\nPeaceWorks Rochester Community Calendar

Time:

7:00pm

Location:

Downtown Presbyterian Church* 121 North Fitzhugh St., Rochester

Description:

“A Perspective on the Migrant Caravan: Religion, Civil Society, and the Politics of Naming”

Prof. Martha Balaguera
The University of Toronto-Mississauga

Wednesday, May 1, 2019, 7:00 PM
Downtown Presbyterian Church*
121 North Fitzhugh St., Rochester

*The church is accessible to those with mobility impairments and looped for the hearing impaired.

For more information: Karleen West, karleen.rocla@gmail.com

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/347385776107078/

The Central American migrant caravans of 2018 and 2019 have brought renewed attention to the contemporary refugee crisis in the Western hemisphere. They have also brought stigma to the word “caravan” and a debate over the appropriate forms of political engagement on the part of migrants and their allies and advocates.

In this talk, Professor Martha Balaguera will address the politics of naming surrounding the so-called “caravan,” and provide her perspective on the collective and public migration of thousands of displaced Central Americans across Mexico en route to the United States. In the process, Balaguera will discuss the historical origins and religious foundations of migrant caravans in southern Mexico, and the larger debates that the word “caravan” conjures with respect to the humanity of migrants.

Martha Balaguera is an Assistant Professor of Political Science who teaches at the University of Toronto-Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. She was a Visiting Fellow at the Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego, during the 2017-2018 academic year. Martha’s work focuses on social movements in violent contexts, with an emphasis on transborder forms of activism in the Americas from a feminist perspective.

Time:

7:30am - 8:30am

Location:

Park Avenue & Culver Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

Bring Them Home Vigils

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Time:

5:00pm

Location:

he event will begin at the Liberty Pole in Rochester

Description:

The annual SlutWalk event is coming up quickly on Friday, May 3rd, 2019 at 5 pm.

The event will begin at the Liberty Pole in Rochester, NY and consist of speakers and a march through the city. We are looking for volunteers, participants, and support in anyway you can. We are want to make this the most successful SlutWalk yet!

SlutWalk is an international movement that originated in Toronto, Canada in 2011 to bring communities together to confront the issues of slut shaming and victim blaming. The original SlutWalk was held in response to a statement made by a Toronto police officer: “Women should avoid dressing like sluts in order to not be victimized.”

For more information on the event or if interested in volunteering, please contact mmcca14@brockport.edu

Check us out on Facebook at: SlutWalk Rochester!!!

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

12:00pm

Location:

Federal Building, 100 State Street.

Description:

The Rochester Chapter of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship invites you to join us on one Monday of each month for a silent vigil (meditation) for peace.

The next vigil will be Monday, May 6, from 12 Noon to 1 pm, at the Federal Building, 100 State Street. Please bring your own blanket, cushion and/or chair (and groundcloth or piece of plastic if it is wet). If you can't come for the full hour, please join us for as long as you can.

This is an opportunity for us to publicly express a non-violent, compassionate, thoughtful alternative to aggression and conflict.

We hope to see you there.

For the Rochester BPF,

Jay Thompson
jayf_thompson@hotmail.com

Time:

10:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

1199 East Main Street, Rochester, NY

Description:

Rochester Greenovation
The Green Cycles Store = Precycling +Downcycling
+ Upcycling + Recycling + Freecycling + E-cycling

Sustainable Saturdays
Rochester Greenovation
1199 East Main St
288-7564 or email at
info@rochestergreen.org
Sustainability is our Life!

The 2nd Saturday of every month is A Sustainable Saturday
June 14: 10am-3pm
On Sustainable Saturdays we attempt to demonstrate through education &
networking how to reclaim, renew & redefine salvage of all kinds towards the prevention & reduction of generated waste.

This monthly event brings together environmental groups, non-for-profits, green businesses, community organizations, craftsmen, artists & food vendors all for the purpose of demonstrating various ways to leave a smaller footprint on the earth.

We look forward to you joining us on this adventure!
www.rochestergreen.org/
facebook.com/RochesterGreenovation?fref=ts
Rochester Greenovation
www.rochestergreen.org
Strengthening local communities through environmentally conscious initiatives, waste diversion, and ...

Time:

10:00am - 4:00pm

Location:

1199 East Main Street, Rochester, NY

Description:

Rochester Greenovation
The Green Cycles Store = Precycling +Downcycling
+ Upcycling + Recycling + Freecycling + E-cycling

Sustainable Saturdays
Rochester Greenovation
1199 East Main St
288-7564 or email at
info@rochestergreen.org
Sustainability is our Life!

The 2nd Saturday of every month is A Sustainable Saturday
June 14: 10am-3pm
On Sustainable Saturdays we attempt to demonstrate through education &
networking how to reclaim, renew & redefine salvage of all kinds towards the prevention & reduction of generated waste.

