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Alliance for Democracy-Rochester Phone: (585)732-1767 Contact Person: Rome Celli Address: 156 Fair Oaks Avenue Rochester, NY 14618-1829 Email: Info@RochesterAlliance.org Website: www.RochesterAlliance.org Top Issues: Helping develop the infrastructure to support a progressive movement in the Greater Rochester area. Amnesty International Group 565 Phone: (716)692-5696 Contact Person: Lisa Walter Address: 7370 Shawnee Road, Wheatfield, NY 14120 Email: Lisa@aibuffalo.org Website: www.aibuffalo.org Top Issues: All Human Rights Animal Advocates of WNY Phone: (716)648-6423 Address: P. O. Box 475 Amherst, NY 14226 Top Issues: Animal Rights Arissa Phone: (716) 796-5460 Contact Person: Leslie Address: P.O. Box 84 Buffalo, NY 14213 Email: leslie@arissa.org Website: www.arissa.org Top Issues: to create a social and political revolution in the United States. Meeting Time: 1st sunday and monday of the month Buffalo & Erie County Green Party Phone: (716)858-3456 Fax: (716)873-4911 Contact Person: Greg Horn Address: P.O. Box 741 Buffalo, NY 14205 Email: chair@eriecountygreens.org Website: www.eriecountygreens.org Top Issues: non-violence social, economic, and environmental justice Meeting Time: Issues Meetings 2nd thursday/month 7 P.M. at Cafe 59, 59 Allen St., Buffalo Buffalo & WNY Kucinich Campaign Contact Person: Candice Faulring Email: csfaulring@cs.com Website: www.Buffalo4Kucinich.com Top Issues: Electing Dennis Kucinich president of the United States of America Meeting Time: see website Buffalo / Niagara Sustainability Council Contact Person: Jay Burney Email: lscampaign@aol.com Website: www.sustain.buffalo.edu Top Issues: Sustainability list serve available, contact jay burney at lscampaign@aol.com Meeting Time: Monthly Buffalo A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) Phone: (716)604-9515 Contact Person: Ellie Address: c/o International Action Center Buffalo 367 Deleware Ave. Buffalo, NY 14202 Email: iacbuffalo@action-mail.org Website: www.iacenter.org/buffalo/ Top Issues: Ending War Ending Racism See also our international website http://www.InternationalANSWER.org Meeting Time: 7pm Tuesdays Buffalo Alternative Press (AltPress) Phone: (716)845-6993 Contact Person: Joe Schmidbauer Address: Alt Press P.O. Box 729 Buffalo, NY 14205 Email: JoeAlt@excite.com Website: www.altpressonline.com Top Issues: Alt is dedicated to challenging people's perspectives. Buffalo Coalition of Community Gardeners Phone: (716)882-5327 Fax: (716)882-5338 Contact Person: Diane Picard Address: 382 Massacusetts Avenue Buffalo, NY 14213 Email: dpnoc@mass-ave.org Top Issues: support, education and advocacy for current and prospective community gardeners, including school gardens. Meeting Time: meet monthly (call for schedule) Buffalo Cooperative FCU Phone: (716)881-3767 Fax: (716)881-2148 Contact Person: Kelly Maurer Address: 425 Elmwood Ave. 2nd fl Buffalo, NY 14222 Email: bcfcu@verizon.net Website: www.coopcreditunion.com Buffalo Forum Phone: (716)602-8077 Address: P.O. Box 553 Buffalo NY 14209 Email: vordgbuf@yahoo.com Website: www.buffaloforum.org Top Issues: Buffalo Forum is the local publication of the U.S. Marxist-Leninist Organization Buffalo Independant Media Center Contact Person: John Curr Address: 712 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14202 Email: johnc@buffaloimc.org Website: www.buffaloimc.org Top Issues: Grassroots,non-corporate coverage of issues/actions/protests Buffalo Peace People Email: editors@BuffaloPeacePeople.org Website: www.BuffaloPeacePeople.org Top Issues: Peace & Justice: coalition building, shared IT and logistic support for activist organizations, regional calendar of events, collaboration tools, personal pages ... whatever we can manage to provide for those willing to raise their voices in non-violent opposition to violence and social injustice. Meeting Time: Varies by group. See on-line calendar. Buffalo State Students For Peace Phone: (716)878-3888 Contact Person: Josh Coppings Address: PO Box 111 Buffalo, NY 14213 Email: PeaceJusticeResolution@yahoo.com Website: www.buffstatepeace.org Top Issues: Anti-war Human/Civil Rights Community building Meeting Time: Wed 6pm Workshops B6 Cassety Hall Thu 12:15pm Room 412 Student Union Buffalo War Resisters League Phone: (716)881.1812 & (716)845.6199 Contact Person: Jenny Peshut Email: buffalowarresisters@yahoogroups.com Website: www.buffalowarresisters.org Top Issues: Anti-war, anti-militarism, and anti-imperialism Meeting Time: First Sunday of each month at 4:00 p.m Buffalo Wellness Co-op Contact Person: Laura Jean Castelluzzo Address: 640 Breckenridge Buffalo, NY 14222 Email: bwellcoop@yahoo.com Website: www.bwellcoop.com Top Issues: Spreading Wellness Meeting Time: see calendar on website Citizens Against Casino Gambling in Erie County Phone: 716-440-8126 Fax: 716-882-3797 Address: c/o Network of Religious Communities 1272 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, NY 14209-2496 Email: info@nocasinoerie.org Website: nocasinoerie.org Top Issues: A gambling casino will further erode the economic base of Erie County, as has happened in other cities that have tried it. Casino gambling exploits gambling addicts. It is an immoral way for the state to balance its books. The sovereign entity that is contemplated under the Gaming Compact would bring untaxed and therefore unfair competition. Casino Gambling is unconstitutional in New York State, and the Gaming Compact is therefore illegal. Erie County residents have not been consulted, let alone allowed to vote in the matter. Meeting Time: First Tuesday of every month (next meeting May 6, 2003) at 7 p.m. 1272 Delaware Avenue Buffalo, NY 14209 Citizens Campaign for the Environment Phone: (716) 831-3206 Fax: (716) 831-3207 Contact Person: Brian Smith Address: 3144 Main St Buffalo, NY 14214 Email: bsmith@citizenscampaign.org Website: www.citizenscampaign.org Top Issues: Expansion of the Bottle Bill prohibition of Sanitary Sewer Overflows securing funding for environmental protection programs Citizens' Environmental Coalition Phone: (716)885-6848 Fax: (716)885-6845 Contact Person: Mike Schade Address: 543 Franklin St. Buffalo, NY 14202 Email: cecmike@choiceonemail.com Website: www.cectoxic.org Top Issues: Environmental Health and Justice Corporate Accountability see also: www.kodakstoxiccolors.org www.ecoTHREATNY.org Coalition Against Police Abuse Phone: (716)446-9427 Contact Person: Loretta Renford Email: LRenford@aol.com Website: www.CoalitionAgainstPoliceAbuseAndRacism.com Top Issues: Stopping Poloice Abuse Supporting Community Policing Dismantling Racist Institutions Meeting Time: Saturdays 2pm Coalition for Economic Justice Phone: (716)892-5877 Fax: (716)894-8705 Contact Person: Allison Duwe Address: 2123 Bailey Ave. Buffalo, NY 14211 Email: duwe@hotmail.com Website: www.buffalojwj.org/ Top Issues: Living Wage Campaign Health Care Reform Direct Support for Workers Meeting Time: 3rd wednesday of every month (except August) 9-11am @ WNYCOSH 2495 Main st. Suite 438 Communist Party, USA, Buffalo Club Address: c/o New York State Communist Party 235 West 23rd St. New York City, NY 10011 Email: cpny@cpusa.org Website: www.cpusa.org Top Issues: The Communist Party USA is an organization of activists in labor and all the people's movements with three main political aims: 1) Defeating the right-wing agenda of the Bush Administration. 2) Winning a wide-ranging program of reforms that put the well being of the people before private profits. 