Nov 1 - Protest at Senator Toomey's Erie office 12-1pm Federal Building, 17 S. Park Row, Erie PA." Integrity Now! Push for Impeachment. Plan is to meet in the park at 11:30 and then move to Toomey's office. Hosted by Indivisible We Rise - West Central PA, Progressive Faith Coalition and Oil Region Rising.
Nov 1 - Green New Deal: Root Causes Training 1001 State St, Erie, PA 5:30-8:30pm Hosted by Keystone Progress Erie and Green New Deal Coalition
Nov 1 - "Harriet" Nationwide release
Nov 2-3 - Indigenous Peoples Days The Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village Amherst NY "Also through November 17th our NoNAPL exhibit."Part of Water Ways, the traveling exhibition from the Smithsonian.
Nov 5 - General Election
Nov 7 - MLW Lecture: Nishta Mehra SUNY Fredonia, 209 McEwen Hall, Fredonia, NY 5:00- 6:30pm. Author is a first-generation daughter of Indian immigrants; publications include The Pomegranate King (2013) and Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion (Picador 2019). nishtajmehra.com
Nov 8 - WNY Peace Center 52nd Annual Dinner Buffalo Niagara Convention Center, Buffalo NY 5-9pm. Special guest, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CODEPINK, co-founder of human rights group Global Exchange Ticket deadline Nov. 1
Nov 9 - One Table's Gratitude Gathering St James AME Church 236 E 11th, Erie PA 5-7PM "We would love for you to attend and to bring a dish to share, or to just attend. (We know that not everyone can bring something). RSVP to attend and/or to make a food donation." Chuck Cammarata 814-881-1905 chuck.cammarata@gmail.com or Jean Moore 814-461-9665 jleomoore58@gmail.com
Nov 13 - Faith and Immigration Panel 7pm Edinboro University, Frank Pogue Student Center Rm 143. Edinboro PA Hosted by Interfaith Committee at Edinboro UniversityPanelists: Reverend Dr. David Fulford, Sheikh Mazin Al Sahlani. Mr. Jeff Pinski, Moderated by Dr. Baher Ghosheh Info ghosheh@edinboro.edu
Nov 14 - Loftus Lecture - From Just War to Peacebuilding Lessons for US Racial Justice with Dr. Lisa Sowle Cahill, professor at Boston College Gannon University Yehl Room Waldron Center 124 W 7 Erie PA 7pm
Nov 15 - An Evening with Eleanor Smeal 7:30pm Jefferson Educational Society Erie PA. Women's Rights leader; President and co-founder of Feminist Majority jeserie.org
Nov 16 - 2019 Intersections of Equality Symposium Penn State Behrend, Black Conference Center, Erie PA. 8am-5pm. LGBTQ topics and discussions, $35/student $15 Continuing Education Credits available.
Nov 17 - Screening: "Paris to Pittsburgh" Allegheny College, rm. 301-302 of the campus center (520 N Main St, Meadville, PA) Lunch served at 12:00pm, screening 12:30pm with a discussion after. To reserve a spot for lunch, please contact the Spiritual and Religious Life Office at 814-332-2800 or srl@allegheny.edu. "This film is offered through Interfaith Power and Light to bring together faith communities in this time of action so that we may work to heal the environment for the betterment of us all." Free,
Nov 18 - Green New Deal Town Hall Edinboro University, North Van Houten, 345 Scotland Road, Edinboro PA.
Nov 18 - Silent Walk: Erie County Prison 7-7:30pm E. 18th & Ash, Erie PA. Hosted by Erie Benedictines for Peace.
Nov 19 Screening: "Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4, and Student Protest in America” Kent State Ashtabula, Main Hall Auditorium at 7 p.m. part of the University’s year-long 50th Commemoration of May 4, 1970 Kent State shootings. Free and open to public.
