United For Peace and Justice Records
circa 1980-2009, inclusive
; 2002-2009, bulk
United for Peace and Justice (Organization) (Role: Donor)
Kielson, Leslie R. (Role: Donor)
The collection contains the records of United for Peace and Justice, as well as some records of its New York City Chapter, including subject/activities files and administrative materials related to rallies, demonstrations, and campaigns sponsored by the organization, the majority of which were in opposition to U.S. wars in the Middle East, or in opposition to nuclear weapons. Materials included are minutes, agendas, National Assembly meeting packets, clippings, fliers, leaflets, other printed ephemera, and reports, including proposals for future campaigns. In addition, there are photographs and artifacts that include picket signs, political buttons, posters, banners, and t-shirts. Audio materials comprise one box of audiocassetttes, containing talks on various topics, several Herbert Aptheker study series tapes, recordings of Pacifica National/WBAI programs, "Paint the Town Red" Communist Party songs, a Jewish Affairs dinner, and unlabeled tapes. Materials also include one videocassette, "The Bomb in Boston Teach-In," June 25, 1983.
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Records, 2002-2005, inclusive
1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contains files on rallies hosted by UFPJ, including the "Turn Your Back on Bush" anti-war rally and march on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2005 and "Abolition Now! No Nukes! No War!" rally on May 1, 2005, notes from its 2004 planning conference, a clippings file on Central Park events, and other activities. The files include minutes, memos, contact and phone lists, fliers, press releases, and brochures and postcards.
Records, 2005-2008, inclusive
2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contains the files from events paraticipated in and/or hosted by UFPJ including its 2nd National Assembly in 2005, the Peace and Justice Festival in Washington DC, September 24-26, 2005, the Foley Square Festival on April 29, 2006, March on Washington in January of 2007, the US Social Forum in 2007, the No More Foreign Bases campaign in 2007, March 20, 2008 rally marking the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War, the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Conference in April 2008, protests planned around the 2008 Republican National Convention, and the Cleveland Conference National Assembly to End the Iraq War and Occupation, June 2008. The files contain minutes, ballots for steering committee elections, budgets, event evaluations, fliers, memos, leaflets, logistics, press releases, proposals for campaigns to be undertaken, and and other documents.
Records, 2003-2009, inclusive
3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contains files on events participated in or organized by the UFPJ, including the protest at the Republican National Convention in 2004, the March 19th, 2005 anti-war rally on the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, the No Nukes! No Wars! protest with Abolition Now in 2005, an antiwar March on Washington on September 24, 2005, and the Iraqi Labor speaking Tour in 2005. The box contains planning material for these events, including agendas, fliers, internal correspondence, logistics, press kits, sign-in sheets, and program notes. This box also steering committee meeting minutes and National Assembly meetings packets.
Records, 2003-2009, inclusive
4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contains files from the First National Assembly in 2003 and the Second National Assembly in 2005. The files include registration and participant lists, nomination forms for the steering committee, recommendations for travel scholarships, steering committee local/regional ballots, proposals for future campaigns, packets, member group lists, participant feedback forms, stategic framework, memos, and budgets. This box also contains some materials from the fourth National Assembly in 2009, including packets. Other files included are on campaign planning, clippings on demonstrations, and an action plan for the UFPJ. The box also contains event notices from many different UFPJ sponsored events, including fliers and circulars. The box also holds some articles and the UFPJ's leaflets on demonstrations or campaigns that UFPJ supported.
Records, 2003-2009, inclusive
5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contains files from events and campaigns participated in and/or hosted by the UFPJ including a silent vigil on September 11, 2003, Stop the War program on February 15, 2003, Occupation Watch Center in Baghdad funding in 2003, the National Campaign for non-violent resisting in 2004, the Counter Recruitment campaign in 2004, Operation Ceasefire support concert in 2005, the Witness against Torture Campaign (Shut Down Gitmo campaign) in 2006, NYC Peace Zone Campaign in 2006, Million Doors for Peace campaign in 2008, and their Third National Assembly in 2007 and their Fourth National Assembly in 2009. The files contain agendas, amendments to proposals for upcoming campaigns, breakout group notes, participant evaluations, floor plans, follow-up notes, memos, minutes, circulars, participant packet, planning materials, ranking of priorities ballots, steering committee nominations and ballots, venue payments, and other records. Other records included are legal materials from the New York Civil Liberties Union lawsuit against NYPD practices in anticipation of the Republican National Convention in 2004, FOIA papers from the FBI, clippings about the FBI admitting to monitoring groups including UFPJ from 2004-2006, an open letter of complaint by some member organizations to UFPJ in 2005, NYC UFPJ branch records, including, minutes, reports, Iraq War fact sheets, and fliers. National UFPJ materials include agendas, budgets, minutes, notes, news, participant lists, planning, and proposals from steering committee meetings, from July 2003 to January 2009.
Records, 2003-2009, inclusive
6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Contains files of the UFPJ steering committee meetings from July 2006 to January 2009, including minutes and reports, fundraising and planning materials. Also contains files from events, campaigns, and rallies hosted by the UFPJ, including the June 23, 2003 anti-George W. Bush demonstration, the October 25, 2003 anti-occupation rally, the anti-war rally on March 20, 2004, Democratic National Convention rallies in 2004 in Boston, rallies during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in 2004 in New York City, the Defend the Right to Free Assembly campaign and the conflict with Parks Department for permits to protest in 2004, the Turn Up the Heat Action Plan in 2004, the June 4, 2005 Northeast Peace and Justice Action Conference at Sage College in Albany, and the March on Wasington in September 2005. These records include leaflets, logistics, planning materials, phonebanking instructions, permits, posters, press notices, sales plans, use authorizations, and other material related to the events and campaigns.
Records, 1983-1996, inclusive
7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
This box contains one video tape, "The Bomb in Boston Teach-In," June 25, 1983 and audio cassettes on black feminism, several Herbert Aptheker study series tapes, Pacifica National/WBAI program tapes, Paint the Town Red Communist party songs, Witnesses to the Holocaust audiocassette, a Jewish Affairs dinner, and unlabeled tapes.
Photographs, t-shirts, sweatshirt, political buttons, cloth banners, bumper sticker, framed certificate of appreciation, circa 2002-2009, inclusive
8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Picket signs, posters, and mounted front pages of newspapers, circa 2002-2009, inclusive
9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Banner (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Plastic banners, Circa 2003, inclusive
10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Plastic banners, Circa 2003, inclusive
11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Plastic banners, Circa 2003, inclusive
12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Plastic banners, Circa 2003, inclusive
13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Plastic banners - extra oversized, Circa 2003, inclusive
14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Oversized picket signs, posters, and "assembly collage" (possibly an exhibit created for display at a conference), Circa 2002-2009, inclusive
2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Archived Website, Oct 1, 2007-ongoing
United for Peace and Justice, founded in 2002, is a coalition of more than 1400 local and national groups that organizes opposition to U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, against nuclear weapons, and for economic and social justice. The website contains action alerts, news listings, event listings, and other resources.