3) Eventually replacing big business with labor and its allies--peace and civil rights groups, women's organizations, retirees, environmentalists, community and religious support groups--as the dominant power so as to insure that the rights, economic security and expanding needs of the people become the overriding concern of society: socialism! http://www.pww.org Food Not Bombs Phone: (716)862-4554 Contact Person: Carrie Nader Address: 29 Custer St. Buffalo, NY 14214 Email: sodapop5L@aol.com Website: www.buffalofoodnotbombs.cjb.net Top Issues: Food Not Bombs is a decentralized collective that shares free vegan meals in protest of immoral government spending priorities. In this protest of militarism and poverty we strive to build community. We rescue food that would otherwise be discarded as it is deemed "unsellable". We do this to prove that scarcity is a lie and that world hunger truly can be stopped. Meeting Time: Every third Thursday of the month at 7:30pm in the Gloria J. Parks Community Center(3242 Main St. Buffalo) GBINet.info Contact Person: Al Email: GreenEarthAl@GBINet.info Website: GBINet.info Top Issues: Corporate Crime Progressive Arts Peace activism Prison Issues Environmentalism HAG Theatre Phone: 716-879-0935 Contact Person: Margaret Smith Address: 306 Bryant St. Buffalo. NY 14222 Email: haginfo@hagtheatre.org Website: www.hagtheatre.org Top Issues: Presenting the lesbian voice on stage | Hallwalls Phone: (716)854-1694 Fax: (716)854-1696 Contact Person: Joanna Raczynska Address: 341 Delaware Ave Buffalo, NY 14202 Email: joanna@hallwalls.org Website: www.hallwalls.org Top Issues: contemporary art films performances and music Meeting Time: 8 p.m. Housing Opportunities Made Equal Phone: (716)854-1400 Fax: (716)854-1140 Contact Person: Scott W. Gehl, executive director Address: 700 Main Street Buffalo NY 14202 Email: homeny@homeny.org Website: www.homeny.org Top Issues: civil rights, housing rights Since 1963, Housing Opportunities Made Equal has worked to eliminate housing discrimination in Western New York by providing assistance to victims of discrimination and education about housing issues e.g. landlord and tenant rights and responsibilities and fair housing law to the community. We offer many services to the community including housing counseling 9-5 weekdays, educational presentations, and a theatre group, the HOME Players, that uses improvisational theatre to educate the community about fair housing laws and the impact of discrimination on individuals and the community. All services are free and confidential. Injured Workers of New York Phone: (716)731-8187 Contact Person: Mary Jeffords Address: P.O.B. 252 Sanborn, NY, 14132 Email: IWONYMary@aol.com Website: www.injuredworkersofnewyork.org Top Issues: advocacy and support of workers seriously injured from on-the-job accidents, prevention of suicide among injured workers, assists in getting workers through the maze of the Workers' Compensation system and actively works on worker-friendly compensation legislation. We try to get workers through the anti-worker compensation system, letting them know what rights they have and what they need to win a case. We also assist them after they go through the system. Latin American Culture Association / El Buen Amigo Phone: (716)885-6343 Fax: (716)885-6343 Address: 114 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14201 Email: lacanewyork@yahoo.com Website: www.elbuenamigo.net Top Issues: Economic Justice Lexington Co-op Phone: (716)886-2667 Contact Person: Joann Tomasulo Address: 807 Elmwood Ave Buffalo, NY 14222 Email: joann@lexington.coop Website: www.lexington.coop Massachusetts Avenue Project, Growing Green Food Links Phone: (716) 882-5327 Fax: (716) 882-5338 Address: 382 Massachusetts Avenue Buffalo, NY 14213 Email: dpnoc@mass-ave.org Website: www.mass-ave.org Top Issues: Urban agriculutre training, community education related to growing, preparing, marketing food, improving food security. Meeting Time: varies NYPIRG Phone: (716)822-1549 Fax: (716)878-5134 Address: 206 Cassety Hall Buffalo State College Buffalo, NY 14222 Email: buffalo@nypirg.org Website: www.nypirg.org Top Issues: environment voter registration higher education consumer protection sweatshops New York Civil Liberties Union Phone: (716)852-4033 Fax: (716)852-4034 Contact Person: John Curr Address: 712 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14202 