IMPORTANT EVENTS FOR THE WEEK OF March 10 March 16 Petition: Save NY Public Libraries from Developers Destruction http://signon.org/sign/save-new-york-city-libraries?source=c.em.

.mt&r_by=6817161 Petition: Move to Amend the Constitution, Money is not Speech at movetoamend.org

Go to strikedebt.org, Rolling Jubilee, help fellow citizens hounded by debt! One Million Moms for Gun Control @ http://onemillionmomsforguncontrol.org/
Sign the petition to ban weaponized drones at http://bit.ly/OGIQ3S ******************************************************************************************************* Victories!!! Gov. Cuomo delays fracking decision due to public pressure. Shell Oil announced it will not drill in the Arctic in 2013. President Obama signed 23 executive orders to further gun control. Strike Debt spent $5,000 for $100,000 of medical debt owed by 44 people in upstate NY. Albany County Legislature Approves Proclamation to Bring U.S. Troops Home from Afghanistan, Cut the Military Budget, and the Invest the Savings at Home Thailand's Prime Minister announced her country will end the trade of ivory in Thailand. *********************************************************************************************************** Ongoing petition for Darfur: brooklynforpeace.org Darfur Committee Act for Sudan ******************************************************************************************************* Sunday, March 10, 12-4 PM, Smiling Hogshead Farm, 26 Davis Ct, LI City Queens Volunteer at Urban Farm Sunday, March 10, 1-5 PM, Catholic Worker, 36 East 1st Street, NYC (212) 254-3697 x 27 Food Not Bombs, Cook vegetarian meals w/donated food to be served at Tompkins Sq Pk Sunday, March 10, 2-4 PM, Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square So., NYC Unorganized Workers Assembly Sunday, March 10, 2-5 PM, Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive, NYC The Greek Crisis and the Response of the Left-$10 brunch-meeting 3 PM Sunday, March 10, 2-5 PM, Columbia Intl Affairs Bldg., 420 W. 118th St., Rm 409 NYC Women in Cuba, Woman and Revolution Sunday, March 10, 3 PM, Columbia Intl Affairs Bldg., 420 W. 118th St., Rm 409 NYC Occupy Wall Street Alternative Banking Meeting Pre-

2 Sun, March 10, 3-5 PM, Silent Barn Studios, 11 Stanwix Street, Brooklyn 596 Acres, meeting on public lands Sun. March 10, 4-5:30 PM, Atrium 60 Wall Street, NYC Healthcare for the 99 percent meeting Sunday, March 10, 6:30-8:30 PM, 99 South 6th Street Brooklyn Fix your bike workshop Times Up ******************************************************************************************************* Mon. March 11, 11 AM-1:30 PM, TKTS Booth 47th & Broadway NYC Walk to UN Second Anniversary of Fukushima Disaster Protest nuclear power/radiation Mon. March 11, 5-7 PM, Inst Urban/Minority Educ, 2090 Adam Clayton Powell Blvd. NYC The Criminalization of Our Youth NYCoRE Inquiry to Action series Mon, March 11, 5-8 PM, Brooklyn Tech High School, 29 Fort Greene Pl. @DeKalb School Closings Protest Mon, March 11, 5:30-7:30 PM, Project Reach, 39 Eldridge Street, 4th floor NYC Stand Up, Fight Back Teaching Young Children to Take a Stand NYCoRE, Occupy DOE Monday, March 11, 6:30-8:30 PM, ABC No Rio, 156 Rivington Street, NYC Fix your bike workshop Times Up Monday, March 11, 7 PM, LGBT Community Center, 208 West 13th Street, NYC Sandra Schulman reads from her book Israel/Palestine and the Queer International Monday, March 11, 7:30-10 PM, The Atrium, 60 Wall Street, NYC Occupy Wall Street Movement Monday ****************************************************************************************************** Tues., March 12, 5-7 PM, Hudson High School, 351 West 18th Street, NYC What does mayoral control got to do with it? Inquiry to Action Workshop Tues., March 12, 5-7 PM, Google Offices, 111 8th Avenue, NYC @ 15th Street Leafleting against Cornell Technion Partnership (drones) Tues., March. 12, 6-8 PM, Museum of the American Indian, 1 Bowling Green, NYC Honoring Native Treaties Tuesday, March 12 6:30 PM, LaNacional, 239 West 14th Street (near 8th Avenue), NYC Sane Energy Project Panel on Electric Cars Suggested donation $7-$10 Tuesday, March 12 6:30-7 PM, The Atrium, 60 Wall Street, NYC Occupy Labor Outreach Committee Tuesday, March 12, 6:30-8:30 PM, 99 South 6th Street Brooklyn Fix your bike workshop Times Up Tuesday, March 12, 7:30, Barnard College James Room, NYC Columbia SJP Native American Council, Challenging Colonialism from US to Palestine

