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United For Peace and Justice Records

Call Number

TAM.513

Dates

1981-2009, inclusive
; 2002-2009, bulk

Creator

United for Peace and Justice (Organization) (Role: Donor)
Kielson, Leslie R. (Role: Donor)

Extent

17.43 Linear Feet
in 22 manuscript boxes, 6 oversize flat boxes, 1 cassette box, 1 oversize custom box, and 2 flat-file folders

Extent

1 Hi8

Extent

20 audiocassettes

Extent

4 MiniDV

Extent

9 VHS

Extent

1 U-matic

Language of Materials

Materials are in English

Abstract

The United for Peace and Justice (UFPJ) is an anti-war coalition organization that organizes opposition to U.S. military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan, against nuclear weapons, and for economic and social justice. The collection contains minutes and other materials from steering committee and national assembly meetings, internal documents related to the planning of demonstrations and other activities, and publicity materials for these activities. In addition to the printed material, there are photographs and artifacts including picket signs, political buttons, posters, banners, t-shirts. This collection also contains digital computer files as well as audio and video recordings.

Historical Note

United For Peace and Justice (UFPJ) was founded in 2002 in Washington DC, and began as a national campaign to bring together a broad range of organizations throughout the United States to help coordinate work against a U.S. war on Iraq. Its first major rally took place on February 15, 2003, global day of protest, called The World Says No to War. UFPJ helped coordinate and publicize more than 790 demonstrations worldwide. Two days after the bombing of Iraq began, on March 22, 2003, UFPJ mobilized more than 300,000 people for a protest march down Broadway in New York City, which in successive years would be a major protest day for the UFPJ. Its first National Assembly took place in June of 2003, coordinating actions against President George W. Bush's war policies and solidifying UFPJ's organizational structure. The Assembly met again in 2005, 2007, and 2009, organizing its anti-war and other campaigns.

Arrangement

This collection has not been arranged by an archivist, other than some preliminary moving of photographs, banners, and picket signs into containers separate from paper text records.

Scope and Contents

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.

Conditions Governing Access

Materials are open without restrictions.

Conditions Governing Use

Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) United for Peace and Justice were transferred to New York University in 2009 by Leslie R. Kielson. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Please contact NYU Special Collections, special.collections@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596.

Preferred Citation

Identification of item, date; United for Peace and Justice Records; TAM 513; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

Location of Materials

Materials are stored offsite and advance notice is required for use. Please request materials at least two business days prior to your research visit to coordinate access.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Leslie R. Kielson on behalf of United for Peace and Justice in 2009. The accession number associated with this collection is 2009.062.

Custodial History

The archived website was migrated from the California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service to the Internet Archive's Archive-It Service in November 2015. The link to California Digital Library was removed in October 2017.

Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements

Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.

Audiovisual Access Policies and Procedures

Audiovisual materials have not been preserved and may not be available to researchers. Materials not yet digitized will need to have access copies made before they can be used. To request an access copy, or if you are unsure if an item has been digitized, please contact NYU Special Collections (special.collections@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596) with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.

Born-Digital Access Policies and Procedures

Advance notice is required for the use of computer records. Original physical digital media is restricted. Born-digital materials have not been transferred and may not be available to researchers. Researchers may request access copies. To request that material be transferred, or if you are unsure if material has been transferred, please contact NYU Special Collections (special.collections@nyu.edu, 212-998-2596) with the collection name, collection number, and a description of the item(s) requested. A staff member will respond to you with further information.

About this Guide

This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2026-05-07 13:49:35 UTC.
Using Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language: Description is written in: English, Latin script.

Processing Information

Mixed nonprint materials from this collection initially separated were reincorporated in April 2013. In 2014, the archived website was added as a series.

In May 2026, files stored in record cartons were rehoused into manuscript boxes and their descriptions in the inventory were updated. The audiovisual material was labeled and titles listed individually in the collection inventory. Born-digital material was numbered, labeled, and stored in appropriate housing.

Revisions to this Guide

May 2026: Rehoused boxes, labeled a/v and born-digital carriers, and updated notes to ACM standards by Stacey Flatt

Repository

Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives

View Inventory

Records, 1982-2005, inclusive

Box: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

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. There are press clipping files on Central Park events and other activities as well. The files contain UFPJ general office material including phone lists, memos, evaluations, press contact directory, promotional material, floorplan sketches and plans, organizational documents, and strategic framework and conference workshop notes and outlines. There are also UFPJ's 2007 3rd National Assembly Steering Committee voting cards and ballots.

