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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · 4d

This THURSDAY, Oct. 9th, is our annual Music 🎶 & Art 🖼️ Extravaganza!!

Featuring live performances by local talent, including Michael Heubusch, Jazz, Bianca L. McGraw, Abby Rose, and Ian McCuen.

Get your tickets 🎟️ at the link 🔗 below👇🏾:

www.ourcityactionbuffalo.com/event-detail...

Music & Art Extravaganza | OCAB

An art auction and live music event to benefit Our City Action Buffalo

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Clean Air Coalition of WNY @cacwny.org · 4d

We are thrilled to share that we are bringing trainers from the Midwest Academy, a 50 year old training academy for community organizers, to Buffalo for a FREE professional training series! Applications are due October 31, apply using the link below.
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Midwest Academy Buffalo Hub Training Application

The Midwest Academy is coming to Buffalo! Midwest is a 50 year old training academy for community organizers, and an essential training for those who want to run impactful campaigns. https://midwes...

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · 9d

"If there was ever a time to act up and fight back, it’s now. Our country’s future – and the lives of millions of trans Americans – depends on it."

OCAB Director Harper Bishop writes how scapegoating trans people is part of strategy to suppress all civil rights.

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Another Voice: Scapegoating trans people is part of strategy to suppress all civil rights

Pushing a false linkage between the transgender community and mass shooters does nothing except contribute to the “otherization” of the trans community and legitimize attempts to roll back trans peopl...

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Erie County, NY @eriecounty.bsky.social · 11d

📢 Erie County is announcing community COVID-19 vaccines in October, available for any resident (ages 6 mo.+), following recommendations put forth by the Northeast Public Health Collaborative.

🌐 Register at: erie.gov/vax. Walk-ins welcome, appointments encouraged.

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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 13d

Power is finite. When more power is granted to elected officials, it is necessarily taken from elsewhere. Never forget that. Once taken, power is rarely given back freely. One does not simply roll back the expansion of state power.

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Buffalo Newspaper Guild @buffaloguild.bsky.social · 15d

A quick reminder about our event next week. It's important, and it's free and open to the public.

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Buffalo Legal Observers @buffalolos.bsky.social · 22d

The NLG is receiving more and more verified reports of federal agent door-knocks and contacts. If you are approached by federal law enforcement, don’t be afraid to alert your community.

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · 24d

What you're saying is that it's playing out exactly how we knew it would?

Geoff Kelly from @ipostnews.bsky.social has the latest on the race to fill Sean Ryan's senate seat.

Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · 24d

Use the link below 👇🏾 to make a contribution now:

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I just gave to Our City Action Buffalo because it's OUR CITY!

Show your support with a contribution.

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · 24d

They also remember the solidarity of New Yorkers and how they came to Buffalo to support us then. It's our turn to support them now.

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · 24d

We heard from so many on the phones how much this win would mean right now. They remember the energy, hope, and excitement of the @indiab.bsky.social campaign. They want that for New Yorkers and for us all.

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · 24d

Last night we called and texted our members and supporters to raise funds to travel to NYC this November to get @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social across the finish line.

We were able to raise almost half of our goal in one day. Can you help us by chipping in $5, $10, or even $50 or more?!

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · Sep 8

OCAB Policy & Advocacy committee members, Tara Melish and Nathan Feist, outline the Charter Revision Commission process and the opportunity to create an effective and independent human rights oversight and accountability system for our city.

More here:

buffalonews.com/opinion/arti...

Another Voice: Buffalo deserves a functional and effective human rights commission

Astoundingly, in a city with one of the highest rates of poverty and racial segregation in the nation, the CCRCR has never – not once – substantiated any case of

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The Buffalo News @buffalonews.com · Sep 4

A judge said the Niagara County district attorney will now be in charge of reviewing the drug convictions from 1967 of two Buffalo civil rights activists.

