Join us for a Potluck brunch and learn about what In Our Hearts is doing and how you can get involved. We will be discussing what our organization does and different ways for people to plug in. It will also be a great opportunity to meet other community-minded people.

Get involved with In Our Hearts! Do you have an idea you think we’d be interested in that you’d like help with, or do you want to join an existing project? Come break bread with us and perhaps we can support each other. We are always looking for new friends to work with gathering and cooking food for Grub community dinners and tabling, publishing and distributing radical literature, and more.

This event will be part a social dinner party, part a presentation and part structured meeting where participants can propose new ideas and volunteer to help with ongoing projects!

201 Palmetto St. near the Myrtle/Wycoff L stop or the J Gates stop in Bushwick, Brooklyn

Join us for Grub: a free and open community dinner held on the first (always) and third (provided we have the space to hold it) Sundays of every month.

There will be plates for vegans and vegetarians alike. About 99% of the food we share is freegan, which means it is excess, ripe, nearly ripe or slightly damaged food that has been recovered from the waste of grocery stores.

Most importantly Grub is about building a stronger and more supportive community, so feel free to come early and hang out. We need help gathering, cooking and preparing food for Grub (culinary skill not necessarily required). Volunteers are welcome to bring vegetarian (freegan and vegan is preferred) food and make their own dishes or help out with the preparation in general. We plan to be able to serve approximately 50 people, so it’s first come first serve.

And as we’re sure you always already do, please go out of your way to talk to strangers and to welcome new people. That’s why we’re here.

Watch First the Dishes Then the Revolution  by Jeff Stark and get an idea about what Grub is.

Please come as early as 3:30pm if you would like to help us prepare the meal!
All are asked to make a contribution.

Grub is at 136 Lawrence St. between Fulton and Willoughby , Brooklyn, NY (map)

Also we are looking for other larger locations where we can host Grub. If you can help us with that please get in touch – inourhearts@gmail.com.
Thanks!

Tuesday MAY 1 , 2012

GLOBAL GENERAL STRIKE

First here are some Ways to Build Up and Participate on May 1st

8am Brooklyn May Day Morning Commute meet at Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick
8am-2pm Really Really Free Market – Mutual Aid at Bryant Park – March to Union Sq. NYC
9am Bike Bloc at Union Sq. North  NYC
10am-3pm Free University classes at Madison Sq. Park NYC
10:30am Brooklyn Tech High walk-out for Tamon Robinson March to 88th Precinct in Brooklyn
10:30am Morning Commute March & Occupy Williamsburg at Continental Army Plaza March over the bridge
11am–10pm Building Community Alt.s to Capitalism Day LaunchPad, 721 Franklin Ave., Brooklyn
12pm High School Student Walk-outs converge Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn
12pm Guitarmy: Guitar Workshop & Rehearsal w/ Tom Morello Bryant Park NYC
12-5:30pm Permitted Rally & music in Union Sq – March to Wall St NYC
1pm Wildcat March at Sara D. Roosevelt Park 2nd Ave & Houston NYC
2pm Guitarmy March from Bryant Park to Union Sq. NYC
2pm Day Without Workers March & Speakout 5th Ave. at 54th St. in Brooklyn
3pm LGBT, Two-Spirit, & Gender Non-Conforming Contingent! meet at 13th St & Bway NYC
5pm OCCUPY the Rent Guidelines Board at Cooper Union 7 East 7th St. (at 3rd Ave.)  NYC
5:15pm May Day Choir Madison Sq. Park (in front of the fountain), NYC
8pm Occupy Wall Street Afterparty Wall Street area NYC

Follow @IOHNYC on Twitter or check inourheartsnyc.org for updates

And see also:
StrikeEverywhere.net
OccupyMay1st.org

On May 1st workers, students, immigrants, and the unemployed from over 115 U.S. cities will stand together for economic justice. On Saturday, April 28th join us first at 12pm in Bryant Park, where we will parade through mid- town to get word out about the General Strike. Then from 2pm in Union Sq we will prepare for the big day with many trainings, teach-ins and skill shares.

• Non violent direct action training
• Street medical training
• Know your rights: demonstrating in NYC
• Safe protesting for families w/ Parents for OWS
• “Livestreaming for dummies”
• Social media teach-in by OWS #tweetboat
• May Day arts demos
• History of May Day & General Strikes
• Waiting for Lefty, a labor strike performance

We will be running an Open Space, so you can just show up and run activity, but if you’d like to sign up and let us know you’re coming, the link is here: http://tinyurl.com/ots5signup

Look for the In Our Hearts table at the Brooklyn Peace Fair!

The 8th Annual Brooklyn Peace Fair will be held at the Brooklyn College Student Center on Saturday, April 28, 2012 from 11 am to 5 pm. The Peace Fair is  is a free event open to all and will offer workshops, peace and justice resources, discussions, music, poetry, spoken word, informational tables, children’s activities, button-making, exhibits and more.

View the Peace Fair Schedule!

The theme of this year’s Brooklyn Peace Fair is Ending War, Promoting Peace! Jeremy Scahill, award-winning author and journalist, will speak on America’s Covert Wars at 12:30 pm.

Captain Paul K. Chappell, Peace Leadership Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation and veteran of the Iraq War, will speak on Why Peace is Possible and How We Can Achieve It at 3:00 pm.

The Brooklyn Peace Fair Workshops will cover a variety of topics, including discussions about the economy, budget cuts, the military, war, stop and frisk, hip hop, conflict resolution, Palestine, building local peace and justice movements, climate change, Cuba, free trade agreements and poetry. Informational tables include peace, social justice, activist, wellness and community organizations.

