4/9-10: Anarchist Book Fair, NYC

EVENT: Brooklyn Peace Fair, 5/7/11

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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: 10/1 Citizen's Lobby Day, DC

Citizen's Lobby Day

If you are planning on attending the One Nation March for Peace, Jobs and Justice or you can't be there, come out for the Citizen's Lobby Day.

From 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM--drop by anytime to pick up a packet before you drop-in to visit your representative. Register beforehand so they can plan ahead, but registration is not required.

Find the lobby packet and more information here: https://www.thedatabank.com/dpg/309/thanks.asp?formid=meet&c=6573382

When Friday, October 01, 2010
9 AM - 3 PM

Where Rayburn House Office Building
Room 2226
Capitol Hill
Washington, DC 20515-0907

9/17: Pakistan Flood Teach-In & Planning Meeting

The Urgent Need for Solidarity With Pakistan’s Flood Victims
Teach-In and Planning Meeting
Friday, September 17th
6:30 pm, Brecht Forum
451 West Street (between Bank & Bethune Streets, New York, NY

Even as Americans revisit the lingering destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, half a world away Pakistan is experiencing one of the most calamitous disasters in recent memory.

Nearly 20 million people have been directly affected. More than 8 million need urgent aid. 800,000 people are stranded. A full 14 million people across the country are now homeless. The country’s infrastructure, already in disrepair, has been simply washed away.

As with so many natural disasters we’ve seen in recent years, this tragedy too is carved out of a history of unsustainable policies. Years of neoliberal economic policies and militarism have stripped the Pakistani State of its capacity to meet the people’s needs.

Pakistan’s elites—both civilian and military—have much to answer for, but so do U.S. elites and the Obama administration, whose ratcheting up of the “war on terror” has made a bad situation worse. Likewise, harsh conditions attached to Pakistan’s external debt by institutions like the IMF share much of the blame for the scale of the social and economic crisis.

Meanwhile, international aid has been reluctantly offered and slow to arrive, perhaps because for years now, politicians and the media, particularly in the U.S., have encouraged a view of Pakistan as nothing but a crucible for “terrorism,” thus obscuring the humanity of its people. The U.S. has spent $33 billion on the recent surge in Afghanistan—nearly three times what Pakistan will need for its reconstruction, and some 165 times the amount the US has pledged for flood relief. But the American military wasted no time in exploiting the floods to airbrush its own public image in the region.

In response, progressive activists in Pakistan are launching a national campaign against the servicing of foreign debt and the squandering of enormous resources on the military.

Here in the U.S., similar awareness and activism is sorely needed. We need to hold this government and institutions like the IMF accountable for the negative role that they continue to play in the region. Please join us to build solidarity with ordinary Pakistanis and raise badly-needed funds for grassroots flood-relief.

For more information, or to get involved:

email: Pakistan.Solidarity.NYC@gmail.com

blog: PakistanSolidarity.posterous.com

Link: http://brechtforum.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1&id=11766

EVENT: The South in the '60s: Women in the Civil Rights Movement

The South in the '60s: Women in the Civil Rights Movement

9/16/2010

7:00 PM

The Graduate Center
Elebash Recital Hall
365 Fifth Avenue

212-817-8215

The Graduate Center continues its Civil Rights Movement programming this fall with a discussion about the contribution of women of the movement.

The program features women who were active in the Civil Rights Movement, including Dorothy Zellner, Martha Noonan, and Judy Richardson. Professor Blanche Wiesen Cook of the Graduate Center and John Jay College will moderate the discussion.

Click the e-VENTS online reservation icon; for more information call 212-817-8215. Unclaimed reservations will be released to a standby line at the event on a first-come, first-served basis.

ADMISSION: Free, reservations required
http://bit.ly/9ABzLI http://gc.cuny.edu/events http://bit.ly/b2gFnU

EVENT: Storytime and Playtime in the First Quincy Community Garden, Brooklyn

Join 1st Quincy Community Garden member, Ginger, for stories and
playtime in the garden!


Saturday, July 17th
10am-12pm
At 1st Quincy Community Garden
(on Quincy St. between Tompkins and Throop)

For more information contact Anna at 212-594-2155 or ad@nycgreen.org

Free and Open to the Public

EVENT: International Day of Action, May 2

International Day of Action – Sunday, May 2
Join people from around the world for a day of action!

