Our NYC event calendar is full as we prepare for the April 24-26 events. Please join us and other NYC area activists and organizers as we build momentum for our April 24-26 two-day international conference, interfaith convocation, rally, march and festival. Please forward far and wide!

 

Monday April 13 7:00 PM at Brooklyn Friends Meetinghouse (110 Schermerhorn Street, Brooklyn)

Building a Just, Sustainable, and Nuclear-Free Future: Brooklyn for Peace/Climate Action and the Brooklyn Friends/Peace and Social Action Committee. Just four years after the disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, nuclear power is being promoted as a "clean, green" solution to climate change; the number of nuclear power plants is expected to double globally over the next 20 years. And the United States has announced that it will "upgrade" its nuclear arsenal of 7,500 weapons to the tune of $1 trillion. Russia and the other seven nuclear states are following suit. When attention should be focused on halting climate change, building a sustainable world, and ending racial and economic injustice, we appear to be building for war instead. Speakers Marilyn Elie (founding member, Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition) and Joseph Gerson (AFSC; author of Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapson to Dominate the World).

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Co-sponsors: Brooklyn for Peace; Peace and Social Action Committee of the Brooklyn Monthly Meeting (Quakers)

Endorsers: Bay Ridge Peace Action; Fort Greene Peace, Muslim Community Network

Sunday April 19 3:00-5:00 PM at La Plaza Community Garden (9th St & Avenue C, Manhattan)

Prop and Banner-Making +BBQ for the Peace and Planet Mobilization.: Join us in the garden with long time community and environmental activists, Times Up! We will provide materials, but more are always welcome, including paint, cardboard, cardboard polls, and other art-making supplies.

Thursday April 23 6:30-8:30 PM Aranow Theater First Floor North Academic Center 138th Street and Convent Avenue, The City College of New York

Building a peaceful world: Ending U.S. Militarism --Nick Turse and Rory Fanning will lead a frank discussion of violence inherent in U.S. militarism and the steps we need to take to end the violence and create a world grounded in peace, negotiation, and cooperation. Nick Turse is an award winning journalist and historian. He has written a number of books including Kill Anything that Moves: The real America War in Vietnam and the The Complex: How Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. Rory Fanning walked across the United States for the Pat Tillman Foundation in 2008-2009, following two deployments to Afghanistan with the 2nd Army Ranger Battalion. He is author of Worth Fighting For: An Army Ranger's Journey Out of the Military and Across America (Haymarket Books, 2014).

Saturday April 25 5:00--7:00 PM at La Plaza Community Garden (9th St & Avenue C, Manhattan)

Prop and Banner-Making +BBQ for the Peace and Planet Mobilization. Round 2 of our Peace and Planet and Times Up! banner-making! We will be putting the final touches on our banners, signs and art, and we will be joined by activists and organizers from the region and around the world converging on NYC for the Peace and Planet mobilization.

Tuesday April 28 9:30 AM Vigil: Isaiah Wall  (First Ave. and 43 St.) followed by Direct Action at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. (First Ave. and 45 st).  Isaiah Wall Vigil and Nonviolent Direct Action at the U.S. Mission to the U.N. 9:30am. More information on Facebook

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