Time is running out to buy your ticket to Peace Action Fund of New York State’s 60th Anniversary Gala, where we will be honoring Harry Belefonte with our Life-time Achievement Award. Standing Rock hero LaDonna Brave Bull Allard will be our William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Peacemaker Award recipient. Our emcee will be Medea Benjamin of CODEPINK and our keynote speaker will be Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream!
And, we are proud to announce Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA13) will be joining us as well! Barbara Lee is a long-time advocate for peace and justice–and a long-time ally of Peace Action. She was the sole dissenting vote against the 2001 Authorization of Military Force, and has been working tirelessly to get this blank check for war repealed ever since. Barbara Lee wrote the foreward of Peace Action: Past Present and Future, a book of Peace Action’s history. In her foreward, she wrote:
What impressed me about the organization [Peace Action] then, as today, was that it was able to harness the people’s spirit and idealism and the incredible disgust with certain U.S. policies–whether with the war in Vietnam, nuclear proliferation, arms sales, Pentagon pork, or the war in Iraq–and channel it, not simply into acts of protest, but into effect action geared toward changing the way our works by involving people in the process.
This is an event you won’t want to miss- buy your tickets today!
The gala dinner will be held on Friday, October 13, 2017 at the historic Riverside Church, 490 Riverside Drive in Manhattan from 6 – 9PM. Join us for a night of inspiration and music to celebrate Peace Action’s 60th anniversary
Click here to buy tickets ($125)
We look forward to celebrating 60 years of peace activism with you and hope to see you there. |
