloth, Tom Skraitz DC, Daniel C. Cos PC, Mike and
Gayle Thorpe, and Agnes F. Williams. details at <http://www.worldonyourplate.org/
October 15 'Human Needs,Not Corporate Greed'-saturday @ Elmwood Ave.
and Bidwell Pkwy 2:00PM--This will be one of WNY's contribution to to demos and
protests across the nation that began with the occupation of
Freedom Plaza in D.C.on October 6th --THE TIME IS NOW TO RESTORE DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA-TO TAKE BACK THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE,FOR THE PEOPLE
October 14 - 16, Toronto Ont, International Festival of Poetry of Resistance, in honour of the Middle East and the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Latin America (ALBA), with diplomatic
representatives of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Ecuador... Friday, Oct. 14, 5:00 p.m. smudging ceremony followed by the launch of the first volume of poetry anthology, art exhibit including a silent auction with display of cartoons of Gerardo Hernandez, one of the Cuban Five followed by a dinner with poetry especially by our visiting poets.
RSVP for these events. More info: 416 551 5144 or 416 603 9858 <www.poetryofresistance.org and link to letter with details:
<http://www.poetryofresistance.org/uploads/6/8/0/8/6808741/ invitationletter.pdf
October 15th, 7 - 10 pm, Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fontana Boathouse, One Rotary Row, Buffalo.
Wine and Cheese Open House to benefit the work of the SSJ Sister Karen Klimczak Center for Nonviolence ~Donations gratefully accepted at the door~
October 16th will mark Roger Cooks retirement after 32 years of dedication to WNYCOSH (Western New York Council on Occupational Safety and Health) and our workers. Put ad in
their program book, or try to attend that day. More info: 833-5416,Dawn- tickets 40 single/35 couple Time:12-5:00 @VFW,W.Seneca
October 17 Father Robert Pelton will be screening his film “Moñsenor: The Last
Journey of Oscar Romero" mondayat 7:30pm in Lyons Hall 418. The film focuses on the last three years of Romero’s life. This film places Latin American campesinos at the center of the story. It rises beyond the classic genre of a filmed bio. There will also be an
introduction and a Q and A.
There will be a second screening of this film [later this fall] because the Oct screening conflicts with the Oct 17 LASC coffeehouse
Monday, Oct. 17, 7-9pm, 1272 Delaware Ave. LASC Coffeehouse. Guatemala: Human rights, Mayan communities, and GOLD Co-sponsored by Indigenous Women's Initiative
Documentary: CULTURES OF RESISTANCE: a travelogue on art & creativity as ammunition in the battle for peace with justice. Don't miss our stop in Buffalo, NY, as part of the Buffalo International Film Festival:
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 at 7:00 pm at The Screening Room
(enter at Arthur Murray Dance Studio, 4524 Bailey Avenue, Amherst, NY 14226)
For more information about this event, please visit:
http://buffalofilmfestival2011.sched.org/event/5770b31fe79cc950740e9a6912a54513
Saturday, October 22, noon to 3pm, 50 Wyoming Ave. Freedom Bowl
at VIVE <http://www.vivelacasa.org/
Voice Buffalo-Public Mtg October 23 @ 3:30 sunday. Issues to be covered: Metro Rail-Safe Housing-National Fuel Gas Accountability Public School Funding, Youth Intervention and Mentorship
Westminster Presbyterian Church
724 Delaware Ave ? Buffalo, NY 14209
Take a Stand with VOICE-Buffalo
Send a Message to Extend the Millionaire's Tax
October 23 Hope you can join Mike Frisch, Nancy Weekly and me at the Buffalo
International Film Festival for a wonderful session on "our Milton." *Be Filled Willed With the Spirit* and 3 other short films will have its world premier--a brief film on Milton's Storefront Church series. 12/noon The Screening Room
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October 28, 29, St. Mary of the Lake Church, S. 4737 Lake Shore Rd, Hamburg Pax Christi-Buffalo Catholic Worker Annual retreat For more info or flyer, please email CaseyTPC@aol.com" or call Bill Privett 585-599-3366 or Tom Casey 716-491-9172 See Other Items to help.
Deadline October 28 for Peace Action of New York State raffle Drawing that evening, at the New York City Gala, where Peace Action presents the 2011 William Sloane Coffin Peacemaker Award to The Honorable Barbara Lee, Representative California. <http://www.peaceaction.charityhappenings.org/ More details at the end here.