Email: WRO@NYCLUBUFFALO.org Website: www.NYCLUBUFFALO.org Top Issues: Civil Liberties Advocates and Litigation Niagara Independant Media Phone: (716)855-1270 Fax: (716)855-4681 Contact Person: Brian Brown-Cashdollar Address: 2495 Main Street Suite 355 Buffalo, NY 14201 Email: info@radiofreebuffalo.org Website: www.whldam1270.com Top Issues: Media Diversity Meeting Time: various Nickel City Co-op Phone: (716)882-6003 Address: 208 North St. Bflo, NY 14201 Email: NickelCityHousing@buffalo.com Website: www.nickelcitycoop.org Top Issues: cooperation economic democracy Meeting Time: weeknights for dinner Olean Area Coalition for Peace and Justice Phone: 716-372-4232 Address: Box 95 St. Bonaventure, NY 14778 Email: oleanpeace@yahoo.com Website: www.oleanpeace.org Top Issues: War in Iraq (and its aftermath) erosion of civil liberties Meeting Time: 1st Monday of each month at First Presbyterian Church, 212 Laurens Street, Olean, NY. Pax Christi WNY Contact Person: Bill Marx Address: 1605 Old Manor Dr. Derby, NY 14047 Email: ssmarx2@aol.com Website: www.paxchristiwny.org Top Issues: Spirituality of Nonviolence and Peacemaking Disarmament, Demilitarization and Reconcilliation with Justice Economic and Interracial Justice in the Unnited States Human Rights and Global Restoration Peace! Pax Christi is an International Catholic peace organization. The WNY Chapter is in the early stages of organizing Peace & Justice groups in parishes throught the Buffalo Diocese in order to promote the gospel of nonviolence. New members and volunteers are most welcome. see also: http://www.buffalopeacepeople.org/billmarx PeaceWeavers, Inc. Phone: (716)839-5564 Fax: (716)839-9588 Address: 200 Audubon Drive Snyder, NY 14226-4077 Email: peaceweaversbflo@aol.com Website: www.peaceweavers.com Top Issues: peace healing spiritual practices Meeting Time: various, see website (Buffalo Peace Circles - call for information) Precision Sculpted Internet Contact Person: Alex Mead Address: AMProSoft P. O. Box 988 Buffalo, NY 14213 Email: Alex@PrecisionSculptedInternet.com Website: www.PrecisionSculptedInternet.com Top Issues: Making websites for progressive organizations, individuals and ideas that need them. PUSH Buffalo Phone: (716)796-5008 Contact Person: Eric Walker Address: P.U.S.H. Buffalo 271 Grant Street Buffalo, NY 14201 Email: eric@pushbuffalo.org Website: www.pushbuffalo.org Top Issues: A grassroots, non-profit community organization working to rebuild the West Side of Buffalo. PUSH organizes residents to confront institutions that perpetuate poverty on the West Side and to create and implement an action plan for improving the neighborhood. Riverside-Salem United Church of Christ Phone: (716)773-1426 Contact Person: June Licence Address: PO Box 207 Grand Island, NY 14072-0207 Email: jlicence@buffalo.edu Website: www.isledegrande.com/riversidechurch.htm Top Issues: environment indigenous peace women Meeting Time: 4-6 p.m. Sundays (but call to confirm) Rust Belt Books Phone: (716)885-9535 Contact Person: Kristi Meal Address: 202 Allen St. Buffalo, NY 14201 Top Issues: cultural interrogation Meeting Time: various Spectrum Transgender Group of WNY Phone: (888) 705-8340 Contact Person: Camille Hopkins Address: PO Box 596 Buffalo, NY 14207 Email: spectrumwny@yahoo.com Website: www.spectrumwny.org Top Issues: Support group for transgender, gender-variant and questioning individuals. Family, friends and allies are welcomed at monthly meetings. Meeting Time: 7-9pm, Second Friday of month Squeaky Wheel Phone: (716)884.7172 Fax: (716)886.1619 Contact Person: Dorothea Braemer Address: 712 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14202 Email: office@squeaky.org Website: www.squeaky.org Top Issues: Environmental Issues Meeting Time: See free listings in Art Voice Subversive Theatre Phone: 883-0856 (home) Contact Person: Kurt Schneiderman Address: 100 North Pearl St. Apt #1 Buffalo, NY 14202 Email: theredkurt@hotmail.com Website: www.subversivetheatre.org Top