Records, 2003-2008, inclusive

Box: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Contains the planning files from events participated in and/or hosted by UFPJ including: The World Says No to War (February 2003); March 20, 2004 New York City Rally; UFPJ's 2nd National Assembly (June 2005); Peace and Justice Festival in Washington DC (September 24-26, 2005); Foley Square Festival (April 29, 2006); Lobby Day and Training (May 2006); "Where's the Rage?" Project (August 2006); Rally and March (September 2006); Iraq Coordinating Committee Strategy Retreat (December 2006); March on Washington (January 2007); No More Foreign Bases Conference/Campaign (March 2007); US Social Forum (June 2007); DC Demonstration-Palestine (June 2007); 3rd Assembly (June 2007); Cities For Peace (July 2007); Assorted Regional Demonstrations (October 2007); March 20, 2008 rally marking the 5th anniversary of the Iraq War; Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space Conference (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). Files contain program planning, minutes, budgets, event evaluations, fliers, memos, leaflets, logistics, press releases, Assembly registrations, and proposals for campaigns to be undertaken.

Records, 2003-2007, inclusive

Box: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

Contains files on events participated in or organized by the UFPJ, including the protest at the Republican National Convention (2004); March 20 Rally (2004); March 19th, 2005 anti-war rally on the anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War; No Nukes! No Wars! protest with Abolition Now (2005); an antiwar March on Washington on September 24, 2005; and the Iraqi Labor speaking Tour (2005).

The box contains planning material for these events, including agendas, fliers, internal correspondence, logistics, press kits, sign-in sheets, program notes, and organizational documents. This box also steering committee meeting minutes and 2nd and 3rd Annual Assembly Conference meetings packets.

Records, 2003-2009, inclusive

Box: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

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. Also, this contains materials from the fourth National Assembly in 2009, including packets.

Other files included are campaign planning, press clippings on demonstrations, and an action plan for the UFPJ. Files also contain a large number of event notices from many different UFPJ sponsored events including fliers, postcards, stickers, and circulars, as well as articles and UFPJ's leaflets on demonstrations or campaigns that UFPJ supported.

Records, 2003-2009, inclusive

Box: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

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.

These 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

Box: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Box: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

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 anti-George W. Bush demonstration (June 23, 2003); anti-occupation rally (October 25, 2003); anti-war rally (March 20, 2004); Democratic National Convention rallies in Boston (2004); rallies during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in New York City (2004); Defend the Right to Free Assembly campaign and the conflict with Parks Department for permits to protest (2004); Turn Up the Heat Action Plan (2004); Northeast Peace and Justice Action Conference at Sage College (June 4, 2005); and March on Wasington (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.

Photographs, t-shirts, sweatshirt, buttons, banners, bumper sticker, and framed certificate

Box: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Picket Signs, Posters, and Mounted Newspaper Front Pages, circa 2002-2009, inclusive

Box: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
roll-storage: Banner (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Plastic Banners, circa 2003

Box: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Four rolled blue banners, 24 inches wide by 10 feet long when unrolled.

Plastic Banners, circa 2003

Box: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Two red and two green rolled banners, 24 inches wide by 10 feet long when unrolled.

Plastic Banners, circa 2003

Box: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Three black and one purple rolled banners, 24 inches x 10 feet when unrolled.

Plastic Banners, circa 2003

Box: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Two orange rolled banners, 24 inches by 10 feet when unrolled; one yellow and one white banner, folded, larger than the orange banners when unfolded.

Plastic Banners -- Extra Oversized, circa 2003

Box: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Oversized Picket Signs, Posters, and "Assembly Collage", circa 2002-2009, inclusive

Flat-File-Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Flat-File-Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

The assembly collage is possibly an exhibit created for display at a conference.