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"On October 29, the Video Institute at Canisius will present the premier of the documentary film, Immersion El Salvador. Along with this premier, we are fortunate to host the highly celebrated
Salvadoran folk singer and composer of El Salvador’s popular mass, Guellermo Cuéllar.
Follow a group of students and faculty as they travel to El Salvador with the Institute for the Global Study of Religion at Canisius College. Immersion: El Salvador, a 30-minute documentary produced by the Canisius College Video Institute, highlights the students’ journey of
self- awareness and enlightenment as they explore faith, religion, culture, and justice in this Central American country. In addition to tonight’s premier we feature a concert by Guillermo
Cuéllar. Cuéllar is one of the most famous singer/songwriters in El Salvador. A close friend of the martyred Archbishop Oscar Romero, several of Guellar’s songs, from his Salvadoran Popular Mass were featured in the movie Romero. Over the past two decades Cuellar has traveled and performed extensively throughout the world."
Saturday, Oct 29, 12 at 3 p.m. Abyssinian Baptist Church, Harlem, NY Public Memorial and Cultural Tribute to Jazz Musician and Educator Consuela Edmonia Lee Nov. 1, 1926 at Dec. 26, 2009. Musicians, family, friends and admirers gathering to honor this "musicians' musician", with
photos & videos of interviews & performances. Consuela Lee was a jazz pianist, composer, arranger, educator and director of Snow Hill Institute for the Performing Arts, a school dedicated to the education of children, especially African-American music, in one of the poorest counties of
Alabama. See a story of her life: <www.consuelalee.com/doc/consuelalee.html
RSVP at <www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=149228161821858
"Nov. 1st is our trial date for the April 22nd blockade action 38 of us participated in against drones that are piloted from Hancock Airport Military Base to drop missiles on the people Afghanistan. We go to DeWitt Town Court near Syracuse. We hope you will be joining us. Mark your calendars." From Mary Anne Grady Flores, Co-defendant of the Hancock
38... Ithaca Catholic Workers, 14850 1-607-273-7437/ 1-607-280-8797
November 18-20, 2011: See you at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia for the SOA Watch vigil. <www.soaw.org/
6. REGULAR EVENTS
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Visit EL BUEN AMIGO, 114 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo NY 14201. Fair trade products from Central and South America. Learn Spanish, too. Space available for events. Tel: 716-885-6343; <http://elbuenamigo.org
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VIGIL AT THE ERIE COUNTY HOLDING CENTER, each Wednesday at 5 P.M.- 6 P.M. Corner of Church St and Delaware Ave. Erie County Prisoner Rights Coalition continues its weekly protests against prisoner abuse at the Holding Center. Signs are available at the vigil. If the vigil ends
early due to inclement weather, you will find the coalition at 14 Allen St. (near Main St.) until 7:00pm.
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WOMEN IN BLACK SILENT VIGIL AGAINST WAR Every Saturday Afternoon, 12-1 P.M. regardless of weather. Corner of Elmwood & Bidwell Parkway, Buffalo NY. Witnessing weekly since October 2001. <http://www.womeninblack.org/en/vigil
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WEEKLY SUNDAY NOON VIGILS FOR PEACE, ROCHESTER
Sponsored by Peace Action & Education. 12:00 Noon 1:00 PM in Rochester, East Avenue & Goodman Street. more info: 585-442-3383 or <http://www.gvcp.org/
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INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S INITIATIVES (IWI) TALKING CIRCLE 2nd Thursday of each
month, 12-3 P.M. IWI Office @ Network of Religious Communities, 1272 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo. More Information Contact Agnes Williams, Seneca 716-332-6988. Please bring organic Snacks to share
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WNY DRILLING DEFENCE (formerly FRACK ACTION BUFFALO), 12 P.M. meeting at
Lafayette Presbyterian, 875 Elmwood Ave Buffalo. Every 2nd and 4th Sunday of the month. Meetings open to all. Use door off of parking lot on Lafayette Ave. More info:
<http://groups.google.com/group/wnydrillingdefense
<www.facebook.com/WNYDrillingDefense
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Anti-Wars/Stop the Drones Outreach. First and Third Tuesdays of the month, 4:15-5:00 P.M. at Hancock Air National Guard Base, East Malloy Rd, Mattydale NY (Syracuse NY). Sponsored by the Syracuse Peace Council. More info: <www.peacecouncil.net/
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Sunday, Vigil for Peace. 12 Noon - 1 P.M. Corner of East Avenue and Goodman St. Rochester NY. Sponsor: Peace Action and Education, Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace (www.gvcp.org). Every Sunday. Sponsor: Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace.
