This week when we set up Ms. Gizmo in Brooklyn near Borough Hall we attracted the attention of a new group of voters. Montessori students from all over the country were visiting with their teachers, and several groups stopped to vote in the penny poll and discuss tax dollar allocation. (Click on the photos for … Continue reading Adults and Students Disagree on Allocation of Tax Dollars
Demonstration for Peace, April 9th
This is the Union Square scene and the people who heard Vinie Burroughs’ speech. (Click on the photos for larger images.) Our Philadelphia Granny Peace Brigade friends joined us. Here they are with Corinne listening to the speakers in Union Square. Resting away from the high volume of the speakers, I found two of many … Continue reading Demonstration for Peace, April 9th
Brooklyn Votes Against War Spending
Brooklynites began thinking about taxes when they saw our Penny Poll. Ms. Gizmo attracted a crowd, including small children, and everyone thought carefully about where they wanted their tax dollars to go. We provided twenty pennies to each voter and asked them to divide the pennies among eight tubes, representing categories in the Federal Budget. … Continue reading Brooklyn Votes Against War Spending
WE ARE ONE – April 9, 2011
WE ARE ONE, one with the people of Egypt, Yemen and Palestine. WE ARE ONE in opposing the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan. WE ARE ONE with the 5 million people of Libya who, in the first days of the humanitarian military action, were attacked by 161 Tomahawk Cruise missiles. Each cruise missile costing more … Continue reading WE ARE ONE – April 9, 2011
We Are One
We answered the call to support Union workers and gathered at Starbucks with the Raging Grannies and others. Across Broadway a large crowd had gathered, many with red signs -- Stand Up for Workers' Rights. Corinne got the organizers' permission to sing - and so we did -- Union Maids! We're sticking with the Union!! … Continue reading We Are One
Ms. Gizmo Goes to College
The GPB and CodePink went to Hunter College with Ms. Gizmo on V-Day and International Women's Day. We invited students and teachers to vote their tax preferences using a package of 20 pennies as their vote. We told them to imagine they were Congresspeople distributing 20 billion dollars among our eight categories. The results of … Continue reading Ms. Gizmo Goes to College
Parent Teacher Conference Night Action – March 17, 2011
The Pentagon budget for military recruitment is more than $4 billion/ year. You see the military outreach everywhere – movies, toys, ads, video gaming, clothing, recruitment career centers, and recruiters at high schools and around the neighborhood. To counter military recruiting, on Thursday, March 17th, 38 volunteers, with a very small budget but lots of … Continue reading Parent Teacher Conference Night Action – March 17, 2011
VINIE BURROWS ON THE 8TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVASION OF IRAQ
Recruiting Station Times Square New York City: Brothers and sisters we gather today in solemn observance of the 8th anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq. However in our grief let us empathize with the suffering of our sisters and brothers in Japan the earthquake and the tsunami which have devastated them. And we … Continue reading VINIE BURROWS ON THE 8TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE INVASION OF IRAQ
ALL SEATS FILLED AT THE US PREMIERE OF “STANDING ARMY” AT THE LEONARD NIMOY THALIA
February 27, 2011. You want to be here as the theater fills; you’re absorbed in the quiet as Vinie Burrows asks for moments of silence in memory of the anti-imperialism historian Chalmers Johnson. It is his testimony you’re about to hear in Enrico Parenti and Thomas Fazi’s film, STANDING ARMY. Vinie recalls the promise she … Continue reading ALL SEATS FILLED AT THE US PREMIERE OF “STANDING ARMY” AT THE LEONARD NIMOY THALIA
Close all U.S. Military Bases on Foreign Soil
In April 2007, three Granny Peace Brigade (GPB) members attended the 14th Congress, Women’s International Democratic Federation (WIDF) in Caracas. Venezuela. After hearing representatives‘ countless reports on status of women and children in their respective countries, it was clear that U.S. military installations were responsible for deplorable physical, social, cultural, economic , political, and environmental … Continue reading Close all U.S. Military Bases on Foreign Soil
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