Nov 20 - Meadville Green New Deal Town Hall Meadville Area H.S., Meadville PA 6pmNov 20 - Screening of "Invisible Hand" Ashtabula Co. District Library 4335 Park Ave., Ashtabula, Ohio 6-8pm "World's first documentary film about the creation of 'Rights of Nature' from exploitation by capitalism" Hosted by Ashtabula NAACP, Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, Indivisible Ashtabula County
Nov 20 - Transgender Day of Remembrance Erie County Courthouse, 140 W 6th Erie PA. 6:30pm , starts promptly. Candlelight vigil, gather to remember and honor the trans lives lost during the past year due to transphobia and hate.
Nov 20 - Film and Discussion: "Lake of Betrayal" Mercyhurst University, Walker Recital Hall. 7pm History of Kinzua Dam and its impact on the Seneca Nation. Following the film, Mercyhurst anthropologist Dr. Ed Jolie will discuss it with two members of the Seneca Nation, Dennis J. Bowen
Sr. and Stephen Gordon. Free and public.
Nov 21 - SSJ Suffrage Prayer Service 5031 West Ridge Rod, Erie PA 6pm Sisters of Saint Joseph of North West PA present a Suffrage Thanksgiving Prayer Service honoring leading women of the past and present. Info: Betsy 814-836-4153. Part of the 2020 Centennial Calendar presented by League of Women Voters.
Nov 21 - Western NY Wind and Health Forum UB North Campus, Buffalo, NY 6pmNov 22 - "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood" nationwide release.
Nov 22 - "Dark Waters" nationwide release Based on the true story of attorney Robert Bilott who discovered PFAS in the drinking water of a suburban town. (Related: see Josh Shapiro announcement below)
Nov 29 - "The Report" nationwide release
Dec 2-6 - Harry Burleigh events
NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Mary the Apostle House news Matthew Ochalek informs that Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker community is no longer active. "Each one of us has been called in different directions in recent years," he writes, "and a life of intentional community became increasingly difficult to sustain." You can read the entirety of the statement on the group's Facebook page,
- Citizens against trump movement Is a Warren County-based resistance group.
- "How Penn State is Cutting Greenhouse Emissions in Half--and Saving Money" NPR Oct 4, 2019
- "Shapiro: ‘Legal action’ coming for companies tied to PFAS drinking water contamination" (Bucks County Courier Times October 23, 2019)
- One Dish One Mic "An hour of radio that tells the stories of Niagara through an Indigenous lens." Sunday mornings CKTB 610AM online at iheartradio.ca/610cktb podcast 1dish1mic.com
- Video: Intro to Kent State May 4th 50th Commemoration Kent State Ashtabula, Ashtabula OH. Introduction to the events surrounding May 4, 1970, (events thru May 2020). kent.edu/may4kentstate50
- Martha Colburn: Imagined Histories Rockefeller Marion Gallery SUNY Fredonia. Thru Nov 23. Stop-motion films. 'With her “surrealist satires” and “reimagined histories” Colburn addresses serious topics such as oppression, war, violence, and drug addiction.'
- Gay Liberation NOW! Exhibit Karpeles Manuscript Library Museums, 220 North St ,Buffalo NY (Elmwood & North) Traveling banner exhibit showing Buffalo LGBTQ+ history. November 10-20. Hosted by Buffalo-Niagara LGBTQ History Project News story
- Photos: "Trump Protests in Pittsburgh" (Post-Gazette October 24, 2019)
- "Water ceremony kicks off protest against shale and petrochemical industries" (Post-Gazette (October 24, 2019)
- Statement from Jewish protestors who disrupted Trump's Pittsburgh rally (Bend the Arc: Jewish Action)
- "Pittsburgh Mayor Responds To Trump On Energy/Climate: PA Has TWICE As Many Workers Employed By Clean Energy Than By Fossil Fuels" (PA Environment Digest Blog October 23, 2019)
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Published monthly providing info of interest to members of the Erie area progressive community. Focus is local/regional. Not affiliated with any organization All calendar events are nonviolent. Event submissions send to moonkat2014@gmail.com
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