3 Tuesday, March 12 9-10:30 PM, The Atrium, 60 Wall Street, NYC Occupy Christine Quinn Discussion & Strategy Session ******************************************************************************************************* Wednes., Mar 13, 10 AM-12 PM, 777 UN Plaza, 11th Fl, register march13hrnny@gmail.com Fukushima Forum, Physicians for Social Responsibility, US, Human Rights Now, Japan Wednes., March 13, 10 AM-12 PM, Interfaith Seminary, 4 W. 43rd St., 2nd fl, Oak Rm NYC Open House, coffee, tour, speak with staff, attend class free Wednes., March. 13, 12-1 PM, Interfaith Seminary, 4 W. 43rd St., 1st fl, Green Rm NYC Women of Faith series for International Womens History Month Wednes., March.13, 4-5 PM, 3395 Crompond Rd., Yorktown Heights, NY Westchester Weekly Vigil to Close Indian Point Wednes., March 13, 5 PM-7 PM, LaCasa Azul Book Store, 143 East 103rd Street, NYC Listening to Marginal Voices: Exploring Queer Latino Identity Wednesday, March13, 5:30-6:30 PM Central Library, 41st St. & 5th Ave., NYC Women In Black Vigil for Peace Wednes, March 13, 6-8 PM, Manhattan High School, 317 West 52nd Street, NYC No Human Being is Illegal: Transforming New York City Schools Wednes, March 13, 6:30-8:30 PM, Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Tpke, Uniondale, LI Protest Ringling Brothers Circus Cruelty to Elephants Wednes., March 13, 6:30 PM, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 7420 4th Ave., Bay Ridge Book Study, The Politics of Jesus, by Rev. Obery Hendricks Wednesday, March 13, 6:30-8:30 PM, 99 South 6th Street Brooklyn Fix your bike workshop Times Up Wednes, March 13, 6:30-8:30 PM, Interfaith Seminary, 4 W. 43rd St., 2nd fl Green Rm NYC Interfaith yoga and meditation Wednes, March 13, 7 PM, College SI, Ctr for the Arts, 2800 Victory Blvd., Bldg 1P, Rm 116 Economist Doug Henwood Wednes, March 13, 7 PM, Goddard Riverside Community Ctr, 593 Columbus Ave., NYC Tim Judson of Alliance for a Green Economy New York Peace Action Manhattan Wednes., March 13, 8:30 PM, Hunter College, 68th St. & Lexington Ave. NYC (North bldg.) Hunter SJP - Attempts to silence Palestinian supporters on US college campuses ****************************************************************************************************** Thursday, March 14, 5-7 PM, contact bharris21@nyc.rr.com Parent-Teacher Conference leafleting, non-military options after high school Thursday, March 14, 6-8 PM, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave., NYC (bet 34th & 35th) Shalah Talebi, author Ghosts of Revolution, Transforming Through Storytelling