This monthly event brings together environmental groups, non-for-profits, green businesses, community organizations, craftsmen, artists & food vendors all for the purpose of demonstrating various ways to leave a smaller footprint on the earth.

We look forward to you joining us on this adventure!
www.rochestergreen.org/
facebook.com/RochesterGreenovation?fref=ts
Rochester Greenovation
www.rochestergreen.org
Strengthening local communities through environmentally conscious initiatives, waste diversion, and ...

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

2:00pm

Location:

Wadsworth Auditorium, SUNY Geneseo

Description:

The English Department at the
State University of New York at Geneseo presents:
The Thirteenth Annual Genesee Valley Peace Poetry Contest
Awards Ceremony
Sunday, May 12th, 2019 at 2:00PM
Wadsworth Auditorium, SUNY Geneseo

All winners will receive certificates and the opportunity to read their poems aloud to family, friends, the public, and the Geneseo faculty. Three first-prize winners will receive gifts courtesy of Sundance Books.

Light refreshments will be served following the ceremony, compliments of Campus Auxiliary Services. The ceremony will last a little over an hour.

A special GVCP Peace Poetry award will be given in remembrance of Claire Allen, awarded to the student writer whose poem most embraces the goals and vision of GVCP.

Time:

All day event

Description:

What a year it has been! From the passing of GENDA to the new Voting Rights Reform package to the Reproductive Health Act - NYS is getting an upgrade.

None of this work would have been possible without your support and appreciation for the work of the organization. It was YOU that showed up through and through to your legislators, demanding that we establish a more fair and just system across the board. It was YOU that was able to get the work done and demand that your legislators listen. We have just reached the first 100 days of the 2019 Legislative Session and the work is only beginning. Farmworkers' rights, police reform, education equity are all still on the table. As threats continue being made by our President, it is crucial that New York State step up and put in the widest net of protections for all New Yorkers.

That's why this May 13th, we are inviting you to join us for the NYCLU Day of Action.

We need to make sure we demand Farmworkers have adequate labor protections.

We need to ensure that we repeal Civil Rights Law 50 A to eliminate secrecy within police departments and holding Police Officers accountable for abuse and misconduct.

We need to make sure that our legislators know that NYS is still behind and that it's time to decriminalize marijuana.

We need to ensure that schools aren't storing biometrics information on their youth with the investments made in facial recognition technology.

The time to step up and act is NOW! RSVP for the Day of Action here and we will send out more information on trainings, legislation and Day of Action updates! --
https://www.nyclu.org/en/events/2019-nyclu-day-action

Join the NYCLU and join the resistance.

https://www.nyclu.org/en/events/2019-nyclu-day-action

2019 NYCLU Day of Action | New York Civil Liberties Union
Make your voice heard. Join the NYCLU and hundreds of activists and advocates in Albany for a day of organizing, training, and visits with members of the State Senate and Assembly.
www.nyclu.org

Contact us at geneseevalley@nyclu.org for any questions and/or concerns!

Sincerely,

Iman Abid
Genesee Valley Chapter Director

Time:

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Location:

First Unitarian Church, 220 S. Winton Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Time:

7:30am - 8:30am

Location:

Park Avenue & Culver Road

Description:

Witness against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Come and leave as it fits your schedule. The goal is to bring an awareness of the war into our daily lives, remind those driving by that the wars are still going on, call for our troops to come home, and advocate for another approach to healing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

STAND WITH US! Signs are provided.

UU PEACE ADVOCATES
www.rochesterunitarian.org/peaceadvocates.html

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Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

1:30pm

Location:

Greece Baptist Church 1230 Long Pond Rd. (just north of W. Ridge Rd.) Rochester, NY 14626

Description:

The new Rochester Area Interfaith Climate Action
presents the
First Annual Interfaith Climate Summit

Sunday, May 19
Registration at 1:30 p.m.
program 2:00-5:00 p.m.

Greece Baptist Church
1230 Long Pond Rd. (just north of W. Ridge Rd.)
Rochester, NY 14626

♦ Share in interfaith celebration of the gift of our Earth
♦ Learn current best practices for recycling, switching to renewable energy, making heating & cooling more sustainable, reducing and handling food waste, creating a community garden, educating and motivating for Creation care, and advocating for sustainable legislation. There will be a workshop by and for youth.
♦ Experience the intergenerational Carbon Footprint Game

The event is free.
Please register in advance at Home | Rochester Area Interfaith Climate Action

If you organization would like to be listed as a sponsor of the 2019 Interfaith Climate Summit, (no $ needed) please contact Debby Kornfeld at gkornfeld@gmail.com or 269-8526.

Childcare available with registration.
Questions?
Contact Debby Kornfeld at gkornfeld@gmail.com or 269-8526

Time:

2:00pm - 5:00pm

Location:

Living Room at Legacy at Cranberry Landing.

Description:

Join us for the fourth event of our 100th Anniversary year, a reading by Buffalo-based poet SCOTT WILLIAMS, followed by our Open Mic. Sunday, May 19, 2-5 pm, in the Living Room at Legacy at Cranberry Landing.

