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