The Day’s Events at a Glance
12:00 p.m. › Interfaith Convocation (Church Center for the United Nations)
1:30 p.m. › Assembly (7th Ave South of 41st St)
2:00 – 3:30 p.m. › Rally
3:30 p.m. › March across 42nd Street to the United Nations
4:00 – 6:00 p.m. › International Peace & Music Festival in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza

http://peaceandjusticenow.org/

Spring SPA Sessions

The Office for Family Engagement and Advocacy would like to invite you and your school community to the Spring SPA.

SPA offers sessions on a variety of topics to support parent leaders in various volunteer positions in our schools. Topics include PA/PTA Roles & Responsibilities, Parliamentary Procedures, Title I, and Teen Dating Violence. Parents can register for two workshops at each SPA session.

To register please have parents complete the attached form or call the Office for Family Engagement and Advocacy at (212) 374-4118. Registration forms can also be found on the OFEA site at http://schools.nyc.gov/Offices/OFEA/default.htm

Brooklyn's Children's Day Parade

Brooklyn's Children's Day Parade

Saturday, May 15th, 10am - 1pm
The New York Aquarium
Surf Avenue at West 8th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11224

The Children's Day Parade is a collaboration between all the schools, parents and administration in each borough to celebrate our students and our achievements. We have a parade of students from participating schools either marching, cheering, playing music, dancing, etc announcing their love of NYC Public Schools. We invite our local elected officials, Borough Presidents, Community Superintendents and community organizations to partner with us as well. If you never attended the event or this will be your first time it has always been a very fun filled day for families.

April 28: Africa Networking Panel

Wednesday, April 28

4/16: Career Workshops in Bed Stuy

Bed Stuy: Career Workshops for Parents 4/16
Career Workshop:

This week's topic will cover how to conduct an informational interview to help get your foot in the door and how to respond to tough interview questions. This will be an interactive discussion that will be helpful to anyone who is returning to work after a break or is currently in the job search process.

Career Workshops for Parents: Networking and Interviewing
Location: Brooklyn Public Library, Marcy Branch
617 Dekalb Avenue (near Nostrand)
Date: Friday, April 16, 2010
Time: 12:00-1:30pm

For more info, email satyachheda@yahoo.com

VDAY HARLEM 2010

VDAY HARLEM 2010
April 10, 2010

Shows at 2 pm, 6 pm and 8 pm

Reception following 8 pm show

Location TBD

V-Day is a global movement to stop violence against women and girls. V-Day is a catalyst that promotes creative events to increase awareness, raise money and revitalize the spirit of existing anti-violence organizations. V-Day generates broader attention for the fight to stop violence against women and girls, including rape, battery, incest, female genital mutilation (FGM) and sexual slavery.

YMCA Christmas Day

P.S. 307 Ribbon Cutting

On Tuesday, December 15, P.S. 307 is inviting the community to attend their ribbon cutting of Threads, their weaving studio. The studio is amazing, and I encourage you to check it out. The ceremony is from 8:30-9:30.

YMCA Christmas Day

P.S. 307 Ribbon Cutting

On Tuesday, December 15, P.S. 307 is inviting the community to attend their ribbon cutting of Threads, their weaving studio. The studio is amazing, and I encourage you to check it out. The ceremony is from 8:30-9:30.

Peace Events in NYC

Fort Greene Peace Announcement Listings

1. Join an AFGHANISTAN WAR PROTEST VIGIL & RALLY on the 8th Anniversary of the US Invasion of Afghanistan

Organized by Brooklyn For Peace and cosponsored by Fort Greene Peace and many others.
Thursday, Oct. 15, 4:30 to 6 pm Brooklyn Boro Hall on Joralemon Street (between Court & Boerum)

2. A RALLY FOR HEALTH CARE FOR ALL
Healthcare-NOW!, a national coalition of groups is organizing a rally supporting to demand affordable health care for all.

Thursday, October 15, 10am at One Penn Plaza in Manhattan
( 34th Street between 7 & 8th Aves.)—the offices of United Health Group.

You can also join the National Call in Campaign for Single Payer Health Insurance
Tell your Congressional rep (for most of us it is Ed Towns) to vote "yes" on the Weiner, Kucinich, and Sanders amendments for single-payer. For more information and to make a free call go to:
http://tools.advomatic.com/35/hc-n/

3. Join FORT GREENE PEACE at the Fort Greene Farmer's Market on Saturday, October 17
(The corner of DeKalb and Washington Park )
We will have our table set up. We will be have our anti-war postcard to Congressman Towns, and lots more.

