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The Change You Want to See Gallery With United for Peace and Justice Presents…

HALLOWEEN PARADE COSTUME/PROP-MAKING PARTY

WHEN:
Saturday (tomorrow), 1-6pm

WHERE:
The Change You Want to See Gallery
84 Havemeyer St, storefront
at the corner of Metropolitan
(directions below)

WHY:
United for Peace and Justice and friends are coordinating a crafty
contingent of creative opposition to the Bush Agenda (bwahh ha ha ha…) at the widely televised Halloween Day Parade. We’ve got 15,000 pieces of candy with subversive sticker slogans (see below), and we’re making props and costumes.

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DIRECTIONS TO SPACE:
L train to Bedford Ave, walk south, left onto Metropolitan. Havemeyer is 3 blocks down on the right.
G train to Metropolitan, walk west toward the water, Havemeyer is a few blocks down on the left.
J/M/Z to Marcy, walk west on Broadway, right on Havemeyer, we’re 5 blocks down at the end of the street.

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STICKERING PARTY/PLANNING MEETING

Hi folks,

we’re having a planning meeting on

Monday at 7pm at Kabin
(a bar at 92 Second Ave, btw 5th and 6th)

We need help slapping stickers on 15,000 pieces of candy (see below for slogans, like No More Presidential War “Whoppers”, and Be a Smartie: No to the Bush Agenda).

Drink beer, rot your teeth, make art/signs and make plans with us.it’ll be just like the old days! (Remember this summer…?)

hope to see y’all there!

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Spooked by the Bush Agenda?
Join in this year’s Halloween Parade!
Sunday, October 31 at 6:00PM, Sixth Avenue & Broome St.
Join United for Peace and Justice and friends in the Halloween Parade to send a strong, creative message of opposition to war and occupation!
The Annual Village Halloween Parade is a high-profile, high-attendance event that takes place just two days before the U.S. presidential election. This is a fun way to project a strong anti-war, anti-Bush Agenda message to one million parade watchers and the television cameras covering this event.

WHEN: Sunday, October 31, at 6:00 pm. (The parade doesn’t start until 8 pm, but the area gets very crowded and we want to gather our folks early enough to prepare a strong contingent.)
WHERE: assemble at Sixth Avenue and Broome Street, just south of the intersection (aka “Pumpkin 8″ in the Village Halloween Parade)

Some suggestions for costumes and signs:
GHOSTS! “Boo to the Bush Agenda!” Wear your whitest sheets, cobwebs, white makeup, chains, etc.
PIRATES! “U.S. out of ARRRRRR-AQ!” Wear your pirate hats, black eyepatches, pirate hats, bandanas, peglegs, artificial parrots, etc.
ZOMBIES! “BRAINS, Not Bombs!” Wear your most zombified makeup and disheveled clothing!
HUMAN POSTERIORS (Butts)! “Kiss the Asses of Evil Goodbye!” Strap on your artificial behinds and get “behind” the UFPJ antiwar/pro-voter message!
W’s, KERRY’s “No to the Bush Agenda, No Matter Who ‘Kerrys’ It Out!”
Wear your W. or Kerry mask, and your most “presidential” (or flight) suit!
UFPJ invites your creative participation in this event, but asks that your creative costume ideas remain in the “sweet” spirit of this year’s parade theme. We want to send a strong, clear message without alienating people. Please be sensitive to any costume ideas that may be perceived as disrespectful to the victims of the U.S. war in Iraq, whether Iraqi or U.S. servicepeople.

Call 917-202-5479 or email beka at unitedforpeace.org and
ufpjhalloween at hotmail.com if you want to get involved.

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COSTUME/PROP PROJECTS

1. ghost/pirate costumes–we have black fabric and white fabric
(nothing too fancy). Also, butt costumes–strap on booties with
cardboard, string, and pink paint. Little red kiss marks? Lettering,
“George W., Kiss My…”

2. signs–”Boo to the Bush Agenda On Nov. 2″, “No to the Bush Agenda, No Matter Who “Kerrys” It Out Nov. 2″, “Pirates for Peace: U.S. Out of ARRRRRRRRRR-AQ” and “Pirates for Peace: Stop the WARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR”;
“Kiss the Asses of Evil Goodbye on Nov. 2,” “BRAINS, Not Bombs!”, “We Need BRAINS in the Whitehouse Nov. 2″

3. “Reese’s Peace” (copy Reese’s Pieces logo, if you want to get really fancy, split styrofoam craft balls in half and paint them to be the “pieces”); “Be a Lifesaver: End the U.S. Occupation of Iraq” (copy Lifesaver logo–also, styro craft wreath “ring” forms make a good painted “lifesaver”); “Bush “Snickers” at the Truth” (copy snickers logo), “NOW is the Time to Say LATER to the Bush Agenda: Vote Nov. 2″ (copy Now and Later logo)

4. Chocolate Kiss costume to march along with the butts? Metallic fabric stuffed w/ newspaper; “Now and Later” costumes (painted cardboard boxes w/ holes for arms and legs and head, w/photocopied Now and Later logo glued on); Lifesaver costume (paint cardboard “cylinder”, glue on photocopied Lifesaver logo, head sticks out top, legs out bottom, cut arm hole? Or it stops at armpits and head and armpits stick out top?); “Reese’s Peace” costume (basically a big orange piece of cardboard on front and back w/ doctored “Reeses’s Peace” logo glued on.

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CANDY STICKER SLOGANS

(mints)
Preemptive ImpeachMINT Now!
No to the Bush Agenda.
www.unitedforpeace.org

(coffee candy)
Wake Up & Smell the REAL Bush Agenda!
Endless War & Unemployment
www.unitedforpeace.org

(sour balls)
Souring on the Bush Agenda?
Stop the Lies, Stop the War.
www.unitedforpeace.org

(lifesavers)
The Bush Agenda Kills.
Be A Lifesaver: End the
U.S. Occupation of Iraq
www.unitedforpeace.org

(whoppers)
No More Presidential War “Whoppers”
No to the Bush Agenda
www.unitedforpeace.org

(lollipops)
Don’t Be A Sucker for
the Bush Agenda!
www.unitedforpeace.org

(lollipops)
Lick Bush!
www.unitedforpeace.org

(hershey’s kisses)
Kiss the Asses of Evil
Goodbye!
www.unitedforpeace.org

(Smarties)
Brains, Not Bombs!
Be a Smartie: No to the Bush Agenda.
www.unitedforpeace.org

(chocolate brains)
Brains, Not Bombs!
No to the Bush Agenda.
www.unitedforpeace.org

(junior mints)
Preemptive ImpeachMINT for
“Junior” & the Bush Agenda
www.unitedforpeace.org

(dum dum lollipops)
W. Is a “Dum-Dum.”
Lick the Bush Agenda!
www.unitedforpeace.org

(swedish fish)
Something’s “Fishy” with
the Bush Agenda.
www.unitedforpeace.org

(Dove chocolates)
Doves Say No to the Bush
Agenda of Endless War.
www.unitedforpeace.org

(Warheads brand)
Stop the Warheads!
No to the Bush Agenda.
www.unitedforpeace.org

(Reeses Pieces)
Reese’s “Peaces”
End the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
www.unitedforpeace.org

(chocolate eyeballs)
An Eye For An Eye
Makes Everyone Blind.
No to the Bush Agenda!
www.unitedforpeace.org