Let the incoming Trump administration know that we will continue to fight for human rights including an end to the genocide on Gaza!
Join NY-10 Neighbors, Code Pink, and many others!
RSVP here for info and meeting location with NY-10 Neighbors
RSVP here for info and meeting location with CodePink..
Email bfp@brooklynpeace.org if you're planning to be there so we can look for you!

Join NY-10 Neighbors every Friday in January, 10:00--11:00 am
Corner of 36th St and 3rd Ave, Sunset Park

Dan Goldman has continually voted for weapons sales to Israel which are illegal according to both U.S. law and international law. Just this past week, he joined with Republicans to vote yes on HR 23, to impose sanctions on the International Criminal Court, again demonstrating his unwillingness to hold Israel to the same standard of behavior as is demanded of other nations.

Held over through January 25!! Film screening of “From Ground Zero,” an Oscar-nominated compilation of films from Palestinian film-makers in Gaza. Quad Cinema, 34 W. 13th St., NY. See the schedule for special sessions with guest appearances following selected screenings.

Sat. Jan 18, 12pm: Permanent Ceasefire Now Vigil at 5th Ave. and 44th St., Sunset Park. Sunset Park Elders. Also on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at the same location.

Sat. Jan. 18, 2pm: Flood NYC for Gaza! Protest against complicity in genocide, and Biden who fueled it until his final day in office. In front of NY Times Headquarters, 242 W. 41st St. NYC, between 7th & 8th Ave. Sponsor: Within Our LIfetime.

Sun. Jan. 19, 4-5pm: Israelis for Peace/NYC Vigil at Union Square (South steps) Israeli anti-occupation activists, call for ceasefire and full hostage deal. All welcome, but please do not bring signs or flags.

Mon. Jan. 20, 1pm: “Inauguration Day Protest/NY-10 Neighbors Stands Against Genocide" with The People's Forum, and Code Pink.  Rally in Washington Square Park.
RSVP for more info and specific meeting location.

Mon. Jan 20, 2-3pm: Martin Luther King Jr. Day Vigil, Bay Ridge Peace Action
Location: 86th Street & 4th Ave., Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, near subway elevator. If there is rain or snow we will be down in the subway station on the side with the elevator
For more information, contact peaceactionbayridge@yahoo.com. 

Wed. Jan. 22, 11am: Celebration of the 4th anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Starting at the main branch of the NY Public Library (41st Street and Fifth Avenue) at 11 AM. Processing to the Isaiah Wall (43rd Street and First Avenue), arriving at noon (for those who can’t do the walk, meet here at noon). Vigil in front of the U.S. Mission to the UN at 12:30 PM (45th Street and 1st Avenue, just a few blocks north of the Isaiah Wall).
Hosted by: Peace Action New York State, Manhattan Project for a Nuclear Free Word, Pax Christi New York State, and NYC War Resisters League.

Wed. Jan. 22, 7-8:30pm: Webinar: Resisting Nuclear Annihilation: Dangers and Actions (Zoom).
Speakers: David Cortright, Diane Swords, Larry Wittner, and Rishi Gurudemvan. 
Register here.
Presented by Back from the Brink, Nuclear Free World Committee of the Syracuse Peace Council, Peace Action of New York State, Students for Nuclear Disarmament, and Upper Hudson Peace Action

Thurs. Jan 23, 5-6pm: Women in Black Vigil at Union Square, on the traffic island on 14th St between Broadway and 4th Avenue. For over 20 years, Women in Black Union Square has been part of the international movement of Women in Black (started by Jewish and Palestinian women in Israel in 1988). See more info at www.womeninblack,org

Fri. Jan 24, 10am: Picket by NY-10 Neighbors outside Rep. Dan Goldman’s Office.
36th St & 3rd Ave, Sunset Park

Sat. Jan. 25, 2:00-5:30 pm: Reducing the Nation's Spending on Nuclear Weapons (Online)
See full program and speakers
Register here
Sponsor: Massachusetts Peace Action

For daily updates of NYC area actions for Gaza, send an email to joecatron@gmail.com and ask to be added to an extensive list of NYC-area actions to stop Israel's Genocide.

A Deal Too Late: Israel Agrees to the Deal It Rejected Months Ago. Thousands died.
In The Intercept, Johan Valdez reminds readers that Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire deal on almost the same terms as a deal that fell apart last summer, a failure that meant thousands of deaths.

We Have a Ceasefire Deal, but This Isn’t the End
In The Nation, Mohammad Alsaafin argues that The widely reported agreement must hold, but we haven’t begun to understand the full scope of the horrors Israel wrought. And Palestine is still not free.

Lancet Study Finds Official Gaza Death Toll Likely a 41% Undercount
Common Dreams writer Jake Johnson reports on a peer-reviewed analysis estimating that Israel's assault on Gaza killed 64,260 people between October 7, 2023 and June 30, 2024—much higher than the one reported previously.

From Gaza to California: the flames that connect us all
On Mondoweiss, Ahmad Ibsais argues that fires burning in Palestine and Los Angeles today are symptoms of the same disease: a system that values conquest over conservation, profit over people, and expansion over existence.

When Israeli Warplanes Rain Death on Gaza, the Copilot Is Uncle Sam
Scheerpost republishes Stan Cox’s indictment of the US for providing $18 billion in arms and funding to Israel since October 7, enabling the deaths of at least 56,000 individuals.

UN Experts Urge US Senate to Reject ICC Sanctions Bill Passed by House
On CommonDreams, Brett Wilkins reports on a group of UN human rights experts that is urging the U.S. Senate to block a bill that seeks to punish the International Criminal Court (ICC), stating that "It is shocking to see a country that considers itself a champion of the rule of law trying to stymie the actions of an independent and impartial tribunal set up by the international community, to thwart accountability."

Trump may get Russia and Ukraine to the table. Then what?
On Responsible Statecraft, George Beebe argues that American statesmanship has been largely dormant since the Cold War. The new White House must be serious about reviving it.

Who Pays For Zelensky's Gas Cut-Off Gamble?
Also on Responsible Statecraft, Mike Fredenberg analyzes Ukraine President Zelensky’s decision not to renew a five-year contract allowing Russian gas to flow through Ukraine by pipeline to Europe, greatly reducing Europe’s energy security, and badly damaging its economy.

Senior U.S. Diplomats, Journalists, Academics and Secretaries of Defense Say: the U.S. Provoked Russia in Ukraine
In The Ukraine Papers, Donald A. Smith, PhD shares a wide list of sources all arguing that over a decade the US provoked the Russian war with Ukraine.

The Budapest Memo holds keys to ending the Ukraine war
On Responsible Statecraft, Zachary Paikan and Mark Episkopos use the 1994 Budapest Memo to illustrate the complexities of fashioning a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.

Close Guantánamo 
On their Democracy Now blog, Amy Goodman and Dennis Moynihan make a compelling case for Biden closing Guantanamo in his final days in office.

Democrats have boxed themselves in as a war party
On The Hill, Norman Solomon reviews how the war policies of the Democratic Party are alienating many voters.

American Enterprise Institute (AEI) Would Print Money For The Pentagon If It Could 
On Responsible Statecraft, William Hartung argues that the DC think tank, the American Enterprise Institute, will find any reason to boost the DOD's already out of control budget, with Russia its current excuse.