4 Thursday, March 14, 6-8 PM, Judson Memorial Church, 239 Thompson Street, NYC OWS Outreach Meeting OWS Outreach Working Group Thursday, March 14, 6:30 Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 7420 4th Ave., Bay Ridge Book Study, Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson Thurs, March 14, 6:30-8 PM*, Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Tpke, Uniondale, LI Protest Ringling Brothers Circus Cruelty to Elephants *+9:30-11 AM Thursday, March 14, 6:30-8:30 PM, 156 Rivington Street, NYC Fix your bike workshop Times Up Thursday, March 14, 7-9 PM, All Souls Church, 1157 Lexington Avenue, NYC KOCHBUSTING Ending the Spell Exposing the Koch brothers **************************************************************************************************** Friday, March 15, 12-6 PM, Marcy & Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn Bed-Stuy Free Street Occupy Wall Street Friday, March 15, 6:30-8 PM, Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Tpke, Uniondale, LI Protest Ringling Brothers Circus Cruelty to Elephants Friday, March 15, 6:30-9 PM, The Atrium, 60 Wall Street, NYC Comandante Ramona Community and Movement Coordination Assembly Friday, March 15, 7 PM, NYU Kimmel Ct., Rm 914, 60 Washington Square So., NYC Jared Malsin & Chris Hedges, Israels Deepening Apartheid **************************************************************************************************** Sat., March 16, 7 AM-7 PM, Park Slope Methodist, buses from 6th Ave. & 8th St., Brooklyn Bus tour of fracking sites in Pennsylvania Sat., March 16, 11:45 AM-3:15 PM, Prospect Park, Grand Army Plaza Wild Edibles Tour with Naturalist Wildman Steve Brill Sat., March 16, 1-4 PM, Hostos College, 149th & Grand Concourse, Bronx Occupy and Save Our Post Office Sat., March 16, 1-5 PM, Rockaways, RSVP to Janet at (347) 724-6954 for location Freegan Mending Brunch Sewing workshop, sewing machine available & freegan food Saturday, March 16, 3-5:30 PM, NW corner of Lafayette & Marcy Ave., Brooklyn Bed-Stuy Food Share, Long Island Food Not Bombs Sat., March 16, 6-8:30 PM, St. Marys Church, 521 West 126th Street, NYC Building solidarity across Black, Native American and Palestinian struggles Saturday, March 13, 6:30-8 PM*, Nassau Coliseum, 1255 Hempstead Tpke, Uniondale, LI Protest Ringling Brothers Circus Cruelty to Elephants *+10-11:30 AM; 2-3:30 PM Sat., March 16, 10 PM, Fontanas Bar, 105 Eldridge Street, Brooklyn Punk Rock Karaoke, Benefit for Organizing for Occupation *******************************************************************************************************

