Cost of War to Brooklyn

From Brooklyn For Peace.

4/12 Global Day of Action on Military Spending

The Global Day of Action on Military Spending is a day to call attention to how money is invested in the military equipment and war rather an investing in Americans.

"By the most conservative estimates, global military spending reached $1.6 trillion in 2010. Tell your leaders: it’s time to invest in people again."

4/12 Rally to Save Duffield Children's Center!

APRIL 12! Rally to Save Duffield Children's Center

Tuesday, April 12
City Hall from 5-6!

Join us!

http://bit.ly/bfp-calendar

4/9-10: Anarchist Book Fair, NYC

EVENT: 4/9 Rally & March to Move Money from War to Education, Jobs, Housing & Healthcare!

EVENT: 3/31 FUREE Wine Tasting!

From FUREE:

Start Celebrating Ten Years of Building FUREEous Power

The Board of Directors of Families United for Racial & Economic Equality (FUREE) will present a WINE TASTING to begin the celebration of our 10th year of building leaders and mobilizing communities to win racial, gender and economic justice.

Meet Board Members, Leaders, Staff and other Allies to hear about our recent win for accountable development in Downtown Brooklyn, the launching of two new campaigns centered on worker justice for youth and public housing residents and an update on our member-led campaigns to win more low income housing, sustainable jobs and access to healthy, affordable food in Brooklyn communities.

It’s also an opportunity to roll up your sleeves and get involved in our work by engaging directly in our campaigns and helping to sustain FUREE’s work for another ten years!

This event is hosted by The Moore Brothers Wine Company. Hors d ‘oeuvres will be served and all proceeds from this event will directly benefit the mission and activities of FUREE!

Location: 33 East 20th Street, New York , NY in the Flat Iron District

Contribution: $30 Allies & Public; $15 FUREE Members. Payable by check/money order to FUREE, 81 Willoughby Street, #701, Brooklyn, NY 11201 or online by visiting: www.furee.org/events/wine-tasting

We really hope you can make it and mark the first in a series of events, actions and fundraisers to commemorate our Tenth Anniversary and to build more power for low income and working class families!

Space is limited! RSVP is required.: Contact Valery by calling (718) 852-2960 x. 301 or send an e-mail to: valery@furee.org

For more info, visit FUREE.

Submit your work!

Calling all artists!

Join us in commemorating nine peace activists (Turkish citizens, including Furkan Dogan, also an American citizen) who were killed by Israeli soldiers when they sailed on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla on May 31, 2010.

Our common goals are peace, prosperity, and equal opportunities in the Middle East and everywhere across the globe.

The Mavi Marmara Quilt Exhibit will mark the one-year anniversary of the attack on the flotilla.

We invite submission of poems and art work of all kinds: paintings, drawings, photographs, and so on.

To participate in the exhibit, and for exact mailing instructions, please write a brief description of your work and yourself, and e-mail to Memorial@brooklynpeace.org
Work should be no bigger than 3 feet by 3 feet, and must be sent to later than April 1, 2011.

From Brooklyn for Peace. Visit their site for more information.

Say No

From Brooklyn Poets Against the War.

RALLY: April 9! Bring the Troops Home Now!

EVENT: Stand with FUREE in downtown Brooklyn

EVENT: Brooklyn Peace Fair, 5/7/11

Secure your ads and tables now!

PETITION: Stand with Planned Parenthood

The House voted to bar Planned Parenthood from federal funding. They cut funding for HIV tests, cancer screenings, birth control, and more, putting millions of women and families at risk. We can't let it go unanswered. It's time for you and me to stand with Planned Parenthood. Sign the open letter to the reps who voted for this bill — and to the senators who still have a chance to stop it.

Check out PP to sign the petition and learn more.

