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.

RALLY: April 9! Bring the Troops Home Now!

EVENT: Brooklyn Peace Fair, 5/7/11

Secure your ads and tables now!

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

About:

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

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

EVENT: Brooklyn for Peace Open Community Meeting, 12/1

Brooklyn For Peace Open Community Meeting:
Wed Dec 1, 7:00 to 9:00 pm
The Commons, 388 Atlantic Ave between Hoyt and Bond, downtown
Brooklyn.

Join your Brooklyn neighbors for a discussion of a future strategy and
activities.
---New Congress! In the aftermath of the elections, where do we go
from here?
---Are there new opportunities for peace?
---Are there new dangers of war and violence?
---What's the effect on the economic crisis?
---What can we do?

Trains: A/C/G to Hoyt-Schermerhorn; F/G to Bergen St; B/M/Q/R to
Atlantic-Pacific
2/3/4/5 to Nevins; LIRR to Flatbush Ave
Bus: B63 and B65.

All welcome!

Questions? Call 718-624-5921 or e-mail bfp@brooklynpeace.org