Granny Peace Brigade

How to get involved? READ OUR BLOG for ideas and let us know what you are doing!

News Flash:

The Granny Jukebox is up on YouTube. This channel is dedicated to songs of protest, dissent and peace, written and performed by grannies -- raging, and otherwise.
Listen:
www.youtube.com/user/grannyjukebox
And sing along: download "No War Toys" 2009 Holiday Song Sheet

Granny Bookshelf:
Joan Wile, Granny Peace Brigade member has chronicled the story of the Brigade's beginnings with wit and wisdom in her book, "GRANDMOTHERS AGAINST THE WAR: Getting Off Our Fannies and Standing Up for Peace" (Citadel Press, May 2008).Wile at Amazon

Lillian Pollak, 93 year old activist extraordinaire, has released THE SWEETEST DREAM: Love, Lies & Assassination (iUniverse, 2008), her first novel, set in the 1930s. Pollak at Amazon

Grandmothers Against the War has collected the poems, letters and musing of an international group of senior peace activists and published them in "Love, Grandma: Activists Write." www.lulu.com/content/1325537

To get your own
"We Will Not Be Silent" T-shirt visit
www.thecriticalvoice.org.

Join Us: We welcome all ages, women and men. Email us or make a donation on our Donate Tax Free page.

Saturday, February 13 -5:15PM: The Toy Industry Association will reveal 2010 toy picks at their 10th annual "Toy of the Year Awards." Hasbro, maker of the G.I. Joe is nominated in two categories. Join us to greet attendees and tell them to RETIRE G.I. JOE - ALL WAR TOYS MUST GO! Chelsea Piers West side of 11th Ave at 20th St. We'll have banners, songs, flyers. Bring your very welcome self and take a stand for Smart Toys not War Toys.
Thursday, February 18: MILITARY BASES AND THE VIOLENCE ASSOCIATED WITH THEM - The GPB will address this issue at the V-DAY 2010 HEALTH FAIR at Hunter College. Stop by our table - noon to 3:00PM and continue on to other tables, music, drumming, open mic poetry, food, video presentation, & exhibit against gender-based violence until 5:30PM. Open to the public & free. Hunter West, 68th St & Lex, 3rd fl download flyer
Sunday, March 28 - 1:PM Forum on The U.S. & ABOLITION of NUCLEAR WEAPONS The African Union signed the Pelindaba Treaty designating their countries as a Nuclear Weapon Free Zone. The U.S. signed the Treaty’s protocols in 1996 but did not ratify them. The Riverside Church - Assembly Hall, 120th St & Claremont Ave, NYC. download flyer
No More War Toys, No More War The Granny Peace Brigade is spreading the word: What better gift can we give our children and grandchildren than a world at peace?
Join our Smart Toys Campaign. More info
Download "Smart Toys" flyer for street actions.
Download "No War Toys" 2009 Holiday Song Sheet
(Special thanks to the NYC Metro Raging Grannies.)
Children need smart toys, not war, toys. The Granny Peace Brigade takes this message to Target in Brooklyn for a grass-roots, granny-powered consumer education project. A U.S. Army veteran with a 4-year-old son tells of his concern that he will be unable to counteract the messages of war directed at his son by movies, television and our government.)

Start a re-truthment campaign at a military recruitment center near you.
Hold your own Phone-A-Thon (recipe)
Work on counter recruitment with us or with a group near you.
Join our legislative campaign. Call your Senators and your Representative. Send them peace-mail messages regularly.
Keep us informed about what you are doing.

There is work to do. Join us -- in peace always.