5/7: Brooklyn Peace Fair

7th Annual Brooklyn Peace Fair
Saturday May 7
12 pm-5 pm

Location: Brooklyn College Student Center
Keynote Speaker: Juan Gonzalez, Daily News Columnist & co-host "Democracy Now"
Theme: "War Budget...Peace Budget: War, Militarism, and the Economy"
Save the date and plan to attend!
We invite organizations to participate in one or more of the following ways:
1. Endorse the Fair, and commit to spreading the word to your membership (e-mail list, post on your website, distribute flyers at your events. Your organization will be listed in the program and publicity materials. No charge to endorse
2. Table with your organization's materials. $30 if you are distributing information only; $60 if you are selling items (peace and justice related only)
3. Purchase an ad in the program journal.
Prices (based on full page 8.5 x 10.0 inches:
Full page $1000; Half-page $500; Quarter page $250; Eighth page $100
Registration Forms available on-line, or e-mail us at peacefair@brooklynpeace.org if you want us to e-mail the forms to you.

For more information, email peacefair@brooklynpeace.org

4/9: Peace Rally in Union Square

From the United National Anti-War Committee:

For Immediate Release: March 4, 2011

For More Information: Joe Lombardo, 518-281-1968

Anti-War Movement to Call for End to US Wars and Funding of Jobs and Domestic Needs with NY and San Francisco Rallies on April 9th and 10th

The United National Anti-War Committee (UNAC) announced today that it will hold rallies in New York City on Saturday, April 9th and in San Francisco on Sunday, April 10th to demand an end to the wars overseas and a redirecting of war funding to domestic needs.

The rallies have been endorsed by hundreds of national, state and local peace, community, faith and labor organizations. Initial endorsers include: Center for Constitutional Rights; Muslim Peace Coalition, USA; Veterans for Peace; Voices for Creative Nonviolence; Int'l Action Center; Women's Int'l League for Peace & Freedom; Fellowship of Reconciliation; Black Agenda Report; Code Pink; and the Nat'l Assembly to End U.S. Wars & Occupations.

The United National Antiwar Committee was founded at a conference of 800 in Albany, NY in July, 2010. The demonstrations have three main priorities:

To rebuild America during this Great Recession by redirecting the trillions of American tax dollars spent on wars and corporate bailouts to fund programs for jobs, education, health care, housing and the environment.

The immediate, total and unconditional withdrawal of all U.S. troops, mercenaries and contractors from Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, and the immediate closing of all U.S. bases in those countries.

Stop the government attacks on trade unions, civil and democratic rights, and immigrant communities.

The rallies will stand in unity with the struggle for worker rights in Wisconsin and other states and the fight for democracy and against exploitation and oppression throughout the Arab world.

From its beginning, UNAC has promoted unity between the anti-war and labor movements, recognizing that it is working people who pay for these unjust, endless wars with our blood and tax dollars. Our fight is here - for decent jobs at union wages; an end to evictions and foreclosures; universal access to health care and higher education; a society free from racism, sexism and homophobia; and the right of every worker to join or organize a union so together we can defend our rights.

The NY rally and march will begin at Union Square at 14th and Broadway on Saturday April 9th at noon. The San Francisco event will begin at noon on Sunday April 10th at Dolores Park.

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Check out the United National Anti-War Committee for more information

United for Peace and Justice

From United for Peace and Justice:

This March, it’s time to hit the streets with fliers, petitions, signs and protests! Let’s use this anniversary of the Iraq invasion to launch a new decade of resistance to US Empire. As the people of Egypt and Wisconsin have shown us, it is no one person, no single action, but the overwhelming will and courage of good people demanding freedom, dignity, respect. When ballots fail us, it is time to vote with our feet!

Together we can create the future we want.

Organize Locally

-Organize or join a local protest or event and register it on the UFPJ calendar here. Download US Labor Against the War’s Move the Money flier and distribute in your community.
-Join the movement for New Priorities to bring our war money home – organize a resolution in your community to move the money from the Pentagon to the people. Click here to learn more.

Come to Washington DC March 19-22! Click here to see the Washington Peace Center's schedule of all the weekend events.