Niagara County DA will review decades-old drug convictions of Buffalo civil rights activists for possible exoneration

A judge said the Niagara County district attorney will now be in charge of reviewing the drug convictions from 1967 of two Buffalo civil rights activists.

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · Sep 4

“Absolutely no one from City Hall reached out to me about this,” said Brian Borncamp.

“I don’t want guns flooding my neighborhood, and I especially don’t want guns in place of what was a community center that kids used to get food and play basketball at.”

www.investigativepost.org/2025/09/04/p...

Process for police shooting range misses the mark - Investigative Post

Buffalo officials largely ignored neighbors and violated state law in their rush to convert abandoned community center into training facility.

www.investigativepost.org

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Make Common @makecommon.bsky.social · Sep 1

happy labor day! a good union opposes the destruction of the working classes regardless of whether they are in the union or on a farm in upstate new york picking strawberries for pennies or the streets of Chicago or Gaza. there's a rad rad history of anti-imperial & transnational union solidarity.

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · Sep 1

3. Fully funded schools, and healthcare and housing for all.
4. Stop the attacks on immigrants, Black, indigenous, trans people, and all our communities.
5. Invest in people not wars

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · Sep 1

OUR DEMANDS TO BUILD THE SOCIETY WE ALL DESERVE:

1. Stop the billionaire takeover and rampant corruption of the Trump administration.
2. Protect and defend Medicaid, Social Security, and other programs for working people.

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · Sep 1

The billionaires continue to wage a cruel war on working people, with ICE and law enforcement backing up their attacks. This Labor Day we will continue to stand strong, fighting for shared prosperity over corporate politics.

Join us! details below👇🏾:
www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

Buffalo #WorkersOverBillionaires Labor Day Kickoff · Mobilize

The billionaires continue to wage a cruel war on working people, with their cronies in the administration, ICE and law enforcement backing up their attacks. This Labor Day we will continue to stand st...

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · Aug 27

“We have a lot of challenges,” as a city, Falicov said. "[T]he city charter can’t fix a lot of those, but maybe we can work to improve the function of City Hall so that it better serves residents and ultimately creates a better, more resilient city.”
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Buffalo Charter Review Commission plots path forward

A commission working to revise the city’s foundational governing document has set a framework for its bylaws and a tentative schedule to get a ballot measure set for the 2026 election cycle.

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · Aug 23

"Without a car, people, some of them in wheelchairs or with mobility issues, have to take buses or expensive ride sharing services such as Uber."

“A lot of us don’t drive. A lot of us don’t have families,” who are able to help with the grocery shopping, Barlow said."

Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · Aug 23

"Jackie Barlow, another 201 Ellicott resident, said many residents of the building are disabled and without cars, making getting to the Tops Markets on Niagara Street or other stores in further-off neighborhoods very difficult."

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · Aug 23

“It’s not just us as 201 (Ellicott),” Purks, who previously lived in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, said. “It’s the whole area that’s lacking with all the things that have shut down on Main Street, and it’s just not what I anticipated when I moved downtown.”

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Our City Action Buffalo @ourcityaction.bsky.social · Aug 23

Yesterday, we stood with residents at 201 Ellicott, food justice advocates, and a host of nonprofits, including the Massachusetts Avenue Project, to call for an affordable grocery store downtown. 1st in a series of rallies.

Read more and then join us next week!

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Downtown residents rally for affordable grocer at Braymiller site

Tenants at an affordable housing development downtown are urging city leaders to recruit a new grocery store operator for the space at the former Braymiller Market, which closed late last year.

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Aaron Besecker @aaronbesecker.bsky.social · Aug 15

City of Buffalo's efforts to sell off parking ramps -- a move to help fill a budget gap -- hit a snag
via @justinsondel.bsky.social
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City of Buffalo's efforts to sell off parking ramps hit a snag

Buffalo’s Commissioner of Finance and Administration Raymour Nosworthy told Buffalo Fiscal Stability Authority board members the city received no bids on its request for proposals to prepare titles – ...

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