Events

March For Our Lives - WNY           

On March 24, students, families, and supporters of MARCH FOR OUR LIVES will take to the streets of Washington DC, Buffalo and hundreds of other cities and towns to demand that students’ lives and safety become a priority, that we end gun violence and mass shootings, and that we work to CREATE A CULTURE OF PEACE in our schools and communities today. 

On March 24, the collective voices of the March For Our Lives movement will be heard in Buffalo & WNY

What:    A rally and march in Downtown Buffalo with thousands expected - all demanding a stop to gun violence and to tell state and federal legislators #EnoughisEnough – stop selling out to the NRA and the gun lobby. We will hold legislators accountable if they don't enact gun safety legislation to protect students and others in our communities across America. Surveys and polls show that Americans, overwhelmingly, want significant gun reform legislation.

When:                    March 24^th - 1:30pm (music at 1pm.)

Where:                   Buffalo City Hall Steps, Niagara Square, with march (>1miles circular).

Why:                      Students and youth; community, government, and faith leaders and activists - want to express their fierce determination to change the status quo, to hold our government leaders accountable, and to stop the ever-mounting gun violence that is a product of rampant gun availability, with violence begetting more violence. 

Who:      Many youth and community speakers; Hosted by Mayor Byron W. Brown, Organized by New Yorkers Against Gun Violence and the WNY Peace Center, with committed cosponsors (thanks to so many of you!): ACCESS of WNY Activists of Buffalo, Back To Basics, @Buffalo Parent-Teacher Organization (BPTO), Buffalo Teachers Federation, Buffalo Peacemakers, Mayor Byron W. Brown, Delaware Pediatric Associates, El Buen Amigo & LACA Non-Profit, Episcopal Diocese of WNY, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church - Buffalo, NY, Interfaith Peace Network of WNY, Ismail & Co, Lifesavers, Justice For Migrant Families, Tom Makar, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, Oishei Childrens Hospital, Open Buffalo Pax Christi WNY, Orchard Park Pediatrics & Young Adult Medicine, Partnership for the Public Good, Peace, Justice & Nonviolence Festival and Walk 2017 (WNY Peace-Justice-Nonviolence Advocates), Peacejam Buffalo, Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York, Mark Poloncarz, Push Buffalo, Riverside Salem Environmental Cottage, Rahama, @School by School, Sister District for Western New York, a NYPAN Chapter, SSJ Sister Karen Klimczak Center For Nonviolence, St. Andrew's Episcopal Church @St. Joseph's University RC Church, St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral, Buffalo, StandUp WNY, Stopthe Violencecoalition, Stronger Together WNY, Corp., Unite by Night, We Exist Coalition- Buffalo NY, Western New York Pediatrics, Williamsville Pediatrics, WNYmedia Network, Women's Resistance Revival Chorus - Buffalo, @WNY Anti-Violence Project, @WRITE TO RESIST, and counting!

Entertainment – STVC Lifesavers Youth Group / The Dooleys/ Ismail & Co/Tom Makar/ Women's Resistance Revival Chorus  

Media Sponsor – www.WNYmedia.net  Transportation Sponsor - WRITE TO RESIST