Activity Summary

2020 BFP Summary of Activities

  • by BFP Team

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Overview” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|color:%23005bbb” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]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.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”Arts & Culture” font_container=”tag:h3|text_align:left|color:%23005bbb” use_theme_fonts=”yes”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]

  • 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 

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

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  • 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.

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

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  • 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

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  • 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?)

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