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OTHER ITEMS:
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MEDIA:
A new print-paper "Occupy Wall Street Journal" -Hard to get copies but try kickstarter.com. Some other sites of interest: truth-out.org---buzzflash.net indypendent.org---- democracynow.org--current.com-- October2011.org--even www.hippy.com.--alternet.org and counterpunch.org
Do you miss?: Ramparts--Alt--EVO[East Village Other] -Try villagevoice.com or [newcomer] brooklynrail.org Don't miss the poll results for best liberal/progressive/leftist 'zine from
www.democraticunderground.com
Finally, [more reading] goto: www.victoryiscertain.com and www.world-newspapers.com
Movies too [theaters or rental]-"Whistleblower"and "We Were Here"a remarkable film about AIDS in San Fran.in 70s-80s
Telly-Current[Cable-165]-Planet Green[Cable103] and don't forget CSpan and Cspan2[Cable 261]
Jeet Heer from the Globe and Mail recs:'Empire' by Hardt and Negri as political influence on the 'Occupy'phenomenon. The controversial work has also been followed by 'Multitude'and 'Commonwealth"
Let us know if you have some ideas or suggestions,especially local!
People Inc
http://www.people-inc.org
Museum of disABILITY History
http://www.museumofdisability.org
People Inc. and the Museum of Disability will host the 7th Annual disABILITIES Film Festival and Speaker Series on Thursday, October 13 at the University at Buffalo Center for the Arts.
This years film will be Wheres Molly? a documentary that follows the journey of Jeff Daly as he searches for his sister Molly after 47 years of separation. Jeff finally learns the truth about the family secret that kept him from his sister, in a reunion that will warm your heart. We are pleased to welcome Jeff and Cindy Daly as this year. At the University at Buffalo North Campus, Center for the Arts. The event begins with a cocktail reception at 6 p.m. in the Center for the
Arts main hall and the film screening begins at 7 p.m. Prior to the movie, there
will be a live musical performance by Niagara Falls, NY native Sujeet Desai
War and disABILITY Exhibit Continues:
The Museum of disABILITY Historys newest exhibit, War and disABILITY continues to be on display now through December 31. The exhibit includes American national history and the nations involvement in wars both at home and abroad. Topics covered include people with disabilities in war and war efforts at home; perceptions of veterans who are disabled in popular culture; neuropsy Kids on the Block Project Coordinator Brie Kishel will attend an anti-bullying conference sponsored by the Character Council of Western New York on October 26 in Hamburg, NY. The keynote speaker at this event will be Dr. Amanda Nickerson, director of the Center for the Prevention of Bullying Abuse and School Violence at the University at Buffalo. The conference will address the Dignity for all Students Act, legislation which goes into effect on July 1, 2012, requiring all schools in New York State to revise codes of conduct and adopt policies to create a school environment free from harassment and discrimination.chological injuries; the evolution of medical and military technologies; and legislation, rehabilitation and reintegration issues facing veterans with disabilities.
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The Beehive Collective is bringing their highly original and characteristically non-copyrighted workshop "Graphics For the Commons" to Buffalo (See beehivecollective.org) . Graphic artists, journalists, teachers, storytellers and activists work together to uncover and present the stories of regular people gathering to Graphic artists, journalists,
teachers, storytellers and activists work together to uncover and present
the stories of regular people gathering together to support a cause, to
preserve a place. In an increasingly globalized and homogenized culture
the Beehive Collective process helps us re-member what is local, what is
place; what is home; what is indigenous; what is precious. By workshop's
end participants learn their collaborative storytelling style and how to
produce a piece of readable, motivational graphic art.
The workshop will be held on Wednesday, November 2, 2:00-6:30pm, El Buen
Amigo. Sliding scale fee is $20.00-$75.00. All monies collected go to
Beehive Collective.
For more information please e-mail mcoyle1112@gmail.com or call
716-935-0733
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SIGN THE ONLINE PETITION AT
http://bailoutpeople.org/dropchargesonoccupywallstarrestees.shtml to send
email messages to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, NYC City Council, Legislature,
President Obama, Attorney General Holder, members of the media YOU WANT
ALL CHARGES DROPPED ON THE 'OCCUPY WALL STREET
ARRESTEES!
AROUND THE COUNTRY, Solidarity Occupations have begun in over 100 cities!
