PftP is DEFINITELY gon' be there!!
This has grown to become the largest Peace and Justice gathering in NYC, and this year will be the 5th year of the Fair. Like Party for the People, the BK Peace Fair will feature workshops, music, performances, tabling, art, and kids activities, but it's on a much larger scale. Last year 150 community organizations participated and we had nearly 2,000 people in and out of LIU's Brooklyn Campus throughout the day. And this year, PftP's teaming up with BK For Peace to make sure this year is off the chain!!
Please do come out and be a part of this amazing event!
Globesity got you down?? Check out this delicious festival! The Globesity Festival: HUNGER STRIKE THEATER October 22 – 28 at Theater for the New City, 1st ave @ 9th st NYC
The Globesity Festival is FREE to Everyone. (That Means You Don't Pay.)
GLOBESITY is the over-consumption of all natural elements that create and sustain life on Earth – some of the most vital and visible being water, minerals, oil, and FOOD. Our approach to food and sustenance is destroying our personal and social health. Our Earth and our Bodies cannot sustain the beastly grind of consumption. This beast is Globesity. It has been named. Now is the hour of confrontation.
The GLOBESITY FESTIVAL is a jam-packed week of performances, parties, panels, speakers, and workshops exploring the ideas and objects we buy and buy into. This summer, over 40 New York artists embarked on a challenging 10-day journey of fasting. They fasted for clarity, reconfiguring and examining their relationship with what they consume on a day to day basis in an effort to build a reconnection to their bodies and our social and physical environment. From that fast they have each created an original performance that will premiere at the Festival. With a fast as our focus and theater as our laboratory, we are cooking & cutting up ingredients for SOLUTIONS.
The Globesity Festival is inter-generational and cross-community collaboration. We are calling all the Elders, The Established, The Emerging artists, activists, instigators, agitators, innovators, entrepreneurs who with your words, ways, and wares dream into being SOLUTIONS to the climate of hyper-consumption and consumerism. People from across the city and worldwide are urged to fast in solidarity for solutions.
United For Peace & Justice is organizing 11 marches in major cities all over the country on October 27th to stop the war in Iraq & prevent a new war in Iran. The labor movement, college and high school students, and community groups from around NY and NJ are mobilizing for a massive march and rally to end the war!
Brooklyn For Peace is organizing a Brooklyn Feeder march across the Brooklyn Bridge to join up with the other NYC contingents in Manhattan. Led out by a marching samba band, the Brooklyn crew is gonna roll out in style...and PftP's all over it! Join us and numerous other Brooklyn organizations & March for Peace!
Meeting Location:
Brooklyn Borough Hall 209 Joralemon Street
Brooklyn, NY, 11209
10:00am -- Rally on the steps of Brooklyn Borough Hall
10:30am -- March across the Brooklyn Bridge
11:30am -- We'll take the subway on the Manhattan side to Union Square to join the giant peace march
(4/5/6 at Bklyn Bridge/City Hall uptown to 14th St-Union Sq)
For those of you unable to march with the Brooklyn contingents across the Brooklyn Bridge: There is a designated place for Brooklyn contingents in the big march.
Gather, beginning at 12 noon at E 21st between Broadway and Park.
For more info, contact Brooklyn for Peace: (718) 624-5921, bfp@brooklynpeace.org, www.brooklynpeace.org
or go to http://www.oct27.org/
Party for the People (PftP) is a celebration of community consciousness.
This free and open-to-the-public event is designed to build community
awareness and engagement.
WHERE IT'S AT
The first-ever Party for the People occurred on Saturday,
Oct 6, 2007 from 1pm-9pm @ The Yard in Gowanus, BK.
Over 400 people attended the inaugural Party for the People
event on October 6, 2007. There was tabling by 15 local service
and activist organizations that shared information about their work
& volunteer opportunities. Three workshops were presented,
covering various modes of community action facilitated by Agents
of Change, Blackout Arts Collective, and Big Apple Playback Theatre.
Party for the People also featured a showcase of speeches by
prominent community leaders including Congresswoman Yvette Clarke
and NYC Council Members Charles Barron & Matthew Eugene as well
as performances by many politically and socially conscious musicians
and spoken-word artists including M1 of dead prez, Stephanie McKay,
Blitz the Ambassador, Judah Tribe, Ra Hendrix, Toyia Taylor, Head-Roc,
Abiodun Oyewole, Mental Notes, Stephanie Rooker, ReadNex Poetry
Squad, and Desiree Marshall, among others! We’ve received great
feedback on this event so far. Party for the People attendees
seem deeply moved by the event and expressed that they were
motivated to become more involved in community action. Participating
organizations, speakers, and performers said they were looking forward
to taking part in future Party for the People events.