5 Sunday, March 17, 2-3:30 PM, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 7420 4th Ave., Bay Ridge Forum & Discussion on healing our Immigration system, Speaker: Dr. Alan A. Aja, Ph.D. Brooklyn College Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies *********************************************************************************************************** ATTACK ON WATER!!! Save our Water! Ban hydrofracking! Stop Governor Cuomo Now! Contact his website at www.governor.ny.gov/ By phone: (866) 584-6799 or (518) 474-8390 or Fax 202/434-7110 By mail: The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor. of New York State New York State State Capitol Building, Albany, NY 12224 Governor Cuomo wants to allow a ruthless corporation to POISON our water supply. A water filtration system as a result of this reckless destruction will cost New York State BILLIONS. Downstate Medical Center has laid off 400 with plans for hundreds more! Petition @ http://savejobsatsunydownstate.org/ Phone Governor Cuomo at 518-474-8390 ******************************************************************************************************* Occupy Sandy Volunteer Sites occupysandyvolunteers@gmail.com 347-770-4520 Ascension Church Parish Hall, 122 Java Street, Greenpoint (347) 770-4520 Every Day, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 7420 4th Avenue, Bay Ridge, Brooklyn Storage space for Occupy Sandy and help with Occupy Bike Share Daily 9 AM-3 PM St., John's Episcopal (Bay Ridge Kitchen), 461 99th St, Bay Ridge, Bklyn Daily, 10 AM- 5 PM, 3076 Emmons Ave. (@ Brown St) Sheepshead Bay 347-549-9708 Daily, 10 AM-3:30 PM, 5710 Beach Channel Dr., Rockaway, The Action Center Daily except Mon., 10 AM- 4 PM, 183 Beach 96th Street, Small Water Most Days, 9:30, Pilgrim Church, 74-16 Beach Channel Dr., Rockaways (mold remediation) Daily Red Hook, 12 PM, 360 Van Brunt Street, Brooklyn Monday-Friday, 11 AM-4 PM, 1128 Olympia, Staten Island 347-201-0670 Tues-Sun, 10 AM-5 PM, 112-34 Rockaway Beach Blvd., Rockaway Pk., YANA, Rockaways ******************************************************************************************************* Legal Advice & Clinics Urban Justice Legal Ctrs, Pubic Assistance, Rent, Food Stamps, Fair Hearings, Appeals* Thurs., March 14, 124 PM, 89-11 Lefferts Blvd., Queens Richmond Hill Legal Clinic* ******************************************************************************************************* Movies: Sunday, March 10, 11:15-3:15 PM, Community Church, NY Gallery Rm., 28 E. 35th NYC Resistance Cinemas American Autumn Sun., March 10, 1:30 PM, All Souls Unitarian Church, Lexington Ave. (bet 79th & 80th) NYC Nowhere Left to Go; The Jahalin Bedouin Sun., March 10, 3 PM, All Souls Unitarian Church, Lexington Ave. (bet 79th & 80th) NYC M.I.S. The Human Secret Weapon Sun., March 10, 5 PM, All Souls Unitarian Church, Lexington Ave. (bet 79th & 80th) NYC Souvenir Srebenica

6 Sun., March 10, 6 PM, The Film Forum, 209 West Houston Street, NYC The Gate Keepers (film about Israeli security) discussion after, tickets $8 Mon, March 11, 6-8 PM, Caf Amrita, 301 West 110th Street, NYC 180 Days Well Spent Parents & Teachers collaborate on education w/o high stakes tests Sun., March 10, 6:15 PM, All Souls Unitarian Church, Lexington Ave. (bet 79th & 80th) NYC The Transhumance of Peace; An Italian/Bosnian Mountain Road Mon. March 11, 7:15-9:45 PM, Anthology Film Archives, 32 2nd Avenue, NYC The Ultimate Wish, Ending the Nuclear Age Mon./Wednes. March 11, 9:15 PM indieScreen, 285 Kent Ave. @ So. 2nd Street, Brooklyn Chasing Ice, documentary on the worlds changing glaciers Tuesday, March 12 8:30-10:30 PM, AMC Loews Kips Bay 15, 570 2nd Avenue, NYC 3.11 Surviving Japan (Fukushima) Thursday, March 14, 6:30 PM, Brooklyn College Student Ct., E. 27th St. & Campus Rd Five Broken Cameras on silencing dissent ********************************************************************************************** Books: Behind the Beautiful Forevers Katherine Boo Drone Warfare, Killing by Remote Control Medea Benjamin Fuel on the Fire Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq Greg Muttitt Will War Ever End Captain Paul K. Chappell, U.S. Army Why Nations Fail Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson The Politics of Jesus Dr. Obery Hendricks ******************************************************************************************************* 2,177 US and 1081 Other NATO deaths In Afghanistan was killed Sgt. Jonathan Davis, 34, Kayenta, Arizona 178 Iraqi sisters and brothers were killed from Feb 10 to Feb 23. 245 Afghani and Pakistani sisters and brothers were killed. Since 2001 there have been 253,330 brain injuries, 1700 amputations, and 104,000 PTSD cases among US troops. Cf: www.icasualties.org Peace Action Bay Ridge Interfaith Peace Coalition P.O. Box 090-756, Brooklyn, NY 11209-0756 (646) 824-5506; peaceactionbayridge@yahoo.com