Join us for a community forum on Arts and Activism at the Commons (388 Atlantic Ave) in Brooklyn! How effective can artist be as activist in their community/world?

The panel features: Karen Malpede, playwright, SpiritChild, musician and activist, and Megan Trevino, Arts in Bushwick.
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Pack the Courtroom! Floyd v. the City of New York.

Pack the courtroom for trial in our landmark case challenging the New York City Police Department’s practice of unlawful stops and frisks, Floyd et al. v. the City of New York.

The Floyd case is being brought on behalf of millions of New Yorkers illegally stopped by the NYPD over the past seven years and is the first class-action lawsuit challenging the NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practice to be tried in federal court.

What: Trial in Floyd v. City of New York
Where: Southern District of New York, 500 Pearl Street. The trial will take place before Judge Shira Scheindlin in Courtroom 15-C.
When: The trial will start March 18, 2013 and will run Monday through Friday each week.
Projected to end on Wednesday May 15.
Summations on Monday May 20.

Email bfp@brooklynpeace.org to join us. Let us know what day you can come-or go when you can.

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Close Guantanomo! Hunger strike in 3rd month! This weekend saw the largest jump in the ‘official’ numbers of men on Hunger Strike in Guantanamo since the Military acknowledged the strike beginning. The Military has confirmed 84 men on Hunger Strike, with 16 being force fed and 5 in the hospital. Actual numbers are probably higher. Read testimony of one prisoner in NY Times.

THE TIME TO ACT IS NOW!
Here’s what YOU can do:
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Feb 21, 2013

Some 70 people packed into the Commons, a meeting space on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, to hear speakers Nick Mottern and Ann Wright, discuss drones – pilotless planes that are increasingly being used to wage war by the United States in many areas around the world. The forum was sponsored by Brooklyn For Peace and co-sponsored by Fort Greene Peace, the Green Party of Brooklyn, Peace Action Bay Ridge / Interfaith Peace Coalition and the NYC War Resisters League.

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They came by the tens of thousands – to the nation’s capitol. Their demand was “Save Our Planet.” It was a protest to demand immediate and urgent action to reverse the course of climate change; to change the path of dependency on fossil fuels which is slowly but surely leading to destruction and decline of what has become a fragile environment.

It was a bitterly cold and windy day but that didn’t stop people from marching around the White House to tell the President to be true to his words and reject the ominous and hazardous Keystone XL pipeline.

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