WHERE IT CAME FROM
In a society where the desires of the individual are often
valued above the needs of the people and where the media
overwhelms us with global information, it is easy to become
removed from our local communities. Many of us may not
acknowledge our neighborhoods, workplaces, schools, or
other social circles we run in as “our communities,” and
thus, may seldom take the opportunity to play an active
role in improving these environments. The organizers of
Party for the People believe that the revival of community
values on a local scale sets the stage for greater societal
progress. This event offers the opportunity for newcomers
to Brooklyn as well as long-time residents to become more
socially informed and active in their communities.
Party for the People employs a unique approach to
community organizing which brings together artists,
activists, and organizations from various geographic areas
of Brooklyn, as well as different fields of social service,
to celebrate in the name of community development and
social progress. Workshops provide information about
current local issues and initiatives. The showcase of
speakers and performers serves to inspire and empower
people to become involved. Tabling by local organizations
gives people direct access to ongoing volunteer programs.
By informing people about local issues as well as providing
opportunities for action, Party for the People hopes to be
a catalyst for the mobilization of Brooklyn community
members.
The idea for Party for the People originated after
Chief Organizer Stephanie Rooker returned from a trip to
New Zealand. Stephanie’s experience of New Zealand’s
communally mindful and progressive culture inspired in her
a desire to initiate action within her own community of
artists and activists in Brooklyn, New York. As she spread
the word of her intention, a collective of organizers and
activists formed to nurture and cultivate the vision of
Party for the People. Together, they crafted this event
with the purpose of triggering community acknowledgment
and deepening people’s connections with and contributions
to one another.
The Party for the People Collective hopes to continue
building relationships with artists and organizations
and to collaboratively produce future events
that sustain the progressive spirit of this initial
celebration.
HOW TO GET DOWN WITH IT
To join our mailing list send an email to:
partyforthepeople-subscribe@lists.riseup.net
Who I'd like to meet:
People involved in community service, art, education, activism. Anybody who's down to get down with Party for the People!!
Help my organization Transform America win $25,000!!! We only have 10% of the votes! Please vote for us, Transform America. We're trying to help transform the educational system in NYC. $25,000 can go a long way to helping us start 25 new Youth Councils where students can learn about social justice and take action within their communities. it takes 2 seconds.
We're starting on our first "Destination" or campaign for change. The coalition is meeting Next Tuesday July 8th in order to vote and decide. Considering the political, social, technological, and economic climate, what issue could most benefit from the combined weight of our intellectual, promotional, budgetary, and organizational power the coalition harnesses? Should we try to transform New York City's crumbling educational system, should we focus on preventing gentrification, or should we focus on reducing poverty?
One thing is for sure: They are all related and our diverse coalition will address the issue from many different perspectives.
Also check out our Flight Schools: Study Groups created for the purpose of motivating, empowering, and inspiring ourselves to realize our ability and power for change and progress. Flight Schools
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
Gotham Obamans want you to Barack what your momma gave ya! Head to Sapphire Lounge on Wednesday, April 9 for the exclusive, first ever, muy caliente edition of Freedom Funk, a new Obama fundraiser that's sure to put the sheen in your fro and soul in your glow! Fifteen dollars gets you past the bouncer and goes directly to Obama's campaign. DJ Morsy of Brooklyn's Nanachill will spin his signature blend of disco funk, while Witnes, back from his jaunt to Miami's Winter Music Conference, will get the dance floor nice with '60s soul grooves and stomping Motown beats. We've also got drank—Bamakazee shots—that will sock it to ya all night long! Arrive early and we'll also treat you to two for one well drinks, 10-11pm. Sound like a plan? Meet us there!
Can't make it? You can still help the Gotham Obamans reach their contribution goal. Donate now at: http://my. barackobama. com/page/outreach/view/main/GothamObamans Remember to click on the meter!
Gotham Obamans present: Freedom Funk Vol. 1
Where: Sapphire Lounge in the Lower East Side When: April 9, 10-2/3am Who: DJ Morsy Nanachill. com Witnes Quickwits. blogspot. com Myspace. com/witnes Dress: To impress. Why: To keep hope alive!
$15 MINIMUM donations taken at the door. NO RSVP 21+ ONLY Bamakazee shots all night!
MARCH 14-16 -- LEFT FORUM @ Cooper Union - 7 East 7th Street (at 3rd Avenue)
Left Forum brings together organizers and intellectuals from across the globe to share ideas for understanding and transforming the world. We organize events throughout the year, and our annual flagship conference takes place each spring. Left Forum provides a context for the critical dialogue that is essential for a stronger Left and a more just society.