They need volunteers to help out at the table. If you can help out, email fortgreenepeace@gmail.com with
Please include your name, the times you are available and a phone number where you can be reached just in case we need to make a change at the last minute.

4. Help Counter High School Military Recruitment
Fort Greene Peace will be joining Brooklyn For Peace and other groups around the city at Brooklyn Tech H.S and maybe other high schools in our area on “Open School Evening” October 29 from 5 to 6:30 pm
“Open School Day” October 30 from 12:30 to 1:30.

We will be handing out literature informing students and their parents that they can “opt out” of the military recruitment requirements of the “No Child left Behind” act which requires schools to send the military the contact information of each student unless that student’s parents request that this not happen. This is a major way the US military recruits students right out of high school.

If you can join us and help out please RSVP at fortgreenepeace@gmail.com

5. The Domestic Violence Prevention Summit (endorsed by Fort Greene Peace)
Theme: “Everybody Knows Somebody: Stop Domestic Violence NOW!”
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2009, 12noon-6pm at the Arnold and Marie Schwartz Center,
1 University Plaza, on the campus of Long Island University — Brooklyn campus
(Corner of Flatbush and DeKalb, right across from the famous Junior’s Restaurant)

This day-long Summit is FREE and open to everyone. Females and males of all ages are welcome. The LGBT community is welcome too.
The Summit will feature:
•Adult panel discussion
•Teen panel discussion
•Short film clips
•Dozens of social agencies and community organizations with helpful
literature and resources
•Free counseling services at the Summit for females, males, and
children
•Live entertainment
•Special keynote address

For more information, please email contact@kevinpowell.net

6. Join FORT GREENE PEACE to plan our next COMMUNITY FORUM ON THE US
WAR ON AFGHANISTAN.
The forum is tentatively planned for mid November. The planning has not yet begun. To learn when and where the committee will be meeting contact Rob at: rob@notfortourists.com

Brooklyn Skillshare

The First Annual Brooklyn Skillshare

When: Saturday, October 10, 2009

When: Gowanus Studio Space

What: The day consists of 5 blocks of 90-minute classes, with 3 classes taking place per block. Participants could attend as many or as few classes as they like, but were encouraged to make a day of learning.

Mission Statement: Education is a right, not a commodity. We are all students and teachers, and we believe that everyone has something to teach and to learn from each other. The Brooklyn Skillshare is a communal, hands-on, learning experience that aims to serve as a jumping-off point in the construction of an autonomous, nonexclusive, reciprocal learning community

2nd Annual Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival

This weekend is the Food Network's New York City Wine & Food Festival. This event is hosted by and benefits the Food Bank For New York City and Share Our Strength.

When: October 8-11, 2009

Where: New York, New York
What: "The Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival is the only festival in New York to bring together both legendary culinary icons from around the globe and America's most beloved television chefs. Mirroring the charitable component of its sister event, the Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival presented by Food & Wine magazine, the New York City festival is hosted by and benefits the hunger relief organizations Food Bank For New York City and Share Our Strength. 100 percent of the net proceeds from the festival directly benefit these community based initiatives."

About the Food Bank For New York City

Food Bank For New York City recognizes 26 years as the city's major provider of food to New Yorkers in need. The organization works to end food poverty and increase access to affordable, nutritious food for low-income New Yorkers through a range of programs and services that focus on food sourcing and distribution, education and nutrition, financial empowerment, disaster relief, policy and research.

About Share Our Strength®

Share Our Strength® is the leading national organization working to make sure no kid in America grows up hungry. We weave together a net of community groups, activists and food programs to catch children at risk of hunger and ensure they have nutritious food where they live, learn and play. We work with the culinary industry to create engaging, pioneering programs like Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation®, the nation's premier culinary benefit; Share Our Strength's Great American Bake Sale®, a national grassroots effort; Share Our Strength's A Tasteful Pursuit®, a touring dinner series; Share Our Strength's Great American Dine Out ®, a week-long program involving thousands of restaurants nationwide; and Share Our Strength's Operation Frontline®, a cooking-based nutrition education program.

Check out the Food Network's New York City Wine & Food Festival this weekend.