"Pardon Me: The Scandals of Bush/Reagan Era", circa 1981-1993, inclusive

Tape 1

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47735 (Material Type: Audio)

Tape 2

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47736 (Material Type: Audio)

"The Bomb in Boston Teach-In", June 25, 1983

Box: 29, U-matic: cuid47737 (Material Type: Video)

"Defining Black Feminism" -- June Jordan, March 22, 1985

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47738 (Material Type: Audio)

Herbert Aptheker -- "The American Revolution," Epochs in American History-Marxist Studios Series, March 11, 1986

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47739 (Material Type: Audio)

Herbert Aptheker -- "The Constitution," Epochs in American History-Marxist Studios Series, March 18, 1986

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47740 (Material Type: Audio)

Herbert Aptheker -- "Slavery in the U.S. and Resistance Thereto," Epochs in American History-Marxist Studios Series, March 25, 1987

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47741 (Material Type: Audio)

Herbert Aptheker -- "The Abolitionist Movement," Epochs in American History-Marxist Studios Series, April 1, 1986

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47742 (Material Type: Audio)

Herbert Aptheker -- "The Causes & Conduct of the Civil War," Epochs in American History-Marxist Studios Series, April 8, 1986

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47743 (Material Type: Audio)

Paint the Town Red -- Party Songs, 1987

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47744 (Material Type: Audio)

Jewish Affairs Dinner, Winston Unity Hall, October 6, 1991

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47745 (Material Type: Audio)

"Crisis in Democracy" Tape 2, September 1992

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47746 (Material Type: Audio)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Witnesses to the Holocaust. Miles Lerman (Narrator), 1995

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47747 (Material Type: Audio)

"Democracy Now! Tribute to Yip Harburg", December 30, 1996

Tape 1

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47749 (Material Type: Audio)

Tape 2

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47750 (Material Type: Audio)

Michael Parenti -- "Myths of the Founding Fathers and the Constitution" / "Origins of World War II", undated, inclusive

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47751 (Material Type: Audio)

Michael Parenti -- "High Cost of Victory, Media, & National Security", undated, inclusive

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47752 (Material Type: Audio)

John Stockwell -- "The Pretorian Guard in the Gulf", undated, inclusive

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47753 (Material Type: Audio)

Pacifica National Programs -- "In the Year of the Woman", undated, inclusive

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47754 (Material Type: Audio)

"Assassination of NY", undated, inclusive

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47755 (Material Type: Audio)

"Splendid Blond Beast," Tape 2, undated, inclusive

Box: 28, audiocassette: cuid47756 (Material Type: Audio)

Untitled, undated, inclusive

Box: 28, Hi8: cuid47757 (Material Type: Video)

"Joe-Anybody", undated, inclusive

Tape 1

Box: 28, MiniDV: cuid47759 (Material Type: Video)

Tape 2

Box: 28, MiniDV: cuid47760 (Material Type: Video)

Tape 3

Box: 28, MiniDV: cuid47761 (Material Type: Video)

"The Other Super Power" Rough Cut, The Empowerment Project, February 15, 2003

Box: 29, VHS: cuid47762 (Material Type: Video)

NYC, March 22, 2008

Box: 28, MiniDV: cuid47763 (Material Type: Video)

"Operation Dire Distress" Washington, D.C. -- U.S. Veterans Protest Against Iraq War, March 23, 2003

Box: 29, VHS: cuid47764 (Material Type: Video)

"National Teach-in on Iraq, Preemptive War & Democracy" National City Christian Church, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2003

Box: 29, VHS: cuid47765 (Material Type: Video)

"National Teach-in on Iraq, Preemptive War & Democracy" National City Christian Church, Washington, D.C., May 31, 2003

Box: 29, VHS: cuid47766 (Material Type: Video)

"May 31st Teach-in" -- Andrunti Roy, Edward Siad, Kathy Kelly, Howard Zinn, May 31, 2003

Box: 29, VHS: cuid47767 (Material Type: Video)

"March 20 04 -- Save --", March 20, 2004

Box: 29, VHS: cuid47768 (Material Type: Video)

CUNY Special "The Future of Peace and Justice", October 14, 2004

Box: 29, VHS: cuid47769 (Material Type: Video)

"Recollections" Documentary, undated, inclusive

Box: 29, VHS: cuid47770 (Material Type: Video)

Third World Newsreel -- "Keep Speech Free at the RNC", undated, inclusive

Box: 29, VHS: cuid47771 (Material Type: Video)

Archived Website, Oct 1, 2007-ongoing

Scope and Content Note

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.

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