Granny Peace Brigade

03/31/2023

Wednesday, March 29th – Union Square Park, below 14th Street steps – Once again the Penny Poll attracted lots of interested people, New Yorkers and visitors, old and young. With a bloat…

10/26/2022

How often do you wish that you could determine how the U.S. Government spends your tax dollars? What if you could decide directly where your dollars go? In Union Square, participants in the October…

11/18/2021

At noon this past Armistice Day, the Granny Peace Brigade, joined by the Veterans for Peace, held its third Penny Poll of 2021. 82 members of the public gave us their opinion about where they want …

10/28/2021

Before we were grounded by the pandemic GPB conducted several penny polls in 2012 to ask people how they would like their tax dollars spent. We gave passersby 20 pennies to distribute in eight poss…

10/19/2021

Here’s what we have for penny poll results because we were looking at them compared to federal budget. Arts/culture 264 pennies 10% totalEducation 487 pennies 18% totalClimate/Energy 520 penn…

10/07/2021

On Wednesday, October 6 the GPB conducted our first penny poll since the pandemic chased us off the streets. The weather was fine and we’d assembled a great team. The penny poll is our way of…

04/02/2021

Terrance Jackson, a member of Grand Central, Prince's high school band, talks about being assaulted by Minneapolis Police in 2012 while waiting for a bus on ...

07/18/2020

It wasn’t Sherwood Forest, but on the morning of July 15th – Tax Day 2020 – a group of modern Robin Hoods gathered to take from the Rich (Defund the Pentagon) and give to the Poor…

05/29/2020

The U.N. defines 15 days of solitary confinement as torture. In NYS prisons and jails, 15 days is the minimum sentence, and most people spend several weeks to several years in solitary. It is the f…

05/20/2020

Covid-19, it has been said, has “awakened” or “uncovered” the prevalence and extent of poverty and racism in our society. Structural poverty and racism have been in the foundation of the U.S. since…

05/09/2020

05/05/2020

Join the New York Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement for a STATEWIDE Day of Socially-Distanced Actions to solitary, featuring people who have survived solitary, loved ones of p…