FRIDAY, MARCH 18
12 p.m.
GREAT LITANY AT ISAIAH WALL outside the United Nations (43rd Street and First Avenue). Chant the "Great Litany" a prayer for times of emergency with Rev. Earl Kooperkamp and members of Street Mary's Episcopal Church of Manhattanville. 212.864.4013.
6:30 p.m
CHELSEA CANDLELIGHT VIGIL NW corner of 8th Ave and 24th Street Sponsored by Chelsea Neighbors United To End The War. Members of the Chelsea community will walk through the local streets carrying candles, flashlights, bells and playing acoustic instruments as a reminder to all that this is the second year of war in Iraq. 212.726.1385.
6:30-9:30 p.m.
SEND-OFF RALLY for Buses to Fayetteville, North Carolina—Union Square. Sponsored by United for Peace and Justice NY with speakers from Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out, and music from the Clearwater Revival Chorus and Quasilulu, an Asian women's rock band.
7 p.m. to midnight
HIP-HOP CONCERT TO BENEFIT TROOPS OUT NOW COALITION. Oberia Dempsey Center, 127 W. 127th Street between 7th Avenue and Lenox Avenue. Featuring Nana Soul, Head Roc, Afi, Komplex, Tylibah, Bomani, Verses, Hicoup and Hasaan, Movement in Motion. $10 suggested donation—all welcome! 212.633.6646 or e-mail spiritsingsllc@yahoo.com.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19
10:00 a.m.
TROOPS OUT NOW MARCH Gather at Marcus Garvey Park, 124th Street and Fifth Avenue. March past the 125th Street Armed Forces Recruiting Station then south to Central Park’s East Meadow, near 97th Street and Fifth Avenue. Rally from noon to 3 p.m., when there will be a second march to Mayor Bloomberg's townhouse at 79th Street and 97th Street and 5th Avenu to demand "Fund Our Cities—Not War!"
10:30 a.m.
NON-VIOLENT CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE at Military Recruitment
Centers. Sponsored by War Resisters League. To volunteer to carry a coffin or take part in the CD, e-mail nycwrl@att.net or call 718.768.7306.
Manhattan: Gather at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza (47 Street between First & Second Aves.) at 10:30 a.m. and march with with coffins to Times Square recruiting station, 43rd Street & Broadway, for CD and leafletting at noon.
Brooklyn: Gather at Brooklyn Public Library (Flatbush Avenue near Grand Army Plaza) and Brooklyn Borough Hall for 10:45 a.m. rally. At 11:30 am. two solemn processions with coffins will begin—one along Flatbush Avenue from the library and the other through the Fulton Mall from Borough Hall. 12 noon—Leafletting and civil disobedience at the military recruiting offices, 41 Flatbush Avenue near Lafayette Avenue.
Bronx: 11:00 a.m. vigil at the recruiting center, Fordham Road and Grand Concourse.
10:30 a.m.
MARCH TO BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW Brooklyn Promenade at Montague Street. Sponsored by Brooklyn Parents for Peace. March through Fulton Mall to reach the military recruiting station at Flatbush Avenue and Schermerhorm Street at 12:00 noon, where we'll read the names of those killed in this war, both Iraqis and Americans.
4-7 p.m.
PRAY FOR PEACE: BRING THE TROOPS HOME. Bay Street and
School Road, Staten Island. Sponsored by Peace Action Staten Island. Join in mourning the loss of over 1500 American troops and thousands of Iraqi citizens. Signs will be visible to travelers of the Verrazano Bridge. E-mail sjones1@si.rr.com.
SUNDAY, MARCH 20
4:00-6:00 p.m.
WHEN WE ALL GET TOGETHER An interfaith service of
Remembrance, Resistance, and Reverence, Riverside Church, 120th Street and
Riverside Drive. Sponsored by Clergy and Laity Concerned about Iraq. Jim Wallis, (author of God's Politics), Susannah Heschel, (Chair, Jewish Studies at Dartmouth University), Rev. T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki, (Resident Minster, New York Buddhist Church) and Rev. James Forbes, (Senior Minister, Riverside Church) will raise a moral critique of the war and U.S. foreign policy. The program will feature representatives of Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans against the War, and the YaYa Network, a youth organization working on counter-recruitment.
Recent Articles
More by Sarah Ferguson
'Hacktivists' Try to Short-Circuit the Spooks Kick-starting a new literary scene on the lower east side The Mysterious Death of Armando Perez An unsentimental journey through Yuri Kapralov's Lower East Side Buyer of Loisaida Community Center still a mystery
Village Voice Insiders
- Weekly villagevoice.com
- Weekly freebies and Special Offers
- Daily "What To Do in NYC" E-mail
- Information on the Performing Arts
- New York Bites - Restaurants Newsletter
|