Find the one near you at http://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt
Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge - Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images
The arrest of over 700 people on Saturday, Oct 1 on the Brooklyn
Bridge by the New York City Police Department is an outrage and an
actually leading the demonstration on to the roadway of the bridge,
started arresting hundreds of activists. This is entrapment.
A loose network of organizations and individuals called the
occupation named “Occupy Wall Street”. It started 15 days ago. It has no
ending date. No one knows how long it will last. But it is now attracting
growing and enthusiastic mass support giving voice to the Bail Out the
People Movement
55 W 17th St #5C
212-633-6646 <tel:212-633-6646>
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The Coalition for Economic Justice seeks an experienced professional to
work part-time managing the systems and operations that will support the
programming of our growing organization.
To see a full job description, email info@buffalojwj.org. If you would
like to apply, please send your resume, cover letter, and three
references
to info@buffalojwj.org.
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Holy Trinity Lutheran Church is sponsoring a series of conversations with
community leaders and contributors. Events start at 9:30 a.m. in the
Church Fellowship Room. At 1080 Main Street, between North and Summer
Streets, across from Anchor Bar.
Karima Amin notes: County Executive Chris Collins spoke Sunday,
Sept. 25, at 9:30am at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 1080 Main Street.
His opponent, County Comptroller Mark Poloncarz, will share
his views at the church on Sunday, October 23.
Full Schedule:
October 16: Kevin Gaughan community activist and regionalism advocate
October 23: Mark Poloncarz Erie County Comptroller (and County Exec
candidate)
October 30: Phil Rumore President of Buffalo Teachers' Federation
November 6: Mark Grisanti New York State Senator
November 27: no program (Thanksgiving weekend)
December 4: Bonnie Smith Westminster West-side Retail Incubator
Project
December 11: Louis Grachos Albright-Knox Executive Director
December 18: Our own Dr. Roy Clare and a holiday musical treat
For more information and updates, please consult the church website
www.holytrinitybuffalo.org
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Peace Action of New York State raffle (Deadline October 28)
From Katherine Jacobson, 212-989-3123, Peace Action of New York State.
The NATION Magazine has offered to Peace Action of New York State the
opportunity to hold a raffle, for one Seminar Cruise trip-for-two! The
drawing of the winning RaffleTix will take place in New York City on the
Gala evening of October 28, when PANYS presents to The Honorable Barbara
Lee, Representative of California's 9th Congressional
District, the 2011 William Sloane Coffin Peacemaker Award! RaffleTix, at
$35.00, may be purchased at <www.Raffle.CharityHappenings.org
(deadline at Noon on October 28) or mail order to Peace Action New York
State, P.O.Box 3357 New York, NY 10008-3357 (if received before October
28) Payments should be made to Peace Action Fund of New York State in
order to quality for a tax deduction.
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October 28th- 29th. St. Mary of the Lake Church, Hamburg
the Buffalo Catholic Worker (and Pax Christi) 14th Annual
Catholic Peacemakers Retreat, to reflect in community on, “As
Jesus came near the city, he wept over it saying, “If this day you only
knew the things that make for peace! (Luke 19:41-42). Our
speaker, Tom Cordaro, believes we must openly and respectfully end our
polarizing discourse in order to find opportunities for each of us to
work and pray in 2012 for a more peaceful world for our children and
grandchildren. Registration information: www.PaxChristi.weebly.com Bill
Privett 585-599-3366 or Tom Casey, 716-491-9172.
To all of you who have and continue to help getting out the word for the
annual Pax
Christi- Buffalo Catholic Worker Retreat the web site for registration
information
we provided was incorrect. "WNY" was not within the address as it should
be
(www.PaxChristiWNY.weebly.com)
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Suzanne Montalalo - movetoamendbuffalony@gmail.com
stay tuned!
National website www.movetoamend.org
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from BURNING BOOKS, 420 CONNECTICUT STREET, BUFFALO -
OPEN 11AM TO 7PM, WEDNESDAY TO SUNDAY (716) 881-0791
burningbooksbuffalo.com/ with an opportunity to
join the Burning Books mailing list!
"We just got an exciting new shipment of booklets and notepads from our
friends at Eberhardt Press, a Portland, Oregon based press that
prints the Beware the Green Scare pamphlets and other contemporary
material related to Earth liberation struggle and prisoner support, as
well as original titles and classic revolutionary texts that are out of
print and in danger of fading from memory. Eberhardt Press does very good
work. Be sure to check them out.