Scott Williams is a SUNY Buffalo Emeritus Professor of Mathematics. He's also a poet and author of short stories who's been a featured reader in New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ontario, and The Virgin Islands.

His poetry and fiction has appeared in a number of journals and newspapers, among them The Buffalo News, Juniper, Punch Drunk Press, Owl Light News, and Scryptic Magazine.

His most recent books are "Bonvibre Haiku" (CWP Press, 2017), "Natural Shrinkage" (Destitute Press, 2018) and the sci-fi poetry & flash-fiction series "A Flash of Dark, Vol 1 & 2" (Writers Den, 2018). He co-produces the reading series Second Stage Writers in Buffalo and Poets Soup in Canandaigua and hosts workshops in the poetic forms ghazal and haiku.

Don't forget that our open mics are NOT limited to poets: singers, musicians, short fiction writers, comics, and even dancers are also welcome.

Even if you can't join us, if you know folks who might enjoy attending, to perform or as audience members, pass the word and send them the following link to our public invite: http://j.mp/RoPo1905

You can also support RoPo's ongoing efforts with an annual membership, which is still only $20. To join using your credit/debit card, go to http://squareup.com/store/rochester-poets/

Our readings are FREE and open to the public; donations to support Rochester Poets are encouraged and gratefully accepted. Refreshments served.

See you on the 19th,

Frank Judge
President
Rochester Poets
585-260-9005

UPCOMING
May 19:
Jun 9:
Jul 21:
Aug 18:
Sep 15:
Scott Williams
Lori Martinez
Laurence Sugarman & Lee Brooks Warner
George Guida
100,000 Poets for Change

Time:

5:00pm

Location:

Liberty Pole, Downtown Rochester

Description:

LISTEN UP POLITICIANS: NO ABORTION BANS. EVER.
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 - 5:00 pm
Liberty Pole, Downtown Rochester

Bring your signs

Across the country, we are seeing a new wave of extreme bans on abortion, stripping away reproductive freedom and representing an all-out assault on abortion access. This is Trump’s anti-choice movement… and it’s terrifying, particularly for women of color and low-income women who are most affected by these bans.

We will show up to speak out and fight back against this unconstitutional attempt to gut Roe and punish women. Politicians shouldn't be making decisions best left to women, their families, and their doctors.

Together we say: Stop the bans.

Sponsored by Rochester NOW, Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York, and Indivisible Rochester.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/442520809845291/

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Barbara Moore, Moore Results
585.748.1850
bmoore@mooreresults.com

Time:

10:00am - 2:00pm

Location:

The Squirrel at 285 Clarissa Street Rochester, NY

Description:

Open Hours at the Squirrel! (work space/grab coffee)
Thursday, May 23, 2019
10am - 2pm
The Squirrel at 285 Clarissa Street
Rochester, NY
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/664777203971069/?active_tab=about

The Flying Squirrel Community Space welcomes folks to come find out more about the space and take a tour! If you like, bring your work and grab a cup of organic, fair trade coffee for a $1 donation. We'll have tables set up and power strips so those of you with computers can drop in and plug in. We also have WiFi.

See you Thursday!

Time:

12:00pm - 1:00pm

Description:

Peace/Anti-War vigil at corner of East Ave. and Goodman Street, Rochester. All are welome!

Time:

9:00am

Location:

Sister Cities Bridge

Description:

Memorial in Time of War
Remembrance and Hope
A service of remembrance of the victims of the current wars

Reflections for healing and hope

Memorial Day

Monday, May 27

9 AM
Sister Cities Bridge

Genesee Crossroads-Charles Carroll Park Downtown Rochester
(Behind the Holiday Inn on State St)

This Memorial Day service is a remembrance of all who have died in the current wars, as well as an affirmation of the preciousness and beauty of all life. Our hope is that in holding the memory of each life in an embrace of dignity and compassion, that there can be comfort for the grieving as well as healing for all of humanity, so that peace may come.

Time:

6:30pm

Location:

Hindu Temple: 120 Pinnacle Rd, Pittsford, NY 14534

Description:

INSPIRATIONAL PILGRIMS

RSVP: please replay by email:
vr1weareone@gmail.com

When: Friday, May 31, 6:30 – 8:00 pm

Where: Hindu Temple: 120 Pinnacle Rd, Pittsford, NY 14534

What: respect, listening, understanding and sharing

Why: to bring Human Family together and celebrate on the first day of spring, March 21, 2020.

How: We journey to sacred places and places of Well Wishers for all humanity. We visit Human Family’s Centers, Temples, Churches, Mosques or Places of Well Wishers, give our respect and ask them to join us in our journey. As we visit sacred places, we are hoping more and more people from different race, religion, nationality and gender to join us.

Refreshments: this visit is mainly about respect, listening and understanding (no potluck).

Please join us.

Sincerely,
Hooshmand Kalayeh