Issues: They say that no one will come to see political theatre. They say that audiences just want to be entertained. They say that theatre should simply slink away and die a quiet death with performances of mindless, pointless, watered-down fluff - plays with no more depth than the latest re-run of THREE'S COMPANY. Well, some of us are sick of listening to what 'they' say. That is why we at SUBVERSIVE THEATRE devote ourselves to performing the great leftist works of the theatre that nobody else will touch. SUNY Fredonia Campus Greens Phone: (716)532-6022 Contact Person: J. David Swift Address: 10084 Hooker Hill Rd Perrysburg NY 14129-9715 Email: jdavidswift@aol.com Website: www.fredonia.edu/sa/campusgreens/ Top Issues: Use our website to network with other concerned people. Discuss current affairs, post events, and share News articles or your own Opinion pieces. This is an online community. We promote Ecological Responsibility/Social & Economic Justice/Nonviolence/Grassroots Democracy Meeting Time: 9 PM Monday, Williams Center, SUNY Fredonia, Room G-140 UB Faculty and Staff for Peace Website: www.BuffaloPeacePeople.org/ubfacstaff/ Top Issues: We are a group of faculty and staff at UB who are concerned about this country. America seems to be slipping from a republic to an empire, more concerned with global dominance and military coercion than with our economy, schools, politics, laws, liberties or culture. We support justice and peace and believe that international conflicts should be resolved through the rule of law. We oppose the war. We believe that to change policy we must educate and organize our fellow Americans. See: http://www.BuffaloPeacePeople.org/ubfacstaffcontacts/ for email contacts. Meeting Time: See calendar at http://www.BuffaloPeacePeople.org/calendar University at Buffalo Students Against Sweatshops Phone: (716)862-4554 Contact Person: Colin O'Malley Address: PO Box 245 Buffalo, NY 14209 Email: ubsas@yahoo.com Top Issues: We are part of a movement that supports worker rights worldwide and challenges corporate power. We are here to bring an end to human rights abuses in the workplace. We are here to dismantle the concept of profit before people. Meeting Time: Thursdays 6pm, Commons room 203 UB North Campus WNY Peace Center Phone: (716)894-2013 Fax: (716)894-8705 Contact Person: Elea Mihou Address: 2123 Bailey Ave. Buffalo, NY 14211 Email: director@wnypeace.org Website: www.wnypeace.org Top Issues: Peace Nonviolent Conflict Resolution Latin American Solidarity Economic Justice etc. Meeting Time: call for details WNYCOSH Phone: (716) 833-5416 Fax: (716) 833-7507 Contact Person: Roger Cook Address: 2495 Main Street Suite 438 Buffalo, NY 14201 Email: inquiry@wnycosh.org Top Issues: worker health and safety Western New York Sweatshop Awareness Project Phone: (716)833-5416 Fax: (716)833-7507 Contact Person: Colin O'Malley or Brian Brown-Cashdollar Address: 2495 Main St. Buffalo, NY 14214 Email: colinomalley@wnysap.org Website: www.wnysap.org Top Issues: We are an organization of high school students dedicated to ending worker rights abuses worldwide and educating our peers about the destruction caused by corporate globalization. Groups are already working at Buffalo City Honors, Lancaster High School, Buffalo Performing Arts, and Sweet Home High. We are always looking for people interested in getting their schools involved! Women In Black Phone: 838-2707 Contact Person: Patricia Shelly Website: www.wibbuffalo.net Top Issues: Promoting Peace Raising awareness about the effects of war on women and children Being a public presence for dissent in a democracy Meeting Time: Saturdays at noon Corner of Elmwood and Bidwell pkwy. 1 hour Silent Vigil Worker's World Buffalo Phone: (716)566-1115 Address: PO Box 1204, Buffalo, NY 14213 Email: buffalo@workers.org Website: www.workers.org Top Issues: We fight on all the issues that face the working class and oppressed peoples; we are for socialism and against capitalism. |