PEACE WEEK Events

1/15 – 1/22/10
Date Time Event/Location Description Contact
Person
Friday 8 am – Press Conference/ Breakfast Press Conference to kick-off LIFE
1/15/10 10am Occasions Banquet Hall Peace Week. Issuing of 718 978-0089
127 – 08 Merrick Boulevard Proclamations from Mayor and
Springfield Gardens, NY 11434 other elected officials
Tel 718 977 1861/2 recognizing Peace Week.

Breakfast
Friday 6 pm – Queens Peace Keepers Initial meeting to organize local LIFE
1/15/10 9 pm Town Hall Meeting men to become peace keepers 718 978-0089
St Albans Congregational Church within their communities.
Family Life Center
172-17 Linden Blvd
At. Albans, Queens 11434
Tel 718 657 8282
Saturd 9 am – National Action Network Youth Peace Rev. Al Sharpton hosts a youth NAN
ay 12 Rally Peace Rally. 212 690-3070
1/16/10 noon 106 W 145th Street, Harlem, NY 10039
212 690 3070
Saturd 10 am Brooklyn Call 4 Peace Keepers Initial meeting to begin Man Up
ay – 1 pm Meeting organizing local men to become 718 498-2320
1/16/10 St Paul’s Church peace keepers within their
Brooklyn, New York communities
Saturd 2pm Real Men Read Local men read to children to Shell
ay stress the importance of Lambert
1/16/10 Queens Library reading and to reinforce it is a 917 807-1125
positive attribute.
Saturd 2pm Stepping for Peace- Youth Step Citywide Brock Harris
ay Christopher Columbus HS Bronx, N Championship Show 917 939-6503
1/16/10 Y
Date Time Event/Location Description Contact
Person
Sunday 8 pm – Teen Peace Party Teen Party to provide safe LIFE
1/17/10 1 am Amazura environment to recruit young 718 978-0089
91-12 144th Place adults 14-18 years of age to join
Jamaica, NY the Peace movement within their
communities
Monday 8am- Martin Luther King Jr – Annual Event brings elected Tamika
1/18/10 12noo Summit on Violence officials from throughout city Mallory
n National Action Network together to remember MLKing 212 690-3070
Headquarters 106 W 145th St,
NYC
Monday 12 Teen Summit Teens come together from around April Leong
1/18/10 noon Diploma High School city to discuss violence 646 761-3491
Coney Island NY
Tuesday 7– Bowling for Peace Celebrity bowling tournament Dana
1/19/10 10 pm Harlem Lanes to recruit individuals to work Santiago
2116 Adam Clayton Powell with and support our efforts to 212 253-3750
Blvd reduce violence within our
(126th Street) communities
New York, New York
212 678 2695
Wednesd I Love My Life Tour – Peace Members of LIFE Camp present LIFE
ay Edition a program of alternatives to 718 978-0089
1/20/10 William Maxwell HS violence
East New York Brooklyn
Thursday All day Recording Bury Da Beef A variety of artists will join LIFE
1/21/10 Compilation Song together to create a Bury Da 718 978-0089
Queens, New York Beef Song for Peace
Friday 7– SUV/Truck Clubs will form a Man Up
1/22/10 10 pm caravan and drive through 718 498-2320
Man-up Ride For Peace Neighborhoods in East New
York - Brooklyn. The purpose is
to bring attention on the need
to bring and end to violence
within our communities.