We also recently got Gasland DVDs, Crips & Bloods DVDs, Islam for
Beginners, Anarchism for Beginners, Stonewall Uprising DVDs, We Shall
Remain DVDs, Operation Bite Back, I am an Animal: The Story of Ingrid
Newkirk and PETA DVDs and more...
Burning Books is always expanding our stock, so stop in between 11am and
7pm, Wednesdays through Sundays and check us out. Read!"
NEW AT BURNING BOOKS
We got our first shipment from the national Leonard Peltier Defense Offense
Committee (LPDOC) this week, which will complement the monthly
Peltier-related
events at the Burning Books being put on by the Buffalo chapter of the LPDOC.
Included in the shipment are Free Peltier bumper stickers, buttons,
t-shirts,
American Indian Movement t-shirts, and In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
t-shirts.
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from Luke Dyer at Pax Christi
From the Buffalo News article, published August 10.
One of four charges dismissed against Buckley
"One of the four misdemeanor charges against community activist Nate
Buckley was dismissed by Buffalo City Judge Joseph A. Fiorella on
Tuesday, but he and co-defendants Jason A. Wilson and Elliot Zyglis still
face trial on other charges for an April 8 antiwar rally at Fountain
Plaza.
The judge, in a ruling disputed by the chief prosecutor in the case,
dis-missed a disorderly conduct charge against Buckley, 26, of
Massachusetts Avenue, holding that he was actually on private bank
property rather than the law-required public property when ordered to
leave.
The judge denied defense motions to dismiss the trespass charges still
pending against Wilson, 24, of Summer Street; and Elliot Zyglis, 27, of
Amherst Street. He ordered pretrial hearings for all three
defendants to begin Sept. 19.
The three community activists all declined to comment after the brief
court session, but Susan H. Sadinsky, chief of the District Attorney’s
City Court Bureau, said she will confer with Sedita about a possible
appeal of the Fiorella’s dismissal order."
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Three items from Dave Thomas: Canada and Cuba and the US
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Recent article by Karen Lee Wald:
Ana Belen Montes -- ten years buried alive
"Ten years ago today Senior Defense Department Analyst, Puerto Rican Ana
Belen
Montes was arrested for "following her conscience" and providing
classified information to the Cuban gov't.
She did so because she felt that the US government had consistently
treated the
Cuban people in a grossly unfair manner." full article at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CubaNews/message/126523
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Cuban Airline Short of Aircraft Due To U.S. Blockade
Isaac Saney, Chair of the Canadian Network on Cuba, says that Saturday
flights between Cuba and Montreal have been cancelled. "It seems that
this change has occurred because of the ongoing U.S. economic war against
Cuba. Cubana used to lease its aircraft from TACA. However, the recent
takeover of TACA by a U.S. company meant that Cuba could no longer lease
planes from TACA. In establishing new arrangements (i.e. finding a
company from which they could lease planes) Cuba had to forgo flying Cuba
into Montreal on Saturdays."
TACA Is a Costa Rican Airline. The breaking of business relations between
Cuba and TACA is yet another example of the economic screws being
tightened down on Cuba through the extraterritorial extension of U.S. law
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Anyone going to Cuba February 9 to 19 should plan a day at the book fair
in Havana into foreign countries.
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 7:00 P.M.
Every medical centre should know about this event.
This is a very important cross Canada tour by a Cuban doctor who was on the ground
a.. Dr. Balseiro Estevez will high light the work done in Haiti by Cuban doctors
and Cuban trained foreign doctors;
b.. The conditions they worked under to save lives;
c.. The type of surgeries they performed
d.. The infrastructure problems before and after the quake
Dave Thomas, CCFA Niagara Chair
Statement from the National Committee to Free the Cuban Five on the
Release from Prison of René González
René González, one of the five men known as the Cuban Five, today
will walk out of Federal Prison in Marianna, Florida. He will walk out
with his head held high after more than 13 years in prison, having
served his utterly unjust sentence with complete dignity. He has been
a model prisoner, even while suffering the indignity of being
inhumanely deprived visits from his wife for more than 11 years.
The National Committee to Free the Cuban Five has an online petition
to President Obama to allow René González to return to Cuba, which has
been signed by people across the United States and from around the
world. We urge all people of conscience the world over to add their
voices to this demand at:
http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-the-persecution-of-ren-gonzlez-
let-him-return-to-cuba
For more infromation:
Contact us: info@freethefive.org
Or call: 415-821-6545
Web: http://www.freethefive.org
http://www.facebook.com/FreeTheFive