The Brooklyn Peace Fair will feature music and performances by SpiritChild, Dave Lippman, The Occuponics, Raging Grannies, Dennis Gronim, Anya Skidan, Lone Wolf Tribe, Occupy the Empire Tour, as well as other musicians and spoken word performances for all ages. There will be music, exhibits, and activities for children throughout the day, including designing and pressing your own button and poster making.

Exhibits include Peace Boat: A Floating Peace Village, a presentation about the adventures of the Peace Boat; The Truth About Fukushima: How Nuclear Power Affects Local Communities, an exhibit which show the consequences of nuclear energy; Peace Trees, a collaborative vision of peace interpreted in symbolic peace trees; Posters of Occupy Wall Street, artwork from the OWS movement; Peace Poetry; and All We Are Saying…,  collaborate pieces that make up a peace-inspired exhibit from the students at the Urban Assembly of Government and Law.

The Brooklyn Peace Fair will conclude with a performance by the RARAM of New York. Then we will gather together for a Peace Parade, through the neighborhood to the nearby military recruiting station on Flatbush Ave & Farragut Rd. and through the community. All are welcome to join.

The Brooklyn Peace Fair is sponsored by Brooklyn For Peace and co-sponsored by Brooklyn Congregations United (BSU), Brooklyn College Student Center (SUBO) and Military Families Speak Out—Metro. BCU works to develop low to moderate-income community leaders to build powerful organizing efforts capable of involving large numbers of people in the identification, research and resolution of issues defined by the community. Through this work, they hope to capture the imagination of our communities and transform them into healthy renewed communities where people come together to struggle for a common good MFSO is a nationwide organization composed of members of the military and their families who speak out to end the wars, to bring our troops home, and to take care of them when they get here. SUBO has a rich history of community service and educational and social activities and is a hub of student life on the Brooklyn College campus.

Brooklyn For Peace is committed to eliminating war and the social injustices that are its causes through active education on international and domestic issues, we empower our community and ourselves to be a productive force in securing a peaceful future for generations to come by building a world where peace is the first response to conflict. We promote U.S. policies based not on coercion and violence, but on peace, justice, democratic advancement, human rights and respect for international law.

Visit brooklynpeace.org for more information, email peacefair@brooklynpeace.org or call 718-624-6921. To see photos or programs of previous Brooklyn Peace Fairs, check out the Peace Fair page.

What can we learn from those who were active in the 1960s as organizers and revolutionaries?

How can we apply these lessons to the organizing that’s going on now?
Join us for a conversation with organizers from the 1960s who are still active today, for discussions on how to build unity between black and brown people, while struggling against capitalism, white supremacy, patriarchy and homophobia.

Speakers include:

ASHANTI ALSTON: Anarchist speaker and writer, former political prisoner and member of the Black Panther Party & Black Liberation Army

ESPERANZA MARTELL: Human rights educator and activist, former member of El Comite & the Latin Women’s Collective

ROSEMARY MEALY: Author of When Malcolm Met Fidel, former member of the Black Panther Party

CARLOS ROVIRA: Former member of the Young Lords Party

CLEO SILVERS: Community activist, former member of the Black Panther Party & the Young Lords Party

Friday, April 27th, 6:30pm
Rebel Diaz Arts Collective
478 Austin Place 2nd Floor

6 train to 149th St, 2,5 train to Jackson Ave, or BX17,19 bus to 149th and Prospect
$5 Donation Requested, no one turned away

Sponsored by Take Back the Bronx and ProLibertad
www.facebook.com/TakeBackTheBX
347-974-0029

www.prolibertadweb.com
718-601-4751

We will have a table of Free Literature at the event, hope to see you there!

On Friday April 27th Critical Mass will kick off the 5 day weekend! Invite your friends, lets help bring back the huge critical mass rides NYC used to have and help start the 5 day weekend right- building toward the general strike!

Starting at Union Square North, Washington Square Park, Tompkins Square Park, Madison Square Park (and several other locations, apparently). Come along for the ride!

Bring your bikes, your friends, everyone. Bike for the strike!

Facebook event page

Facebook event info

Where: Bluestockings, 172 Allen St, , NYC

Join us for Grub: a free and open community dinner held on the first and third (provided we have the space to hold it) Sundays of every month.

There will be plates for vegans and vegetarians alike. About 99% of the food we share is freegan, which means it is excess, ripe, nearly ripe or slightly damaged food that has been recovered from the waste of grocery stores.

Most importantly Grub is about building a stronger and more supportive community, so feel free to come early and hang out. We need help gathering, cooking and preparing food for Grub (culinary skill not necessarily required). Volunteers are welcome to bring vegetarian (freegan and vegan is preferred) food and make their own dishes or help out with the preparation in general. We plan to be able to serve approximately 50 people, so it’s first come first serve.

And as we’re sure you always already do, please go out of your way to talk to strangers and to welcome new people. That’s why we’re here.

Watch First the Dishes Then the Revolution  by Jeff Stark and get an idea about what Grub is.

Please come as early as 3:30pm if you would like to help us prepare the meal!
All are asked to make a contribution.

Grub is at 136 Lawrence St. between Fulton and Willoughby , Brooklyn, NY (map)

Also we are looking for other larger locations where we can host Grub. If you can help us with that please get in touch – inourhearts@gmail.com.
Thanks!

New York City, a center of anarchist life, culture, struggle, and ideas for 150 years, will host its 6th annual NYC Anarchist Book Fair, a one-day exposition of books, zines, pamphlets, art, film/video, and other cultural and very political productions of the anarchist scene worldwide, on April 14, 2012 at at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South in Manhattan.

Tabling is from 11am-8pm

Look for the In Our Hearts table at this event!

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