Events
2/24-2/27, Fri-Mon: UFPJ Peace Summit–Occupy Peace with a weekend of planning, sharing and training. Philadelphia
United For Peace and Justice’s Peace Summit will be held Friday, February 24 to Sunday, February 26: UFPJ in Philadelphia. The Peace Summit’s theme is Occupy Peace, and it will be a weekend of planning, sharing and training.
To register or find out more information about the Peace Summit, visit United For Peace and Justice.
MAR 3, Saturday: 10 Years On: Afghanistan & Pakistan
7:30 pm: Film-screening & discussion
5:00–7:30 pm: Craft Sale, benefit Afghan Women’s Fund
6:30 pm Pot-Luck Dinner
On Saturday, March 3rd, there will be a free film screening of Kathleen Foster’s new movie, 10 Years On: Afghanistan & Pakistan, followed by a conversation with the filmmaker and Fahima Vorgett, Director of the Afghan Women’s Fund.
An optional pot luck dinner will proceed the film. Sales of crafts made by Afghan women will take place to benefit the Afghan Womens’ Fund. Ten Years On Flyer
Location: Park Slope United Methodist Church, 410 6th Ave at 8th St., Brooklyn, NY Read the rest of this entry »
March 10, SAT: Harriet Tubman Memorial, 10 am
Celebrate Harriet Tubman at the annual wreath laying ceremony.
WHEN: Saturday, March 10, 2012, 10 am
WHERE: Harriet Tubman Square, 122nd Street at St. Nicholas Ave/Frederick Douglass Boulevard, Harlem, NY
Hosted by the Black Women’s Leadership Caucus
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March 11, Sunday, 1 pm: Commemoration of Metropolitan Detention Center Demonstrations
On Sunday, March 11, there will be commemoration of the Metropolitan Detention Center demonstrations. It is the 10th anniversary reconnection.
In 2001, as NYC Muslim Men Swept Up in Post 9/11 Raid were detained in abusive conditions, denied due process activists rallied each week in front of Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center continuing for almost 6 months.
In 2012, there are 50,000 men who languish in solitary confinement across the U.S.
1 PM in front of MDC Prison, Press Conference
3rd Ave and 29th Street, Brooklyn (Not Far From R train Stop)
We will then proceed to FREDDY’S BACKROOM at 2 pm For Brief Film Showing, Discussion & Reception. 5th Ave & 17th Street, Brooklyn 11215 Read the rest of this entry »
March 16-18, FRI-SUN: Left Forum–Occupy the System: Confronting Global Capitalism, Pace University
The Left Forum: Occupy the System: Confronting Global Capitalism: Speakers and Workshops
The Left Forum will be held Friday, March 16 to Sunday, March 18. It will be held at Pace University in Manhattan.
March 23-25, Fri-Sun: UNAC National Peace Conference
Say NO! to the Nato/G8 Wars and the Poverty Agenda
The UNAC National Peace Conference is Friday, March 23 to Sunday, March 25. It will be in Stamford, Connecticut. There will be Speakers & Workshops.
SAVE THE DATE:
April 28, SAT: The 8th Annual Brooklyn Peace Fair at the Brooklyn College Student Center!
The 8th Annual Brooklyn Peace Fair will be held at the Brooklyn College Student Center on Saturday, April 28, 2012 from 11 am to 5 pm.
The theme is Ending War, Promoting Peace.
Featured Speakers:
There will be workshops held on a variety of current issues. There will be community organizations, workshops, kids’ activities, peace and justice resources, button making, music, poetry, dance, informational tables + more!
The event is free and open to everyone!
To endorse the event, table or take out an ad in the Peace Fair Journal, check out the 2012 Peace Fair Forms.
Learn more about the 2012 Brooklyn Peace Fair at Brooklyn College on Saturday, April 28, 2012!
To find out more about how join the committee, to lead a workshop or to table at the event, please email peacefair@brooklynpeace.org or call 718-624-5921.
Monthly Vigil for Darfur: Last Wednesday of every month, Noon to 2 pm
Last Wednesday of each month 12:00–2:00 pm
Next Vigil is Wednesday, February 29! Due to the day change, there is NO vigil on Tuesday, February 5.
In front of US Mission to the United Nations, 1st Ave. & 45th St. Manhattan
This is the time for the U.S. to use its leverage to push UN to enforce the resolutions it has already passed.
- Deploy the already-authorized UN troops (UNAMID) and impose multilateral sanctions on the Sudanese regime, to end ongoing atrocities, being carried out with impunity by the Sudanese government.
- Call for international justice and accountability, including arrest of Sudanese officials who have been indicted by the International Criminal Court.
Now is a time of renewed violence in Darfur. On March 4, 2009, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Al-Bashir, who has responded by expelling aid groups which are providing essential services (food, health care, water) for more than a million Darfuris in Internally-Displaced-Person camps.
Sponsor: NYC Coalition for Darfur, Vigil Group
Learn more about the current situation in Darfur and what you can do NOW
Email darfur@brooklynpeace.org for information.
Every Thursday, 5:30-6:30 pm:
Vigil: “Women in Black”: Justice for Palestine
Every Thursday, 5:30–6:30 pm (weather permitting)
Join the Women in Black Vigil Union Square (on the little traffic island at 14th St & Broadway)
Express your outrage at the continuing siege as well as the U.S. policy toward Israel-Palestine that allows the blockade to continue.
Both women and men are welcome to participate. Learn more about the Women in Black Vigil.
E-mail is.pales@brooklynpeace.org for local contact information for New York Women in Black
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