9/11/2001 -- emergency meeting at AFSC offices leads to formation of United for Justice with Peace (UJP)
October 2001 -- first UJP rally and march to oppose bombing of Afghanistan
Feb. 2002 – conference at Tufts University to facilitate organizing of local peace and justice community groups
April 2002 – rally at Copley Square coordinates with national antiwar rally
Sept. 2002 -- UJP organizes 5000 to protest Bush visit to Boston
Nov. 2002 – 25,000 at Boston Common protest and march
Dec. 2002 – first UJP education/organizing conference at Simmons College
Feb. 2003 – UJP organizes 45 busloads to join huge rally against Iraq War in New York City
March 2003 -- UJP facilitates workshop opposing the Iraq War at Radical Organizing Conference in Dorchester
March 2003 – 50,000 rally on Boston common, marching to protest Iraq War in biggest Boston protest in a generation
April 2003 – Mass Ave. standout against the war stretches for miles
Summer 2004 – UJP facilitates Peace Track of Boston Social Forum, largest New England peace conference in memory.
Summer 2004 -- Israel/Palestine Committee organizes major education and action conference at Boston Social Forum
Summer 2004 -- Democratic National Convention – Dennis Kucinich addresses peace party in Jamaica Plain; Israel/Palestine Committee organizes program in the “protest cage” outside the DNC
Jan. 2005 -- peace conference at Northeastern University
Spring 2006 – meeting with Cindy Sheehan
Summer 2006 -- UJP works with SEIU 1199 to followup national cross-movement coalition building
Fall 2006 -- statewide antiwar referendum carries in a number of districts
Jan. 2007 -- lobby day in Washington by peace and justice groups one of biggest in history
Oct. 2007 – UJP helps organize regional peace rally of 10,000 initiated by UFPJ
Fall 2008 – initiating quarterly forums for UJP groups after elections
October 2009 -- initiating and cosponsoring rally on Boston Common calling for an immediate US withdrawal from Afghanistan
Summer 2010 – workshop on cutting the military budget at Detroit Social Forum
Fall 2010 – organizing to send activists to One Nation rally in Washington
October 3, 2010 -- UJP represented at founding meeting of New Priorities Network in Washington
May 2011 – forum on Arab Spring and the revolution in Egypt
July 2011 – Festival for a Nuclear-Free Future
Various other activities
Weekly vigils for peace in Copley Square last for years
Community Outreach Committee hosts monthly brunches for UJP community which continue for years
War casualties – Park Street commemorations of those killed in the wars
Fundraiser for Barbara Lee at church in Roxbury
Fund the Dream – UJP helps organize antiracism weekend training with Roxbury’s District Seven Roundtable
Stop the Biolab – Cambridge, Brookline, Newton, Arlington and Somerville peace groups facilitate town resolutions opposing locating dangerous level 4 lab in South End/Roxbury
Cut the Military budget – Dorchester People for Peace holds public forum with major community participation
Jobs with Justice – UJP moves a resolution to withdraw troops from Afghanistan which is adopted by JwJ
Boston Workers Alliance – UJP represented at founding meeting
Chomsky fundraiser – Tribute to Chomsky’s many speeches for peace movement
Holly Near fundraising Concert
Emma's Revolution fundraising Concert
Berklee College Palestine Students virtuoso house party
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