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2020 BFP Summary of Activities

BFP Team
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Activity Summary

Overview

We sponsor, co-sponsor and endorse actions that are needed to try to establish a more just society (stopping the war at home, abroad, and on the planet). Among them were marches, walks, and rallies against sequester cuts, military spending/waste, lack of gun control, drone use, drone weapons development, government spying, reducing social security benefits, nuclear weapons, and encouraging divestiture from companies selling West Bank products. Because of the Covid 19 pandemic, most of our actions and activities were done virtually online.

Arts & Culture

  • Supported  “Cooking With Mukti”   a virtual Indian Cuisine cooking class fundraiser
  • Planned and support BFP’s first virtual Open Mic Night fundraiser
  • Members of the Collective are leading the new BFP website redesign 

Climate Action Working Group

  • Designed and completed Climate Action brochure for distribution
  • Participation in Climate Justice is Racial Justice march

Fundraising

  • Organized, planned and phone banked to promote “Cooking With Mukti”
  • (how many) digital fundraising drives that engaged members and newcomers in donating to BFP’s effort.

Israel-Palestine

  • Held USS Liberty online forum
  • 2 monthly reading groups (how many in total)

Peace and Economic Justice

  • What’s Happening In Bolivia
  • Wrestling With Zionism
  • Digital TownHall 1: The War Economy and COVID-19
  • Digital TownHall 2: Mental Health in the Time of COVID-19
  • Digital Forums: USS Liberty Town Hall
  • Digital Forums: Re-Imagining Community Safety and Policing: De-Funding and De-Militarizing the NYPD
  • Digital Forums: Re-Imagining Community Safety and Policing: De-Funding and De-Militarizing the NYPD, II
  • Digital Forums: Educational Equity in the Time of COVID19: NYC Schools: A Double Crisis

UNICEF

Trick or Treat for UNICEF was virtual this year. (Read report)

Demonstrations

  • Participation in Climate Justice is Racial Justice march
  • No War with Iran 1.9/1.25
  • Press Conference & Hearing – Nuclear Disarmament Legislation 1.28????
  • Justice for Eric! Free Gaspar-Press Conference & Rally 2.8???
  • Emergency MARCH and RALLY to SAVE 227Duffield from demolition! 2.22???
  • JP Morgan Chase Investor Day Protest 2.25???
  • End Endless Wars – NOW! 3.19???
  • NYC CryOut4Action – Friday 4.17, Demand Help For Our City 4.17???

https://www.facebook.com/events/1148207265519096/  ???

What about virtual protests?

Endorsements/Co-sponsoring

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Petitions

  • Renewable Energy Reform!
  • EVICTION MORATORIUM NOW
  • Don’t weaponize a pandemic. No war on Venezuela!
  • Poverty Amidst Pandemic: A Moral Response to COVID-19
  • Governor Cuomo | New York’s Excluded Workers Need Relief
  • State of Emergency: End the War on Black people!
  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki denuclearize petition

Community Building, Outreach and Social Media

  • Our Facebook, Instagram and Twitter postings reached over thousands of individuals (what number)
  • Post our forums on our YouTube channel (how many new Youtube forum posts)
  • Produce monthly show on Brooklyn Public Access Television (BCAT) featuring highlights of our Forums, subjects were four, three-part series, (what were they?)

Intern and Volunteer Opportunities

2 students volunteered doing the Refugees Welcome postering

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Join Brooklyn For Peace, Families For Palestine, and DSA at Yvette Clarke’s office this coming Thursday, December 14th at 9:00 am.As Israel’s horrific war against Gaza continues unabated with tens of thousands of civilians including huge numbers of children and women killed, Rep. Yvette Clarke remains silent on a cease-fire. Her community, evidenced by hundreds of signatures on petitions, wants an end to this war and an immediate cease-fire to stop the killings and destruction. BE THERE!★ This is a FAMILY FRIENDLY event dedicated to the children of Gaza. Families and children will present hundreds of signatures to Yvette Clarke, urging her to speak out for a cease-fire to end the trauma, injuries, and deaths of so many innocent children.★ Sign our petition to Congress urging our reps to call for a cease-fire NOW! bit.ly/bfp-gaza-petition


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TODAY, Wed. Dec. 6, 5-6 pm: Join this Global Protest to mark the 8,000 days of Guantánamo’s existence. We need to keep Guantanamo in the public eye, and demand that President Biden take the necessary steps to close it! Steps of NY Public Library, 41st St & 5th Ave, Manhattan.


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is with NYC Metro Raging Grannies and Peace Action New York State.

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Nov 28, 2023— Hundreds gathered today across from the United Nations at the famous Isiah Wall. They were marking the second anniversary of the passage by the UN, and endorsed by some 94 nations, of the treaty to ban nuclear weapons, the greatest threat to human life on our planet. The outliers are the nuclear powers including the United States, the only country to have ever used those weapons of mass destruction against a fuc human population – the residents of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the close of the World War. The rally transformed into a march that stopped at the missions of the United States, France, England, and Russia to deliver a letter to their leaders demanding that they join the rest of the world in ridding the world of these demonic weapons. Many organizations joined today’s march, including Brooklyn for Peace, Peace Action New York State, Veterans For Peace – NYC Chapter 034, the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), and others. Joining were several Japanese and Korean organizations including some survivors of the atomic blasts, known as Hibakusha. Their presence added a passionate urgency to the demonstration. Here are the words inscribed at the Isaiah wall —"…they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more."


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Brooklyn For Peace

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This Giving Tuesday: support Brooklyn For Peace, our LOCAL peace and justice organization. Over the years the specific issues have changed, but urgent challenges remain: to promote social justice at home and abroad; to tackle the climate emergency; to address the continuing impact of white supremacy and the profound racial inequalities which still characterize our country. Our distinctive contribution is speaking out against war, and against the continuing racial, social, and economic injustices which prevent peace. Today’s most urgent international crises, including Israel’s assault on Palestinians in Gaza, the war in Ukraine, the dangerous possibility of nuclear confrontations, and rising tensions between the US and China, demonstrate exactly why we need strong local organizing for peace and diplomacy. Brooklyn For Peace has responded with a consistent public presence and voice for peace through community outreach, petitioning, Congressional advocacy, coalition work, and educational forums. Can you help strengthen our efforts? Affirm your commitment to achieving peace with racial, social, and economic justice by donating now! bit.ly/DonateBFP


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