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The Eighth Annual Brooklyn Peace Fair

April 28, 2012

Brooklyn For Peace held its eighth annual Brooklyn Peace Fair today at the Brooklyn College Student Center. Attended by hundreds of people from all over the borough and beyond, the Fair featured a wide variety of activities relating to this year's theme: Ending War, Promoting Peace.

There were tables from other peace and justice groups as well as tables from vendors promoting their wares. There were poetry and musical presentations. Committees belonging to the BFP conducted workshops on various topics. The children were entertained as well: a production of the Lorax was staged by the newly-formed Arts & Culture Committee and the actors were the kids themselves!

Keynote speakers were the noted investigative journalist and author, Jeremy Scahill and Captain Paul K. Chappell, veteran of the Iraq War, author and Peace Leadership Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. Both speeches were followed by a Q & A session and were attended by hundreds that filled the hall to capacity.

The Fair ended on wonderfully upbeat note with a parade from the campus out onto the busy shopping street of Flatbush Avenue. The parade was led by a Brooklyn For Peace banner followed by a loud and exuberant Haitian band, Raram of New York. Make sure you check the videos at the end of the album to get a sense of the excitement generated by this wonderful group of musicians.
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The BFP Darfur Committee along with International Courage Medal winner.
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The BFP Darfur Committee along with International Courage Medal winner.

  • The BFP Darfur Committee along with International Courage Medal winner.
  • The BFP Darfur Committee along with International Courage Medal winner.
  • Diane, of the UNICEF Committee, shows of her beautiful friend.
  • The good folks from the Brooklyn Fod Coalition at their table.
  • Peace buttons anyone?
  • Remember to support our vendors: take a progressive and restful vacation at World Fellowship.
  • Yes! Occupy Wall Street came to our Peace Fair.
  • Thank you Eleanor for everything you do! Staffing our merchandise table at the Peace Fair.
  • Signs state some Idea we can believe in. The Communist Party table.
  • The tables at the Peace Fair represented a wide variety of progressive groups, including this one from the Physicians for a National Health Program.
  • Veterans - they know about war ... that's why they're Veterans For Peace!
  • Another table demanding long-overdue justice
  • A poster advertizing BFPs Spring Blast on May 3rd.
  • BFP Vice-Chair, rusti Eisenberg, staffs the PEJ table while other PEJ members chat with her.
  • The UNICEF table was a popular stopping point.
  • BFP Chair, Charlotte Phillips, with guest speaker, Capt. Paul K. Chappell, West Point graduate and veteran of the Iraq War, author and Peace Leadership Director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
  • Peace Action Bay Ridge was there.
  • T-shirts anyone
  • BFP's new Cllimate Action Committee table. Gary talks to interested visitors.
  • Jackie helps a youngster pin a button on his shirt that he just made.
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