-Join Veterans For Peace and others for a rally and civil disobedience at the White House starting at 12pm on Saturday, March 19th. Click here for more info.
-That evening you can join UFPJ, the Washington Peace Center, Military Families Speak Out, and a host of other groups for a forum and community discussion on the cost of war and the work to build strong communities. Click here for more info.
-Attend a training, legislative strategy session, and day of lobbying with Friends Committee on National Legislation and others March 19-22. Click here to learn more.

Visit United for Peace and Justice for more information on how to get involved and to find out about events and rallies.

4/9: Citywide Council on High Schools

Citywide Council on High Schools

NOTICE of BUSINESS MEETING
DATE: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
TIME: 6:00pm
LOCATION: Tweed Building, 52 Chambers Street, 2nd Floor Conference, New York

NOTICE of CALENDAR MEETING
DATE: Wednesday, March 9, 2011
TIME: 7:00pm
LOCATION: Tweed Building, 52 Chambers Street, 2nd Floor Conference, New York, NY

GUEST SPEAKERS
Marc Steinberg, Deputy Chancellor of Office of Portfolio Development
& Martin Kurzweil, Executive Director of School Performance

PLEDGE: Pledge To Do Good with Good.is

Pledge to do good with Good.is

MEETING: Community Education Council, District 13

MEETING: CEC 14 Town Hall Meeting with Cathie Black

Join Community Education Council District 14 for a Town Hall Meeting!
Monday, February 28, 2011
6:00pm

Juan Morel Campos
266 Rutledge Street, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Schools Chancellor Cathie Black
Topics:
Ø Student Achievement
Ø S chool Finances
Ø Questions from the public
Ø Interpretation Services will be available

Community Education Council District 14
215 Heyward Street (Room 233 B)
Brooklyn, New York 11206
718.302.7624 Office
718.302.7606 Fax
CEC14@schools.nyc.gov
Website: www.cecd14.org

INFO: Good's Who is in Prison Infographic

For more, check out Good.

PETITION: Immediate and Total Repeal of the USA/Patriot ACT

There is a petition that calls for a total repeal of the Patriot Act.

We, the undersigned, hereby declare that anti-terrorism legislation passed by our US Congress since the tragic and murderous September 11, 2001 attacks on our nation, seriously damage and infringe upon the constitutional protections that are enshrined in our Bill of Rights.

To read the petition in its entirety and to sign, click here.

MEETING: Community Education Council, District 13

EVENT: Brooklyn for Peace NYC Regional Conference, 2/19

Brooklyn For Peace
NYC Regional Conference
Stop FBI and Grand Jury Repression & Intimidation

Saturday, February 19, 1-5 pm

Location: Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, Manhattan
Trains: B/D/A/F/M to West 4thSt; N/R to 8thSt; 6 to Bleecker

Panels, Discussions, & Break-out Groups

Speakers include Hatem Abudayyeh from Chicago and Mick Kelly and Sarah Martin from Minneapolis who were raided and/or subpoenaed by the FBI and ordered to appear at U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald’s Grand Jury

Know Your Rights Training Sessions; When an Agent Knocks; Entrapment; Grand Jury;Targeting of the Palestinian Movement. National Strategy and Tactics

Know Your Rights Training Sessions; When an Agent Knocks; Entrapment; Grand Jury;Targeting of the Palestinian Movement. National Strategy and Tactics

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Last September, the FBI raided homes of anti-war and international solidarity activists in Chicago and Minneapolis.Doors were kicked in during the early morning raids and personal belongings including children’s' artwork, posters of Martin Luther King, Jr, were taken, as well as cell phones, computers and boxes of paper records. Fourteen activists from Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan were subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury; however all fourteen announced that they would not participate, and those subpoenas were subsequently cancelled.

In December, the FBI re-activated the subpoenas for three of these activists, and also delivered nine new subpoenas in Chicago to anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists, ordering them to appear before a Grand Jury.
Thus far they have refused to testify.
The FBI claims that evidence is being collected regarding the possible 'material support' of terrorism. The 'material support' statute is so broadly written that it can, and does, criminalize international peace-building activities whose only connection to terrorism is to fight against it.

The Justice Department's own Inspector General has released a report documenting political surveillance by the FBI. We protest this continuing pattern, whose purpose is to intimidate and suppress dissent rather than in any way protecting U.S. citizens.
FBI raids, and subpoenas to the Grand Jury, threaten the First Amendment rights of all of us.

Antiwar activism & international solidarity are NOT crimes!

Dissent is not a crime!

Sponsored by: NYC Working Group to Stop FBI and Grand Jury Repression
Endorsed by: Brooklyn For Peace
Questions? E-mail bfp@brooklynpeace.org or call 718-624-5921 or check out the site

Press Conference: Juvenile Justice Agenda 2/4

Press conference announcing Juvenile Justice Agenda savings

. FRIDAY, February 4, 2010, 10:30 AM

. 250 Broadway, 19th Floor Conference Room

Called by: Senator Montgomery, Senate Minority Leader John Sampson, and their Democratic Conference colleagues.

Governor Andrew Cuomo's budget will announce a new direction for positive changes in New York State's Juvenile Justice system, changes proposed in the previous session by NYS Senator Velmanette Montgomery and her fellow children's advocates. The legislation, passed by the Senate but stalled in the Assembly last year, has been reintroduced by Senator Montgomery and the Senate Democratic conference. Now the common sense and social justice of the cause has found the ear of our new Governor.

But this is not a slam dunk by any means, despite the Governor's enthusiasm! Senator Montgomery, Senate Minority Leader Sampson and the Democratic Conference will face strong opposition from upstate interests. It will be a
hard fight, and we need your support.

Please join Senator Montgomery, Senate Minority Leader Sampson and the Democratic Conference, and your fellow advocates at this press conference (location to be finalized.) Bring your constituencies, your voices, your enthusiasm and commitment. The progress on this issue is the result of your efforts: we need you there!

If you would like to submit comments or quotes for press announcements, or simply have any questions, please contact Sandy Stewart at 518-455-3457 (email: sstewart@nysenate.gov).

EVENT: 1/25 National Day of Action!

Tuesday January 25, 4:30--6:30 pm
Speak Out Against FBI and Grand Jury Repression and Intimidation:
National Day of Action!
4:30 to 6:00 pm: Protest outside FBI offices at 26 Federal Plaza, Downtown Manhattan (Broadway side)
6:00 to 6:30 pm: March to Justice Department at 1 St. Andrew's Plaza, (East Side of Foley Square & Centre Street, Sourth of Pearl Street)
Sponsored by: NYC Working Group to Stop FBI Repression
Endorsed by: Brooklyn For Peace

FBI raids, and subpoenas to the Grand Jury, threaten the First Amendment rights of all of us.

Last September, the FBI raided homes of anti-war and international solidarity activists in Chicago and Minneapolis. Doors were kicked in during the early morning raids and personal belongings including childrens' artwork, posters of Martin Luther King, Jr, were taken, as well as cell phones, computers and boxes of paper records. Fourteen activists from Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan were subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury; however all fourteen announced that they would not participate, and those subpoenas were subsequently cancelled.
In December, the FBI re-activated the subpoenas for three of these activists, and also delivered nine new subpoenas in Chicago to anti-war and Palestine solidarity activists, ordering them to appear before a Grand Jury. They face immediate jail time if they do not cooperate.

The FBI claims that evidence is being collected regarding the possible 'material support' of terrorism. The 'material support' statute is so broadly written that it can, and does, criminalize international peace-building activities whose only connection to terrorism is to fight against it.

The Justice Department's own Inspector General has released a report documenting political surveillance by the FBI. We protest this continuing pattern, whose purpose is to intimidate and suppress dissent rather than in any way protecting U.S. citizens.
Questions? Call 718-624-5921 or e-mail bfp@brooklynpeace.org